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In Antisemitism and the White Supremacist Imaginary: Conflations and Contradictions in Composition and Rhetoric, Mara Lee Grayson calls attention to the complicity of academic institutions and the discipline(s) of rhetoric, composition, and writing studies in the...
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Indigenous women from the Americas are on the frontlines of activism in battles ranging from environmental protection, cultural and language revitalization and preservation, sovereignty campaigns, sexual violence, and human rights. This book introduces voices of Native...
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Este libro es un estudio sobre la obra que supuestamente escribió el primer obispo que ocupó la sede de Santo Domingo, el humanista italiano Alessandro Geraldini, entre 1519-1524: Itinerarium ad regiones sub aequinoctiali plaga constitutas. Hasta ahora se habían...
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Aus komparatistischer Perspektive korreliert und kontrastiert der vorliegende Band aktuelle literarische Texte und Filme aus Griechenland und Italien – zwei Ländern Südeuropas, die von der Wirtschaftskrise 2008 am härtesten betroffenen waren – mit Krisennarrativen in...
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A partire dalla costatazione della centralità assunta dal fenomeno dell’ibridazione nella narrativa e nei media contemporanei, il volume esplora forme artistiche eterogenee presenti nella cultura italiana a cavallo tra letteratura, cinema, fumetto e altri modi di...
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El libro investiga el funcionamiento dramático del exilio exterior e interior en una selección de diecisiete obras teatrales de Jorge Díaz. Se establecen vínculos entre el contenido y la estructura de cuatro elementos que constituyen el microcosmos de una obra teatral:...
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In der westlichen Kultur waren Gesellschaft, Kultur und Geschichte stets dem Menschen vorbehalten. Heute erschüttern die Entdeckungen der Bio- und Nanotechnologien das anthropozentrische Weltbild. Sie enthüllen nicht nur die hochentwickelten Lebensformen anderer Arten,...
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Il secolo scorso vede l’inequivocabile sopravvivenza del fantastico come genere letterario, la cui continuità con i grandi modelli ottocenteschi va ricercata nel suo dare rappresentazione allo scarto prodotto dall’improvviso collidere di dimensioni narrative...
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Die Wiener Lyrikerin Dr. Melitta Urbancic (1902-1984) musste aufgrund ihrer jüdischen Herkunft 1938 ins Exil gehen. Das Schicksal führte sie und ihre Familie nach Island, wo sie bis zu ihrem Tod wohnhaft blieb. Das Dichten war ihre geistige Überlebensstrategie, die...
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The idea of freedom, changed and contested throughout the ages, has become the staple of liberal democracies and a beacon of hope amidst dark tendencies that endanger the future. This books offers an analysis of freedom in the context of its historical significance for...
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The rapid development of the TV series in the twenty-first century has resulted in an emergence of new aesthetic, cultural, and social trends.The development has influenced both the mainstream of popular culture and reception practices of audiences across nations and...
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The French literary collective OuLiPo was founded in 1960 with the goal of applying mathematics to literary creation. Comprised of authors, poets, mathematicians, and scientists, this quirky writer’s workshop also created some of the first electronic literature and...
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Dystopien haben Konjunktur. Sie stellen der Gegenwart eine Diagnose, hypertrophieren sie und üben Kritik an den Zeitverhältnissen.Dystopien fokussieren u.a. den Rückbau demokratischer Systeme und globaler Sozialgefüge, das Aufkeimen von Rassismus, Antisemitismus und...
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This study focuses on theatricality and melancholia in John Berryman's The Dream Songs, and proposes to view them as inherent in the American cultural experience. It discusses Berryman's work in the context of a larger debate on the significance of loss in the process...
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This is the first book to analyse the Mozambican modern ghost story, establishing the genre’s unique characteristics, situating it in a transnational context, and distinguishing it from other supernatural traditions. The study discusses why it emerged in different...
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Überwachung ist smart geworden in Zeiten, in denen Freiheiten und private Daten freiwillig an Überwachungsmaschinerien abgegeben werden. Im Spannungsverhältnis von Kontrolle, Selbstkontrolle und dem Wandel der Kommunikationsmedien wird Unsicherheit zum Motor eines...
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The book is a comparative study of the works of Józef Wittlin and Pär Lagerkvist, in their youth recognized as prominent expressionist writers, and in their later years making the ethical topic the core of their works. In search for ways of expressing ethical dilemmas,...
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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...
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This study is an analysis of the novels Black Water (1992), Blonde (2000), and My Sister, My Love (2008) by Joyce Carol Oates. Based on real-life characters (Mary Jo Kopechne, Marilyn Monroe, JonBenét Ramsey), these works blend fact and fiction, historical and poetic...
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