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This book examines the intersection of trauma and the Gothic in six contemporary British novels: Martin Amis’s London Fields, Margaret Drabble’s The Gates of Ivory, Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Pat Barker’s Regeneration and Double Vision, and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-05
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This book is a study of the concept of wilaya and its developments among Shi?i scholars from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Leila Chamankhah addresses a number of issues by delving into the conceptualizations of wilaya through the examination and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-03
Collection :
Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History
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This book simultaneously examines the specific theoretical issues raised by Elizabeth Gaskell’s use of characterization in her shorter fiction, and addresses the larger question of how literary critics ought to use theory. The text gives a history of Judith Butler’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-08-31
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Klaus Mann (1906-1949) was a prolific author who engaged in constantly different fields, from journalism to novels, plays and autobiographies. An exile in the United States, he had to reinvent himself as an Anglophone author.
This publication sets out to present a new...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-30
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The essays included in this collection offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and visual art which reflect the current (post-)millennial fascination with theorizing ends and beginnings.The contributions intend to x-ray the most crucial aspects of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-30
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Die Existenz wortinterner Sprachwechsel wurde bisher in der Linguistik weitgehend verneint. Diese Einschätzung wurde dadurch begünstigt, dass zumeist europäische Sprachpaare betrachtet wurden. Fanta Christiane Heine analysiert in ihrem Buch wortinterne Sprachwechsel...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-08-29
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In the sixteenth century, a period of proliferating transatlantic travel and exploration, and, latterly, religious civil wars in France, the ship is freighted with political and religious, as well as poetic, significance; symbolism that reaches its height when...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-29
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In the sixteenth century, a period of proliferating transatlantic travel and exploration, and, latterly, religious civil wars in France, the ship is freighted with political and religious, as well as poetic, significance; symbolism that reaches its height when...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-29
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For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact order@peterlang.com (Retail Price: £100.00, $181.85).
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-08-26
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Inlays of Subjectivity is an incisive exposition of the theme of subjectivity and selfhood in modern Indian literature.
Scholarship in Indian literary studies tends to be divided along the lines of region, language, chronology, class, and caste. This book traverses and...
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OUP India
Parution :
2019-08-24
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Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-22
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Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-22
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The celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expanded The revised and updated edition ofThe Companion to the History of the Book offers a global survey of the book’s history, through print and electronic text. Already well established...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-08-15
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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The book depicts the phenomenon of cultural memory preserved in the Polish Romantic literature, predominantly in the works of Mickiewicz, Slowacki, and Norwid (and other European poets).The primary objective is to reconstruct the cultural pattern of continuity...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-15
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Myth, Locality, and Identity argues that Pindar engages in a striking, innovative style of mythmaking that represents and shapes Sicilian identities in his epinician odes for Sicilian victors in the fifth century BCE. While Sicily has been thought to be lacking in local...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-15
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Die vorliegende Abhandlung stellt eine Analyse von ausgewählten Werken Arno Surminskis dar, wobei den Gegenstand der Erwägungen die deutsche Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts bildet, genau gesagt solche Themen wie Ostpreußen und dessen vermeintliche Idealisierung, der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-14
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The book is the first volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors.The impact of Norwid’s oeuvre does not fade, as he addresses fundamental and timeless issues, such as the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-14
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This book studies the complex relations between time and visual technologies in the oeuvre of Thomas Pynchon within the general framework of the culture and politics of time. It argues that notwithstanding a postmodern tendency towards the spatialization of experience,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-14
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El presente libro recoge trabajos punteros de investigación sobre traducción, adaptación y doble destinatario en LIJ. Se estudian géneros tan variados como el álbum ilustrado, la poesía o las historias en formato audiovisual. Sus autores proceden de países como...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-14
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Der Sammelband enthält Beiträge des XXV. JungslavistInnen-Treffens, das vom 13. bis 16. September 2016 am Seminar für Slavische Philologie der Universität Göttingen stattfand. In ihren Aufsätzen geben die AutorInnen Einblick in Themen und Ergebnisse ihrer aktuellen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-14
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