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Der Band enthält die Beiträge von drei Sektionen des Warschauer IVG-Kongresses. Die Beiträge der Sektion Post/Nationale Vorstellungen von ‘Heimat’ in deutschen, europäischen und globalen Kontexten (betreut und bearbeitet von Friederike Eigler unter Mithilfe von Neeti...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-16
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Infosys Prize for outstanding contribution to the Humanities in Literary Studies Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a romantic poet, speaking of beauty and truth; as a transcendentalist; a believer in the absolute; a propagandist for universal man; and as a...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-16
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This book examines film versions of Irish myth, lore, and legend, concentrating particularly on stories which encompass the life journey of the hero, as proposed by Carl Jung and adapted by Joseph Campbell. After establishing the usefulness of film as cultural critique,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-16
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Moving away from orthodox narratives of the Raj and British presence in India, this book examines the significance of the networks and connections that South Asians established on British soil. Looking at the period 1858-1950, it presents readings of cultural history...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-16
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Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum offers unique insight into the works ofSamuel Johnson by re-considering William Hazlitt's oft-cited comparison between Johnson's prose and a pendulum. In 1819, William Hazlitt condemnedSamuel Johnson's prose style as 'a species of...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-11-15
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Throughout the ages, vampires have transgressed the borders of gender, race, class, propriety and nations. This collection examines the vampire as a postcolonial and transnational phenomenon that maps the fear of the Other, the ravenous hunger of Empires and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-14
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How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world? Is every individual an art object? Is the material world an art text? This book answers these questions by examining modernist literature, especially James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, in the context of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-14
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Postcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World histories if trauma theory is to have any hope of redeeming its promise of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-13
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A clearly written, insightful study of Nabokov the novelist, providing an expert analysis of the 17 novels he wrote during a career spanning more than 50 years: one of the most impressive, challenging, and controversial literary achievements of our time.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-13
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Die Ökokritik als ökologisch orientierte Literaturwissenschaft behandelt die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Literatur und Umwelt.Die Autorin sieht die Quelle ökokritischen Denkens bei den amerikanischen IndianerInnen und den TranszendentalistInnen. Demzufolge wird die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-13
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Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and how they situated their work in relation to contemporaries and poets from earlier periods, this book highlights the complexities of labouring-class poetic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-13
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Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films, confusing the boundaries between fiction and reality. This collection investigates how Holmes and Doyle...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-12
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In this collection of essays, Americanists from the United States, Germany, and Latvia enter the scholarly debate about the ever increasing pluralization of societies on the North American continent by correlating the issues of multiculturalism and ethnic survival....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-12
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Der Schotte George Buchanan wurde von Zeitgenossen zu den größten europäischen Dichtern des 16. Jahrhunderts gezählt. Seine neulateinische poetische Psalterparaphrase gilt als sein bedeutendstes Werk. Die Einordnung in Gattungsgeschichte und Entstehungskontext führt zu...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-12
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Die politischen Grenzen des habsburgischen Kronlands Galizien wurden 1772 wie auf dem Reißbrett festgelegt, so dass ein überaus heterogenes Gebilde entstand. Galizien war seitdem Projektionsfläche für unterschiedlichste politische und kulturelle Vorstellungen, für...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-09
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America Where? Transatlantic Views of the United States in the Twenty-first Century gathers essays by distinguished American Studies scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. The articles address changing representations of ‘America’ in their many and mutual...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-09
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The Poet's Mind is a major study of how Victorian poets thought and wrote about the human mind. It argues that Victorian poets, inheriting from their Romantic forerunners the belief that subjective thoughts and feelings were the most important materials for poetry, used...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-11-08
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Stalin’s Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-08
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Die 18. Folge des Jahrbuchs dokumentiert erneut die wachsende Internationalisierung der Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung.Die Beiträge der estnischen Komparatistin Ave Mattheus und der portugiesischen Germanistin Maria Teresa Cortez verdeutlichen die Rolle der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-08
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With new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.A. Cuddon’s indispensable dictionary firmly in the 21st Century. Written in a clear and highly readable style Comprehensive historical coverage extending from ancient times to the present day Broad...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-11-07
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