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In Folge eines gewandelten Kindheitsbildes entsteht zu Beginn der 1970er Jahre der moderne Kinderroman. Damit kommt es zu inhaltlichen, thematischen und darstellungstechnischen Veränderungen in der Kinderliteratur und auch zum Durchbruch des «kindlichen Ich-Erzählers»....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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Hexenromane gab es schon früher. Doch seit den 1970er Jahren treten sie vermehrt auch in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur auf. Der Grund: Nicht mehr der jugendliche Held, die jugendliche Heldin stehen im Vordergrund des Geschehens, sondern Personen aus dem Volk, die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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Charlotte Brontë’s Atypical Typology tracesCharlotte Brontë’s reinscription of the Bible through her four novels, paying special attention to her use of three strategies: gender reversal; the undermining of traditional notions of God’s providential control of human...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2010-11-23
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Die Studie untersucht musikalische Thematisierungen und strukturelle Affinitäten in zeitgenössischen englischen und amerikanischen Bildungsromanen. Im Gegensatz zu bisher vorliegenden Arbeiten zielt sie auf eine gattungsspezifische Perspektive.Die Autorin untersucht,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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The linguistic domains of business and commerce are especially affected by the economic and communicative globalization. Since language use in these domains has an impact on the use of a language in other domains, the future development of the European languages will...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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Storytelling and remembering rely on similar practices: they both arrange images in an ordered structure. A story is initially memorised by the author in a mental structure which is transferred to the page via the author’s choice of location, organisation and imagery....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer are writers renowned for crafting narratives of great technical skill that resonate with potent truths on the colonial condition. Yet given the generational and geographical boundaries that separated them, they are...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-11-23
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Diese Arbeit untersucht sowohl die spezifische Schreibweise Gisela Elsners als auch die Bedeutung der Autorin für die deutschsprachige Literatur nach 1945. Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung, dass in den Texten Elsners die Wirklichkeit in der Bundesrepublik der 1960er...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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In an innovative reading of fin-de-siecle cultural texts, Miller argues that British representations of America, Americans, and Anglo-American relations at the turn of the twentieth century provided an important forum for cultural distinction.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-22
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These unique essays focus primarily on Woolf's non-fiction and considers her in the context of the modernist marketplace. With research based on new archival material, this volume makes important new contributions to the study of the 'gift economy.'
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-22
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Drawing on new historical principles, this book examines literary and historical narratives, legal statutes and records, sermons, lyric poetry, and biblical exegesis circulating in medieval England in order to theorize the figure of the outlaw and uncover the legal,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-22
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THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE HANDBOOK “Never a dull read, Marshall Grossman’s elegant volume bristles with sharp ideas to inform, stimulate and challenge his audience.” Thomas Corns, Bangor University The seventeenth century was a dramatic period in British...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-11-18
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Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
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With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen of the finest...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-17
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The debate over extending full civil rights to British and Irish Catholics not only preoccupied British politics but also informed the romantic period's most prominent literary works. This book offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of Catholic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-17
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The book offers readings of discourses about food in a wide range of sources, from canonical Victorian novels by authors such as Dickens, Gaskell, and Hardy to parliamentary speeches, royal proclamations, and Amendment Acts. It considers the cultural politics and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-14
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Pasco analyzes innovative nineteenth- and twentieth-century French works to suggest a definition of the novel, in all of its variations and difficulties: a relatively long, artistically designed, prose fiction. He permits literary aficionados to reevaluate novels...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-14
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This book is first in its field to analyze how disability and gender both thematically and formally operate within late medieval popular literature. Reading romance, conduct manuals, and spiritual autobiography, it proposes a 'gendered model' for exploring the processes...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-14
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Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman. No one else had the ability to see it whole; no one else knew so many of its politicians, poets, and philosophers. By interpreting it for his contemporaries, he speaks to us of...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-11-11
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Passion's Triumph over Reason presents a comprehensive survey of ideas of emotion, appetite, and self-control in English literature and moral thought of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In a narrative which draws on tragedy, epic poetry, and moral philosophy,...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-11-11
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With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-10
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