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The book is a study on intensifiers and reflexive pronouns between two languages (English and Mandarin Chinese) and the first one drawing a complete picture in this domain. It provides the full uses of self, zìji and benrén. In the case of benrén, here for the first...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-25
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Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 examines how British and American writers used early photography and film as illustrations and metaphors. It concentrates on five figures in particular: Henry Mayhew, Robert Louis Stevenson, Amy Levy, William Dean...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-21
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Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life offers an account of the poet's life, along with a critical reading of his work, that is designed to close what has been called 'the yawning gap' betweenDylan Thomas's popular and critical reputations....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-20
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On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock. W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the celebrities of the group, led four lesser-known poets to the Sussex manor house of the man they were honouring, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: the poet, horse-breeder, Arabist, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-20
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On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock. W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the celebrities of the group, led four lesser-known poets to the Sussex manor house of the man they were honouring, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: the poet, horse-breeder, Arabist, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-20
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Unlocking a new and overdue model for reading comic books, this unique volume explores religious interpretations of popular comic book superheroes such as the Green Lantern and the Hulk. This superhero subgenre offers a hermeneutic for those interested...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-19
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Art and literature during the European fin-de-siècle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-19
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Food and the Literary Imagination explores ways in which the food chain and anxieties about its corruption and disruption are represented in poetry, theatre and the novel. The book relates its findings to contemporary concerns about food security.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-18
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This collection of essays is dedicated to examining the recent literary phenomenon of the 'neo-historical' novel, a sub-genre of contemporary historical fiction which critically re-imagines specific periods of history.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-13
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The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study will consider the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-11-07
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Penguin presents I'm Not Here to Give a Speech, the complete speeches of Nobel laureate and beloved novelist Gabriel García Márquez collected and published in English for the first time.Gabriel García Márquez has charmed generations of readers with his distinctive and...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-11-06
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Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena, this interdisciplinary collection examines literary texts and movies from Europe and the United States since 1945.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-06
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Wie lässt sich die Versprachlichung eines Abstraktums wie Herrschaft in der deutschen Sprache fassen? Insbesondere in einer Zeit, die noch stark vom Lateinischen geprägt ist? Die Untersuchung des Wortgebrauchs von rike innerhalb der ersten deutschsprachigen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-03
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Band 19 des Jahrbuchs SYMBOLON dokumentiert Vorträge aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen, die bei den Jahrestagungen der Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Symbolforschung e. V. 2009–2011 in Ludwigshafen/Rhein und Frankfurt/Main gehalten wurden. Folgende Themenkreise...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-03
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Die Abtönungspartikeln sind in der deutschen Sprache allgegenwärtig. Sie haben einen hohen kulturspezifischen Wert und erfüllen wichtige kommunikative Funktionen. Deutsche Muttersprachler verwenden sie ebenso häufig wie unbewusst. Schon seit den 1960er Jahren erforschen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-03
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The essays collected here are responses to books of poetry and prose published during the transition period from the apartheid regime of the mid-1980s to the first democratic election in South Africa in 1994.The volume comprises a variety of texts written during the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-03
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This book offers a comprehensive study of the role of dance in a wide range of contemporary Irish plays and argues that dance can be perceived as exemplifying the re-embracement of bodily expression by the local culture. The author approaches this issue from a cultural...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-03
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Affinities, a collection of essays dedicated to Professor Tadeusz Rachwal, a noted literary historian and cultural critic, pioneer of the present-day cultural studies in Poland, includes texts written by his friends, colleagues, and disciples. As it turns out, even...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-03
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A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30 original essays written by leading scholars revealing the rich diversity of critical engagement with Ovid’s poetry that spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present day. Offers innovative...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-10-31
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception
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This is the first monograph to be published about one of the most famous and least understood authors of the Latin Middle Ages. We know him by the pseudonym of Archpoet. Setting the Archpoet's world and works in their historical contexts, Peter Godman argues that they...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-30
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