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Dieser Band umfasst 56 Beiträge in deutscher, englischer und französischer Sprache, die auf dem 44. Linguistischen Kolloquium im September 2009 an der Neuen Bulgarischen Universität in Sofia gehalten wurden. Vortragende aus Europa, Asien und Australien behandelten unter...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-10-27
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Ever since his creation, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled readers. Our perception of him and his faithful companion, Dr Watson, has been shaped by a long line of film, TV and theatre adaptations. This richly illustrated book, compiled by Alex Werner, Head of History...
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Ebury Digital
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2014-10-23
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A footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a church steeple. Eighteenth-century fiction brims with moments such as these, in which the prosaic rubs up against the...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-10-23
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A Tale Blazed Through Heaven examines developments in the representation of the classical tale of Mars, Venus, and Vulcan in the literature and painting of the Golden Age of Spain (c.1526-1681). Anchored in close analysis of individual primary texts, the five chapters...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-10-16
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Harold Pinter is inarguably one of the most influential modern British dramatists. The horizon of his literary, cultural and political activity stretches far beyond the borders of his homeland, as well as beyond the theatrical and literary world. The essays in this...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-10-16
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Shakespeare's Princes of Wales spotlights the surprising abundance of princes of Wales--English and Welsh alike--appearing onstage in the late Tudor and early Stuart period. In drawing our attention to the oft-overlooked and frequently misunderstood Welsh inheritance,...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-10-16
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In early eighteenth-century texts, the gypsy is frequently figured as an amusing rogue; by the Victorian period, it has begun to take on a nostalgic, romanticized form, abandoning sublimity in favour of the bucolic fantasy propagated by George Borrow and the founding...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-10-16
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This book shows the evolution of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, a famous and innovative dictionary for native speakers of English. It traces changes in the dictionary from 1911 to recent times. By comparing samples from each edition, the author provides insights into...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-10-14
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In recent decades, and in particular as a result of global climate change, the significance of the Arctic has radically shifted, from a remote periphery to a region of intensifying political and academic interest and of conflicting interests. This collection of texts...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-10-14
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Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit den Formen und Funktionen von Sprachmischungen zwischen dem Englischen und dem Deutschen der Gegenwart. Als Datengrundlage dient ein synchrones Pressekorpus aus 52 Ausgaben des Nachrichtenmagazins Der Spiegel, das seit den 1960ern immer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-10-14
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The 150th anniversary of Ireland’s Great Famine in the 1990s generated a significant increase in scholarship on the history of the crisis and its social and cultural aftermath. Two decades later, interest in the Irish Famine – both scholarly and popular – has soared...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-23
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Crime Scenes: ModernCrime Fiction in an International Context examines the ways in which crime fiction has developed over several decades and in several national literary traditions. The volume covers a wide spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-23
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Shockwaves of Possibility explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. The author contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in SF, but rather is fundamental to its narrative dynamics. Drawing upon a rich...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-22
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Encrypting the Past puts forward the interpretative category of the first-generation German-Jewish Holocaust novel and examines its representational strategies. With reference to works by H.G. Adler, Jenny Aloni, Elisabeth Augustin, Erich Fried, and Wolfgang...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-09-11
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Der Band stellt die Problematik der Zweisprachigkeit und des bilingualen Unterrichts in Polen umfassend dar. Er ist in zwei sich ergänzende Teile gegliedert. Die Autoren des theoretischen Teils repräsentieren verschiedene Disziplinen, u.a. Linguistik, Psychologie,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-10
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The thirteen essays in this book, presented in honour of Dr A.V.C. (Carl) Schmidt, are designed to reflect the range of his interests. Dr Schmidt, who was a Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford from 1972 until his retirement in 2011, is best known for his comprehensive...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-10
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In this study, the author shows that, under the influence of the popular geography of the eighteenth century, an increasing number of literary works began to make use of actual topographical data. Two of these works even make use of maps. He demonstrates that the...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-09-10
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This collection of papers is a gift for all the members of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, who worked abroad under the direction of British, European and American medievalists or greatly influenced by those scholars as guests of the Society. Six papers...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-09
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Travelling Texts: J.M. Coetzee and Other Writers is a collection of essays on mutual influences and inspirations between authors, with a special focus on J.M. Coetzee. Bringing together a group of international scholars, the book offers a wide range of perspectives on...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-08
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Motivated by a desire to reflect critically on the ways in which speeds, both high and low, and their representations affect the construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of meanings around particular cultural texts, images and practices, Resistance in the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-08
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