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Die neunzehnte Folge des Jahrbuchs widmet sich der Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung im transnationalen Kontext mit dem zweiten Teil von Ave Mattheus’ Studie über die estnische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und dem Bericht über die Siegener Forschungsstelle zur...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This book addresses the function of fiction in the creation of an historical myth and the uses of myth over time. The subject of the case study is the popular image of August the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, a figure who has frequently been...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This volume is a selection of papers read at the fourth international conference of the Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics (SHELL) held at Keio University, Tokyo, in 2012. The first conference was at Chiba University (Japan) back in 2005, the second...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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The Continuum of Consciousness: Aesthetic Experience and Visual Art in Henry James’s Novels examines the transformative experience of art in James’s fiction. In a 1915 letter to H. G. Wells, James declares, «It is art that makes life.» This book traces the rich...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 1976 byAfricana women writers. From a cross-cultural, transnational perspective, the author examines how these women writers –...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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C. S. Lewis, fantasy novelist, literary scholar, and Christian apologist, is one of the most original and well-known literary figures of the twentieth century. As one who stood at the crossroads of Edwardian and modern thinking, he is often read as a sexist or even...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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The dramatic and prose works of Samuel Beckett have long been understood as central to twentieth-century literature and particularly to questions about aesthetics, ethics, and the modernism-postmodernism distinction. Duncan McColl Chesney addresses many of the main...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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C. S. Lewis, fantasy novelist, literary scholar, and Christian apologist, is one of the best-known and most original literary figures of the twentieth century. As one who stood at the crossroads of Edwardian and modern thinking, he is often read as a sexist or even...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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In recent years Irish scholars have become increasingly interested in Ireland’s profound and ongoing relationship with continental Europe. This volume is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays on Irish comparisons and contacts with the Czech Lands from the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Poetry and religion have been linked since the first written texts of humanity, even before the Psalms of the Hebrew Bible. Exploring the relationship between poetry and religion within the realm of poetry in English, this volume begins in medieval times and ends with a...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Languages of Exile examines the relationship between geographic and linguistic border crossings in twentieth-century literature. Like no period before it, the last century was marked by the experience of expatriation, forcing exiled writers to confront the fact of...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This volume contains ten essays, principally on Chaucer, but also on other English writers of the period such as John Gower, Ranulph Higden and Thomas Hoccleve. The Chaucerian focus includes the dream visions and Troilus and Criseyde as well as the Canterbury Tales....
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Since the heyday of narratology, character has been a contested theoretical field, moving uneasily between mimetic, structuralist and interdisciplinary paradigms. Built on Jacques Lacan’s ideas about subjectivity, langugage and ethics, Dwelling in Language broaches new...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This study attempts to analyze diverse aspects of the corporeality of cultural others in Middle English oriental romances. The theoretical introduction situates the romances in the context of anthropology of the body. The analysis includes a psychoanalytical perspective...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This monograph is a study of words and expressions of emotion found in Old and Middle English texts. Lexical variety, rivalry among synonyms, both native and non-native, and their successive replacement are discussed illustrated with a large number of examples....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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The book is a study of references to Poles, Poland and Polishness in Jewish-American fiction created after World War II.The analysis of seventy novels by Jewish-American writers of several generations reveals portrayals of Poles as secondary or unimportant characters,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers at all levels an ideal guide to the rich body of poetic works published in Britain and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-10-29
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Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
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A Companion to Roman Architecture presents a comprehensive review of the critical issues and approaches that have transformed scholarly understanding in recent decades in one easy-to-reference volume. Offers a cross-disciplinary approach to Roman architecture, spanning...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-10-10
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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In 1938 tyranny attained unprecedented power: the Nazis annexed Austria and the Sudetenland, the Soviet purge reached its peak and the persecution of the Jews escalated into the horror of Kristallnacht. Nabokov frequently engaged with the subject of totalitarianism, but...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-10-01
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Durch Grammatikalisierung entwickeln lexikalische Zeichen zunehmend grammatische Funktionen. So können aus ehemals konkreten Verben schließlich Hilfsverben entstehen. Das deutsche Verb bekommen erfüllt in Verbindung mit Partizipien bereits grammatische Funktion...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-10-01
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