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Als Erneuerer des Theaters und mit einem ausgeprägten Hang zum Pessimismus sind Luigi Pirandello und Eugene O’Neill in die Literaturgeschichte eingegangen. Entfremdungserscheinungen und das nahezu unausweichliche Scheitern sind wiederkehrende Motive in den Werken...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-15
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The purpose of this volume is to present the scientific background of the Children’s Literature and Translation research group, which was established in 1992 at the University of Vigo. In 2006 it was awarded the category of Excellence Research Group.The scientific...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-15
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The Book of Margery Kempe (ca. 1438) offers an illuminating account of late medieval female spirituality, affective devotion and subversion. This study approaches Margery Kempe’s roles in her earthly, heavenly and spiritual families from an interdisciplinary...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-15
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Slovak education, including foreign language education, is going through curricular reform. Even though the development of intercultural communicative competences is claimed to be one of the key aims of foreign language teaching, recent research suggests that most...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-15
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Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften is not only a towering masterpiece of German literature but also an impressively rich and razor-sharp assessment of life in the beginning of the twentieth century. Musil can be regarded as one of the most original and...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-07-15
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Anche se gli studi degli ultimi decenni sul «noviziato» foscoliano hanno apportato significative acquisizioni – tanto sul versante politico che su quello letterario – manca ancora una «cartografia» dettagliata che prenda in considerazione i diversi versanti e le zone di...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-07-15
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Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804-1834 draws historical and literary attention to life story and narration in the late plantation slavery period. Drawing on new archival research, it highlights the ways written...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-10
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Medievalists are increasingly grappling with spatial studies. This timely book argues that geography is a crucial element in Sir Thomas Malory's M orte Darthur and contributors shine a light on questions of politics and genre to help readers better understand...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-10
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This study contributes to ongoing discussions on the connections between the environmental imaginary and issues of identity, place and nation. Utilizing a delimited ecocritical approach, McNee puts Brazilian culture, through the work of contemporary poets and visual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-10
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Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that Shakespeare uses Ovid to explore violence, trauma, and virtus - the traumatic effects of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-08
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This book offers a significant statement about the contemporary British novel in relation to three authors: Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. All writing at the forefront of a generation, these authors sought to resuscitate the novel's ethico-political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-08
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An fünfzig lyrischen Gedichten deutscher Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts wird eine Methode textnaher Interpretation vorgeführt. Grundlage ist dabei immer eine genaue sprachliche Analyse des betreffenden Textes, wobei auch die von ihm suggerierte Kommunikationssituation,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-08
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Writing Colonisation: Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian Literature offers a unique comparative analysis of modern Italian and Australian literature which has never been attempted at such length and depth. The book investigates...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-07-08
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In the ecological challenges of the twenty-first century, interculturally sensitive understandings of nature, place, and environment are essential for the development of a planetary community. Acknowledging that the future of humankind is global, this volume explores...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-07-08
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Leggere il romanzo contemporáneo come luogo di dialogo privilegiato per la costruzione di un’identità italiana, a un tempo nazionale e regionale. Il volume ripercorre dagli anni Ottanta ai giorni nostri, da Calvino a Saviano, la palingenesi linguistica, letteraria,...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2014-07-08
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Die Untersuchung zeigt eine kontinuierliche Entwicklung von Traditionslinien weiblichen Schreibens in den USA von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Ära der New Woman auf. Diese Übergangsphase ist von Contending Forces bestimmt:Die Autorinnen bewegen sich in einem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-07
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In today’s knowledge-based society, exploring the dynamics of communicating specialised contents to the lay public is an undoubtedly topical issue. However, popularization still remains a rather unexplored territory and recent contributions to the field seem to lack a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-07
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The fifth volume in the series Language Competence and Language Awareness in Europe unites a collection of peer-reviewed papers delivered at the Third Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization (LCTG3) at the University of Greifswald in 2011.The papers are...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-07
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The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism provides a broad survey of the longstanding relationship between literature and the environment.The moment for such an offering is opportune in many respects: multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-07-03
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This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Nayar first maps the political and philosophical critiques of...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-07-02
Collection :
Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature
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