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This volume looks at a key component of recent US foreign relations, namely, its emphasis on «hearts and minds» as part of its cultural management of the global Other. The authors collected here analyze to what extent we can frame the intent and consequences of this...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-08-31
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The concept of bilingualism has been analyzed for a very long time. Its definitions range from native-like competence in two languages to a minimal proficiency in a second language. Hence one might question why no consensus has been reached in this matter.The authors of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-08-31
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Pablo Baler studies the ruptures and continuities linking the de-centered dynamics of the 17thcentury to the logic of instability that permeates 20th century visual and literary production in Latin America. Bringing philosophy, literary interpretation, art...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2016-08-31
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Studies collected in this volume investigate selected issues in contemporary philosophy of language and philosophy of literature. Individual authors concentrate on philosophy of fiction and discuss fictional worlds and fictional characters. They also present different...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-08-31
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This book is a radical re-appraisal of the poetry of Ted Hughes, placing him in the context of continental theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek to address the traumas of his work. As an undergraduate, Hughes was visited in his sleep by a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-31
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This book gathers together an array of international scholars, critics, and artists concerned with the issue of walking as a theme in modern literature, philosophy, and the arts. Covering a wide array of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction writers and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-31
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Wichtiger Baustein zur deutschen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. In repräsentativer Auswahl werden die zentralen Werke aus allen Gattungen und Genres der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur der SBZ/DDR vorgestellt. Mit ausführlicher Bibliografie erschließt der Band den aktuellen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2016-08-31
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Das "Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur" stellt über 1000 Autorinnen und Autoren aus aller Welt vor. In drei Bänden präsentiert es international bekannte "Klassiker" von der Antike bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart. Die in einem eingängigen, essayistischen Stil verfassten...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-08-30
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240 Manifeste und Proklamationen der europäischen Avantgarde. Das Buch dokumentiert damit die internationale Breite der Avantgardebewegung, beginnend mit Marinettis erstem futuristischen Manifest 1909, endend am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs mit dem mexikanischen...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-08-30
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Der 54. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs enthält neben Untersuchungen zu Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen , Heines jüdischem Selbstverständnis und anderen Forschungsbeiträgen zu Werk und Wirkung des Dichters die Ansprachen zur Verleihung des Heine-Preises 2014 an Alexander...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2016-08-30
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Heines Beziehung zu Mathilde, der "Mouche" oder Rahel von Varnhagen sind vielfach literaturwissenschaftlich untersucht worden. Dass Heine die beginnende Frauenemanzipation aufmerksam verfolgt und immer wieder thematisiert hat, ist weniger bekannt. In dieser Arbeit...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-08-30
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In 1888 the name Jack the Ripper entered public consciousness with the brutal murders of women in the East End of London. The murderer was never caught, yet film and television depicts a killer with a recognisable costume, motive and persona. This book examines the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-29
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Das "Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur" stellt über 1000 Autorinnen und Autoren aus aller Welt vor. In drei Bänden präsentiert es international bekannte "Klassiker" von der Antike bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart. Die in einem eingängigen, essayistischen Stil verfassten...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2016-08-25
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In the past few years, discussion of fiction in all sorts of media has intensified. The prominence of literary critics has increased, the awarding of lucrative book prizes has become more publicized, and reports of the formation of reading groups have proliferated....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
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2016-08-25
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Milton criticism often treats the poet as if he were the last of the Renaissance poets or a visionary prophet who remained misunderstood until he was read by the Romantics. At the same time, literary histories of the period often invoke a Long Eighteenth Century that...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-25
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In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction. Shakespeare | Cut considers contemporary practices of cutting up Shakespeare in stage productions, videogames, book sculptures, and YouTube postings, but it also takes the long view of...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-25
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This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. How did people in the seventeenth century rationalise and record illness? Observing that medical explanations for illness were fewer than may be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-24
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Combining close readings of literature and theory, Sex, Time, and Space in Contemporary Fiction opens up new ways to consider the sex-time-space nexus. In an exciting and compelling contribution to contemporary literary studies, this book takes the concept of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-24
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This book examines melodramatic impulses in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga, as well as the series' film adaptations and fan-authored texts. Attention to conventions such as crying, victimization, and happy endings in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-24
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In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including artefacts from India and China, West Africa and Polynesia. A series of authoritative essays...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-24
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