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'Generous, enjoyable and well informed.' Observer'500 expertly potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of pop and proper prose fiction.' The Times___________________________________________________________Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod to Zuleika...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-05-08
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Taking as its starting point Delmore Schwartz's self-appointment as both a 'poet of the Hudson River' and 'laureate of the Atlantic,' this book comprehensively reassesses the poetic achievement of a critically neglected writer. Runchman reads Schwartz's poetry in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-05-07
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TransLatin Joyce explores the circulation of James Joyce's work in the Ibero-American literary system. The essays address Joycean literary engagements in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba, using concepts from postcolonial translation studies, antimodernism,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-05-07
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The oral tradition has always played an important role in African American literature, ranging from works such as Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God to Toni Morrison's Beloved. These and countless other novels affirm the power of sonance and sound in the...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-07
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Noch heute gilt Dürrenmatts Justiz als Werk in der Nachfolge seiner Krimis der 1950er Jahre, obwohl der Autor sich explizit gegen diese Einreihung gewehrt hat. Anhand einer Analyse der Figur des Gangsters lässt sich aufzeigen, dass im Justizroman eine von Grund auf...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-05
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This collection of essays focuses on the role of spirituality in American literature through an examination of the multiple ways in which a deep engagement with the spiritual has shaped and affected literature in the Americas (three of the essays involve Canadian and...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-05
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Many people today first encounter staged Shakespeare in an open-air setting. This book traces the history of open-air Shakespeares in Australia to investigate why the anomaly of adapting 400-year old plays under Australian skies exerts such a strong appeal.
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-05-02
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During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, France became famous -- notorious even -- across Europe for its ambitious attempts to codify and theorise a system of universally valid dramatic 'rules'. So fundamental and formative was this 'classical' conception of...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-05-01
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Copy from the 1975 Owlswick Press print edition:L. Sprague de Camp's original Science-Fiction Handbook, published in 1953 and long out of print, has been favourably remembered by a whole generation of science fiction readers and aspiring writers. Over the years, at...
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Gateway
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2014-04-30
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This volume is a collaborative reassessment of the writing of John McGahern. The contributors provide provocative readings of his major works and also examine some of his lesser-known short stories, essays and unpublished archival materials which have not yet received...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-29
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This book closely examines the processes governing the construction of literary spaces in the selected works of J.M. Coetzee, focusing in particular on the writer’s subversive and destructive treatment of traditional modes of representation which participated in the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-29
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The book addresses the role of the L1 (first language)-based concept categorization in L2 (second language) vocabulary learning from a cognitive linguistic perspective.The author hypothesizes that the patterns of one’s L1-based concept categorization will be present in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-29
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Du sollst nicht fluchen – ein alltäglicher, oft totgeschwiegener Bestandteil der Sprache ist ihr Tabuwortschatz. Anhand eines ausgewählten Bereichs von Stephen Kings Roman It und seinen Übersetzungen wird Einblick in die Gewohnheiten des Fluchens in sieben verschiedenen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-25
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Mehrsprachige Menschen verfügen über die Fähigkeit, mitten in einer Äußerung von einer Sprache in die andere zu wechseln. Dieses sogenannte Codeswitching wird von der Forschung inzwischen als systemhafte kommunikative Ressource anerkannt, deren Untersuchung interessante...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-25
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Shortlisted for the Tony Lothian PrizeOne of the Telegraph's 'Best Books of 2014''A gripping tale that enables us to see Shakespeare in a new light...I could not recommend it highly enough.' Alison WeirIn November 1596 a woman signed a document which would nearly...
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Penguin
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2014-04-24
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This is the first scholarly study devoted to Shakespeare's girl characters and conceptions of girlhood. It charts the development of Shakespeare's treatment of the girl as a dramatic and literary figure, and explores the impact of Shakespeare's girl characters on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-04-23
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Die Arbeit stellt qualitative und quantitative diskursanalytische Untersuchungen von britischen und deutschen Wahlnachtreden von 1997 bzw. 1998 an und nimmt intra- und interkulturelle Vergleiche der diskursiven Strategien dieser Reden vor. Als Methode dient Teun van...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-23
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Die Arbeit wirft ein neues Licht auf prominente Dramen aus Biedermeier und Vormärz. Ausgehend von Schillers Jungfrau von Orléans werden Dramen von Hebbel, Grabbe und Büchner auf Prozesse des Willens und der Willensverneinung untersucht. Dabei wird deutlich, dass die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-22
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Literatures in English have emerged in several Asian communities and have enjoyed a growing readership. Creative writing programmes in Asia and other parts of the world have also attracted many new voices from Asia. However, little is known about how learners from...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-22
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Immigration and Contemporary British Theater: Finding a Home on the Stage analyzes how contemporary British theater has responded to post-war immigration to the United Kingdom through its depictions of home and domestic life. Bridging literary analysis, theater history,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-04-22
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