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This volume attempts to critically re-think the ways in which facts and myths, histories and fictions that shape current and past understandings of (the US of) «America» have been perceived, assimilated, transformed and, in sum, «translated» in the arena of global...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-18
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James Tate is one of America’s most respected and senior poets, whose influence is increasingly widespread. However, his whimsical play has long challenged critics to read him with any depth. After winning the Yale Prize in 1967 for his first book, The Lost Pilot,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-18
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This book brings together new essays on six of the most important British and American writers who lived in or visited Spain in the 20th century and whose work bears the impact of the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its outbreak,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-18
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Senshu University has hosted many international conferences on medieval English literature – primarily on Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland – as well as in the related fields of Old Germanic, medieval French and Renaissance Italian literature. These international...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-18
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This book is made up of a set of innovative close readings and meditations on the significance of the modes and logics of separation in the thinking of aesthetic modernity. Separation is defined in Hegelian and psychoanalytic terms as psychic processes in the formation...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-18
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Heimat als Aventiure – unter Verwendung des mittelhochdeutschen Aventiurekonzepts wird der Heimatbegriff zwischen 1989 und 2001 an seinen Rändern außerhalb der traditionellen Heimatliteratur untersucht.Heimat wird vom Territorium abgelöst, was eine Individualisierung...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-16
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Die Problematik der Vermischung von Geschichtsschreibung und Dichtung im Bereich des historisch-biographischen Romans ist Thema dieses Buches. Als Beispiel wird der 1933 erschienene Roman «Der Schuhmeier» von Robert Ascher herangezogen, dessen Vorlagen einer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-16
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Skandale begleiten die Literatur zwar seit ihren Anfängen, doch erst in der Moderne gehören sie zu ihren immer wiederkehrenden Begleiterscheinungen. Im Skandal treten Normkonflikte zutage, an denen die Wirkung von Literatur ablesbar wird. Mit den historisch neuen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-16
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Die fünfzehnte Folge des Jahrbuchs wird eingeleitet mit einer Darstellung von Gina Weinkauff und Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff zu den Ursprüngen und zum Stellenwert des Struwwelpeter von Heinrich Hoffmann in der Geschichte des Bilderbuchs. Ebenfalls dem 19. Jahrhundert...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-16
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This volume of essays, which is dedicated to the late Richard Bales, one of the doyens of Proust studies, considers Proust’s pivotal role at the threshold of modernity, between nineteenth- and twentieth-century forms of writing and thinking, between the Belle Epoque and...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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This volume presents a number of close readings of Latin American literary and cultural phenomena. The overarching theme of the collection is the revision of the accepted view of Latin American national identities as represented in twentieth-century Latin American...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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This study focuses on fictional representations of albinism in the work of the French writers Didier Destremau and Patrick Grainville, and the Francophone Guinean writer Williams Sassine. The focus on selected novels allows for an in-depth study of each narrative and...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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The early twenty-first century is witnessing a paradigm shift across the humanities away from an obsession with language and towards an engagement with the way in which physical space is imagined. This book showcases the impact of that shift upon the work of diverse...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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Roland Barthes and Pier Paolo Pasolini were two of the most eclectic cultural personalities of the past century, as elusive as they were influential. Despite the glaring differences between them, they also shared a number of preoccupations, obsessions and creative...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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This volume brings together sixteen essays on British, Irish and American poets from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It offers a series of entertaining and compelling readings of the lives and works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.B. Yeats, Edward Thomas,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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John Donne’s family were committed Catholics. His two uncles were Jesuits. One of them, Jasper Heywood, was the leader of the Jesuit mission in England, while Donne’s mother was a recusant who was forced to leave the country in 1595. In this detailed and historically...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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This collection of essays can be situated in a development that has been underway in translation studies since the early 1990s, namely the increasing focus on translators themselves: translators as embodied agents, not as instruments or conduits. The volume deals with...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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How do we approach other people’s pain? This question is of crucial importance to the humanities, particularly literary and cultural studies, whenever they address narratives of terror and genocide, injustice and oppression, violence and trauma. Talking about other...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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This volume offers a state-of-the-art view of research into interdisciplinarity, language and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) by providing an overview of teaching proposals within a university context. Interdisciplinarity is understood here as how...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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Inhalt: Dieter Breuer: Grimmelshausens Verleger - eine kritische Übersicht – Friedrich Gaede: Leere Blätter? Grimmelshausens Thematisierung des Lesers – Klaus Haberkamm: Das Nativitätenbuch. Astrologisches Medium und simplicianisches Erzählen bei Grimmelshausen –...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-11
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