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Dieser Band geht auf die Konferenz «Interkulturalität und Kognition» zurück, die im Rahmen der Tagung der Gesellschaft ungarischer Germanistinnen und Germanisten (GUG) vom Institut für Germanistik der Universität Debrecen zwischen dem 29. und 30. Mai 2009 veranstaltet...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-04-18
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Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nurtured and inspired Black Theater. Functioning as an interactive guide for students and teachers, African American Theater...
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Polity
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2013-04-18
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Cultural History of Literature
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This engaging book introduces new readers of eighteenth-century texts to some of the major works, authors, and debates of a key period of literary history. Rather than simply providing a chronological survey of the era, this book analyzes the impact of significant...
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Polity
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2013-04-18
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Cultural History of Literature
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For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita...
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Polity
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2013-04-17
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Cultural History of Literature
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Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as well as English, and works for as well as by women. Marie de France,...
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Polity
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2013-04-16
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Women and Writing
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This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long...
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Polity
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2013-04-16
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Cultural History of Literature
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In its original formulation, ‘culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating ‘the people' by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them. But in our contemporary liquid-modern world, culture has lost its...
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Polity
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2013-04-16
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The writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the face of critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the 21st century. His work on simulation, media, the status of the image, the system of objects, hyperreality, and information technology...
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Polity
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2013-04-16
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Terry Eagleton is one of the most influential contemporary literary theorists and critics. His diverse body of work has been crucial to developments in cultural theory and literary critical practice in modern times, and for a generation of humanities students his...
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Polity
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2013-04-16
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Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of...
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Polity
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2013-04-16
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The writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the face of critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the 21st century. His work on simulation, media, the status of the image, the system of objects, hyperreality, and information technology...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-16
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Theory Now
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Analysing major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to twentieth-century Irish theatre: its origins, dominant themes, relationship to politics and culture, and influence on...
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Polity
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2013-04-16
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Cultural History of Literature
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Inhalt: Michael Titzmann: Anmerkungen zu Anthropologie(n) in Literatur(en) des 17. Jahrhunderts – Eric Achermann: Selbsterhaltung, Klugheit und Gerechtigkeit. Zur politischen und theologischen Anthropologie in Grimmelshausens Ratio Status – Marco Bunge-Wiechers:...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-11
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Als Wende- und Umbruchszeit forderte der Übergang zum zwanzigsten Jahrhundert ein Überdenken der Rolle und Funktionsweise von Literatur, in das sich auch das Tagebuch einschreibt, das ihm neue Dimensionen erschließt und zu einer Neudefinierung der Gattung des Tagebuchs...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-04-11
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I saggi qui raccolti riguardano, nel loro insieme, un solo argomento: l’opera di Francesco Guicciardini, osservata da prospettive volta per volta diverse e, insieme, convergenti. Il senso del libro è racchiuso nel titolo: «mutazione delle cose» e «pensieri nuovi»....
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2013-04-11
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Axiomatic functionalism is a highly distinctive and challenging approach in the European functionalist tradition, which has been developed over the last 50 years. It emphasises clarity and accuracy of theory and methods with philosophical awareness for the analysis of...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-04-11
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Michel Butor, one of the earliest exponents of the French New Novel, is known for experimenting with narrative voice (the second-person narration in La Modification), focalization (the changes in narrative perspective in Degrés), and the treatment of genres (L’Emploi du...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-04-11
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This volume has its origin in a selection of the papers presented at the Second ELC International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics (ELC2), held at the University of Vigo in October 2009 and designed and organised by postgraduate students belonging to the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-04-11
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This third volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry includes, as in the previous volumes, essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer and Spenser; it also includes essays on Beowulf and Dante. It was never the author’s intention to...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-04-11
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Upon its original publication in 1970, Robert C. Elliott’s The Shape of Utopia influenced both some of the major scholars of an emerging utopian and science fiction studies, including Darko Suvin, Louis Marin and Fredric Jameson, and authors of new utopian fiction...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-04-11
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