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Die in diesem Band präsentierten Beiträge analysieren die Ambivalenz von Medien im Fokus medialer Transparenz, dem Mythos der Medien und den Digital Humanities.Die Eigenschaft der Medien, gleichzeitig Speicher, Mittler und Inhalt zu sein, zeigt ihre ambivalente...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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Die Beiträge dieses Bandes befassen sich mit Kriegsbilder-, Kinder- und Jugendbüchern der Jahre 1914 bis 1918 aus nahezu allen kriegsbeteiligten Ländern sowie mit später erschienenen und aktuellen Jugendromanen, die sich rückblickend mit dem Ersten Weltkrieg...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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The author follows the interpretative pursuits of nineteenth-century readers and analyses Tennyson’sThe Princess through the prism of their critical ideas. She analyses Tennyson’s reconsideration of gender binaries and women’s rights as well as the poem’s reliance on...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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This book offers the first presentation of Hellenistic and Roman period ceramic assemblages from the city of Hierapytna, located on the southeast coast of Crete. Recovered from three rescue excavations in the heart of the ancient city, this pottery records a diachronic...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-04-19
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This book by David K. O’Rourke presents a study of language and linguistic forms and the roles they played in the initial imagining, developing, and maintaining of a society based on coerced labor. It focuses especially on the contexts of coercion and on the differences...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-04-19
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The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or “metalinguistic”) negations. A total of ten distinct negatives—several previously unclassified—are analyzed. The logically irregular negations deny different...
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Springer
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2016-04-15
Collection :
Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
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This book investigates how India was portrayed in British novels and short stories during the heyday of the British Raj. In the tradition of post-colonial studies such as Edward Said’s Orientalism, it will be considered in how far fiction by Rudyard Kipling and other...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-15
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Präsentation und Signifikanz Prags im Erzählwerk von Cynthia Ozick und Philip Roth bilden das zentrale, bislang nicht erforschte Thema dieses Buches. Die Verbindungen, die durch Ozicks Rückgriff auf die Prager jüdische Legendentradition und Roths durch Kafka ausgelöste...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-08
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Das Spektrum des Argumentierens über die Begründung und Rechtfertigung des Krieges in der attischen Rhetorik des 4. Jh. v. Chr. gestaltete sich breiter und komplexer als bisher angenommen. Der Autor analysiert einschlägige historische Reden und publizistische...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-08
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Despite a modern tendency to describe medieval women as suppressed and marginalized, a critical reading of relevant texts by female poets/writers demonstrates that women all over Europe in the premodern era enjoyed considerable freedom to express themselves and to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-08
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Monika Kocot’s book on Edwin Morgan’s literary achievement, both poetry and drama, foregrounds the themes of cultural transgression, dialogism of the author’s creative design, and various, potentially subversive games of sense creation: «verbivocovisual» constellations,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-08
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This reading of George Herbert’s poetry takes advantage of contemporary philosophical reflection on the givenness of being and of language. The book presents George Herbert’s poetic sequence, The Temple, as the poet’s response to a call which originates in the Word made...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-08
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A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family. Includes sections on literary and critical contexts, individual texts, historical and cultural contexts, reception studies, and the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-04-04
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This book adds a new perspective to the study of American art by reclaiming underrated writings of three 20th-century masters, Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley and Ad Reinhardt. Their rich and diverse literary output was never before studied methodically in and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-01
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Most of Norman Mailer’s works depict the reality of the United States of America and the complexities of the contemporary American social, political and economic scenes. They also contributed to the development of literary tourism. This monograph reveals Mailer’s...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-01
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The book provides a new insight into English-Polish comparative sociolinguistics by comparing and contrasting the attitudes of young adult native speakers of British English and Polish towards the standard varieties of their mother tongues.The author reviews the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-01
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Communication audit is a relatively new field of research, which has so far been investigated from a managerial point of view. Linguists have not yet researched it. This book summarises existing, mainly managerial, approaches to communication audits and brings to the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-01
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Returning to print for the first time since the 1980s, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Darko Suvin’s paradigm-setting definition of SF as «the literature of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-01
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Verwandtschaft wird heute vor allem als biologisches Faktum verstanden, sie ist aber auch ein vom historischen und kulturellen Kontext abhängiges soziales Konstrukt. Davon ausgehend stellt die Autorin die Frage, wie in einem konkreten (literar-)historischen Fall...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-03-24
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Multilingualism is broadly understood as the knowledge and use of two or more languages by individuals in their everyday lives, both private and professional. It is increasingly acknowledged as an important issue of the contemporary world and the interest in the matter...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-03-24
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