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Das "Altislandische Lesebuch" ist fur den akademischen Unterricht bzw. fur das Selbststudium konzipiert. Der Band enthalt mehr als 20 ausgewahlte Passagen von Texten, die verschiedenen Gattungen der altislandischen Prosa und Poesie angehoren und einen Einblick in die Vielfalt der Dichtung des alten Island geben. Die einzelnen Textpassagen sind mit einer kurzen Einfuhrung, mit Sacherlauterungen und teilweise auch mit Ubersetzungen versehen. Der lexikographische Teil dient als Glossar zu den Lesebuchtexten, deckt aber als Minimalworterbuch des Altislandischen auch den Basiswortschatz der gesamten (Prosa-)Sprache ab und ermoglicht damit die Lekture weiterer Originaltexte.

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Download E-books Metalepsis in Popular Culture (Narratologia: Contributions to Narrative Theory/Beitrage Zure Erzahltheorie) PDF

By Karin Kukkonen

Metalepsis refers back to the crossing of obstacles among fiction and truth in narratives. This quantity offers a scientific review of metalepsis, its forms and results, in pop culture. The contributions speak about well known fiction, fan fiction, pop lyrics, comics, motion pictures, lively cartoons, song video clips, reside performances and television sequence from the flip of the 20 th century to the current day. Metalepsis in pop culture introduces the rhetorical suggestion of metalepsis and applies it to modern pop culture, thereby demonstrating its significance for the negotiation of truth and fiction in our cultural international.

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Download E-books The New Sorrows of Young W. (Pushkin Collection) PDF

Edgar Wibeau, seventeen years outdated, has died on Christmas Eve in an unlucky twist of fate concerning electrical energy. His father, who left the family members while Edgard used to be 5, interrogates these with regards to him, to determine what precisely occurred - and who his son relatively was once. Helpfully for the reader, Edgar himself punctuates the father's conversations together with his mom, ally Willi, and Charlie, the lady with whom Edgar used to be unhappily in love, to offer us his model of occasions from past the grave - and a narrative magically equivalent to Goethe's The Sorrows of younger Werther and Salinger's The Catcher within the Rye unfolds prior to our eyes. initially conceived as a screenplay, Plenzdorf's smooth vintage was once first released in East Germany in 1973. A satire concerning the cultural and social limits of the GDR, it has lengthy been a suite textual content in German faculties, and its severe and well known luck continues to be unabated.

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Download E-books From the Idyll to the Novel: Karamzin's Sentimentalist Prose (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature) PDF

By Gitta Hammarberg

N.M. Karamzin (1766-1826) was once the major Russian consultant of the overdue eighteenth-century Sentimentalist stream. during this research, Gitta Hammarberg uses fresh advances in literary concept (especially these in line with the paintings of Bakhtin and Voloshinov) which will increase a brand new conception of Sentimentalist literature, which she applies to Karamzin's prose fiction. Professor Hammarberg situates Sentimentalism in its historic context, as a mirrored image of latest shifts in international view, a response opposed to the Neo-Classicist view of literature, and a car for legitimizing prose fiction. She stresses the significance of the position of the author-reader within the constitution of Sentimentalist texts, and relates this to the fashion and genres of those works. via shut readings of a consultant collection of Karamzin's prose fiction, together with works formerly omitted as trivial or frivolous, she exhibits the diversity of Sentimentalist fiction, its position in literary evolution, and ways that it anticipates the Romantic move and the trendy Russian novel.

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By Duncan White

On the outbreak of the second one international warfare Vladimir Nabokov stood close to wasting every thing over again. The recognition he had equipped because the pre-eminent Russian novelist in exile used to be imperilled. In Nabokov and his Books, Duncan White indicates how Nabokov went to the US and never simply reinvented himself as an American author but in addition used the good fortune of Lolita to rescue these Russian books that were threatened through obscurity. utilizing formerly unpublished and overlooked fabric, White tells the tale of Nabokov the pro author and the way he sought to stability his overdue modernist aesthetics with the calls for of a booming American literary market. As Nabokov's recognition grew so he took higher and larger keep watch over of ways his books have been produced, making the fabric type of the book--including forewords, blurbs, covers--part of the radical. In his later novels, together with Pale Fire, Ada, and Transparent Things, the belief of the novelist wasting keep an eye on of his paintings grew to become the topic of the novels themselves. those plots have been replicated in Nabokov's personal biography, as he chanced on his lack of ability to regulate the forces the industry good fortune of Lolita had unleashed. With new insights into Nabokov's existence and paintings, this e-book reconceptualises the best way we predict approximately essentially the most very important and influential novelists of the 20th century.

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Paintings and literature through the eu fin-de-siècle interval frequently manifested topics of degeneration and rot, either one of our bodies and civilizations, in addition to disorder, weird and wonderful sexuality, and common morbidity. This assortment explores those subject matters in terms of artists and writers as assorted as Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, and Aubrey Beardsley.

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The current quantity is worried with of the important questions of chemical dynamics. What will we learn about the energies of interplay of atoms and molecules with one another and with reliable surfaces? How can such interplay energies be used to appreciate and make quantitative predictions approximately dynamical strategies like scattering, strength move, and chemical reactions? it really is turning into in actual fact well-known that the pc is resulting in fast development in answering those questions. the pc permits probing dynamical mechanisms in wonderful aspect and sometimes permits us to respond to questions that can't be addressed with present experimental concepts. As we input the 1980's, not just are extra robust and swifter pcs getting used, yet ideas and techniques were honed to a nation the place fascinating and trustworthy info are being generated on numerous platforms at an exceptional velocity. the current quantity provides a set of labor that illustrates the functions and a few of the successes of this sort of computer-assisted learn. In a 1978 Chemical Society file, Frey and Walsh mentioned that "it is very uncertain if a calculated strength of activation for any unimolecular decomposition can exchange an experimental deter­ mination. " although in addition they recorded that they "believe[d] that many of the tricky calculations being played at the moment do recommend that we could be coming near near a time while a call among response mechanisms may be helped by way of such [computational] paintings.

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Download E-books Linkage Thermodynamics of Macromolecular Interactions, Volume 51 (Advances in Protein Chemistry) PDF

This quantity commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the looks in quantity four in 1948 of Dr. Jeffries Wyman's well-known paper during which he "laid down" the principles of linkage thermodynamics. specialists during this sector give a contribution articles at the cutting-edge of this significant box and on new advancements of the unique thought. one of the issues coated during this quantity are electrostatic contributions to molecular unfastened energies in answer; site-specific research of mutational results in proteins; allosteric transitions of the acetylcholine receptor; and decoding the molecular code of hemoglobin allostery.

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