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With reference to Paul Ricoeur’s conception of the interconnectedness of history and fiction, this comparative literary study examines narrative strategies that three contemporary writers of fiction – Toni Morrison, V. S. Naipaul, and Ben Okri – have devised to...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-12-19
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In acht Aufsätzen haben sich Fachkolleginnen und -kollegen mit dem Phänomen «Burg» im Minnesang, in der Minnerede und als Minneallegorie des deutschen Mittelalters auseinandergesetzt. Besprochen werden der metaphorische Spielraum von Burgmotivik im «Hohen Sang», im...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-12-16
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This dramatic story recounts Mary, Queen of Scots's remaining days held captive in Fotheringay Castle. In scenes alternating between Mary's prison and Elizabeth's court at Westminster, Schiller's play gradually builds a compelling picture of a tragic heroine rising...
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Penguin
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2011-12-15
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Using close readings and thematic studies of contemporary science fiction and postcolonial theory, ranging from discussions of Japanese and Canadian science fiction to a deconstruction of race and (post)colonialism in World of Warcraft, This book is the first...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-12-15
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Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-12-15
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What makes it possible for self-interest, cruelty and violence to become part of the benevolent, compassionate ideology of eighteenth-century sensibility? This book explores forms of emotional response, including sympathy, tears, swoons and melancholia through a range...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2011-12-13
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From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-12-13
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In its exploration of legal issues presented in novels of the Brontë sisters, this book represents a significant and original contribution to the study, not just of the Brontës and the mid-nineteenth century 'woman's novel', but also the situation of women in nineteenth...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-12-12
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A vivid snapshot of America's kaleidoscopic literary tradition,A Journey Through American Literature illuminates the authors, works, and events that have shaped our cultural heritage. Kevin J. Hayes charts this history through a series of approachable thematic...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-12-10
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The highpoint of German Expressionism in the second decade of the 20th century coincided with a rapid increase in the availability of cocaine as the drug was stockpiled for medical purposes by armies fighting the First World War. Snow from Broken Eyes investigates the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-12-09
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Modern Western biography has become one of the most popular and most controversial forms of literature. Critics have attacked its tendency to rely on a strong narrative drive, its focus on a single person’s life and its tendency to delve ever more deeply into that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-12-08
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A comprehensive introduction to Old English, combining simple, clear philology with the best literary works to provide a compelling and accessible beginners’ guide. Provides a comprehensive introduction to Old English Uses a practical approach suited to the needs of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-12-07
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This study maps a new approach to the works of W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, and Seamus Heaney. Sean Heuston combines interdisciplinary analysis, specifically ethnography, with close reading, and in so doing argues provocatively for the intersection of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-12-05
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This book examines the flight of young Australian writers to London in the decades before and after Federation in 1901. Peter Morton studies how their careers were shaped by shifting their country of residence, the expatriate experience, and how the loss of these...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2011-12-05
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Die Studie befaßt sich mit der westdeutschen kinderliterarischen Phantastik der 70er und 80er Jahre und erörtert diese sowohl in literaturhistorischer wie in gattungstheoretischer Hinsicht. Es geht um die Herausarbeitung der Struktur phantastischer Texte, der Funktionen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-12-02
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Surveying the later work of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens, Edward Clarke unfolds their very last poems and considers the two poets' relations with western literature and tradition. This book shows how these two latecomers transform the ways in which we read earlier...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-12-01
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The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, is the site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to this day. In short, the middlebrow matters . These essays examine the prejudices and aspirations at work in the 'battle...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-30
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The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake's Europe , Byron's Mazeppa , and Eliot's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-30
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In this book, the authors propose a multilayered reading of contemporary transnational cultural manifestations in which it is possible to recognize challenges and cultural strategies that transnational Mexican communities conceive in order to claim cultural, political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-30
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ALAN JENKINS - POERTY IS EXHILARATING. . . . . IT IS CHARGED WITH EROTIC ENERGY, RAGE, SORROW AND CONFUSION. - DAVID LEHMAN The poeoms in Alan Jenkin's magnificent new collection are closely linked, forming a movingly autobiographical book which deals with the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2011-11-30
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