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This volume includes a selection of the papers given during the international conference «Patagonia: Myths and Realities», which was organised through the Centre of Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester. The essays gathered in this collection...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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Recently, the issue of postnationalism has encouraged intense debate, which has been reflected in the publication of numerous books and articles in various fields of study, including politics, history, philosophy and anthropology. However, the work produced in Irish...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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This anthology contributes to a scholarly understanding of the aesthetics and economics of female artistic labour in the Victorian period. It maps out the evolution of the Woman Question in a number of areas, including the status and suitability of artistic professions...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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This volume, which takes its title from an international conference held at the University of Cambridge in November 2006, aims to shed new light on Schnitzler’s œuvre and his period by focusing on his as yet largely unpublished literary remains, his ‘hidden...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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This book deals with the process of negotiation with the past in the present through the plays of Marina Carr. The title frames the work, connoting the path towards destruction and the sense of lethargy acquired along the way. The book offers an in-depth and extensive...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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This Festschrift for Professor Tadhg Foley of the National University of Ireland, Galway, who retired in 2009, gathers together international contributors in the fields of poetry, politics and academia to honour this great man’s life and work. Professor Foley has not...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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«In many ways», Robert J.C. Young writes, «colonization from the very first carried with it the seeds of its own destruction.» Imperial Affliction examines some ways in which Young’s observation could be applied to problems of subjectivity and influence within the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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To date, no text exists that focuses exclusively on the concept of postcolonial film as a framework for identifying films produced within and outside of various formerly colonized nations, nor is there a scholarly text that addresses pedagogical issues about and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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The central thesis of this book is that Philip Roth’s work is most accurately viewed as postmodernist American Historical Romance, rather than marginalized as Jewish-American. Four works are analyzed in relation to this thesis and to the specific idea that Roth’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and Television examines recent film and television transformations of William Shakespeare’s drama by focusing on the ways in which modern directors acknowledge and respond to the perceived authority of Shakespeare as author, text,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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This collection of insightful and provocative essays explores the theme of sanctuaries of light in nineteenth-century European literature, especially in selected works by William Wordsworth, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Joseph von Eichendorff, and Charlotte Brontë. These...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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This volume investigates to what extent existing approaches to pragmatics and discourse shed light on how the form of a text creates stylistic effects. Taking a cross-cultural perspective, this book focuses on five key stylistic features of writing – paragraph...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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This collection of articles covers a wide range of topics in English philology and history of linguistics. The volume proceeds from Old English studies offering a unique perspective and approach in literary and linguistic research into Anglo-Saxon England. Two articles...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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Catholicism has played a central role in Irish society for centuries. It is sometimes perceived in a negative light, being associated with repression, antiquated morality and a warped view of sexuality. However, there are also the positive aspects thatCatholicism...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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This collection looks beyond Ireland metaphorically as well as geographically, moving beyond nationalism towards the culturally diverse, beyond a bilingual Ireland to a polyvocal one, beyond the imagined community towards a virtual one, beyond a territorial Ireland to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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In 2005, when John McGahern published his Memoir, he revealed for the first time in explicit detail the specific nature of the autobiographical dimension of his fiction, a dimension he had hitherto either denied or mystified. Taking Memoir as a paradigmatic work of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde first appeared in 1886. Readers at the time commented on three major influences at work on the text: Darwinism, the Bible, and Platonism. With the passage of time commentators have tended to focus on either...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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This book examines theatre within the context of the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process, with reference to a wide variety of plays, theatre productions and community engagements within and across communities. The author clarifies both the nature of the social...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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This collection of essays reconsiders aspects of Irish studies through the medium of literary and cultural theory. The author looks at the negotiations between texts and their contexts and then analyses how the writer both reflects and transforms aspects of his or her...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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Ireland has passed through numerous identity crises in the last century, keeping the meaning of Irishness in constant flux. This book explores how diverse writers have positioned their life stories within the wider narrative of the nation’s development. Examining the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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