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Although Louis de Bernières is a famous and important contemporary novelist, and his work Captain Corelli’s Mandolin has been translated and sold all over the world as a best-seller, there are few academic studies that focus methodologically and theoretically on it. The...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-05
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This entertaining collection gathers together William Shakespeare's wisest and wittiest quotations. Quotable Shakespeare proves that brevity is the soul of wit and is sure to delight all lovers of the Bard's uniquely perceptive and influential works.
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Summersdale
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2014-06-02
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Used by Classical and Medieval Western schools to teach rhetoric, a chreia is a brief moral story attributed to a famous historical figure. In Late Ming China, the Italian Jesuit Alfonso Vagnone, also named Gao Yizhi, and the Chinese scholar-official Han Yun...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-30
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This book is the result of a shared conviction of the necessity to advance the international discourse on criticism. What originated in ancient curiosity and developing self-reflexion became the critical thought of the modern era and then developed into a program of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-30
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This book explores and analyzes the problems and challenges that have resulted from the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, and segregation in North America. These painful chapters in American history have continued along racial and regional lines and are of particular...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-30
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Rachel de Queiroz (1910-2003) gilt als eine der bedeutendsten AutorInnen Brasiliens im 20. Jahrhundert. Die Frage nach der Konstitution des Subjekts ist Ausgangspunkt für die Untersuchung ihrer sieben Romane. Sie ermöglicht gleichzeitig einen Blick auf das...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-20
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In Defence of Christianity examines the early Christian apologists in their context in thirteen articles divided in four parts. Part I provides an introduction to apology and apologetics in antiquity, an overview of the early Christian apologists, and an outline of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-20
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Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World.
We entrust university specialists with the writing of each study guides.
Our editorial work is especially...
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Les Editions de l'Ebook malin
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2014-05-13
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The Ultimate study guide
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Mit dieser Monographie werden erstmals fnhd. handschriftliche Zeugnisse von Frauen in Schlesien aus dem Staatsarchiv in Liegnitz ediert. Der besondere Wert der Quellen aus den Jahren 1546 bis 1678 liegt darin, dass damit eine Teilhabe adeliger Frauen am lokalen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-13
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Finding a precious object – a gem, a ring or a coin – inside the belly of a fish is a favorite motif in western literatures that can be traced back to the Greek historian Herodotus. In Herodotus’ account of the rise and fall of the tyrant Polycrates of Samos, the hero...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-05-13
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The present volume comprises a collection of wonderful and insightful essays exploring the theme of sanctuaries in Washington Irving’sThe Sketch Book. These are sanctuaries of natural beauty, peacefulness, architectural splendor, and mythical vitality. In addition, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-05-13
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Dieses Buch fußt, abgesehen einmal von den langjährigen Arbeiten des Verfassers zur Geschichte des Kinderbuchs, auf der Auswertung des Siegfried Unseld-Archivs im Deutschen Literaturarchiv in Marbach. Geboten wird ein Überblick über die Entstehungsgeschichte, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-13
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This volume offers a survey of analyses of Gothic texts, including literary works, feature films, a TV serial, and video games, with a view to showing the evolution and expansion of the Gothic convention across the ages and the media. The temporal scope of the book is...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-13
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This study makes Romania’s largely unknown Joycean heritage visible to an international readership. Reviewing Joyce’s critical reception and translations, as well as the writer’s influence on Romanian prose, it brings Derrida’s notion of «hostipitality» to comparative...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-13
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The volume is a collection of essays representative of the wide focus of research encouraged and coordinated by the Polish Association for the Study of English (member of ESSE). Articles selected for the volume deal with works of poetry, drama and prose written in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-13
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Noch heute gilt Dürrenmatts Justiz als Werk in der Nachfolge seiner Krimis der 1950er Jahre, obwohl der Autor sich explizit gegen diese Einreihung gewehrt hat. Anhand einer Analyse der Figur des Gangsters lässt sich aufzeigen, dass im Justizroman eine von Grund auf...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-05
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This collection of essays focuses on the role of spirituality in American literature through an examination of the multiple ways in which a deep engagement with the spiritual has shaped and affected literature in the Americas (three of the essays involve Canadian and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-05
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Copy from the 1975 Owlswick Press print edition:L. Sprague de Camp's original Science-Fiction Handbook, published in 1953 and long out of print, has been favourably remembered by a whole generation of science fiction readers and aspiring writers. Over the years, at...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2014-04-30
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This volume is a collaborative reassessment of the writing of John McGahern. The contributors provide provocative readings of his major works and also examine some of his lesser-known short stories, essays and unpublished archival materials which have not yet received...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-29
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This book closely examines the processes governing the construction of literary spaces in the selected works of J.M. Coetzee, focusing in particular on the writer’s subversive and destructive treatment of traditional modes of representation which participated in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-29
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