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This book argues that the Anglophone novel in the twentieth century is, in fact, always multilingual. Rooting its analysis in modern Europe and the Caribbean, it recognises that monolingualism, not multilingualism, is a historical and global rarity, and argues that this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-17
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Removing an organ from one (typically dead) body and placing it in another living body challenges our most foundational ideas about boundaries between self and other, individual and social identity, life and death, health and illness. But despite these transgressions,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-17
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Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) was often hailed as one of the most important – and one of the most difficult – poets of his lifetime. This book is a timely investigation into a writer whose work seems simultaneously to invite analysis and to refuse explanations of its...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-04-15
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Seit Benno von Wieses Werkmonographie und Harry Mayncs Biographie Immermanns sind fast 50 beziehungsweise 100 Jahre vergangen, so daß eine neue Biographie, deren Fehlen Friedrich Sengle schon 1971 monierte, dringend notwendig erscheint. Durch die Veröffentlichung der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-04-15
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Seit wenigen Jahren befassen sich Deutschunterricht und Deutschdidaktik verstärkt mit SchülerInnen, die Migration erlebt haben oder deren Familien eine Migrationsgeschichte besitzen. Welche Rolle spielt der «Migrationshintergrund» in Bildungsprozessen, welche Phänomene...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-04-15
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The author analyzes the multi-layered and multidimensional theme of identity construction recurring in Tony Harrison’s work from the seventies onwards looking at the way it evolved throughout the years.The book examines identity in the frame of the sociological and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-04-15
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Thema dieses Buchs sind die öffentlichen Diskurse um den Holocaust, die einen integralen Bestandteil der Vergangenheitsbewältigung in der Bundesrepublik seit den 1960er Jahren darstellen. Viele Konflikte, Brüche und Diskontinuitäten kennzeichnen diesen Zeitraum und auch...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-04-11
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Diese Studie ist im Bereich der Lehrerforschung im spezifischen Teilbereich der germanistischen Literaturdidaktik zu verorten. Dabei nimmt die Autorin tieferliegende Strukturen in den Blick, die Überzeugungen und Unterrichtshandeln von Lehrpersonen – zumindest teilweise...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-04-11
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This book focuses on the role that the Oxford classical curriculum has had in shaping Oscar Wilde’s aestheticism. It positions Wilde as a classically trained intellectual and outlines the path he took to gain recognition as a writer and promoter of the aesthetic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-06
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Red Britain sets out a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of mid-century Britain by drawing attention to the extent, diversity, and longevity of the cultural effects of the Russian Revolution. Drawing on new archival research and historical scholarship,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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Red Britain sets out a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of mid-century Britain by drawing attention to the extent, diversity, and longevity of the cultural effects of the Russian Revolution. Drawing on new archival research and historical scholarship,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea of persuasive rhetoric (which assumes a speaker's control of calculated effects) and the modern idea of literary autonomy (which assumes...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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No figure has had a more global impact than Alexander the Great, whose legends have encircled the globe and been translated into a dizzying multitude of languages, from Indo-European and Semitic to Turkic and Austronesian. Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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Linguistic Turns rewrites the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century Europe. In chapters that study the work of Saussure, Russell, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Cassirer, Shklovskii, the Russian Futurists, Ogden and Richards, Sorel, Gramsci, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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Linguistic Turns rewrites the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century Europe. In chapters that study the work of Saussure, Russell, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Cassirer, Shklovskii, the Russian Futurists, Ogden and Richards, Sorel, Gramsci, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-04-04
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More Time studies the contemporary short story and focuses on four recent collections: Alice Munro's Dear Life (2012); Andre Dubus's Dancing After Hours (1996); Joy Williams's The Visiting Privilege (2015); and Lydia Davis's Can't and Won't (2014). Each publication has...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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No figure has had a more global impact than Alexander the Great, whose legends have encircled the globe and been translated into a dizzying multitude of languages, from Indo-European and Semitic to Turkic and Austronesian. Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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Declamation - the practice of training young men to speak in public by setting them to compose and deliver speeches on fictional legal cases - was central to the Greek and Roman educational systems over many centuries and has been the subject of a recent explosion of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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Declamation - the practice of training young men to speak in public by setting them to compose and deliver speeches on fictional legal cases - was central to the Greek and Roman educational systems over many centuries and has been the subject of a recent explosion of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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This book explores the salient ethical idea of personhood in African philosophy. It is a philosophical exposition that pursues the ethical and political consequences of the normative idea of personhood as a robust or even foundational ethical category. Personhood refers...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-02
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