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This book investigates different elements which have direct implications for translations but are not the actual text. These features are usually presented in a particular format – written, oral, digital, audio-visual or musical. They are furnished with, for example,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-16
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This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-03-15
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Chris Stamatakis reappraises Sir Thomas Wyatt (c.1504-1542) as a poetic innovator from the literary avant-garde of early Tudor England. He discusses Wyatt's reflections on the writing process, and his awareness of how words can be turned in new directions - that is,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-03-15
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This book cuts across important debates in cultural studies, literary criticism, politics, sociology, and anthropology. Meyda Yegenoglu brings together different theoretical strands in the debates regarding immigration, from Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic understanding...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-03-14
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Eine kluge, politische Satire voll bitterer Wahrheiten und fast schon prophetischer Voraussicht in die gesellschaftspolitische Entwicklung unserer Zeit, geschrieben von James Fenimore Cooper, dem Autor der Lederstrumpf-Romane. Die immer noch Gültigkeit besitzende...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-13
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This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and the contours of how Western literature was introduced, mostly through translation and assesses its transformative impact...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-03-12
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Through interviews with leading writers (including Ahdaf Soueif and Hanif Kureishi), this book analyzes the writing and opinions of novelists of Muslim heritage based in the UK. Discussion centres on writers' work, literary techniques, and influences, and on their views...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-03-09
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This original and engaging study explores the way in which Colm Tóibín repeatedly identifies and disrupts the boundaries between personal and political or social histories in his fiction. Through this collapsing of boundaries, he examines the cost of broader political...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-09
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The study of the work of Geoffrey Chaucer – still regarded as a literary genius more than 600 years after his death – centres on the problems of detailed readings of his poetry (including in some cases the textual authority for these readings) and the historical context...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-09
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This book offers a new perspective on current semantic theory by analysing key aspects of linguistic meaning and non-truth-conditional semantics. It applies non-truth-conditional semantics to various areas of language and critically considers earlier approaches to the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-09
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This book offers an interpretative key to Virginia Woolf’s visual and spatial strategies by investigating their nature, role and function. The author examines long-debated theoretical and critical issues with their philosophical implications, as well as Woolf’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-09
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was once a household name, but is now largely forgotten. This book explores how Scott's work became an all-pervasive point of reference for cultural memory and collective identity in the nineteenth century, and why it no longer has this...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-03-08
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Inhalt: Michael Kaiser: Eine misslungene Bewährungsprobe des Prager Friedens. Melchior von Hatzfeldt und die Schlacht bei Wittstock (1636) – Martin Winter: «Die Veste Dömitz und Werben, Waren der Länder Verderben». Truppenbewegungen und befestigte Lager im Vorfeld der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-07
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Was bleibt mehr als zwanzig Jahre nach dem Fall der Mauer von der Kultur der DDR? Wie wird heute über sie geschrieben und gedacht? Die Beiträge betrachten die ästhetisch-künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Ende der DDR sowie das intellektuelle Nachleben. Es melden...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-07
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The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and how these various...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-03-07
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
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This volume offers an analysis of colonial literature in the late Victorian age with a specific focus on the works of Henry Rider Haggard (1865-1925) and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Starting from the investigation of the nineteenth century as a period of great...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-07
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A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-03-06
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-03-05
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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This interpretive dictionary introduces the critical and theoretical world of distinguished literary and cultural critic Edward W. Said through the crucial terms and concepts central to his work. Compares and contrasts Said's perspective with other key theorists, such...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-03-05
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Exploring Greek Myth offers an extensive discussion of variant forms of myths and lesser-known stories, including important local myths and local versions of PanHellenic myths. Clark also discusses approaches to understanding myths, allowing students to gain an...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-03-02
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