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Cultures in conflict : religion, history and gender in Northern Europe c. 180…
This book includes studies of main conflict areas in modern Western societies where religion has been a central element, ranging from popular movements and narratives of opposition to challenges of religious satire and anti-clerical critique. Special attention is given to matters of politics and gender. With this theme, it provides a useful guide to conflict areas in modern European religious h…
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- 9783631847312
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- 222 p.
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- 274 ALE c
Articulating bodies : the narrative form of disability and illness in victori…
Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability’s medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl’s 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the …
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- 9781789624953
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- ix. ;232 p.
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- 823.8093561. KYL a
Discourse in translation
This book explores the discourse in and of translation within and across cultures and languages. From the macro aspects of translation as an inter- cultural project to actual analysis of textual ingredients that contribute to translation and interpreting as discourse, the ten chapters represent different explorations of ‘global’ theories of discourse and translation. Offering interrogations…
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- 9781315098791
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- xvii, 243 p.: ill.
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- 418.02 FAI d
Morphosyntactic variation in medieval Celtic languages : corpus-based approaches
This book showcases the state of the art in corpus-based linguistic analysis of Celtic languages (specifically, Old/Middle Irish, Middle Welsh, and Cornish). It explores corpus approaches to morphosyntactic variation in the medieval Celtic languages and, for the first time, situates them in the broader field of computational and corpus linguistics by providing descriptions of tools for processi…
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- 9783110680744
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- xviii, 396 p. : ill.
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- 491.627 LAS m
Body and spirit in the Middle Ages : literature, philosophy, medicine
A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an interdisciplinary approach – combining literature, philosophy and medicine. Gathering contributions by leading international scholars from these disciplines, the collected volume explores themes such as lovesickness, the five senses, memory and passions, in order to shed new…
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- 9783110615937
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- vi, 290. : ill.
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- 128.20902 GUB b
Discourses on nations and identities
This book focuses on the interplay between concepts of nation, language, and individual as well as collective identities. Because literary communication happens within different kinds of power structures - linguistic, economic, political -, it often results in fascinating forms of hybridity. And though hybridity may be either foregrounded or regarded as compromise, it is a fascinating lens thro…
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- 9783110642018
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- ix, 614 p. : ill.
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- 809 SYR d
Ghosts of colonies past and present : Spanish imperialism in the fiction of B…
Ghosts of Colonies Past and Present is the first comprehensive examination of how the literary production of Benito Pérez Galdós, widely considered Spain’s greatest nineteenth-century novelist, addresses the impact of imperial loss on the citizens of Spain. Well before the events that would lead inexorably toward 1898, Galdós’s texts question the nature of Spanish imperialism and the eff…
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- 9781789623468
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- vii, 343 p.
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- 863.5 COF g
Making Black history : diasporic fiction in the moment of afropolitanism
This study proposes that Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct cultural moment or historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa – as signifier, as real and imagined locus – embodies in the globalized cultural landscape of the 21st century. As such, Making Black History looks at contemporary diasporic fictions that have be…
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- 9783110722093
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- vii, 254 p. : ill.
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- 420 HAE m
The autofictional : approaches, affordances, forms
This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” a…
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- 9783030784393
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- xvii, 342 p. : ill.
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- 809.382 EFF t
Contextualizing practical knowledge in early modern Europe
The topic of this book is practical knowledge in early modern Europe, interpreted widely as recipes containing art procedures or medical panaceas between 1400 and 1700. In this book, the 1) origin or creation, 2) transmission or dissemination, and 3) use or consumption are key subjects for understanding the place of practical knowledge in early modern European society. After a historiographical…
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- 9783631788912
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- 317 p. : ill.
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- 809.024 LEE c
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