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This book focuses on contemporary Nevada fiction as one of the most probing and intense literary explorations of the American West as a whole. Recent fictional representations of Nevada possess a revelatory value in relation to the whole West because they encompass some...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-20
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Translating audio description scripts from foreign into source language seems to be a tempting alternative strategy of creating audio description scripts in those countries where audio description is still scarce. This book presents the results of a three-stage study....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-20
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The book provides a lively discussion of the ways in which popular fiction appropriates the figure of the Provisional IRA activist and the political conflict within the north of Ireland. It looks at how authors’ recreations, or transformations, of Irish republicanism...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-20
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Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores the cosmopolitan impulses behind the literary imagination. Patell argues that cosmopolitanism regards human...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-02-19
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Jane Austen wrote when sociology was being established as the new discipline to understand social issues such as urbanization and industrialization. Drawing on landmark sociologists such as Durkheim and Bourdieu, this study argues that the novels of Austen were heavily...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-19
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English Psalms in the Middle Ages, 1300-1450 explores vernacular translation, adaptation, and paraphrase of the biblical psalms. Focussing on a wide and varied body of texts, it examines translations of the complete psalter as well as renditions of individual psalms and...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-19
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Seit den 1990er Jahren ist das Interesse am deutschsprachigen Afrika-Roman stetig gewachsen. Die germanistische literaturwissenschaftliche Forschung setzt sich daher zunehmend intensiv mit diesem Subgenre auseinander und reflektiert dabei den postkolonialen Diskurs. Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-19
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The study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Harold Pinter’s dramatic discourse and focuses on the way power makes the characters play on the borders of linguistic, spatial, narrative and gender configurations. It examines the experimental nature of Harold Pinter’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-19
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Der Band fokussiert die aktuellen textlinguistischen Forschungsinteressen junger Linguisten aus Polen, Deutschland und Frankreich, die im Oktober 2012 an einer am Institut für Germanistik der Jagiellonen-Universität Krakau veranstalteten Konferenz zum Thema...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-16
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The volume comprises adaptation studies of ten selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the 20th and 21st centuries: Things to Come, Lost Horizon, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Lord of the Flies,The Andromeda Nebula, Brave New World,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-16
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This book combines two collections of essays written by the late professor Zuoliang Wang, works that explore the affinity between literatures and peoples, with special attention given to that between Chinese literature and western literature in the 20th century, and...
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Springer
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2015-02-15
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Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War explores the impact of the Second World War on literature and culture in Northern Ireland between 1939 and 1970. It argues that the war, as a unique interregnum in the history of Northern Ireland, challenged the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-02-12
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Shaped by the experiences of the Iranian Revolution, Iranian-American autobiographers use this chaotic past to tell their current stories in the United States. Wagenknecht analyzes a wide range of such writing and draws new conclusions about migration, exile, and life...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-11
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Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school. Discusses iambic pentameter and other kinds of metrical verse, scansion, rhythm and rhyme, free verse, song, and advanced topics such as...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-02-09
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Approaching the writings of Mary Wroth through a fresh 21st-century lens, this volume accounts for and re-invents the literary scholarship of one of the first "canonized" women writers of the English Renaissance. Essays present different practices that emerge...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-04
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This volume offers new interpretations of Katherine Mansfield's work by bringing together recent biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life and art in the context of Continental Europe. It features chapters on Mansfield's reception in several European...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-03
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This book documents changes and trends in English predicate complementation. In-depth case studies of grammatical patterns presented here uncover new links between form and meaning in these constructions, offering fresh insights into explanatory principles to account...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-02-02
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Si propone una discussione sulle figure, note e meno note, di scrittori e critici che hanno voluto forgiare il concetto di letteratura europea. Partendo da alcune affermazioni di Giuseppe Mazzini, nel saggio D'una letteratura europea, si allarga la discussione oltre la...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-02
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The book discusses the evolution of the urban chronotope in the selected novels by Peter Ackroyd, an acclaimed British author.The examined narratives illustrate the transformation from the postmodern tenets of historiographic metafiction into a unique urban mythopoetics...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-02
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First Language versus Foreign Language deals with the «battle» that takes place in writers’ heads when writing in a foreign language. Most academics today need to write in another language than in their first language (L1) in order to publish in internationally...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-02
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