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This book studies the Afro-European and Euro-African past and present from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. It addresses Africa as a whole, eschewing historical divisions between No……続きを見る

En este volumen se ofrece, bajo una pluralidad considerable de enfoques metodológicos, una forma de abordar el análisis de la literatura de una época y su contexto desde una amplia perspectiva crono……続きを見る

We stand at the cusp of an exciting moment in digital medieval studies. The advent of ubiquitously available digitized manuscripts alongside platforms that host encoded medieval texts has democratiz……続きを見る

During the last thirty years, Algerian novelists have shown and continue to show a marked interest in the history of their country; some of them, however, approach the past in a manner that is signi……続きを見る

Dostojewskijs Beteiligung an einem Gesprächskreis, in dem frühsozialistische Ideen diskutiert wurden, hätte ihn fast das Leben gekostet. Nach seinen Sträflingsjahren wandelte sich der russische Auto……続きを見る

This collection of essays demonstrates that using fiction, poetry, and drama in the classroom provides students with the best opportunity to learn about thinking, writing, and life at their deepest ……続きを見る

Based on the theory and methodology of transcultural memory, this book describes and analyzes the fictional representations of memory and forgetting and the multiple roles they play in identity cons……続きを見る

Das Buch fragt nach der Wirkung des Oxfordmotivs in der Literatur und im kulturellen Gedächtnis Großbritanniens. Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind die Entstehung des Oxfordmythos sowie seine Abhängig……続きを見る

En Escrituras de lo diabólico (1868-2013), Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez estudia obras latinoamericanas donde la imagen diabólica se usa para mapear los retos de la alteridad en la producción literaria.……続きを見る

El mito de Ifigenia ha cautivado durante siglos la imaginación de los autores occidentales. Los motivos de los sacrificios humanos, la obediencia a los dioses, los conflictos entre la comunidad y la……続きを見る

Edgar Allan Poe: Amateur Psychologist is the "first and foremost" major source of information dedicated to the theme of Poe and psychopathology. Its introduction, conclusion, chapters, and appendice……続きを見る

Adolescents and emerging adults today spend an estimated seven hours daily attending to media. The media teens attend to commonly present relationships between men and women as a "game" or "competit……続きを見る

«This volume epitomizes Jost Hermand’s inimitable talent of synthesizing wide-ranging disciplines in an accessible and compelling style, bringing to life the experiences of musicians and their publi……続きを見る

The book focuses on contemporary staff-centred mystery novels set in the academic domain, written by scholars who enrich the generic convention of the detective novel with their academic expertise. ……続きを見る

Why were runes invented? What did the Germanic peoples of southern Scandinavia speak during the first centuries CE? Can the earliest runic inscriptions be used to learn something about their dialect……続きを見る

(Con)textos femeninos: Antología de escritoras españolas, Tomo I: De Al-Ándalus hasta el siglo XVIII presenta poesía, drama y prosa de autoras de la Edad Media, el Renacimiento/Barroco y el siglo XV……続きを見る

Violent Disruptions examines two authors who have powerfully predicted the formation of racial identities and its surrounding discourse in the United States today: William Faulkner (1897–1962) and R……続きを見る

From 1890 to 1945, Europe was shaken by political, social, and cultural revolutions brought about by the crisis of modernity. Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud stoked the yearnings of a convulsed era, deva……続きを見る

Dieses Buch behandelt die nationalsozialistische Sprachpolitik in Deutschland. Der Autor untersucht die Darstellung der Sprachenpolitik der Nationalsozialisten in den Ländern in West-, Nord-, Ost- u……続きを見る

Just like the modern hysteric, a figure that catalyzes clinical vocabularies confirming medieval theological anxieties, the demoniac has been considered an "anomalous" and "abnormal" manifestation o……続きを見る

It is commonly held among scholars that there was no mass literature in the Soviet Union during the Stalin years. What should we do, then, with Lev Ovalov’s Major Pronin or with the stories of Lev S……続きを見る

(Con)textos femeninos: Antología de escritoras españolas, Tomo II: El siglo XIX hasta la actualidad presenta poesía, drama y prosa de autoras españolas del siglo XIX; el período desde la guerra hisp……続きを見る

Das Buch untersucht die Ehedarstellung in deutscher Literatur der Jahrhundertwende und malischer Literatur von Frauen. Anhand eines gesellschaftstheoretischen Ansatzes und der literarischen Subversi……続きを見る

Der Band analysiert die metapoetologische Funktion der Kartenlegerin in narrativen Texten Brasiliens. Er geht dabei der Frage nach, was die ‹Cartomante› zu einer literarisch bedeutsamen Figur macht ……続きを見る

Whilst the promotion of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) is described as the main aim of foreign language pedagogy in Germany, its development from a performative-linguistic perspective ……続きを見る

This book examines the concept of the gaze in the context of narrative fiction. It argues that the gaze in fiction is a tractable factor, identifying the function of characters by way of the gender.……続きを見る

Die deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur beschäftigt sich seit Beginn der 2000er-Jahre zunehmend mit Prekaritätsphänomenen wie Armut, Arbeitslosigkeit und Erfahrungen des sozialen Abstiegs. Im Zentr……続きを見る

Social Welfare Policy in South Africa examines the South African government’s response to social welfare challenges during and after apartheid. The book analyses social welfare policy reforms in Sou……続きを見る

With surprising candor, the authors of (Re)narrating Teacher Identity: Telling Truths and Becoming Teachers crack open what it means to become and be a teacher in the twenty-first century United Sta……続きを見る

The Poet’s Prose and Other Essays: Race, National Identity, and Diaspora in the Americas offers a wide-ranging compilation of essays, literary commentaries, and reviews that aim to engage New World ……続きを見る