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The French mathematician René Thom (Fields medal 1958) died in 2002. In this volume his contributions to biology, semiotics and linguistics are discussed by a group of scholars who have continued his work and have shaped the new paradigm of dynamic semiotics and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-07
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The twentieth century has witnessed the rise of a large population of postcolonial intellectual migrants «willingly» arriving from formerly colonized countries into the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada to pursue intellectual goals. Embedded in this movement...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2011-03-03
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Ethics after Auschwitz? Primo Levi’s and Elie Wiesel’s Response demonstrates how, after their horrific experiences in Auschwitz, both Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel could have deservedly expressed rage and bitterness for the rest of their lives. Housed in the same barracks...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2011-03-03
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This book is the first extensive study on French Quantification in the field of Syntax. It provides a typology of four main quantified noun phrases in French (existential, universal, negative and wh-), detailing their syntactic, semantic and prosodic behaviors and...
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Springer
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2011-03-02
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AFTER GLOBALIZATION “Relentlessly, remorselessly, endlessly, we are told there is no alternative to globalization, whether our lecturers are bourgeois economists, progressive journalists, or imaginative litterateurs. Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman dare to go beyond the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-25
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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The book offers a general and up-to-date overview of the wider discipline of Audiovisual Translation (AVT), including practices such as accessibility to the media.The innovative and exciting articles by well-known authors offer a comprehensive selection of topics for...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-02-21
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A belief in progress tells us something about the way a society views itself. Progress speaks of confidence, optimism and dynamism. It assures us of pattern and structure. In the nineteenth century, as the Christian model of development is increasingly challenged and as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-02-03
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Im Gegensatz zu anderen Wissenschaftlern teilen die Akteure der Literaturtheorie mit dem Gegenstand ihrer Analyse sowohl das Medium wie auch dessen literarisch-rhetorische und poetologische Mittel. Dieser Band fragt in einem Querschnitt von Kierkegaard über Nietzsche,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-02-03
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What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when? In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique vision,...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-01-31
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Die Geschichte der Philologien kann nicht von der Geschichte der Literaturen getrennt werden: Dichtung bezieht sich immer auf Traditionen. Diese existieren aufgrund ihrer Konstitution, ihrer Bewahrung, ihrer Kritik, ihrer Interpretation – aufgrund der klassischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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A Future for Criticism considers why fiction gives so much pleasure, and the neglect of this issue in contemporary criticism. Offers a brief, lively, and accessible account of a new direction for critical practice, from one of Britain's most prominent literary...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-09
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This is the first edited collection to examine politeness in a wide range of diverse cultures. Most essays draw on empirical data from a wide variety of languages, including some key-languages in politeness research, such as English, and Japanese, as well as some...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-08
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Bernardin de Saint-Pierres Études de la nature (1784) stellen den Versuch dar, die gesamte Natur und ihre Organisationsgesetze zu beschreiben. Dabei verknüpfen sie verschiedenste Bereiche des Wissens. Sie diskutieren naturphilosophische, theologische und ästhetische...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-05
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Else Lasker-Schüler (re-)konstruiert in ihrer Prosa zwei Gedächtnisräume: Die Zeit der Kindheit, in der die Gartenwege mit «glitzerndem Kies» bestreut waren, verbindet sich mit der jüdischen Tradition und verdichtet sich zu einem poetologischen Konzept. Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-10-05
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The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twentieth-century literary and, more broadly, aesthetic and cultural consciousness, by bringing together the study of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-08-12
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Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial IndiaConstructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India provides a detailed overview of the phenomenon of the criminal tribe in India from the early days of colonial rule to the present. Tracing and analyzing historical debates...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-19
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Why are material objects so prominent in European Romantic literature, both as symbol and organizing device? This collection of essays maintains that European Romantic culture and its aesthetic artifacts were fundamentally shaped by "object aesthetics," an artistic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-12-07
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Taking an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to literature from 1947 to the present day, this concise companion is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of postcolonial literature and culture. An...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-12-01
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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The sites of inspiration documented in this book range from nineteenth century linguistic theory to postmodern strategies of conceptual writing, encompassing well known instances of modernist poetics (Mallarmé, Pound, Olson) alongside obscure but revealing figures like...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-06-08
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