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Within the growing field of television studies, little work has yet been done on the Irish context. This volume aims to fill this gap by offering new and compelling studies of contemporary Irish TV series. Fictional TV series, which constitute an autonomous genre within...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-03
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This book offers a new, complex understanding of Indian writing in English by focusing its analysis on both Indo-Pakistani Partition fiction and novels written by women. The author gives a comprehensive outline of Partition novels in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-03
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The experience of colour underwent a significant change in the second half of the nineteenth century, as new coal tar-based synthetic dyes were devised for the expanding textile industry. These new, artificial colours were often despised in artistic circles who favoured...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-03
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The essays of this collection are, each in their own way, an attempt to address the centrality of emotions in literary and cultural production in a variety of genres, from medieval moralities to contemporary novels, from English Romanticism to film studies. Emotions are...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-03
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This volume grew out of the 36th International LAUD Symposium, which was held in March 2014 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. There is general consensus among language experts that slightly more than half of today’s 7,000 languages are under severe...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-27
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The authors of this volume discuss the tangible need for a revision of the vocabulary of emotion used in literary criticism and culture studies.The articles offer a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to emotional states such as love, shame, grief, nostalgia and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-27
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After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, terrorism as a literary theme has flourished in Australian literature. This book examines how terrorism as a theme has been represented in five exemplary novels and elaborates a distinctively Australian approach to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-20
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In the decades following the American Revolution, literary and cultural discourses, but also American collective and individual identification were shaped by transatlantic relations and inter-American exchanges and conflicts. The way Americans defined themselves as a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-20
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George Whitefield (1714-70) was one of the best known and most widely travelled evangelical revivalist in the eighteenth century. For a time in the middle decades of the eighteenth century, Whitefield was the most famous person on both sides of the Atlantic. An Anglican...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-13
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George Whitefield (1714-70) was one of the best known and most widely travelled evangelical revivalist in the eighteenth century. For a time in the middle decades of the eighteenth century, Whitefield was the most famous person on both sides of the Atlantic. An Anglican...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-12
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Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity investigates the significance of a new form of sexual identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Young women of the lower-middle and working classes were increasingly abandoning domestic...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-05
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Institutionalized through religious, moral and political discourses, the family has become an icon of Irish culture. Historically, the influence of the Church and the State fostered the ideal of a nuclear family based on principles of Catholic morality, patriarchal...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-29
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The title of this volume intentionally echoes that of a landmark issue of Textus on «Languaging» in and across Human Groups, edited by Giuseppina Cortese and Dell Hymes in 2001, since the notion of ‘languaging’ seems to capture most effectively the essence and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-29
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The military man has long been one of literature’s archetypal figures. Using a comparative framework, this book traces the transformation of the military man in eighteenth-century British and French literature as this figure moved from noble warrior to nationalised...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-29
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The author follows the interpretative pursuits of nineteenth-century readers and analyses Tennyson’sThe Princess through the prism of their critical ideas. She analyses Tennyson’s reconsideration of gender binaries and women’s rights as well as the poem’s reliance on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-22
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This book by David K. O’Rourke presents a study of language and linguistic forms and the roles they played in the initial imagining, developing, and maintaining of a society based on coerced labor. It focuses especially on the contexts of coercion and on the differences...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-19
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This book investigates how India was portrayed in British novels and short stories during the heyday of the British Raj. In the tradition of post-colonial studies such as Edward Said’s Orientalism, it will be considered in how far fiction by Rudyard Kipling and other...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-15
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Despite a modern tendency to describe medieval women as suppressed and marginalized, a critical reading of relevant texts by female poets/writers demonstrates that women all over Europe in the premodern era enjoyed considerable freedom to express themselves and to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-08
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Monika Kocot’s book on Edwin Morgan’s literary achievement, both poetry and drama, foregrounds the themes of cultural transgression, dialogism of the author’s creative design, and various, potentially subversive games of sense creation: «verbivocovisual» constellations,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-08
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This reading of George Herbert’s poetry takes advantage of contemporary philosophical reflection on the givenness of being and of language. The book presents George Herbert’s poetic sequence, The Temple, as the poet’s response to a call which originates in the Word made...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-08
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