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There was a time when the word "modern" would not have appeared in folklore scholarship in general and in proverb studies in particular. After all, folklorists and cultural historians were primarily interested in traditional materials with some consideration also being...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-10-13
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Nicholas Horsfall was one of the most recognizable and influential Latinists of his generation. His main legacy is his work on Virgil and the five erudite commentaries on the Aeneid, but he was also a prolific writer of papers, both Virgilian and non-Virgilian. A...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-13
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Nicholas Horsfall was one of the most recognizable and influential Latinists of his generation. His main legacy is his work on Virgil and the five erudite commentaries on the Aeneid, but he was also a prolific writer of papers, both Virgilian and non-Virgilian. A...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-13
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This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a series of interconnected articles that illustrate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-13
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This book is a collection of great and insightful essays which discuss heroic endeavors to save endangered heirs and estates by searching devotedly for the truth in various criminal and civil situations.This book focuses especially on important works by Arthur Conan...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-10-13
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This book examines South Africa’s post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the socio-political project of the “new” South Africa, best exemplified in their Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings, was fundamentally an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-12
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
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The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic approach, Tara Guissin-Stubbs argues for the significance of the Irish sonnet as a discrete...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-10
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This book sheds light on the intimate relationship between built space and the mind, exploring the ways in which architecture inhabits and shapes both the memory and the imagination. Examining the role of the house, a recurrent, even haunting, image in art and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-08
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The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's One Ring, at the centre of one of the greatest fantasy tales ever told, is an undeniably iconic and powerful symbol in literature. Tracing centuries of ancient folklore,The Ring Legends of Tolkien is a deep and highly informed...
Editeur :
Pyramid
Parution :
2020-10-08
Collection :
Tolkien
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Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues, including pollution of waterways, environmental racism, and militarism....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-08
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This book presents 18 highly influential essays on Chinese literature and semiotics by Professor Zhao Yiheng, including his analysis and discussions of the development of Chinese literature and its characteristics from traditional to modern times. It is divided into...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-10-06
Collection :
China Academic Library
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This book demonstrates the significance of transnationality for studying and writing the lives of artists. While painters, musicians and writers have long been cast as symbols of their associated nations, recent research is increasingly drawing attention to those...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-06
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This book deals with aspects of legal education and legal traditions. Part I includes chapters on teaching Law of the Sea, legal ethics and educating lawyers as ‘transaction cost engineers’ as well as comparison of teaching law in a refugee camp and in a Malaysian...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-10-05
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
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Romantic Capabilities discusses the relationship between popular new media uses of literary texts. Devising and modelling an original critical methodology that bridges historicist literary criticism and reception studies with media studies and formalism, this volume...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-02
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Romantic Capabilities discusses the relationship between popular new media uses of literary texts. Devising and modelling an original critical methodology that bridges historicist literary criticism and reception studies with media studies and formalism, this volume...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-02
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Departing from Jacques Derrida’s appropriations of cinders as a trope of war atrocity aftermath, this book examines writings that deal with war trauma memories in Asian-American communities. Seeing war experiences and their associative diasporas and affects as the core...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-10-01
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Das Handbuch informiert umfassend über die Literatur für Kinder und Jugendliche in verschiedenen Medien und fasst den Stand der Forschung in diesem Bereich sowohl diachron als auch synchron zusammen. Es deckt eine Vielzahl von Erzählmedien wie Bilderbuch,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-09-29
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This interdisciplinary volume of essays examines the real and imagined role of Classical and Celtic influence in the history of British identity formation, from late antiquity to the present day. In so doing, it makes the case for increased collaboration between the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-29
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Ancient authors commonly compared writing with painting. The sculpting of the soul was also a common philosophical theme. Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors takes its starting-point from such figures to recover a sense of ancient authorship as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-29
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Ancient authors commonly compared writing with painting. The sculpting of the soul was also a common philosophical theme. Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors takes its starting-point from such figures to recover a sense of ancient authorship as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-29
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