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This book addresses the function of fiction in the creation of an historical myth and the uses of myth over time. The subject of the case study is the popular image of August the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, a figure who has frequently been...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This book seeks to critically engage with issues arising out of, and hotly debated within, Indian writing in English and its ‘other’: Bhasa writing. The central issue is the representation of nation in literary texts, which has divided these two literary traditions. At...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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In the documentary Celluloid Closet (1995), actress Susan Sarandon said films are «important – and they’re dangerous – because we’re the keepers of the dreams.» The visual media hold a powerful sway, influencing attitudes on class, gender, race, and ethnicity, politics,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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Continued Growth lautet das Lebensprinzip Margaret Fullers. Der Nachweis der konsequenten Orientierung Fullers an diesem philosophischen Konzept wird in diesem Buch erstmals durchgängig und in vollem Umfang erbracht. Der interdisziplinäre Ansatz vereint im Rahmen einer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Hellenic Whispers builds a picture of how Greek literature was received and reworked by the authors of seventeenth-century French tragedy. Using case studies, the author establishes a new methodology for exploring the variety of responses and creative processes involved...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Dieser Tagungsband nimmt sich vor, verschiedene Sprachen bezüglich der Entwicklung ihrer Orthografien zu vergleichen: die Vielfältigkeit, die die jahrtausendelange Geschichte des Lateinischen anbietet, die divergenten Werdegänge von Französisch und Spanisch, das...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Die neunzehnte Folge des Jahrbuchs widmet sich der Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung im transnationalen Kontext mit dem zweiten Teil von Ave Mattheus’ Studie über die estnische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und dem Bericht über die Siegener Forschungsstelle zur...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This volume is a selection of papers read at the fourth international conference of the Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics (SHELL) held at Keio University, Tokyo, in 2012. The first conference was at Chiba University (Japan) back in 2005, the second...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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The Continuum of Consciousness: Aesthetic Experience and Visual Art in Henry James’s Novels examines the transformative experience of art in James’s fiction. In a 1915 letter to H. G. Wells, James declares, «It is art that makes life.» This book traces the rich...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 1976 byAfricana women writers. From a cross-cultural, transnational perspective, the author examines how these women writers –...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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C. S. Lewis, fantasy novelist, literary scholar, and Christian apologist, is one of the most original and well-known literary figures of the twentieth century. As one who stood at the crossroads of Edwardian and modern thinking, he is often read as a sexist or even...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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The dramatic and prose works of Samuel Beckett have long been understood as central to twentieth-century literature and particularly to questions about aesthetics, ethics, and the modernism-postmodernism distinction. Duncan McColl Chesney addresses many of the main...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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C. S. Lewis, fantasy novelist, literary scholar, and Christian apologist, is one of the best-known and most original literary figures of the twentieth century. As one who stood at the crossroads of Edwardian and modern thinking, he is often read as a sexist or even...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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In recent years Irish scholars have become increasingly interested in Ireland’s profound and ongoing relationship with continental Europe. This volume is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays on Irish comparisons and contacts with the Czech Lands from the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Poetry and religion have been linked since the first written texts of humanity, even before the Psalms of the Hebrew Bible. Exploring the relationship between poetry and religion within the realm of poetry in English, this volume begins in medieval times and ends with a...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Languages of Exile examines the relationship between geographic and linguistic border crossings in twentieth-century literature. Like no period before it, the last century was marked by the experience of expatriation, forcing exiled writers to confront the fact of...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This volume contains ten essays, principally on Chaucer, but also on other English writers of the period such as John Gower, Ranulph Higden and Thomas Hoccleve. The Chaucerian focus includes the dream visions and Troilus and Criseyde as well as the Canterbury Tales....
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Since the heyday of narratology, character has been a contested theoretical field, moving uneasily between mimetic, structuralist and interdisciplinary paradigms. Built on Jacques Lacan’s ideas about subjectivity, langugage and ethics, Dwelling in Language broaches new...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This study attempts to analyze diverse aspects of the corporeality of cultural others in Middle English oriental romances. The theoretical introduction situates the romances in the context of anthropology of the body. The analysis includes a psychoanalytical perspective...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This monograph is a study of words and expressions of emotion found in Old and Middle English texts. Lexical variety, rivalry among synonyms, both native and non-native, and their successive replacement are discussed illustrated with a large number of examples....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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