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Joseph Conrad ingeniously buried images from Polish literature and culture into his works. Once recognized, these references alter the accepted meanings of the texts. In an interview that was published in Kuryer Polski (in the then Polish city of Ostrawa, now in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-01-31
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Im Mittelpunkt dieser Studie steht die Analyse von Identitätskonstruktionen und transkulturellen Narrativen in ausgewählten Werken von G. Kuruvilla, I. Scego, L. Wadia und S. Abdel Qader. Der kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Zugang dient dem zentralen Anliegen,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-31
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The only up-to-date and comprehensive text and reader of Algerian literature available in English, Algerian Literature: A Reader’s Guide and Anthology offers the reader a historical and critical overview of the literature from the early twentieth century to the present,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-01-30
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This study traces the poetic development of Arthur Hugh Clough through a methodological approach based on close readings of his most important works with separate chapters devoted to the three great poems of his maturity: The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, Amours de Voyage...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-25
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The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics. Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-01-23
Collection :
Blackwell Anthologies
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Carl Spitteler (1845–1924) ist der einzige in der Schweiz geborene Literaturnobelpreisträger. Dazu hat er durch seine Rede «Unser Schweizer Standpunkt» 1914 die Beibehaltung der absoluten Neutralitätspolitik der Schweiz stark mit beeinflusst. Doch das Interesse an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-20
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Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Third Edition, presents a comprehensive introduction to thefull range of contemporary approaches to the study of literature and culture, from formalism, structuralism, and historicism to ethnic, gender, and science...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-01-17
Collection :
How to Study Literature
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This volume examines the relationship between poetic language and place in the work of Paul Muldoon. Through a close reading of the formal and stylistic aspects of his poems, the book explores the question of how poetry as an art form can be engaged to map the complex...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-01-16
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Clustering around five major themes, and written by academics, researches and artists from Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, Taiwan and the United States, these essays explore how literary texts encode the faculty of...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2017-01-15
Collection :
Collection Karoli
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Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a central figure in the thought of his time, but he was also something of an outsider. His father died in the First World War, he enjoyed his mother’s unfailing love, he spent long years in the sanatorium, and he was aware of his...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-01-13
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Der Band dokumentiert Sektionen aus dem Bereich Sprachdidaktik und Sprachvermittlung auf dem IVG-Kongress 2015. Er beginnt mit der Sektion «Kognition der Mehrsprachigkeit», darauf folgt die Sektion «Das Lernen und Lehren der deutschen Sprache in einer mehrsprachigen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-12
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Offering a thoroughly new approach to American literature, this book examines the literary representation of smell regarding its impact on establishing and subverting power structures. Although smell carries an enormous affective potential, it has been largely – but...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-12
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A group of authors containing both leading authorities and young researchers addresses a number of issues of contrastiveness, polarity items and exhaustivity, quantificational expressions and the implicatures they generate, and the interaction between semantic operators...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-01-11
Collection :
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Feminism, masculinity and fairy tale figure within an extended analysis of Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991), in light of the live-action remake, Beauty and the Beast (2017). The history of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast is compared with Disney's adaptation...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-11
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This book argues that a profound shift can be found in the works of Virginia Woolf, from an early «pursuit of the individual» to a late «pursuit of the collective». Evidence for this shift is found both in the narrative modes she employed and the methods by which...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-11
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Der Band dokumentiert Sektionen aus dem Bereich Sprachdidaktik und Sprachvermittlung auf dem IVG-Kongress 2015. Er beginnt mit der Sektion «Sprachpflege und Sprachkritik als gesellschaftliche Aufgaben», darauf folgen die Sektionen «Wie kann man in der heutigen Zeit der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-09
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Wie soll die Erinnerung an den Holocaust zukünftig gestaltet werden? Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Frage untersucht die Autorin Wissen und Identität in den Werken Wiesels und Styrons. Sie entwirft ein Analysemodell, das verschiedene Formen des Wissens sowie Ebenen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-09
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Das Lexikon enthält Informationen über Biographie, Werkanalyse und bibliographische Angaben wichtiger Autoren der deutschsprachigen «Fantasy» und Science Fiction im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Überblicksartikel befassen sich darüber hinaus mit Fragen des Genres, deutscher...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-05
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American short-story writer Andre Dubus (1936–1999) was a “writer’s writer.” His acclaimed collections of short stories and essays involve one or all of three thematic discourses – that of the Catholic Church as center of meaning and value, the symbolic and healing...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-01-04
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Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881–1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-26
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