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Mit Stefano Guazzos Dialog La Civil Conversazione erschien 1574 in Brescia ein Werk, das den Gesellschaftsfragen im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit entscheidende Impulse gab. Indem er alle sozialen Schichten in seine Überlegungen einbezieht, betont Guazzo das überständische...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-25
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This book studies a crucial phase in the history of Roman slavery, beginning with the transition to chattel slavery in the third century bce and ending with antiquity’s first large-scale slave rebellion in the 130s bce. Slavery is a relationship of power, and to study...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-04-25
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A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is explored through 33 original essays thatoffer new and innovative approaches to specific elegists and the discipline as a whole. Contributors...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-04-25
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznan (Poland), in November 2009. The papers cover a wide range of approaches to the issue of the afterlife, heaven and hell in Old and Middle English as well as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-25
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The articles collected in this volume offer the most various access to the discussed questions on norm and variation. In their entirety, they reflect the current discussion of the topic. Focusing on the object languages German and English ensures a high level of topical...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-25
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This book assembles the contributions of the Eighth European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL VIII) which took place from 2nd to 5th December 2009 at the University of Potsdam. The concern was to bring together excellent experienced but also...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-25
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Exploring, amongst other themes, representations of the other, strategies adopted to resist such representations, the issues of identity, nationalism, colonialism, feminism, subaltern studies and the English language within the context of Empire, this book projects a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-04-24
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In der literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschung gilt Johannes Urzidil als Schriftsteller der Erinnerung, der das untergegangene Prag vor den Augen seiner Leser neu erstehen lässt.In dem nicht unerheblichen Teil seines erzählerischen Werks, der die US-amerikanische...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-24
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In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Louis de Bernières. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Louis de Bernières, relating specifically to the texts under discussion.This guide...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-04-24
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Wordsworth and Coleridge: Promising Losses assembles essays spanning the last thirty years, including a selection of Peter Larkin's original verse, with the concept of promise and loss serving as the uniting narrative thread.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-04-23
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An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and property, combining literature, history, and economics. By looking at women's marriage narratives over a long period of time, the book reveals the deep discontent with the institution of property ownership as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-04-23
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Even though metadiscourse has recently received considerable attention, most research revolves around written, not spoken, metadiscourse. This book studies spoken metadiscourse in two academic genres in the engineering field, the lecture and the peer seminar. It...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-20
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Le 21e siècle présente des défis importants pour l’enseignement des langues et des cultures. Les enseignants sont plus que jamais confrontés à un environnement complexe et dynamique de croyances et de pratiques, où la diversité et l’interculturalité créent des identités...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2012-04-20
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Gérard Genette’s seminal study of the paratext, Seuils (1987), is the starting point for this collection of essays, all of which seek not only to engage with Genette’s taxonomy and apply it, but also to interrogate it and to move through and beyond it. In addition to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-19
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In the unstable economy of the nineteenth-century, few Americans could feel secure. Paper money made values less tangible, while a series of financial manias, panics, and depressions clouded everyday life with uncertainty and risk.In this groundbreaking study, Andrew...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-04-19
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This collection of essays showcases the rich diversity of current writing about Irish theatre. The volume includes perspectives from experts in scenography, physical theatre, dramaturgy and stand-up comedy, as well as academic contributions drawing from anthropology,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-19
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Allo sviluppo della coscienza nazionale italiana nell’Ottocento la narrativa ha dato un contributo importante. Componente centrale della maggior parte delle opere letterarie discusse in questo volume è quel «sistema simbolico» che ha potuto agevolare la spinta...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2012-04-19
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Irish Women Playwrights 1900-1939 is the first book to examine the plays of five fascinating and creative women, placing their work for theatre in co-relation to suggest a parallel tradition that reframes the development ofIrish theatre into the present day. How these...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-04-18
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Starting from the debate between the two cultures, the book analyzes the relationship between literature and science in the last years of the twentieth century in the light of scientific theories which universally underline both their indeterminacy and their lack of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-18
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The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations have provided material to many novels by leading German and international writers. This book is the first to examine this rich literary corpus, treating it as a political unconscious which expresses...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-04-14
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