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Dennis Potter was born and brought up in the Forest of Dean- a 'strange and beautiful place', as he described it in the last interview before his death, 'rather ugly villages in beautiful landscape, a heart- shaped place between two rivers, somehow slightly cut off from...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-03-19
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This book explores modalities and cultural interventions of translation in the early modern period, focusing on the shared parameters of these two translation cultures. Translation emerges as a powerful tool for thinking about community and citizenship, literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-18
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Fictional or real, pirates haunted the imagination of the 18th and 19th century-British public during this great period of maritime commerce, exploration, and naval conflict. British Pirates in Print and Performanc e explores representations of pirates through dozens of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-17
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Angesichts der unterschiedlichen Modalitäten und der verschiedenen Medialitätsgrade und -arten der Rezeption, die das Werk und die Figur Georg Büchners in zwei Jahrhunderten erfahren hat und weiter erfährt, muss heutzutage von Büchner-Rezeptionen in der Pluralform die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-16
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Drawing on newly-discovered manuscripts, this collection is the first modern edition of poetry by John Thelwall, the famed radical Romantic and champion of the working class. Eight key essays and 125 fully-annotated poems introduce his work in correspondence with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-12
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Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature such as smell, sound, etc. that often challenge the rationalizing logic of modernity. Through close readings of writers such as Conrad and Coetzee,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-12
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This book focuses on the way that notions of home and identity have changed for Muslims as a result of international 'war on terror' rhetoric. It uniquely links the post-9/11 stereotyping of Muslims and Islam in the West to the roots of current jihadism and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-09
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Die Bibliothek Ottos des Jüngeren Freiherr von Nostitz, die heute in der Prager Nostitzbibliothek verwahrt wird, stellt mit ihren ungefähr 5.000 Bänden eine der bedeutendsten niederschlesischen Barockbibliotheken dar. Zugleich legt sie Zeugnis ab von der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-09
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Die Aufsätze in diesem Band behandeln Aspekte des literarischen Lebens in Galizien vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Sie basieren zum großen Teil auf vergleichenden Untersuchungen, die polnische, ukrainische und deutschsprachige Texte mitberücksichtigen. So...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-09
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Inklings nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e. V. widmet sich seit 1983 dem Studium und der Verbreitung der Werke dieser und ihnen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-09
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This book examines Scotland from a great variety of international and disciplinary perspectives, offering viewpoints from ordinary citizens as well as experts in culture, history, literature, sociology, politics, the law, and the media. The texts investigate the mental...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-09
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This multidisciplinary collection brings together scholars from the fields of literature, theology and linguistics who question and extend our taken-for-granted conceptions of The End. It focuses on the ways in which endings are formally signaled in literature, and sets...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-09
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Drawing from a broad range of contemporary British poets, including Thomas Kinsella, Kathleen Jamie, and Alice Oswald, this study examines the inherently spatial and affective nature of our engagement with poetry. Adding to the expanding field of geocritical studies,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-05
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Examining novelists, bloggers, and other creators of new media, this study focuses on autobiography by American black women since 1980, including Audre Lorde, Jill Nelson, and Janet Jackson. As Curtis argues, these women used embodiment as a strategy of drawing the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-04
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Using the concept of otherness as an entry point into a discussion of poetry, Jonathan Hart's study explores the role of history and theory in relation to literature and culture. Chapters range from trauma in Shakespeare to Bartolomé de Las Casas' representation of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-04
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Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author,Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-04
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Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual idealism of the 1980s, through the post-Tiananmen transition, to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-04
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Brimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex and confusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply, 30 Great Myths About the Romantics adds great clarity to what we know – or think we know – about one of the most important periods in literary...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-04
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Modernist Mythopoeia argues that the experimental modernist form of mythopoeia was directed towards expressing a range of metaphysical perspectives that fall between material secularism and dogmatic religion. The book is a timely addition to the 'post-secular' debate as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-03
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Jochen Bertheau befasst sich mit Goethes wohl bekanntesten Werk, dem «Faust I». Der Dichter selbst bezeichnete seine Arbeit gelegentlich als Fragment und widersprüchlich in der Konzeption, verteidigte aber gegenüber kritischen Lesern wie Wieland oder Luden das Prinzip,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-02
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