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Die Fotodokumentation 12 Million Black Voices von Richard Wright und Edwin Rosskam und der Gemäldezyklus The Migration of the Negro von Jacob Lawrence befassen sich mit der Great Migration, der afro-amerikanischen Urbanisierungsbewegung Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-01
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This book assembles a collection of papers first presented at the Summer School and Conference on the Method of Lexical Exceptions held at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, 2-8 September 2007, which explored an area of linguistics now referred to as ‘the method of...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-01
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Dieser Band setzt sich zum Ziel, praktische Erfahrungen und Reflexionen aus der universitären Fremdsprachendidaktik zu diskutieren und Einblicke in wesentliche Trends einer (breit gefassten) modernen angewandten Sprachwissenschaft zu vermitteln. Er präsentiert vierzehn...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-01
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Die Moralischen Wochenschriften oder Spectators sind eine aus der protestantischen Ethik des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts stammende Gattung, die sich in den katholischen Ländern tendenziell mit einer Verzögerung von einem halben Jahrhundert etablierte. In Spanien dominierten...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-01
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Die Moralischen Wochenschriften oder Spectators sind eine aus der protestantischen Ethik des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts stammende Gattung, die sich in den katholischen Ländern tendenziell mit einer Verzögerung von einem halben Jahrhundert etablierte. In Spanien dominierten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-01
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A COMPANION TO MODERNIST POETRYA Companion to Modernist PoetryA Companion to Modernist Poetry presents contemporary approaches to modernist poetry in a uniquely in-depth and accessible text. The first section of the volume reflects the attention to historical and...
Editeur :
Wiley
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2014-03-31
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-03-30
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This book examines the œvre of Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998) from her first literary writings in the Thirties to her great novels in the Nineties. The analysis focusses on two interweaving core themes, loss and the Other. It begins with the shaping of personal loss...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-03-27
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As we approach the seventieth anniversary of the first appearance of Mary Poppins, interest in P. L. Travers’ most famous creation is still strong and the time is right for a reassessment of a work that is rich in meaning for child and adult readers alike. This book...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-26
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Within the past decades, Henry James has been seen going to the movies and to Paris, both far more likely destinations for him than battlefields of the modern world. Sending him off to war seems to be a preposterous idea, but the exaggeration inscribed in the title of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-26
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The twenty-two papers in this collection represent various cognitively-oriented approaches to the study of literary and persuasive texts. Their authors include both linguists and literary scholars, united by their interest in exploring the mental processes accompanying...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-24
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This volume attempts to keep track of the most recent developments in corpus-based, corpus-driven and corpus-informed studies. It signals the widening scope and perspectives on language and computers by documenting new developments and explorations in these areas...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-24
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This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-03-24
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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This is a complete resource for scholars and students of Tolkien, as well as avid fans, with coverage of his life, work, dominant themes, influences, and the critical reaction to his writing. An in-depth examination of Tolkien’s entire work by a cadre of top scholars...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-03-21
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Stephen King’s first novel Carrie in April 1974. Rescued from the rubbish by his wife Tabitha, the novel launched the Maine schoolteacher on a prolific and extraordinarily successful career. His name has become...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2014-03-20
Collection :
Brief Histories
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Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-03-20
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Dieses Buch will daran erinnern, dass Arbeit die Basis aller Kultur ist. Die Würde körperlicher wie geistiger Arbeit ist ein Leitmotiv in den vierzehn hier vorgestellten Essays. Die Retrospektive umfasst die Arbeiterbewegung in ihrem Ringen um die soziale Frage, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-19
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This study deals with the frequency and use of clausal complementation in the oral production of two different Spanish learner groups (i.e. Galician/Spanish learners and Spanish learners) as compared with a further learner group (i.e. German learners) and with native...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-19
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Culture and language provide two essential frameworks to deal with the concept of time. They view time as observer-determined and thus shed light on multiple and often conflicting temporalities we live in, think, and talk about. Relying on empirical methods, the book...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-19
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NEW ENGLAND BEYOND CRITICISM “Elisa New’s book is a remarkable achievement. It is very rare that a critic manages to ask what seem exactly the right questions, then to answer them in a lively, brilliant, evocative, and supremely intelligent prose.” Charles F. Altieri,...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2014-03-17
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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