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Reaching into the depths of the collective unconscious, A Sense of Apocalypse explores and re-interprets one of the West’s primordial fears, namely that of the apocalyptic closure of both cultural praxis and individual experience. Yet, in contrast to popular...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-05
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history, aesthetics and key themes of Gothic, the main issues and debates surrounding the genre along with the approaches and theories that have been applied to Gothic texts and films. The volume discusses a wide...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-05
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Exam Board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2013First Exam: June 2014As well as being a highly popular play for National 5 English study, Tally's Blood paints a wonderful picture of life in wartime Scotland, as experienced by the...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
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2014-02-28
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Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed fiction an important...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-02-28
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Named by The Times as the all-time number one crime writer, Patricia Highsmith was an author who broke new ground and defied genre clichés with novels such as The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train.In the classic creative writing guide Plotting and Writing...
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Sphere
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2014-02-27
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The book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is considered the most obscene poet in Arabic literature. Antoon traces the genealogy of this fascinating genre in and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-02-27
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How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio – a play performed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-02-27
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This study contributes to the emerging field of Global Gothic. It focuses on the survival and evolution of Gothic subgenres and tropes in selected contemporary novels, produced in geographies and histories far away from its Western cradle. Some Gothic features...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-27
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New Directions in the History of the Novel challenges received views of literary history and sets out new areas for research. A re-examination of the nature of prose fiction in English and its study from the Renaissance to the 21st century, it will become required...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-02-25
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Compromise and Resistance in Postcolonial Writing offers a new critical approach to E. M. Forster's legacy. It examines key themes in Forster's work (homosexuality, humanism, modernism, liberalism) and their relevance to post-imperial and postcolonial novels by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-02-20
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Revisiting The Tempest offers a lively reconsideration of how The Tempest encourages interpretation and creative appropriation. It includes a wide range of essays on theoretical and practical criticism focusing on the play's original dramatic context, on its signifying...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-02-20
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This fascinating study explores the multifarious erotic themes associated with the magic lantern shows, which proved the dominant visual medium of the West for 350 years, and analyses how the shows influenced the portrayals of sexuality in major works of Gothic fiction.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-02-19
Collection :
Palgrave Gothic
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Dies ist der erste von den insgesamt 19 Bänden der Akten des XII. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik, der vom 29. Juli bis 7. August 2010 in Warschau tagte. Es war der erste Kongress der 1955 in Rom gegründeten Vereinigung, der im östlich der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-19
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Das Englische ist als Fachsprache und Lingua franca im internationalen Geschäftskontext unverzichtbar. Diese Studie analysiert erstmals seinen Gebrauch in Multimediakonferenzen, deren Teilnehmer sich an verschiedenen Orten befinden, während sie visuell präsentierte...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-19
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The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622 studies the conception of Persia in the literary, political and pedagogic writings of Renaissance England and Britain. It argues that writers of all kinds debated the means and merits of English empire through...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-02-18
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A NEW COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE The Victorian period was a time of rapid cultural change, which resulted in a huge and varied literary output.A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture offers experienced guidance to the literature of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-02-14
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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The Majesty of the People links emerging Romantic ideas about the role of the writer to the ambivalence of the concept of popular sovereignty. By closely examining how theories about the role of the intellectual or the writer are developed as part of the 1790s'...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-02-13
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All Her Faculties focuses on the perpetuation and reflection in literature of particular representations of the female mind that are entrenched in conservative notions of womanhood. The study highlights literature’s incontrovertible power to create myth - the myth of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-11
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Ausgehend von der Skizzierung seines Lebenslaufs und der Auseinandersetzung mit den gängigen Identitätstheorien zieht Rosenberg die vorläufige Bilanz aus seinem Germanisten-Dasein. Als ein Literaturwissenschaftler hat er schon seit den 1980er Jahren zur Geschichte...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-10
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Die Stadt als Pandämonium setzt sich zum Ziel, die Affinität von Stadt und Roman an den Werken Tauben im Gras, Das Treibhaus und Der Tod in Rom von Wolfgang Koeppen aufzuzeigen. In jedem dieser Romane stellt die Stadt nicht nur Kulisse, Hintergrund, Symbol oder Motiv...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-10
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