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This volume attempts to keep track of the most recent developments in corpus-based, corpus-driven and corpus-informed studies. It signals the widening scope and perspectives on language and computers by documenting new developments and explorations in these areas...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-24
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2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Stephen King’s first novel Carrie in April 1974. Rescued from the rubbish by his wife Tabitha, the novel launched the Maine schoolteacher on a prolific and extraordinarily successful career. His name has become...
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Robinson
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2014-03-20
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Brief Histories
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Dieses Buch will daran erinnern, dass Arbeit die Basis aller Kultur ist. Die Würde körperlicher wie geistiger Arbeit ist ein Leitmotiv in den vierzehn hier vorgestellten Essays. Die Retrospektive umfasst die Arbeiterbewegung in ihrem Ringen um die soziale Frage, die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-19
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This study deals with the frequency and use of clausal complementation in the oral production of two different Spanish learner groups (i.e. Galician/Spanish learners and Spanish learners) as compared with a further learner group (i.e. German learners) and with native...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-19
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Culture and language provide two essential frameworks to deal with the concept of time. They view time as observer-determined and thus shed light on multiple and often conflicting temporalities we live in, think, and talk about. Relying on empirical methods, the book...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-19
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NEW ENGLAND BEYOND CRITICISM “Elisa New’s book is a remarkable achievement. It is very rare that a critic manages to ask what seem exactly the right questions, then to answer them in a lively, brilliant, evocative, and supremely intelligent prose.” Charles F. Altieri,...
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Wiley
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2014-03-18
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Die Kommunikation in der Touristik hat in der germanistischen Forschungslandschaft bislang vergleichsweise wenig Beachtung gefunden. Mit seinen insgesamt 18 oftmals kontrastiv ausgerichteten Beiträgen aus der Germanistik, Anglistik und Romanistik möchte der mehrsprachig...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-12
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This book explores the differences between ‘high’ and ‘low’ cultures in an Irish context, arguing that these differences require constant revision and redefinition. The volume includes analysis of famous Irish writers such as Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, James...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-12
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This scholarly but accessible volume traces the impact of the enduring themes and key women characters from Arthurian tradition in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s artistic corpus. Combining literary and visual analysis, the author opens a double perspective upon the past to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-12
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Books that Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history. Andrew Taylor sets each text in its historical context and explores its wider influence and legacy. Whether he's...
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Greenfinch
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2014-03-06
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Primo Levi und Ruth Klüger, zwei der wichtigsten Stimmen der Shoah-Literatur, unterscheiden sich stark in ihrer Persönlichkeit, ihrer Bildung und ihren Schreibbedingungen. Beide greifen jedoch auf den Dialog zurück, um sich persönlich mit der Shoah auseinanderzusetzen,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-05
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The diversity of gay men’s life writing since the Stonewall Inn riots is not limited to the coming-out story. Memoirs, personal essays, fictionalized autobiographies, and other forms of life writing witnessing to gay experience adopt many narrative paradigms and are...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-05
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The present study examines grammaticality judgment data, production data and acceptability judgment data from 243 Cantonese second language learners and a control group of 12 native English speakers. Research areas concern (a) the role of the first language in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-05
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Translation of fiction is always interpretation. This book discusses the challenges facing translators of fictional works from German into English using as examples English translations of canonical German novellas by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theodor Storm, Gerhart...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-05
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Reaching into the depths of the collective unconscious, A Sense of Apocalypse explores and re-interprets one of the West’s primordial fears, namely that of the apocalyptic closure of both cultural praxis and individual experience. Yet, in contrast to popular...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-05
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history, aesthetics and key themes of Gothic, the main issues and debates surrounding the genre along with the approaches and theories that have been applied to Gothic texts and films. The volume discusses a wide...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-05
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Exam Board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2013First Exam: June 2014As well as being a highly popular play for National 5 English study, Tally's Blood paints a wonderful picture of life in wartime Scotland, as experienced by the...
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Hodder Gibson
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2014-02-28
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Named by The Times as the all-time number one crime writer, Patricia Highsmith was an author who broke new ground and defied genre clichés with novels such as The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train.In the classic creative writing guide Plotting and Writing...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2014-02-27
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How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio – a play performed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-02-27
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This study contributes to the emerging field of Global Gothic. It focuses on the survival and evolution of Gothic subgenres and tropes in selected contemporary novels, produced in geographies and histories far away from its Western cradle. Some Gothic features...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-27
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