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This volume comprises 28 papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages in Graz (Austria) in July 2011. The conference was also held in memory of Michael Clyne – eminent linguist, scholar, language enthusiast and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-06
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Consisting of sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first book of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited in Cuban memory these days and what that means for creative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-09-05
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Im Zeitalter der Globalisierung und nach der kulturwissenschaftlichen Wende verdient eine Auseinandersetzung mit den Bedeutungsdimensionen der Magie und Sprache in der Literatur im Kontext afrikanisch-europäischer Beziehungen erneute Aufmerksamkeit. Untersucht wird...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-05
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How and why did a country seen as remote, backwards, and barely European become a pivotal site for reinventing the continent after the Great War? Modernism and the New Spain argues that the "Spanish problem"-the nation's historically troubled relationship with...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-09-05
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The difference between modernism and postmodernism has been object to constant revision from a variety of critical perspectives.The present collection of essays on women’s short fiction tackles anew this thorny distinction from the theoretical perspective sketched by...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-04
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The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1350-1600 explores the roles that Scotland and England play in one another's imaginations. This collection of essays brings together eminent scholars and emerging voices from the frequently divergent fields of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-09-03
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Compared to how it looked 150 years ago at the eve of the colonial conquest, today’s India is almost completely unrecognizable. A sovereign nation, with a teeming, industrious population, it is an economic powerhouse and the world’s largest democracy. It can boast of...
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Springer
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2012-09-03
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Der italienische Mönch Annius von Viterbo veröffentlichte 1498 eine große Sammlung antiker Texte, die Antiquitates. In diesen bisher für verschollen gehaltenen Quellen schildern babylonische, griechische und römische Historiker die Frühgeschichte der Menschheit, sie...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-03
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Alessandro Tassonis heroisch-komisches Epos La secchia rapita (1622) scheint auf den ersten Blick recht einfach strukturiert zu sein: In zwölf Gesängen wird der Krieg zwischen den norditalienischen mittelalterlichen Städten Modena und Bologna um einen Holzeimer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-03
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This new volume of Selected Poems is Gavin Ewart's own choice, completed before his death in 1995, of his best work in a long, brilliant and hugely productive career.
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Cornerstone Digital
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2012-08-31
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Speaking to You examines our pleasures in, accounts of, and uses for British poetry today. It explores the work of four important poets writing post-1960--Don Paterson, Geoffrey Hill, W.S. Graham, and C.H. Sisson--in order to show how contemporary British poetry's...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-08-30
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The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts. Provides an accessible and well-written introduction to the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-08-30
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Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
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'Do I desire unreasonably much in wanting what is called life - music, poetry, passion, war, and all the beating and pulsing that is going on in the great arteries of the world?'Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
Collection :
The Penguin English Library
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Günter Grass ist einer der wenigen deutschsprachigen Autoren, denen es gelungen ist, Politik und Literatur in ein ästhetisch produktives Verhältnis zu setzen. Immer, wenn er es für nötig hielt, Stellung für Unterdrückte und Marginalisierte zu beziehen, tat er es ohne...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-29
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Paul Auster published his first prose work, the autobiographical The Invention of Solitude, in 1982; since then his fiction has gained ever growing popular and critical acclaim. This book is a stimulating pioneering study of eight works that make up the Auster canon:...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-29
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Questions of tolerance are as old as human society. In acknowledgment of the crucial importance of tolerance and intolerance in contemporary life, a conference was convened in 2007. The 16 papers included in this volume all have their origins in that conference, which...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-29
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Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares rival Don Quijote in complexity and significance. This book analyzes all twelve novelas, seeking to illuminate the inherent tensions between the usually affirmative resolutions and lessons proposed byCervantes's narrators, on the one hand,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-08-29
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This volume seeks to determine how contemporary American playwrights and theatre practitioners translate the current debate on cultural pluralism in the United States. While offering re-visions of the Melting Pot, they often challenge its idealistic assumptions, thus...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-08-29
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Since the 1920s the use of romantic features in the tough masculinist narratives of American hard-boiled fiction has often surprised its readers. Through an exploration of fiction written by four major hard-boiled writers (Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, James M....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-29
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This study attempts to make sense of a group of novels that deal in a symbolic way with contemporary forms of collective disaster (the prospect of nuclear war, the Holocaust, environmental destruction). It shows similarities among British, American, Canadian and other...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-29
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