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Combining sustained empirical analysis of reading group conversations with four case studies of classic and contemporary novels: Things Fall Apart, White Teeth, Brick Lane and Small Island, this book pursues what can be gained through a comparative approach to reading...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-17
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This is a revised second edition of Edward Mullen's landmark scholarly presentation of Juan Francisco Manazo's autobiography and poetry. Taking into account the extensive scholarship that has accrued in the intervening decades, this is an accessible, essential...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-17
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Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction is not a historical study or a survey of narrative plots, but takes a more conceptual approach that engages with the central ideas of posthumanism: the fragmented nature of posthuman identity, the concept of agency as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-16
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Newly revised and enlarged, the second edition of A Conrad Chronology draws upon a rich range of published and unpublished materials. It offers a detailed factual record of Joseph Conrad's unfolding life as seaman and writer as well as tracing the compositional and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-16
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A History of Roman Art provides a wide-ranging survey of the subject from the founding of Rome to the rule of Rome's first Christian emperor, Constantine. Incorporating the most up-to-date information available on the topic, this new textbook explores the creation, use,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-12-16
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By bringing together Milton specialists with other innovative early modern scholars, the collection aims to embrace and encourage a methodologically adventurous study of Milton's works, analyzing them both in relation to their own moment and their many ensuing contexts.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-16
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The aim of this book and its accompanying audio files is to make accessible a corpus of 40 authentic job interviews conducted in English.The recordings and transcriptions of the interviews published here may be used by students, teachers and researchers alike for...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-15
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Die Psalterhandschrift Arundel 155 ist ein herausragendes Zeugnis der spätangelsächsischen Kultur. Sie entstand zwischen 1012 und 1023 im Kathedralkloster von Canterbury. Im Zentrum dieser Arbeit steht die erste Gesamtedition der Sammlung von 40 lateinischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-15
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This work, concerned with the significance of literacy and multiliteracies in the 21st century, examines pedagogy from the perspective of Web 2.0 tools and the potential of social networks to improve the quality of learning. Drawing on five years research in German and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-15
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Often hailed as a ‘national genre’, the short story has a long and distinguished tradition in Ireland and continues to fascinate readers and writers alike. Critical appreciation of the Irish short story, however, has laboured for too long under the normative conception...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-15
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32 Autorinnen und Autoren reflektieren die internationale Verankerung, die theoretisch-methodische Ausdifferenzierung und das Forschungsinteresse an Geschichte und Gegenwart der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Sie beschäftigen sich in vier Schwerpunkten mit der Theorie,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-15
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Following the evolution of Ciaran Carson’s work, this book aims to trace the tension between orality and textuality, which can be discerned in the poetry of the Northern-Irish writer. Assuming these forces to be the two major sources of all literature, the author...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-15
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Phillis Wheatley, the African-born slave poet, is considered by many to be a pioneer of Anglo-American poetics. This study argues how in her 1773 POEMS, Wheatley uses John Milton's poetry to develop an idealistic vision of an emerging Anglo-American republic comprised...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-12-12
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Diverting Authorities examines the glossing of a variety of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century texts by authors including Lydgate, Douglas, Chaloner, Baldwin, Bullein, Harington, and Nashe. It is concerned particularly with the use of glosses as a means for authors to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-12-11
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A Room of One’s Own, is one of Virginia Woolf’s most influential works and is widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution to the women’s movement. This timely and important new edition adopts the complete text of the first British edition published in 1929. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-12-10
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Shakespeare Head Press Edition of Virginia Woolf
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Berthold Jacob war einer der bekanntesten deutschen Journalisten und Pazifisten der Weimarer Republik, der als Anti-Nazi und Jude schon 1932 Zuflucht in Straßburg fand. Im März 1935 wurde er durch die Gestapo über die schweizerisch-deutsche Grenze entführt und in Berlin...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-09
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Die Kinder- und Jugendliteratur der romanischen Länder ist, obwohl seit langem international erfolgreich, in der deutschsprachigen Romanistik bislang noch nicht als systematisches Forschungsfeld etabliert. Dieser Band, der auf eine Sektion des Romanistentags 2013...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-09
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This multidisciplinary collection of articles illuminates the ways in which the concept of female deviance is represented, appropriated, re-inscribed and refigured in a wide range of texts across time, cultures and genres. Such a choice of variety shows that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-09
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Czeslaw Milosz, poet, literary critic, essayist and Nobel Laureate, is a familiar person to the Anglophone literary community. But American and British critics in the main are not very competent in the intimate features of Polish literary culture and have no access to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-09
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Cruel Britannia: Sarah Kane’s Postmodern Traumatics examines four plays by British playwright Sarah Kane (1971–1999), all written between 1995 and 1999 within the context of the «Cool Britannia», or «In-Yer-Face» London theatre movement of the 1990s. Kane’s plays were...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-09
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