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Von ‘Anderswelt’ bis ‘Zombie’: Bücher und Filme aus dem Bereich von Fantasy und Fantastik gehören seit einigen Jahren insbesondere im Bereich der Literatur und Medien für Kinder und Jugendliche zu den populärsten und vielseitigsten Titeln. Vom Bilderbuch bis zum...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-05
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The restoration of the monarchy in 1660 has commonly been thought to represent a return to political stability and religious consensus following the tumultuous civil wars and the Commonwealth period. However, by analysing underground texts from 1660 to 1670, Stephen...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-10-04
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All who treasure great literature recognize the pivotal role played by a title. But, until now, at both the undergraduate and the graduate level, no book-length study has devoted detailed expert attention to the subject of academic paper titling. Helping Students to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-10-01
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Colum McCann is one of the most important Irish writers in contemporary literary fiction. His work has been critically acclaimed across the globe for its artistic achievement, its thematic range and its ethical force. This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-21
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This book explains how and why grammatical gender disappeared from English through a detailed analysis of unhistorical gender assignment within the noun phrase in Layamon’s Brut, one of the most important Early Middle English texts. Such deviations do occur capriciously...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-17
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This book proposes a novel analysis of Nominal Construction from the syntax-semantics interface. It is based on the newly developed framework of Radical Minimalism, and provides both a concise introduction to this formal model and the application of the theory to real...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-17
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This volume comprises 28 papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages in Graz (Austria) in July 2011. The conference was also held in memory of Michael Clyne – eminent linguist, scholar, language enthusiast and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-06
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How and why did a country seen as remote, backwards, and barely European become a pivotal site for reinventing the continent after the Great War? Modernism and the New Spain argues that the "Spanish problem"-the nation's historically troubled relationship with...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-09-05
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The difference between modernism and postmodernism has been object to constant revision from a variety of critical perspectives.The present collection of essays on women’s short fiction tackles anew this thorny distinction from the theoretical perspective sketched by...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-04
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This study attempts to make sense of a group of novels that deal in a symbolic way with contemporary forms of collective disaster (the prospect of nuclear war, the Holocaust, environmental destruction). It shows similarities among British, American, Canadian and other...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-08-29
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This volume introduces the reader to a powerful and rewarding territory: the Australian novel. Both drawing from and rebelling against the power of Europe. Australian writers asserted from the beginning that experience «down under» demands thorough observation and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-08-29
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While Emily Dickinson as a forerunner of modern American poetry has met with a good critical response, Christina Rossetti is still regarded as a minor Victorian poet. Despite all their biographical, religious and poetic differences the comparative approach is...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-29
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The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts. Provides an accessible and well-written introduction to the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-08-21
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Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
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This collection of essays attempts to expand the notion of the «Black Atlantic» beyond its original racial, geographical, linguistic and cultural borders while acknowledging its remarkable ability to disturb established historical truths and to go beyond traditional...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-17
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This book approaches the empirical validation of a popular method of assessing lexical knowledge – the yes/no vocabulary test or lexical decision task – from an interdisciplinary perspective. Each of its chapters sets out a distinct phase of the research along the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-17
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Whatever happened to realism? What form is adequate to representing our moment, situated as we are after the end of ‘the end of History’? In the face of youth revolts and workers’ insurgencies from Cairo to London, it seems a good time to test the possibilities of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-10
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This study challenges critical orthodoxy by showing that childhood became a focus of interest in British fiction well before the Romantic period. It also argues that children in the Victorian novel, far from being sentimental figures, are psychologically unique and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-06
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The novelist R. F. Delderfield’s trilogy of English life in the second half of the nineteenth century portrays the social history of Adam Swann and his family, energetic people of differing talents and tempers involved in a kaleidoscopic range of social engagements....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-02
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The three writers examined in Richard Arnold’s Trinity of Discord, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and William Cowper, are known as famous poets, but are also the greatest and most popularly compiled and used hymn-writers of all time. While masters of their kind, they were...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-02
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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...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-02
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