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Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England offers a new history of Middle English romance, the most popular genre of secular literature in the English Middle Ages. Michael Johnston argues that many of the romances composed in England from 1350-1500 arose in...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-19
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Editors of Shakespeare's Complete Works must decide what to include. Although not in the First Folio collection of 1623, The Two Noble Kinsmen and Edward III have now entered the canon as plays co-authored by Shakespeare. Determining the Shakespeare Canon makes the case...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-19
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Known as the daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge's manuscripts, letters, and other writings reveal an original thinker in dialogue with major literary and cultural figures of nineteenth-century England. Here, her writings on beauty, education, and faith...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-18
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Examining Malory's political language, this study offers a revisionary view of Arthur's kingship in the Morte Darthur and the role of the Round Table fellowship. Considering a range of historical and political sources, Lexton suggests that Malory used a specific lexicon...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-18
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Northern Irish Poetry and Theology argues that theology shapes subjectivity, language and poetic form, and provides original studies of three internationally acclaimed poets: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-17
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The collection brings together experts in the field of twentieth-century writing to provide a volume that is both comprehensive and innovative in its discussion of a set of newly canonical texts.The book includes new applications of philosophical and critical thinking...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-17
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Ist das komische Potential eines narrativen Textes messbar? In der Annäherung an literarische Komik verbindet die Studie interdisziplinär kognitive Theorien, ästhetische Entwürfe, narratologische Modelle, informationstheoretische Operationalisierungen und eine...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-17
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This volume contains papers which reflect current discussions in the study of speech actions. The collection was inspired by the papers presented at Meaning, Context and Cognition, the first international conference integrating cognitive linguistics and pragmatics...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-17
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This investigation is a qualitative analysis of the etymological, the morphological and the semantic history of the Old English complex plant names as a lexical field, and an in-depth study of the plant names as individual entities. Their particular interest results...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-17
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International language tests increasingly use group oral formats in both high- and low-stakes contexts. But how do test-takers with different characteristics interact in such formats? This book explores how test-takers with different extraversion and proficiency levels...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-17
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Canadian Historical Writing presents an archaeology of contemporaryCanadian historical writing within the theory and practice of historiography. Drawing on international debates within the fields of literary studies and history, the book focuses on the roles played by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-12
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Confronted with apartheid, dictatorship or the sheer scale of global economics, realism can no longer function with the certainties of the nineteenth century. Free Realist Style considers how the style of the realist novel changes as its epistemological horizons narrow.
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-06-11
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Wer erzählt die Metamorphosen? Gibt es nur einen Erzähler? Muss man überhaupt zwischen Autor und Erzähler trennen? Und ist die Haltung des Erzählers nun distanziert-ironisch oder fromm-naiv? Die vorliegende Arbeit liefert mittels aktueller narratologischer und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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Deconstructive rewritings are re-visions. This monograph engages Robinson Crusoe in tandem with two of its re-visions, Michel Tournier’s Friday and J. M. Coetzee’s Foe, from the perspective of the Enlightenment ideology. Basing the argument upon the assumption that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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The eruption of rural distress in Ireland and the foundation of the Land League in 1879 sparked a number of novels, stories and plays forming an immediate response to what became known as the Irish Land war. These works form a literary genre of their own and illuminate...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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This book evaluates Noam Chomsky’s contributions to linguistics and focuses on the historical justification for Cartesian Linguistics, the evolution of Chomsky’s theorizing, empirical language acquisition work, and computational modeling of language learning. Chomsky...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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Comment les mots permettent-ils d’appréhender ces objets obscurs que sont nos emotions ? Diverses langues européennes offrent-elles les mêmes perspectives sur cette réalité mouvante, explorée aussi par plusieurs disciplines appliquées (didactique, lexicographie,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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The application of postcolonial theories to Irish literature remains a contentious issue. Unlike other colonised nations, Ireland shared a long history of political, economic and artistic ties with its empire-building neighbour, Britain. Yet the Irish response to the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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This volume, entitled Of what is past, or passing, or to come: Travelling in Time and Space in Literature in English was inspired by the work of the writer, culture historian and mythographer Marina Warner and the professor of comparative literature Cathy Caruth. The...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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The book proposes a multi-perspective analytical model for the understanding of corporate identity meanings embedded in historical discourse for the web.The suggested theoretical framework conflates methodological perspectives derived from Discourse Analysis,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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