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George Bernard Shaw is commonly regarded as one of the most controversial intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century. Known for the ambiguity of his statements and the seeming inconsistency of his views, there was, nevertheless, one idea to which the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-13
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Researching the Writing Center is the first book-length treatment of the research base for academic writing tutoring. The book reviews the current state of writing center scholarship, arguing that although they continue to value anecdotal and experiential evidence,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-07-12
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Magnificent Houses in Twentieth Century European Literature is a collection of great and imaginative essays that explore the theme of magnificent and aesthetically interesting houses in twentieth century European literature. It focuses especially on important works by...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-07-11
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Why do readers report being powerfully affected by great poetry? What happens to us when we read a poem? Literary criticism has struggled to answer these questions because it treats poems as material artifacts of one kind or another. But readers do not experience...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-07-11
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The book presents a text-based study of discourse practices in placement, a hybrid zone which re-contextualises academic knowledge and professional practices. Using Lave and Wenger’s Communities of Practice as the overarching theoretical framework, the study...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-09
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Spectres of Utopia. Theory, Practice, Conventions introduces the latest trends in utopian studies, displaying a wide variety of theoretical perspectives as well as social, political, and cultural practices ranging from intentional communities and globalization to...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-04
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Seit den neunziger Jahren erfreuen sich bilinguale Lehr- und Lernprogramme immer größerer Beliebtheit. Vor allem englischsprachige Schulprofile wecken das Interesse von Eltern, Schülern und Bildungspolitikern. Die fachdidaktischen Implikationen dieser Entwicklungen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-04
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Jacques Fontanille’s The Semiotics of Discourse fills a long-standing need for a clear, comprehensive overview of narrative semiotic theory. The book skillfully blends a historical perspective with an emphasis on recent developments. Outstanding features include a...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-07-03
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Messing with Romance is a reinvestigation of southern literary history and a case study in the potentials of genre criticism. Offering contextualized readings of novels produced by representatives of the southern elite between 1824 and 1854, the study traces a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-28
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Dive into the timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling A-to-Z encyclopedia detailing classic myths and legends—perfect for curious readers and academics alike. Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2012-06-25
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This book explores the multifaceted concepts of otherness, barbarism and exteriority. Is encountering the ‘Other’ still possible in a world in which we all have become rootless, disconnected and strangers, alienated from the outside world and from ourselves? Does the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-22
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What do we do when we are about to utter speech? On which linguistic units do we rely? How do these units evolve from childhood to adulthood, or across time for a given language? How do we assemble these units under the influences of syntactic, phonological and prosodic...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-21
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Fra i migliori esempi di prosa modernista spagnola, le Sonatas di Ramón del Valle-Inclán costituiscono le «memorias amables» di Xavier de Bradomín, un dongiovanni «feo, católico y sentimental». La monografia vuole individuare quali di queste caratteristiche avvicinano...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-20
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The divide between the techno-scientific and the humanities paradigm has critically endangered general comprehension.The prolegomena to a «unified field theory of futurology» presented here attempt to reconcile these epistemological models by meticulously investigating...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-19
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Contents: Lew Zybatow: Geleitwort des Reihenherausgebers – Alexandra Vranceanu/Angelo Pagliardini: Introduzione – Francis Claudon : Humanitas et migration : Dialogue des Anciens et des Modernes – Monica Spiridon : Errances réelles, errances rêvées, errances mythiques –...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-15
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It was in The Germ (1850), the first British magazine with an aesthetic manifesto, that the interart theories of the Pre-Raphaelites took shape. The thirteen young contributors advocated an ethical approach to art while at the same time acknowledging self-referentiality...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-13
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This detailed study explores the significance of the ‘Library of Ireland’, a book series originated in the 1840s by the Young Irelanders Thomas Davis and Charles Gavan Duffy. Focusing on the literary anthologies and literary histories published in this series, the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-12
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Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge tragen aus je unterschiedlicher Perspektive dazu bei, den Aspekt evaluierender Sprachbetrachtung in die wissenschaftliche Analyse sprachlicher Wirklichkeit zu integrieren. Das Konzept «Gute Sprache, schlechte Sprache» ist ein...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-12
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Throughout the second half of the 20th century various societies were shaped by conflicting trends of globalization and nationalist resurgence, powerful surges of collective identities as well as fragmentation into individualistic subjects. Against this background of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-08
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FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'Lucid, absorbing and vigorous'Independent'Richly intelligent'Financial TimesIn these fascinating essays, Siri Hustvedt shows what lies behind her fiction: an abiding...
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Sceptre
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2012-06-07
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