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Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory argues that the train is a loaded trope for reconfiguring narrative theories past their “spatial turn.” Atsuko Sakaki’s method exploits intensive and rigorous close reading of literary and cinematic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-11-01
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This book encompasses a number of original studies on diversity in cognition.This topic is examined from a wide range of perspectives, including psycholinguistics, linguistic relativity, applied linguistics as well as second language and bilingualism research. The...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-11-01
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What does Ireland's nature poetry say about us as a people? How does it speak to us of our past, our inheritance, the values to which we aspire?What clues lie within its language that connect us to our deeper selves and our place within our communities and...
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Hachette Books Ireland
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2023-11-01
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Dissident Authorship in Mozambique: the Case of António Quadros is the first monograph on the literary works of the pennames of Portuguese poet and painter António Quadros (1933-1994). The book uses Quadros's quirky case-- a Portuguese man who lived in colonial and...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-11-01
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Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conclusions about medieval history and the way we do and understand history in general. Paul Dutton provides an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-30
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Band 89 des Wiener Slawistischen Almanachs enthält vor allem zwei thematische Blöcke, die sowohl slawische Kulturen selbst als auch ihre Rezeption auf einer Metaebene umfassen. Zum einen sind dies mehrsprachige Materialien der Tagung «Periodicals in the Slavic World....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-30
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Empathie ist eine wichtige Fähigkeit zur Übernahme fremder Sichtweisen. Sie spielt nicht nur im alltäglichen Umgang mit Mitmenschen, sondern auch bei der Filmrezeption eine große Rolle. Basierend auf verschiedenen Empathiekonzepten philosophischer, psychologischer und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-30
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Außenseiterfiguren sind in der Filmgeschichte omnipräsent, das gilt besonders für die Geschichte des Jugendfilms. Die Forschung hat sich mit diesem Phänomen bislang allerdings nur am Rande beschäftigt. Diese Lücke schließt das vorliegende Buch: Es arbeitet zunächst...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-30
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Playing Shakespeare’s Beautiful People is an in-depth, comprehensive look at the concepts and standards of "beauty" found in Shakespeare’s plays and poems, both in staged performances and in critical literary analyses. Issues as challenging as race, gender, sex, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-10-30
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Throughout the history of human civilization, the definition of the animal and its relationship to humans have been contentious issues. This book investigates the notion of what constituted an animal in Early Medieval English culture as well as how the animal-human...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-30
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This book examines the literature of African-American author Richard Wright and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, arguing that Wright was not only the foremost proponent of minoritarian protest literature, but also a groundbreaking minoritarian exponent of philosophical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-27
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Narrative sind immer schon Grundbestand der menschlichen, kulturellen, sozialen und gesellschaftlichen Verständigungshorizonte. Der Band Erzählhorizonte widmet sich der Auseinandersetzung mit möglichen Formen einer narrativen Ethik, indem aus inter- und...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-10-27
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This book includes the history of Chinese literature before 1949. It firstly outlines the development process of Chinese literature and basic features and then discusses them according to the literary genre, for the literature of each era.This book gathers established...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-26
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Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism is the first book-length study of animals in Canadian literature. Using a historical approach, it offers a much-needed alternative to existing models of animals as symbols of Canadian...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-25
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Augustan love elegy represents one of the most important and most distinctive Roman contributions to European and world literature. This volume presents the first detailed commentary in any language on Ovid's Amores Book 3, the last collection of love poems composed in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-25
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Dublin is one of the world's great literary cities, immortalized in works by some of the most celebrated international authors. It is a city of warmth and character, which combines the richest of histories with a vibrant contemporary edge, and which welcomes millions of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-24
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The history of the modern riot parallels the development of the modern novel and the modern lyric. Yet there has been no sustained attempt to trace or theorize the various ways writers over time and in different contexts have shaped cultural perceptions of the riot as a...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-10-24
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as a mark of cultural sophistication since this time. ThisVery Short Introduction examines how Horace's poetry has exerted enormous...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-24
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This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a range of different nonfiction forms – including the personal essay and memoir – and ethical questions that arise in relation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-23
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The Testing of Barbara Pym, a companion volume to The Making of Barbara Pym (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), completes a comprehensive analysis of Pym’s novels and her life, focusing on her complex view of the necessity of change at both the individual and cultural...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-23
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