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'The man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul' John DrydenAntonio, a Venetian merchant, wishes to help his friend get money to impress a rich heiress. But he is forced to borrow the sum from a cynical, abused Jewish...
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Penguin
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2015-04-30
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This study explores various intersections between the traditional utopian discourse and such media as music, comic books, TV series, feature films, documentaries, fan fiction, computer games and web projects, bringing to focus the transformative role of the media used...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-04-20
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'It's a dreadful thing to yield...but resist now?Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin?That's dreadful too.'The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics...
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Penguin
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2015-03-19
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Der Theatralität Venedigs in der Literatur auf den Grund zu gehen, stellt das Ziel dieser Untersuchung dar. Dabei betrachtet die Autorin zuerst die theatrale Disposition der Lagunenstadt aus historischer Perspektive und geht anschließend auf das Phänomen der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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Learn the entire works of one of the greatest writers of the English language in The Shakespeare Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format.Learn about the works of William Shakespeare...
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Dk
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2015-03-02
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Dieses Buch beleuchtet Manifestationen des Topos «Heimat» in Romanen, Spiel- und Dokumentarfilmen aus den ersten zwei Jahrzehnten der DDR. Heimat bzw. Heimatsuche wird als kulturanthropologisches Konzept eingeführt, welches sich als ein individuelles, menschliches...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-02
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Das Buch hat überhaupt keine Sprache! Mit diesem Urteil einer prominenten Kritikerin lassen sich viele Rezensionen überschreiben: Literatur- und Theaterkritiker enthalten sich oft einer Bewertung der Sprache – das gilt für berühmte Kritiker aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, wie...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-25
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Ibsen's greatest late plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. This volume includes The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken -Ibsen's last four plays, written in his old age in Oslo. In The Master...
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Penguin
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2014-10-02
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Why was the Bard of Avon so frequently on the agenda of avant-garde writers in Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Germany and Ireland? This volume explores the rich and diverse landscape of Shakespearean encounters in the tormented aesthetics of pre- and post-World War I...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-18
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These four plays, written during the reigns of James I and Charles I, took revenge tragedy in dark and ambiguous new directions. In The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil, John Webster explores the role of women and the problems of power, sex and corruption in the...
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Penguin
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2014-08-07
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Modern German Plays: An Advanced German Textbook utilizes some of the most famous modern plays written in German as vehicles to teach German language, literature, and culture. The featured works are The Three-Penny Opera, The Devil’s General, Caucasian Chalk Circle, The...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-06-01
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'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his...
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Penguin
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2014-04-24
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Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his...
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Penguin
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2014-04-24
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These three dramatic works by Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are haunted by a sense of isolation and regret. 'Suddenly Last Summer' is the starkly told story of Catherine, who seemingly goes insane after her cousin Sebastian dies in...
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Penguin
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2014-04-24
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The greatest playwright of the American South, Tennessee Williams used his talent throughout his life to create brief plays exploring many of the themes that dominated his best-known works. Here, thirteen never-before-published one-act dramas reveal some of his most...
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Penguin
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2014-04-24
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Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against personal demons and the modern world. In 'Sweet Bird of Youth', a drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town with an ageing...
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Penguin
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2014-04-24
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In these three exotic, steamy dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs.The Rose Tattoo is set in a bustling, Sicilian-American community, where newly widowed Serafina is paralysed by grief, until she has her romantic illusions...
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Penguin
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2014-04-24
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Machiavelli entwirft die Figur des modernen Herrschers im Spannungsverhältnis von Macht und Schein. Nichts sein – alles scheinen wird zur Bedingung für Erwerb und Erhalt von Macht. Dabei ist Machiavellis Entdeckung und Nutzung der Perspektive für das Wesen des...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-01
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Der zweite Band zum Kolloquium «Gender-Kritik» versammelt die Redebeiträge dieser interdisziplinären Veranstaltungsreihe zur Geschlechterforschung an der Universität Leipzig aus den Jahren 2010 und 2011. Er vereinigt begriffstheoretische und ideologiekritische Aufsätze,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-26
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Das Nibelungenlied zählt zu den bekanntesten Texten des Mittelalters. Seine Bedeutung für die europäische Heldenepik spiegelt sich auch in den vielfältigen Adaptionen wider, die den Stoff bis heute in Erinnerung halten. Die Studie geht dieser andauernden Faszination...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-05
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