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The book examines the complex lexis of the northwestern and southeastern Bay of Kotor, Montenegro.The author analyzed loanwords which arrived by the influence of those who settled in the Bay (Venetians, Austro-Hungarians, Turks, Spaniards, and French). They were...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-05-20
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When Dickens was nineteen years old, he wrote a poem for Maria Beadnell, the young woman he wished to marry. The poem imagined Maria as a welcoming landlady offering lodgings to let. Almost forty years later, Dickens died, leaving his final novel unfinished - in its...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-05-20
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When Dickens was nineteen years old, he wrote a poem for Maria Beadnell, the young woman he wished to marry. The poem imagined Maria as a welcoming landlady offering lodgings to let. Almost forty years later, Dickens died, leaving his final novel unfinished - in its...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-05-20
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Diese kompakte, lebendig erzählte Geschichte der englischsprachigen Literatur der Britischen Inseln von ihren Anfängen bis heute lädt dazu ein, nicht nur eine bunte Fülle von verblüffend spannenden Texten kennenzulernen, sondern auch die ebenso spannende Welt, aus der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-05-19
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Since the 1970s, truth and reconciliation commissions have become increasingly popularised as options for addressing historical injustices, especially within the context of dictatorial regimes. Of the many truth commissions to date, the South African TRC has been the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-18
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Die Studie analysiert die Ästhetik des Komischen in Texten von Alfred Polgar, Albert Drach und Georg Kreisler, in denen die nach 1945 gewandelte wie fortdauernde Erfahrung der Exilierung – die Konstellation des Nachexils – thematisch wird.Die Arbeit widmet sich sowohl...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-05-15
Collection :
Exil-Kulturen
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British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime excavatesBritish late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past and future. As a wartime between, but distinct from, those of the First World War and the Cold War, Second...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-05-14
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British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime excavatesBritish late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past and future. As a wartime between, but distinct from, those of the First World War and the Cold War, Second...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-05-14
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This book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant. For over a century, claimants offered a compelling way to understand cultural difference across the Anglophone Atlantic, especially between Britain and the United States. They also...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-05-14
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This book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant. For over a century, claimants offered a compelling way to understand cultural difference across the Anglophone Atlantic, especially between Britain and the United States. They also...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-05-14
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This is a book about readers: readers reading, and readers writing. They are readers of all ages and from all ages: young and old, male and female, from Europe and the Americas. The book they are reading is the Spanish chivalric romance Amadís de Gaula, known in English...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-05-13
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This book explores the Catholic aesthetic and mystical dimensions in KateChopin’s fiction within the context of an evolving American Catholicism in thelate nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through a close reading of hernovels and numerous short stories, Kate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-05-13
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Located at the intersection of world-literary studies and the environmental humanities, this book analyses how fiction and poetry respond to the ecological transformations entailed by commodity frontiers. Examining the sugar, cacao, coal, and oil frontiers in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-12
Collection :
New Comparisons in World Literature
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From its origins as a minor nomadic tribe to its status as a major world empire, the rise of the Parthian state in the ancient world is nothing short of remarkable. In their early history, the Parthians benefitted from strong leadership, a flexible and accommodating...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-05-11
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This book investigates the internationalization of Chinese culture in recent decades and the global dimensions of Chinese culture from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. It covers a variety of topics concerning the contemporary significance of Chinese...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-11
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Das populäre Abenteuer-Narrativ mit seinem typischen Handlungsverlauf ist nicht nur in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur weit verbreitet, sondern auch in Medienverbünden, multimedialen Formaten oder Computerspielen. Zudem hat es eine lange Geschichte, wie schon der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-05-11
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This is a book about readers: readers reading, and readers writing. They are readers of all ages and from all ages: young and old, male and female, from Europe and the Americas. The book they are reading is the Spanish chivalric romance Amadís de Gaula, known in English...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-05-07
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As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-05-07
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For centuries, investigations into the origins of words were entwined with investigations into the origins of humanity and the cosmos. With the development of modern etymological practice in the nineteenth century, however, many cherished etymologies were shown to be...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-05-07
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Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures, and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-05-06
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