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In light of the fact that the thirty-year struggle known as the ‘Troubles’ is still the longest civil conflict in modern European history, it is perhaps inevitable that violence looms large in in contemporary Irish culture and society. This volume delves into the...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-11-25
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'I was at one of those periods in youth--vacant, without any particular love object--when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.'
In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, the second volume of Proust's In Search of Lost...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-25
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Violence, in its myriad forms, is a central theme in contemporary Irish history and culture and has long been a preoccupation for writers of Irish narrative fiction. This volume investigates representations of and resistance to violence in the Irish novel, offering...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-11-19
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'I was at one of those periods in youth--vacant, without any particular love object--when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.'
In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, the second volume of Proust's In Search of Lost...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-19
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«From the violence of growth and the mountains of garbage to migrant lives brutally cast away in the Mediterranean, what constitutes waste? Who defines and arranges its semantics? This collection of thoughtful essays takes us into the unsuspected depths of the...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-10-28
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Heinrich Heines Buch der Lieder (1827) ist heute fester Bestandteil des Literaturkanons. Das war jedoch nicht immer so. Ein Blick auf die Erfolgsgeschichte der „Lieder“ zeigt, dass diese das Publikum nicht nur begeisterten und faszinierten, sondern gleichermaßen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-28
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The Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (DRC) played a key role in developing apartheid theology, syncretizing Reformed theology with race-based ideology. This paradigm changed rapidly between 1986 and 1990 with the General Synod decision, Church and Society.The...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-10-07
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The book stems from the belief that scholars should actively engage with the areas of humanities significantly captured in the literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. Lebkowska applies literary-studies, anthropological, and cultural-studies methods to focus on three...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-09-16
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This book presents an innovative, scientifically grounded interpretation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. It offers solutions to problems inherent in the text which have hitherto been ignored or inadequately addressed: problems relating to the flow of time, the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-09-06
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This book addresses the dynamics of normativity and resilience through the lens of translation. Engaging with both domestic and foreign cultural, social, economic, and ethical frameworks, the act of translation emerges as a dual force: it uncovers subtle and implicit...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-08-02
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This study aims to uncover the traces of the celebrated Sweeney legend in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Austin Clarke, Derek Mahon, Tom Mac Intyre, Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, Dermot Bolger, Paula Meehan, and Nuala Ní...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-19
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This book is a collection of essays written in honour of Eamon Maher. The essays all speak to issues which Eamon has worked on, so there are pieces focusing largely on the connections between Ireland and France across a range of political, cultural, historical,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-17
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«This is not the H. P. Lovecraft we thought we knew. Lovecraft is a great writer and a famously difficult thinker, and Pedersen’s provocative and highly original argument is that he is fundamentally a figure in the European Romantic tradition, with close affiliations to...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-14
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What is understood by judicial activism in different jurisdictions? Beyond a superficial agreement, are we talking about the same phenomenon across countries and systems (or over time), and to what extent? This book seeks to articulate a comparative perspective on...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-10
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Poetry has been around for nearly five millennia, yet never has it been more puzzling. The many reasons include technology, social media, and the blinding pace of contemporary life, leaving many students and readers in the dark. Just in time, this book comes to the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-07
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When the first issue of The Liberal was published on 10 October 1822, the periodical was largely dismissed by the British press as a political project conceived by well-known and controversial figures (L. Hunt, P.B. Shelley, Lord Byron, W. Hazlitt, and Mary Shelley)....
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-05-21
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The book discusses the development of Polish studies on Greek antiquity in the first half of the nineteenth century. Junkiert scrutinizes the relationship of Polish intellectuals with their predecessors in this field in France and the German-speaking culture.The book...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-05-03
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Das Internet hat sich von einem Medium der Kommunikation, Wissensvermittlung und Informationssuche zu einem Instrument entwickelt, das die Öffentlichkeit sowohl positiv als auch negativ beeinflussen kann. Neben den Mainstream-Webseiten existieren auch solche, die von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-04-29
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«A piercing critique of imperial culture and climate doomism. Alberro’s Terrestrial Ecotopias is a compelling and penetrating corrective, sketching an ecology of hope beyond the Capitalocene.»
(Jason W. Moore, author, Capitalism in the Web of Life)
«Utopia is here and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-04-24
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«This relevant, clearly defined study isn’t constricted by its primary focus on late nineteenth-century American utopias, written when inequality flourished. Morris enriches this focus with chronological comparisons to well-known and lesser-known American utopias in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-04-24
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