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Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 1976 byAfricana women writers. From a cross-cultural, transnational perspective, the author examines how these women writers –...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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C. S. Lewis, fantasy novelist, literary scholar, and Christian apologist, is one of the most original and well-known literary figures of the twentieth century. As one who stood at the crossroads of Edwardian and modern thinking, he is often read as a sexist or even...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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The dramatic and prose works of Samuel Beckett have long been understood as central to twentieth-century literature and particularly to questions about aesthetics, ethics, and the modernism-postmodernism distinction. Duncan McColl Chesney addresses many of the main...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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C. S. Lewis, fantasy novelist, literary scholar, and Christian apologist, is one of the best-known and most original literary figures of the twentieth century. As one who stood at the crossroads of Edwardian and modern thinking, he is often read as a sexist or even...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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In recent years Irish scholars have become increasingly interested in Ireland’s profound and ongoing relationship with continental Europe. This volume is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays on Irish comparisons and contacts with the Czech Lands from the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Poetry and religion have been linked since the first written texts of humanity, even before the Psalms of the Hebrew Bible. Exploring the relationship between poetry and religion within the realm of poetry in English, this volume begins in medieval times and ends with a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Languages of Exile examines the relationship between geographic and linguistic border crossings in twentieth-century literature. Like no period before it, the last century was marked by the experience of expatriation, forcing exiled writers to confront the fact of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This volume contains ten essays, principally on Chaucer, but also on other English writers of the period such as John Gower, Ranulph Higden and Thomas Hoccleve. The Chaucerian focus includes the dream visions and Troilus and Criseyde as well as the Canterbury Tales....
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Since the heyday of narratology, character has been a contested theoretical field, moving uneasily between mimetic, structuralist and interdisciplinary paradigms. Built on Jacques Lacan’s ideas about subjectivity, langugage and ethics, Dwelling in Language broaches new...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This study attempts to analyze diverse aspects of the corporeality of cultural others in Middle English oriental romances. The theoretical introduction situates the romances in the context of anthropology of the body. The analysis includes a psychoanalytical perspective...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This monograph is a study of words and expressions of emotion found in Old and Middle English texts. Lexical variety, rivalry among synonyms, both native and non-native, and their successive replacement are discussed illustrated with a large number of examples....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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The book is a study of references to Poles, Poland and Polishness in Jewish-American fiction created after World War II.The analysis of seventy novels by Jewish-American writers of several generations reveals portrayals of Poles as secondary or unimportant characters,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Valéry’s Graveyard is in two parts. The first part presents the French text of PaulValéry’s poem Le Cimetière marin (The Graveyard by the Sea) and a facing English translation, followed by a descriptive account of the poem that sets out its main structural and dynamic...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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This book focuses on the theme of foreignness and its representation in literature and cognate discourses. The volume brings together essays in English, Spanish and Catalan that consider from original and informed perspectives both the conceptualization of the foreign...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Was mag «Dialektik des Geheimnisses» heißen? Geheimnisse können enthüllt werden, wenn auch nicht immer mit Erfolg, und es gibt offene Geheimnisse, von denen nur hinter vorgehaltener Hand gesprochen wird. Doch es gibt auch Geheimnisse, die es bleiben und über die man nur...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This book addresses the function of fiction in the creation of an historical myth and the uses of myth over time. The subject of the case study is the popular image of August the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, a figure who has frequently been...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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How did writers understand the soul in late seventeenth-century England? This book considers depictions of the soul in literary texts that engage with Lucretius's Epicurean philosophy in De rerum natura or through the writings of the most important natural philosopher...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2013-11-01
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Tennyson experienced at first hand the all-pervasive nature of celebrity culture. It caused him to retreat from the eyes of the world. This book delineates Tennyson's reluctant celebrity and its effects on his writings, on his coterie of famous and notable friends and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-10-31
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This book lays bare numerous sexy Blakes, arguing for both chastity and pornography, violence and domination as well as desire and redemption, and also journeying in the realms of conceptual sex and conceptual art. Fierce tussles over the body in, and the body of, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-31
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This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how lives were lived...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-31
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