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The Weird Sisters, from William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, are arguably the most famous trio of witches in English literature. Shakespeare’s Weird Sisters are a complex trinitarian mythological construction – a unique amalgamation of classical, folkloric, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-10-22
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This collection unites 21 papers mainly presented at the 21st IAUPE (International Association of University Professors of English) Conference held at the Valetta Campus of the University of Malta in mid-July 2010. Most periods of world-wide literature in English from...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-18
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Eyes deep with unfathomable histories is a quotation taken from the poem by Pauline Melville entitled «Homeland». This volume was inspired by two areas: the first one was the writings of Pauline Melville, a British novelist, a poet and actress with Wapisiana (South...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-17
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Die Spectators stellen sowohl auf spanischer wie auch auf internationaler Ebene ein reiches erzählerisches Potential dar, dessen Verflechtungen noch zu untersuchen sind. Dazu bedarf es einer kompakten Übersicht über die Erzählungen und Geschichten, welche in diesem Buch...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-10
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Since the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to J. M. G. Le Clézio in 2008, there has been a wave of new interest in his œuvre. This book traces the evolution of the writer’s postcolonial thought from his early works to his groundbreaking autobiographical novel...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-05
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Von ‘Anderswelt’ bis ‘Zombie’: Bücher und Filme aus dem Bereich von Fantasy und Fantastik gehören seit einigen Jahren insbesondere im Bereich der Literatur und Medien für Kinder und Jugendliche zu den populärsten und vielseitigsten Titeln. Vom Bilderbuch bis zum...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-05
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The restoration of the monarchy in 1660 has commonly been thought to represent a return to political stability and religious consensus following the tumultuous civil wars and the Commonwealth period. However, by analysing underground texts from 1660 to 1670, Stephen...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-10-04
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All who treasure great literature recognize the pivotal role played by a title. But, until now, at both the undergraduate and the graduate level, no book-length study has devoted detailed expert attention to the subject of academic paper titling. Helping Students to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-10-01
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Colum McCann is one of the most important Irish writers in contemporary literary fiction. His work has been critically acclaimed across the globe for its artistic achievement, its thematic range and its ethical force. This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-21
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This book explains how and why grammatical gender disappeared from English through a detailed analysis of unhistorical gender assignment within the noun phrase in Layamon’s Brut, one of the most important Early Middle English texts. Such deviations do occur capriciously...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-17
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This book proposes a novel analysis of Nominal Construction from the syntax-semantics interface. It is based on the newly developed framework of Radical Minimalism, and provides both a concise introduction to this formal model and the application of the theory to real...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-17
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This volume comprises 28 papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages in Graz (Austria) in July 2011. The conference was also held in memory of Michael Clyne – eminent linguist, scholar, language enthusiast and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-06
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How and why did a country seen as remote, backwards, and barely European become a pivotal site for reinventing the continent after the Great War? Modernism and the New Spain argues that the "Spanish problem"-the nation's historically troubled relationship with...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-09-05
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The difference between modernism and postmodernism has been object to constant revision from a variety of critical perspectives.The present collection of essays on women’s short fiction tackles anew this thorny distinction from the theoretical perspective sketched by...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-04
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Alessandro Tassonis heroisch-komisches Epos La secchia rapita (1622) scheint auf den ersten Blick recht einfach strukturiert zu sein: In zwölf Gesängen wird der Krieg zwischen den norditalienischen mittelalterlichen Städten Modena und Bologna um einen Holzeimer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-03
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This study attempts to make sense of a group of novels that deal in a symbolic way with contemporary forms of collective disaster (the prospect of nuclear war, the Holocaust, environmental destruction). It shows similarities among British, American, Canadian and other...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-29
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This volume introduces the reader to a powerful and rewarding territory: the Australian novel. Both drawing from and rebelling against the power of Europe. Australian writers asserted from the beginning that experience «down under» demands thorough observation and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-29
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While Emily Dickinson as a forerunner of modern American poetry has met with a good critical response, Christina Rossetti is still regarded as a minor Victorian poet. Despite all their biographical, religious and poetic differences the comparative approach is...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-29
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Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares rival Don Quijote in complexity and significance. This book analyzes all twelve novelas, seeking to illuminate the inherent tensions between the usually affirmative resolutions and lessons proposed byCervantes's narrators, on the one hand,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-29
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The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts. Provides an accessible and well-written introduction to the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-08-21
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
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