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The book collects scholarly essays in the fields of English and French maritime terminology and sea literature. It focuses on the linguistic, literary and cultural exploration of the sea, considering new directions for research in the vast domain of «thalassology»....
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-20
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By combining the techniques of textual criticism and the insights of close reading, Generous Mistakes offers new perspectives not only on two of Henry James's major novels (The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors) but also on the process by which they became the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-16
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By combining the techniques of textual criticism and the insights of close reading, Generous Mistakes offers new perspectives not only on two of Henry James's major novels (The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors) but also on the process by which they became the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-16
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Women have often chosen to tell their secrets, confide their dreams and express their deepest and most intimate thoughts in diaries, letters and other forms of life-writing. Although it is well established as a genre in the Anglophone and Francophone traditions, there...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-15
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Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory presents the latest research fromIrish studies scholars across a variety of disciplines, including history, literature, theatre, photography and folklore, and generates new and challenging insights into the dynamics of cultural...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-15
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Diese Studie untersucht systematisch die politische Dimension der Dramen von Thomas Bernhard und Peter Handke. Obgleich beide Autoren als Provokateure und Skandal-Inszenatoren gelten, deren öffentliche Auftritte wie Werke heftige Debatten auslösten, fehlt bisher eine...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-13
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Dieses Buch analysiert die Modelle der biblischen Gestalten in der Prosa von Georg Trakl. Für Trakl gilt die Bibel nicht nur als eine große Inspirationsquelle. Sie ist auch als ein ständiger Bezugspunkt zu betrachten, der ihn seine eigene Position in der Welt bestimmen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-08
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From our homes to our houses of government, from our schoolyards to our stadia, from our galleries to our gable walls, folklore is not only preserved but continues to be reimagined in all aspects of everyday life in Ireland. In the twenty-first century, the traditions...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-07
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Shape shifters, purveyors of chaos, rules’ breakers, crude creatures and absurd figures, tricksters can be traced as recurrently transgressive figures that do not wither away with time. Tricksters rove and ramble in the pages of literature; the canon is replete with...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-07
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Joseph Conrad ingeniously buried images from Polish literature and culture into his works. Once recognized, these references alter the accepted meanings of the texts. In an interview that was published in Kuryer Polski (in the then Polish city of Ostrawa, now in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-01-31
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Im Mittelpunkt dieser Studie steht die Analyse von Identitätskonstruktionen und transkulturellen Narrativen in ausgewählten Werken von G. Kuruvilla, I. Scego, L. Wadia und S. Abdel Qader. Der kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Zugang dient dem zentralen Anliegen,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-31
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This volume examines the relationship between poetic language and place in the work of Paul Muldoon. Through a close reading of the formal and stylistic aspects of his poems, the book explores the question of how poetry as an art form can be engaged to map the complex...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-01-16
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Wie soll die Erinnerung an den Holocaust zukünftig gestaltet werden? Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Frage untersucht die Autorin Wissen und Identität in den Werken Wiesels und Styrons. Sie entwirft ein Analysemodell, das verschiedene Formen des Wissens sowie Ebenen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-09
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For the scholarly reader it is a truism that trade, in its widest sense (exchange, interchange, deal) is the basis of human society, it is part of the human interaction which is the very texture of society. The French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss demonstrated in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-16
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The essays collected in this book examine different aspects of change in literature and culture of the Anglophone world.The contributors analyse literary theory as well as individual literary works ranging from John Dryden’s poetry, through the 18th-century English...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-15
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The volume is uniquely located at the interdisciplinary crossroads of Performance Studies and transnational American Studies. As both a method and an object of study, performance deepens our understanding of transnational phenomena and America’s position in the world....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-13
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In this book, the author presents that although various Old Romance grammars can be traced back to the common Latin ancestor, the functional domain of reciprocity shows divergent paths of development.In this regard, each of the languages have worked up their unique...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-07
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Seit Jahrhunderten zählt Catull zu den besonders häufig rezipierten antiken Dichtern. Dieses Buch zeigt, dass lateinische Autoren auch im 20. Jahrhundert auf seine Carmina anspielen. Die Autorin skizziert einen Überblick über die Rezeption Catulls seit der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-05
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Das Konzept des «Spatial Turn», in den 1980er Jahren durch Edward Soja geprägt, drückt das neue Bewusstsein aus, dass der Raum jeder Produktion von Wissen vorausgesetzt ist. Der vorliegende Sammelband knüpft an diese Bewegung von Wiederentdeckung und Aufwertung des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-01
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We've all encountered protagonists who, over the course of a novel, turn out to be more complicated than we thought at first. But what does one do with a major character who simplifies as a novel progresses, to the point where even this novel's other characters begin to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-25
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