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Geoffrey Hill is one of the most significant poets currently at work in the English language. The essays gathered in this book present a number of new contexts in which to explore a wide range of his writings, from the poems he wrote as an undergraduate to the recent...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-20
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The cultural, political, social and economic interaction between Ireland and Poland has a long and complex history. This volume hopes to contribute to an emerging debate around the issues concerned by looking at alternative frameworks for understanding the relationship...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-20
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It is very common in Indo-European languages to derive new, compound verb forms from verb bases by adding prefixes to them. These prefixes, or preverbs, are originally derived from invariant forms and generally come from one of three categories: adverbs, adpositions...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-17
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The Global Future of English Studiespresents a succinct, carefully documented assessment of the current state and future trajectory of English studies around the world. Compiles data on student enrollments, faculty hiring, and financing in English studies around the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-02-14
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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What makes a world author? How did Homer become a «cosmopolitan» author? How does a Mayan creation narrative challenge our Western logocentric ideas of foundational texts?What might world literature look like to a fourth-century Roman reader? How do past and more recent...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-14
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Autobiography, Ecology, and the Well-Placed Self expands the field of autobiography studies by describing an emergent genre, natural biography, that embeds the human subject in a more-than-human world. Through an ecocritical analysis of three contemporary U.S. authors –...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-14
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This book examines Elfriede Jelinek’s investigation of Austria’s and Western Europe’s «obscene fantasies» through her «perversion» of generic forms in three of her best-known texts (Die Liebhaberinnen, Lust, and Die Klavierspielerin). Each chapter investigates a central...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-14
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This book begins with a survey of R. F. Delderfield’s knowledge of Napoleonic history as revealed in his three Napoleonic-era novels. Two commentaries follow: the first on English attitudes and actions in a London suburb during the Interbellum (1918-1939) in his novels...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-14
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This book is an analysis of the social and political outlook of D.H. Lawrence as determined by the development and conflict of the social forces of his time. It discusses, specifically, the relationship between Lawrence’s ideas, as an essayist and novelist, and the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-14
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Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics – Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica. Provides an accessible introduction to the ancient epic...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-02-13
Collection :
Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World
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A COMPANION TO WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLDA Companion to Women in the Ancient World is the first interdisciplinary, methodologically based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world while weaving textual, visual, and archaeological evidence...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-02-13
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of postcolonial and migrant literatures. In particular, the texts focus on the topic of food and its importance in these literatures and the communities they stem from. The aim is to investigate the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-08
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ROMANTICISM Praise for the third edition: “An outstanding anthology, an excellent choice for advanced undergraduate courses on the Romantic era. This edition’s improvements include illustrations, a detailed chronology, and expanded selections from women poets. I look...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-02-03
Collection :
Blackwell Anthologies
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Der Piropo wird generell als Kompliment definiert, das ein Mann in spanischsprachigen Kulturen einer unbekannten Frau gegenüber in aller Öffentlichkeit äußert. Dieses «Kompliment» kann für die Angesprochene sowohl positiv als auch negativ ausfallen. Dabei stellt sich...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-02
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I saggi contenuti nel volume individuano nettamente, nel panorama della letteratura comica novecentesca, una linea di geografia letteraria emiliano-romagnola o più genericamente padana. L’attenzione si focalizza in primo luogo sul gruppo di autori riunitisi negli anni...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-02
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This book contains the extant tradition of Benvenutus Grassus’ Treatise on the eye and six philological related studies. The tradition in Latin (Metz, Bibliothèques- Médiatèques, MS 176) is displayed with the four known versions in Middle English (Glasgow, Glasgow...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-02
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Nachdem das dichterische Werk Erich Arendts (1903-1984) lange als «Geheimtipp» (Fritz J. Raddatz) galt, findet in den letzten Jahren auf Grund neuer Editionen seiner Werke und Forschungsarbeiten eine literaturgeschichtliche Anerkennung des Dichters statt, den Walter...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-01-31
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This book makes an intensive study of James Phelan’s rhetorical theory of narrative. Apart from illustrating six basic principles in doing rhetorical theory of narrative, the author examines six major issues which are central to Phelan’s rhetorical poetics, namely,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-01-31
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The Handbook to Romanticism Studies is an accessible and indispensible resource providing students and scholars with a rich array of historical and up-to-date critical and theoretical contexts for the study of Romanticism. Focuses on British Romanticism while also...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-01-25
Collection :
Critical Theory Handbooks
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The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy.The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ‘Global Gothic’ reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-01-18
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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