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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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This volume completes the first uniform edition of the Early Middle English Ancrene Wisse Group. It contains Sawles Warde from the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group of lyrical meditations. These works, originally written for devout women, are of unusual literary and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-13
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Ever since John Arbuthnot published The History of John Bull in 1712, the figure of John Bull has stereotypically personified the best and the worst traits of the British (or English) national character. The present work takes the eponymous juxtaposition as an incentive...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-13
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No study has been carried out examining the gnostic undercurrents in medieval England. For the first time, Natanela Elias investigates the existence of these gnostic traces, using prominent late medieval English literary works such as Piers Plowman and Confessio Amantis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-09
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The detective figure in contemporary American crime fiction increasingly relies on revenge to bring about justice in a society where there has been a sharp decline in moral values. This study demonstrates how the notion of the detective as a moral exemplar or heroic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-04-08
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Voix et silence se considèrent traditionnellement comme deux phénomènes opposés, s’excluant l’un l’autre. Les contributions contenues dans ce volume se proposent de dépasser une telle conception, en se centrant non seulement sur la valeur et les fonctions que les deux...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-07
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Questa raccolta di saggi si propone di dare un contributo alla discussione attuale sul discorso postcoloniale italiano, cioè quell’insieme di testi incentrati in modo critico sulla Storia coloniale in generale e su quella italiana in particolare. Si tratta di una...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2015-04-07
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As the first essay collection dedicated to Philip K. Dick in two decades, this volume breaks new ground in science fiction scholarship and brings innovative critical perspectives to the study of one of the twentieth century's most influential authors.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-05
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This book reframes British First World War literature within Britain's history as an imperial nation. Rereading canonical war writers Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, alongside war writing by Enid Bagnold, E. M. Forster, Mulk Raj Anand, Roly Grimshaw and others,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-03
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The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English.
Postcolonial Life Narrative draws...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-04-02
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This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory. Features a brief introduction to postcolonial theory and a list of suggested further reading that includes the...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2015-03-31
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This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory. Features a brief introduction to postcolonial theory and a list of suggested further reading that includes the texts in...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2015-03-31
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Robert Mucha widmet sich der Person des Kaisers Domitian, die neuerdings wieder im Fokus des Forschungsinteresses steht: Nach Aufgabe der These einer domitianischen Christenverfolgung wurden einige urchristliche Texte wesentlich später datiert. Bei Analyse des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-31
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Ancient and modern Egypt feature in numerous fantastic stories by Victorian and Edwardian writers. This book explores how works of popular Egyptianising fantastic literature can be read as critical texts which comment on the Oriental mind-set of Europe, and especially...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-31
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This collection of essays demonstrates that using fiction, poetry, and drama in the classroom provides students with the best opportunity to learn about thinking, writing, and life at their deepest levels. Several of the contributors have worked or studied at Ridgeview...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-03-31
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