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Based on the analytical framework of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ernest Becker, Controlling Animals makes use of the notion of the heroic ideal to exposedysfunctional attempts at immortality through the interpretation of three works of fiction. In this work, the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-03-06
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The book explores a newly compiled corpus of American Gulf War captivity narratives, their claim to truth and their construction of identity and ideology, as well as concepts of heroism and anti-heroism. Moreover, it probes the texts’ complex authorship, uncovers their...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-03-06
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Zwischen 1949 und 1989 nahmen Kunstabbildungen in Lesebüchern einen gewichtigen Raum ein. Die Studie untersucht erstmals umfassend, welche Intentionen die Verantwortlichen mit den Abbildungen verfolgten, ob diese ausschließlich zur optischen Aufwertung der Bände dienten...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-03-01
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Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Darstellung weiblicher Figuren in Jorge Amados Roman Gabriela, cravo e canela (1958) aus topologischer, feministischer und intersektionaler Perspektive. Die Autorin zeigt auf, wie der Roman über seine raumnarratologische Gestaltung...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-02-27
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er Schwerpunkt des Bandes 51 liegt auf der Analyse einer Reihe literarischer Texte, die sich thematisch und inhaltlich unterscheiden. Dazu gehören die Turmgedichte Friedrich Hölderlins, Romane, die sich mit Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen auseinandersetzen, Texte, die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-02-27
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Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit einem in der Literaturwissenschaft nahezu vergessenen Autor des Expressionismus: Heinrich Schaefer. Der Band will die Biografie und literarische Entwicklung Heinrich Schaefers über den lückenhaft vorliegenden Faktenbefund hinaus erweitern....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-02-27
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One of the most important drivers of the Anthropocene was a radical shift in what and how people eat. Industrial agriculture and meat production, new ways of processing, packaging, and distributing food, and the globalization of culinary habits not only upended...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-02-27
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Der XLV. Jahrgang der Simpliciana versammelt die Beiträge zur interdisziplinären Tagung «Orthodoxie – Heterodoxie. Diskurspolitiken der Rechtgläubigkeit in der (Literatur der) Frühen Neuzeit», die vom 15. bis zum 17. Juni 2023 in Würzburg stattgefunden hat. Darüber...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-02-27
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«In "Post-2000 Poetry of Dissent," Dr Abha Prakash’s student-focussed explication of poems proceeds comparatively, identifying ways in which pairs of poems from the A-level syllabus address thematically similar phenomena or ideas while the poems’ uniquenesses are thus...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-02-27
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The volume is a tribute to Aza Alibekovna Takho-Godi by the former students, colleagues, and friends to commemorate her 100th birthday. It contains biographical essays on Aza Alibekovna; essays on ancient Greek literature; ancient Greek philosophy; ancient Greek...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-02-07
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This book challenges narratives of one-directional cultural flows from Europe to the Americas. The essays’ varied topics and methods map a richly innovative Spanish-American imaginary emerging through multidirectional transatlantic and Pan-American axes of influence in...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-02-05
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India's longest-running record book completing 34 yearsFEATS OF EXTRAORDINARY TENACITYSTORIES OF STUNNING PERFORMANCESTRIUMPHS OF NEVER-SAY-DIE ACHIEVERSIndia's most comprehensive book of records captures the country's stellar achievements in human endeavour,...
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Hachette India
Parution :
2024-01-24
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Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-01-05
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Provides the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on the multiethnic literature of the United States A Companion to the Multiethnic Literature of the United States isthe first in-depth reference work dedicated to the histories, genres, themes, cultural contexts,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-12-27
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Joan Didion (1934-2021) was one of America’s most iconic writers and intellectuals. Her reportage and essays, as well as her novels and memoirs provide sharp comments on a variety of facets of American culture and politics between the 1960s and the 2010s. Employing the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-12-26
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The book contains contributions on the significance of German culture for Romanian art, language, and literature. Not only will the direct influence of German role models on Romanian culture be discussed, but it will also show how this influence set in motion a whole...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-12-05
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This book of 21 chapters shares endeavors associated to the human trait of creative expression within, across, and between digital media in wide-ranging contexts making the contents perfect as a course study book uptake within related educations. Globally located...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-12-02
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«Through detailed, elegant interpretations of utopian novels produced in the United States and the Soviet Union, Pavla Veselá casts aside standard commonplaces about East / West cultural divergences and reveals the critical function of utopian fiction that is shared in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-11-29
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A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-11-28
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The beginning of the 21st century saw the rise of "New" Atheism and a resulting conflict with Theists – at the same time as the resurgence of fantasy in popular culture. This volume analyses the impact of Theist and Atheist thought on the narratology of four highly...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-11-24
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