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This collection of essays attempts to expand the notion of the «Black Atlantic» beyond its original racial, geographical, linguistic and cultural borders while acknowledging its remarkable ability to disturb established historical truths and to go beyond traditional...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-17
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This book approaches the empirical validation of a popular method of assessing lexical knowledge – the yes/no vocabulary test or lexical decision task – from an interdisciplinary perspective. Each of its chapters sets out a distinct phase of the research along the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-17
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Whatever happened to realism? What form is adequate to representing our moment, situated as we are after the end of ‘the end of History’? In the face of youth revolts and workers’ insurgencies from Cairo to London, it seems a good time to test the possibilities of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-10
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Zwischen 1980 und 2010 ist die spanische Kurzgeschichte endgültig aus dem Schatten des Romans herausgetreten. Die Gründe und Auswirkungen dieser Erfolgsgeschichte sind bisher kaum erforscht. Im ersten Teil der vorliegenden Untersuchung geht es um Gegenstandsfelder wie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-07
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This study challenges critical orthodoxy by showing that childhood became a focus of interest in British fiction well before the Romantic period. It also argues that children in the Victorian novel, far from being sentimental figures, are psychologically unique and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-06
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This book is a thorough introduction to the Inferno for today's reader. It is based on Professor Payton's many years of reading Dante's masterpiece with university undergraduates and upon the work of the very best modern critics. The Guide can be used alone as a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-06
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The novelist R. F. Delderfield’s trilogy of English life in the second half of the nineteenth century portrays the social history of Adam Swann and his family, energetic people of differing talents and tempers involved in a kaleidoscopic range of social engagements....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-02
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The three writers examined in Richard Arnold’s Trinity of Discord, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and William Cowper, are known as famous poets, but are also the greatest and most popularly compiled and used hymn-writers of all time. While masters of their kind, they were...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-02
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C. S. Lewis, fantasy novelist, literary scholar, and Christian apologist, is one of the most original and well-known literary figures of the twentieth century. As one who stood at the crossroads of Edwardian and modern thinking, he is often read as a sexist or even...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-02
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Harry Potter’s global triumph is without precedent. Economically it is the most successful children’s book ever published and at the same time it has become the most widely discussed text for young adults. Why is this so? What does the text offer to its readers?...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-02
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This study focuses on how Puritans in England and especially New England used the church fathers when reading the Bible and defending Congregationalism. The analysis of a variety of textual genres and largely unedited sources written between 1592 and 1728 shows that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-27
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Folklore provides a metaphor for insecurity in British women’s writing published between 1750 and 1880. When characters feel uneasy about separations between races, classes, or sexes, they speak of mermaids and «Cinderella» to make threatening women unreal and thus...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-07-26
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This book is a comparative study of the early works of Vladimir Nabokov and the fictions of Virginia Woolf. The aim of this study was to establish the applications and implications of involution: how it is used to subtly reformat a text and how it changes the meaning of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-26
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In the cultural debates of modernism the concepts of time and space were juxtaposed, representing disparate sensibilities, styles of art, even political camps. Artists and thinkers of the era took sides: with time, i.e. all that is fluid and transitory, or with space,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-25
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George Bernard Shaw is commonly regarded as one of the most controversial intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century. Known for the ambiguity of his statements and the seeming inconsistency of his views, there was, nevertheless, one idea to which the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-13
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Researching the Writing Center is the first book-length treatment of the research base for academic writing tutoring. The book reviews the current state of writing center scholarship, arguing that although they continue to value anecdotal and experiential evidence,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-07-12
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Magnificent Houses in Twentieth Century European Literature is a collection of great and imaginative essays that explore the theme of magnificent and aesthetically interesting houses in twentieth century European literature. It focuses especially on important works by...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-07-11
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Why do readers report being powerfully affected by great poetry? What happens to us when we read a poem? Literary criticism has struggled to answer these questions because it treats poems as material artifacts of one kind or another. But readers do not experience...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-07-11
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The book presents a text-based study of discourse practices in placement, a hybrid zone which re-contextualises academic knowledge and professional practices. Using Lave and Wenger’s Communities of Practice as the overarching theoretical framework, the study...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-09
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Seit den neunziger Jahren erfreuen sich bilinguale Lehr- und Lernprogramme immer größerer Beliebtheit. Vor allem englischsprachige Schulprofile wecken das Interesse von Eltern, Schülern und Bildungspolitikern. Die fachdidaktischen Implikationen dieser Entwicklungen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-04
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