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Das Buch stellt einen Versuch dar, die Reflexivität von deutschen Verben ausgehend von den Übersetzungsäquivalenten im Tschechischen zu prognostizieren. Aufgrund der Äquivalenzbeziehung zwischen nicht-reflexiven Verben im Tschechischen und Deutschen und verschiedenen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-03
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Was wäre geschehen, wenn…? Diese Frage wird an zentralen Ereignissen und großen Persönlichkeiten der griechischen und römischen Geschichte bearbeitet, wobei die Einbindung in den jeweils kulturellen Kontext Beachtung findet. Ziel des Buches ist es, Gedankenspiele...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-03
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The main purpose of this volume is to look into a wide spectrum of artistic ventures which cross boundaries and challenge habitual thinking, consequently involving an element of provocation. While it is true that not all great art is provocative, the most memorable...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-03
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Within the growing field of television studies, little work has yet been done on the Irish context. This volume aims to fill this gap by offering new and compelling studies of contemporary Irish TV series. Fictional TV series, which constitute an autonomous genre within...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-03
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This book offers a new, complex understanding of Indian writing in English by focusing its analysis on both Indo-Pakistani Partition fiction and novels written by women. The author gives a comprehensive outline of Partition novels in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-03
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The experience of colour underwent a significant change in the second half of the nineteenth century, as new coal tar-based synthetic dyes were devised for the expanding textile industry. These new, artificial colours were often despised in artistic circles who favoured...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-03
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The essays of this collection are, each in their own way, an attempt to address the centrality of emotions in literary and cultural production in a variety of genres, from medieval moralities to contemporary novels, from English Romanticism to film studies. Emotions are...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-03
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This volume grew out of the 36th International LAUD Symposium, which was held in March 2014 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. There is general consensus among language experts that slightly more than half of today’s 7,000 languages are under severe...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-27
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The authors of this volume discuss the tangible need for a revision of the vocabulary of emotion used in literary criticism and culture studies.The articles offer a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to emotional states such as love, shame, grief, nostalgia and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-05-27
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After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, terrorism as a literary theme has flourished in Australian literature. This book examines how terrorism as a theme has been represented in five exemplary novels and elaborates a distinctively Australian approach to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-20
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In the decades following the American Revolution, literary and cultural discourses, but also American collective and individual identification were shaped by transatlantic relations and inter-American exchanges and conflicts. The way Americans defined themselves as a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-05-20
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In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and sociology (or, more generally, a branch of the humanities claiming scientific status). While many commentators see...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-05-17
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Modernism and pessimism seem to go hand in hand. What are the sources of the historical pessimism we see in the legions of writers and thinkers over the past three centuries who saw modern civilization as degenerate and despicable, happily marching to its own doom? Why...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-05-13
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Der Autor thematisiert die Funktion der Tropologie in Origenes’ Hermeneutik und Exegese. Er behandelt dessen Tropus-Begriff, Methodologie und Zeichentheorie. In diesem Kontext klärt er die Methode des Alexandriners, biblische Ausdrücke nach dem heuristischen Prinzip der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-13
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The fleeting nature of time is a defining feature of modern and postmodern existence. Identified by Reinhart Koselleck as the temporalization («Verzeitlichung») of all areas of human knowledge and experience around 1800, the concept of critical time continues to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-29
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Leben und Werk von Johann Elias Schlegel sind in höchstem Maße interkulturell und kosmopolitisch. Am Beispiel der persönlichen und literarischen Beziehung zum dänischen Frühaufklärer Ludvig Holberg thematisiert die Autorin die produktive Begegnung mit dem kulturell und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-29
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Institutionalized through religious, moral and political discourses, the family has become an icon of Irish culture. Historically, the influence of the Church and the State fostered the ideal of a nuclear family based on principles of Catholic morality, patriarchal...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-29
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The title of this volume intentionally echoes that of a landmark issue of Textus on «Languaging» in and across Human Groups, edited by Giuseppina Cortese and Dell Hymes in 2001, since the notion of ‘languaging’ seems to capture most effectively the essence and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-29
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The military man has long been one of literature’s archetypal figures. Using a comparative framework, this book traces the transformation of the military man in eighteenth-century British and French literature as this figure moved from noble warrior to nationalised...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-29
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The Adventure of the Human Intellect presents the latest scholarship on the beginnings of intellectual history on a broad scope, encompassing ten eminent ancient or early civilizations from both the Old and New Worlds. Borrows themes fromThe Intellectual Adventure of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-04-27
Collection :
Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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