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The full story of modernism is yet to be written. This collection of essays provides an important page in this complex and inconclusive story of fluidities and hybridities by rendering problematical...

Travelling in Women's History with Mich?le Roberts's Novels: Literature, Language and Culture is a journey to discover Roberts's work as a feminist writer, novelist and memoirist. An overall analysis...

The volume includes state of the art research on phonetics and phonology in various languages and from interdisciplinary contributors. It is structured into the following eight sections: segmentals,...

Turning Tide: The Ebb and Flow of Hawaiian Nationality is an indepth study of the evolution of modern Hawai'i and the background of the sovereignty movement. It is a topic which on account of the...

The two-way immersion program Fili?re Bilingue (FiBi) is a choice-based educational alternative in a public school in Biel/Bienne. It integrates French-speaking, German-speaking and allophone...

Die Beitr?ge diskutieren literatur- und sprachwissenschaftliche Zug?nge der Germanistik zur ?bersetzung. Im Mittelpunkt stehen folgende Themenkomplexe: Kanon und Verlagswesen; Metaphern und...

The last five years have proven to be quite tumultuous for Ukraine. The Orange Revolution, as witnessed around the world, sought to overthrow the ancien r?gime and to replace it with younger, more...

The study embraces both the historical and thematic evolution of Ukrainian science fiction. It examines the works of most imaginative authors and the major themes that comprise the main thrust of...

Abbozzi giovanili di romanzi autobiografici, analisi dei motivi dell'abbandono, confronto con autobiografie liriche e storia editoriale dei Canti, analisi approfondita delle poesie spostate rispetto...

This critical study offers a port of entry into Vollmann's fiction. The Rifles deconstructs the historical novel, and the venture of the 19th-century English explorer John Franklin, revisiting the...

This book presents the Book of Ecclesiastes as a single coherent work. Koheleth's fault-finding is aimed at people who persist in missing out on the present. Contrasting with these are Koheleth's...

This study reveals that the Chinese college English teacher' beliefs and practices as discourses are constructed by linguistic resources and shaped by context, and that the teacher flexibly and...

Cet ouvrage ?voque les rapports entre le fait de la construction europ?enne et les citoyens d'Europe. Il rapproche la grande histoire de la construction europ?enne des r?alisations et exp?riences...

Aracy de Carvalho a travers? l'Atlantique entre le Br?sil et l'Allemagne, de S?o Paulo ? Hambourg. Margarethe Levy a suivi le chemin inverse: elle a quitt? l'Allemagne pour le Br?sil et s'est...

Zentraler Gedanke dieses Bandes ist die Feststellung, dass das Unheimliche integraler Bestandteil der Heimat ist. Es fungiert als dynamisierendes Element, das gegen die Erstarrung eines homogenen...

Seit der Jahrtausendwende ist weltweit eine Vielzahl von urbanen Widerstandsbewegungen zu beobachten, die sich in ihren Zielsetzungen, Vorgehensweisen und Manifestationen unterscheiden. Der Band...

Les quatre contributions du pr?sent ouvrage explorent la mani?re dont les auteurs de la fin du Ier et du d?but du IIe si?cles utilisent l'?criture pour organiser et ma?triser le monde mat?riel. Ils...

Using the Devil with Courtesy analyses Renaissance forms of (im)politeness through Shakespeare. Adopting a historical pragmatic perspective drawing in particular on Brown and Levinson (1987), Jucker...

Normative texts are meant to be highly impersonal and decontextualised, yet at the same time they also deal with a range of human behaviour that is difficult to predict, which means they have to have...

La obra presenta un estudio comparativo sobre el paradigma verbal en la manifestaci?n del tiempo futuro en el espa?ol de varias comunidades de habla monoling?es y biling?es a ambos lados del...

Academic standards in higher education depend on judgements of individual academics assessing student work. For complex performances like essays, judgements of quality are grounded in tacit expertise...

Se estudia la variaci?n de los pret?ritos perfectos simple y compuesto en el espa?ol del noroccidente ib?rico. Se demuestra que la distribuci?n geogr?fica de estos tiempos refleja el proceso...

The aim of this study is to establish the co-operative communication strategies that are used in air traffic control (ATC) conversations. The research deals with the question: what kind of...

This volume presents the results of a research team of the University of Bergamo, whose aim was the analysis of verbal modality in the Helsinki corpus. This corpus includes a large selection of texts...

Este libro pretende reconstruir el paradigma est?tico que subyace a las producciones literarias y art?sticas de la Antig?edad tard?a (s. IV-VI d. C.), tan poli?dricas y sofisticadas como...

Anhand der Tonartencharakteristik in knapp 2000 musikalisch eigenst?ndigen Ausschnitten wird der semantische Gehalt von Verdis 28 Opern, von 20 Kanzonen und 7 geistlichen Werken erforscht und mit...

Die Erz?hlungen von Dostojewskij und Miguel de Unamuno zeugen von einer lebenslangen intensiven Auseinandersetzung mit existenziellen Fragen wie Schuld, Neid, Gerechtigkeit, Liebe, Sinn und Religion...

In this book, we analyse five elite women's journeys and their travel narratives as the focus of their passion. Caroline E. Cushing, Lady Louisa Tenison, Baroness of Wilson, Isabella Bird and M. de...

Diese Studie liefert erstmals konkrete Ergebnisse, wie sich bei Videokunst die Art der Pr?sentation auf die Rezeptions- und Entwicklungsgeschichte dieses Mediums auswirkt. Da der latente, nicht...

M?lant contributions th?oriques et empiriques, cet ouvrage porte sur les effets de classe dans la derni?re ?tape de la vie - effets trop souvent occult?s en sociologie de la vieillesse. Il contribue...