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This book offers a significant statement about the contemporary British novel in relation to three authors: Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. All writing at the forefront of a generation, these authors sought to resuscitate the novel's ethico-political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-08
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An fünfzig lyrischen Gedichten deutscher Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts wird eine Methode textnaher Interpretation vorgeführt. Grundlage ist dabei immer eine genaue sprachliche Analyse des betreffenden Textes, wobei auch die von ihm suggerierte Kommunikationssituation,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-08
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Writing Colonisation: Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian Literature offers a unique comparative analysis of modern Italian and Australian literature which has never been attempted at such length and depth. The book investigates...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-07-08
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In the ecological challenges of the twenty-first century, interculturally sensitive understandings of nature, place, and environment are essential for the development of a planetary community. Acknowledging that the future of humankind is global, this volume explores...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-07-08
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Leggere il romanzo contemporáneo come luogo di dialogo privilegiato per la costruzione di un’identità italiana, a un tempo nazionale e regionale. Il volume ripercorre dagli anni Ottanta ai giorni nostri, da Calvino a Saviano, la palingenesi linguistica, letteraria,...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2014-07-08
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Die Untersuchung zeigt eine kontinuierliche Entwicklung von Traditionslinien weiblichen Schreibens in den USA von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Ära der New Woman auf. Diese Übergangsphase ist von Contending Forces bestimmt:Die Autorinnen bewegen sich in einem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-07
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In today’s knowledge-based society, exploring the dynamics of communicating specialised contents to the lay public is an undoubtedly topical issue. However, popularization still remains a rather unexplored territory and recent contributions to the field seem to lack a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-07
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The fifth volume in the series Language Competence and Language Awareness in Europe unites a collection of peer-reviewed papers delivered at the Third Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization (LCTG3) at the University of Greifswald in 2011.The papers are...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-07
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The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism provides a broad survey of the longstanding relationship between literature and the environment.The moment for such an offering is opportune in many respects: multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-07-03
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This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Nayar first maps the political and philosophical critiques of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-07-02
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Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature
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In Dickinson Unbound, Alexandra Socarides takes readers on a journey through the actual steps and stages of Emily Dickinson's creative process.In chapters that deftly balance attention to manuscripts, readings of poems, and a consideration of literary and material...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-07-01
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From one of the best-known editors in modern science fiction, this lively and authoritative guide will appeal to both newcomers and connoisseurs of the genre alike. Informative and readable, David Pringle's choices focus on landmark works by the likes of Ray Bradbury,...
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Gateway
Parution :
2014-06-30
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Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of WilliamBlake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-26
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Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America considers American minority literatures from the perspective of print culture. Putting in dialogue European and American scholars and spanning the slavery era through the early 21st century, they draw on approaches from library...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-26
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There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-06-26
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There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-06-26
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The Work of Form: Poetics and Materiality in Early Modern Culture explores the resurgent interest in literary form and aesthetics in early modern english studies. Essays by leading international scholars reflect on the legacy of historicist approaches and on calls for a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-06-26
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars.The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-06-26
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Women Writers and the Hero of Romance studies the nature of the hero and his meaning for the female seeker, or quester, in romance fiction from Wuthering Heights to Fifty Shades of Grey. The book includes chapters on Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, The Scarlet...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-25
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In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-25
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