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«This relevant, clearly defined study isn’t constricted by its primary focus on late nineteenth-century American utopias, written when inequality flourished. Morris enriches this focus with chronological comparisons to well-known and lesser-known American utopias in...
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In dieser Studie wird erstmals die kulturelle Prägung von Metaphern in religiösen Texten einer mehrsprachigen und multikulturellen Region analysiert. Der Autor vergleicht hierzu deutsche und polnische Kirchenlieder des Gesangbuchs Weg zum Himmel/Droga do Nieba und...
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The book is an attempt at a monographic approach to the problem of the reception of 17th-century Dutch painting in modern literature. However, the author deals not only with contemporary works but also with the texts of 19th-century writers and critics, most often...
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This collection of essays by an award winning scholar and poet will appeal to readers from many areas of English, with particular appeal to grad students preparing to teach writing courses.
"As an admirer of Eli Goldblatt’s original, groundbreaking, and beautifully...
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«This is a unique book which is multidisciplinary in the sense that it discusses a variety of genres which cut across film studies, literature and cartoons. The combination of emerging and renowned scholars’ writing in one anthology makes it an interesting book to add...
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Die medizinische Dimension in den Prosawerken von Günter Grass ist bis dato weitestgehend unerforscht.Die vorliegende Studie ist ein erster Versuch, diese Forschungslücke zu schließen. Sie widmet sich der Darstellung von medizinischem Fachpersonal wie Krankenschwestern,...
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«Name ist Schall und Rauch», heißt es in Goethes Faust I. Diese Studie zeigt, dass Figurennamen allerdings viel mehr sind. Insbesondere die sprechenden Namen modellieren den Charakter und weisen Identität zu, was die Untersuchung maßgeblich anhand der Protagonistinnen...
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In der Post-Wahrheit-Ära verschwimmen Wahrheit und Fiktion in bisher ungekanntem Ausmaß. Die Verlässlichkeit unabhängiger Medien wird seit den 1960er/70er Jahren angezweifelt. Dies führt zu Schwierigkeiten bei der Interpretation der komplexen soziopolitischen Realität...
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«In Timeless Joyce, Asun López-Varela offers a holistic, dense, and substantial approach to the study of Ulysses, in commemoration of its publication centenary. The author manages to tackle multiple perspectives that pivot around key aspects of Joyce’s narrative by...
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«Antonis Balasopoulos is to be heartily thanked for bringing back into print A. L. Morton’s marvelous book The English Utopia – and for providing us with not only a useful and insightful Introduction, but also a comprehensive bibliography of Leslie Morton’s many...
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This book is a collection of excellent essays about heroic, intelligent, perceptive, and resourceful private citizens with exceptional investigative capacities and their important contributions to noteworthy criminal cases which are discussed in literary masterpieces by...
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The book is a detailed introduction to Post-Blackness as a literary aesthetic, tracing its emergence to the philosophical movement that defined itself in the visual arts towards the end of the twentieth century. Aiming to redefine African American identity in a...
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In the increasingly globalised consumer culture of the twenty-first century, consumer goods have long become more than mere commodities: they are markers of identity and tools of narration. Advertising, branding and other processes of consumer culture are ubiquitous and...
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Ausgehend von Erkenntnissen über das Römische Haus im Weimarer Park geht die Arbeit der Frage nach, inwiefern Goethes Baupraxis in einem freimaurerischen Bezugsrahmen steht. Über den gleichen Ansatz wird das «Märchen» von 1795 erschlossen. Die Studie untersucht Motivik...
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Poldowski (Irène Dean Paul née Wieniawska) 1879–1932 was the youngest daughter of the celebrated violinist/composer, Henryk Wieniawski. The only member of her family to follow her father into the music profession, she developed from a child prodigy into one of the most...
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This book discusses how from their different backgrounds and on different levels, the German philosopher, sociologist and musicologist,Theodor W. Adorno, (1903-1969) and the Irish playwright, Brian Friel,(1929-2015) came to the conclusion that the modern crisis rendered...
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Writing is a critical skill people need to survive and prosper in the modern economy. But most people fail to become competent writers. Those who succeed (at least, in English-speaking countries) are predominantly White, upper middle class, and female. These achievement...
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The book is the first academic study of Henry Beissel’s bilingual poetic autobiography.The Canadian poet going back through memories to his childhood in Nazi Germany, wrote a long poem in English and reinterpreted it in German – his mother tongue, neglected for decades....
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The book explores the notion of borderlands and the concept of nomadic subjectivity as manifested in selected novels by Chicana/Latina and contemporary Polish women authors. It seeks to propose a poetics of borderlands that emerges from the condition of nepantla (being...
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«Marjan Shokouhi’s new book attests to the ways in which Irish ecocritical scholarship has developed into more than a simple ‘subfield’ of Irish Studies. Shokouhi takes readers on a fascinating journey through the work of three iconic Irish poets in the modern period –...
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