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Gazing in Useless Wonder focuses on utopias as self-referential texts that literally have to constitute themselves as imaginary or intentional entities before they can work as vehicles for socio-political ideas. Foregrounding the construction of utopian fictions defines...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-06-05
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Dispositive zeichnen sich aus durch einen phantasmatischen und affektorientierten Bezug, den das Subjekt zu ihnen herstellt und in dem es sich konstituiert.Dispositive stellen das Movens zur Verfügung, das zur immer neuen Aktualisierung dieses Bezugs verführt. Paris,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-06-04
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Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States from the late 18th century until the Civil War, and helps introductory students to interpret and understand the fiction...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-06-03
Collection :
Reading the Novel
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Modern Ekphrasis explores the analogical relations between modern poetry and painting in ekphrasis from Horace’s mimetic «ut pictura poesis» tradition to Lessing’s temporal/spatial antithesis, and the analogy’s post-modern deconstruction with Derrida. The genesis of...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2013-06-03
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What is a princess story? In this subgenre, newly defined in The Princess Story, the protagonist either is a princess or is attempting to become one: the girl transforms into or identifies herself as a princess through marriage or through discovered identity, or both....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-06-03
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Since the Reformation, Catholics in Britain have been faced with an outsider status that has often given rise to conflict between their British national and Catholic religious identities. This study examines the ways in which this problematic history is addressed by...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-06-03
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This is the first book-length study of literary censorship in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. While in recent years the aesthetics and politics of British Modernism have been re-evaluated and the concept and function of censorship redefined, Modernism’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-06-03
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This collection traces new directions in the study of Thomas Moore (1779–1852) and examines the multiple facets of his complex identity, not only as the foremost Irish poet of his time, but also as a lyricist, satirist, polemicist, patriot and journalist. The range of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-06-03
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Readings in Twenty-First-Century European Literatures brings together analyses of post-2000 literary works from twelve European literatures. Sharing a common aim – that of taking the first step in identifying and analysing some of the emergent trends in contemporary...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-06-03
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-29
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought.
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-05-29
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Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around it.
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-05-29
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Sufi oral discourse in Senegal is overwhelmingly dominated by stories about past and current shaykhs. An important corpus of oral narratives aboutSufi clerics is not only (re)told bySufi speakers throughout Senegal but also in the Senegalese diasporas in the Americas,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-05-29
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This book investigates the English translations of Shen Congwen’s stories. Shen Congwen (1902–1988) is one of the most acclaimed writers in modern Chinese literature. His works have been translated into more than ten languages and his 44 stories count with 70 different...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-29
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The Everyday of Memory explores manifestations of the communist past in the everyday lives of Eastern Europeans today. Representing a wide range of disciplines including cultural studies, film studies, urban studies, sociology, media, literature and art, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-29
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Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice returns to the poet’s early works, such as Land of Unlikeness and Lord Weary’s Castle, in search of a relationship between Lowell’s early poetry and his turn to a confessional style of writing in the 1950s. Lowell’s early poetry...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-05-29
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Although studies on Stephen King (1947–) traditionally belong to the field of popular culture, some of his work, such as The Dark Half and popular culture, some of his work, such as The Dark Half and «Secret Window, Secret Garden,» give an insightful perspective on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-05-29
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The body remains the most visibly gendered social and cultural construction. Not only does it classify individuals into two different sexes from the very start of their lives, but some of the most obvious social divisions – such as race and nationality, age and physical...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-05-29
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Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-05-29
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