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Allo sviluppo della coscienza nazionale italiana nell’Ottocento la narrativa ha dato un contributo importante. Componente centrale della maggior parte delle opere letterarie discusse in questo volume è quel «sistema simbolico» che ha potuto agevolare la spinta...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2012-04-19
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Irish Women Playwrights 1900-1939 is the first book to examine the plays of five fascinating and creative women, placing their work for theatre in co-relation to suggest a parallel tradition that reframes the development ofIrish theatre into the present day. How these...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-04-18
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Starting from the debate between the two cultures, the book analyzes the relationship between literature and science in the last years of the twentieth century in the light of scientific theories which universally underline both their indeterminacy and their lack of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-18
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Claude McKay’s Liberating Narrative: Russian and Anglophone Caribbean Literary Connections examines McKay’s search for an original form of literary expression that started in Jamaica and continued in his subsequent travels abroad. Newly found research pertaining to his...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-04-13
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Reading poetry reveals a great deal about the mind, the values, and the character of an individual. Poetry and the American Presidency presents the first study to focus on the importance of poetry in the lives of 18 American presidents from George Washington to Barack...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-04-13
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The aim of this book is to study how politeness, and particularly face negotiation, is dealt with when subtitling between Chinese and English. Face negotiation refers to the process of managing relationships across different cultures through verbal and nonverbal...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-12
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This book examines the relevance of the concepts of space and place to the work of Jorge Luis Borges. The core of the book is a series of readings of key Borges texts viewed from the perspective of human spatiality. Issues that arise include the dichotomy between ‘lived...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-12
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Lands of Desire and Loss develops an interdisciplinary approach connecting the literary and geographical imagination which shape British perception and representation of colonial and postcolonial spaces. Through her readings of literary works belonging to the dawn of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-12
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Many universities have adopted criticality as a general aim of higher education, in order to meet the demands of an increasingly globalised world. But what is criticality, and how does it develop in practice? This book explores the concept in detail and considers how it...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-12
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Children’s literature delights in made-up words, nonsensical terms, and creative nicknames, but how do you translate these expressions into another language? This book provides a new approach to translation studies to address the challenges of translating children’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-10
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This book is an attempt to re-evaluate some basic assumptions about language, communication, and cognition in the light of the new epistemology of autopoiesis as the theory of the living. Starting with a critique of common myths about language and communication, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-10
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The present volume is a contribution to the theory of narrative by scholars from various disciplines, mainly scholars from Comparative Literature but also contributors from Philosophy, Psychology and the languages.The essays focus on central terms and concepts in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-05
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«Inklings» nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e.V. widmet sich dem Studium und der Verbreitung der Werke dieser und ihnen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-05
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Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Analyse des Polenbildes in den sieben Auflagen von Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, die innerhalb des ‘langen’ 19. Jahrhunderts erschienen sind. Ausgehend von der Kernthese der Imagologie bzw. der historischen Stereotypenforschung, dass...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-30
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Dieser zweiteilige Band schließt eine Lücke in der historischen Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung. Mit seinen 26 Beiträgen will er das Gesamtspektrum der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur der Weimarer Zeit zur Darstellung bringen. Alle Beiträge versuchen eine größtmögliche...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-30
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Dragons are a universal phenomenon and have fascinated humans since the dawn of time. Yet whereas we have numerous studies into the origins of these fantastic creatures, there have been very few attempts at discussing their appearance, function and development within...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-30
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The purpose of this volume is to address the notion of cultural recycling by assessing its applicability to various modes of cultural and theoretical discourse.The word «recycling» is here used collectively to denote phenomena such as cyclicity, repetition, recurrence,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-30
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The European linguistic diversity goes far beyond the official national languages of the present 27 member states of the European Union. In every country several languages of smaller or larger groups of speakers are used besides the official language or the languages of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-30
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This enchanting study on the art of living with books considers how our personal libraries reveal our true nature: far more than just places, they are living labyrinths of our innermost feelings. The author, a lifelong accumulator of books both ancient and modern, lives...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2012-03-29
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This volume analyses the defence system in the 17th-century English courtroom and sees how defendants attempted to construct their discourse identity and articulate their defence in the arraignment section and in the evidence phase of the trial. Drawing upon theories...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-28
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