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The contributors understand the wild zone as denoting the existence and experience of a group (ethnic, social, sub-cultural, sexual, religious, etc.) which is/was marginalized in American society. Reaching far beyond the boundaries of original agenda (Edwin Ardener’s...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-10-23
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Collected under the theme of Visions and Revisions, the papers included in this volume examine different aspects of literature and culture of the Anglophone world. The first part gathers articles dealing with poetry of such epochs as the seventeenth century, the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-16
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The book offers ten essays which explore the interaction between literature and politics.The authors investigate a variety of genres including young-adult fiction, national poetry, novels, autobiography, and performance art from different time periods ranging from the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-16
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The book presents post-war British historical drama not only as a phenomenon within literature and theatre, but also as an alternative form of representing the past, not as much competing with historiography as complementing it.The author shows how some of the central...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-09
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OFTHE GOTHIC “Well written and interesting [it is] a testament to the breadth and depth of knowledge about its central subject among the more than 130 contributing writers, and also among the three editors, each of whom is a significant figure in the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-10-08
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature
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This collection of critical essays proposes new and original readings of the relationship between French and Irish literature and culture. It seeks to re-evaluate, deconstruct and question artistic productions and cultural phenomena while pointing to the potential for...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-09-30
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This book presents the phenomenon of Afro-Caribbean poetry in English from Jamaican classic dub poetry of the 1970s to (Black) British post-dub verse of the 2000s. It showcases the literary continuum, as represented by Jamaican, Jamaican-British, and ultimately (Black)...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-25
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The transcripted conversations that represent the substance of this volume are the result of a research project funded by the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council.The product of nearly three years of interviews conducted with senior religious figures...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-08-31
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The monograph discusses the relation between language and visual culture, focusing on two Chaucerian narratives, «Knight’s Tale» and «Troilus and Criseyde».The study highlights the significance of the continuity of imagery in language and material culture for cultural...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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Shakespeare’s Tragedies Reviewed explores how the recognition of spectator interests by the playwright has determined the detailed character of Shakespeare tragedies. UtilizingShakespeare’s European models and contemporaries, including Cinthio and Lope de Vega, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-08-28
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This volume on language contact is a corpus-based descriptive and theoretical study of the Polish translations of English one- and multi-word polymorphemic expressions. The formation of loan translations is unique among strategies in lexical development as it involves...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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Das Buch befasst sich mit der Repräsentation des Erinnerungsortes Gernika in der spanischsprachigen Literatur. Die Bombardierung der baskischen Kleinstadt im Jahre 1937 stellt ein herausragendes Ereignis des Spanischen Bürgerkriegs dar. Für die Künste lässt sich an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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This formalist-narratological study of T.F. Powys’ and V.S. Pritchett’s short fiction reestablishes both authors as important contributors to the history of the short story form. It also discusses how writers, who did not belong to the modernist avant-garde innovation,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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The book presents contributions to the 2012 conference of the Austrian Association of University Teachers of English in which scholars of various fields of English Studies discuss aspects of contact and conflict in Anglophone literatures, critical theory, cultural...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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«Empirical Methods in Language Studies» presents 22 papers employing a broad range of empirical methods in the analysis of various aspects of language and communication. The individual texts offer contributions to the description of conceptual strategies, syntax,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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Bis dat, qui cito dat – never has a proverb more aptly applied to an individual than does this Medieval Latin saying to Wolfgang Mieder. «He gives twice who gives quickly» captures the essence of his entire career, his professional as well as personal life. As a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion establishes how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy in the early modern period. Features essays...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-14
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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Since ancient times, writers and poets have grappled with death, dying, grief, and mourning in their works. The Final Crossing: Death and Dying in Literature compiles fifteen in-depth, scholarly, and original essays on death and dying in literature from around the globe...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-08-14
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Die Autorin untersucht aus der Perspektive der Englischdidaktik, welchen Beitrag der Englischunterricht zur Entwicklung individueller Mehrsprachigkeit leisten kann. Sie skizziert potenzielle Mehrsprachigkeitsfelder und gibt Einblicke in die Sichtweisen der Beteiligten,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-14
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CLIL Revisited liefert eine kritische Analyse des alsCLIL oder bilingualer Sachfachunterricht bezeichneten Unterrichtskonzepts. Zentrale Fragen, die in der Forschung und in den beteiligten Didaktiken zur Debatte stehen, werden innerhalb des Sammelbands aufgegriffen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-14
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