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The origins of the Spanish novel date back to the early picaresque novels and Don Quixote, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the history of the genre in Spain presents the reader with such iconic works as Galdós's Fortunata and Jacinta, Clarín's La...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-04-30
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Dreams are the currency of Okri's writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, but also in his books of short stories and prize-winning novel The Famished Road. Okri's dreams are made on the stuff of Africa's colossal economic and political...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-04-30
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Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem amerikanischen Dichter Ezra Pound, einem der wichtigsten Vertreter der literarischen Moderne. Seine epochalen Theorien des Imagismus und Vortizismus sind die Apizes der Ismen des fin de siècle; seine dichterischen Prinzipien und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-30
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Im Buch wird die finanzielle Situation Ciceros untersucht, die anhand seines Briefwechsels detailliert nachverfolgt werden kann. Der berühmte Anwalt, Politiker und Literat kämpfte schließlich zeitlebens mit finanziellen Problemen. Diese werden dargelegt, indem die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-04-30
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South African theatre, drama, and performance is a vibrant and rapidly developing area of contemporary theatre studies. In this critical anthology of essays and interviews, some of the world’s most respected scholars and practitioners writing and working in the area of...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2015-04-30
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During the English Restoration, London unlicensed health carers printed handbills as the easiest way to advertise their medical practices. In order to increase our awareness of irregular medical practitioners as a cultural phenomenon and examine their language, two...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-04-30
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Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers is the first study of contemporary literary representations of one of the most iconic topoi in English literature and culture – the country house. The book analyses nine contemporary novels, including Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-30
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This book explores the many interdependencies and crossovers between living and writing, or, in more specific terms, between writers’ lives on the one hand and their literary output on the other. Thematically divided into four major parts, the book focuses on different...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-04-30
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These twelve essays analyze the complex pleasures and problems of engaging with James Joyce for subsequent writers, discussing Joyce's textual, stylistic, formal, generic, and biographical influence on an intriguing selection of Irish, British, American, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-28
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The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media—oral, aural, visual, and literary. Investigates the many...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-04-28
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-04-24
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Alongside Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful letters and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-04-24
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Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-04-23
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Originally published in 1949, Gilbert Highet's seminal The Classical Tradition is a herculean feat of comparative literature and a landmark publication in the history of classical reception. As Highet states in the opening lines of his Preface, this book outlines "the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-04-23
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Alongside Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful letters and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-04-23
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A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison — fiction, non-fiction, and other — drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts. The author aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-22
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Die Untersuchung von kulturellen und literarischen Konventionen in der «Eulenspiegelliteratur», die ungefähr zwischen 1580 und 1650 im Königreich Polen-Litauen gedruckt wurde, stellt den Gegenstand der Arbeit dar. Den Hintergrund bilden dabei die mit der Kultur der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-20
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A History of Modernist Literature offers a critical overview of modernism in England between the late 1890s and the late 1930s, focusing on the writers, texts, and movements that were especially significant in the development of modernism during these years. A...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-04-20
Collection :
Blackwell History of Literature
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Anhand einer empirisch-korpusbasierten Untersuchung analysiert die Autorin die sprachliche Darstellung von Frauen, Männern und alten Menschen in der Anzeigenwerbung im gesellschaftlichen Kontext des beginnenden 21. Jahrhunderts. Berücksichtigt werden die Variablen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-20
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Den Schwerpunkt dieses Bandes der Simpliciana bilden vierzehn Vorträge, die während einer Tagung mit dem Rahmenthema «Chiffrieren und Dechiffrieren in Grimmelshausens Werk und in der Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit» Mitte Juni 2014 in Gelnhausen gehalten wurden. Fünf...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-13
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