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Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-22
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Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-22
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The book depicts the phenomenon of cultural memory preserved in the Polish Romantic literature, predominantly in the works of Mickiewicz, Slowacki, and Norwid (and other European poets).The primary objective is to reconstruct the cultural pattern of continuity...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-15
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Myth, Locality, and Identity argues that Pindar engages in a striking, innovative style of mythmaking that represents and shapes Sicilian identities in his epinician odes for Sicilian victors in the fifth century BCE. While Sicily has been thought to be lacking in local...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-15
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Die vorliegende Abhandlung stellt eine Analyse von ausgewählten Werken Arno Surminskis dar, wobei den Gegenstand der Erwägungen die deutsche Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts bildet, genau gesagt solche Themen wie Ostpreußen und dessen vermeintliche Idealisierung, der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-14
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The book is the first volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors.The impact of Norwid’s oeuvre does not fade, as he addresses fundamental and timeless issues, such as the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-08-14
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This book studies the complex relations between time and visual technologies in the oeuvre of Thomas Pynchon within the general framework of the culture and politics of time. It argues that notwithstanding a postmodern tendency towards the spatialization of experience,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-14
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El presente libro recoge trabajos punteros de investigación sobre traducción, adaptación y doble destinatario en LIJ. Se estudian géneros tan variados como el álbum ilustrado, la poesía o las historias en formato audiovisual. Sus autores proceden de países como...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-14
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Der Sammelband enthält Beiträge des XXV. JungslavistInnen-Treffens, das vom 13. bis 16. September 2016 am Seminar für Slavische Philologie der Universität Göttingen stattfand. In ihren Aufsätzen geben die AutorInnen Einblick in Themen und Ergebnisse ihrer aktuellen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-14
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Sebastian Lübcke untersucht philosophische und literarische Auseinandersetzungen mit der Erfüllung und dem ontologisch Absoluten vom 18. bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Dabei zeigt sich, dass Texte, die sich in der Neuzeit mit dem ‚Göttlichen‘ oder dem ‚ewigen Leben‘ befassen,...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-08-13
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Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-13
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Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-13
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Reading Cultural Representations of the Double Diaspora: Britain, East Africa, Gujarat is the first detailed study of the cultural life and representations of the prolific twice-displaced Gujarati East African diaspora in contemporary Britain. An exceptional community...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-08
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The celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expanded The revised and updated edition ofThe Companion to the History of the Book offers a global survey of the book’s history, through print and electronic text. Already well established...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-08-08
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Am 25. Juli 1936 beschloss Hitler an der Seite General Francos im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg zu intervenieren. Die geschichtsträchtige „Bayreuther Entscheidung" legte die Weichen für eine faschistische Diktatur in Spanien, die das Land über vierzig Jahre vom Rest Europas...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-08-08
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Shakespeare and Text is built on the research and experience of a leading expert onShakespeare editing and textual studies. The first edition has proved its value as an indispensable and unique guide to its topic. It takesShakespeare readers to the very foundation of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-07
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The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies surveys the materials, approaches, concepts, and applications of the field to provide a sweeping guide to American folklore and folklife, culture, history, and society. Forty-three comprehensive and diverse...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-06
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Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine’s Poet and the Other as the Beloved focuses on Palestinian national poetMahmoud Darwish (1941–2008), whose poetry has helped to shape Palestinian identity and foster Palestinian culture through many decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-08-05
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the life and philosophy of Ernst Bloch. Bloch has had a strange fate in the English-speaking world. He wrote his famous three-volume opus, The Principle of Hope, while living in exile in the United...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-03
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Shakespeare and Text is built on the research and experience of a leading expert onShakespeare editing and textual studies. The first edition has proved its value as an indispensable and unique guide to its topic. It takesShakespeare readers to the very foundation of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-02
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