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The book is a study of references to Poles, Poland and Polishness in Jewish-American fiction created after World War II.The analysis of seventy novels by Jewish-American writers of several generations reveals portrayals of Poles as secondary or unimportant characters,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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A Companion to Roman Architecture presents a comprehensive review of the critical issues and approaches that have transformed scholarly understanding in recent decades in one easy-to-reference volume. Offers a cross-disciplinary approach to Roman architecture, spanning...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-10-10
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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In 1938 tyranny attained unprecedented power: the Nazis annexed Austria and the Sudetenland, the Soviet purge reached its peak and the persecution of the Jews escalated into the horror of Kristallnacht. Nabokov frequently engaged with the subject of totalitarianism, but...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-10-01
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Durch Grammatikalisierung entwickeln lexikalische Zeichen zunehmend grammatische Funktionen. So können aus ehemals konkreten Verben schließlich Hilfsverben entstehen. Das deutsche Verb bekommen erfüllt in Verbindung mit Partizipien bereits grammatische Funktion...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-10-01
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Immaterial Culture engages with texts that are now largely unread and dismissed as trivial or dubious: the vast body of plays – thrillers, narrative poetry, comedy sketches, documentaries and adaptations of literature and drama – that aired on American network radio...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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What is the breaking news in the world today? How did you find out this news? How do you know it is true? Was it reported ethically?What checks and balances are being put on the news media? The answers to these questions reflect the themes of this book. The chapters...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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This groundbreaking collection examines popular and literary culture in the 1950s through the lens of postwar Ireland. The 1950s are at once a site of cultural nostalgia and of vital relevance to twenty-first-century readers. The diverse essays collected here offer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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Fictions of Appetite explores and investigates the aesthetic significance of images of food, appetite and consumption in a body of modernist literature published in Italian between 1905 and 1939. The corpus examined includes novels, short stories, poems, essays and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-16
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Cees Nooteboom (born 1933) is a writer of fiction, poetry and travel literature. Translated into at least thirty-four languages, his work raises important questions about the mobility of literary texts and invites a new theoretical approach, for to read Nooteboom...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-16
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Gwendolyn MacEwen war eine Kultfigur der Literaturszene Torontos der 1960er/1970er Jahre. Als exotisch und extravagant findet man sie und ihr Werk in diesem Zusammenhang beschrieben, als «Queen of Canadian Poetry» wird sie von Zeitgenossen bezeichnet. Heute ist...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-16
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This collection offers new perspectives on the connections between politics, identity and representation in art and poetry in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and Europe. Contributions explore questions such as the following: what was the effect of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-16
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Cultural diversity has long been and remains a complex issue for its depiction and appreciation vary according to the historical, geographical or ethical context in which it is considered or the viewpoint from which it is observed. The articles published in this volume,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-16
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A Companion to American Gothic features a collection of original essays that explore America’s gothic literary tradition. The largest collection of essays in the field of American Gothic Contributions from a wide variety of scholars from around the world The most...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-09-10
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-08-26
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Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nurtured and inspired Black Theater. Functioning as an interactive guide for students and teachers, African American Theater...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-08-23
Collection :
Cultural History of Literature
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This collection brings together twelve essays that tackle the nexus between gender, literature, and the visual arts. While it provides a philosophical and theoretical background for some of the factors that shape female creativity, it also considers the contributions of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-08-13
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This book provides a critical and context-sensitive reading of corporeality in the narrative fiction of Mercè Rodoreda, through the perspectives of art and film theory, feminism, literary criticism, spatial studies, and nationalist theory. The text approaches Rodoreda...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-08-09
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Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as ‘other’. This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of the first century actually described women as not so different from men:...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-08-09
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In nineteenth-century Italy, a woman’s place was considered to be in the domestic sphere, devoted to family life. But during the Risorgimento and the years following Unification, economic, political and social changes enabled women progressively to engage in pursuits...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-08-09
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Irish writers have always been fascinated by the family, sometimes depicting it as a traditional space under threat from external influences, sometimes highlighting the dangers lurking within. More recently, families have been represented as a type of safe haven from a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-08-09
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