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This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a series of interconnected articles that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-14
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This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a series of interconnected articles that illustrate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-13
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This book is a collection of great and insightful essays which discuss heroic endeavors to save endangered heirs and estates by searching devotedly for the truth in various criminal and civil situations.This book focuses especially on important works by Arthur Conan...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-10-13
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Derrida and Textual Animality: For a Zoogrammatology of Literature analyses what has come to be known, in the Humanities, as ‘the question of the animal’, in relation to literary texts. Rodolfo Piskorski intervenes in the current debate regarding the non-human and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-24
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This book is a study of female virginity loss and its representations in popular Anglophone literatures. It explores dominant cultural narratives around what makes a “good” female virginity loss experience by examining two key forms of popular literature:...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-25
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This book by one of Latin America’s leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical genres in contemporary culture. Arfuch argues that the on-going proliferation of private and intimate stories – what she...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-08-06
Collection :
Critical South
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Wir interpretieren nicht nur Texte und haben dafür eine besondere „hermeneutische Kunst“ (Schleiermacher) entwickelt, sondern wir interpretieren auch die Welt um uns. Die Untersuchung geht der Frage nach, welche expliziten und impliziten Regeln in der Praxis der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-07-30
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The Modernity of Chinese Postmodern Literature is an unprecedented comparative study of postmodern Chinese literature and continental European modernism. This book deconstructs and reconstructs central works of post-1976 Chinese literature and the main texts of European...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-07-10
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What is life? is a query that never dies… Most modern-day approaches to this enduring question attempt to define what life is, from the standpoint of science, philosophy, religion, medicine, etc. In this book, the conception of life in Western culture is explored...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-07-07
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Regeln sind essentiell für das menschliche Zusammenleben, von der Sprache über Brauchtum und Moral bis hin zur Rechtsordnung. Es führte daher in eine bis heute anhaltende Verunsicherung, als drei der wirkmächtigsten Theoretiker des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts einige der mit...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-05-06
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This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the postcolonial the first...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-09
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How can thinkers grapple with the question of the human when they have been dehumanized? How can black thinkers confront and make sense of a world structured by antiblackness, a world that militates against the very existence of blacks? These are the questions that...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-09
Collection :
Critical South
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This book presents the transformation of Cassirer’s transcendental point of view. At an early stage, Cassirer was confronted with a scientific crisis triggered by the emergence of various forms of objective knowledge, such as the plurality of geometric axiom systems and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-03-11
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This is the first book of its kind that explains the basic concepts, theoretical foundations and systematic research of linguistic semiotics, so as to establish a well-founded framework for linguistic semiotics as an independent discipline. While examining the major...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-02-25
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Aimé Césaire’s work is foundational for decolonial and postcolonial thought. His Discourse on Colonialism, first published in 1955, influenced generations of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-01-23
Collection :
Critical South
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This volume offers an introduction to cognitive linguistics, written by authors who were engaged in the field from its beginnings. It starts by reviewing these early studies and provides an overview of the sources and conceptual underpinnings of the theory.This is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-01-01
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What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-12
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Die Geschichte der Kultur ist schillernd, vielseitig und spannend. Begegnen Sie mit diesem Buch den schönen Künsten und beschäftigen Sie sich mit Literatur und Musik, mit Schauspiel und Tanz. Lernen Sie die vielfältige Welt des Glaubens und Denkens kennen und lassen Sie...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2019-10-02
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Für Dummies
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This book simultaneously examines the specific theoretical issues raised by Elizabeth Gaskell’s use of characterization in her shorter fiction, and addresses the larger question of how literary critics ought to use theory. The text gives a history of Judith Butler’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-08-31
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Plebeian Prose is a key work by the pioneering Argentine Brazilian anthropologist, sociologist and poet Néstor Perlongher. Perlongher, whose work has been highly influential in the development of Latin American cultural theory and literature, represents an original...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-07-09
Collection :
Critical South
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