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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 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...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-08-29
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This volume introduces the reader to a powerful and rewarding territory: the Australian novel. Both drawing from and rebelling against the power of Europe. Australian writers asserted from the beginning that experience «down under» demands thorough observation and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-08-29
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While Emily Dickinson as a forerunner of modern American poetry has met with a good critical response, Christina Rossetti is still regarded as a minor Victorian poet. Despite all their biographical, religious and poetic differences the comparative approach is...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-29
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With the backdrop of new global powers, this volume interrogates the state of writing in English. Strongly interdisciplinary, it challenges the prevailing orthodoxy of postcolonial literary theory. An insistence on fieldwork and linguistics makes this book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-08-21
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This interdisciplinary volume introduces new theories and ideas on creativity from the perspectives of science and art. Featuring contributions from leading researchers, theorists and artists working in artificial intelligence, generative art, creative computing, music...
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Springer
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2012-08-21
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Is ventriloquism just for dummies? What is at stake in neo-Victorian fiction's desire to 'talk back' to the nineteenth century? This book explores the sexual politics of dialogues between the nineteenth century and contemporary fiction, offering a new insight into the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-08-21
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This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-08-21
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This collection of essays attempts to expand the notion of the «Black Atlantic» beyond its original racial, geographical, linguistic and cultural borders while acknowledging its remarkable ability to disturb established historical truths and to go beyond traditional...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-17
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This book approaches the empirical validation of a popular method of assessing lexical knowledge – the yes/no vocabulary test or lexical decision task – from an interdisciplinary perspective. Each of its chapters sets out a distinct phase of the research along the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-17
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Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-08-16
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This book reassesses the cultural and political dimensions of the Irish Revival's heroic ideal and explores its implications for the construction of Irish modernity. By foregrounding the heroic ideal, it shows how the cultural landscape carved out by these writers is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-08-16
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Das Märchen bietet ein System von Bedeutungen an, das Kinder zur Artikulierung ihrer Erfahrung verwenden können.Das Genre vereint eine Vielfalt von Bedeutung mit Einfachheit der Struktur. Besonders hervorzuheben ist das Widerspiel der Bedeutungsebenen. Die Ebene des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-16
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Through readings of postcolonial theory and examination of post-9/11 novels, film, and hip-hop music, this book studies how North African immigrants to Spain translate and transfer cultural and political memory from one land to another.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-08-15
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Was hat die deutschsprachige Nachkriegsliteratur mit der postkolonialen Literatur Afrikas zu tun? Welche intertextuellen Bezüge erlaubt die Gegenüberstellung von Max Frisch und Ahmadou Kourouma? Diesen komparatistischen Fragen – bezogen auf Epochen, Stile, Erzählformen,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-15
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Die erste umfassende Interpretation der literarischen Fragmente Goethes eröffnet den Blick auf andere, weitgehend unbekannte Texte des Dichters. Im Kontext des Gesamtwerks entsteht jetzt ein anderes Goethebild, das literarisch, ästhetisch und inhaltlich überrascht. In...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-14
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Die Arbeit befasst sich mit den zivilrechtlichen Aspekten der Nothilfe. Den Kern bildet die Frage der dogmatischen Herleitung des Ersatzes von Aufwendungen und Schäden des Nothelfers. Der Verfasser weist durch eine rechtshistorische und rechtsvergleichende Analyse nach,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-13
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Conrad's Secrets explores a range of knowledges which would have been familiar to Conrad and his original readers. Drawing on research into trade, policing, sexual and financial scandals, changing theories of trauma and contemporary war-crimes, the book provides...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-08-13
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In dieser Monographie wird Ich als ein raumzeitliches Phänomen bestimmt, indem die Autorin dem Problem Ich im Kontext verschiedener Disziplinen wie Philosophie, Psychologie, Soziologie, Literaturwissenschaft und Semiotik nachgeht. Als Ergebnis der theoretischen Analyse...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-10
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Whatever happened to realism? What form is adequate to representing our moment, situated as we are after the end of ‘the end of History’? In the face of youth revolts and workers’ insurgencies from Cairo to London, it seems a good time to test the possibilities of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-10
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