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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...
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Palgrave Pivot
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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...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-02
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Romancing Treason addresses the scope and significance of the secular literary culture of the Wars of the Roses, and especially of the Middle English romances that were distinctively written in prose during this period. Megan Leitch argues that the pervasive textual...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-29
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Schriftsteller beanspruchen im Prozess der Modernisierung eine wichtige Rolle als Verfasser von Dorfromanen, als nationale Propagandisten in den Befreiungskriegen, als Mitspieler in der Literatur der französischen Moderne (Heinrich Heine), als Träger des deutschen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-28
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English morphophonology has aroused considerable interest in the wake of Chomsky and Halle’s ground-breaking The Sound Pattern ofEnglish (1968). Various theoretical models have subsequently emerged, seeking to account for the stress-placement and combinatorial...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-28
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The book adds new studies of memories and interactions between Jews and non-Jews to the historical and cultural research on this topic. It gathers in one volume the results of work by scholars from several countries, while the topics of the articles cover various...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-28
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What did it mean, in the rapidly changing world of Victorian England, to 'be a man'? In essays written specially for this volume, nine distinguished scholars from Britain and the USA show how Victorian novelists from the Brontës to Conrad sought to discover what made...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-01-22
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Why did people talk so much about avarice in late Renaissance France, nearly a century before Molière's famous comedy, L'Avare? As wars and economic crises ravaged France on the threshold of modernity, avarice was said to be flourishing as never before. Yet by the late...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-22
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The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's poetry, other essays...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-22
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The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's poetry, other essays...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-01-22
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How did realist fiction alter in the effort to craft forms and genres receptive to the dynamism of an expanding empire and globalizing world? Do these nineteenth-century variations on the "geopolitical aesthetic" continue to resonate today? Crossing literary criticism,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-01-22
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Maciej Ganczar beschäftigt sich in seinem Buch mit den romantischen Künstlerfiguren Peter Härtlings, die seiner Meinung nach ihrer Epoche weit voraus sind und deren Gemeinsamkeiten mit denjenigen der Moderne auf einen neuen universalen Künstlertypus schließen lassen....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-19
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The reception of Mediterranean Antiquity heritage is one of the dominant research areas in contemporary classical studies. This issue has constituted the scope of the conference Reception of Ancient Myths in Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Culture, which took place at...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-19
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Der historische Tasso ist mehr als stoffgeschichtliche Quelle für Goethes Drama. Mit kenntnisreicher EinfMit kenntnisreicher Einfühlung in das Krisenhafte einer historischen Spätzeit hat Goethe den italienischen Renaissancedichter zum Sinnbild für die gesellschaftliche,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-19
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Examining chameleonic identities as seen in theatrical performances and literary texts during the Romantic period, this study explores cultural attitudes toward imposture and how it reveals important and much-debated issues about this time period. Brewer shows...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-01-15
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Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris's corpus for an English-speaking audience and addresses the crucial...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2015-01-12
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Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet Medbh McGuckian, and novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the ways Irish cultural production has been disturbed by partition. Ruprecht Fadem argues that literary texts address this tension through...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-01-08
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Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming Said's multifaceted and enormous critical impact, this collection features essays that highlight the significance of Said's work for contemporary spatial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-07
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This book explores the paradoxical productivity of the idea of the end of the novel in contemporary fiction. It shows how this idea allows some of our most significant twenty-first century writers to re-imagine the ethics and politics of literature and to figure...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-06
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This book contains selected papers from the meeting «Conditioned Identities. Wished-for and Unwished-for Identities», held in the Institute of Research in Identities and Society (University of Lleida) in 2013 and attended by participants representing different...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-06
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