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Even a cursory glance at the letters, speeches, and essays of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) and Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) reveals that these two nineteenth-century feminists relied on Biblical and folk proverbs to make their relentless case for the equality of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-09-10
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Der Band stellt die Problematik der Zweisprachigkeit und des bilingualen Unterrichts in Polen umfassend dar. Er ist in zwei sich ergänzende Teile gegliedert. Die Autoren des theoretischen Teils repräsentieren verschiedene Disziplinen, u.a. Linguistik, Psychologie,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-10
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The thirteen essays in this book, presented in honour of Dr A.V.C. (Carl) Schmidt, are designed to reflect the range of his interests. Dr Schmidt, who was a Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford from 1972 until his retirement in 2011, is best known for his comprehensive...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-10
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In this study, the author shows that, under the influence of the popular geography of the eighteenth century, an increasing number of literary works began to make use of actual topographical data. Two of these works even make use of maps. He demonstrates that the...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2014-09-10
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If philosophy has limits, what lies beyond them? One answer is literature. In this study, rather than seeing literature as a source of illustrations of philosophical themes, the author considers both philosophy and literature as sometimes competing but often...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-09
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This collection of papers is a gift for all the members of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, who worked abroad under the direction of British, European and American medievalists or greatly influenced by those scholars as guests of the Society. Six papers...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-09
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This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-09
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This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-09
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In der Geschichte der Dänischen Literatur von Hanne Marie und Werner Svendsen wird Johannes V. Jensen (1873-1950) als tonangebende Gestalt des neuen Jahrhunderts gepriesen, ja geradezu dessen Dolmetsch. Seine Werke waren dreißig Jahre lang in Kopenhagen und Berlin sehr...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-08
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Der Sammelband legt seinen Fokus auf Körper und Korpora der Romania. Er schlägt somit eine Brücke zwischen der wissenschaftlichen Beschäftigung mit dem menschlichen Leib in seiner kulturellen sowie literarischen Relevanz und der Untersuchung von Textsammlungen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-08
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Travelling Texts: J.M. Coetzee and Other Writers is a collection of essays on mutual influences and inspirations between authors, with a special focus on J.M. Coetzee. Bringing together a group of international scholars, the book offers a wide range of perspectives on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-08
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Motivated by a desire to reflect critically on the ways in which speeds, both high and low, and their representations affect the construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of meanings around particular cultural texts, images and practices, Resistance in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-08
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In 2005, a new publisher entered the New Zealand market – the first to specialise in English translations of children’s books. The notion of «homegrown translations» was a new departure for a post-colonial book market dominated for several decades by literary...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-08
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Providing imaginatively contextualized close readings, this study focuses on three key eighteenth-century writers - Haywood, Hill and Fowke. Wilputte traces the development of the passionate language of these writers whose lives, writing careers, and interests...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-04
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Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes toward critique.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-04
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Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism details a variety of functionalities of the mode of magical realism, focusing on its capacity to construct sociological representations of belonging. This usage is traced closely in the novels of Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Cristina...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-02
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Literary Translation: Redrawing the Boundaries is a collection of articles that gathers together current work in literary translation to show how research in the field can speak to other disciplines such as cultural studies, history, linguistics, literary studies and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-29
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Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation. Balanced to reflect current...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-08-29
Collection :
Blackwell Annotated Anthologies
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Love... it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.
At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-08-28
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Love... it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.
At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-08-28
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