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...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-09-18

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Ford MadoxFord is a major modernist writer, yet many of his works do not conform to our assumptions about modernism. Examining ways in which he, alongside other 'misfit moderns', undermines 'stabilities' we expect from novels and memoirs, this book poses questions about...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-18

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The question of identity has been present in Chicana literature since its beginnings and the second part of the 20th century witnessed proliferation of works by Chicanas addressing this issue. Those recent works differ significantly from the earliest representations of...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2012-09-18

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Masculinity is one of the key issues at stake in contemporary writing and gender studies. In their novels, Michael Chabon and Tom Wolfe both consistently make masculinity a prominent thematic and ideological concern. This study is the first full length scholarly work to...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2012-09-18

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Application is the process in which readers of literature focus on elements in a text and compare them with the outside world as they know it – an operation with cognitive and emotional consequences. This book demonstrates how and why this simple yet neglected mechanism...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-18

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This book explains how and why grammatical gender disappeared from English through a detailed analysis of unhistorical gender assignment within the noun phrase in Layamon’s Brut, one of the most important Early Middle English texts. Such deviations do occur capriciously...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2012-09-17

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This book proposes a novel analysis of Nominal Construction from the syntax-semantics interface. It is based on the newly developed framework of Radical Minimalism, and provides both a concise introduction to this formal model and the application of the theory to real...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2012-09-17

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In Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body, Anderson explores how Modernist fiction narratives by Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and H.D. represent trauma, specifically addressing the conflict between speaking about and repressing traumatic memories, while also...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-14

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This book studies literary epiphany as a modality of character in the British and American novel. Epiphany presents a significant alternative to traditional models of linking the eye, the mind, and subject formation, an alternative that consistently attracts the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-14

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Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-14

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Using the idea of 'parability,'or the ability for writers to tell improper stories, as a foundation, Alan Ramón Clinton synthesizes a new model for a creative, more daring literary criticism. Sharp and surprising, this wide-ranging project engages with the work of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-14

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This volume is a posthumous revised edition of selected papers by Andrzej Kopcewicz on classic works of American and Irish fiction, published originally between 1979 and 2005. The book opens with two introductory sketches: a semi-theoretical one on intertextuality and a...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2012-09-12

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Die Untersuchung befasst sich mit der Struktur Fantastischer Welten und fragt, welchen Einflüssen sich die jeweiligen Weltgestaltungen verdanken. Im Einzelnen werden Raum, Zeit und Figurenzeichnung behandelt. Zur Sprache kommen zudem die Auswirkungen des seriellen...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2012-09-11

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This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, political, and representational dilemmas that attend globalization.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-10

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After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-10

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British poetry is enjoying a period of exceptional richness and variety. This is exciting but it's also confusing, and throws up the need for an enthusiastic guide that can explain and celebrate the many parallel poetry projects now underway.Beyond the Lyric does just...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-09-06

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Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in literature?Why do some characters remain mysteriously nameless? In this...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-09-06

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Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in literature?Why do some characters remain mysteriously nameless? In this...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-09-06

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Auf der Suche nach der markinischen Deutung des Todes Jesu nimmt diese Untersuchung den Mittelteil des Evangeliums mit der vom Evangelisten gestalteten Abfolge aus drei Leidensankündigungen und Aufrufen zu Kreuzesnachfolge und gegenseitigem Dienen in den Blick. Mit den...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2012-09-06

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