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Die vierzehnte Folge des Jahrbuchs trägt ein weiteres Mal Gedenkjahren Rechnung, die für die Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung von Bedeutung sind: Der im April 2008 begangene 100. Todestag Wilhelm Buschs wird mit einem Beitrag von Hans Ries, dem Autor der kritischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-03-15
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Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theory Updated to feature over 40 new entries...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-03-08
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A HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE A History of Old English Literature has been significantly revised to provide an unequivocal response to the renewed historicism in medieval studies. Focusing on the production and reception of Old English texts and on their relation...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-03-06
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Blackwell History of Literature
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This detailed, perceptive addition to the linguistics literature analyzes the semantic components of event predicates, exploring their fine-grained elements as well as their agency in linguistic processing. The papers go beyond pure semantics to consider their varying...
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Springer
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2013-02-26
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Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-02-26
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Critical Theory Handbooks
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Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-02-25
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-02-25
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Critical Theory Handbooks
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“The Gift in Antiquity is an exciting and learned dialogue with Marcel Mauss’s The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies, published ninety years ago. The essays engage Mauss’s model, offering critique and nuance, and sometimes push Mauss’s insights...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-02-22
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Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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Scheherazade, the storyteller of 1001 Arabian Nights, recounts stories literally to save her people, and in Scheherazade’s Daughters, Barbara Bennett explores how contemporary female authors attempt to save their own world by telling compelling stories that disseminate...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-02-19
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Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld is devoted to the work of one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the post-World War II period of American literature,Thomas Pynchon. Through close readings and broad amplification, this book illustrates...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-02-19
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The Rhetoric of Redemption: Chesterton, Ethical Criticism, and the Common Man examines the literary criticism written by G. K. Chesterton between 1902 and 1913 from a rhetorical standpoint to ascertain whether Chesterton did in fact create the «criticism for the common...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-02-19
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One important legacy of colonialism is the separation of a culture from the land upon which its people live. Populations are displaced; topographical objects are renamed, and the land becomes a resource to be exploited. Starting with three landscapes viewed as...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-02-19
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Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun considers the rhetoric of burial reform, cemeterial customs, and epitaphic writing in Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth century through the Great War. The first half of the book studies mid- and late-Victorian responses to...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-02-15
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The book presents a new focus on the legal philosophical texts of Aristotle, which offers a much richer frame for the understanding of practical thought, legal reasoning and political experience. It allows understanding how human beings interact in a complex world, and...
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Springer
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2013-02-14
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Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
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Jorge Luis Borges was profoundly interested in the ill-defined and shape-shifting traditions of mysticism. However, previous studies of Borges have not focused on the writer’s close interest in mysticism and mystical texts, especially in the Swedish mystic Emanuel...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-02-12
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No one graduating from school can any longer have the illusion to have completed her or his learning career, nor to live in a monocultural society. Quite on the contrary, learning will be the major business of the professional future of anyone who now leaves school....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-02-08
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Maya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love, longings, partings; of Saturday night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities; of freedom and shattered dreams. Of her poetry, Kirkus Reviews has written, 'It is just as...
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Virago
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2013-02-07
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A Handbook of Middle English Studies “This sharp-minded, coherent set of essays both maps and liberates: not only does it map the intellectual territory of contemporary cultural debate; it also liberates the extraordinary texts of later medieval England to move across...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-01-30
Collection :
Critical Theory Handbooks
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From the author of BETWEEN THE STOPS and TOKSVIG'S ALMANACSandi Toksvig - broadcaster, writer, actor and seeker of all things whimsical - has turned her probing mind to many of the most intriguing questions of our times in the pages of the Sunday Telegraph for many...
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Sphere
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2013-01-24
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Kleists Dramen- und Erzählfiguren, Männer und besonders Frauen, wiederauferstanden aus Krisen, erstehen als Retter und Helden des Guten und Wahren auch im Erliegen gegen die Gewalttätigkeit von Männern und Mächten.Kleists Eroberer-, Autoritäts- und Ideologiekritik...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-01-09
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