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How is Hardy's development of thematics and characters matched by that of narrative techniques and his handling of time? This book uses narratological methods to stress the interdependence of content and expression in a key transitional writer between the Victorian and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-29
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Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung ist die Beschreibung futurischer Ausdrucksformen im Mittelhochdeutschen. Ausgehend von der funktionalen Bestimmung von Äußerungen als «zukunftsbezogen» werden die entsprechenden ausdrucksseitigen sprachlichen Mittel anhand eines...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-28
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In diesem Band sind 21 (zum Teil erweiterte) Referate enthalten, die anlässlich der Internationalen Tagung zum Thema «Satz und Text. Zur Relevanz syntaktischer Strukturen zur Textkonstitution» vom 21. bis 23. September 2011 an der Universität Warschau gehalten wurden....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-25
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Artists explored the dark places of the American experience during the seventies. After providing an overview of the rhetorical device allegory, Barthes’s concept of mythology and Foucault’s concept of power relations, the author establishes a connection between the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-25
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This book investigates the study abroad profile of non-native speaker teachers of English, exploring the impact of studying abroad on the acquisition of sociopragmatic variation patterns and the relationship between such patterns and identity development. Introducing...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-25
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Discovering Lamb House in 1896, Henry James fell under the spell of the words of Biblical «Wisdom» written on the tower clock of Rye parochial church: «For our time is a very shadow that passeth away». From the young bachelor’s «angry vow» to «live for himself and turn...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-07-25
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Dieser Band vereinigt 63 Beiträge in deutscher, englischer und französischer Sprache. Er repräsentiert ein breites Spektrum an Themen und Erkenntnissen aus verschiedenen Bereichen der Linguistik und versucht damit eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme des Faches. Die Beiträge...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-25
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Dieser Band enthält 73 Beiträge in deutscher und englischer Sprache, die während des 42. Linguistischen Kolloquiums zum Thema Sprachenvielfalt und Sprachenlernen: Neue Wege zur Literalität im September 2007 in Rhodos gehalten wurden. Autorinnen und Autoren aus Europa,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-25
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Nessuna città d’Italia è più crepuscolare di Roma. Le relazioni fra il cenacolo romano di Sergio Corazzini e i simbolisti belgi propone un’analisi comparata (dal punto di vista semantico, lessicale, tematico e stilistico) fra i quattro principali animatori del cenacolo...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-07-25
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Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana critically examines selected works of writers, from the sixth century to the twenty-first century, who were imprisoned for their beliefs. Chapters explore figures' lives, provide close analyses of their works, and offer...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-24
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Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medieval chronicles and Arthurian romances traces its origins to twelfth-century Anglo-Norman colonial interest in Wales and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-24
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New religious movements both read the Bible in creative ways and produce their own texts that aspire to scriptural status. From the creation stories in Genesis and the Ten Commandments to the life of Jesus and the apocalypse, they develop their self-understandings...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-24
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Focusing on piracy in the seventeenth century, filibustering in the nineteenth century, intracolonial migrations in the 1930s, metropolitan racializations in the 1950s and 1960s, and feminist redefinitions of creolization and sexile from the 1940s to the 1990s, this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-24
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This is the first account of Dante's reception in English to address full chronological span of that process. Individual authors and periods have been studied before, but Dante's British Public takes a wider and longer view, using a selection of vivid and detailed case...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-07-24
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A searing play about the way in which we try to own our dead, and the way in which they come to own us.
A year after the death of their son Jack in an early-morning car crash, Adam and Mary Mansfield are still struggling with what happened. Adam has sold his winery,...
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E-Penguin
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2014-07-23
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John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reassesses Thelwall's eclectic body of work from the perspective of his heterodox materialist arguments about the imagination, political reform, and the principle of life itself, and his contributions to Romantic-era...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-17
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Edward Gibbon's presentation of character in both the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and in his posthumously published Memoirs demonstrates a prevailing interest in the values of transcendent heroism and individual liberty, but also an insistent...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-07-17
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Nijáls saga the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. It tells the story of a complex feud, that starts innocently enough in a tiff over seating arrangement at a local feast, and expands over the course of 20 years to engulf half the country,...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-07-17
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English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History traces the influence of Old Norse myth -- stories and poems about the familiar gods and goddesses of the pagan North, such as Odin, Thor, Baldr and Freyja -- on poetry inEnglish from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day....
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OUP Oxford
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2014-07-17
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Moving effortlessly from Greek to Shakespearean tragedies, to nineteenth and twentieth-century British, American and Russian drama, and fiction and contemporary television, this study sheds new light on the art of comedy.
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
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2014-07-16
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