OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
Now showing items 12881-12900 of 50053
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(1990)This book applies the techniques of semiotic analysis to a selection of short stories by Leonid Andreev in an attempt to offer one answer to the problems of categorizing Andreev’s unique art and placing it within a ...
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(1991)Credited on its first title page to William Shakespeare and William Rowley, The Birth of Merlin continues to provoke speculation about its place in the Shakespeare ‘Apocrypha’. The play is an imaginative re-working of the ...
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(1990)This book undertakes a comparative reassessment of psychosexual concerns in the works of Georg Trakl and Robert Musil. The two authors, so different in other respects, are shown to converge in their coordinated treatment ...
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(1990)Laurette d'Alsace, daughter of the Comte de Flandre, was married to four members of the northern French aristocracy and finally retreated to the Abbaye de Forest in Brussels. She was to remain there until her death in 1170, ...
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(1989)Colin Riordan finds the key to Uwe Johnson's puzzling works in an idiosyncratic moral code to which both Johnson and his narrative figures adhere. This code underlies the development in Johnson's prose from his first novel ...
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(1989)This study has two main aims. The first is to inform about approaches to painting among the poets and critics who, during the years 1885-95, were associated with the French Symbolist movement. The second is to examine the ...
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(1989)Maiakovskii himself said that a rhythmical 'rumble' was the basis of his verse, and demonstrated the actual generation of his verse from the bare rhythmical gul through intermediate versions to its final verbal form. In ...
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(1987)Quevedo, who for much of his life was a nobleman politically active at court, is now remembered as one of the great writers of the Baroque era. His love poems are among the best regarded from his substantial poetic oeuvre, ...
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(1987)The main aim of this study of the second continuation of the Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes is to establish exactly what it consists of, where it begins and ends, whether it is a single unit — and if not to what extent it ...
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(1987)Claude Favre de Vaugelas, born in Savoy in 1585 and one of the founder members of the French Academy, is best known for his Remarques sur la langue française (1647) in which he sets out good usage of French. In this study, ...
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(1986)The city and the village represent two poles of Soviet society and ideology. The city symbolizes the future; the industrial proletariat is the natural ally of the Party. But the village provides a constant reminder of ...
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(1985)Gonçalves da Silva studies a range of expressionist playwrights who transformed German drama in the twentieth century: from Frank Wedekind, who grew up in a Swiss castle, became an actor and was imprisoned for satirical ...
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(1983)For some, Jean Grenier is an intriguing philosopher and essayist, for others he is primarily the madter of Albert Camus. A prolific writer, he worked as a teacher until his retirement in 1968, holding posts in Egypt and ...
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(1983)Les Enseignemens ou Ordenances pour un Siegneur qui a Guerres et Grans Gouvernemens a Faire, often referred to as Les enseignements, was a military manual by Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat (1290-1338). Originally ...
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(1983)The Poema de mio Cid is one of the oldest extant literary works in Castilian, and the most complete epic poem of the Spanish medieval period now known to us in a form close to that in which it was originally written, perhaps ...
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(1982)When, a generation later, Francesco Berni rewrote Boiardo's incomplete epic Orlando Innamorato, his contemporaries were not all convinced, and some considered it a usurpation. But Berni's aim was to modernise the text, ...
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(1982)Büchner's turbulent drama Dantons Tod presents problems of characterisation on a different order of magnitude from those of the works which followed, not least because it was Büchner's first play, and a very ambitious one. ...
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(1980)This is a critical edition of the Restor du Paon, a poem attributed to Jean Brisebarre which was composed some time before 1338, though its exact date is uncertain. This book, originally published in paperback in 1980 under ...
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(1979)As an imaginative writer Sartre is fascinated by the role of imagination in the creative process. Moreover his critical, psychological and philosophical writings witness to a constant meditation on the function and status ...
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(1979)Despite a remote rural birth, in a small Sicilian town still not easily accessible, Capuana was to become a figure truly representative of Italian culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. He observed Garibaldi's ...
