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This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern conceptions of childhood are shaped by nostalgia and ideas of 'the popular'. Examining many adaptations in a variety of formats,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-07-30
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This study focuses on how Puritans in England and especially New England used the church fathers when reading the Bible and defending Congregationalism. The analysis of a variety of textual genres and largely unedited sources written between 1592 and 1728 shows that...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-27
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Das Urbane hat bis heute die Verführungskraft großer Versprechen. Metropole zu sein, zumindest aber als Großstadt zu gelten, gehört zu den Traum- und Alptraumfantasien, die die Moderne begleiten. Städte erfinden sich selbst, wenn Entwurf und Selbstverständnis der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-26
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This book presents a narratological analysis of the Kaiserchronik, or chronicle of the emperors, the first verse chronicle to have been written in any European vernacular language, which provides an account of the Roman and Holy Roman emperors from the foundation of...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-26
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Folklore provides a metaphor for insecurity in British women’s writing published between 1750 and 1880. When characters feel uneasy about separations between races, classes, or sexes, they speak of mermaids and «Cinderella» to make threatening women unreal and thus...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-07-26
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This book is a comparative study of the early works of Vladimir Nabokov and the fictions of Virginia Woolf. The aim of this study was to establish the applications and implications of involution: how it is used to subtly reformat a text and how it changes the meaning of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-26
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From the MCG to the SCG, from golf courses and racetracks, from boxing rings to tennis courts and beyond come the best witticisms, piss-takes, putdowns and observations to ever cross the lips of our favourite players, coaches, commentators and competitors. 'As you...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2012-07-25
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Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-century England and the concomitant involvement of the London theatre in shaping a new perception of Western European space. Fresh readings are offered of Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-07-25
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«Es flaniert, das Kind.» Es ist diese randständige Aussage Mrs. Ferwalters, der gezeichneten Überlebenden der Shoah, die sie verschwörerisch lächelnd ihrer Nachbarin, der scham- und schuldbewussten Deutschen Gesine Cresspahl zuflüstert, in der Uwe Johnson eine Utopie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-25
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In the cultural debates of modernism the concepts of time and space were juxtaposed, representing disparate sensibilities, styles of art, even political camps. Artists and thinkers of the era took sides: with time, i.e. all that is fluid and transitory, or with space,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-25
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Problem Plays' has been an awkward category for those Shakespeare plays that don't fit the conventional groupings. Expanding from the traditional three plays to six, the book argues that they share dramatic structures designed intentionally by Shakespeare to disturb his...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-07-24
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Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-07-24
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Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding such writers as Conrad, Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, it presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-07-24
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Die Arbeit untersucht Zeit als strukturierendes Element in allen Lebensbereichen des modernen Lebens. Ihre spezifischen Funktionsweisen werden mit Hilfe unterschiedlicher Kategorien an ausgewählten Beispielen der skandinavischen Moderne dargestellt. Dabei wird vor allem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-23
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Zum ersten Mal wird hier eine Untersuchung der Gesammelten Werke des dänischen Dichters und Schriftstellers Adam Oehlenschläger (1779-1850) auf Deutsch vorgelegt. Als angehender Sprachkünstler studierte er nicht Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Kopenhagen,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-20
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This book offers a critical account of historical books about Britain written for children, including realist novels, non-fiction, fantasy and alternative histories. It also investigates the literary, ideological and philosophical challenges involved in writing about...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-07-17
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Film and television adaptations of classic literature have held a longstanding appeal for audiences, an appeal that this book sets out to examine. With a particular focus on Wuthering Heights , the book examines adaptations made from the 1930s to the twenty-first...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-07-17
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An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-07-17
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With the weakening moral authority of the Catholic Church, the boom ushered in by the Celtic Tiger, and the slow but steady diminishment of the Troubles in the North, Ireland has finally stepped out from the shadows of colonial oppression onto the world stage as a major...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-07-16
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George Bernard Shaw is commonly regarded as one of the most controversial intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century. Known for the ambiguity of his statements and the seeming inconsistency of his views, there was, nevertheless, one idea to which the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-13
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