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  • Alms of Freedom

    Series Book 2 - Read Write Ponder
    Sometimes we learn things from the least expected person and just when we least expect it. When a woman visits a foreign country for the first time and heads out to the bazaar to purchase a gift for her host family, the host's son joins her to act as interpreter. The boy teaches her enough common phrases to allow her to communicate with the vendors, and not get swindled, but it isn't until she ... Read more

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  • Fictions of Home

    Narratives of Alienation and Belonging, 1850-2000

    Series Book 143 - Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA)
    This study aims to counter right-wing discourses of belonging. It discusses key theoretical concepts for the study of home, focusing in particular on Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic contributions. The book also maintains that postmodern celebrations of nomadism and exile tend to be incapable of providing an alternative to conservative, xenophobic appropriations of home. In ... Read more

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  • Белая ласточка

    by Olga Koreneva ...
    О молодых людях, старшеклассниках и первокурсниках вузов, которые только что стали или становятся взрослыми, делают свои первые самостоятельные шаги в сложную взрослую жизнь, рассказывается в «Белой ласточке», первой книге начинающей писательницы, выпускницы Литературного института имени Горького, Ольги Кореневой.Юным героям автора свойственны высота нравственных и моральных оценок и требований к ... Read more

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  • Intermedialitaet und Revolution der Medien- Intermédialité et révolution des médias

    Positionen – Revisionen- Positions et révisions

    Series Book 15 - Romania Viva
    Der vorliegende Sammelband untersucht das Konzept der Intermedialität vor dem Hintergrund der zunehmenden Beschleunigung und Überkreuzung medialer Praktiken in der zeitgenössischen Gesellschaft, angesichts derer sich die Frage nach einer Revision des Theorems der Intermedialität stellt. Die Beiträge konzentrieren sich auf Schlüsselmomente historischer Medienumbrüche im 19., 20. und 21. Jahrhundert ... Read more

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  • Development Discourse and Global History

    From colonialism to the sustainable development goals

    by Aram Ziai ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
    The manner in which people have been talking and writing about ‘development’ and the rules according to which they have done so have evolved over time.Development Discourse and Global History uses the archaeological and genealogical methods of Michel Foucault to trace the origins of development discourse back to late colonialism and notes the significant discontinuities that led to the ... Read more

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  • Prinzessinnen, Hühner und Verräter

    Series series Schreibwerk-Bücherprogramm
    Wir schreiben für Erwachsene und Kinder. Unsere Genres reichen von Phantastik über Historische Romane und Liebesgeschichten bis zu Erzählungen über Tiere. Wir haben eine gemeinsame Homepage und einen Blog. Mit diesem Katalog präsentieren wir nun auch unsere E-Book-Veröffentlichungen gemeinsam.„Schreibwerk“ ist eine internationale Gruppe von Autorinnen und Autoren deutscher Sprache. Wir haben uns ... Read more

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  • The Letters of William Cullen Bryant

    Volume V, 1865–1871

    On April 26, 1865, as Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege paused in Union Square, New York, before being taken by rail to Springfield, Illinois, William Cullen Bryant listened as his own verse elegy for the slain president was read to a great concourse of mourners by the Reverend Samuel Osgood. Only five years earlier and a few blocks downtown, at Cooper Union, Bryant had introduced the prairie ... Read more

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  • The Prose Poem As a (Non)Genre

    A Polish Case Study

    Translated by Jakob Ziguras ...
    Series Book 27 - Cross-Roads
    Is the prose poem revolutionary and subversive, or marginal and lyrical? What makes a piece of prose a prose poem? Is its identity vague or precisely defined? Can every poem written in prose be considered a prose poem, a form influenced by the brilliant invention of French literature and by authors such as Baudelaire or Rimbaud? Agnieszka Kluba discusses the prose poem by providing a comprehensive ... Read more

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  • Remember the Hand

    Manuscription in Early Medieval Iberia

    Series series Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
    Remember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from the Christian monasteries of northern Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have in common an urgent sense of scribal presence—scribes name themselves, describe themselves, even paint their own portraits. While marginal notes, even biographical ones, are a common feature of ... Read more

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  • The Literariness of Media Art

    The beginning of the 20th century saw literary scholars from Russia positing a new definition for the nature of literature. Within the framework of Russian Formalism, the term ‘literariness’ was coined. The driving force behind this theoretical inquiry was the desire to identify literature—and art in general—as a way of revitalizing human perception, which had been numbed by the automatization of ... Read more

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  • The Fatal News

    Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature

    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    What was "information" in the early eighteenth century, and what influence did the emergence of information, as potential physical and psychological threat, have on readers of the period? Recent scholarship in eighteenth-century print culture and in twenty-first-century media studies and theory offers a unique opportunity to reconsider how and why information is figuratively imagined during the ... Read more

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  • Злаякукла! No! Ангелдобрый!

    by Olga Koreneva ...
    Роман - Злаякукла! No! Ангелдобрый! – не простой. Тут происходят совершенно головокружительные виражи. В устоявшуюся и даже по-своему счастливую жизнь сорокалетней безработной особы, весьма симпатичной и безмятежной, вдруг вторгается мистика, а следом – ураганом врывается влюблённый мужчина, и даже не один. И начинаются настоящие американские горки… Роман захватывает, завораживает. И всё же – это ... Read more

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  • Smart Pop Preview 2012

    Standalone Essays on the Hunger Games, Robert B. Parker's Spenser, George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Ender's Game, and More

    Get a sneak peak at Smart Pop's 2012 titles with this preview volume of standalone essays.Volume includes:"Songs Spenser Taught Me" Ace AtkinsFrom In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero, edited by Otto Penzler"The Palace of Love, The Palace of Sorrow" Linda Antonsson and Elio M. García, Jr.From Beyond the Wall: Exploring George R.R. Martin ... Read more

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  • Team Teaching and Team Learning in the Language Classroom

    Collaboration for innovation in ELT

    Series series Routledge Research in Language Education
    This book reignites discussion on the importance of collaboration and innovation in language education. The pivotal difference highlighted in this volume is the concept of team learning through collaborative relationships such as team teaching. It explores ways in which team learning happens in ELT environments and what emerges from these explorations is a more robust concept of team learning in ... Read more

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  • Новая религия (Novaya Religiya)

    Series series Концепция (The Conception)
    Я не претендую на образ философа, познавшего истину, я ищу ее вместе с вами. Я избегаю "нести истину". Все, кто заявляют об этом, обычно несут противоположное. Я не стремлюсь "вещать", чтобы мне "внимали". Я просто рассуждаю о жизни, как Вы и как любой другой человек. Я не – Учитель, а такой же ученик, как и все. Любое стремление к миссионерству считаю искушением и соблазном, уводящим в сторону. Я ... Read more

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  • The Letters of William Cullen Bryant

    Volume II, 1836–1849

    The second volume of William Cullen Bryant's letters opens in 1836 as he has just returned to New York from an extended visit to Europe to resume charge of the New York Evening Post, brought near to failure during his absence by his partner William Leggett's mismanagement. At the period's close, Bryant has found in John Bigelow an able editorial associate and astute partner, with whose help he has ... Read more

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  • En torno a ‘haber’

    Construcciones, usos y variación desde el latín hasta la actualidad

    Series Book 46 - Studia Romanica et Linguistica
    Este volumen constituye la primera monografía que aborda el haz entero de construcciones en las que, a lo largo de la historia, ha participado el auxiliar más conocido del español, HABERE > haber. Catorce especialistas de universidades europeas y americanas trazan, desde muy diversas ópticas teóricas (lingüística de área, gramática formal, gramática de construcciones, sociolingüística, ... Read more

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  • Signs of Disability

    Series Book 4 - Crip
    How can we learn to notice the signs of disability?We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped “deaf person in area” road signs, the telltale shapes of hearing aids, or white-tipped canes sweeping across footpaths. But even though the signs are ubiquitous, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum argues that disability may still not be perceived due to a process she terms “dis-attention.”To ... Read more

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  • Relações de Poder na Literatura da Amazônia Legal

    O livro analisa, a partir da teoria de Absurdo, de Camus, as relações de Poder na literatura produzida na Amazônia legal, área geopolítica que abrange a Amazônia brasileira. São analisados textos dos seguintes autores: Ricardo Guilherme Dicke, Tereza Albués, Dom Pedro Casaldáliga, José Vilela e Márcio Sousa. ... Read more

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  • Hermetischer Symbolismus: Andrej Belyjs «Istorija stanovlenija samosoznajuščej duši»

    Series Book 4 - Trierer Studien zur Slavistik
    Die „Istorija stanovlenija samosoznajuščej duši" ist das kulturphilosophische Hauptwerk von Andrej Belyj. Es ist bislang nur in Auszügen publiziert und wird hier erstmals auf der Grundlage des vollständigen Manuskripts erschlossen. Sein Leitbegriff – die Selbstbewusstseinsseele – bildet zugleich seinen Gegenstand und seine Methode. In ihm sind Belyjs späte Erkenntnistheorie und Poetologie ... Read more

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  • Revisiting Renoir, Manet and Degas

    Impressionist Figure Paintings in Contemporary Anglophone Art Fiction

    Series Book 145 - Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA)
    This work analyses the relationship between visual art and contemporary art fiction by addressing the problem of the ekphrastic re-presentation and re-interpretation of an Impressionist figure painting through its composition, selected details of the painting and allusion to specific techniques used in the process of creating the masterpiece based on the examples of the following novels: Luncheon ... Read more

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  • The Aesthetics and Politics of Linguistic Borders

    Multilingualism in Northern European Literature

    This collection showcases a multivalent approach to the study of literary multilingualism, embodied in contemporary Nordic literature. While previous approaches to literary multilingualism have tended to take a textual or authorship focus, this book advocates for a theoretical perspective which reflects the multiplicity of languages in use in contemporary literature emerging from increased ... Read more

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  • 644 phantastischer Bücherbrief

    Der phantastische Bücherbrief ist ein kostenloses Rezensionsmagazin. Es beschäftigt sich hauptsächlich mit Phantastik aller Art, aber auch mit Krimis und Thriller. Das Magazin erscheint seit 40 Jahre, erst als Druckausgabe, später zusätzlich als pdf, seit kurzem auch als e-book.Es stellt Phantastik vor, Autoren, Zeichner, Hörspielproduzenten und anderes mehr. Ein Augenmerk liegt auf deutscher ... Read more

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  • Tiananmen Fictions outside the Square

    The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture

    by Belinda Kong ...
    Series series Asian American History & Cultu
    An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre. More than any other episode in recent world history, Tiananmen has brought a distinctly politicized Chinese literary diaspora into stark relief.Kong redefines Tiananmen's meaning from an event ... Read more

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