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Noch immer umgibt Samuel Becketts Werke der Nimbus des Rätselhaften – trotz aller Bemühungen der Literaturkritik, auch im Rahmen der Neuen Literaturtheorien. Dem entgegen, unternimmt die Studie erstmals eine hermeneutische Untersuchung der Texte. Sie setzt voraus,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-17
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(Re)thinking Orientalism is a text that examines the visual discourse of Orientalism through the pedagogy of contemporary graphic narratives. Using feminist, critical race, and postcolonial theoretical and pedagogical lenses, the book uses visual discourse analysis and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-12-13
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This book focuses on ambiguity in Troilus and Criseyde, one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s (1343?-1400) representative works. It examines systematically how and why ambiguity is likely to arise. After reviewing previous scholarship on ambiguity in Chaucer, the author proposes a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-11
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Colour is one of the few remaining uncharted territories of film studies, and its centrality to the construction and reception of film narratives has only recently been recognised. After a century of widespread critical and theoretical neglect, colour is now poised to...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-10
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Philip Allan Literature Guides (for GCSE) provide exam-focused analysis of popular set texts to give students the very best chance of achieving the highest grades possible. Designed to be used throughout the course or as revision before the exam, this full colour text...
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Philip Allan
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2012-12-07
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This book was shortlisted for the ESSE Book Awards This volume analyses the endeavours of early Elizabethan playwrights to examine the narrative possibilities of drama. Paying attention to pre-Shakespearean comedies written in English between 1560 and 1590, the author...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-05
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This interdisciplinary volume of contributed essays focuses on issues of gender in the British novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly Hardy and Trollope. Approaching the topic from a variety of backgrounds, the contributors reinvigorate the...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-12-05
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The volume, inspired by Professor Welna’s life-long studies in historical linguistics, brings together scholars researching topics in various fields of the history of the English language. Nine chapters devoted to different linguistic disciplines gather articles...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-03
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Although the later eighteenth century has long been regarded as parliamentary oratory's golden age, its speaking history remains to a large extent unexplored. Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-11-29
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This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war, regicide, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-11-29
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The experimental and diverse writings of John Milton's early career offer tantalizing evidence of a precocious and steadily ripening author. Traditionally scholars have looked to Poems 1645 for evidence of his development as a poet and its bearing upon his career as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-11-29
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This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war, regicide, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-11-29
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The book addresses the problem of literary value in North American literature, children’s literature, film and poetry. Chapter One:The Ennob(e)led focuses on institutions which are instrumental in attributing value to literature: literary critics (e.g. D.H. Lawrence)...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-26
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This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznan (Poland) in November 2010. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the area of Old and Middle English language studies, from gender/declension shifts and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-23
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The notion of communicative space forms the general theoretical leitmotif of this volume. Within communicative spaces of all kinds, the contributors present their views and research on language variation, language contact and language change.The majority of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-22
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Reading Paradise Lost “This lucid and entirely jargon-free guide to Paradise Lost will help any reader of the poem to find their feet, and to understand what makes it the best poem in the English language. Hopkins has one, and only one, resemblance to Milton’s Satan,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-11-21
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Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
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Infosys Prize for outstanding contribution to the Humanities in Literary Studies Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a romantic poet, speaking of beauty and truth; as a transcendentalist; a believer in the absolute; a propagandist for universal man; and as a...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-16
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This book examines film versions of Irish myth, lore, and legend, concentrating particularly on stories which encompass the life journey of the hero, as proposed by Carl Jung and adapted by Joseph Campbell. After establishing the usefulness of film as cultural critique,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-16
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Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum offers unique insight into the works ofSamuel Johnson by re-considering William Hazlitt's oft-cited comparison between Johnson's prose and a pendulum. In 1819, William Hazlitt condemnedSamuel Johnson's prose style as 'a species of...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-11-15
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Die Ökokritik als ökologisch orientierte Literaturwissenschaft behandelt die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Literatur und Umwelt.Die Autorin sieht die Quelle ökokritischen Denkens bei den amerikanischen IndianerInnen und den TranszendentalistInnen. Demzufolge wird die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-13
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