Search results for 'English'
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Josette Baer
Political Texts from the Spring of Nations 1848 to the Spring of Prague 1968
The often turbulent history of the Czechs and Slovaks in the 20th Century, leading from the Czechoslovak Republic to four decades of communist rule, ended with the Velvet Revolution in 1989. The independent...
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James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism examines anew how myth exists in Joyce’s fiction. Using Joyce’s idiosyncratic appropriation of the myths of Catholicism, this study explores how the rejected...
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Christian Peer
A Survey of National Stereotyping in English Slang
The theoretical basis of this book is the assumption that stereotyping is a phenomenon which manifests itself primarily through language. It is further based on the observation that slang provides a large...
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Ghostly Alterities analyses the meaning of ghostliness in contemporary Anglophone novels – Patricia Grace’s Baby No-Eyes (1998), Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986), Vivienne...
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This book brings the ideas of French feminist Hélène Cixous to bear on a number of Early Modern English texts. The female characters of Mariam from Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam, Lavinia from...
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Ingmar Bredies, Andreas Umland, Valentin Yakushik
Reports by international governmental and non-governmental organizations on the 2004 presidential elections in Ukraine constituted a significant factor in generating, facilitating and completing the Orange...
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Serge Vanvolsem, Laura Lepschy
Atti del Convegno Internazionale organizzato dall’Istituto Italiano di Cultura Lussemburgo, 10 giugno 2006
Nell’officina del dizionario
In a dictionary workshop
Questo volume raccoglie gli atti del convegno organizzato dall’Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Lussemburgo, nel giugno 2006 sui dizionari, e contiene...
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This essay collection addresses African writing ranging from transcriptions of ancient (Khoikhoi/San) folktales to some of the classic texts of the African English canon as well as more recent writing...
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Verbal violence, as a sophisticated means of persuasion and manipulation, is as effective on the stage as physical violence. Since the destructive effects of verbal violence are less recognized and long-term,...
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This study, the first of its kind in English, presents an overview of Slovak intellectual history in the 19th century, including the debates surrounding the memorandum of 1861, the political stagnation...