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What is the breaking news in the world today? How did you find out this news? How do you know it is true? Was it reported ethically?What checks and balances are being put on the news media? The answers to these questions reflect the themes of this book. The chapters...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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This groundbreaking collection examines popular and literary culture in the 1950s through the lens of postwar Ireland. The 1950s are at once a site of cultural nostalgia and of vital relevance to twenty-first-century readers. The diverse essays collected here offer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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Fictions of Appetite explores and investigates the aesthetic significance of images of food, appetite and consumption in a body of modernist literature published in Italian between 1905 and 1939. The corpus examined includes novels, short stories, poems, essays and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-16
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Cees Nooteboom (born 1933) is a writer of fiction, poetry and travel literature. Translated into at least thirty-four languages, his work raises important questions about the mobility of literary texts and invites a new theoretical approach, for to read Nooteboom...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-16
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Gwendolyn MacEwen war eine Kultfigur der Literaturszene Torontos der 1960er/1970er Jahre. Als exotisch und extravagant findet man sie und ihr Werk in diesem Zusammenhang beschrieben, als «Queen of Canadian Poetry» wird sie von Zeitgenossen bezeichnet. Heute ist...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-16
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This collection offers new perspectives on the connections between politics, identity and representation in art and poetry in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and Europe. Contributions explore questions such as the following: what was the effect of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-16
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Cultural diversity has long been and remains a complex issue for its depiction and appreciation vary according to the historical, geographical or ethical context in which it is considered or the viewpoint from which it is observed. The articles published in this volume,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-16
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A Companion to American Gothic features a collection of original essays that explore America’s gothic literary tradition. The largest collection of essays in the field of American Gothic Contributions from a wide variety of scholars from around the world The most...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-09-10
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This collection brings together twelve essays that tackle the nexus between gender, literature, and the visual arts. While it provides a philosophical and theoretical background for some of the factors that shape female creativity, it also considers the contributions of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-08-13
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This book provides a critical and context-sensitive reading of corporeality in the narrative fiction of Mercè Rodoreda, through the perspectives of art and film theory, feminism, literary criticism, spatial studies, and nationalist theory. The text approaches Rodoreda...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-08-09
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Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as ‘other’. This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of the first century actually described women as not so different from men:...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-08-09
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In nineteenth-century Italy, a woman’s place was considered to be in the domestic sphere, devoted to family life. But during the Risorgimento and the years following Unification, economic, political and social changes enabled women progressively to engage in pursuits...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-08-09
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Irish writers have always been fascinated by the family, sometimes depicting it as a traditional space under threat from external influences, sometimes highlighting the dangers lurking within. More recently, families have been represented as a type of safe haven from a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-08-09
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This outstanding practical guide to writing analytical essays on literature develops interpretive skills through focused exercises and modeled examples. The program is tailored to meet the specific needs of beginning undergraduates. Features unique, detailed guidance...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-08-01
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Following on from the first volume published in 2012, this new volume significantly expands the scope of the study of literary journalism both geographically and thematically. Chapters explore literary journalism not only in the United Kingdom, the United States and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-08-01
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Roman Letters offers a rich selection of original translations of ancientRoman letters spanning from the 1st century BCE to the 2nd century CE. Chronologically arranged and grouped according to author or collection, the letters cover various topics and themes selected...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-07-29
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A Who's Who of Ab Fab over-50s (and their pets, pet hates, wines, menus, travels, cliches, rants, ravings, songs, dances, films, books, fairy tales, passions, villains, recipes, Shangri-Las, sports, collections and liaisons dangereuses...which keep them young!)...
Editeur :
Arcadia Books
Parution :
2013-07-25
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Die Untersuchung umfasst drei Teile: Im ersten Teil liegt der Schwerpunkt auf einer Darstellung und Diskussion der Forschungsgeschichte und des Forschungsstandes zum kinder- und jugendliterarischen Phantastikbegriff. Zudem wird eine Abgrenzung zu benachbarten Textsorten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-24
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This agenda-setting text has been fully revised in its second edition, with coverage extended into the Christian era. It remains the most comprehensive and engaging introduction to the sexual cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Covers a wide range of subjects,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-07-23
Collection :
Ancient Cultures
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Ostdeutsche Kinder- und Jugendbuchautoren waren nach der Wende gänzlich neuen Produktionsbedingungen ausgesetzt. «Der Kapitalismus muss gelernt werden ...» So formulierte es 2010 die ehemalige Cheflektorin des Kinderbuchverlags der DDR Katrin Pieper. Selbst renommierten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-16
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