Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. Represents the first overview of...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2015-07-21
Collection : Ancient Cultures
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Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. Represents the first overview of...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2015-07-21
Collection : Ancient Cultures
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Die neue Ausgabe umfasst den Kommentar des Philippus Beroaldus zum ersten Buch der Elegien des Properz, der im Jahr 1487 in Bologna erschien. Damit begründet der Humanist die Tradition der Kommentierung literarischer Gesamtwerke, welche die Entfaltung der neuzeitlichen...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2015-07-20

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This book is also available as a set, together with Volume I.Please visit www.peterlang.com/view/product/84550Patterns of Patronage in Renaissance Rome is the first full-length study of the life and works of Francesco Sperulo of Camerino (1463–1531). In a remarkable...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2015-07-20

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Since the late 1990s unreliable narration has garnered popularity in narrative theory and has sparked a lively debate among scholars. This book traces the theoretical discussions surrounding narrative unreliability and examines the relationship of unreliable narration...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2015-07-20

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Adapting Shahrazad’s Odyssey: The Female Wanderer and Storyteller in Victorian and Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature focuses on a comparative study of the figure of the female traveler and storyteller in nineteenth-century Victorian literature and contemporary...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2015-07-20

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The Hour That Breaks is the first biography of Gottfried Benn to appear in English.The author of this study charts in impressive detail the complex paths of Benn’s life, through the demands of his medical practice and military involvement in two world wars, his brief...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2015-07-20

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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2015-07-16

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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2015-07-16

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How did nineteenth-century women's poetry shift from the poetess poetry of lyric effusion and hyper-femininity to the muscular epic of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh? Networking the Nation re-writes women's poetic traditions by demonstrating the debt that...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2015-07-16

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This Festschrift in honor of Dennis F. Mahoney’s sixty-fifth birthday is somewhat different from the standard Festschrift: rather than present essays from various authors, this Festschrift collects twenty-one of Mahoney’s most important English-language publications on...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2015-07-14

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Translation encompasses the whole of humanness, and, as indicated by C. S. Peirce, translation is interpretation. It involves the cognitive process in its entirety, which is based on the unconscious life force shared globally through the species. Synonymous with...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2015-07-14

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Bills of Mortality: Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times explores the dynamic between the fact of plague and the constructs of destiny deadly disease generates in literary texts ranging from Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2015-07-14

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In the mid-sixteenth century, Copernicus asserted that the Earth was not the center of the universe as was generally believed, but that the sun lay there instead. The relegation of the Earth to the rank of an orbiting planet meant that humankind lost its privileged...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2015-07-14

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This new anthology brings together the most diverse and recent voices in postcolonial theory to emerge since 9/11, alongside classic texts in established areas of postcolonial studies. Brings fresh insight and renewed political energy to established domains such as...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2015-07-13

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In this comprehensive study, Williamson traces the literary history of the fantasy genre from the eighteenth century to its coalescence following the success of Tolkien's work in the 1960s. While some studies have engaged with related material, there has been no...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-07-09

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The Renaissance Extended Mind explores the parallels and contrasts between current philosophical notions of the mind as extended across brain, body and world, and analogous notions in literary, philosophical, and scientific texts circulating between the fifteenth...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-07-08

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This monograph is based on archival research and close readings of James Joyce's and W. B. Yeats's poetics and political aesthetics. Georges Sorel's theory of social myth is used as a starting point for exploring the ways in which the experience of art can be seen as a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-07-06

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Modernist Melancholia explores modernism's melancholic roots through the detailed discussion of writings by Freud, Conrad and Ford. Melancholia ties modernism to the 19th-century obsession with loss and continuity and, at the same time, constitutes a formative moment in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-07-02

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Die Autorin befasst sich mit den rechtssprachlichen Kollokationen in Zivilgesetzbüchern, welche in Polen nach der Wiedererlangung der Unabhängigkeit in Geltung blieben, bevor sie einem einheitlichen polnischen Recht den Platz räumten.Die entsprechenden Gesetzestexte...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2015-06-30

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