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Der neusachliche Roman wird auf der Grundlage soziokultureller Texte der Zehner-, Zwanziger- und Dreißigerjahre analysiert. Zentrale Werke sind Das kunstseidene Mädchen von Irmgard Keun, Erich Kästners Fabian, Martin Kessels Herrn Brechers Fiasko und Bin ich ein...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-10
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Using a wealth of diverse source material this book comprises an innovative critical study which, for the first time, examines Scott through the filter of his female contemporaries. It not only provides thought-provoking ideas about their handling of, for example, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-10-09
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Although literature is not a technology, the historical models literary scholars use to describe it owe a great deal to the languages of originality, novelty, progress, and invention that characterize technological development. However this quintessentially modern...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-10-09
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Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples. First published in 1549 to...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-10-05
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Since the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to J. M. G. Le Clézio in 2008, there has been a wave of new interest in his œuvre. This book traces the evolution of the writer’s postcolonial thought from his early works to his groundbreaking autobiographical novel...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-05
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Von ‘Anderswelt’ bis ‘Zombie’: Bücher und Filme aus dem Bereich von Fantasy und Fantastik gehören seit einigen Jahren insbesondere im Bereich der Literatur und Medien für Kinder und Jugendliche zu den populärsten und vielseitigsten Titeln. Vom Bilderbuch bis zum...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-05
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'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors...
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Penguin
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2012-10-04
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This rich selection of John Fuller’s poems, made by the author himself, is taken from his last eight collections and spans over twenty-five years of work.'Everything goes back to earth,' writes Fuller, 'But first it must dance / Dance to exhaustion.' His poems,...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-10-04
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The restoration of the monarchy in 1660 has commonly been thought to represent a return to political stability and religious consensus following the tumultuous civil wars and the Commonwealth period. However, by analysing underground texts from 1660 to 1670, Stephen...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-10-04
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All who treasure great literature recognize the pivotal role played by a title. But, until now, at both the undergraduate and the graduate level, no book-length study has devoted detailed expert attention to the subject of academic paper titling. Helping Students to...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-10-01
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This biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available, argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for her own incarceration in Wimpole Street. The author traces her life...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-09-30
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Examining the work of three authors: Richardson, Haywood and Burney, and their representation of domestic space, this book argues that to make such spaces accessible to modern readers they need to have information of the real domestic. By recreating specifics of these...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-09-28
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This volume explores the impact of sexological and early psychoanalytic conceptions of sexual perversion on the representation of the erotic in the work of a range of major European modernists (including Joyce, Kafka, Lawrence, Mann, Proust and Rilke) as well as in that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-09-27
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Von 1958 an hat Gabriele Wohmann ein umfangreiches Œuvre veröffentlicht, überwiegend Prosa. Kritik und Forschung sind sich lange schon einig, was von diesem Werk zu halten ist: Im besten Fall werden der Autorin eine genaue Beobachtungsgabe und die Kenntnis von...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-27
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The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home décor and contemporary...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-09-27
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Novelist and cultural commentator C.P. Snow was a large and controversial presence in his lifetime but his work has been largely neglected since his death in 1980. This is the first 21st-century book to offer a clear, informed and sympathetic survey of all his novels...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-09-24
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Liebe und Ehe treten bei Hartmann von Aue schon als ‘Einzelphänomene’ hervor, doch erweist sich darüber hinaus gerade das Zusammenspiel beider Faktoren als von zentraler Bedeutung für seine Erzähltexte. Daher steht die Verbindung vonLiebe und Ehe im Mittelpunkt dieser...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-24
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Strong cultural, commercial, literary and intellectual links have existed for many centuries between the Celtic cousins France and Ireland and continue to flourish today. This book explores some of the connections that have been forged over space and time by groups and...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-21
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Colum McCann is one of the most important Irish writers in contemporary literary fiction. His work has been critically acclaimed across the globe for its artistic achievement, its thematic range and its ethical force. This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-21
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From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-09-18
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