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The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus to explore the contributions of artists from regions like Spain, the Balkans, China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and Nigeria. Together, these essays offer the most...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-12-02
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When we think of breaking images, we assume that it happens somewhere else. We also tend to think of iconoclasts as barbaric. Iconoclasts are people like the Taliban, who blew up Buddhist statues in 2001. We tend, that is, to look with horror on iconoclasm.
This book...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-11-30
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When we think of breaking images, we assume that it happens somewhere else. We also tend to think of iconoclasts as barbaric. Iconoclasts are people like the Taliban, who blew up Buddhist statues in 2001. We tend, that is, to look with horror on iconoclasm.
This book...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-11-30
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In the Middle Ages Ireland's extensive and now famous literature was unknown outside the Gaelic-speaking world of Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man - with Wales an important exception. Irish emigrants had settled in Wales from the fifth century onwards, Irish...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-11-25
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Charlotte Brontë’s Atypical Typology tracesCharlotte Brontë’s reinscription of the Bible through her four novels, paying special attention to her use of three strategies: gender reversal; the undermining of traditional notions of God’s providential control of human...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-11-23
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Die Studie untersucht musikalische Thematisierungen und strukturelle Affinitäten in zeitgenössischen englischen und amerikanischen Bildungsromanen. Im Gegensatz zu bisher vorliegenden Arbeiten zielt sie auf eine gattungsspezifische Perspektive.Die Autorin untersucht,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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The linguistic domains of business and commerce are especially affected by the economic and communicative globalization. Since language use in these domains has an impact on the use of a language in other domains, the future development of the European languages will...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-23
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Storytelling and remembering rely on similar practices: they both arrange images in an ordered structure. A story is initially memorised by the author in a mental structure which is transferred to the page via the author’s choice of location, organisation and imagery....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-23
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Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer are writers renowned for crafting narratives of great technical skill that resonate with potent truths on the colonial condition. Yet given the generational and geographical boundaries that separated them, they are...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-11-23
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THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE HANDBOOK “Never a dull read, Marshall Grossman’s elegant volume bristles with sharp ideas to inform, stimulate and challenge his audience.” Thomas Corns, Bangor University The seventeenth century was a dramatic period in British...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-11-18
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Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
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Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman. No one else had the ability to see it whole; no one else knew so many of its politicians, poets, and philosophers. By interpreting it for his contemporaries, he speaks to us of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-11-11
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Passion's Triumph over Reason presents a comprehensive survey of ideas of emotion, appetite, and self-control in English literature and moral thought of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In a narrative which draws on tragedy, epic poetry, and moral philosophy,...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-11-11
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Dieser Sammelband analysiert die wesentlichen und prägnanten Punkte der praktischen Übersetzungslehre. Aus den zahlreichen für die Adäquatheit und die Richtigkeit der Übersetzungs- und Dolmetschleistungen relevanten Aspekten wurden zwei Teilbereiche ausgewählt: die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-05
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The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based in the British Isles from the return of the British monarchy in 1660 until the French Revolution of 1789. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-10-28
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Writing After Sidney examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), author of the Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella, and The Defence of Poesy, and the most immediately influential writer of the Elizabethan period. It does so by looking closely both at Sidney...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-10-14
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Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-10-07
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Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-10-07
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This volume reflects the latest work of scholars specialising in the linguistic and legal aspects of normative texts across languages (English, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish) and law systems. Like other domains of specialised language use, legal discourse is subject...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-10-06
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Nicht nur in den Medien, auch in der Literatur ist eine Tendenz zu beobachten, Grausamkeiten in immer schonungsloserer Direktheit und Detailliertheit darzustellen. Die Romane des südafrikanischen Nobelpreisträgers J. M. Coetzee widersetzen sich dieser Tendenz, indem sie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-10-05
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Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, zu untersuchen, inwieweit das Kurzprosawerk Willa Cathers den literaturhistorischen Entwicklungstendenzen von der traditionellen Form des diegetisch-fiktionalen (auktorialen) Erzählens hin zum mimetisch-fiktionalen, figurenorientierten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-10-05
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