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  • Interferencias del archivo: Cortes estéticos y políticos en cine y literatura

    Argentina y Chile

    Series Book 19 - Romania Viva
    Archivo, memoria, cine, literatura y política. Desde una perspectiva intermedial, los ensayos reunidos en el libro analizan las relaciones entre estos campos en Argentina y Chile durante las últimas décadas. Un eje aborda las estrategias de (anti)memoria en dictadura, postdictadura y las democracias neoliberales, entre los años 80 y la actualidad; otro eje reflexiona sobre las nuevas coordenadas ... Read more

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  • Fremdsprachenunterricht in der Grundschule in den Bundeslaendern Deutschlands

    Eine Bestandsaufnahme des Status quo und seiner gewuenschten Weiterentwicklung

    Die Studie zum Fremdsprachenunterricht in deutschen Grundschulen bietet einen Überblick über Bundesländergrenzen hinweg in eine heterogene Bildungslandschaft, die von erheblichen curricularen Unterschieden und Widersprüchen geprägt ist.Neben dieser Bestandsaufnahme zeigen die Autoren auf, welche bildungspolitischen und fachdidaktischen Ausgestaltungen Fachleute aus Hochschulen, Landesinstituten ... Read more

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  • The International Turn in American Studies

    Series Book 7 - Interamericana
    The volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the internationalization of American Studies. The essays by European, American and Latin American scholars provide critical evaluations of a wide range of concepts, including trans-national and post-national, international, trans-atlantic, trans-pacific, as well as hemispheric, inter-American and comparative American studies. Combining ... Read more

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  • Deviant Women

    Cultural, Linguistic and Literary Approaches to Narratives of Femininity

    This multidisciplinary collection of articles illuminates the ways in which the concept of female deviance is represented, appropriated, re-inscribed and refigured in a wide range of texts across time, cultures and genres. Such a choice of variety shows that representations of deviance accommodate meaning-making spaces and possibilities for resistance in different socio-cultural and literary ... Read more

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  • Irregular Unions

    Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature

    Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unionsprovides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time. Cleland examines many examples of clandestine marriage across genres. Discussing such classic works as The Faerie Queene, ... Read more

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  • The Expense of Spirit

    Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama

    A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic ... Read more

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  • Macford: A Tragical Historie of York 2010 - 2014

    by Bob Dundas ...
    After a praised king is murdered in uncertain circumstances, a charismatic leader is elected to wear the weighty mantle. His reign is marked by an untrustworthy brother, selfless wife, devoted friend, and many more comic and tragic characters.When addiction threatens to destroy his legacy, Macford's actions change the course of York's history forever.Macford is a five act Shakespearean tragedy ... Read more

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  • Paul Auster's 'City of Glass' in the Tradition of Detective Fiction: a Psychoanalytical Analysis

    Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Dusseldorf 'Heinrich Heine' (Philosophische Fakultät), language: English, abstract: The topic of this paper is to examine the detective novel City of Glass, published by Paul Auster in 1985, from a psychoanalytical point of view. This analytic approach, combining both ... Read more

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  • Fire and Snow

    Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones

    by Marc DiPaolo ...
    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Fellow Inklings J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis may have belonged to different branches of Christianity, but they both made use of a faith-based environmentalist ethic to counter the mid-twentieth-century's triple threats of fascism, utilitarianism, and industrial capitalism. In Fire and Snow, Marc DiPaolo explores how the apocalyptic fantasy tropes and Christian environmental ethics of the ... Read more

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  • The Challenge of Bewilderment

    Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford

    The Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, attempting to explain how the novel turned away from its traditional concern with realistic representation and toward self-consciousness about the relation between knowing and narration. Paul B. Armstrong here addresses the pivotal thematic experience of ... Read more

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  • Macbeth

    Macbeth (/məkˈbɛθ/, full title The Tragedie of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606.[a] It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, Macbeth most clearly reflects his relationship with King James, patron of ... Read more

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  • The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry

    Romanticism, Subjectivity, Form

    by D.B. Ruderman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
    This book radically refigures the conceptual and formal significance of childhood in nineteenth-century English poetry. By theorizing infancy as a poetics as well as a space of continual beginning, Ruderman shows how it allowed poets access to inchoate, uncanny, and mutable forms of subjectivity and art. While recent historicist studies have documented the "freshness of experience" childhood ... Read more

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  • Mitos e identidades en las autoras hispánicas contemporáneas

    Series Book 21 - Estudios hispánicos en el contexto global. Hispanic Studies in the Global Context. Hispanistik im globalen Kontext
    Mitos e identidades en las autoras hispánicas contemporáneasLas revisiones de antiguos mitos y la formación de nuevos iconos en las creaciones de las autoras contemporáneas favorece la indagación en el proceso de construcción de la identidad colectiva y en la evolución de los roles de género en el siglo XX hasta la actualidad. Este volumen ofrece análisis de una selección de obras de narrativa, ... Read more

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  • J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace. A Realistic Criticism of 'New' South-Africa?

    Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, LMU Munich (Englische Philologie), course: Proseminar Postcolonial Literature, language: English, abstract: Ever since its publication in 1999, J.M. Coetzee's award-winning novel Disgrace has stirred up a lot of controversy. Its negative depiction of blacks has been seen as an ... Read more

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  • Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance

    Negotiating Consent, Gender, and Desire

    Series Book 25 - Studies in Medieval Romance
    This book explores resistance as a widespread motif in medieval romance to consider themes of consent, gender, and desire. Medieval romance is usually considered a genre that celebrates love, desire, and sexuality within marriage. However, moments of resistance within it offer a point of tension, where normative scripts and expectations are exposed and opened up to challenge. This book explores ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and Hospitality

    Ethics, Politics, and Exchange

    Edited by David Goldstein, Julia Lupton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    This volume focuses on hospitality as a theoretically and historically crucial phenomenon in Shakespeare's work with ramifications for contemporary thought and practice. Drawing a multifaceted picture of Shakespeare's scenes of hospitality—with their numerous scenes of greeting, feeding, entertaining, and sheltering—the collection demonstrates how hospitality provides a compelling frame for the ... Read more

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  • Креативный потенциал языка современной русской поэзии

    Series Book 10 - Neuere Lyrik. Interkulturelle und interdisziplinaere Studien
    В монографии демонстрируется возможность изучать современный поэтический язык не только с точки зрения эстетической функции, но и креативной, воздействие которой предполагает создание новых форм и неожиданных сочетаний при передаче разнообразной текстовой информации. Для исследования выбран поуровневый метод описания. На иллюстративных примерах показывается, как креативность проявляет себя на ... Read more

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  • Gemeinsam/Together II

    Kognitiv beeintraechtigte Menschen in europaeischen Spielfilmen/People with Learning Disabilities in European Feature Films

    Series Book 7 - Images of Disability. Literature, Scenic, Visual, and Virtual Arts / Imágenes de la diversidad funcional. Literatura, artes escénicas, visuales y virtuales
    How do people with and without disabilities work together in the artistic process? This volume is a compilation of 14 interviews with directors and producers of European feature films that enriches the understanding of interabled dynamics in creative ventures. It highlights the work of actors with learning disabilities, along with, behind the scenes knowledge of the casting process, training ... Read more

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  • Scenes of Sympathy

    Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction

    by Audrey Jaffe ...
    In Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe argues that representations of sympathy in Victorian fiction both reveal and unsettle Victorian ideologies of identity. Situating these representations within the context of Victorian visual culture, and offering new readings of key works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ellen Wood, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Arthur Conan Doyle, Jaffe shows how mid ... Read more

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  • Unfelt

    The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment

    by James Noggle ...
    Unfelt offers a new account of feeling during the British Enlightenment, finding that the passions and sentiments long considered as preoccupations of the era depend on a potent insensibility, the secret emergence of pronounced emotions that only become apparent with time. Surveying a range of affects including primary sensation, love and self-love, greed, happiness, and patriotic ardor, James ... Read more

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  • Authoring the Self

    Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth

    by Scott Hess ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain.Arguing for continuity between eighteenth-century literature and the rise of Romanticism, this groundbreaking book ... Read more

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  • Gemeinsam/Together

    Kognitiv beeintraechtigte Menschen in europaeischen Theatern – Theorie und Praxis/People with Learning Disabilities in European Theatres – Theory and Practice. Unter Mitarbeit von Soledad Pereyra

    Series Book 4 - Images of Disability. Literature, Scenic, Visual, and Virtual Arts / Imágenes de la diversidad funcional. Literatura, artes escénicas, visuales y virtuales
    Can society mitigate hermeneutical injustice towards persons with learning disabilities? How do European theatres meet this challenge? How can artists with learning disabilities «have a voice»? The present volume searches for answers to these questions in theoretical approaches and in interviews with stage directors. ... Read more

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  • Nach der Einsprachigkeit

    Slavisch-deutsche Texte transkulturell

    Series Book 6 - Postcolonial Perspectives on Eastern Europe
    Postkoloniale Konstellationen lassen sich nicht (mehr) in das Eigene und das Andere, in das Originäre und das Nachgeahmte, in ein Hier und Dort auseinanderdividierenden. Sie sind geprägt von Verflechtungen, Hybri-disierungen und wechselseitigen Aneignungsprozessen. In diesem Band analysiert die Autorin Texte von Jurij Brězan, Irena Brežná, Mascha Dabić, Róža Domašcyna, Olga Grjasnowa, Barbi ... Read more

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  • King Lear

    Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What, then, keeps bringing us back to King Lear? For all the force of its language, King Lear is almost equally powerful when translated, ... Read more

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