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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...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-01-18
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Sprachökonomie wird viel Potenzial zugeschrieben: Sprachwandel herbeizuführen, für neue computerspezifische Varietäten verantwortlich zu sein und sogar den Gebrauch von Anglizismen zu fördern. In diesem Band werden nach einem theoretischen Blick aufSprachökonomie in...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-01-13
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William Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595) has survived and flourished as a drama for over five centuries. The work has also enjoyed immense popularity in music. Its lyrical verse, its constant use of musical terminology, and its references to and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-01-13
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This volume is a representative selection of current methods of metrical-rhythmical analysis. Leading experts in the field present the latest state of the art in metrical theory, including Generative Metrics, the Russian quantitative-statistical approach, Optimality...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-01-13
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Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of...
Editeur :
Cassell
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2012-01-10
Collection :
1001
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From the author of THE COLOR PURPLE, a unique collection of essays about her life and her activism'The passion of lyricism that Alice Walker put to such good use in her novel The Color Purple is here in this collection of essays' Fay Weldon, Mail on SundayIn a world...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-12-29
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'An extraordinarily diverse collection; pure Walker, fresh-eyed and sassy' NEW YORK TIMESLiving by the Word is a memorable collection of essays, letters and journal extracts from Pulitzer Prize winner, Alice Walker.In her own immaculate prose, Alice Walker opens an...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-12-29
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The Poetry Toolkit: For Readers and Writers provides students with the essential intellectual and practical tools necessary to read, understand, and write poetry. Explains the most important elements of poetry in clear language and an easily accessible manner Offers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-12-27
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This book is a major reassessment of the French Revolution’s impact on the English novel of the Romantic period. Focusing particularly – but by no means exclusively – on women writers of the time, it explores the enthusiasm, wariness, or hostility with which the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-12-22
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«This collection of articles is a sociolinguistic response to the recent explosion of scholarly interest in issues of identity. Identity is central to all human beings as we are all concerned with how to conceive of ourselves, present ourselves and comprehend our...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-12-22
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With reference to Paul Ricoeur’s conception of the interconnectedness of history and fiction, this comparative literary study examines narrative strategies that three contemporary writers of fiction – Toni Morrison, V. S. Naipaul, and Ben Okri – have devised to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-12-19
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In acht Aufsätzen haben sich Fachkolleginnen und -kollegen mit dem Phänomen «Burg» im Minnesang, in der Minnerede und als Minneallegorie des deutschen Mittelalters auseinandergesetzt. Besprochen werden der metaphorische Spielraum von Burgmotivik im «Hohen Sang», im...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-12-16
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Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-12-15
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The highpoint of German Expressionism in the second decade of the 20th century coincided with a rapid increase in the availability of cocaine as the drug was stockpiled for medical purposes by armies fighting the First World War. Snow from Broken Eyes investigates the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-12-09
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Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time. A new edition of one of the most...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-12-09
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Modern Western biography has become one of the most popular and most controversial forms of literature. Critics have attacked its tendency to rely on a strong narrative drive, its focus on a single person’s life and its tendency to delve ever more deeply into that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-12-08
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Die Studie befaßt sich mit der westdeutschen kinderliterarischen Phantastik der 70er und 80er Jahre und erörtert diese sowohl in literaturhistorischer wie in gattungstheoretischer Hinsicht. Es geht um die Herausarbeitung der Struktur phantastischer Texte, der Funktionen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-12-02
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A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that characterized theory through the 1960s and 70s, when it posed an unprecedented challenge to the literary establishment....
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-11-30
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An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism. Covers traditional approaches such as formalism and structuralism, as well as more recent...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-11-28
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Awarded 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention in Media & Cultural Studies With the resurgent interest in his work today, this is a timely reevaluation of this foundational figure in Cultural Studies, a critical but friendly review of both Hoggart's work and reputation. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-11-28
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