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C. S. Lewis, fantasy novelist, literary scholar, and Christian apologist, is one of the most original and well-known literary figures of the twentieth century. As one who stood at the crossroads of Edwardian and modern thinking, he is often read as a sexist or even...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-08-02
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Harry Potter’s global triumph is without precedent. Economically it is the most successful children’s book ever published and at the same time it has become the most widely discussed text for young adults. Why is this so? What does the text offer to its readers?...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-02
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This study focuses on how Puritans in England and especially New England used the church fathers when reading the Bible and defending Congregationalism. The analysis of a variety of textual genres and largely unedited sources written between 1592 and 1728 shows that...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-27
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Das Urbane hat bis heute die Verführungskraft großer Versprechen. Metropole zu sein, zumindest aber als Großstadt zu gelten, gehört zu den Traum- und Alptraumfantasien, die die Moderne begleiten. Städte erfinden sich selbst, wenn Entwurf und Selbstverständnis der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-26
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Folklore provides a metaphor for insecurity in British women’s writing published between 1750 and 1880. When characters feel uneasy about separations between races, classes, or sexes, they speak of mermaids and «Cinderella» to make threatening women unreal and thus...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-07-26
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This book is a comparative study of the early works of Vladimir Nabokov and the fictions of Virginia Woolf. The aim of this study was to establish the applications and implications of involution: how it is used to subtly reformat a text and how it changes the meaning of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-26
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«Es flaniert, das Kind.» Es ist diese randständige Aussage Mrs. Ferwalters, der gezeichneten Überlebenden der Shoah, die sie verschwörerisch lächelnd ihrer Nachbarin, der scham- und schuldbewussten Deutschen Gesine Cresspahl zuflüstert, in der Uwe Johnson eine Utopie...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-25
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In the cultural debates of modernism the concepts of time and space were juxtaposed, representing disparate sensibilities, styles of art, even political camps. Artists and thinkers of the era took sides: with time, i.e. all that is fluid and transitory, or with space,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-25
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Die Arbeit untersucht Zeit als strukturierendes Element in allen Lebensbereichen des modernen Lebens. Ihre spezifischen Funktionsweisen werden mit Hilfe unterschiedlicher Kategorien an ausgewählten Beispielen der skandinavischen Moderne dargestellt. Dabei wird vor allem...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-23
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Zum ersten Mal wird hier eine Untersuchung der Gesammelten Werke des dänischen Dichters und Schriftstellers Adam Oehlenschläger (1779-1850) auf Deutsch vorgelegt. Als angehender Sprachkünstler studierte er nicht Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Kopenhagen,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-20
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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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