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This volume on language contact is a corpus-based descriptive and theoretical study of the Polish translations of English one- and multi-word polymorphemic expressions. The formation of loan translations is unique among strategies in lexical development as it involves...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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Das Buch befasst sich mit der Repräsentation des Erinnerungsortes Gernika in der spanischsprachigen Literatur. Die Bombardierung der baskischen Kleinstadt im Jahre 1937 stellt ein herausragendes Ereignis des Spanischen Bürgerkriegs dar. Für die Künste lässt sich an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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This formalist-narratological study of T.F. Powys’ and V.S. Pritchett’s short fiction reestablishes both authors as important contributors to the history of the short story form. It also discusses how writers, who did not belong to the modernist avant-garde innovation,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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The book presents contributions to the 2012 conference of the Austrian Association of University Teachers of English in which scholars of various fields of English Studies discuss aspects of contact and conflict in Anglophone literatures, critical theory, cultural...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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«Empirical Methods in Language Studies» presents 22 papers employing a broad range of empirical methods in the analysis of various aspects of language and communication. The individual texts offer contributions to the description of conceptual strategies, syntax,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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Bis dat, qui cito dat – never has a proverb more aptly applied to an individual than does this Medieval Latin saying to Wolfgang Mieder. «He gives twice who gives quickly» captures the essence of his entire career, his professional as well as personal life. As a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-28
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This volume presents 50 contributions on the themes of reasonableness and effectiveness and their connections, which are central issues in argumentation theory. It discusses van Eemeren’s views on the study of argumentation; the approach to argumentation adopted in...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-08-27
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Transforming Tales argues that the study of transformation is crucial for understanding a wide range of canonical work in medieval French literature. From the lais and Arthurian romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, through the Roman de la Rose and its...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-08-27
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Is Shakespeare any Good? reveals why certain literary works and authors are treated as superior to others, and questions the literary establishment’s criteria for creating an imperium of “great” writers. Enables readers to articulate and formulate their own arguments...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-26
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This volume addresses the issues of remembering and performing the past in Eastern European ex-communist states in the context of multiplication of the voices of the past. The book analyzes the various ways in which memory and remembrance operate; it does so by using...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-25
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Covering a wide range of magazine work, including editing, illustration, poetry, needlework instruction and typesetting, this book provides fresh insights into the participation of women in the nineteenth-century magazine industry.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-24
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This book offers a detailed exploration of the plot genotype, the functional structure behind the plots of classical fairy tales. By understanding how plot genotypes are used, the reader or creative writer will obtain a much better understanding of many other types of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-24
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This book is both a study of how James Joyce created two of the most iconic characters in literature—Leopold Bloom and Marion Tweedy Bloom—as well as a history of the genesis of Ulysses. From a genetic critical perspective, it explores the conception and evolution of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-08-20
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Shakespeare's Extremes is a controversial intervention in current critical debates on the status of the human inShakespeare's work. By focusing on three flagrant cases of human exorbitance - Edgar, Caliban and Julius Caesar - this book seeks to limn out the domain of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-18
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Jane Austen and the State of the Nation exploresJane Austen's references to politics and to political economics and concludes that Austen was a liberal Tory who remained consistent in her political agenda throughout her career as a novelist. Read with this historical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-18
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Spoiled Distinctions investigates crises of evaluation in twentieth-century France. Taking Marcel Proust as its central figure, the book theorizes the disorienting force of everyday aesthetic experience. In a series of surprising readings, Hannah Freed-Thall frees...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-08-18
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Monika Tokarzewska zeigt, wie Locke, Leibniz, Kant, Fichte, Novalis und Jean Paul Motive aus der nachkopernikanischen und newtonschen Astronomie in Schlüsselmetaphern verwandeln und mit ihrer Hilfe die Möglichkeiten eines neuen Grundlagendenkens und -handelns im...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-14
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Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion establishes how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy in the early modern period. Features essays...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-14
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Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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Since ancient times, writers and poets have grappled with death, dying, grief, and mourning in their works. The Final Crossing: Death and Dying in Literature compiles fifteen in-depth, scholarly, and original essays on death and dying in literature from around the globe...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-08-14
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Die Autorin untersucht aus der Perspektive der Englischdidaktik, welchen Beitrag der Englischunterricht zur Entwicklung individueller Mehrsprachigkeit leisten kann. Sie skizziert potenzielle Mehrsprachigkeitsfelder und gibt Einblicke in die Sichtweisen der Beteiligten,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-14
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