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The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-13
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Blackwell Anthologies
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Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s. Presents key criticism onVictorian poetry Features contributions from a variety of scholars in the field...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-13
Collection :
Blackwell Critical Reader
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Die Goethezeit gehört zu den glanzvollsten Epochen der deutschsprachigen Literaturgeschichte. Dieses Studienbuch vermittelt Studierenden der germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft übersichtlich und klar strukturiert die Epoche der Goethezeit. Auf der Basis der aktuellen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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This book examines the depiction of childhood and the Nazi German past in post-1989 German literature. Focusing on the work of W.G. Sebald, Marcel Beyer, Martin Walser and Dieter Forte, the study analyses how these authors employ tropes and myths of childhood in their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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The essays in this volume explore interartistic connections in Irish literature, drama, film and the visual arts. Within modern and postmodern culture, innovation is often driven by surprising interrelations between the arts, and this book offers a discussion of this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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This book offers a detailed analysis of all mainstream novels of Iain Banks. It explores the question of mediation, the process of a semiotic (re)construction of the world on the part of Banks’s characters, with reference to the four directions of fictional...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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Nicholas Breton (1545/55-1626?) was one of the most prolific writers of the Early Modern period and left behind a vast œuvre that is, however, largely neglected today. Breton addresses instrumental questions of his time, especially those of man’s identity. This study...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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In November 1814, Jane Austen's niece Fanny Knight wrote Austen a letter secretly requesting advice. Fanny wanted urgently to know whether she should continue encouraging her most ardent suitor, what the future would hold were she to marry him, and whether she, Fanny,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-09
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Theory of Mind and Science Fiction shows how theory of mind provides an exciting 'new' way to think about science fiction and, conversely, how science fiction sheds light not only on theory of mind but also empathy, morality, and the nature of our humanity.
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-01-06
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Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters. In Men at War, Christopher Coker discusses some of the most famous of these fictional creations and their impact on our understanding of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-06
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Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History offers the first extensive exploration of boy characters inShakespeare's plays, examining a range of characters from across the Shakespearean canon in their original early modern contexts and surveying their subsequent performance...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-02
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Philip Roth – one of the most renowned writers of his generation – hardly needs introduction. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award, to his Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral, to his eternally inventive later works such as Exit Ghost...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-01-02
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Drawing on previously unseen archival material, The Beginnings of University English explores the innovative and scholarly ways in which English literature was taught to extramural students in England during the fin de siècle, and sheds new light on the modern roots of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-02
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With typical critical flair, Raymond Williams examines the development of the dramatic form from Henrik Ibsen to Bertolt Brecht. Taking an expansive view of drama from around the world, he offers the reader profound insights into the role of theatre in society and into...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-12-31
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This concise companion examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approximately 1100 and 1500. The essays in the book explore ways in which Middle English literature is 'different' from the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-24
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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This concise companion examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approximately 1100 and 1500. The essays in the book explore ways in which Middle English literature is 'different' from the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-24
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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In den hier zusammengestellten 17 Aufsätzen zu Literatur und Publizistik spiegeln sich die kritischen Phasen deutscher Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert auf vielfältige Weise: der Großmachtchauvinismus des deutschen Kaiserreichs und speziell Wilhelms II., die vier Jahre...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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Dieser Band eröffnet die erste Werkausgabe von Albrecht Haushofer (1903-1945) mit seinen drei zu Lebzeiten publizierten Dramen. Haushofer nahm eine ganz eigene Position in Öffentlichkeit und Literatur des Nationalsozialismus ein, zu dem er schon früh auf Distanz...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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The present edition offers the diplomatic transcription of MS Wellcome 542, housing a late Middle English hitherto unedited remedy-book based on the medical lore of Hippocrates, Socrates and Galen. A glossary, notes and introduction also accompany the edition.The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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The Irish writer and critic Helen Waddell burst onto the publishing scene of the 1920s and 1930s as a phenomenon, a scholar whose books became instant bestsellers. Cross-fertilizing academic research with a vivid imagination, her literary historyThe Wandering Scholars...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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