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The engaging figure of Irish writer George Moore (1852-1933) comes to life in this collection of essays on his works and influences. So often considered as dangerously controversial in his lifetime, his literary output can now be appreciated as groundbreaking,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-04
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This study explores the fiction of John Banville within a variety of cultural, political, ethical and philosophical contexts. Through thematic readings of the novels, Eoghan Smith examines the complexity of Banville’s view of the artwork and explores the novelist’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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This volume of papers from the 14th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, held at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), 2 to 6 August 2011, brings together recent methodological innovations and current research on the study of dialects and language...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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«This collection of essays provides new perspectives on reading, reinterpreting, appropriating and popularising Shakespeare through the work of women – actresses, directors, designers, translators and scholars from different cultural, social and political, mostly...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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The fourth volume in the series Language Competence and Language Awareness in Europe features contributions from various philologies in the young but rapidly growing research area of linguistic variability.The book grew out of a nucleus of papers presented at a North...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. (John F. Kennedy, Amherst, Mass., October...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Die Untersuchung lotet Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer veränderten Diagnosekultur in einem auf Kompetenzerwerb ausgerichteten Englischunterricht aus.Die zentrale Fragestellung besteht darin, zu erkunden, welche Faktorenkomplexe für Englischlehrkräfte bei ihrem Umgang...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Tonal music, from a historical perspective, is far from homogenous; yet an enduring feature is a background "diatonic" system of exactly seven notes orderable cyclically by fifth. What is the source of the durability of the diatonic system, the octave of which is...
Editeur :
Springer
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2013-11-29
Collection :
Computational Music Science
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Thomas Manns Romantetralogie Joseph und seine Brüder ist zeitlich inmitten der literarischen Moderne situiert. Doch die narrative, traditionell anmutende Struktur des Joseph-Romans stellt ihn auf den ersten Blick ins Abseits der innovativen literarischen Entwicklungen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-27
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The modern age has further expanded on the multifaceted character of English, which is used not only in many places in the world, but also by a variety of users in numerous contexts. Technical innovations have led to the rise of new registers and offered scholars new...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-27
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This volume showcases the potential richness of frame representations. The presentation includes introductory articles on the application of frames to linguistics and philosophy of science, offering readers the tools to conduct the interdisciplinary investigation of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-11-26
Collection :
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities presents a comprehensive collection of original essays relating to aspects of gender and sexuality in the classical world. Views the various practices and discursive contexts of sexuality systematically and holistically...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-11-21
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Die französische Historiographie des von Revolutionen geprägten 20. Jahrhunderts vermag in besonderer Weise neue Perspektiven auf das Revolutionsbild in Büchners Geschichtsdrama zu eröffnen.Die Diskussion über «Dantons Tod» in der Büchnerforschung wiederum spiegelt...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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«Die Kinder des Geistes werden schnell und mit Vergnügen gezeuget;» schreibt Christoph Martin Wieland im April 1758 an seinen Freund, den Mediziner Johann Georg Zimmermann, «aber dann folget viel Mühe und Arbeit, sie zu bilden, zu polieren und zur Reiffe zu bringen.»...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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Il 24 novembre 1960, a Parigi, in un bistrot della rue du Bac, nasce, per volontà di R. Queneau e F. Le Lionnais, l’Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Oulipo). Non un movimento letterario, né un laboratorio scientifico ma un gruppo di scrittori e di matematici che si...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2013-11-19
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Der portugiesische Autor Fernando Pessoa und die brasilianische Autorin Clarice Lispector prägen die literarische Moderne. Die Untersuchung der von ihnen gewählten Sujets lässt viele Parallelen erkennen. Pessoa wie Lispector erheben die Seelenvielfalt, den Ich-Zerfall...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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The Moral World of Billy Budd sees the novel not as inviting us to choose between the testament of acceptance and the testament of resistance, those views that, respectively, support and critique Captain Vere but rather as challenging us to experience the difficulty of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-19
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Die von Otto von Thüringen begonnene und von Peter von Zittau vollendete Chronik von Königsaal, Chronicon Aulae regiae, gehört zu den bedeutendsten spätmittelalterlichen Geschichtsquellen Böhmens, die auch für die deutsche Reichsgeschichte von großer Relevanz ist.Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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This book sets out to explore the reception of Scotland’s best-loved writer Robert Burns in Germany, beginning with Burns’s contemporaries in a German state and at a time when instant international fame of foreign writers was yet to develop. The author traces Burns’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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Learning opportunities outside school are met with increasing interest. Not only the visual character of leisure time venues supports foreign language learning, but also their aesthetic quality is enjoyed by students and teachers. Other learning venues outside school...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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