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The thirty years Carlo Goldoni spent in Paris hold an ambiguous place in his career.The preface to his autobiography explicitly draws attention to France as the site of his authorial glory, but elsewhere he dismisses his work for the Parisian Comédie-Italienne as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-17
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This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context.This collection is prompted by three main and related questions: firstly, why is Sherlock Holmes such an enduring and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-17
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Der Kindler kompakt-Band bietet eine Auswahl von ca. 60 Texten zu den großen Werken der griechischen und römischen klassischen Antike.
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-03-16
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Sidney's Defence of Poesy--the foundational text of English poetics--is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct and readers are inspired to imitate them. Catherine Bates sets out to challenge this received view....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-16
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Sidney's Defence of Poesy--the foundational text of English poetics--is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct and readers are inspired to imitate them. Catherine Bates sets out to challenge this received view....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-16
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This volume brings together eminent Tagore scholars and younger writers to revisit the concepts of nation, nationalism, identity and selfhood, civilization, culture and homeland in Tagore’s writings. As these ideas take up the centre-stage of politics in the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-15
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This book aims to both describe and analyze the way Steinbeck learned the writing craft. It begins with his immersion in the short story, some years after he stopped attending Stanford University. Aside from a weak first novel, his professional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-15
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The theme of foolishness has long occupied an unusually prominent place in Russian culture, touching on key questions of national, spiritual, and intellectual identity. In literature, the figure of the fool – and the voice of the fool – has carried additional appeal as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-03-14
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This book explores the recurrence of Apocalyptic motifs and imagery in blues and spirituals recorded by blues musicians. It looks at the ways in which Black Americans portray Apocalypse ideas about the Last Judgement from the Book of Revelation. It also focuses on how...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-14
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Aus einem neuen Blickwinkel analysiert diese Untersuchung die Ebene, die sich hinter den Exotismen des (Exil-)Werks Paul Zechs verbirgt: Die vehemente Kritik der anhaltenden Vertreibung indigener Völker verbunden mit der Monierung der Umweltzerstörung des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-14
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Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding as students read, analyse and revise Skirrid Hill throughout the course.This Study and Revise guide:-...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2017-03-13
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Der Band dokumentiert Sektionen aus dem Bereich Sprachdidaktik und Sprachvermittlung des Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG) in Shanghai 2015. Er beginnt mit der Sektion «Qualifizierung von DaF-Lehrkräften weltweit», darauf folgt die Sektion...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-13
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Der Band dokumentiert sprachwissenschaftliche Sektionen des Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG) in Shanghai 2015. Er beginnt mit den Sektionen ‚Beziehungsgestaltung durch Sprache‘ sowie ‚Diskurs und Politik‘. Daran schließen sich ‚Welche...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-10
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This book is a hermeneutic analysis of the main poetic spaces in the work of Ashok Vajpeyi, a poet and a critic recognized among the eminent contemporary Hindi writers. The four parts of the book are devoted to major anthropological questions, instrumental for the poet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-10
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Narratives of disease and deviance have a long tradition within the field of children's and young adult literature. The specific characteristics of these representations have so far remained largely unexplored. The topics of this book are the narrato-logical and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-10
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Drawing on the proceedings of two conferences organized to celebrate the centenary of John Berryman’s birth in 2014, John Berryman: Centenary Essays provides new perspectives on a major US American poet’s work by critics from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-03-10
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Im Zentrum dieser Studie steht die diskursive Konstruktion von Identität und Alterität in englischen Reiseberichten über die Neue Welt. Sie untersucht, wie in dieser hybriden Textgattung zwischen 1560 und 1630 das Andere und Fremde repräsentiert und funktionalisiert...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-10
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Linguistics, like any discipline, is full of boundaries. However, in nature, as Ruqaiya Hasan points out, there are no clear cut boundaries. The participants of the 42nd International Systemic Functional Congress held at RWTH Aachen University addressed and challenged...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-10
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Im Fokus der Beiträge steht der Lyriker Christian Wagner (1835–1918), Vertreter der literarischen Moderne um 1900. Sein oft provokatives Engagement in Literatur und Essays für Pazifismus, Minderheiten, ökologische Landwirtschaft, Tierschutz und Vegetarismus trug ihm...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-10
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Der Kindler kompakt-Band bietet eine Auswahl von ca. 60 Texten zur reichen Literatur der skandinavischen Länder.
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-03-09
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