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This work in cultural history and literary criticism suggests a fresh and fruitful approach to the old notion of Americanness. Following Reinhart Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte, the author proposes that Americanness is not an ordinary word, but a concept with a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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In ihrem Buch setzt sich Dorothée Treiber kritisch mit der weitverbreiteten These auseinander, Hugo von Hofmannsthals Elektra leide an einer klinischen Hysterie. Der Autorin zufolge hält diese Behauptung einer eingehenden Analyse der Quellenlage nicht stand. Dagegen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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The Intellectual as a Detective: From Leonardo Sciascia to Roberto Saviano offers a fresh perspective on both Italian crime fiction and the role of the intellectual in Italian society. By analyzing the characterization of men of culture as investigators, this book...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-03-02
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Der erste Band enthält die literatur- und übersetzungswissenschaftlichen Beiträge des XII. Türkischen Internationalen Germanistik Kongresses, der im Mai 2014 in Kocaeli/Türkei unter dem Thema Migration und kulturelle Diversität stattfand.Der Band ist in zwei...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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The 1798 Rebellion, a watershed event in Irish history, has been a source of both inspiration and controversy over the last two centuries and continues to provoke debate up to the present day.The ongoing discussion about the meaning of the Rebellion has not been limited...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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This volume attempts for the first time a comprehensive view of the momentous process of German-American cultural transfer during the 18th and 19th centuries, which played an important part in the formation of an American national and cultural identity, a process to...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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Discover Virginia Woolf’s informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon – from the ancient Greeks to Jane Austen and beyond.Virginia Woolf read, and wrote, as an outsider, denied the educational privileges of her male...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-02-26
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'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'.So Virginia Woolf described the 'common reader' for whom she wrote her second series of essays. Here she turns her brilliant eye on novels and poetry from John Donne to...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-02-26
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'In two I'll slice the hair-seat / of Helga's kiss-gulper'In this epic tale from the Viking Age that ranges across Scandinavia and Viking Britain, two poets compete for the love of Helga the Fair - with fatal consequences.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for...
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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Simple Forms is a study of popular or folk literature in the medieval period. Focusing both on the vast body of oral literature that lies behind the written texts which have survived from the medieval period and on the popular literature provided by literate authors for...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-26
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In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe.In doing so,...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-26
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In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe.In doing so,...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-26
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Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914-1918, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from Siegfried Sassoon's first, blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys and bacon at Eddie Marsh's breakfasts...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-02-26
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'Can I bear to leave these blue hills?'A generous selection from three of the greatest and most enjoyable of Chinese poets Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin...
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.'Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast'Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th...
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain offers a new account of women's engagement in the poetic and political cultures of seventeenth-century England and Scotland, based on poetry that was produced and circulated in manuscript. Katherine Philips is...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-26
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Statues of Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone grace downtown Hartford, Connecticut, but few residents are aware of the distinctive version of Puritanism that these founding ministers of Harford's First Church carried into to the Connecticut wilderness (or indeed that the...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-25
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This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who exercised a powerful sway over literary and cultural imagination in the period 1558-1688. It encompasses poetry, prose and drama, and translation,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-02-24
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Dieses Buch enthält den Variantenapparat zu den vier Minnereden, die nicht nur in der Wiener Handschrift überliefert sind («Der Krautgarten», «Die Minne vor Gericht», «Die Beichte einer Frau», «Die Best«Die Beständige und die Wankelmütige») und ein Wörterbuch, das den...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-20
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This book explores the extent to which four sensation novelists responded to the Victorian theorizing of professionalism. A crucial period of redefinition of the professional ideal, the third quarter of the nineteenth century also witnessed the rise and the decline of...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-20
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