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This study considers male shame in contemporary writing by men, examining why shame is often considered a female emotion and therefore denied in men. The author’s comparative approach to the private experience of shame in novels by Hanif Kureishi, Philip Roth and Hubert...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-02-23
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The translations by Juan Ramón Jiménez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have been neglected, likely because many of them were published under the name of his wife, Zenobia Camprubí Aymar, along with many of his poems. Close...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-22
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Poema heroyco hispano-latino (1687), a national chronicle or “epic poem,” commemorates the founding and greatness of Lima, Peru. Its unique rhymed quatrains can be read in either Latin or Spanish with equal meaning, and its insightful marginal notes interpret the city’s...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2017-02-22
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The book collects scholarly essays in the fields of English and French maritime terminology and sea literature. It focuses on the linguistic, literary and cultural exploration of the sea, considering new directions for research in the vast domain of «thalassology»....
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-02-20
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Women have often chosen to tell their secrets, confide their dreams and express their deepest and most intimate thoughts in diaries, letters and other forms of life-writing. Although it is well established as a genre in the Anglophone and Francophone traditions, there...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-15
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Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory presents the latest research fromIrish studies scholars across a variety of disciplines, including history, literature, theatre, photography and folklore, and generates new and challenging insights into the dynamics of cultural...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-02-15
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Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel is a lively exploration of the evolution of the English novel from 1688-1815. A range of major works and authors are discussed along with important developments in the genre, and the impact of novels on society at the time. The text...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-02-13
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Reading the Novel
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Diese Studie untersucht systematisch die politische Dimension der Dramen von Thomas Bernhard und Peter Handke. Obgleich beide Autoren als Provokateure und Skandal-Inszenatoren gelten, deren öffentliche Auftritte wie Werke heftige Debatten auslösten, fehlt bisher eine...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-13
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'The story of Coleridge's life does undoubtedly echo that of his poem; this is a book that provides rewarding rereadings of both' - The Sunday TimesA new biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, shaped and structured around the story he himself tells in his most famous...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2017-02-09
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Dieses Buch analysiert die Modelle der biblischen Gestalten in der Prosa von Georg Trakl. Für Trakl gilt die Bibel nicht nur als eine große Inspirationsquelle. Sie ist auch als ein ständiger Bezugspunkt zu betrachten, der ihn seine eigene Position in der Welt bestimmen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-08
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This book is a collective volume that reports the state of the art in the applications of type theory to linguistic semantics. The volume fills a 20 year gap from the last published book on the issue and aspires to bring researchers closer to cutting edge alternatives...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-02-07
Collection :
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Becoming Vampire is an interdisciplinary study of how the figure of the vampire in the twenty-first century has been used to create and define difference, not as either a positive or negative attribute, but as a catalyst for change and the exploration of new identity...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-07
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Although he committed suicide at the age of twenty-five, Mário de Sá-Carneiro left behind a rich corpus of texts that is inventive, playful, even daring. The first collection in English to be dedicated to his work, this volume brings together scholars from Portugal,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-07
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The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-07
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From our homes to our houses of government, from our schoolyards to our stadia, from our galleries to our gable walls, folklore is not only preserved but continues to be reimagined in all aspects of everyday life in Ireland. In the twenty-first century, the traditions...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-07
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Shape shifters, purveyors of chaos, rules’ breakers, crude creatures and absurd figures, tricksters can be traced as recurrently transgressive figures that do not wither away with time. Tricksters rove and ramble in the pages of literature; the canon is replete with...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-07
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A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive English]language study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies of thirteen countries that...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-02-06
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception
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Joseph Conrad ingeniously buried images from Polish literature and culture into his works. Once recognized, these references alter the accepted meanings of the texts. In an interview that was published in Kuryer Polski (in the then Polish city of Ostrawa, now in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-01-31
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Im Mittelpunkt dieser Studie steht die Analyse von Identitätskonstruktionen und transkulturellen Narrativen in ausgewählten Werken von G. Kuruvilla, I. Scego, L. Wadia und S. Abdel Qader. Der kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Zugang dient dem zentralen Anliegen,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-31
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The only up-to-date and comprehensive text and reader of Algerian literature available in English, Algerian Literature: A Reader’s Guide and Anthology offers the reader a historical and critical overview of the literature from the early twentieth century to the present,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-01-30
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