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Das Englische ist als Fachsprache und Lingua franca im internationalen Geschäftskontext unverzichtbar. Diese Studie analysiert erstmals seinen Gebrauch in Multimediakonferenzen, deren Teilnehmer sich an verschiedenen Orten befinden, während sie visuell präsentierte...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-02-19
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A NEW COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE The Victorian period was a time of rapid cultural change, which resulted in a huge and varied literary output.A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture offers experienced guidance to the literature of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-02-14
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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The Majesty of the People links emerging Romantic ideas about the role of the writer to the ambivalence of the concept of popular sovereignty. By closely examining how theories about the role of the intellectual or the writer are developed as part of the 1790s'...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-02-13
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All Her Faculties focuses on the perpetuation and reflection in literature of particular representations of the female mind that are entrenched in conservative notions of womanhood. The study highlights literature’s incontrovertible power to create myth - the myth of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-02-11
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Why were books considered valuable in the Middle Ages? This study focuses on medieval testaments and donation records from England before 1450 to investigate this question. The primary sources and datable records from before and after the Norman Conquest show that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-02-10
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«Inklings» nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e.V. widmet sich seit 1983 dem Studium und der Verbreitung der Werke dieser und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-02-05
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Secondo la maggior parte dei critici, la fortuna di Manzoni in Gran Bretagna e negli Stati Uniti è stata molto limitata. Ma questo volume, che tratta della ricezione manzoniana nei paesi anglosassoni nell’Ottocento, cerca di ridimensionare l’interpretazione tradizionale...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-02-05
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This book analyzes Siri Hustvedt’s three novels The Blindfold, What I Loved and The Sorrows of an American with a focus on visual art. Siri Hustvedt is one of the most popular American writers today and her work is predominantly concerned with art historical and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-02-05
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By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth’s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet’s most creative period of life and writing. Features new research into Wordsworth’s financial situation,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-28
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
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Tracing unexplored connections between nineteenth-century astronomy and literature, The Starry Sky Within offers a new understanding of literary point of view as essentially multiple, mobile, and comparative. Nineteenth-century astronomy revealed a cosmos of celestial...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-01-16
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Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s. Presents key criticism onVictorian poetry Features contributions from a variety of scholars in the field...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-13
Collection :
Blackwell Critical Reader
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The essays in this volume explore interartistic connections in Irish literature, drama, film and the visual arts. Within modern and postmodern culture, innovation is often driven by surprising interrelations between the arts, and this book offers a discussion of this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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This book offers a detailed analysis of all mainstream novels of Iain Banks. It explores the question of mediation, the process of a semiotic (re)construction of the world on the part of Banks’s characters, with reference to the four directions of fictional...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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Nicholas Breton (1545/55-1626?) was one of the most prolific writers of the Early Modern period and left behind a vast œuvre that is, however, largely neglected today. Breton addresses instrumental questions of his time, especially those of man’s identity. This study...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-01-10
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In November 1814, Jane Austen's niece Fanny Knight wrote Austen a letter secretly requesting advice. Fanny wanted urgently to know whether she should continue encouraging her most ardent suitor, what the future would hold were she to marry him, and whether she, Fanny,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-09
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This concise companion examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approximately 1100 and 1500. The essays in the book explore ways in which Middle English literature is 'different' from the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-24
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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The present edition offers the diplomatic transcription of MS Wellcome 542, housing a late Middle English hitherto unedited remedy-book based on the medical lore of Hippocrates, Socrates and Galen. A glossary, notes and introduction also accompany the edition.The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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The Irish writer and critic Helen Waddell burst onto the publishing scene of the 1920s and 1930s as a phenomenon, a scholar whose books became instant bestsellers. Cross-fertilizing academic research with a vivid imagination, her literary historyThe Wandering Scholars...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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Vampires have never been as popular in Western culture as they are now: Twilight, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and their fans have secured the vampire’s place in contemporary culture. Yet the role vampires play in how we remember our pasts and configure our futures...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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Im Zentrum dieser Arbeit steht die kritische und kommentierte Neuedition der allein in der Handschrift Cotton Tiberius A.iii erhaltenen altenglischen Interlinearversion der Benediktinerregel und ihres lateinischen Textes. Der Edition geht eine umfassende Einleitung...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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