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Crime Fiction in the Caribbean: ReframingCrime and Justice is the first academic book to focus on crime fiction by anglophone Caribbean writers. It explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to convey, contextualize, and comment on crime...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-09
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This edited collection focuses on the nexus between literary consumption, memory and collective identity formation in Russia from the 1980s until today. It challenges perceived notions about the reduced social significance and identity-building potential of contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-09
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Shakespeare and the Law appreciatesShakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical practices of dramatists and lawyers were informed by the renaissance of classical practice. It argues thatShakespeare was not...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-09
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Die vorliegende Publikation beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, inwieweit sich Ausprägungen eines weiblich-jüdischen Musikmäzenatentums mit dem des römischen Namensgebers dieser Förderform, mit Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, vergleichen lassen. Über drei Jahrhundertwenden und zwei...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-08
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This study endeavours to understand the construction and perception of minority languages in India from the colonial era to the contemporary period. Through illustrative examples, it seeks to delineate the evolution of orality and writing, the concept of vernacular, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-08
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This volume is perhaps the most in-depth exploration ever undertaken of Tolkien's world. Accessible but authoritative, and fully illustrated, it is now being reissued with a stunning new cover treatment and updated commentary on new books, films, games, and shows....
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Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2024-10-08
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Dies ist mehr als eine Geschichte. Die Autorin wendet den soziologischen Werkzeugkasten auf historische Zeugnisse an und zeigt überzeugend auf, dass sich in der Schwulenverfolgung im Dritten Reich jede Stufe der völkermörderischen Mobilisierung erkennen lässt – von der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-07
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Die Diskussion um die Herausbildung einer Gemeinsprache schon im Mittelhochdeutschen begleitet die Germanistik von ihren Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. Immer wieder wurde dabei insbesondere die Zeit der höfischen Dichter und damit das ‚klassische Mittelhochdeutsche‘ in...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-07
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The study focuses on spatio-temporal relations and their dependence on literary genres in Paul Auster’s fiction.The author examines how selected novels reflect and redefine both the representation of space and formulaic patterns of genres they can be categorised as....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-07
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This book explores first-hand Dunhuang manuscripts from a period of over 700 years, from 220 to 960, and as such makes a major contribution to passing on and promoting ancient Chinese culture. Perfectly combining four ingredients: an accessible writing style; a...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-05
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The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era across Europe and beyond.The volume presents forty-four groundbreaking essays that enable readers to assess Lord Byron's central position in Romantic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-04
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The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era across Europe and beyond.The volume presents forty-four groundbreaking essays that enable readers to assess Lord Byron's central position in Romantic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-04
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The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self.The world is always in motion and it is also full of risk.In such a world, how...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2024-10-03
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Die qualitativ-rekonstruktive Studie untersucht das implizite und handlungsleitende Wissen von Englischlehrpersonen nach einer Weiterbildungsmaßnahme zu einer Kritischen Fremdsprachendidaktik. Mithilfe von episodischen Interviews und Dokumentarischer Methode wird die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-02
Collection :
Literatur-, Kultur- und Sprachvermittlung: LiKuS
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Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century is the first in-depth study of the subject. It analyses the ways in which theatre in Ireland has developed since the 1990s when emerging playwrights Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson, and Enda Walsh turned against the tradition...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-27
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Narratives in Modern Arabic Literature: Explorations in Place, Gender, and ?ufi Motifs offers a significant contribution to modern Arabic literary studies. By analyzing the roles of place, gender, and ?ufi motifs, the book provides a nuanced examination of key thematic...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-09-27
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In the spring of 1928, the coal miner’s daughter Erna Halbe leaves her provincial hometown for Berlin, where she takes an office job. Her new colleagues laugh at her unfashionable clothes and dub her «The Girl at the Orga Privat» when she is given an old typewriter of...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-09-27
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Master mariner and pioneer author of Modernist technique Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) achieved such eminence in his lifetime that his presence, explicit or implicit, could be found in the lives and works of several contemporaries of consequence. Through the century since...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-27
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This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world. It starts with the individual laborer and works up, emphasizing their agency in navigating, transforming, and transcending the systems and structures around them. Taking...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-26
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Gabriele Tergit (1894–1982) war bis 1933 eine der erfolgreichsten Autorinnen ihrer Generation. Aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland geflohen, fand sie jedoch im Exil kein Publikum mehr – obwohl sie kontinuierlich schrieb. Ihr vielseitiges literarisches und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-09-25
Collection :
Exil-Kulturen
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