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The stories of female heroes of Old English poetry have been more read about than read, but Judith, Juliana, and Elene: Three Fighting Saints now makes the stories of Judith, a female hero of Old Testament times, and Juliana and Helena, who lived in the patristic era,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-10-23
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This book makes several important contributions to our knowledge of Shakespeare and the Renaissance. First, Bentley's close and thorough analysis of the references to syphilis in Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, and Timon of Athens illustrates how Shakespeare...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-10-23
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The sheer computing power of modern information technology is changing the face of research not just in science, technology and mathematics, but in humanities and cultural studies too. Recent decades have seen a major shift both in attitudes and deployment of computers,...
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Springer
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2012-10-22
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The Weird Sisters, from William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, are arguably the most famous trio of witches in English literature. Shakespeare’s Weird Sisters are a complex trinitarian mythological construction – a unique amalgamation of classical, folkloric, and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-10-22
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Fifty years after Camus's untimely death, his work still has a tremendous impact on literature. From a twenty-first century vantage point, he offers us coexisting ideas and principles by which we can read and understand the other and ourselves. Yet Camus seems...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-10-19
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This book was the winner of the 2011 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in German Studies. The post-war landscape of Europe is unthinkable without the voices of the Austrian writers Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) and Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989). Their work, coming...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-19
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Teaching Creative Writing includes lively contributions from two dozen leading practitioners in the field. Topics addressed include history of Creative Writing, workshops, undergraduate, postgraduate, reflective activities, assessment, critical theory, and information...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-10-18
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A new study of Shakespeare’s life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works. Combines an accessible fully historicised treatment of both the life and the plays, suited to both undergraduate and popular audiences Looks at 24 of the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-10-18
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This collection unites 21 papers mainly presented at the 21st IAUPE (International Association of University Professors of English) Conference held at the Valetta Campus of the University of Malta in mid-July 2010. Most periods of world-wide literature in English from...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-18
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This fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds of experience and medical ideas about hallucination and the nerves in the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on canonical Romantic authors, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-10-17
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Inspired by Martin Heidegger’s notion of being-in-the-world, this study presents a quasi-phenomenological close reading of Herman Melville’s most famous novella Bartleby the Scrivener and Mark Twain’s most famous novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is meant as a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-17
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Eyes deep with unfathomable histories is a quotation taken from the poem by Pauline Melville entitled «Homeland». This volume was inspired by two areas: the first one was the writings of Pauline Melville, a British novelist, a poet and actress with Wapisiana (South...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-17
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Examining work from Ford and Conrad's pre-war impressionism through Rhys's fiction of the late 1930s, the author shows how modernist innovation engages with transformations in early twentieth-century capitalism and tracks the ways in which modernist fiction reconfigures...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-10-16
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An exploration of the way English literature has interacted with architectural edifices and the development of landscape as a national style from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. Analyzing texts in relation to cultural artefacts, each chapter demonstrates the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-10-15
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This book situates Joyce's critical writings within the context of an emerging discourse on the psychology of rhythm, suggesting that A Portrait of the Artist dramatizes the experience of rhythm as the subject matter of the modernist novel. Including comparative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-10-15
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Feridun Zaimoglu made a spectacular entrance onto the German cultural scene in 1995 with Kanak Sprak: a volume of incendiary texts based on interviews with disaffected Turkish German youths, using an invented, stylized literary language, a hybrid of multiple varieties...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-15
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Offers new insights into the continuing influence of postmodernism on a wide range of international picture books for children published between 1963 and 2008. Its chapters include metafiction; disruption to narrative conventions; interrogation of 'truths';...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-10-10
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Taking as a starting point the parallel occurrence of Cook's Pacific voyages, the development of natural history, scenic tourism in Britain, and romantic travel in Europe, this book argues that the effect of these practices was the production of nature as an abstract...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-10-10
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Dieser Band dokumentiert die Resultate einer 2011 in Peking durchgeführten Tagung, an der chinesische und deutsche GermanistInnen beteiligt waren. Der Gegenstand der Aufsätze ist die Imagination Chinas in der deutschsprachigen Literatur von 1827 bis 1988. Behandelt...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-10
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Die Spectators stellen sowohl auf spanischer wie auch auf internationaler Ebene ein reiches erzählerisches Potential dar, dessen Verflechtungen noch zu untersuchen sind. Dazu bedarf es einer kompakten Übersicht über die Erzählungen und Geschichten, welche in diesem Buch...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-10
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