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In December 1921 the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed, which led to the creation of the Irish Free State and the partition of Ireland the following year. The consequences of that attempt to reconcile the conflicting demands of republicans and unionists alike have dictated...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-05-17
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This book explores bilingualism and translation in contemporary women’s writing. The author argues that the ‘in-between’ or interstitial linguistic areas of bilingualism, translation and regionalism provide a language and imagery suitable for the expression of a...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-05-17
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Elisabeth Castonier, die 1894 in Dresden geborene Tochter des Malers Felix Borchardt, in Dresden, Paris und Berlin aufgewachsen, begann 1917 als Journalistin zu arbeiten. Ende der Zwanzigerjahre hatte sie mit Feuilletons und Zeitungsromanen in Berlin ihren Platz...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-05-04
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The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context. Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts spanning all periods and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-05-04
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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-05-04
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inability to think "an after" to globalization. After establishing seven theses (on education, morality, history, future,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-05-03
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AFTER GLOBALIZATION “Relentlessly, remorselessly, endlessly, we are told there is no alternative to globalization, whether our lecturers are bourgeois economists, progressive journalists, or imaginative litterateurs. Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman dare to go beyond the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-05-03
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Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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After the Fall A common refrain heard since the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001 is that “everything has changed.”After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-05-03
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Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-05-03
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-05-03
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Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
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The Century’s Midnight is an exploration of the literary and political relationships between a number of ideologically sophisticated American and European writers during a mid-twentieth century dominated by the Second World War. Clive Bush offers an account of an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-04-27
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J.R.R. Tolkien's novels of Middle-earth – The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Silmarillian – have become some of the most famous, and most beloved, literary works of the twentieth century. And the Lord of the Rings films by director Peter Jackson have...
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For Dummies
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2011-04-27
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Can an author’s preference for expressing modality be quantified and then used as a marker of attribution? This book explores the possibility of using the subjunctive mood as an indicator of style and a marker of authorship in Early Modern English texts. Using three...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2011-04-27
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John Berryman (1914-1972) was one of the most important American poets and men of letters of the twentieth century. A major preoccupation of his work was his life-long quest for religious truth, in particular, his critical investigations into the claims of his lost...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-04-27
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Die Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft Belgiens ist die kleinste der drei Gemeinschaften, die den Föderalstaat Belgien bilden. Ihre Rolle zwischen Wallonen und Flamen ist komplex, oftmals vermittelt sie in schwierigen Verhandlungen nach innen und außen. Gerne als Bewohner...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-04-26
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Postmodernes Kino – attraktiv und rätselhaft zugleich. Einige Zuschauer mögen es, andere fühlen sich verstört oder betrogen. In diesem Band wird ein Überblick gegeben, was wohl postmodernes Kino ist, wo es herkommt und warum es so schwer zu fassen ist. Dramaturgisch...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-04-13
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Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies. Provides a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-04-12
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Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies. Provides a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-04-12
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Demystify and appreciate the pleasures of poetrySometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as “the best words in the best order.” St. Augustine called it “the Devil’s wine.” For Shelley, poetry was “the...
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For Dummies
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2011-03-16
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Die in diesem Buch zusammengeführten Studien beschäftigen sich mit literarischen Zusammenschlüssen, Ansichten, Büchern und Schicksalen deutscher Autoren in den Jahren des Exils aus Hitlerdeutschland. Den Schwerpunkt bilden die Vorgänge in den europäischen Asylländern...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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