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This book examines the interdisciplinary foundations of pragmatism
from a literary perspective, tracing the characters and settings that populate
the narratives of pragmatist thought in Henry James’s work. Cultivated during a
postwar era of industrial change and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-15
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A Companion to Greek Architecture provides an expansive overview of the topic, including design, engineering, and construction as well as theory, reception, and lasting impact. Covers both sacred and secular structures and complexes, with particular attention to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-06-13
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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This collection explores how new directions in feminist literary study might be informed by the work of the past. It offers a snapshot view of new feminist research in the field today and traces the influence of the substantial feminist inheritance in English Studies...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-06-10
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Der Band nimmt lokale Perspektiven des Ersten Weltkriegs, insbesondere der ostmitteleuropäischen Regionen, in den Blick. Die Beiträge berücksichtigen dabei besonders die multiethnische Gemengelage und die durch den Ersten Weltkrieg ausgelösten Konflikte in den...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-10
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This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of place as fixed and unchanging and are remapping conceptions of world geography,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-10
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This book examines a wide range of contemporary Russian writers whose work, after the demise of Communism, became more authoritative in debates on Russia’s character, destiny, and place in the world. Unique in his in-depth analysis of both playful postmodernist authors...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-09
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This book investigates the presence of disability in British Romantic literature, as subject matter, as metaphorical theme, and as lived experience. It is the first collection of its kind, breaking new ground in re-interpreting key texts and providing a challenging...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-09
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This essay collection examines the Shakespearian culture of Cold War Europe - Germany, France, UK, USSR, Poland, Spain and Hungary - from 1947/8 to the end of the 1970s. Written by international Shakespearians who are also scholars of the Cold War, the essays assembled...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-06-09
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This book considers scientific performances across two centuries, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Performances include demonstrations of technologies, experiments that look like theatre, theatre that looks like science, tourist representations and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-06-09
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This book provides a groundbreaking analysis of the most prominent writers of contemporary Peru, in which literary works and cultural performances are illuminated through the categories and propositions of postcolonial theory. The study entails a discussion of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-08
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Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field. A handy reference tool.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-07
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‘Sullivan’s outstanding book is the first to show how French courtesans were fully-fledged masters of the pen as well as proverbial ladies of the night. We learn how their rewriting of classics such as The Lady of the Camellias and their response to a male “backlash”...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-07
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Das Buch stellt einen Versuch dar, die Reflexivität von deutschen Verben ausgehend von den Übersetzungsäquivalenten im Tschechischen zu prognostizieren. Aufgrund der Äquivalenzbeziehung zwischen nicht-reflexiven Verben im Tschechischen und Deutschen und verschiedenen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-03
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In the past few years, discussion of fiction in all sorts of media has intensified. The prominence of literary critics has increased, the awarding of lucrative book prizes has become more publicized, and reports of the formation of reading groups have proliferated....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-03
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Was wäre geschehen, wenn…? Diese Frage wird an zentralen Ereignissen und großen Persönlichkeiten der griechischen und römischen Geschichte bearbeitet, wobei die Einbindung in den jeweils kulturellen Kontext Beachtung findet. Ziel des Buches ist es, Gedankenspiele...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-03
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The main purpose of this volume is to look into a wide spectrum of artistic ventures which cross boundaries and challenge habitual thinking, consequently involving an element of provocation. While it is true that not all great art is provocative, the most memorable...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-03
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Within the growing field of television studies, little work has yet been done on the Irish context. This volume aims to fill this gap by offering new and compelling studies of contemporary Irish TV series. Fictional TV series, which constitute an autonomous genre within...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-03
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This book offers a new, complex understanding of Indian writing in English by focusing its analysis on both Indo-Pakistani Partition fiction and novels written by women. The author gives a comprehensive outline of Partition novels in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-03
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The experience of colour underwent a significant change in the second half of the nineteenth century, as new coal tar-based synthetic dyes were devised for the expanding textile industry. These new, artificial colours were often despised in artistic circles who favoured...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-03
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The essays of this collection are, each in their own way, an attempt to address the centrality of emotions in literary and cultural production in a variety of genres, from medieval moralities to contemporary novels, from English Romanticism to film studies. Emotions are...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-03
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