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In dieser Studie wird anhand der rationalen Philologie die Entwicklung der historischen Frankenkönigin Brunichildis († 613) zu einer literarischen Figur in drei Hauptvarianten untersucht: Im Nibelungenlied erscheint Brünhild als Königin, in den isländischen Texten als...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-02
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«A pioneering first in the English language. This is a wonderfully subtle, multifaceted study of the image in the work of one of Portugal’s greatest writers. Admirable for its depth of analysis and breadth of coverage, this is a real gift for new learners of Portuguese...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-10-02
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Concerns about Haiti suffused the early American print public sphere from the outbreak of the revolution in 1791 until well after its conclusion in 1804. The gothic, sentimental, and sensationalist undertones of openly speculative periodical accounts were accelerated...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-01
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Dieses Buch bietet einen wertvollen Ansatz für eine neue, ganzheitliche Herangehensweise zur erfolgreichen Gestaltung der Digitalisierung. Diese wird häufig mit technologischem Fortschritt gleichgesetzt oder nur aus technologisch-wirtschaftlicher Sicht betrachtet. Aber...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2023-09-30
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This book explores sacrifice as a narrative theme and a stylistic strategy in works by May Sinclair, Mary Butts and H. D. It argues that the modernist experiment with pronoun use informs the treatment of acts of sacrifice in the texts, understood both as acts of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-30
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Two of the most notable figures from the Middle Ages–the volatile, brilliant Abelard and the equally brilliant Heloise–became the parents of their son Astralabe before Abelard’s infamous, brutal castration. The couple spent the rest of their lives as monastics, in each...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-30
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This book systematically studies the literary output of female writers in contemporary China within the frame of literary theories of feminism. With tools from psychoanalysis, structuralism and deconstructionism, the two female authors, Meng and Dai, analyze 9 important...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-30
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Der Band widmet sich der Frage, wie sich europäische Romantiken im Zeitraum zwischen ca. 1790 und 1850 mit ökologischen Theoremen und umweltbezogenen Problembereichen auseinandersetzen. Die Aufsätze dieses interdisziplinären Sammelbandes untersuchen dabei insbesondere...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-09-29
Collection :
Neue Romantikforschung
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Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2023 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2022 im November 2022 mit den Reden der Preisträgerin Esther Kinsky, der Vertrauensperson der Jury Paul Ingendaay und der Präsidentin der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Anne Fleig. Den Schwerpunkt...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-09-29
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This book examines Thomas Hardy’s writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, ‘being’, class and environment. It illustrates the ways in which Hardy represents a social world which serves as a ‘horizon’ for the individual and explores the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-28
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In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature, drawing on insights and examples from both classic and popular works.From postmodernism to postcolonialism, William...
Editeur :
Greenfinch
Parution :
2023-09-28
Collection :
50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
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Migration and Creation in Aztec and Maya Literature provides a new perspective on migration and creation episodes in the Popol Vuh of the Quiché Maya Indians of highland Guatemala, demonstrating that they are largely borrowed from Aztec sources. These findings upend...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-09-28
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Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods explores the construction of the child and the development of texts for children in the nineteenth century through the application of fresh theoretical approaches and attention to aspects of literary childhoods...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-28
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This volume studies the literary voices of the Italian diaspora in Britain, including 21 authors and 34 pieces of prose, verse, and drama.This book shows how authors both recount the history of the migrant community in the period 1880-1980 while creatively experimenting...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-27
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This book ‘plays up’ stories of mostly unknown figures and their journeys through a life affected by movement, and a search for home. It engages with individuals and groups whose passions have carried the subjects through ‘uncharted’ or unhomely territories, here told...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-27
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?This monograph aims to explore the mind-narrative nexus by conducting a cognitive narratological study on the mad minds in fictional narratives. Set on the interface of narrative and cognitive science (cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and cognitive...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-26
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Latin American Digital Poetics seeks to take the pulse of emergent poetic forms whose history is entangled with the computational and its AI dreams and achievements. This study carefully and thoroughly probes the intersection between the literary, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-23
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Der Dorotheenstädtische Friedhof in Berlin ist zwischen Hegels Tod und der Gegenwart allmählich zu einem Mausoleum deutscher Kulturgeschichte geworden. Er bezeugt steinern die Größe deutscher Literatur und Philosophie wie die Irrungen und Wirrungen deutscher Geschichte....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-09-23
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Correspondence is vol. ix in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. Among Victorian writers, Pater (1839-1894) challenged academic and religious orthodoxies, defended 'the love of art for own sake', developed a new genre of prose fiction (the 'imaginary...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-21
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How can untranslatability help us to think about the historical as well as the cultural and linguistic dimensions of translation? For the past two centuries, theoretical debates about translation have responded to the idea that translation overcomes linguistic and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-20
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