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Der Band fokussiert die aktuellen textlinguistischen Forschungsinteressen junger Linguisten aus Polen, Deutschland und Frankreich, die im Oktober 2012 an einer am Institut für Germanistik der Jagiellonen-Universität Krakau veranstalteten Konferenz zum Thema...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-16
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The volume comprises adaptation studies of ten selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the 20th and 21st centuries: Things to Come, Lost Horizon, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Lord of the Flies,The Andromeda Nebula, Brave New World,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-16
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This book combines two collections of essays written by the late professor Zuoliang Wang, works that explore the affinity between literatures and peoples, with special attention given to that between Chinese literature and western literature in the 20th century, and...
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Springer
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2015-02-15
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Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War explores the impact of the Second World War on literature and culture in Northern Ireland between 1939 and 1970. It argues that the war, as a unique interregnum in the history of Northern Ireland, challenged the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-12
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Shaped by the experiences of the Iranian Revolution, Iranian-American autobiographers use this chaotic past to tell their current stories in the United States. Wagenknecht analyzes a wide range of such writing and draws new conclusions about migration, exile, and life...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-02-11
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Approaching the writings of Mary Wroth through a fresh 21st-century lens, this volume accounts for and re-invents the literary scholarship of one of the first "canonized" women writers of the English Renaissance. Essays present different practices that emerge...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-02-04
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This volume offers new interpretations of Katherine Mansfield's work by bringing together recent biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life and art in the context of Continental Europe. It features chapters on Mansfield's reception in several European...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-02-03
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This book documents changes and trends in English predicate complementation. In-depth case studies of grammatical patterns presented here uncover new links between form and meaning in these constructions, offering fresh insights into explanatory principles to account...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2015-02-02
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Si propone una discussione sulle figure, note e meno note, di scrittori e critici che hanno voluto forgiare il concetto di letteratura europea. Partendo da alcune affermazioni di Giuseppe Mazzini, nel saggio D'una letteratura europea, si allarga la discussione oltre la...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-02
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The book discusses the evolution of the urban chronotope in the selected novels by Peter Ackroyd, an acclaimed British author.The examined narratives illustrate the transformation from the postmodern tenets of historiographic metafiction into a unique urban mythopoetics...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-02
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First Language versus Foreign Language deals with the «battle» that takes place in writers’ heads when writing in a foreign language. Most academics today need to write in another language than in their first language (L1) in order to publish in internationally...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-02
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From today’s perspective, Charles Dickens seems to continue a British tradition in which dynamism and movement are central. This serves as a starting point for a bicentenary conference held by the English Department of Leipzig University in October 2012. The...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-02
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Romancing Treason addresses the scope and significance of the secular literary culture of the Wars of the Roses, and especially of the Middle English romances that were distinctively written in prose during this period. Megan Leitch argues that the pervasive textual...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-29
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Any list of the six greatest European poets would include Virgil, Aeschylus and Homer. A recent history of philosophy named Aristotle and Plato as two of the world's four greatest philosophers. The greatest historian of all is likely to be Thucydides. Why was Ancient...
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Pelican
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2015-01-29
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Schriftsteller beanspruchen im Prozess der Modernisierung eine wichtige Rolle als Verfasser von Dorfromanen, als nationale Propagandisten in den Befreiungskriegen, als Mitspieler in der Literatur der französischen Moderne (Heinrich Heine), als Träger des deutschen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-28
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English morphophonology has aroused considerable interest in the wake of Chomsky and Halle’s ground-breaking The Sound Pattern ofEnglish (1968). Various theoretical models have subsequently emerged, seeking to account for the stress-placement and combinatorial...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-28
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The book adds new studies of memories and interactions between Jews and non-Jews to the historical and cultural research on this topic. It gathers in one volume the results of work by scholars from several countries, while the topics of the articles cover various...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-28
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What did it mean, in the rapidly changing world of Victorian England, to 'be a man'? In essays written specially for this volume, nine distinguished scholars from Britain and the USA show how Victorian novelists from the Brontës to Conrad sought to discover what made...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-01-22
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Why did people talk so much about avarice in late Renaissance France, nearly a century before Molière's famous comedy, L'Avare? As wars and economic crises ravaged France on the threshold of modernity, avarice was said to be flourishing as never before. Yet by the late...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-22
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The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's poetry, other essays...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-22
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