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This book analyses poetry and prose written by combatant and non-combatant Irish writers during the First World War, focusing on key works influenced by Irish, English and European literary traditions. It highlights the complex positions adopted by writers in relation...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-12-18
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Graduate employability is often put forth as a marker of the success of a given institution or education system. High rates of school and university graduates in jobs offer a number of potential advantages for a country, including encouraging social mobility, increasing...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-18
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Twelve Anglicists (from France, America, Poland, and Romania) who met in Bucharest to debate Religion and Spirituality in Literature and the Arts at the ACED Conference in June 2015 join their voices in demonstrating the vitally spiritual power of Christianity in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-18
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Any one wishing to investigate the literary development of the golden century of early Italian literature, the Trecento, must read Natalino Sapegno’s extensive writings on the subject, in particular his Storia Letteraria del Trecento (A Literary History of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-12-11
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This volume was conceived as a space to provide visibility for South Asian women writers whose work has not had much exposure in the West. It contributes to the knowledge of South Asian women writers by including scholarship not only on little-known writers but also by...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-12-11
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The book provides a complementary view of modernism by investigating Anglo-American little magazines published in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. Addressing symbolic and practical aspects of physical location and international themes in the little reviews, it highlights...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-11
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The formative influences of Paris and France on the Anglo-Irish writer George Moore (1852–1933) cannot be underestimated. While the years Moore spent in Paris in the 1870s were seminal for his artistic awakening and development, the associations and friendships he...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-10
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Beginning around 1559 and continuing through 1642, writers in England, Scotland, and France found themselves pre-occupied with an unusual sort of crime, a crime without a name which today we call 'terrorism'. These crimes were especially dangerous because they were...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-12-10
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Versprechen sind prekär. Denn nimmt man sie als Worte, verpflichten sie zu Taten. Diese also heiklen Sprechhandlungen sind von literarischem Reiz. Namentlich Bürgschafts- und Fleischpfand-Geschichten verhandeln Versprechen. In einer differenzierenden und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Als Leser, Herausgeber und Forscher von interkultureller Literatur hat Carmine Chiellino im Laufe von drei Jahrzehnten eine elementare deutschsprachige Terminologie erarbeitet, um über seine Erfahrungen mit der interkulturellen Literatur in Westeuropa und in Nordamerika...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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This volume sets out to investigate how various forms of authority in Irish culture and history have been challenged and transformed by a crisis situation. In literature and the arts, a reappraisal of the authority of canonical authors – and also of traditional forms,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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This interdisciplinary collection explores the dynamic relationship between literature and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contributions take the reader on a journey through unexplored byways, from Istanbul to New York to London, from event...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Between steam and cybernetics lies a missing phase in the history of information culture. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, national governments and writers of fiction alike began to take an interest in information not simply as fact, nor yet as effortlessly...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-12-01
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Still Life: Suspended Development in the Victorian Novel rethinks the nineteenth-century aesthetics of agency through the Victorian novel's fascination with states of reverie, trance, and sleep. These states challenge contemporary scientific and philosophical accounts...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-12-01
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This volume seeks to put drama and its neglected mental dimension into the limelight. While narrative fiction with its intricate ways of rendering consciousness has been deemed an ideal playground for approaches of a cognitivist leaning, the dramatic genre has been all...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-06
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The Leaving of Ireland brings together an international group of scholars to reflect critically on the unfolding nature of the experience of Irish cultural identity at a time when Ireland is struggling to adjust to the shattering impacts of globalization and religious...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-03
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This collection of essays is a tribute to Andrzej Kopcewicz, the first professor ordinarius of American literature in the history of English studies in Poland. It coincides with the centenary of Imagism and what would have been Professor Kopcewicz’s 80th birthday. The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-03
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From the unbending belief in invisible powers that animates Till We Have Faces to the depiction of Aslan's sacrifice and resurrection in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis's writing has sparked intense debate about the presence and function of religion...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-30
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This is the story of a most ingenious invention: the novel. Desribed for the first time in The Rise of The Novel, Ian Watt's landmark classic reveals the origins and explains the success of the most popular literary form of all time.In the space of a single generation,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2015-10-29
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«The duty of the present is neither to copy nor to deny the past but to resurrect it», wrote W.H. Auden in 1948. The European voices that William B. Yeats and Sir Geoffrey Hill choose to resurrect reflect their shared hope in the future of humanity, as the essays in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-23
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