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This book is a collection of articles covering the theme of interaction. Interaction combines two crucial elements: the intrapersonal and the interpersonal. Accordingly, the authors approach this issue from two complementary perspectives: from the internal and external...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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This book is a corpus-based study which aims to describe the class of self-pronouns as used in the Early Modern English period. Self-pronouns are presented as a multi-functional class, with two main functions, as emphatic forms and as reflexive markers. The emphatic...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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On the occasion of Hermann J. Real’s seventy-fifth birthday, this collection honours a scholar whose contagious curiosity has been dedicated to the study of Jonathan Swift’s life and works for the past four decades. The contributions cover multiple aspects of the Dean’s...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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Kinder treiben uns um. Sie gehören zum menschlichen Leben wie der Tod und die Liebe, ja sind geradezu deren Konsequenz. Betrachtet man ihren Platz in der Gesellschaft, so offenbaren sie sich als Spiegel unserer selbst. Die Analysen vergangener, gegenwärtiger und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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Die Studie geht einem bisher kaum behandelten Aspekt der Romantik nach, der Scotophilie. Es handelt sich dabei um eine perzeptions- und mentalitätsgeschichtliche Entwicklung Schottlands und Deutschlands. Ziel der Studie ist die Rekonstruktion der Wirklichkeitsauffassung...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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The monograph reads Sir Henry Rider Haggard’s historical romance Cleopatra (1889) with the aim to delineate the last decade of the Victorian period, shed light on the attempt to forge identity, and demonstrate the author’s preoccupation with the concept of coincidentia...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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Unbounded Attachment is about the uses of the language of sentiment in British women's writing from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jane Austen. It focuses on a range of writers for whom this language has the potential to hold together disparate elements in late eighteenth and...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-14
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Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987–2007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last 25 years. Meticulously researched, it presents detailed interpretations of novels by some of Ireland’s most...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-11-05
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Reading the Novel
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Seit der Einführung des Europäischen Portfolios der Sprachen (EPS) im Jahr 2001 ist dem Portfolio ein starkes Potenzial zur Veränderung der Lernkultur im Fremdsprachenunterricht zugeschrieben worden. Die quantitative empirische Studie untersucht die Wirksamkeit der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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This volume contains sixteen essays of literary criticism, comparative literature and interdisciplinary studies by Polish, German, Welsh, French and American scholars. It features a voyage through the sea of evil from the beginning of time to the present, from the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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This volume is a selection of papers read at the fourth international conference of the Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics (SHELL) held at Keio University, Tokyo, in 2012. The first conference was at Chiba University (Japan) back in 2005, the second...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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The Continuum of Consciousness: Aesthetic Experience and Visual Art in Henry James’s Novels examines the transformative experience of art in James’s fiction. In a 1915 letter to H. G. Wells, James declares, «It is art that makes life.» This book traces the rich...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 1976 byAfricana women writers. From a cross-cultural, transnational perspective, the author examines how these women writers –...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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C. S. Lewis, fantasy novelist, literary scholar, and Christian apologist, is one of the most original and well-known literary figures of the twentieth century. As one who stood at the crossroads of Edwardian and modern thinking, he is often read as a sexist or even...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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The dramatic and prose works of Samuel Beckett have long been understood as central to twentieth-century literature and particularly to questions about aesthetics, ethics, and the modernism-postmodernism distinction. Duncan McColl Chesney addresses many of the main...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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C. S. Lewis, fantasy novelist, literary scholar, and Christian apologist, is one of the best-known and most original literary figures of the twentieth century. As one who stood at the crossroads of Edwardian and modern thinking, he is often read as a sexist or even...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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In recent years Irish scholars have become increasingly interested in Ireland’s profound and ongoing relationship with continental Europe. This volume is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays on Irish comparisons and contacts with the Czech Lands from the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Poetry and religion have been linked since the first written texts of humanity, even before the Psalms of the Hebrew Bible. Exploring the relationship between poetry and religion within the realm of poetry in English, this volume begins in medieval times and ends with a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Languages of Exile examines the relationship between geographic and linguistic border crossings in twentieth-century literature. Like no period before it, the last century was marked by the experience of expatriation, forcing exiled writers to confront the fact of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This volume contains ten essays, principally on Chaucer, but also on other English writers of the period such as John Gower, Ranulph Higden and Thomas Hoccleve. The Chaucerian focus includes the dream visions and Troilus and Criseyde as well as the Canterbury Tales....
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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