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Gustaw Herling’s A World Apart is one of the most important books about Soviet camps and communist ideology in the Stalinist period. First published in English in 1951 and translated into many languages, it was relatively unknown till Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-26
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What is distinctive about the cultural practice called 'literature'? How does it benefit individuals and society? How do literary works retain their importance and their capacity to give pleasure over decades and centuries?What constitutes responsible criticism? These...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-26
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How can art, how can prose and poetry originate in spite of the restraints of manipulation, propaganda, and censorship? This study explores such issues by focusing on the cultural trajectory of Japanese American internment, both during and after World War II. Previously...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-26
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The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that tackle...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-26
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«Ut pictura poesis», Horace said, but through the two millennia in which «the sister arts» have been compared, little has been said about the nature of sight itself. What we see in «our mind’s eye» as we read has not been explored, though by following the visual prompts...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-26
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This book is a simple and clear presentation of the lexis of Camfranglais, an urban youth sociolect in Cameroon. It presents this sociolect as an outgrowth of language contact phenomena that have fossilized especially around the Littoral Region of Cameroon....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-26
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Nach zehn Jahren Fremdsprachenlernen in der Grundschule hat sich das Feld wie kaum ein anderes entwickelt. Ein Grund dafür ist die rege und vielfältige empirische Forschung, die in diesem Band durch zehn Beiträge vorgestellt wird. Die Diskussion widmet sich Aspekten wie...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-26
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Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-24
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This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-22
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What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice', from a poem's soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us, in order to embark on a philosophical exploration of the concept of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-22
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The first in-depth account of fictional sequels in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this examines cases of prose fiction works being continued by multiple writers, reading them for evidence of Early Modern attitudes towards authorship, originality, and literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-21
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Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2015-03-20
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Dennis Potter was born and brought up in the Forest of Dean- a 'strange and beautiful place', as he described it in the last interview before his death, 'rather ugly villages in beautiful landscape, a heart- shaped place between two rivers, somehow slightly cut off from...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-03-19
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This book explores modalities and cultural interventions of translation in the early modern period, focusing on the shared parameters of these two translation cultures. Translation emerges as a powerful tool for thinking about community and citizenship, literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-18
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Fictional or real, pirates haunted the imagination of the 18th and 19th century-British public during this great period of maritime commerce, exploration, and naval conflict. British Pirates in Print and Performanc e explores representations of pirates through dozens of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-17
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Angesichts der unterschiedlichen Modalitäten und der verschiedenen Medialitätsgrade und -arten der Rezeption, die das Werk und die Figur Georg Büchners in zwei Jahrhunderten erfahren hat und weiter erfährt, muss heutzutage von Büchner-Rezeptionen in der Pluralform die...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-16
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Drawing on newly-discovered manuscripts, this collection is the first modern edition of poetry by John Thelwall, the famed radical Romantic and champion of the working class. Eight key essays and 125 fully-annotated poems introduce his work in correspondence with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-12
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Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature such as smell, sound, etc. that often challenge the rationalizing logic of modernity. Through close readings of writers such as Conrad and Coetzee,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-12
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This book focuses on the way that notions of home and identity have changed for Muslims as a result of international 'war on terror' rhetoric. It uniquely links the post-9/11 stereotyping of Muslims and Islam in the West to the roots of current jihadism and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-09
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Die Bibliothek Ottos des Jüngeren Freiherr von Nostitz, die heute in der Prager Nostitzbibliothek verwahrt wird, stellt mit ihren ungefähr 5.000 Bänden eine der bedeutendsten niederschlesischen Barockbibliotheken dar. Zugleich legt sie Zeugnis ab von der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-09
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