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Inter-American literary study is an exciting and fast-growing area of comparative scholarship. The Americas are tied together by a common historical heritage and by a history of social, political, economic, and cultural interaction.
As a contribution to this field, this...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-06-15
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This book explores contemporary Anglophone Cameroon poetry’s engagement with the environment through an eco-textual analysis of a cross section of poems from different poets. In this regard, the work broadens the field of ecocriticism beyond the original Anglo-American...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-06-13
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This book debunks the myth of Polish Modernist literature as rooted in rash, immediate expression. The author compares programmatic statements on language by turn-of-the-century writers such as Waclaw Berent, Boleslaw Lesmian, Stanislaw Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-06-08
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Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry argues that memorable and resonant poetry often distorts form, image, concept, and notions of truth and metaphor. Discussing how changes in electronic communication and artificial notions...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-06-06
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Kriminalliteratur bietet seit längerem ein Forum für die Behandlung schon ‚klassischer‘ postkolonialer Themen. So lassen sich die ProtagonistInnen vielfach als hybride Subjekte beschreiben, und die Suche nach ‚historischer Wahrheit‘ bedarf einer anderen Substruktion als...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-02
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A comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television,A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds. Written by...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-06-01
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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The book presents a cultural study of Toni Morrison’s fiction, focused on her representations of the past and present, along with the relationship between the two.The authors analyze Morrison’s texts not solely as aesthetic, autonomous objects but as manifestations of a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-31
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Thomas Mann’s novel Der Zauberberg (1913–1924) illustrates a change in the author’s conceptions of life, death, disease and Eros following World War I. Set in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, the novel’s main protagonist, Hans Castorp, comes into contact with three...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-05-29
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The discourse on Physiognomy had an important influence and impact on European theatrical culture at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.The book discusses the debate about the scientific nature of Physiognomy. Starting from the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-29
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This is the first book to provide a comparative exploration of the gendered and sexual body in Mozambican literature, engaging with the work of six authors spanning different generations, styles and aesthetics. The study begins by providing a detailed and innovative...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-05-26
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This book is an introductory examination of the Hermetic tradition in the Renaissance and how James Joyce made use of certain of its salient features in his four works of fiction: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake.This book...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-05-26
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What connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht?s drama? Which of Goethe?s poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi?s theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did the Persian author Sadeq Hedayat identify with the Prague Jew Franz...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-23
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Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the postwar period. A veritable “intellect on fire,” Fanon was a radical thinker with original theories on race,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-23
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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The book sets out identity of metaphor in the literary discourse from a comparative perspective and links it with the ontological metaphor of identity.The author analyses both American and Romanian texts such as Lucian Blaga’s lyrosophical hermeneutics, Ileana...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-23
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Die Autorin betrachtet literarische Texte zur «Wende» aus literaturwissenschaftlicher und didaktischer Perspektive. Dieser Literatur kommt für heutige Kinder und Jugendliche eine besondere Bedeutung zu, indem sie für diese und für nachfolgende Generationen Erinnerungen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-23
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Der Autor widmet diese Studie dem komplexen literarischen Werk Walter Benjamins. Die einzelnen Kapitel des Bandes zeichnen den Einfluss der Epochen nach. Ausgehend von älteren avantgardistischen Traditionen der Aufklärung, der Französischen Revolution und des Vormärz...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-12
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The Black Hole of Auschwitz brings together Levi’s writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his own accidental status as a writer and his chosen profession of chemist. In this book Levi rails intelligently and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-05-11
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Der Band dokumentiert die Sektionen aus dem Bereich Kulturwissenschaften auf dem IVG-Kongress 2015. Er beginnt mit der Sektion «Kulinaristik: Kultur – Kommunikation – Küche». Darauf folgt die Sektion «Begegnungen zwischen den deutschsprachigen Ländern und Asien», bevor...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-10
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This book is a study of Wittgenstein’s descriptive, improvisational, and performative art of philosophical investigation. In addition to clarifying the nature of Wittgenstein’s grammatical investigations, this study highlights several neglected aspects of his work: its...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-05-08
Collection :
Nordic Wittgenstein Studies
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Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the biographical or historical contexts of the work, but also about the different approaches that literary theory offers. By...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2017-05-04
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