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In Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Martin Amis. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Martin Amis, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals with...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-06-30
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Messing with Romance is a reinvestigation of southern literary history and a case study in the potentials of genre criticism. Offering contextualized readings of novels produced by representatives of the southern elite between 1824 and 1854, the study traces a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-28
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This book explores the multifaceted concepts of otherness, barbarism and exteriority. Is encountering the ‘Other’ still possible in a world in which we all have become rootless, disconnected and strangers, alienated from the outside world and from ourselves? Does the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-22
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What do we do when we are about to utter speech? On which linguistic units do we rely? How do these units evolve from childhood to adulthood, or across time for a given language? How do we assemble these units under the influences of syntactic, phonological and prosodic...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-21
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The divide between the techno-scientific and the humanities paradigm has critically endangered general comprehension.The prolegomena to a «unified field theory of futurology» presented here attempt to reconcile these epistemological models by meticulously investigating...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-19
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It was in The Germ (1850), the first British magazine with an aesthetic manifesto, that the interart theories of the Pre-Raphaelites took shape. The thirteen young contributors advocated an ethical approach to art while at the same time acknowledging self-referentiality...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-13
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This detailed study explores the significance of the ‘Library of Ireland’, a book series originated in the 1840s by the Young Irelanders Thomas Davis and Charles Gavan Duffy. Focusing on the literary anthologies and literary histories published in this series, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-12
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Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge tragen aus je unterschiedlicher Perspektive dazu bei, den Aspekt evaluierender Sprachbetrachtung in die wissenschaftliche Analyse sprachlicher Wirklichkeit zu integrieren. Das Konzept «Gute Sprache, schlechte Sprache» ist ein...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-12
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Throughout the second half of the 20th century various societies were shaped by conflicting trends of globalization and nationalist resurgence, powerful surges of collective identities as well as fragmentation into individualistic subjects. Against this background of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-08
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In Vintage Living Texts teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of A. S. Byatt. Also included is an exclusive in-depth interview with A. S. Byatt relating specifically to the novels under discussion. A. S. Byatt's...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-05-31
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In Vintage Living Texts, teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of Iris Murdoch. Iris Murdoch's themes, genre and narrative techniques are put under scrutiny and the emphasis is on providing a rich source of ideas...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-05-31
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In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Sebastian Faulks. This guide will deal with his themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will be accompanied with likely exam questions, and...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-05-31
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English as a Vocation is a history of the most influential movement in modern British literary criticism. F. R. Leavis and his collaborators on the Cambridge journal Scrutiny in the 1930s to the 1950s demonstrated compelling ways of reading modernist poetry,...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-05-31
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Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature connects changing seventeenth-century English views of maternal nurture to the rise of the modern nation, especially between 1603 and 1675. Maternal nurture gains new prominence in the early modern cultural...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-05-31
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Kirstie Blair explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary debates over the use of forms in worship. She argues that poetry made significant contributions to these debates, not least through its formal...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-05-24
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This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century: Reinaldo Arenas. The text engages with the many extraordinary intersections created between Arenas’...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-05-08
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An important and innovative edition of Milton's shorter verse & the first volume to present the poems with the original spelling and pronunciations intact, offering readers the opportunity to experience the vitality of the poems as they were experienced by Milton's...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-05-04
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In the last decade, the so called «spatial turn» has produced a broad discussion of space and spatiality in the social sciences, in architecture and art, as well as in philosophy, and also in literary criticism. The book focuses on one aspect largely ignored by literary...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-05-04
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Between Christmas and new year of 1817 the eccentric painter, B.R. Haydon, gave a famous dinner party. His guests included three of the greatest literary stars of the age: the poets John Keats and William Wordsworth and the essayist and wit Charles Lamb. They recited...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-05-03
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