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Den Kern des vorliegenden Bandes bilden die Beiträge, die an der interdisziplinären Konferenz Literatur und Utopie (Lódz 2012) präsentiert wurden. Der Band beinhaltet vor allem jene Texte, deren Autoren sich mit dem breit verstandenen Thema der Utopie in der Literatur...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-27
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Women’s mythic revision is a tradition at the heart of twentieth-century literature. Medea’s Chorus explores post-WWII women’s poetry that takes Greek mythology as its central topos. The book investigates five of the most influential poets writing in the twentieth...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-08-27
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This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from East Asian...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-08-26
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A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-21
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This monograph makes clear how the format of the literary folio played a fundamental role in book history by encapsulating the unstable negotiation between commerce, cultural prestige, and the fundamental nature of the printed book.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-20
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Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-20
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This book explores digital artists’ articulations of globalization. Digital artworks from around the world are examined in terms of how they both express and simulate globalization’s impacts through immersive, participatory and interactive technologies. The author...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-08-20
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This book aims to aid English teachers at the junior and senior secondary school levels in teaching pronunciation within a regular EFL syllabus. It presents such a way of incorporating the phonetic and lexical components so as to facilitate students’ acquisition of a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-20
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« … denn wenn du mit deinem Mund bekennst: «Jesus ist der Herr» und in deinem Herzen glaubst: «Gott hat ihn von den Toten auferweckt», so wirst du gerettet werden.» (Röm 10,9) So lautet eines der ältesten Glaubensbekenntnisse des Neuen Testaments, das der Apostel Paulus...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-20
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Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-19
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Through discussion of the ways in which major Northern Irish poets (such as John Hewitt, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Louis MacNeice and Derek Mahon) have been influenced by America, this study shows how Northern Irish poetry overspills national borders, complicating...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-18
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Comparative literary studies face new challenges today in a world marked by the migration of people, languages, ideas and texts across diverse and increasingly porous borders. The field is restricted by conventional notions of comparativism born in the era of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-18
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Utopian literature provides a compelling vision of epistemological and moral clarity: a dream of harmony and justice. But in an age of surveillance, utopia is also the nightmare of a perfectly controlled, sealed and monitored world that leaves no room for ambivalence or...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-18
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A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic offers a comparative approach to examining ancient Greek and Roman participatory communities. Explores various aspects of participatory communities through pairs of chapters—one Greek, one Roman—to highlight...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-08-15
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn Stockett's Th e Hel p .
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-13
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This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europe. It offers a fascinating insight into the interaction between literature and cultural memory, and the entanglement...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-12
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William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal ofWilliam Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-12
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Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Joyce cast as a defiant exception. This book shows how an urban modernist tradition, responsive to the particular political,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-08
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Drawing on the discipline of stylistics, this book introduces a series of methodological tools and applies them to works by well-known Nigerian writers, including Abani, Adichie and Okri. In doing so, it demonstrates how attention to form fosters understanding of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-07
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Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geograp hie s examines key elements of Colum McCann's 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spi n . Hones examines concepts such as narrative space, literary and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-07
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