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This volume documents the triple-series Austrian-American Podium Dialog held at Lafayette College in 2013, 2015, and 2018 to which twelve Austrian authors were invited and paired with scholars from American universities and colleges. After the introductory essays that...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-05-25
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This volume offers original essays exploring what ‘fictive narrative philosophy’ might mean in the research and teaching of philosophy. The first part of the book presents theoretical essays that examine Boylan’s recent books: Teaching Ethics with Three Philosophical...
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Springer
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2022-05-25
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Unter den zahlreichen Arbeitsmigranten, die in den 1960ern und 1970ern nach Deutschland zugewandert sind, waren auch Kroaten. Mehrere Hunderttausend Menschen kroatischer Herkunft sind in Deutschland geblieben und leben dort noch heute. Die Studie umfasst rund vierzig...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-05-25
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The aim of this book is to restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals, and soil, among other things, that would have characterized it for the early medieval English themselves. In particular, each...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-23
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What is a 'Shakespearean actor'? Does the term still have any meaning? Drawing on the biographical and autobiographical accounts of actors and directors, as well as on interviews with actors from a wide range of backgrounds, this book looks at these questions in a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-23
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The rapid development of the TV series in the twenty-first century has resulted in an emergence of new aesthetic, cultural, and social trends.The development has influenced both the mainstream of popular culture and reception practices of audiences across nations and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-05-23
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Shakespeares Karriere auf deutschen Bühnen begann 1776 in Hamburg mit einer Aufführung des Hamlet. Die Bearbeitung des Stücks stammte von Friedrich Ludwig Schröder – Schauspieler, Dramatiker, Regisseur und Direktor des Hamburger Theaters. Er schrieb damit...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-05-23
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Shortlisted for the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review
Fiction plays a vital role in describing history and transmitting culture. How writers understand and use history can play an equally important role in how they navigate a novel. This book explores...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-05-23
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This book builds upon recent theoretical approaches that define queerness as more of a temporal orientation than a sexual one to explore how Edgar Allan Poe's literary works were frequently invested in imagining lives that contemporary readers can understand as queer,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-16
Collection :
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Xenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, alongside Herodotus and Thucydides), and a literary artist. His narrative was appreciated for its literary qualities including its charm, wit, vigour,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-16
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Genauso lange, wie es die Buchpreisbindung in Deutschland gibt, ist sie umstritten. Während Kritiker sie insbesondere aus ökonomischen Erwägungen anzweifeln und gelegentlich als „gesetzliches Zwangskartell“ kritisieren, sind es die Befürworter mit dem Börsenverein des...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-05-13
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Anhand von Werken von Ludwig Ganghofer, Hermann Löns, Felix Salten, Waldemar Bonsels und Otto Alscher, die zwischen 1900 und 1943 erschienen sind und in denen die Jagd zentral ist, widmet sich dieser Band der Rolle und der Darstellung von Emotionen in den Beziehungen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-05-12
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"It will be a strange sort of a book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;--& to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy.... Yet I mean to give the truth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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"It will be a strange sort of a book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;--& to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy.... Yet I mean to give the truth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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Discover the power of Greek lyric with essays from some of the foremost scholars in the field today Recent decades have seen a strong resurgence of interest in Greek lyric, resulting in this topic becoming one of the most dynamic areas of Classical scholarship. In A...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-05-11
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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This book examines the influence of American poetry on Seamus Heaney’s achievement by close attention to the themes, style, and resonances of his poetry at different stages of his career, including his appointments in Berkeley and Harvard. Beginning with an examination...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-09
Collection :
New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today. The book focuses on how increasing and ongoing isolation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-06
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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