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Der Schotte George Buchanan wurde von Zeitgenossen zu den größten europäischen Dichtern des 16. Jahrhunderts gezählt. Seine neulateinische poetische Psalterparaphrase gilt als sein bedeutendstes Werk. Die Einordnung in Gattungsgeschichte und Entstehungskontext führt zu...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-12
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Stalin’s Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-08
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Die 18. Folge des Jahrbuchs dokumentiert erneut die wachsende Internationalisierung der Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung.Die Beiträge der estnischen Komparatistin Ave Mattheus und der portugiesischen Germanistin Maria Teresa Cortez verdeutlichen die Rolle der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-08
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The Black tile in Canada’s mosaic has long been neglected – in historiography, literary criticism and public discourse. African-Canadian literature sets out to correct this absence. This study provides an in-depth look into the fiction of one of African-Canadian...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-07
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This second volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry continues the project set out in the Preface to the first volume, discussing the three golden poets of the Golden Age of English poetry in the second half of the fourteenth century. The first two...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-06
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I saggi riuniti in questo libro sono dedicati alla comicità nella letteratura, nella saggistica e nell’opera italiane, in particolare alla comicità fuori posto in opere di Campanile, Guicciardini, Dumas, Ariosto, Gadda, Flaiano, Wolf-Ferrari, Camilleri, Lakhous,...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-11-06
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Regarded by many as the equal of Shakespeare in poetic imagination and expression, Milton was also a prolific writer of prose, applying his potent genius to major issues of domestic, religious and political liberty. This superbly annotated new publication is the most...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-11-05
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Intertextual Dialogue with the Victorian Past in the Contemporary Novel examines the revival of the Victorian age in several novels representative of the prominent neo-Victorian (or Victorianist) trend in recent English fiction. The aim of this book is to categorise the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-05
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This book is a collection of papers that explores the notion of learner autonomy and the problem of helping language learners to manage their learning effectively. The first part of the book deals with issues of definition: what is the cognitive base for autonomous...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-05
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The European Union has conceived itself as multilingual since its beginning in 1956. EFNIL, the network of the central language institutions of all states of the Union and several other European countries, promotes the enhancement of individual plurilingualism of the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-05
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Der Bilinguale Unterricht in Deutschland entwickelt sich derzeit zu einem Regelangebot. Bei dieser Entwicklung wird jedoch die sachfachliche Kompetenz in Theorie, Forschung und Praxis noch nicht im wünschenswerten Maße berücksichtigt. In der europäischen Diskussion um...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-05
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Addressing a range of music examples and texts, the fifteen essays in this volume explore the interaction between both conceptions of time and space and the intermedial relationship between words and music. This intermedial experimentation may serve to adopt the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-05
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Literature has long sought to make sense of the destruction and aggression wrought by human civilization. Yet no single literary movement was more powerfully shaped by violence than modernism. As Sarah Cole shows, modernism emerged as an imaginative response to the...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-11-01
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In Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Jeanette Winterson. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Jeanette Winterson, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-10-31
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This book explores the use of idioms in Salman Rushdie’s eleven novels. Firstly, the key concepts in phraseology are discussed as a background to the study of Rushdie’s idiomaticity. Salman Rushdie is presented as a metaphorical and phraseological writer before the main...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-31
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The similarities and differences between poetry and worship have intrigued writers since at least the nineteenth century, when John Keble declared that poetic symbols could almost partake of the nature of sacraments. Since then poets, philosophers and literary critics...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-29
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In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the sponsor of the expedition, died in Egypt. The popular press went wild with...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-10-26
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In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the sponsor of the expedition, died in Egypt. The popular press went wild with...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-10-25
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The stories of female heroes of Old English poetry have been more read about than read, but Judith, Juliana, and Elene: Three Fighting Saints now makes the stories of Judith, a female hero of Old Testament times, and Juliana and Helena, who lived in the patristic era,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-10-23
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This book makes several important contributions to our knowledge of Shakespeare and the Renaissance. First, Bentley's close and thorough analysis of the references to syphilis in Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, and Timon of Athens illustrates how Shakespeare...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-10-23
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