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Intertextuelle Literatur liefert subversive und polyphone Zustandsbeschreibungen der Welt. Sie ist Gedächtnisort der Kultur, schreibt sich in diese ein und stiftet Identität.Intertextuelle Literatur wird damit zur Verwirklichung des Goetheschen Konzeptes von...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-06-06
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As the history of British colonialism recedes and a new phase of global integration intensifies, the critical tools of postcolonialism become less useful in reading South Asian diasporic fiction in Britain. A Passage to Globalism: Globalization, Identities, and South...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-06-05
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Gazing in Useless Wonder focuses on utopias as self-referential texts that literally have to constitute themselves as imaginary or intentional entities before they can work as vehicles for socio-political ideas. Foregrounding the construction of utopian fictions defines...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-06-05
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Since the Reformation, Catholics in Britain have been faced with an outsider status that has often given rise to conflict between their British national and Catholic religious identities. This study examines the ways in which this problematic history is addressed by...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-06-03
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This is the first book-length study of literary censorship in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. While in recent years the aesthetics and politics of British Modernism have been re-evaluated and the concept and function of censorship redefined, Modernism’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-06-03
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This collection traces new directions in the study of Thomas Moore (1779–1852) and examines the multiple facets of his complex identity, not only as the foremost Irish poet of his time, but also as a lyricist, satirist, polemicist, patriot and journalist. The range of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-06-03
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Readings in Twenty-First-Century European Literatures brings together analyses of post-2000 literary works from twelve European literatures. Sharing a common aim – that of taking the first step in identifying and analysing some of the emergent trends in contemporary...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-06-03
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Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-05-29
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This book critically examines a wide range of contemporary literary scandals in order to identify the cultural and literary anxieties revealed by controversial works. It explores how scandal predominantly emerges in relation to texts which offer challenging...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-29
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This volume offers a critical insight into the life and work of the controversial Victorian explorer and translator Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). Analysis focuses on his travel accounts and erotic translations, which both re-elaborated and challenged dominant...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-17
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This book is a collection of papers using samples of real language data (corpora) to explore variation in the use of English.This collection celebrates the achievements of Toshio Saito, a pioneer in corpus linguistics within Japan and founder of the Japan Association...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-17
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This book is a collection of essays from the conference «Re/membering Place», held at Stendhal University from 13 to 15 October 2011. It explores the issue of «Re/membering Place» in a colonial and postcolonial context of displacement, loss, and alienation. The authors...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-17
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Dwight Macdonald was the most prominent excoriator of mass culture in the 1950s and ’60s. Since that time his reputation has not fared well. Derided as elitist and passé, his tracts now represent everything wrong-headed about mid-century cultural criticism. Nonetheless,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-08
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Ausgehend von den Essais Montaignes und den Confessions Rousseaus, untersucht die Arbeit Prämissen neueren autobiographischen Schreibens in Frankreich unter Referenz auf zeitgenössische französische Theoriebildungen. Die aus dem nouveau roman hervorgehende nouvelle...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Oguz Atay’s 1971 novel The Disconnected [Tutunamayanlar] is distinctly unique, but it can also be read as a response to Joyce’s Ulysses – a singular and a very Turkish response. Any review of The Disconnected begins with the humble acknowledgement of its vast frame of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Travel writing studies have been focused mostly on women travel writers and on representations of the world and the other. This book adopts a novel perspective which diachronically combines the issues of genre and gender. The author postulates that the genre of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Der Bergarbeiterstreik von 1984-85 steht, wie kein zweites Ereignis, für den Kampf um den britischen Sozialstaat in den 1980er Jahren. In dieser Arbeit werden Kriterien für eine neue, kulturhistorisch informierte, sozialgeschichtliche Sicht auf den Bergarbeiterstreik...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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In the last three decades the field of language teaching and learning has undergone a paradigm shift towards Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), which has put an emphasis on meaningful interaction and implied an abrupt departure from an extensive study of learner...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Dieser Band versammelt die Beiträge der Kölner Konferenz zur Fachtextübersetzung, die am 21. und 22. Oktober 2010 am Institut für Translation und Mehrsprachige Kommunikation der Fachhochschule Köln stattfand. Die Beiträge spiegeln die aktuellen Forschungsinteressen der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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This is a volume of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Historical English Word-Formation and Semantics held in Warsaw on 10-11 December 2011 and organized by the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the University of Social Sciences in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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