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This multidisciplinary collection brings together scholars from the fields of literature, theology and linguistics who question and extend our taken-for-granted conceptions of The End. It focuses on the ways in which endings are formally signaled in literature, and sets...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-09
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The 1798 Rebellion, a watershed event in Irish history, has been a source of both inspiration and controversy over the last two centuries and continues to provoke debate up to the present day.The ongoing discussion about the meaning of the Rebellion has not been limited...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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This volume attempts for the first time a comprehensive view of the momentous process of German-American cultural transfer during the 18th and 19th centuries, which played an important part in the formation of an American national and cultural identity, a process to...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain offers a new account of women's engagement in the poetic and political cultures of seventeenth-century England and Scotland, based on poetry that was produced and circulated in manuscript. Katherine Philips is...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-26
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Translating audio description scripts from foreign into source language seems to be a tempting alternative strategy of creating audio description scripts in those countries where audio description is still scarce. This book presents the results of a three-stage study....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-20
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The book provides a lively discussion of the ways in which popular fiction appropriates the figure of the Provisional IRA activist and the political conflict within the north of Ireland. It looks at how authors’ recreations, or transformations, of Irish republicanism...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-20
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The study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Harold Pinter’s dramatic discourse and focuses on the way power makes the characters play on the borders of linguistic, spatial, narrative and gender configurations. It examines the experimental nature of Harold Pinter’s...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-19
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The volume comprises adaptation studies of ten selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the 20th and 21st centuries: Things to Come, Lost Horizon, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Lord of the Flies,The Andromeda Nebula, Brave New World,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-16
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The book discusses the evolution of the urban chronotope in the selected novels by Peter Ackroyd, an acclaimed British author.The examined narratives illustrate the transformation from the postmodern tenets of historiographic metafiction into a unique urban mythopoetics...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-02
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First Language versus Foreign Language deals with the «battle» that takes place in writers’ heads when writing in a foreign language. Most academics today need to write in another language than in their first language (L1) in order to publish in internationally...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-02
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From today’s perspective, Charles Dickens seems to continue a British tradition in which dynamism and movement are central. This serves as a starting point for a bicentenary conference held by the English Department of Leipzig University in October 2012. The...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-02
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English morphophonology has aroused considerable interest in the wake of Chomsky and Halle’s ground-breaking The Sound Pattern ofEnglish (1968). Various theoretical models have subsequently emerged, seeking to account for the stress-placement and combinatorial...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-28
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The book adds new studies of memories and interactions between Jews and non-Jews to the historical and cultural research on this topic. It gathers in one volume the results of work by scholars from several countries, while the topics of the articles cover various...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-28
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This book contains selected papers from the meeting «Conditioned Identities. Wished-for and Unwished-for Identities», held in the Institute of Research in Identities and Society (University of Lleida) in 2013 and attended by participants representing different...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-06
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The aim of this book and its accompanying audio files is to make accessible a corpus of 40 authentic job interviews conducted in English.The recordings and transcriptions of the interviews published here may be used by students, teachers and researchers alike for...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-15
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Die Psalterhandschrift Arundel 155 ist ein herausragendes Zeugnis der spätangelsächsischen Kultur. Sie entstand zwischen 1012 und 1023 im Kathedralkloster von Canterbury. Im Zentrum dieser Arbeit steht die erste Gesamtedition der Sammlung von 40 lateinischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-15
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This work, concerned with the significance of literacy and multiliteracies in the 21st century, examines pedagogy from the perspective of Web 2.0 tools and the potential of social networks to improve the quality of learning. Drawing on five years research in German and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-15
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Often hailed as a ‘national genre’, the short story has a long and distinguished tradition in Ireland and continues to fascinate readers and writers alike. Critical appreciation of the Irish short story, however, has laboured for too long under the normative conception...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-15
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32 Autorinnen und Autoren reflektieren die internationale Verankerung, die theoretisch-methodische Ausdifferenzierung und das Forschungsinteresse an Geschichte und Gegenwart der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Sie beschäftigen sich in vier Schwerpunkten mit der Theorie,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-15
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Following the evolution of Ciaran Carson’s work, this book aims to trace the tension between orality and textuality, which can be discerned in the poetry of the Northern-Irish writer. Assuming these forces to be the two major sources of all literature, the author...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-15
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