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This volume brings together eminent Tagore scholars and younger writers to revisit the concepts of nation, nationalism, identity and selfhood, civilization, culture and homeland in Tagore’s writings. As these ideas take up the centre-stage of politics in the...
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Springer
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2017-03-15
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The theme of foolishness has long occupied an unusually prominent place in Russian culture, touching on key questions of national, spiritual, and intellectual identity. In literature, the figure of the fool – and the voice of the fool – has carried additional appeal as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-03-14
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This book explores the recurrence of Apocalyptic motifs and imagery in blues and spirituals recorded by blues musicians. It looks at the ways in which Black Americans portray Apocalypse ideas about the Last Judgement from the Book of Revelation. It also focuses on how...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-14
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Aus einem neuen Blickwinkel analysiert diese Untersuchung die Ebene, die sich hinter den Exotismen des (Exil-)Werks Paul Zechs verbirgt: Die vehemente Kritik der anhaltenden Vertreibung indigener Völker verbunden mit der Monierung der Umweltzerstörung des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-14
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Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding as students read, analyse and revise Skirrid Hill throughout the course.This Study and Revise guide:-...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2017-03-13
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Der Band dokumentiert Sektionen aus dem Bereich Sprachdidaktik und Sprachvermittlung des Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG) in Shanghai 2015. Er beginnt mit der Sektion «Qualifizierung von DaF-Lehrkräften weltweit», darauf folgt die Sektion...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-13
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Der Band dokumentiert sprachwissenschaftliche Sektionen des Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG) in Shanghai 2015. Er beginnt mit den Sektionen ‚Beziehungsgestaltung durch Sprache‘ sowie ‚Diskurs und Politik‘. Daran schließen sich ‚Welche...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-10
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This book is a hermeneutic analysis of the main poetic spaces in the work of Ashok Vajpeyi, a poet and a critic recognized among the eminent contemporary Hindi writers. The four parts of the book are devoted to major anthropological questions, instrumental for the poet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-10
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Narratives of disease and deviance have a long tradition within the field of children's and young adult literature. The specific characteristics of these representations have so far remained largely unexplored. The topics of this book are the narrato-logical and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-10
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Drawing on the proceedings of two conferences organized to celebrate the centenary of John Berryman’s birth in 2014, John Berryman: Centenary Essays provides new perspectives on a major US American poet’s work by critics from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-03-10
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Im Zentrum dieser Studie steht die diskursive Konstruktion von Identität und Alterität in englischen Reiseberichten über die Neue Welt. Sie untersucht, wie in dieser hybriden Textgattung zwischen 1560 und 1630 das Andere und Fremde repräsentiert und funktionalisiert...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-10
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Linguistics, like any discipline, is full of boundaries. However, in nature, as Ruqaiya Hasan points out, there are no clear cut boundaries. The participants of the 42nd International Systemic Functional Congress held at RWTH Aachen University addressed and challenged...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-10
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Im Fokus der Beiträge steht der Lyriker Christian Wagner (1835–1918), Vertreter der literarischen Moderne um 1900. Sein oft provokatives Engagement in Literatur und Essays für Pazifismus, Minderheiten, ökologische Landwirtschaft, Tierschutz und Vegetarismus trug ihm...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-10
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The story of Narcissus, who falls in love with his own image in a spring, has fascinated writers and thinkers ever since Ovid first gave poetical form to the myth in his Metamorphoses. This study systematically investigates the elaborations of the theme at the turn of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-09
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The Life of Robert Frost presents a unique and rich approach to the poet that includes original genealogical research concerning Frost's ancestors, and a demonstration of how mental illness plagued the Frost family and heavily influenced Frost's poetry. A widely...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-03-08
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
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In Roland Barthes's eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new. Thirty-six years after Barthes produced his study Sollers Writer, Sollers has written a book on the man who was his friend and who shared with him a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-03-06
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One of Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of 2017A TIME Magazine Best Paperback of 2017Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Poetry Collections of SpringA Most Anticipated book at Buzzfeed, NYLON and BustleOne of i-D's emerging female authors to read in 2017 'Outstanding...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2017-03-02
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Where do Scottish literatures, art, and cinema stand today? What and how do Scottish Studies investigate? Creative writers and scholars give answers to these questions and address vital concerns in Scottish, British, and European history from the Union debate and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-01
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«Die Antike» als eine der zentralen Referenzen der deutschen Aufklärung ist keineswegs homogen, sondern zeichnet sich durch ihre Pluralität aus. Namen und eben auch Lokalitäten implizieren auf kompakte Weise ästhetische Konzepte, anthropologische Programme,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-28
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Borges gained his first lessons in philosophy from his father while still a young boy – an intimate home schooling that grew into a long-term obsession. Its ubiquitous presence in his thought and writing has made him one of the most distinctive literary philosophers in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-23
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