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This book provides compelling new readings of William Blake’s poetry and art, including the first sustained account of his visionary paintings of Pitt and Nelson. It focuses on the recurrent motif of apotheosis, both as a figure of political authority to be demystified...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-09
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This book addresses portrayals of children in a wide array of Chaucerian works. Situated within a larger discourse on childhood, Ages of Man theories, and debates about the status of the child in the late fourteenth century, Chaucer’s literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-09
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Der Band dokumentiert Sektionen aus dem Bereich Sprachdidaktik und Sprachvermittlung auf dem IVG-Kongress 2015. Er beginnt mit der Sektion «Sprachpflege und Sprachkritik als gesellschaftliche Aufgaben», darauf folgen die Sektionen «Wie kann man in der heutigen Zeit der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-09
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Wie soll die Erinnerung an den Holocaust zukünftig gestaltet werden? Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Frage untersucht die Autorin Wissen und Identität in den Werken Wiesels und Styrons. Sie entwirft ein Analysemodell, das verschiedene Formen des Wissens sowie Ebenen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-09
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This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons, collectively understood as “tropical weather.” Historically, literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of symbolic language and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-09
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The book examines the perception of the organist as the most influential musical figure in Victorian society through the writings of Thomas Hardy and Robert Browning. This will be the first book in the burgeoning area of research into the relationship of music and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-09
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Zweieinhalb Jahrtausende Theater in Europa. Die Chronik zeigt Schauspielkunst unter den verschiedensten politischen, historischen und ästhetischen Vorzeichen und enthält die wichtigsten Personen und Bühnenereignisse, kulturhistorische und politische Hintergründe sowie...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-01-07
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Die Tragikomödie, verstanden als Kombination von Tragik und Komik im Drama, ist eine von der zeitgenössischen Literaturwissenschaft relativ wenig beachtete Gattung. Dabei bietet sie ein heuristisches Modell, das oft übersehene Zusammenhänge in der europäischen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-01-06
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Das Lexikon enthält Informationen über Biographie, Werkanalyse und bibliographische Angaben wichtiger Autoren der deutschsprachigen «Fantasy» und Science Fiction im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Überblicksartikel befassen sich darüber hinaus mit Fragen des Genres, deutscher...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-05
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American short-story writer Andre Dubus (1936–1999) was a “writer’s writer.” His acclaimed collections of short stories and essays involve one or all of three thematic discourses – that of the Catholic Church as center of meaning and value, the symbolic and healing...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-01-04
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This book considers the ways that family relationships (parental, marital, sibling or other) mimic, and stand in for, political ones in the Early Modern period, and vice versa. Bringing together leading international scholars in literary-historical fields to produce...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-03
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This book examines literary texts by British colonial servant and settler writers, including Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, William Golding, and Alan Sillitoe, who depicted the impact of decolonization in the newly independent colonies and at home in Britain. The ...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-03
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This book critically examines the postcolonial canon, questioning both the disproportionate attention to texts written in English and their overuse in attempts to understand the postcolonial condition. The author addresses the non-representation of Indian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-27
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This exciting new collection examines the relationships between warfare, myths, and fairy tales, and explores the connections and contradictions between the narratives of war and magic that dominate the ways in which people live and have lived, survived, considered and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-26
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Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881–1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-26
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Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, author Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the incontrovertibly mass medium...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-12-23
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What should literature with political aims look like? This book traces two rival responses to this question, one prizing clarity and the other confusion, which have dominated political aesthetics since the late nineteenth century. Revisiting recurrences of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-22
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Sarah Roger investigates Jorge Luis Borges's development as an author in light of Franz Kafka's influence, and in consideration of Borges's relationship with his father, Jorge Guillermo Borges (Borges père, a failed author). Borges believed that much of Kafka's writing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-22
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David Lawton approaches later medieval English vernacular culture in terms of voice. As texts and discourses shift in translation and in use from one language to another, antecedent texts are revoiced in ways that recreate them (as 'public interiorities') without...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-22
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David Lawton approaches later medieval English vernacular culture in terms of voice. As texts and discourses shift in translation and in use from one language to another, antecedent texts are revoiced in ways that recreate them (as 'public interiorities') without...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-22
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