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Die Aufsätze in diesem Band behandeln Aspekte des literarischen Lebens in Galizien vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Sie basieren zum großen Teil auf vergleichenden Untersuchungen, die polnische, ukrainische und deutschsprachige Texte mitberücksichtigen. So...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-09
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Inklings nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e. V. widmet sich seit 1983 dem Studium und der Verbreitung der Werke dieser und ihnen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-09
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This book examines Scotland from a great variety of international and disciplinary perspectives, offering viewpoints from ordinary citizens as well as experts in culture, history, literature, sociology, politics, the law, and the media. The texts investigate the mental...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-09
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This multidisciplinary collection brings together scholars from the fields of literature, theology and linguistics who question and extend our taken-for-granted conceptions of The End. It focuses on the ways in which endings are formally signaled in literature, and sets...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-09
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Brimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex and confusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply, 30 Great Myths About the Romantics adds great clarity to what we know – or think we know – about one of the most important periods in literary...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-03-09
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Drawing from a broad range of contemporary British poets, including Thomas Kinsella, Kathleen Jamie, and Alice Oswald, this study examines the inherently spatial and affective nature of our engagement with poetry. Adding to the expanding field of geocritical studies,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-05
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Examining novelists, bloggers, and other creators of new media, this study focuses on autobiography by American black women since 1980, including Audre Lorde, Jill Nelson, and Janet Jackson. As Curtis argues, these women used embodiment as a strategy of drawing the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-04
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Using the concept of otherness as an entry point into a discussion of poetry, Jonathan Hart's study explores the role of history and theory in relation to literature and culture. Chapters range from trauma in Shakespeare to Bartolomé de Las Casas' representation of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-04
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Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author,Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-04
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Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual idealism of the 1980s, through the post-Tiananmen transition, to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-04
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Modernist Mythopoeia argues that the experimental modernist form of mythopoeia was directed towards expressing a range of metaphysical perspectives that fall between material secularism and dogmatic religion. The book is a timely addition to the 'post-secular' debate as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-03
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Jochen Bertheau befasst sich mit Goethes wohl bekanntesten Werk, dem «Faust I». Der Dichter selbst bezeichnete seine Arbeit gelegentlich als Fragment und widersprüchlich in der Konzeption, verteidigte aber gegenüber kritischen Lesern wie Wieland oder Luden das Prinzip,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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The Intellectual as a Detective: From Leonardo Sciascia to Roberto Saviano offers a fresh perspective on both Italian crime fiction and the role of the intellectual in Italian society. By analyzing the characterization of men of culture as investigators, this book...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-03-02
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Der erste Band enthält die literatur- und übersetzungswissenschaftlichen Beiträge des XII. Türkischen Internationalen Germanistik Kongresses, der im Mai 2014 in Kocaeli/Türkei unter dem Thema Migration und kulturelle Diversität stattfand.Der Band ist in zwei...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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This work in cultural history and literary criticism suggests a fresh and fruitful approach to the old notion of Americanness. Following Reinhart Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte, the author proposes that Americanness is not an ordinary word, but a concept with a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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In ihrem Buch setzt sich Dorothée Treiber kritisch mit der weitverbreiteten These auseinander, Hugo von Hofmannsthals Elektra leide an einer klinischen Hysterie. Der Autorin zufolge hält diese Behauptung einer eingehenden Analyse der Quellenlage nicht stand. Dagegen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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The 1798 Rebellion, a watershed event in Irish history, has been a source of both inspiration and controversy over the last two centuries and continues to provoke debate up to the present day.The ongoing discussion about the meaning of the Rebellion has not been limited...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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This volume attempts for the first time a comprehensive view of the momentous process of German-American cultural transfer during the 18th and 19th centuries, which played an important part in the formation of an American national and cultural identity, a process to...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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Discover Virginia Woolf’s informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon – from the ancient Greeks to Jane Austen and beyond.Virginia Woolf read, and wrote, as an outsider, denied the educational privileges of her male...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-02-26
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'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'.So Virginia Woolf described the 'common reader' for whom she wrote her second series of essays. Here she turns her brilliant eye on novels and poetry from John Donne to...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-02-26
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