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“The Gift in Antiquity is an exciting and learned dialogue with Marcel Mauss’s The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies, published ninety years ago. The essays engage Mauss’s model, offering critique and nuance, and sometimes push Mauss’s insights...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-02-22
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Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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Scheherazade, the storyteller of 1001 Arabian Nights, recounts stories literally to save her people, and in Scheherazade’s Daughters, Barbara Bennett explores how contemporary female authors attempt to save their own world by telling compelling stories that disseminate...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-02-19
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Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld is devoted to the work of one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the post-World War II period of American literature,Thomas Pynchon. Through close readings and broad amplification, this book illustrates...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-02-19
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The Rhetoric of Redemption: Chesterton, Ethical Criticism, and the Common Man examines the literary criticism written by G. K. Chesterton between 1902 and 1913 from a rhetorical standpoint to ascertain whether Chesterton did in fact create the «criticism for the common...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-02-19
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One important legacy of colonialism is the separation of a culture from the land upon which its people live. Populations are displaced; topographical objects are renamed, and the land becomes a resource to be exploited. Starting with three landscapes viewed as...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-02-19
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Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun considers the rhetoric of burial reform, cemeterial customs, and epitaphic writing in Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth century through the Great War. The first half of the book studies mid- and late-Victorian responses to...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-02-15
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The book presents a new focus on the legal philosophical texts of Aristotle, which offers a much richer frame for the understanding of practical thought, legal reasoning and political experience. It allows understanding how human beings interact in a complex world, and...
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Springer
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2013-02-14
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Jorge Luis Borges was profoundly interested in the ill-defined and shape-shifting traditions of mysticism. However, previous studies of Borges have not focused on the writer’s close interest in mysticism and mystical texts, especially in the Swedish mystic Emanuel...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-02-12
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No one graduating from school can any longer have the illusion to have completed her or his learning career, nor to live in a monocultural society. Quite on the contrary, learning will be the major business of the professional future of anyone who now leaves school....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-02-08
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Maya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love, longings, partings; of Saturday night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities; of freedom and shattered dreams. Of her poetry, Kirkus Reviews has written, 'It is just as...
Editeur :
Virago
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2013-02-07
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A Handbook of Middle English Studies “This sharp-minded, coherent set of essays both maps and liberates: not only does it map the intellectual territory of contemporary cultural debate; it also liberates the extraordinary texts of later medieval England to move across...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-01-30
Collection :
Critical Theory Handbooks
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From the author of BETWEEN THE STOPS and TOKSVIG'S ALMANACSandi Toksvig - broadcaster, writer, actor and seeker of all things whimsical - has turned her probing mind to many of the most intriguing questions of our times in the pages of the Sunday Telegraph for many...
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Sphere
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2013-01-24
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Kleists Dramen- und Erzählfiguren, Männer und besonders Frauen, wiederauferstanden aus Krisen, erstehen als Retter und Helden des Guten und Wahren auch im Erliegen gegen die Gewalttätigkeit von Männern und Mächten.Kleists Eroberer-, Autoritäts- und Ideologiekritik...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-01-09
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Die Nibelungen – große europäische Sage, Mythos um Aufstieg und Untergang, Liebe und Hass, Treue und Verrat. Kaum eine andere Geschichte hat Kultur, Gesellschaft und Politik im deutschsprachigen Raum derart geprägt wie diese. Entstanden als Teil der europäischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-01-09
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Why do revivals and adaptations of Greek tragedy still abound in European national theatres, fringe stages and international festivals in the twenty-first century? Taking as its starting point the concepts of myth developed by Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-01-08
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This volume explores the expansion of audiovisual translation studies and practices within European institutions, universities and businesses. The wide variety of contributions from researchers and practitioners from different countries and backgrounds reflects the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-01-08
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Die Arbeit untersucht anhand der mittelenglischen Romanzen die Etablierung des Englischen als Literatursprache im Spätmittelalter. Vor dem Hintergrund kontinentaler und insularer französischer Vorlagen prägt sich eine volkssprachliche Literaturgattung aus, die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-01-03
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Petronius: A Handbook unravels the mysteries of the Satyrica, one of the greatest literary works that antiquity has bequeathed to the modern world. Includes a dozen original essays by a team of leading Petronius and Roman history scholars Features the first...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-12-21
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Noch immer umgibt Samuel Becketts Werke der Nimbus des Rätselhaften – trotz aller Bemühungen der Literaturkritik, auch im Rahmen der Neuen Literaturtheorien. Dem entgegen, unternimmt die Studie erstmals eine hermeneutische Untersuchung der Texte. Sie setzt voraus,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-12-17
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(Re)thinking Orientalism is a text that examines the visual discourse of Orientalism through the pedagogy of contemporary graphic narratives. Using feminist, critical race, and postcolonial theoretical and pedagogical lenses, the book uses visual discourse analysis and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-12-13
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