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The representation of the Ottoman Orient in eighteenth century English literature : Ottoman society and culture in pseudo-Oriental letters, Oriental tales and travel literature
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ISBN: 3838261321 9783838261324 3838201329 9783838201320 Year: 2012 Publisher: Stuttgart, Germany : Ibidem Verlag,

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Inspired by the growing interest in oriental countries and cultures, Hasan Baktir examines the representation of the ""Ottoman Orient"" in 18th century English literature, taking a new perspective to achieve a comprehensive understanding and investigating different aspects of the interaction between the Ottoman Orient and 18th century Europe.A number of questions continue to arise in the wake of Said's 1978 landmark study, ""Orientalism"". How monodirectional was the flow of power in such representations?


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Literature, rhetoric and values : selected proceedings of a conference held at the University of Waterloo, 3-5 June 2011
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ISBN: 1443865060 9781443865067 9781443841757 1443841757 Year: 2012 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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The essays in this collection combine cutting-edge literary and rhetorical scholarship to investigate the evolving values of the modern world, confronting such issues as torture, genocide, environmental apocalypse, and post-traumatic stress syndrome. First delivered as part of the vibrant ideas exchange of an international conference, they are the product of rigorous selection and review undertaken with an emphasis on their complementarity. The authors include established scholars such as gr...


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The Vitality of Allegory : Figural Narrative in Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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ISBN: 0814270476 0814211828 081425649X Year: 2012 Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press,

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Epistemologie des Extremen : Lustmord in Kriminologie und Literatur Um 1900
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ISBN: 3846752827 Year: 2012 Publisher: München, Germany : Wilhelm Fink Verlag,

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Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts ist der Lustmörder eine kulturelle Ikone. Am rasanten Aufstieg dieser Figur sind Kriminologen, Psychiater und Literaten gleichermaßen beteiligt. In wissenschaftlichen und literarischen Fallgeschichten erzählen sie vom Lustmord als einer allgegenwärtigen Gefahr, in deren Ausgrenzung sich eine Gesellschaft ihre eigenen Gesetze und Normen vorzuschreiben versucht. Vor diesem Hintergrund rekonstruiert dieses Buch die Entstehung kriminologischen Wissens im Schnittfeld von Wissenschaft und Literatur. Dem Lustmord kommt dabei eine Schlüsselrolle zu: Seine besondere Spektakularität trägt nicht nur zur Veranschaulichung und Popularisierung kriminologischer Konzepte bei, sie ist auch ein wesentlicher Bestandteil ihrer Epistemologie.


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Zwischen Stille und Stimme : zur Figur der Schweigsamen bei Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Marguerite Yourcenar, Marguerite Duras, Clarice Lispector, Emmanuèle Bernheim und in den Verfilmungen der Romane
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ISBN: 9783631624296 Year: 2012 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Peter Lang

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Die Untersuchung der Figur der Schweigsamen zeigt, dass diese in ausgewählten Texten der (Post-)Moderne dem Prozess einer Umwertung unterliegt: Schweigen erscheint hier als besondere Gabe. Die Umcodierung der traditionell negativ konnotierten Frauenfigur beruht auf einer anderen Art der Darstellung, der écriture de l’approchement. Die Fülle des weiblichen Begehrens kann so unter Wahrung seiner Unsagbarkeit im Text erscheinen. Die vorliegenden intermedial-interdisziplinär fundierten close readings sind ein Beitrag zu den Gender Studies im Bereich der romanistischen Literatur- und Filmwissenschaft: Ansätze der feministischen Literaturtheorie (Körper-Schreiben) werden um die der Filmwissenschaft ergänzt und mit denen der Mystik der Moderne, der Körpersprache und der Phänomenologie verbunden.


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The Golem redux : from Prague to post-Holocaust fiction
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ISBN: 0814336272 9780814336274 9780814336267 0814336264 Year: 2012 Publisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press,

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Traces the history of the golem legend and its appropriations in German texts and film as well as in post-Holocaust Jewish-American fiction, comics, graphic novels, and television.


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Civilisation and Fear
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ISBN: 1280486422 9786613581402 1443838284 9781443838283 9781443837507 1443837504 9781280486425 6613581402 Year: 2012 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Paradoxically, if nature has always been a source of fear, civilisation - its other and at the same time the epitome of progress and order - has not only doubled fear itself, but also added its new sister, anxiety. In effect, the notions of civilisation, fear and anxiety can hardly be separated. Fear - either linked Other anxiety or distinct from it - lies at the foundation of civilisation, which as much promises to shelter us from these afflictions as it does proliferate them. Confronted no l...


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North and south : essays on gender, race and region
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ISBN: 1443865001 9781443865005 9781443840880 1443840882 Year: 2012 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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North and South is a multi-dimensional look at a prevailing theme in current discourse on the concept of borders. This collection of essays invites us to cross historical, regional, and disciplinary boundaries. The contributors consider a range of primary texts, use a number of critical approaches, and make some surprising connections. The borders created by the concepts of ""north"" and ""south"" provoke us to ask if the terms continue to represent real divisions, or if usage and habit have drai...


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The Consciousness of One.
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ISBN: 9655500314 9789655500318 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Contento De Semrik

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We live in an age of global revolution. The world around us is raging, in constant movement in different directions. The evolution of the human race is marching towards a powerful spiritual breakthrough. This illuminating book marks the way for us as we move through this change - it is a pointed arrow that lights the way the world must follow, from duality to unity, from separation to love. Ilana Bahat communicates with a spiritual guide who leads her, hand in hand, to an understanding and internalization of the way of One. It is the entity of a great master of light manifested in a body, from


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The writing of violence in the Middle East : inflictions
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ISBN: 1441106677 1441150633 9781441150639 1306844789 9781306844789 9781472529442 9781441106308 1441106308 Year: 2012 Publisher: London ; New York, New York : Continuum,

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Writing has come face-to-face with a most crucial juncture: to negotiate with the inescapable presence of violence. Rooted in the domain of contemporary Middle Eastern literature, this book stages a powerful conversation on questions of cruelty, evil, rage, vengeance, madness and deception.

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