«Inklings» nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e.V. widmet sich seit 1983 dem Studium und der Verbreitung der Werke dieser und...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-05-02

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Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-05-02

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Im österreichischen Bundesland Steiermark werden im Rahmen des Projekts Steirische Literaturpfade des Mittelalters von 2012 bis zumindest 2017 an insgesamt acht Schauplätzen literarische Texte aus dem Mittelalter in freier Natur präsentiert. Das umfassende Designkonzept...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-05-01

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Die Beschreibung des äußeren Erscheinungsbildes einer Romanfigur in italienischen Romanen des 19. Jahrhunderts dient nicht allein der Evozierung eines konkret umrissenen Bildes vor dem geistigen Auge des Rezipienten.Die formale und inhaltliche Auseinandersetzung mit...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-05-01

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Der Nobelpreisträger Knut Hamsun gehört zu den Klassikern der modernen Weltliteratur. Und er ist zu einem Gefolgsmann Hitlers geworden. Im Buch werden die provozierenden Verflechtungen von Politik und Kunst aufgezeigt. Seine Romane stellen mit sarkastischem Humor...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-05-01

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Als Zeitzeugen epochaler Ereignisse widmen sich Schiller und Sartre in ihren ästhetischen Schriften der Frage nach der Möglichkeit menschlicher Freiheit im Angesicht der gewaltigen Macht historischer Ereignisse und machen sie zum zentralen Thema ihrer Dramen. Diese...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-05-01

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This book offers a richly illustrated analysis and interpretation of the major concepts of love, fortune and death in Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s earliest love tragedy. Taking into consideration social, political and economic developments as well as philosophical,...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-05-01

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This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included.This vision of colonization as...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-29

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This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies, and the bearing that they have on each other. It engages with the manner in which globalization is thematized in literary works,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-29
Collection : Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature
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This accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750 is a case study of literature as a cultural and spiritual resource in modern societies. Beginning with the emergence of German language literature on the international stage in the mid-eighteenth century,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-29
Collection : Cultural History of Literature
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The ancient Greeks were a wonderful people. They gave us democracy, drama, and philosophy, and many forms of art and branches of science would be inconceivable without their influence. And yet, they were capable of the most outlandish behavior, preposterous beliefs, and...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-04-29

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For study or revision, these guides are the perfect accompaniment to the set text, providing invaluable background and exam advice.Philip Allan Literature Guides (for A-level) offer succinct and accessible coverage of all key aspects of the set text and are designed to...

Editeur : Philip Allan
Parution : 2013-04-26

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From Polypragmon to Curiosus is a study of how Greek and Latin writers describe curious, meddlesome, and exaggerated behaviour. Founded on a detailed investigation of a family of Greek terms, often treated as synonymous with each other, and of the Latin words used to...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-04-25

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Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has represented the inescapable presence and progress of technology. As this study argues, from the Fordist revolution in...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-25
Collection : Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature
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Terry Eagleton is one of the most influential contemporary literary theorists and critics. His diverse body of work has been crucial to developments in cultural theory and literary critical practice in modern times, and for a generation of humanities students his...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-25
Collection : Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Addressing the transnational relationships of Freemasonry, politics, and culture in the field of Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures, Writing Secrecy provides insight into Pan-Caribbean, transnational and diasporic formations of these Masonic lodges...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-04-24

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Edward Said is one of the foremost thinkers writing today. His work as a literary and cultural critic, a political commentator, and the champion of the cause of Palestinian rights has given him a unique position in western intellectual life. This new book is a major...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-24
Collection : Key Contemporary Thinkers
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The volume consists of reprints of papers originally published between 1967 and 2009, divided into two parts, only apparently devoted to two different areas of linguistics but in fact constituting a coherent whole.The «cognitive» part is an inevitable consequence of the...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-04-24

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This book is the first to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings, analysing the relationship between French literature and France’s evolving power structures from the Middle Ages through to the present day. It shows the political...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-22
Collection : Cultural History of Literature
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This book is the first to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings, analysing the relationship between French literature and France’s evolving power structures from the Middle Ages through to the present day. It shows the political...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-22
Collection : Cultural History of Literature
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