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Die Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit ist mehr als ‘Vanitas’ und ‘Carpe diem’, ‘Pest’ oder ‘Krieg’ – sie ist weitaus vielgestaltiger, als diese Schlagworte suggerieren, die frühneuzeitliche Texte nicht selten eher zum Schweigen als zum Sprechen bringen. Unsere Ringvorlesung...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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This work analyses the Spanish Civil War in Spanish and European Children’s Literature from 1975, when Spain passed from a dictatorship to a parliamentary monarchy, to the present. The contributors focus on collecting narrative works that deal with the Civil War to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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Der Wandel der Gender-Vorstellungen, der durch den politischen Feminismus der 1970er-Jahre angestoßen wurde, ist in der Literatur wie in den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften ein Thema von zunehmender Wichtigkeit. Dies gilt nicht nur für Europa, sondern auch für...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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Literature after Postmodernism explores the use of literary fantastic storylines in contemporary novels which begin to think beyond postmodernism. They develop an aesthetic perspective that aims at creation and communication instead of subversion and can thus be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-10
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A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world. Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-06-10
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-05
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Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970s. Reading works by Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Samuel R. Delany as indicative texts in the intertext of utopian science...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-05
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Although Louis de Bernières is a famous and important contemporary novelist, and his work Captain Corelli’s Mandolin has been translated and sold all over the world as a best-seller, there are few academic studies that focus methodologically and theoretically on it. The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-05
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Seit vielen Jahrhunderten inspirieren die biblischen Simson-Erzählungen die Menschen. Aufgrund ihrer Entstehungsgeschichte und ihrer erst späteren Einarbeitung in das Buch der Richter lassen sich in ihnen sehr unterschiedliche Elemente finden. Diese scheinen sich zum...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-05
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Parang is the second collection of poetry from former Australian Poetry Slam winner Omar Musa. Written over four years, the collection explores Malaysian jungles, dark Australian streets, and dreams. Dealing with the issues of loss, migration and belonging,Parang is an...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2014-06-03
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Nabokov gained international fame with Lolita, a highly erotic and morally disturbing novel. Through its comprehensive study of the amorous and sexual behaviors of Nabokov's characters this book shows how Eros, both as a clown or a pervert, contributes to the poetic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-03
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This entertaining collection gathers together William Shakespeare's wisest and wittiest quotations. Quotable Shakespeare proves that brevity is the soul of wit and is sure to delight all lovers of the Bard's uniquely perceptive and influential works.
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2014-06-02
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Used by Classical and Medieval Western schools to teach rhetoric, a chreia is a brief moral story attributed to a famous historical figure. In Late Ming China, the Italian Jesuit Alfonso Vagnone, also named Gao Yizhi, and the Chinese scholar-official Han Yun...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-30
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This book is the result of a shared conviction of the necessity to advance the international discourse on criticism. What originated in ancient curiosity and developing self-reflexion became the critical thought of the modern era and then developed into a program of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-30
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This book explores and analyzes the problems and challenges that have resulted from the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, and segregation in North America. These painful chapters in American history have continued along racial and regional lines and are of particular...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-30
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Scholarly interest in 'the Irish Gothic' has grown at a rapid pace in recent years, but the debate over exactly what constitutes this body of literature remains far from settled. This collection of essays explores the rich complexities of the literary gothic in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-30
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The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this original study explains the undiminished popularity of literary orphans...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-29
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Who are 'the people' in Milton's writing? They figure prominently in his texts from early youth to late maturity, in his poetry and in his prose works; they are invoked as the sovereign power in the state and have the right to overthrow tyrants; they are also, as God's...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-05-29
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Satyric Play is the first book to offer an integrated analysis of Greek comedy and satyr drama. Using a literary-historical approach, Carl A. Shaw argues that comedy and satyr plays influenced each other in nearly all stages of their development. Although satyr drama...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-05-28
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Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s- 1990s focuses on fin-de-siècle British and postmodern American fictions of apocalypse and investigates the ways in which these narratives demonstrate shifts in the relations among modern discourses of power and knowledge.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-27
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