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Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeared in the past, this volume is the first to be wholly dedicated to this perspective on his work. Comprising literary...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-19
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Dank der Brüder Grimm ist der Cunto de li cunti von Giambattista Basile nicht in Vergessenheit geraten. Der Band versucht, das neapolitanische Kunstwerk dem Rampenlicht des deutschen Märchens zu entziehen und seine davon unabhängige Identität wieder in den Fokus rücken....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-09-18
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Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism: Charmed Life discusses charm as both an emotional and aesthetic phenomenon. Beginning with the first appearance of literary charm in the Sirens episode of the Odyssey, Richard Beckman traces charm throughout canonical...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-09-16
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Literarische Werke im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert setzen häufig auf das Grundthema „Katastrophe", um durch verstörende apokalyptische Szenarien die im Überfluss schwelgenden westlichen Gesellschaften zu warnen. Viele Künstler verweisen auf die großen Desaster unserer Zeit...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-09-10
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Grounded Visionary: The Mystic Fictions of Gerald Murnane is a reading of Australian writer Gerald Murnane’s fiction in the light of what is known as the Perennial Philosophy, a philosophical tradition that positions itself as the mystical foundation of all the world’s...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-09-09
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This collection of essays is devoted to the Jewish themes that ran through Lion Feuchtwanger’s life, works and worlds. Beginning with a selection of Feuchtwanger’s unpublished writings, speeches, and interviews, the volume examines the author’s approaches to Jewish...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-09-06
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This book investigates the transmission of knowledge in the Arab and Islamic world, with particular attention to the translation of material from Greek, Persian, and Sanskrit into Arabic, and then from Arabic into Latin in medieval Western Europe. While most modern...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-06
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The general aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of metonymy, a phenomenon which still, despite the current upsurge in scholarly attention, remains puzzling in some respects.The theoretical framework of this book is provided by the school of...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-09-06
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Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES'This accessible illustrated guide is a great introduction to the story, its origins and its enduring legacy' BBC HISTORY- Which is more terrifying - a monster or its mother? - Why did Berserkers run naked into battle? - How was...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-09-05
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The Ladybird Expert Series
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Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES'Brought evocatively to life' HISTORY REVEALED- Was there really a Trojan War?- What makes a Homeric hero?- How did Odysseus defeat the Cyclops?IMMERSE yourself in the epic adventures of the Ancient Greek gods and heroes. Filled...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-09-05
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The Ladybird Expert Series
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This book examines the intersection of trauma and the Gothic in six contemporary British novels: Martin Amis’s London Fields, Margaret Drabble’s The Gates of Ivory, Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Pat Barker’s Regeneration and Double Vision, and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-05
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This book is a study of the concept of wilaya and its developments among Shi?i scholars from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Leila Chamankhah addresses a number of issues by delving into the conceptualizations of wilaya through the examination and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-03
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This book simultaneously examines the specific theoretical issues raised by Elizabeth Gaskell’s use of characterization in her shorter fiction, and addresses the larger question of how literary critics ought to use theory. The text gives a history of Judith Butler’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-08-31
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Klaus Mann (1906-1949) was a prolific author who engaged in constantly different fields, from journalism to novels, plays and autobiographies. An exile in the United States, he had to reinvent himself as an Anglophone author.
This publication sets out to present a new...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-30
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The essays included in this collection offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and visual art which reflect the current (post-)millennial fascination with theorizing ends and beginnings.The contributions intend to x-ray the most crucial aspects of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-30
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Die Existenz wortinterner Sprachwechsel wurde bisher in der Linguistik weitgehend verneint. Diese Einschätzung wurde dadurch begünstigt, dass zumeist europäische Sprachpaare betrachtet wurden. Fanta Christiane Heine analysiert in ihrem Buch wortinterne Sprachwechsel...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-08-29
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In the sixteenth century, a period of proliferating transatlantic travel and exploration, and, latterly, religious civil wars in France, the ship is freighted with political and religious, as well as poetic, significance; symbolism that reaches its height when...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-29
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In the sixteenth century, a period of proliferating transatlantic travel and exploration, and, latterly, religious civil wars in France, the ship is freighted with political and religious, as well as poetic, significance; symbolism that reaches its height when...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-29
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For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact order@peterlang.com (Retail Price: £100.00, $181.85).
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-08-26
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Inlays of Subjectivity is an incisive exposition of the theme of subjectivity and selfhood in modern Indian literature.
Scholarship in Indian literary studies tends to be divided along the lines of region, language, chronology, class, and caste. This book traverses and...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2019-08-24
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