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J.R.R. Tolkien's novels of Middle-earth – The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Silmarillian – have become some of the most famous, and most beloved, literary works of the twentieth century. And the Lord of the Rings films by director Peter Jackson have...
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For Dummies
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2011-04-27
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Can an author’s preference for expressing modality be quantified and then used as a marker of attribution? This book explores the possibility of using the subjunctive mood as an indicator of style and a marker of authorship in Early Modern English texts. Using three...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2011-04-27
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John Berryman (1914-1972) was one of the most important American poets and men of letters of the twentieth century. A major preoccupation of his work was his life-long quest for religious truth, in particular, his critical investigations into the claims of his lost...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-04-27
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Postmodernes Kino – attraktiv und rätselhaft zugleich. Einige Zuschauer mögen es, andere fühlen sich verstört oder betrogen. In diesem Band wird ein Überblick gegeben, was wohl postmodernes Kino ist, wo es herkommt und warum es so schwer zu fassen ist. Dramaturgisch...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-04-13
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Treating sixteenth- and seventeenth-century erotic literature as part of English political history, Erotic Subjects traces some surprising implications of two early modern commonplaces: first, that love is the basis of political consent and obedience, and second, that...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-04-06
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A Short History of Early Modern England presents the historical and cultural information necessary for a richer understanding of English Renaissance literature. Written in a clear and accessible style for an undergraduate level audience Gives an overview of the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-03-21
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The Movement was the preeminent poetical grouping of post-war Britain. 'We shall have stamped our taste on the age between us in the end', boasted its most important poet, Philip Larkin, of his and Kingsley Amis's influence. That Larkin's boast proved well-founded even...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-03-10
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Ziel des primären Fremdsprachunterrichts ist es, die Offenheit gegenüber anderen Sprachen und Kulturen bei jüngeren Fremdsprachenlernern zu entwickeln sowie zur Erweiterung ihrer sprachlichen und kommunikativen Kompetenzen beizutragen, um sie zu selbstbewussten...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-07
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This book revisits Oscar Wilde’s major writings through the field of performance studies. Wilde wrote about performance as a cultural dialectic, as a form of serious and critical play, and as the basis of a subversive poetics. In his studies at Oxford University, his...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-07
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This volume includes a selection of the papers given during the international conference «Patagonia: Myths and Realities», which was organised through the Centre of Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester. The essays gathered in this collection...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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Recently, the issue of postnationalism has encouraged intense debate, which has been reflected in the publication of numerous books and articles in various fields of study, including politics, history, philosophy and anthropology. However, the work produced in Irish...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-07
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This anthology contributes to a scholarly understanding of the aesthetics and economics of female artistic labour in the Victorian period. It maps out the evolution of the Woman Question in a number of areas, including the status and suitability of artistic professions...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-07
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This book deals with the process of negotiation with the past in the present through the plays of Marina Carr. The title frames the work, connoting the path towards destruction and the sense of lethargy acquired along the way. The book offers an in-depth and extensive...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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This Festschrift for Professor Tadhg Foley of the National University of Ireland, Galway, who retired in 2009, gathers together international contributors in the fields of poetry, politics and academia to honour this great man’s life and work. Professor Foley has not...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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«In many ways», Robert J.C. Young writes, «colonization from the very first carried with it the seeds of its own destruction.» Imperial Affliction examines some ways in which Young’s observation could be applied to problems of subjectivity and influence within the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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To date, no text exists that focuses exclusively on the concept of postcolonial film as a framework for identifying films produced within and outside of various formerly colonized nations, nor is there a scholarly text that addresses pedagogical issues about and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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The central thesis of this book is that Philip Roth’s work is most accurately viewed as postmodernist American Historical Romance, rather than marginalized as Jewish-American. Four works are analyzed in relation to this thesis and to the specific idea that Roth’s...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2011-03-03
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Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and Television examines recent film and television transformations of William Shakespeare’s drama by focusing on the ways in which modern directors acknowledge and respond to the perceived authority of Shakespeare as author, text,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2011-03-03
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This collection of insightful and provocative essays explores the theme of sanctuaries of light in nineteenth-century European literature, especially in selected works by William Wordsworth, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Joseph von Eichendorff, and Charlotte Brontë. These...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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