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Il presente volume contiene una raccolta di saggi dedicati alla figura e all’opera di Piergiuseppe Scardigli (Altopascio 1933 - Firenze 2008), insigne docente di filologia germanica e geniale studioso del mondo germanico antico e medievale, apprezzato in Italia e...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-06-15
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This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which its author approaches in the light of modern critical concerns and contemporary contexts. Valentine Cunningham exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the poetry produced in this period and offers dazzling close...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-06-03
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Guides to Literature
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Previous criticism has not adequately discussed oriental aspects of the content of Shakespearean drama. In addition to his portrayal of oriental figures (such as Cleopatra, Othello, and Shylock) and his use of literary genres and motifs that have roots in oriental...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-05-27
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Scottish and Irish Romanticism is the first single-author book to address the main non-English Romanticisms of the British Isles. Murray Pittock begins by questioning the terms of his chosen title as he searches for a definition of Romanticism and for the meaning of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-05-19
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In December 1921 the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed, which led to the creation of the Irish Free State and the partition of Ireland the following year. The consequences of that attempt to reconcile the conflicting demands of republicans and unionists alike have dictated...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-05-17
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This book explores bilingualism and translation in contemporary women’s writing. The author argues that the ‘in-between’ or interstitial linguistic areas of bilingualism, translation and regionalism provide a language and imagery suitable for the expression of a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-05-17
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Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-05-03
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
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The Elizabethans took from the Middle Ages the modified view of the universe which, Platonic and biblical in origin, radically differed from our own. For them all creation was ranged in an unalterable order from the angels down to man - for whom the world existed - and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-04-30
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W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster's eloquent and authoritative book weaves together literature and history to present an alternative...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-04-29
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W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster's eloquent and authoritative book weaves together literature and history to present an alternative...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-04-28
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J.R.R. Tolkien's novels of Middle-earth – The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Silmarillian – have become some of the most famous, and most beloved, literary works of the twentieth century. And the Lord of the Rings films by director Peter Jackson have...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2011-04-27
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Can an author’s preference for expressing modality be quantified and then used as a marker of attribution? This book explores the possibility of using the subjunctive mood as an indicator of style and a marker of authorship in Early Modern English texts. Using three...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-04-27
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John Berryman (1914-1972) was one of the most important American poets and men of letters of the twentieth century. A major preoccupation of his work was his life-long quest for religious truth, in particular, his critical investigations into the claims of his lost...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-04-27
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Postmodernes Kino – attraktiv und rätselhaft zugleich. Einige Zuschauer mögen es, andere fühlen sich verstört oder betrogen. In diesem Band wird ein Überblick gegeben, was wohl postmodernes Kino ist, wo es herkommt und warum es so schwer zu fassen ist. Dramaturgisch...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-04-13
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Treating sixteenth- and seventeenth-century erotic literature as part of English political history, Erotic Subjects traces some surprising implications of two early modern commonplaces: first, that love is the basis of political consent and obedience, and second, that...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-04-06
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A Short History of Early Modern England presents the historical and cultural information necessary for a richer understanding of English Renaissance literature. Written in a clear and accessible style for an undergraduate level audience Gives an overview of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-21
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The Movement was the preeminent poetical grouping of post-war Britain. 'We shall have stamped our taste on the age between us in the end', boasted its most important poet, Philip Larkin, of his and Kingsley Amis's influence. That Larkin's boast proved well-founded even...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-03-10
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Ziel des primären Fremdsprachunterrichts ist es, die Offenheit gegenüber anderen Sprachen und Kulturen bei jüngeren Fremdsprachenlernern zu entwickeln sowie zur Erweiterung ihrer sprachlichen und kommunikativen Kompetenzen beizutragen, um sie zu selbstbewussten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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This book revisits Oscar Wilde’s major writings through the field of performance studies. Wilde wrote about performance as a cultural dialectic, as a form of serious and critical play, and as the basis of a subversive poetics. In his studies at Oxford University, his...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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