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In this book, Peter Anthony Mena looks closely at descriptions of space in ancient Christian hagiographies and considers how the desert relates to constructions of subjectivity. By reading three pivotal ancient hagiographies—the Life of Antony, the Life of Paul the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-24
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This book explores the intersection between the recent work on queer temporality and the experiments of literary modernism. Kate Haffey argues that queer theory’s recent work on time owes a debt to modernist authors who developed new ways of representing temporality in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-24
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This book analyzes the distinguished modern Muslim scholar Bediuzzaman Said Nursi and the methodology of Qur’anic exegesis in his Risale-i Nur Collection, with special reference to the views of the early Muslim modernist intellectuals such as Muhammad ‘Abduh. It seeks...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-24
Collection :
Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History
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This book is the sequel to Britain Through Muslim Eyes and examines contemporary novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain. It builds on studies of the five senses and ‘sensuous geographies’ of postcolonial Britain, and charts the development since 1988 of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-04-23
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Lange bevor Deutschland als politische oder nationale Einheit überhaupt gedacht werden konnte, gab es ein dichterisches Sprechen über »unser lant« (Walther von der Vogelweide). Davon handelt dieses Buch – und wie sich diese Rede im Lauf der Jahrhunderte bis in die...
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J.B. Metzler
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2019-04-23
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This book argues that the Anglophone novel in the twentieth century is, in fact, always multilingual. Rooting its analysis in modern Europe and the Caribbean, it recognises that monolingualism, not multilingualism, is a historical and global rarity, and argues that this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-17
Collection :
New Comparisons in World Literature
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Removing an organ from one (typically dead) body and placing it in another living body challenges our most foundational ideas about boundaries between self and other, individual and social identity, life and death, health and illness. But despite these transgressions,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-17
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) was often hailed as one of the most important – and one of the most difficult – poets of his lifetime. This book is a timely investigation into a writer whose work seems simultaneously to invite analysis and to refuse explanations of its...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-04-15
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Seit Benno von Wieses Werkmonographie und Harry Mayncs Biographie Immermanns sind fast 50 beziehungsweise 100 Jahre vergangen, so daß eine neue Biographie, deren Fehlen Friedrich Sengle schon 1971 monierte, dringend notwendig erscheint. Durch die Veröffentlichung der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-04-15
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Seit wenigen Jahren befassen sich Deutschunterricht und Deutschdidaktik verstärkt mit SchülerInnen, die Migration erlebt haben oder deren Familien eine Migrationsgeschichte besitzen. Welche Rolle spielt der «Migrationshintergrund» in Bildungsprozessen, welche Phänomene...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-04-15
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The author analyzes the multi-layered and multidimensional theme of identity construction recurring in Tony Harrison’s work from the seventies onwards looking at the way it evolved throughout the years.The book examines identity in the frame of the sociological and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-04-15
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Thema dieses Buchs sind die öffentlichen Diskurse um den Holocaust, die einen integralen Bestandteil der Vergangenheitsbewältigung in der Bundesrepublik seit den 1960er Jahren darstellen. Viele Konflikte, Brüche und Diskontinuitäten kennzeichnen diesen Zeitraum und auch...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-04-11
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Diese Studie ist im Bereich der Lehrerforschung im spezifischen Teilbereich der germanistischen Literaturdidaktik zu verorten. Dabei nimmt die Autorin tieferliegende Strukturen in den Blick, die Überzeugungen und Unterrichtshandeln von Lehrpersonen – zumindest teilweise...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-04-11
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This book focuses on the role that the Oxford classical curriculum has had in shaping Oscar Wilde’s aestheticism. It positions Wilde as a classically trained intellectual and outlines the path he took to gain recognition as a writer and promoter of the aesthetic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-06
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Red Britain sets out a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of mid-century Britain by drawing attention to the extent, diversity, and longevity of the cultural effects of the Russian Revolution. Drawing on new archival research and historical scholarship,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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Red Britain sets out a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of mid-century Britain by drawing attention to the extent, diversity, and longevity of the cultural effects of the Russian Revolution. Drawing on new archival research and historical scholarship,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea of persuasive rhetoric (which assumes a speaker's control of calculated effects) and the modern idea of literary autonomy (which assumes...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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Linguistic Turns rewrites the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century Europe. In chapters that study the work of Saussure, Russell, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Cassirer, Shklovskii, the Russian Futurists, Ogden and Richards, Sorel, Gramsci, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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Linguistic Turns rewrites the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century Europe. In chapters that study the work of Saussure, Russell, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Cassirer, Shklovskii, the Russian Futurists, Ogden and Richards, Sorel, Gramsci, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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More Time studies the contemporary short story and focuses on four recent collections: Alice Munro's Dear Life (2012); Andre Dubus's Dancing After Hours (1996); Joy Williams's The Visiting Privilege (2015); and Lydia Davis's Can't and Won't (2014). Each publication has...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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