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Mohaghegh tracks the idea of 'chaos' into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the postcolonial world, exploring its vital role in the formation of an emergent avant-garde literature in the Middle East, concentrating on the writings of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-08
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Im allgemeinen literarischen Bewusstsein liegt die eigentlich produktive Phase des Dichters Klopstock in seiner ersten Lebenshälfte, repräsentiert durch das Messias-Epos und einige Oden im Stile der neu konzipierten spirituellen hohen Poesie. Der andere Klopstock, jener...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-05
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Für das Verständnis von Hans Henny Jahnns Trilogie Fluß ohne Ufer ist das Gilgamesch-Epos von großer Bedeutung. Diese Feststellung wurde zwar schon mehrfach gemacht, jedoch fehlte bislang eine systematische Analyse der intertextuellen Beziehungen. Diese Studie versucht...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-05
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Grounded in theoretical studies of postmodern and narrative ethics, this book proposes the need for a re-examination of E. L. Doctorow’s work from an ethical perspective. Through in-depth analyses of previously neglected intertexts, it questions the classification of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-05
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Dieser Sammelband analysiert die wesentlichen und prägnanten Punkte der praktischen Übersetzungslehre. Aus den zahlreichen für die Adäquatheit und die Richtigkeit der Übersetzungs- und Dolmetschleistungen relevanten Aspekten wurden zwei Teilbereiche ausgewählt: die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-05
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Bernardin de Saint-Pierres Études de la nature (1784) stellen den Versuch dar, die gesamte Natur und ihre Organisationsgesetze zu beschreiben. Dabei verknüpfen sie verschiedenste Bereiche des Wissens. Sie diskutieren naturphilosophische, theologische und ästhetische...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-05
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Traversing the themes of language, terror and representation, this is the first study to engage Coleridge through the sublime, showing him to have a compelling position in an ongoing conversation about finitude. Drawing on close readings of both his poetry and prose, it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-03
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DIRECTOR JANE CAMPIONJohn Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 25. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-10-31
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An international trade emerged between 1870-1895 that incorporated the circulation of books among countries worldwide. A history of the social network and select agents who sold and distributed books overseas, this study demonstrates agents increasingly thought of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-29
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Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedo'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death'The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of classical Athens. In tracing these events through four...
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Penguin
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2010-10-28
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The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based in the British Isles from the return of the British monarchy in 1660 until the French Revolution of 1789. ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-10-28
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Taking a fresh approach to Byron, this book argues that he should be understood as a poet whose major works develop a carefully reasoned philosophy. Situating him with reference to the thought of the period, it argues for Byron as an active thinker, whose final...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-10-27
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A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families. Provides...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-10-26
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Tacitus' Annals is the central historical source for first-century C.E. Rome. It is prized by historians since it provides the best narrative material for the reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero, as well as a probing analysis of the imperial system of government. But...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-10-21
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Tennyson is the most important English poet of the Victorian age. He knew its key figures and was deeply involved in its science, religion, philosophy and politics. The Palgrave Literary Dictionary for the first time gives easily accessible information, under more than...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-20
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A sweeping intellectual history of the relationship between literary translation, authoritarian politics, linguistic ideologies, juristic philology, religion, and poetry in late nineteenth-century Colombia.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-10-18
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This study explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity in late medieval literature, documenting the trajectory of antimercantile ideology against major developments in economic theory and practice in the later Middle Ages.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-10-18
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A comprehensive and thematic exploration of representations of madness in postwar British and American Fiction, this book is relevant to those with interests in literary studies and is a vital read for psychiatric clinicians and professionals who are interested in how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-14
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'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.'
As the history of many repressive regimes shows, this vital borderline has seldom been so clearly demarcated. Just how murky it can...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-10-14
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Writing After Sidney examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), author of the Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella, and The Defence of Poesy, and the most immediately influential writer of the Elizabethan period. It does so by looking closely both at Sidney...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-10-14
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