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  • Only Connect

    E. M. Forster’s Legacies in British Fiction

    Edited by Elsa Cavalié, Laurent Mellet ...
    Series Book 18 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
    Since Forster’s death in 1970, many British novelists and film directors have acknowledged and even claimed the influence of the novelist of the English soul (in Woolf’s terms) and of a renewed faith in both human relationships and a quintessentially British liberal-humanism. After the ethical turn at the end of the twentieth century, British literature today seems to go back even more drastically ... Read more

    $99.09 USD

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  • I Saw Water

    An Occult Novel and Other Selected Writings

    by Ithell Colquhoun, Richard Shillitoe, Mark S. Morrisson ...
    Ithell Colquhoun (1906–1988) is remembered today as a surrealist artist, writer, and occultist. Although her paintings hang in a number of public collections and her gothic novel Goose of Hermogenes (1961) remains in print, critical responses to her work have been severely constrained by the limited availability of her art and writings. The publication of her second novel, I Saw Water—presented ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Balzac’s Cane

    Edited by Marta L. Wilkinson ...
    Series Book 250 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
    Balzac’s Cane is an English translation of Delphine de Girardin’s 1836 novella, La Canne de M. de Balzac, which centers around a protagonist named Tancred Dorimont, a brilliant young man plagued by his devastating good looks. In a social context in which appearance is everything, it seems for several chapters that beauty will break, rather than make, this young man’s fortune. One evening as ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Kulturbegegnung und Kulturkonflikt im (post-)kolonialen Kriminalroman

    Edited by Michaela Holdenried, Barbara Korte, Carlotta von Maltzan ...
    Series Book 128 - Jahrbuch fuer Internationale Germanistik - Reihe A
    Kriminalliteratur bietet seit längerem ein Forum für die Behandlung schon ‚klassischer‘ postkolonialer Themen. So lassen sich die ProtagonistInnen vielfach als hybride Subjekte beschreiben, und die Suche nach ‚historischer Wahrheit‘ bedarf einer anderen Substruktion als der einfachen Antithetik von Gut und Böse. Darüber hinaus sind die im Verschwinden begriffenen ehemals klar getrennten kolonialen ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • «Eating Regret and Seeing Contempt» – A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Language of Emotions in Igala (Nigeria)

    by Lillian Brise ...
    Series Book 119 - DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
    This book deals with the expression of emotions in Igala – a Nigerian minority language with about two million speakers – from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The author investigates the network of the Igala language of emotions using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework as developed by Anna Wierzbicka and her collaborators. The claims of adequacy of NSM in its present form for ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Physiognomical Discourse and European Theatre

    Theory, Performance, Dramatic Text

    by Maria-Christina Mur ...
    Series Book 23 - Interkulturelle Begegnungen. Studien zum Literatur- und Kulturtransfer
    The discourse on Physiognomy had an important influence and impact on European theatrical culture at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The book discusses the debate about the scientific nature of Physiognomy. Starting from the concept that Physiognomy refers to particular signs on the face, it looks for evidence of a knowledge and awareness of this pseudo ... Read more

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  • Integration of the Self and Awareness (ISA) in Learning and Teaching

    A case study of French adult students learning English the Silent Way

    by Patricia Benstein ...
    The successful acquisition of a second or foreign language requires focus, motivation, and positive feedback. This case study of French adult students of English illustrates that Gattegno’s Silent Way is more than a teaching methodology. It is a science of education that integrates the self and awareness in the learning and teaching processes. This integration facilitates the personal evolution of ... Read more

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  • Dominicanidad / Dominicanity

    Perspectivas de un concepto (trans-)nacional / Perspectives on a (trans-)national concept

    Edited by Christine Felbeck, Andre Klump ...
    Series Book 9 - America Romana
    Con unos 20 artículos de investigadores/-as de Europa, de los Estados Unidos y de la República Dominicana, la presente obra interdisciplinaria e internacional ofrece un panorama actual de la investigación sobre la dominicanidad como concepto (trans-)nacional en sus contextos mundiales, insulares y nacionales. Los estudios son fruto en gran parte de un congreso organizado por el America Romana ... Read more

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  • A Mandala of Words

    Cultural Realities in the Poems of Ashok Vajpeyi

    by Renata Czekalska ...
    Series Book 3 - Studies in East Asian Literatures and Cultures
    This book is a hermeneutic analysis of the main poetic spaces in the work of Ashok Vajpeyi, a poet and a critic recognized among the eminent contemporary Hindi writers. The four parts of the book are devoted to major anthropological questions, instrumental for the poet who – while searching for the principle of unity with the world – causes language to become an extension of existence. The author ... Read more

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  • McLuhan and Symbolist Communication

    The Shock of Dislocation

    by Andrea Lombardinilo ...
    Series Book 9 - Interdisciplinary Communication Studies
    With an interview with Derrick de Kerckhove.Symbolism as a parataxis, as a «jazz of the intellect»: this is the starting point of this research, inspired by a socio-literary interpretation of Marshall McLuhan’s mediology and developed from a diachronic and exegetic perspective. According to the Canadian sociologist, the footsteps that led to this electric era can be traced through the study of ... Read more

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  • Under Fire

    William T. Vollmann, «The Rifles»: A Critical Study

    Edited by Françoise Palleau-Papin ...
    This study of a novel by William T. Vollmann offers a port of entry into his fiction. Like other titles from his planned «Seven Dreams» collection, The Rifles deconstructs the historical novel. Following in the steps of the nineteenth-century English explorer John Franklin, the contemporary American character Subzero risks his life in the Arctic, looking for a way to transcend the history of ... Read more

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  • Ideologies and Forms of Leisure and Recreation in Victorian Manchester

    by Beata Kiersnowska ...
    Series Book 7 - Studies in Linguistics, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
    This book analyses certain ideologies which governed the middle class’ hegemonic approach to leisure in Victorian Manchester. The study presents different forms of leisure, recreation and entertainment in the city. The author also examines the reasons for the support and financial involvement of Manchester bourgeoisie and its municipal authorities in their development. The analysis covers a wide ... Read more

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