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The purpose of this book is to present to scholars, students and enthusiasts in the fields of literature and linguistics a way to study a text analytically. Reading is multi-faceted and shaped by contexts, participants, and technologies.The ways of reading tackled most...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-31
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Tobias Budke befasst sich mit Büchern als Geschenken vor dem Hintergrund der englischen Reformation. Deren stürmische Entwicklungen und oft unvorhersehbare Wendungen schlugen sich in faszinierender Weise in den Buchgeschenken der Zeit nieder. Heinrich VIII., Edward...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-31
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Exploring literary fascination as a key concept of aesthetic attraction, this book illuminates the ways in which literary texts are designed, presented, and received. Detailed case studies include texts by William Shakespeare, S.T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-30
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In the wake of the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the displacement of exile, there is a unique story that is told about the remnant left behind after the invasion. The narrative of Jeremiah 40--44 unfolds the challenges and crises of this community who remain...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-07-30
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In the wake of the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the displacement of exile, there is a unique story that is told about the remnant left behind after the invasion. The narrative of Jeremiah 40--44 unfolds the challenges and crises of this community who remain...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-07-30
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Terence and the Verb 'To Be' in Latin is the first in-depth study of the verb 'to be' in Latin (esse) and some of its hidden properties. Like the English 'be' (e.g. it's), the Latin forms of esse could undergo phonetic reduction or contraction. This phenomenon is...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-07-30
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Kabir was a great iconoclastic-mystic poet of fifteenth-century North India; his poems were composed orally, written down by others in manuscripts and books, and transmitted through song. Scholars and translators usually attend to written collections, but these present...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-07-30
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The first-of-its-kind, Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. Chapters span from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover England, France, Denmark, Poland, and Spain, re-examining...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-29
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Incorporating over a century of archaeological research, Greaves offers a reassessment of Archaic Ionia that attempts to understand the region within its larger Mediterranean context and provides a thematic overview of its cities and people. Seeks to balance the Greek...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-07-29
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The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their beginnings to the twentieth century Tells the story of how the idea of Anglo-Saxon England evolved from the Anglo-Saxons...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2015-07-29
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This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-28
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Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity examines the impact that sexual fantasies about the classical world have had on modern Western culture. Offers a wealth of information on sex in the Greek and Roman world Correlates the study of classical sexuality with...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-07-28
Collection :
Classical Receptions
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Histories of the Turks were a central means through which English authors engaged in intellectual and cultural terms with the Ottoman Empire, its advance into Europe following the capture of Constantinople (1454), and its continuing central European power up to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-24
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Dinge bewegen die Welt frühneuzeitlicher Prosaromane. Sie werden getauscht, verschenkt, gehen verloren und werden gefunden. In der Melusine wird eine tafel mit der ganzen Familiengeschichte gefunden, Fortuna schenkt Fortunatus im gleichnamigen Roman einen glücksseckel,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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Der Sammelband verbindet die seit Jahrzehnten konzeptionell und teilweise auch institutionell getrennten Bereiche des Fachs Germanistik: Sprachwissenschaft und Literaturwissenschaft. In 17 Beiträgen werden unterschiedliche thematische Bereiche, Fragestellungen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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As well as a highly respected poet and editor, Mick Imlah (1956–2009) was one of the finest literary critics of his generation. He spent most of his twenty-five-year career working for the Times Literary Supplement, reinterpreting familiar writers from Tennyson and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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William Morris’s last romances are strikingly original stories written in his final years, but they remain relatively neglected in both Morris studies and nineteenth-century literary studies. This book provides a full-length critical account of these works and their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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This volume covers a wide range of topics that fall under the 'philosophy of quantifiers', a philosophy that spans across multiple areas such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology and even the history of philosophy. It discusses the import of quantifier variance in the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-23
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In this volume, scholars from a wide range of fields within the humanities explore the links between space and place and their relation to cultural expression. This collection shows that a focus on the spatial can help elucidate important facets of symbolic expression...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-22
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The central concern of the book is the impact of global terror networks and state counterterrorism on twentieth-century fiction. A unique contribution of this book is the comparative approach, as opposed to the single author focus of most of the edited collections on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-21
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