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Yamamoto Sanehiko's (1885-1952) achievements as a publisher, writer, and politician in the interwar period served as both a catalyst and a template for developments after the wars. While exploring the accomplishments the compelling figure, this study sheds new light on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-12-05
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Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender inMedieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts, Fenian narrative,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-12-05
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The lyric poems of Horace and Housman are two enigmatic bodies of work that have much in common, and a close reading of each poet's writings can illuminate the other's. This is the first book to provide a detailed, critical comparison between these two poets, and also...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-12-05
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Studying Shakespeare’s Contemporaries is an accessible guide to non-Shakespearian English drama of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Featuring works of prestigious playwrights such as Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and Middleton, Lars Engle describes the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-12-05
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'Enjoyable, lively … such a pleasure to read … renders the drama of Shakespeare’s contemporaries more than fringe entertainment’ Independent Shakespeare is one of the greatest of all English figures, considered a genius for all time. Yet as this enthralling book shows,...
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Penguin
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2013-12-05
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Relations between women - like the branches and roots of the mangrove - twist around, across, and within others as they pervade Caribbean letters. Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature elucidates the place of desire between women in Caribbean letters, compelling...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-12-04
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Die Publikation gibt anhand historischer Ereignisse, politischer Akteure sowie Persönlichkeiten des kulturellen und wissenschaftlichen Lebens einen Einblick in die Geschichte der deutschen Polenfreundschaft. Als die Geburtsstunde der politisch motivierten Solidarität...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-04
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Der Paradigmenwechsel in den europäischen Bildungssystemen bringt für den muttersprachlichen Deutschunterricht umfassende Veränderungen mit sich, die sich auch auf die Behandlung historischer Texte auswirken. Für mittelalterliche Literatur kann diese Entwicklung Segen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-04
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Das Stammbuch des Volrat Graf zu Solms-Rödelheim und Assenheim (1762-1818) ist geprägt durch das literarische Interesse seines Besitzers. Während seiner Reisen durch Deutschland und die Schweiz begegnete er zahlreichen Gelehrten und Schriftstellern.Das Stammbuch...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-04
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This book focuses on Sir Edward Burne-Jones’ mythical paintings from 1868 to 1886. His artistic training and traveling experiences, his love for the Greek-sculptress, Maria Zambaco, and his aesthetic sensibility provided the background for these mythical paintings.This...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-12-04
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The engaging figure of Irish writer George Moore (1852-1933) comes to life in this collection of essays on his works and influences. So often considered as dangerously controversial in his lifetime, his literary output can now be appreciated as groundbreaking,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-04
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This study explores the fiction of John Banville within a variety of cultural, political, ethical and philosophical contexts. Through thematic readings of the novels, Eoghan Smith examines the complexity of Banville’s view of the artwork and explores the novelist’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-04
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This volume of papers from the 14th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, held at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), 2 to 6 August 2011, brings together recent methodological innovations and current research on the study of dialects and language...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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«This collection of essays provides new perspectives on reading, reinterpreting, appropriating and popularising Shakespeare through the work of women – actresses, directors, designers, translators and scholars from different cultural, social and political, mostly...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-04
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The fourth volume in the series Language Competence and Language Awareness in Europe features contributions from various philologies in the young but rapidly growing research area of linguistic variability.The book grew out of a nucleus of papers presented at a North...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-04
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. (John F. Kennedy, Amherst, Mass., October...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-04
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Die Untersuchung lotet Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer veränderten Diagnosekultur in einem auf Kompetenzerwerb ausgerichteten Englischunterricht aus.Die zentrale Fragestellung besteht darin, zu erkunden, welche Faktorenkomplexe für Englischlehrkräfte bei ihrem Umgang...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-04
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In a fresh reading of Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Atkins draws parallels between the protagonists: both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the burdens of life, seeking a transcendent existence. The study sheds important new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
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2013-12-03
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Myth is oral, collective, sacred, and timeless. Fantasy is a modern literary mode and a popular entertainment. Yet the two have always been inextricably intertwined. Stories about Stories examines fantasy as an arena in which different ways of understanding myth compete...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-03
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Raymond Williams begins his brilliantly perceptive study of the English novel in the 1840s, a period of rapid social change brought on by the Industrial Revolution, the struggle for democratic reform, and the growth of cities and towns. Unsettling, indeed critical, for...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-11-30
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