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The book deals with the problem of anti-utopian way of thinking in literature, its preconditions, and variations in the 20th century. Moreover, it is a first attempt to read one of the most prominent Georgian texts – Jakho’s Dispos-sessed by the Georgian writer Mikheil...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-23
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The temporal structure of Wuthering Heights has long been regarded as opaque or even flawed. This is explained by the fact that the years 1778, 1801 and 1802do not entirely cohere with the numerous relative time references in the novel if, as scholarship contends, the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-22
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The book discusses the issue of religiosity in the context of American Jewish literature, emphasizing the significance of Judaism as an indispensable element in the formation of American Jewish female identity. The empirical part of the book is devoted to a critical...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-22
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„Inklings" nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e.V. widmet sich seit 1983 dem Studium und der Verbreitung der Werke dieser und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-22
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Nel solco degli studi sul "greco umanistico", che negli ultimi decenni hanno conosciuto un notevole e fervido sviluppo, il volume presenta il caso di una rara traduzione in greco classico della celebre orazione "Pro Archia poeta" di Cicerone. Com’è noto, a partire da...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-19
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Drawing on the sun, moon, dragon, phoenix, Nuwa, Yandi, Huangdi and other widely circulated cultural elements as examples, this book addresses the development and evolution of the most representative Chinese creation myths regarding nature, totems, ancestors and saints....
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Springer
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2020-06-17
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This is the first book to provide comprehensive treatment of Robert Lowell’s engagements with Irish poetry. Including original contributions by leading and emerging scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, the essays in the volume explore topics such as Lowell and W.B....
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2020-06-15
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Why did Osip Mandelstam picture himself as a victim of anti-Semitic persecution, but at the same time described his victimizers using the grotesque features of Jews from anti-Semitic mythology? What was the meaning of Sasha Chorny’s pen name?Why were the Russian...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-11
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This volume is co-edited by the director of the Freiburg graduate school "Factual and Fictional Narration" (GRK 1767, Freiburg/Germany) and the director of the Aarhus Centre for Fictionality Studies (University of Aarhus, DK). The collection of essays re-examines the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-02
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Mr. Turbulent (1682) is an anonymous city comedy which starred popular comic actors and young actresses of great appeal. The play was produced in the immediate aftermath of the Exclusion Crisis. This first-ever critical edition offers a fully annotated modernized...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-02
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Macedonia and its Questions: Origins, Margins, Ruptures and Continuity is a multi-disciplinary book of 11 chapters, containing contributions that span the fields of linguistics, political science, sociology, history and law. The title of the book purposefully references...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-02
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Dieses Buch stellt ein unverzichtbares Rechercheinstrument für Geisteswissenschaftler nahezu jeder Fachrichtung dar, die sich mit deutschsprachigen jüdischen Autobiographien und den jüdischen Lebenswelten als Untersuchungsgegenstand befassen.
Die Bibliographie mit...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-01
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Der vorliegende Band vereint Forschungsbeiträge der 8. Konferenz der Internationalen Feuchtwanger-Gesellschaft, die im Herbst 2017 im Heinrich Heine Haus in Paris zum Thema «Frankreich als Gastland der deutschsprachigen, insbesondere der deutsch-jüdischen und...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2020-05-29
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This open access book offers comprehensive information on Wang Yang-ming’s life, helping readers identify and grasp the foundations on which his philosophy was established. Though a great man, Wang had an extremely difficult life, full of many hardships. Based on...
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Springer
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2020-05-26
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Ruralism and Literature in Romania proposes a series of academic studies of rural literature and cultural portrayals of peasantry. The topics range from re-readings of canonical works to ideological readings of modern Romanian literature, rural novels of the Romanian...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-05-26
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Wie fühlt es sich an, im 17. Jahrhundert nach monatelanger Atlantiküberfahrt auf einem unbekannten Kontinent anzukommen?Wie sieht dieser neue Siedlungsraum in den Augen der Europäer aus, wie nehmen sie ihn wahr? Und welche Auswirkungen hat das bis heute auf unsere...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-05-26
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Im Jahr 1925 begeben sich André Gide und Marc Allégret auf eine zehnmonatige Reise nach Französisch-Westafrika. Was jedoch anfangs als „Vergnügungsreise" gedacht war, entwickelt sich schnell zu einem Politikum: Je weiter die Autoren voranschreiten, desto mehr werden sie...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-05-26
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This book gathers together essays and papers written over a time span of around fifteen years. Partly retitled and revised, they were selected for the book because they all focus on the dialogic element in a series of literary works produced in the period extending from...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2020-05-22
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This collective monograph represents a selection of the contributions presented at the "1st International Symposium on Italian-Ukrainian Contrastive Studies". The thematic range of the articles includes linguistic topics (e.g. contrastive grammar, sociolinguistics,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-05-21
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L’opera di Primo Levi presenta un caso straordinariamente ricco e articolato di intertestualità. Lettore curioso, onnivoro, asistematico, Levi esplorò molteplici campi del sapere – letterari, scientifici, storici, ecc. – navigando tra libri e riviste specializzate e di...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-05-20
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