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Die Wiener Lyrikerin Dr. Melitta Urbancic (1902-1984) musste aufgrund ihrer jüdischen Herkunft 1938 ins Exil gehen. Das Schicksal führte sie und ihre Familie nach Island, wo sie bis zu ihrem Tod wohnhaft blieb. Das Dichten war ihre geistige Überlebensstrategie, die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-06-27
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The idea of freedom, changed and contested throughout the ages, has become the staple of liberal democracies and a beacon of hope amidst dark tendencies that endanger the future. This books offers an analysis of freedom in the context of its historical significance for...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-06-07
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The rapid development of the TV series in the twenty-first century has resulted in an emergence of new aesthetic, cultural, and social trends.The development has influenced both the mainstream of popular culture and reception practices of audiences across nations and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-05-23
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The French literary collective OuLiPo was founded in 1960 with the goal of applying mathematics to literary creation. Comprised of authors, poets, mathematicians, and scientists, this quirky writer’s workshop also created some of the first electronic literature and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-03-17
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Dystopien haben Konjunktur. Sie stellen der Gegenwart eine Diagnose, hypertrophieren sie und üben Kritik an den Zeitverhältnissen.Dystopien fokussieren u.a. den Rückbau demokratischer Systeme und globaler Sozialgefüge, das Aufkeimen von Rassismus, Antisemitismus und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-03-09
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This study focuses on theatricality and melancholia in John Berryman's The Dream Songs, and proposes to view them as inherent in the American cultural experience. It discusses Berryman's work in the context of a larger debate on the significance of loss in the process...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-02-14
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This is the first book to analyse the Mozambican modern ghost story, establishing the genre’s unique characteristics, situating it in a transnational context, and distinguishing it from other supernatural traditions. The study discusses why it emerged in different...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-02-09
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Überwachung ist smart geworden in Zeiten, in denen Freiheiten und private Daten freiwillig an Überwachungsmaschinerien abgegeben werden. Im Spannungsverhältnis von Kontrolle, Selbstkontrolle und dem Wandel der Kommunikationsmedien wird Unsicherheit zum Motor eines...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-01-25
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The book is a comparative study of the works of Józef Wittlin and Pär Lagerkvist, in their youth recognized as prominent expressionist writers, and in their later years making the ethical topic the core of their works. In search for ways of expressing ethical dilemmas,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-01-11
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Is the prose poem revolutionary and subversive, or marginal and lyrical? What makes a piece of prose a prose poem?Is its identity vague or precisely defined? Can every poem written in prose be considered a prose poem, a form influenced by the brilliant invention of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-26
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This study is an analysis of the novels Black Water (1992), Blonde (2000), and My Sister, My Love (2008) by Joyce Carol Oates. Based on real-life characters (Mary Jo Kopechne, Marilyn Monroe, JonBenét Ramsey), these works blend fact and fiction, historical and poetic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-12
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L’attribution du prix Nobel de littérature, avec le cortège de revendications et de fiertés qui l’accompagne, conduit, chaque année, à un réagencement de la carte européenne et mondiale des littératures – réagencement qui, presque toujours, révèle des conflits de...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-12
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The Covid-19 pandemic has thrust us all into a warped, disjointed ‘coronatime,’ which has both uncontrollably accelerated, and interminably decelerated, or got frozen. Just like the pandemic, this book provides a chance to reevaluate neoliberalism’s temporal regimes of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-10-21
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Das schwierige Erbe der Diktaturvergangenheit in Lateinamerika wirft einen langen Schatten bis in die Gegenwart. Mit wachsender historischer Distanz treten die Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede des kulturellen Umgangs mit den jeweiligen Ausformungen staatlicher...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-09-30
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Is it really a man’s world? At a time when masculinity is being challenged, this book explores the links between reading and writing and how they have historically been associated with masculine privilege. This book focuses on the representation of masculinity as a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-09-21
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The book focuses on contemporary staff-centred mystery novels set in the academic domain, written by scholars who enrich the generic convention of the detective novel with their academic expertise.The author delineates the academic mystery genre conventions and their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-08-20
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This book is a reflection on the Jewish presence in two European capitals, Warsaw and Berlin, in the first half of the 20th century. It was inspired by the works of Polish-Jewish, Yiddish and German-Jewish authors, as well as by the connections between urban spaces and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-08-12
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When, in 1948, Tony Harrison entered Leeds Grammar School as a scholarship boy, he found himself, as Richard Hoggart saw, “at the friction point of two cultures”. His schooling introduced him to the “classics”; but it also deprived him of a clear identification with the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-07-08
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Swiss Maid: Verborgene Kräfte und Schätze in der Erfolgsgeschichte der Schweiz untersucht die Arbeit und Leistungen von einfachen Frauen und wie sie die Schweiz mitgestaltet haben. Frauen waren tätig in religiösen Institutionen, in der Hauswirtschaft, auf Bauernhöfen,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-06-23
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Attempts to approach the topic of drink and literature and the question of how far this is interconnected with the habits of the writers can be considered within the wider frame of what is called drinking studies. This is an interdisciplinary field which is a composite...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-06-03
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