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The essays in this volume challenge current 'givens' in medieval and early modern research around periodization and editorial practice. They showcase cutting-edge research practices and approaches in textual editing, and in manuscript and performance studies to produce...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-24
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Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative" and in The Washington Post Book World as "brilliantly original," Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s The Signifying Monkey is a groundbreaking work that illuminates the relationship between...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-06-24
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Previous scholars have noted the Puritans' edenic descriptions of New World landscapes, but Inventing Eden is the first study to fully uncover the integral relationship between the New England interest in paradise and the numerous iconic intellectual artifacts and...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-06-24
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Skandale als aufsehenerregende Ärgernisse sind Einfallstore für die Beschäftigung mit Themen verschiedenster Art. Dieser Band versammelt in 16 von verschiedenen Autoren verfassten KapitelnSkandale aus dem Umfeld der Sprache. Affären zwischen Sprachakteuren führen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-24
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This book primarily examines verbal prefixes expressing aspectuality in the Old and Middle English periods, but it also takes a look at the post-verbal particles in the subsequent periods of English. Verbal prefixes are also known as preverbs such as ge- in the Old...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-24
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This collection of papers is published within a series of post-conference volumes to reflect the state-of-the-art in the field of linguistic and literary research into Middle English. The contributions embrace a variety of research topics and approaches, with a more...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-24
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Serial Memoir chronicles the phenomenon of seriality in memoir, a transition in life writing toward repeated acts of self-representation in the later twentieth century. Such a shift demonstrates a new way to understand and represent constantly-shifting subjectivities...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-23
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The culmination of a trilogy that began with T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word, and continued with T.S. Eliot:The Poet as Christian, this gracefully executed new book brings to a triumphant conclusion the unique effort to pinpoint and identify the Christian...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-06-23
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Travel Writing and the Transnational Author explores the travel writing and transnational literature of four authors from the 'postcolonial canon': Michael Ondaatje, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, and Salman Rushdie.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-19
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When we try to find words to express our most visceral and primary responses to literature, we are often inclined to speak of its power. But in academic contexts, that intuitive feeling for the vividness, energy, and special intensity of literary experience is all too...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-19
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Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England offers a new history of Middle English romance, the most popular genre of secular literature in the English Middle Ages. Michael Johnston argues that many of the romances composed in England from 1350-1500 arose in...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-19
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Editors of Shakespeare's Complete Works must decide what to include. Although not in the First Folio collection of 1623, The Two Noble Kinsmen and Edward III have now entered the canon as plays co-authored by Shakespeare. Determining the Shakespeare Canon makes the case...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-19
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Known as the daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge's manuscripts, letters, and other writings reveal an original thinker in dialogue with major literary and cultural figures of nineteenth-century England. Here, her writings on beauty, education, and faith...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-18
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Examining Malory's political language, this study offers a revisionary view of Arthur's kingship in the Morte Darthur and the role of the Round Table fellowship. Considering a range of historical and political sources, Lexton suggests that Malory used a specific lexicon...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-18
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Northern Irish Poetry and Theology argues that theology shapes subjectivity, language and poetic form, and provides original studies of three internationally acclaimed poets: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-17
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The collection brings together experts in the field of twentieth-century writing to provide a volume that is both comprehensive and innovative in its discussion of a set of newly canonical texts.The book includes new applications of philosophical and critical thinking...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-17
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Ist das komische Potential eines narrativen Textes messbar? In der Annäherung an literarische Komik verbindet die Studie interdisziplinär kognitive Theorien, ästhetische Entwürfe, narratologische Modelle, informationstheoretische Operationalisierungen und eine...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-17
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This volume contains papers which reflect current discussions in the study of speech actions. The collection was inspired by the papers presented at Meaning, Context and Cognition, the first international conference integrating cognitive linguistics and pragmatics...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-17
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This investigation is a qualitative analysis of the etymological, the morphological and the semantic history of the Old English complex plant names as a lexical field, and an in-depth study of the plant names as individual entities. Their particular interest results...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-17
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International language tests increasingly use group oral formats in both high- and low-stakes contexts. But how do test-takers with different characteristics interact in such formats? This book explores how test-takers with different extraversion and proficiency levels...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-17
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