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This book challenges narratives of one-directional cultural flows from Europe to the Americas. The essays’ varied topics and methods map a richly innovative Spanish-American imaginary emerging through multidirectional transatlantic and Pan-American axes of influence in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-02-05
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Joan Didion (1934-2021) was one of America’s most iconic writers and intellectuals. Her reportage and essays, as well as her novels and memoirs provide sharp comments on a variety of facets of American culture and politics between the 1960s and the 2010s. Employing the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-12-26
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Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is the first book to apply recent trends in new materialist criticism to Ireland. It radically shifts familiar colonial stereotypes of the feminized, racialized cottier according to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-20
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A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-12-08
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Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is the first book to apply recent trends in new materialist criticism to Ireland. It radically shifts familiar colonial stereotypes of the feminized, racialized cottier according to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-08
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The book contains contributions on the significance of German culture for Romanian art, language, and literature. Not only will the direct influence of German role models on Romanian culture be discussed, but it will also show how this influence set in motion a whole...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-12-05
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«Through detailed, elegant interpretations of utopian novels produced in the United States and the Soviet Union, Pavla Veselá casts aside standard commonplaces about East / West cultural divergences and reveals the critical function of utopian fiction that is shared in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-11-29
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The beginning of the 21st century saw the rise of "New" Atheism and a resulting conflict with Theists – at the same time as the resurgence of fantasy in popular culture. This volume analyses the impact of Theist and Atheist thought on the narratology of four highly...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-11-24
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La ricezione della storia di Adelphi ha risentito a lungo dell’influenza di una delle sue figure più autorevoli: Roberto Calasso. Quest’ultimo ha dedicato una parte della sua produzione a un discorso sulla figura dell’editore a cui si intrecciano percorsi autobiografici...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2023-11-21
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In the world’s so-called honor and face cultures, certain values and codes related to the protection of a family’s stainless reputation are deep-rooted. When they are violated by what is perceived as an immoral action, and the respective transgression becomes known, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-11-16
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Questo volume si propone di aggiornare la mappa della produzioneletteraria ottocentesca di argomento filellenico, stabilendo un confrontocon autori la cui opera non è stata ancora sufficientemente studiatada tale prospettiva. Partendo da una necessaria...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2023-11-16
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Der Sammelband dokumentiert die Wichtigkeit der inter- und transdisziplinären Erforschung des slawisch-österreichischen Kultur-, Literatur- und Kunstraums. Er präsentiert die Vermengung der Sprachen und Kulturen in realitätsnaher Weise und untersucht das daraus...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-11-14
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Die Festschrift vereint in der Vielfalt ihrer Beiträge die verschiedenen Forschungsfelder und zahlreichen Interessen sowie Tätigkeiten von Laura Auteri anlässlich ihres 70. Geburtstags.Die Jubilarin vertritt in ihrem Schaffen nicht nur die Auslandsgermanistik, sondern...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-11-08
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Band 89 des Wiener Slawistischen Almanachs enthält vor allem zwei thematische Blöcke, die sowohl slawische Kulturen selbst als auch ihre Rezeption auf einer Metaebene umfassen. Zum einen sind dies mehrsprachige Materialien der Tagung «Periodicals in the Slavic World....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-30
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Empathie ist eine wichtige Fähigkeit zur Übernahme fremder Sichtweisen. Sie spielt nicht nur im alltäglichen Umgang mit Mitmenschen, sondern auch bei der Filmrezeption eine große Rolle. Basierend auf verschiedenen Empathiekonzepten philosophischer, psychologischer und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-30
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Außenseiterfiguren sind in der Filmgeschichte omnipräsent, das gilt besonders für die Geschichte des Jugendfilms. Die Forschung hat sich mit diesem Phänomen bislang allerdings nur am Rande beschäftigt. Diese Lücke schließt das vorliegende Buch: Es arbeitet zunächst...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-30
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Playing Shakespeare’s Beautiful People is an in-depth, comprehensive look at the concepts and standards of "beauty" found in Shakespeare’s plays and poems, both in staged performances and in critical literary analyses. Issues as challenging as race, gender, sex, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-10-30
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Throughout the history of human civilization, the definition of the animal and its relationship to humans have been contentious issues. This book investigates the notion of what constituted an animal in Early Medieval English culture as well as how the animal-human...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-30
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A significant new contribution to Hemmingway scholarship, this book seeks to show that the moral world of The Sun Also Rises is profoundly unstable, and that every character can be seen as being both endorsed and critiqued by the text. This is manifested especially in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-10-21
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This book investigates men and quiltmaking, an under-researched part of theU.S.-American quilt world. It analyzes the connection between the genderedness ofmaterial practice and White masculinity concepts in the U.S.-American mainstream.The examination of the construct...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-18
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