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One of the stories from the bestselling historical fiction Falco series.As the girl came running up the steps, I decided she was wearing far too many clothes...So, in 1989, readers were introduced to Marcus Didius Falco, the Roman informer, as he stood on the steps of...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-01-18
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The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature is at once a literary history, an introduction to various theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, a review of genres, and a selection of original and interdisciplinary essays on canonical and popular works for...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-01-15
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Novel Craft explores an intriguing and under-studied aspect of cultural life in Victorian England: domestic handicrafts, the decorative pursuit that predated the Arts and Crafts movement. Talia Schaffer argues that the handicraft movement served as a way to critique the...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-01-15
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Diese Studie analysiert die Problematik der Identitätssuche ostdeutscher Protagonisten in vier Veröffentlichungen von Autoren aus der ehemaligen DDR. Durch die Handlung des Reisens artikuliert sich deren Suche nach Identität und nach persönlicher Orientierung. Gerade...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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This is the first book-length study of the outstanding generation of Leningrad poets whose careers began during the Khrushchev Thaw. The text brings together memoirs, interviews, and archival research to construct an account of the world of poetry in Leningrad, in which...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Today Edgar Allan Poe is a well-known and highly regarded author. When, a hundred years ago (1909), a group of Poe acquaintances, fans and scholars got together at the University of Virginia to commemorate Poe’s birth centenary, they had to do so in order to modify the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Die Geschichte der Philologien kann nicht von der Geschichte der Literaturen getrennt werden: Dichtung bezieht sich immer auf Traditionen. Diese existieren aufgrund ihrer Konstitution, ihrer Bewahrung, ihrer Kritik, ihrer Interpretation – aufgrund der klassischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Von der Nachkriegszeit bis zur sogenannten Wende, in einem Zeitraum dreier Generationen also, in dem ein vereintes Europa Wirklichkeit geworden ist, vollzog sich ein Wandel nicht nur der politischen und ökonomischen Verhältnisse, sondern auch im Verhältnis der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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This study explores a number of early modern comedias that deal with historical siege or military episodes in the history of the Iberian peoples. Cervantes’s La Numancia, Lope de Vega’s El asalto de Mastrique and his lesser known La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo de...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Despite the numerous studies of the politics, economy, culture, and society of the Estado Novo, the relations established between publishers, authors, and governmental institutions and their contribution to the making of the literary canon are still marginal subjects of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Commentary on Don Quixote is as universal as affirmations of the novel’s importance, yet until now no study has examined what Cervantes said about it. In the prologue to the first half of the work (1605) the self-conscious author, in a tongue-in-cheek dialogue with the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch sind Stereotype vereinfachte, schablonenhafte Vorstellungen von Menschen, die weniger auf der eigenen Erfahrung gründen. Sie transportieren eher ein mit Wertungen durchsetztes, geronnenes Erfahrungswissen innerhalb der Kulturen.Im Sinne der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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This book contrasts the portrayal of kings and kingship in the drama of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and the Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-81), concentrating on the ways in which both dramatists use the individual complexities of their kingly...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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This book addresses the recovery of submerged memories, loss and trauma in self-avowed intertextual fiction, while simultaneously exposing the tensions and untenability of any stable figuration of alterity. Otherness thus posits a liminal and largely transversal site of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Eighteenth-century England did not only see the rise of the novel, but also the rise of genres of what we now call the fantastic, such as imaginary voyages and apparition narratives. Combining theoretical reflection and cultural analysis, the author of this book...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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This book is an analysis of the textual representation of dance in the Australian novel since the late 1890s. It examines how the act of dance is variously portrayed, how the word ‘dance’ is used metaphorically to convey actual or imagined movement, and how dance is...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) was one of the leading women poets of the second generation of English Romantic writers. Following her predecessor Walter Scott and her contemporary Lord Byron, she was a fluent practitioner and essential innovator of the metrical...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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This book provides an analysis of the representation of women’s bodies and their monstrous metamorphoses in selected short stories by contemporary English writer Michèle Roberts. The author explores the relationship between traditional fairy tales such as the Grimm...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Raymond Williams was an enormously influential figure in late twentieth-century intellectual life as a novelist, playwright and critic, «the British Sartre», as The Times put it. He was a central inspiration for the early British New Left and a close intellectual...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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This book explores the extraordinarily violent and abusive nature of Stephen Donaldson’s male protagonists. Thomas Covenant of The Chronicles is a leper, rotten and physically collapsing. In Mordant’s Need and The Gap series the male characters are moral lepers. The Gap...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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