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Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic, economic, and spiritual impact of mass migratory movements. Diaspora...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-12-22
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On Human Bondage—a critical reexamination of Orlando Patterson’s groundbreaking Slavery and Social Death—assesses how his theories have stood the test of time and applies them to new case studies. Discusses the novel ideas of social death and natal alienation, as...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-12-22
Collection :
Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. Hrafnkel tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a vengeance, so to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-22
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This book is the first dedicated volume of academic analysis on the monumental work of Elena Ferrante, Italy's most well-known contemporary writer. The Works of Elena Ferrante: Reconfiguring the Margins brings together the most exciting and innovative research on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-22
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The book investigates the dispersed emergence of the new visual regime associated with nineteenth-century pre-cinematic spectacles in the literary imagination of the previous centuries. Its comparative angle ranges from the Medieval and Baroque period to the visual and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-21
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This book is about food, eating, and appetite in the nineteenth-century British novel. While much novel criticism has focused on the marriage plot, this book revises the history and theory of the novel, uncovering the “food plot” against which the marriage plot and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-21
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Winner of the Montserrat Ordóñez Prize 2018This book provides an original and exciting analysis of Colombian women’s writing and its relationship to feminist history from the 1970s to the present. In a period in which questions surrounding women and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-20
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This book is the first study of writers who are both Victorian and indigenous, who have been educated in and write in terms of Victorian literary conventions, but whose indigenous affiliation is part of their literary personae and subject matter. What happens when...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-20
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Das aktuelle Jahrbuch dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2015 mit den Reden der Preisträgerin Monika Rinck, der Vertrauensperson der Jury Heinrich Detering und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Günter Blamberger. Darüber hinaus enthält das...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-12-20
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Auswahl, Bearbeitung und Vermittlung von Informationen in der Öffentlichkeit: Der Band vermittelt alle wichtigen Aspekte journalistischer Tätigkeit. Dazu gehören klassische journalistische Darstellungs- und Präsentationsformen im Printbereich, in Hörfunk und Fernsehen,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-12-19
Collection :
Sammlung Metzler
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Reise durch die Literatur der Niederlande und Flanderns. Hermans, Mulisch, Nooteboom, Claus, Boon, de Moor u. a. - im deutschsprachigen Raum bekannt und geschätzt. Doch wer war Heinrich van Veldeke? Was schrieb die Mystikerin Hadewijch? Die Verfasser lassen Autoren und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-12-17
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For the scholarly reader it is a truism that trade, in its widest sense (exchange, interchange, deal) is the basis of human society, it is part of the human interaction which is the very texture of society. The French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss demonstrated in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-16
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In dieser Studie wird das Modell der Blog-Interaktion-Analyse (BIAN) als das methodologische Instrumentarium erarbeitet, mit dem Profilierungsprozesse und die Konstruierung des thematischen und Interaktionsprofils im Kommunikationsgefüge Blog–Interaktion untersucht...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-15
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Das Libretto der «Zauberflöte» bildet ein komplexes Netzwerk aufklärerischer Diskurse. Themen wie Humanität, Freimaurerei, ägyptische Mythologie, die Französische Revolution, künstlerische Raffinesse, Liebe sowie Formen der Herrschaft unterzieht der Autor einer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-15
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The essays collected in this book examine different aspects of change in literature and culture of the Anglophone world.The contributors analyse literary theory as well as individual literary works ranging from John Dryden’s poetry, through the 18th-century English...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-15
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This book is about selected Victorian texts and authors that in many cases have never before been subject to sustained scholarly attention. Taking inspiration from the pioneeringly capacious approach to the hidden hinterland of Victorian fiction adopted by scholars like...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-15
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Terrorism has long been a popular subject for American fiction writers. This book argues that terrorism in 1990s novels by Paul Auster, Philip Roth, and Bret Easton Ellis serves as a key trope to interrogate the limits of writing and the power of literature. Based on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-14
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This book proposes feminist empathy as a model of interpretation in the works of contemporary Anglophone African women writers. The African woman’s body is often portrayed as having been disabled by the patriarchal and sexist structures of society. Returning...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-14
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A COMPANION TO EURIPIDESA COMPANION TO EURIPIDES Euripides has enjoyed a resurgence of interest as a result of many recent important publications, attesting to the poet’s enduring relevance to the modern world.A Companion to Euripides is the product of this contemporary...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-12-14
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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The volume is uniquely located at the interdisciplinary crossroads of Performance Studies and transnational American Studies. As both a method and an object of study, performance deepens our understanding of transnational phenomena and America’s position in the world....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-13
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