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Die Diskussion um die Herausbildung einer Gemeinsprache schon im Mittelhochdeutschen begleitet die Germanistik von ihren Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. Immer wieder wurde dabei insbesondere die Zeit der höfischen Dichter und damit das ‚klassische Mittelhochdeutsche‘ in...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-10-07
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The study focuses on spatio-temporal relations and their dependence on literary genres in Paul Auster’s fiction.The author examines how selected novels reflect and redefine both the representation of space and formulaic patterns of genres they can be categorised as....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-10-07
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This book explores first-hand Dunhuang manuscripts from a period of over 700 years, from 220 to 960, and as such makes a major contribution to passing on and promoting ancient Chinese culture. Perfectly combining four ingredients: an accessible writing style; a...
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Springer
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2024-10-05
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The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era across Europe and beyond.The volume presents forty-four groundbreaking essays that enable readers to assess Lord Byron's central position in Romantic...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-04
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The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era across Europe and beyond.The volume presents forty-four groundbreaking essays that enable readers to assess Lord Byron's central position in Romantic...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-04
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The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self.The world is always in motion and it is also full of risk.In such a world, how...
Editeur :
Corsair
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2024-10-03
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Die qualitativ-rekonstruktive Studie untersucht das implizite und handlungsleitende Wissen von Englischlehrpersonen nach einer Weiterbildungsmaßnahme zu einer Kritischen Fremdsprachendidaktik. Mithilfe von episodischen Interviews und Dokumentarischer Methode wird die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-02
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Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century is the first in-depth study of the subject. It analyses the ways in which theatre in Ireland has developed since the 1990s when emerging playwrights Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson, and Enda Walsh turned against the tradition...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-27
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Narratives in Modern Arabic Literature: Explorations in Place, Gender, and ?ufi Motifs offers a significant contribution to modern Arabic literary studies. By analyzing the roles of place, gender, and ?ufi motifs, the book provides a nuanced examination of key thematic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-09-27
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In the spring of 1928, the coal miner’s daughter Erna Halbe leaves her provincial hometown for Berlin, where she takes an office job. Her new colleagues laugh at her unfashionable clothes and dub her «The Girl at the Orga Privat» when she is given an old typewriter of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2024-09-27
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Master mariner and pioneer author of Modernist technique Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) achieved such eminence in his lifetime that his presence, explicit or implicit, could be found in the lives and works of several contemporaries of consequence. Through the century since...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-27
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This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world. It starts with the individual laborer and works up, emphasizing their agency in navigating, transforming, and transcending the systems and structures around them. Taking...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-09-26
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Gabriele Tergit (1894–1982) war bis 1933 eine der erfolgreichsten Autorinnen ihrer Generation. Aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland geflohen, fand sie jedoch im Exil kein Publikum mehr – obwohl sie kontinuierlich schrieb. Ihr vielseitiges literarisches und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-09-25
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The essential work on Romanticism, revised and condensed for student convenience Standing as the essential work on Romanticism, Duncan Wu’s Romanticism: An Anthology has been appreciated by thousands of literature students and their teachers across the globe since its...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-09-25
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Das Übersetzen der literarischen Körpersprache stellt eine Herausforderung dar. Der Übersetzer sieht sich dabei nicht nur mit kulturspezifischen Körpersignalen konfrontiert, sondern auch mit ihrer konventionellen sprachlichen Darbietung. Die Autorin untersucht die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-09-24
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The Victorian Novel On File argues that the nineteenth-century information explosion shapes the novel form. In a world teeming with data, the novel is a storage medium, cluttered with detail and accumulating more than it can use.The fictional things that have been read...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-23
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This book interrogates canonical Indian English fiction which has Dalit characters as protagonists or major characters, and argues that the representation of such characters, although well-meant, is regulated and made unremarkable. It examines how the normative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-23
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Cocteau had an ambition many a poet has: to become immortal. But he, perhaps more than most, addressed this ambition directly in a great many of his plays, poems, and films. This book puts the work of this elusive and compelling poet under the microscope, examining how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-23
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Vikram Seth is a critical enigma. He is recognized as one of the most important Indian Anglophone authors of his generation; his individual works have been widely reviewed, yet his work has rarely been approached as a whole and remains surprisingly understudied. Perhaps...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-21
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Crime Fiction in the Caribbean: ReframingCrime and Justice is the first academic book to focus on crime fiction by anglophone Caribbean writers. It explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to convey, contextualize, and comment on crime...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-18
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