Biography, Literature and Literary studies

Der Band lotet die Bedingungen des Erinnerns und Erzählens und damit einer Re-Inszenierung der Vergangenheit im Feld der Kinder- und Jugendmedien aus.

Examines four texts of the Imperial period in order to elucidate how each author formulates very different conceptions of Homer.

Im Lehrgang Technische Hilfeleistung (nach FwDV 2) sind für das Erlernen des korrekten Umgangs mit Trennschleifer, Plasmaschneider und Brennschneidegerät nur wenige Unterrichtseinheiten vorgesehen.

A comprehensive critical account of Margaret Atwood''s novels, short stories, poetry, and essays.

Ping Chong's four-part masterwork.

Cet ouvrage retrace les étapes de l'essor du livre au Québec, de son apparition vers 1840 jusqu'à 1940.

A collection of new essays on First World War literature and its contexts.

Since 1940, Captain America has battled his enemies in the name of American values, and as those values have changed over time, so has Captain America's character.

Sofia Coppola (b.

How do perceptions of the past--not just of particular events, but of the trajectory of history as a whole--shape our experience of the world?

This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact.

This book expands the discourse as well as the nature of critical commentary on science fiction, speculative fiction and futurism - literary and cinematic by Black writers.

Red Stilts finds Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.

Originally published in 1984.

In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph providesthe fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women's writing.

In the fall of 2005, Mark C.

This is a study of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic of all seventeenth-century figures.

Covering their lives from childhood to the end of the Georgia governorship, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is one of the few major biographies of an American president that pays significant attention to the First Lady.

A convincing critique of the neglect of death in psychoanalytic theory, arguing that death has been a repressed subject in psychoanalysis.

What is Chekhov's method of ensuring audience participation?

Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male.

Philip Pullman meets Michael Scott in this thrilling ride aboard a stolen airship on a quest to save the world!

This edited book addresses the diversity across time and space of the sites, actors and practices of feminist translation from 1945-2000.

This is the life story of one of the most successful business leaders of our time.

It is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives--Graham Greene The luminous books of our childhood will remain the luminous books of our lives.

The story of the Holy Grail has gripped the imaginations of millions since it first appeared in medieval romances, among them Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German Parzival (c.

This eccentric title recalls a collection of tales first told to grandchildren at bedtime.

Describing Spoken English provides a practical and descriptive introduction to the pronunciation of contemporary English.

To prolong the inevitable, a king attempts to preserve a painter's life when he discovers, through his astrological chart, that their fates are suddenly intertwined.

Writings by early-modern English artisans are rare and thus precious.

Peter Widdowson's major new selection of Hardy's poetry offers the student a challenging assessment of his poetic achievement by juxtaposing Hardy's best known poems with some of his least known.

Xenolinguistics brings together biologists, anthropologists, linguists, and other experts specializing in language and communication to explore what non-human, non-Earthbound language might look like.

Declamation - the practice of training young men to speak in public by setting them to compose and deliver speeches on fictional legal cases - was central to the Greek and Roman educational systems over many centuries and has been the subject of a recent explosion of scholarly interest.

In this controversial manifesto, Jean-Michel Rabat addresses current anxieties about the future of literary and cultural theory and proposes that it still has a crucial role to play.

The regulation on European Health Technology Assessment (EU HTA) entered into force on 11 January 2022 and will apply from 12 January 2025.

In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirteen - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, accused of strangling two little boys; Martin Brown, four years old, and Brian Howe, three.

Falling between the "e;War of Movement"e; in 1914 and the major attrition battles of 1916, 1915 was a critical year in the First World War.

This book, in two volumes, contains an annotated English translation of the Historia da Ethiopia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Paez (Pero Pais in Portuguese), 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese padroado missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John.

'Brimming with knowledge and experience .