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From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives this book offers a commentary on the blending of pasts and presents...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-12-10
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Mit dem Siegeszug des Christentums war der Kosmos der antiken Mythologie nicht obsolet geworden. Er lebte fort in den Bildungstraditionen. Um das unterirdische Totenreich entstand dabei ein besonderer Diskurs. Das mythische Szenario hatte mit seinen archaischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-10
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Colour is one of the few remaining uncharted territories of film studies, and its centrality to the construction and reception of film narratives has only recently been recognised. After a century of widespread critical and theoretical neglect, colour is now poised to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-10
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While much of the critical discussion about the emerging genre of 9/11 fiction has centred on the trauma of 9/11 and on novels by EuroAmerican writers, this book draws attention to the diversity of what might be meant by "post" -9/11 by exploring the themes of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-07
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Written by experienced A-level examiners and teachers who know exactly what students need to succeed, and edited by a chief examiner, Philip Allan Literature Guides (for A-level) are invaluable study companions with exam-specific advice to help you to get the grade you...
Editeur :
Philip Allan
Parution :
2012-12-07
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Philip Allan Literature Guides (for GCSE) provide exam-focused analysis of popular set texts to give students the very best chance of achieving the highest grades possible. Designed to be used throughout the course or as revision before the exam, this full colour text...
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Philip Allan
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2012-12-07
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A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magic realism serve to memorialize, address, and redress traumatic ethnic histories.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-12-06
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Combining work by critics from Latin America, the USA, and Europe, Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice is the first anthology of articles in English to examine science fiction in all of Latin America, from Mexico and the Caribbean to Brazil and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-05
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This book examines the revival of antique philosophy in the Renaissance as a literary preoccupation informed by wit. Humanists were more inspired by the fictionalized characters of certain wise fools, including Diogenes the Cynic, Socrates, Aesop, Democritus, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-05
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Drawing on the later writings of Martin Heidegger, the book traces the correspondence between the philosopher's concept of technology and Shakespeare's poetics of human and natural productivity in the Sonnets.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-05
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The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel PUSH that has since become the Academy-award-winning film Precious.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-05
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This book was shortlisted for the ESSE Book Awards This volume analyses the endeavours of early Elizabethan playwrights to examine the narrative possibilities of drama. Paying attention to pre-Shakespearean comedies written in English between 1560 and 1590, the author...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-12-05
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This interdisciplinary volume of contributed essays focuses on issues of gender in the British novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly Hardy and Trollope. Approaching the topic from a variety of backgrounds, the contributors reinvigorate the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-12-05
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Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-04
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Presented here, for the first time since their publication over a century ago, are twelve previously unknown published works of fiction, poetry, and journalistic writing by Bram Stoker (1847-1912), three works never before reprinted, twelve period writings about Stoker,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-04
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Zwischen 1200 und 1600 erleben die Thermalquellen in Italien und Europa (nicht zuletzt im deutschen Reich) ihre Renaissance. Dank von fern anreisender Patienten werden antike Bäder wieder belebt oder neue erschlossen und mit Infrastrukturen versehen. Parallel zur...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-12-03
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The volume, inspired by Professor Welna’s life-long studies in historical linguistics, brings together scholars researching topics in various fields of the history of the English language. Nine chapters devoted to different linguistic disciplines gather articles...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-12-03
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This collection examines the intersection of historical recollection, strategies of representation, and reading practices in historical fiction from the eighteenth century to today. In shifting focus to the agency of the reader and taking a long historical view, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-03
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One of the most popular and widely known characters in all of fiction, Sherlock Holmes has an enduring appeal based largely on his uncanny ability to make the most remarkable deductions from the most mundane facts. The very first words that Sherlock Holmes ever says to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-12-03
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An analysis of literary accounts of suffering from sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines fiction and life-writing in English and French over the last forty years. Drawing on writers from the canonical to the less well-known, it uses close readings to examine the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-11-29
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