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Ancient and modern Egypt feature in numerous fantastic stories by Victorian and Edwardian writers. This book explores how works of popular Egyptianising fantastic literature can be read as critical texts which comment on the Oriental mind-set of Europe, and especially...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-31
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This collection of essays demonstrates that using fiction, poetry, and drama in the classroom provides students with the best opportunity to learn about thinking, writing, and life at their deepest levels. Several of the contributors have worked or studied at Ridgeview...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-03-31
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The book outlines the semiotic universe of Jacobean drama, examining both canonical tragedies by Thomas Middleton, John Webster and less known dramas such as Anonymous Lust’s Dominion, Markham and Sampson’s Herod and Antipater or Thierry and Theodoret by Beaumont and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-31
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Hart Crane's Queer Modernist Aesthetic argues that the aspects of experience which modernists sought to interrogate – time, space, and material things – were challenged further by Crane's queer poetics. Reading Crane alongside contemporary queer theory shows how he...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-30
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Wirtschaftlicher Erfolg hängt nicht zuletzt von der Fähigkeit ab, den Geschäftspartner zu überzeugen und zu einer erwünschten Handlung zu animieren. Die Autorin analysiert deutsche und polnische Geschäftsbriefe im Hinblick auf den Ausdruck von Intentionen der Verfasser....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-26
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How can art, how can prose and poetry originate in spite of the restraints of manipulation, propaganda, and censorship? This study explores such issues by focusing on the cultural trajectory of Japanese American internment, both during and after World War II. Previously...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-26
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This collection honors the career of Donald «Sandy» Petrey, Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook for over forty years. The diversity of essays – written by colleagues, friends, and former students, and ranging in subject...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-03-26
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Die programmatische Gegenüberstellung von Orient und Okzident spielt seit der «Entdeckung des Ostens» im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert in der Ideengeschichte Europas eine große Rolle. Der Band sucht Erscheinungsformen der «Repräsentation» von Orient und Okzident, wie sie sich...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-26
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Learning with Literature in the EFL Classroom provides a comprehensive, in-depth and state-of-the-art introduction to literature learning in EFL contexts. Paying attention to both theoretical and practical concerns, the study focuses on a wide range of literary genres,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-26
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Gustaw Herling’s A World Apart is one of the most important books about Soviet camps and communist ideology in the Stalinist period. First published in English in 1951 and translated into many languages, it was relatively unknown till Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-26
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What is distinctive about the cultural practice called 'literature'? How does it benefit individuals and society? How do literary works retain their importance and their capacity to give pleasure over decades and centuries?What constitutes responsible criticism? These...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-03-26
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The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that tackle...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-26
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«Ut pictura poesis», Horace said, but through the two millennia in which «the sister arts» have been compared, little has been said about the nature of sight itself. What we see in «our mind’s eye» as we read has not been explored, though by following the visual prompts...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-26
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This book is a simple and clear presentation of the lexis of Camfranglais, an urban youth sociolect in Cameroon. It presents this sociolect as an outgrowth of language contact phenomena that have fossilized especially around the Littoral Region of Cameroon....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-26
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Nach zehn Jahren Fremdsprachenlernen in der Grundschule hat sich das Feld wie kaum ein anderes entwickelt. Ein Grund dafür ist die rege und vielfältige empirische Forschung, die in diesem Band durch zehn Beiträge vorgestellt wird. Die Diskussion widmet sich Aspekten wie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-26
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Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-24
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This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-22
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What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice', from a poem's soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us, in order to embark on a philosophical exploration of the concept of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-22
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The first in-depth account of fictional sequels in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this examines cases of prose fiction works being continued by multiple writers, reading them for evidence of Early Modern attitudes towards authorship, originality, and literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-21
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Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-03-20
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