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Vampires have never been as popular in Western culture as they are now: Twilight, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and their fans have secured the vampire’s place in contemporary culture. Yet the role vampires play in how we remember our pasts and configure our futures...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-19
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Im Zentrum dieser Arbeit steht die kritische und kommentierte Neuedition der allein in der Handschrift Cotton Tiberius A.iii erhaltenen altenglischen Interlinearversion der Benediktinerregel und ihres lateinischen Textes. Der Edition geht eine umfassende Einleitung...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-19
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A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRYA COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRYEdited by Christine Gerrard This wide-ranging Companion reflects the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. New...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-12-19
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Der Sammelband ist eine Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Dr. Maria de Fátima Viegas Brauer-Figueiredo, die von 1968 bis 2008 als Dozentin und Lektorin für Portugiesisch an der Universität Hamburg unterrichtet hat. Ihr Wirken reicht weit über ihre Heimatuniversität...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-19
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Tracing connections between Gary Snyder and his Romantic and Transcendentalist predecessors - Wordsworth, Blake, Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau - this study explores the tension between urbanization and overindustrialization. The dialectical relationship between Snyder...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-12-18
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Joining a timely conversation within the field of intra-American literature, this study takes a fresh look at Latin America by locating fragments and making evident the mostly untold story of horizontal (south-south) contacts across a multilingual, multicultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-12-17
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Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe and North and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide answers to the environmental crisis. Diverse ecocritical perspectives add new meaning to the novels, short stories, drama,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-12-17
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From Shakespeare to Obama discusses language, slavery, and place from the Portuguese enslavement of African people, through slavery in Shakespeare's plays, to President Obama's 2012 speech on "modern slavery." Balancing close reading with context, this expansive book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-12-17
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A History of Seventeenth-Century Literature outlines significant developments in the English literary tradition between the years 1603 and 1690. An energetic and provocative history of English literature from 1603-1690. Part of the major Blackwell History of English...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-12-16
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Blackwell History of Literature
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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
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2013-12-13
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Blackwell Anthologies
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Taking an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to literature from 1947 to the present day, this concise companion is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of postcolonial literature and culture. An...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-12-13
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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This companion to America's greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies. Covers biographical approaches of Dickinson, the historical, political and cultural contexts of her work, and its critical...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-12-12
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Although North America and Australasia occupy opposite ends of the earth, they have never been that far from each other conceptually. The United States and Australia both began as British colonies and mutual entanglements continue today, when contemporary cultures of...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-11
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Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship on James’s writings available today. Provides an essential, up-to-date reference to the work and scholarship of Henry...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-10
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century Introduces students to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-10
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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Chinese is an ancient language, but the present scope of its global study is unprecedented. Comprehending the impacts of worldwide linguistic realities on ‘Chinese as a Foreign Language’ (CFL) teachers and students will be critical to its long-term success. The most...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-09
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Through increased immigration, Ireland has encountered Central and Eastern Europe in a very direct manner since the mid-1990s. However, there was already a scattered history of cultural communication between these two regions, even if these dialogues have often been...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-09
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Das Grenzgebiet Eupen-Malmedy kann auf eine bewegte Geschichte zurückblicken. Nach langjähriger Zugehörigkeit zu den Niederlanden, dem Anschluss an das revolutionäre Frankreich und der 105-jährigen preußischen/deutschen Zeit wurde es durch den Versailler Vertrag...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2013-12-09
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Wolf von Niebelschütz (1913–1960) erzielte erst nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg seinen Durchbruch als Schriftsteller. Sein Nachruhm übertrifft allerdings die Beachtung zu Lebzeiten noch und gründet sich auf die beiden Hauptwerke Der Blaue Kammerherr (1949) und Die Kinder der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-09
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When one thinks of American Drama, names like Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams readily come to mind. However, as The Oxford Handbook of American Drama shows, the U.S. has a deep and varied tradition that extends back to the years before the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-06
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