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The book focuses on the uncanny in the domestic space of Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction. Providing a psychoanalytic reading of selected works it aims to examine the image of the house in Bowen’s prose and to analyse its uncanniness in relation to the characters’ identity. In...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-02-26
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In Seven Essays: Studies in Literature, Drama, and Film, Abdulla Al-Dabbagh’s unique approach to literary and cultural issues succeeds in casting new light on these subjects, revealing innovative fields of research and investigation. Expressed in his usual lucid and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-02-26
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Complete with fresh perspectives, and drawing on the latest scholarship and biographical sources, The Life of D. H. Lawrence spans the full range of his intellectual interests and creative output to offer new insights into Lawrence’s life, work, and legacy. Addresses...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2016-02-23
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
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Die Autorin beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie Mathieus experimentelle Bandes dessinées den von Derrida inspirierten Diskurs zum Thema Dekonstruktion aufgreifen, illustrieren und dabei in einer ästhetisch höchst ansprechenden, kreativen Weise verarbeiten. Der Fokus...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-19
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This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts so as to survey the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline. Examines the notable works and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2016-02-19
Collection :
Blackwell Guides to Criticism
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Der Autor erörtert übersetzungswissenschaftliche Probleme des literarischen Textes und definiert die diesen Begriff konstituierenden Faktoren – Indexikalität, Interkulturalität, Intersemiotizität und Intertextualität in der medialen Ära. In der Analyse poetischer Texte...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-19
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George Orwell remains an iconic figure today – even though he died in 1950. His dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a Big Brother society in which the state intrudes into the most intimate details of people’s lives – and, not surprisingly, it became a constant...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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Beyond Borders compiles essays from various authors who explore the queerness of young adult literature that contains lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and questioning characters, some written by LGBTQ identified authors, while presenting lessons for secondary...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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A Concise Companion to MILTONA Concise Companion to Milton provides readers with essential guides to appreciating the works of John Milton, and to understanding the great influence they have had on literature. The book consists of twelve short, newly-commissioned...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-02-18
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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Fachleute aus den Bereichen der Germanistik und Komparatistik verfolgen in diesem Sammelband neue Forschungsansätze zu Hermann Bahr. Sie untersuchen Diskurse über Kaiserreich und Königtum, Krise und Kritik, Kairos und Katastrophe, Krieg und Kultur in den Essays und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-05
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'It's never too late to have a fling, for autumn is just as nice as spring . . .'Christopher Matthew's latest collection of canny comic verse negotiates the perils and pitfalls of romance in later years. Love is revealed in the most unlikely places, with the most...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
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2016-02-04
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Aspects of the Novel is a unique attempt to examine the novel afresh, rejecting the traditional methods of classification by chronology or subject-matter. 'His is a book to encourage dreaming.' Virginia Woolf Forster pares down the novel to its essential elements as he...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2016-02-04
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Im Zentrum dieser Arbeit steht eine transgenerische Anwendung erzähltheoretischer Narrativitätskonzepte in Kombination mit einem computergestützten Analyseverfahren. Anhand eines digitalen Korpus aus 78 kontemporären deutschen und englischen Songs untersucht die Autorin...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-01
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This book addresses debt in postcolonial fiction: financial, social, historical, and cultural. The author examines how literary characters including servants, fallen women, and cultural outsiders pay or refuse to pay the debts imposed upon them, and the consequences of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-01
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This book introduces for the first time selected poetry, letters, and other writings by the German writer Thomas Kunst (Leipzig) to the English-speaking world. Given the many prestigious awards the writer has received for his poetry and the originality of his...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-01-22
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«Inklings» nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e.V. widmet sich seit 1983 dem Studium und der Verbreitung der Werke dieser und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-01-22
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The book offers a thorough study of the literary tensions and two-world structure of the fantastic short stories by H. G. Wells (1866–1946). It exposes trickster games in the storytelling and pinpoints Wells’s staple methods of artistic composition – the mounting of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-01-22
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A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome provides a systematic and comprehensive examination of the political, economic, social, and cultural nuances of the Flavian Age (69–96 CE). Includes contributions from over two dozen Classical Studies scholars organized...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-01-11
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Despite the considerable amount of criticism that Vladimir Nabokov’s literary legacy has produced since the sixties, the studies on his female characters are scarce, except the ones on Lolita. This volume delves into Nabokov’s women from different perspectives and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-01-08
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The concern of the book is whether Hilary of Poitiers compromised the Nicene faith, a charge suggested even in Hilary’s own day, when he attempted to bring together the homouseans and the homoeouseans.The author revisits the arguments offered by recent studies on the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-01-08
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