Search results for 'English'
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Hasan Baktir, Mustafa Kirca
Ottoman Society and Culture in Pseudo-Oriental Letters, Oriental Tales and Travel Literature
Noticing the importance of the fact that there is a growing interest in oriental countries and cultures, Hasan Baktir studies in his book the representation of the “Ottoman Orient” in 18th century...
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Paola Brusasco’s study offers an original insight into Sri Lankan literature in English and an exploration of cultural, social, and linguistic issues at the basis of the country’s ethnic conflict.
By...
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Stefanie Rudig
Aspects of Francophone-Anglophone Interactions at the Turn of the New Millennium
A peculiar war is raging in Quebec’s largest city: one talks about ‘linguistic battles’ being fought daily in the streets of Montreal, where Anglophones are concentrated in the otherwise predominantly...
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Birgit Susanne Seibold
Two Different Perspectives
The black spot – the one very black spot – in the picture is the frightful mortality in the Concentration Camps. I entirely agree with you in thinking, that while a hundred explanations may be offered...
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Christina Rossetti’s poetry and prose, written in 19th-century England, deals with the human fixation on appearance. Her belief in the Tractarian precepts of the Oxford Movement, primarily expostulated...
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Tom Burns, Elcio Cornelsen, Volker Jaeckel, Luiz Gustavo Vieira
The collection at hand is a subjective, but representative selection of articles in German and English on the representation of bellicose acts in modern times.
The wide range of wars treated in these essays...
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Eva Leitzke-Ungerer, Ursula Vences, Gabriele Blell
Mit English-Español wird im vorliegenden Band eine neue Konstellation für die Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktik thematisch breit und aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven vorgestellt. In 16 Einzelbeiträgen aus...
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Reinhard Ibler
Der Holocaust in den mitteleuropäischen Literaturen und Kulturen seit 1989
Der Band versammelt 22 deutsch- und englischsprachige Beiträge zur Holocaustliteratur und -kultur der vergangenen 25 Jahre, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf Polen, Tschechien und Deutschland liegt. Aus diesen...
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In this stunning biography, Josette Baer re-traces the eventful life of the Slovak politician Vavro Srobár, the principal figure in the implementation of Czechoslovak democracy in Slovakia. Spanning from...
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Josette Baer
Portraits of Courage, Humanism, and Enlightenment
This engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English portraying the lives and fates of Slovak women. The seven life stories, ranging from the late 19th century to the present day,...