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The body remains the most visibly gendered social and cultural construction. Not only does it classify individuals into two different sexes from the very start of their lives, but some of the most obvious social divisions – such as race and nationality, age and physical...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-05-29
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Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-05-29
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This book critically examines a wide range of contemporary literary scandals in order to identify the cultural and literary anxieties revealed by controversial works. It explores how scandal predominantly emerges in relation to texts which offer challenging...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-29
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In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought.
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-05-29
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Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around it.
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-05-29
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Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Sufi oral discourse in Senegal is overwhelmingly dominated by stories about past and current shaykhs. An important corpus of oral narratives aboutSufi clerics is not only (re)told bySufi speakers throughout Senegal but also in the Senegalese diasporas in the Americas,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-05-29
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This book investigates the English translations of Shen Congwen’s stories. Shen Congwen (1902–1988) is one of the most acclaimed writers in modern Chinese literature. His works have been translated into more than ten languages and his 44 stories count with 70 different...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-29
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The Everyday of Memory explores manifestations of the communist past in the everyday lives of Eastern Europeans today. Representing a wide range of disciplines including cultural studies, film studies, urban studies, sociology, media, literature and art, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-29
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In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the fascination with culturally privileged art and with heroic...
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Polity
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2013-05-28
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What is psychoanalytic criticism and how can it be justified as a type of criticism in its own right? In this new and thoroughly revised edition of her classic textbook, Elizabeth Wright provides a cogent answer to this question and a wide-ranging introduction to...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-05-28
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In Marina Cvetaevas Dichtung kommt Orten und Räumen eine besondere Bedeutung zu, die für verschiedene Schaffensphasen untersucht wird.In diesem Zusammenhang stellt sich die Frage nach der Relevanz der Kategorie des Raumes für die Literatur und die Literaturwissenschaft....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-27
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Kurt Tucholsky war einer der bekanntesten und wichtigsten politischen Publizisten und Satiriker der Weimarer Republik. Seine Beiträge entlarvten die Machenschaften der konservativen preußisch-deutschen Eliten in Politik, Justiz und Militär, die mit Hartnäckigkeit daran...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-21
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Das Buch wirft ein neues Licht auf die Frage der frühen semitischen Lehnwörter im Griechischen. Es untersucht ca. 400 griechische Wörter auf einen möglichen semitischen Ursprung. Aus dieser Untersuchung ergibt sich, dass der von der mykenischen bis zum Ende der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-21
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The Literary Theory Handbook introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, showing them how to perform literary analysis, and providing a greater understanding of the historical contexts for different theories. A new edition of this highly...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-05-21
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
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Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.We entrust university specialists with the writing of each study guides.Our editorial work...
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Les Editions de l'Ebook malin
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2013-05-20
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Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoë.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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2013-05-20
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Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Charles Dicken's novel Oliver Twist.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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2013-05-20
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This new book is a lively and original study of psychoanalysis and its relations to the arts.
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Polity
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2013-05-20
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This volume offers a critical insight into the life and work of the controversial Victorian explorer and translator Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). Analysis focuses on his travel accounts and erotic translations, which both re-elaborated and challenged dominant...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-17
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This book is a collection of papers using samples of real language data (corpora) to explore variation in the use of English.This collection celebrates the achievements of Toshio Saito, a pioneer in corpus linguistics within Japan and founder of the Japan Association...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-17
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