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This detailed study explores the significance of the ‘Library of Ireland’, a book series originated in the 1840s by the Young Irelanders Thomas Davis and Charles Gavan Duffy. Focusing on the literary anthologies and literary histories published in this series, the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-12
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Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge tragen aus je unterschiedlicher Perspektive dazu bei, den Aspekt evaluierender Sprachbetrachtung in die wissenschaftliche Analyse sprachlicher Wirklichkeit zu integrieren. Das Konzept «Gute Sprache, schlechte Sprache» ist ein...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-12
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Throughout the second half of the 20th century various societies were shaped by conflicting trends of globalization and nationalist resurgence, powerful surges of collective identities as well as fragmentation into individualistic subjects. Against this background of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-08
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In Vintage Living Texts teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of A. S. Byatt. Also included is an exclusive in-depth interview with A. S. Byatt relating specifically to the novels under discussion. A. S. Byatt's...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-05-31
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In Vintage Living Texts, teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of Iris Murdoch. Iris Murdoch's themes, genre and narrative techniques are put under scrutiny and the emphasis is on providing a rich source of ideas...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-05-31
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In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Sebastian Faulks. This guide will deal with his themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will be accompanied with likely exam questions, and...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-05-31
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English as a Vocation is a history of the most influential movement in modern British literary criticism. F. R. Leavis and his collaborators on the Cambridge journal Scrutiny in the 1930s to the 1950s demonstrated compelling ways of reading modernist poetry,...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-05-31
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Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature connects changing seventeenth-century English views of maternal nurture to the rise of the modern nation, especially between 1603 and 1675. Maternal nurture gains new prominence in the early modern cultural...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-05-31
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Kirstie Blair explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary debates over the use of forms in worship. She argues that poetry made significant contributions to these debates, not least through its formal...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-05-24
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An important and innovative edition of Milton's shorter verse & the first volume to present the poems with the original spelling and pronunciations intact, offering readers the opportunity to experience the vitality of the poems as they were experienced by Milton's...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-05-04
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In the last decade, the so called «spatial turn» has produced a broad discussion of space and spatiality in the social sciences, in architecture and art, as well as in philosophy, and also in literary criticism. The book focuses on one aspect largely ignored by literary...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-05-04
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Between Christmas and new year of 1817 the eccentric painter, B.R. Haydon, gave a famous dinner party. His guests included three of the greatest literary stars of the age: the poets John Keats and William Wordsworth and the essayist and wit Charles Lamb. They recited...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-05-03
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The short story as an autonomous genre has called the attention of both writers and literary critics with theoretical concerns over the last two centuries. It is a form of writing that has met the favour of readers and publishers alike: because of its very brevity, it...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-05-03
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Ian McEwan’s novels are characterised by innovative forms of plot-oriented storytelling that combine a pronounced interest in contemporary (British) culture and (recent) history with a concern for social and ethical questions. Novels like The Child in Time, Black Dogs,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-05-02
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This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznan (Poland), in November 2009. The papers cover a wide range of approaches to the issue of the afterlife, heaven and hell in Old and Middle English as well as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-04-25
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The articles collected in this volume offer the most various access to the discussed questions on norm and variation. In their entirety, they reflect the current discussion of the topic. Focusing on the object languages German and English ensures a high level of topical...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-04-25
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This book assembles the contributions of the Eighth European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL VIII) which took place from 2nd to 5th December 2009 at the University of Potsdam. The concern was to bring together excellent experienced but also...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-04-25
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In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Louis de Bernières. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Louis de Bernières, relating specifically to the texts under discussion.This guide...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-04-24
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Even though metadiscourse has recently received considerable attention, most research revolves around written, not spoken, metadiscourse. This book studies spoken metadiscourse in two academic genres in the engineering field, the lecture and the peer seminar. It...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-04-20
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