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In der Studie wird die kontroverse Rezeption der russischen Lyrik in Literaturzeitschriften der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der DDR vergleichend betrachtet. Das Fundament bilden historische Prozesse wie z. B. das «Tauwetter». Im Mittelpunkt steht die Analyse...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-09
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El volum reuneix les aportacions llegides en la secció sobre literatura catalana que va tenir lloc amb ocasió del 22è Colloqui Germano-Català, celebrat a la Universitat de Viena del 23 al 26 de setembre de 2010. Ofereix un panorama ampli dels temes tractats i les...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-08
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100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-08-07
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This lively study provides an account of the 'fall and rise' of the English nation within the British discipline of English Literature between the late eighteenth century and the present day, offering a reconceptualisation of the relationship between English Literature...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-08-07
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As Wallace Stevens once wrote, «a poem should be part of one’s sense of life». This book provides a record of readerly and critical explorations of the poems and life of the American poet. The author reads Stevens’s poems in the context of both the existing critical...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-07
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Zwischen 1980 und 2010 ist die spanische Kurzgeschichte endgültig aus dem Schatten des Romans herausgetreten. Die Gründe und Auswirkungen dieser Erfolgsgeschichte sind bisher kaum erforscht. Im ersten Teil der vorliegenden Untersuchung geht es um Gegenstandsfelder wie...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-07
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This book asks why Brontë, Dickens, and Collins saw the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? Drawing on theorists such as Derrida, Blanchot, and de Man, Zigarovich maintains that narrating death was important to the understanding of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-08-06
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Adapting Poe is a collection of essays that explores the way Edgar Allan Poe has been adapted over the last hundred years in film, comic art, music, and literary criticism. A major theme that pervades the study concerns the more recent re-imaginings of Poe in terms of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-08-06
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This study challenges critical orthodoxy by showing that childhood became a focus of interest in British fiction well before the Romantic period. It also argues that children in the Victorian novel, far from being sentimental figures, are psychologically unique and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-06
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This book is a thorough introduction to the Inferno for today's reader. It is based on Professor Payton's many years of reading Dante's masterpiece with university undergraduates and upon the work of the very best modern critics. The Guide can be used alone as a...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-06
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The state is at its most volatile when supreme power changes hands. This book studies five such moments of transfer in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, from Henry VIII to the English Revolution, pazying particular attention to the political function and...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-08-02
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The novelist R. F. Delderfield’s trilogy of English life in the second half of the nineteenth century portrays the social history of Adam Swann and his family, energetic people of differing talents and tempers involved in a kaleidoscopic range of social engagements....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-08-02
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The three writers examined in Richard Arnold’s Trinity of Discord, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and William Cowper, are known as famous poets, but are also the greatest and most popularly compiled and used hymn-writers of all time. While masters of their kind, they were...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-08-02
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C. S. Lewis, fantasy novelist, literary scholar, and Christian apologist, is one of the most original and well-known literary figures of the twentieth century. As one who stood at the crossroads of Edwardian and modern thinking, he is often read as a sexist or even...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-08-02
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Harry Potter’s global triumph is without precedent. Economically it is the most successful children’s book ever published and at the same time it has become the most widely discussed text for young adults. Why is this so? What does the text offer to its readers?...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-02
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Apartheid and Beyond offers trenchant, historically sensitive readings of writings by Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form. It also explores the way apartheid...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-08-01
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Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama--fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the death--and yet its allusions, digressions, and sheer scope can prove daunting...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-08-01
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Whatever the celebration, whatever the day, whatever the occasion, Helen Steiner Rice possessed the ability to express the appropriate feeling for that particular moment in time. Her positive attitude, her concern for others, and her love of God are identifiable threads...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2012-07-31
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Shakespeare scholars and cultural theorists critically investigate the relationship between early modern culture and contemporary political and technological changes concerning the idea of the 'human.' The volume covers the tragedies King Lear and Hamlet in particular,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-07-31
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Using unpublished archive material, including correspondence and the many annotations Murdoch made to the books held in her Oxford library, this book offers fresh insights into Murdoch's work by placing it within a diversity of new contexts. It also reveals startling...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-07-30
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