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by Matilde Serao ...

Translated by Sarah Nicodemo, Dario Nicodemo ...

In diesem fesselnden Roman von Matilde Serao folgt der Leser Francesco Sangiorgio, einem jungen Abgeordneten aus der armen Basilicata, auf seinem beeindruckenden Aufstieg in das pulsierende Rom des späten 19. Jahrhunderts. Zunächst erlebt er den Kulturschock, als er in die komplexe und anspruchsvolle Welt der Hauptstadt eintaucht. Getrieben von Ehrgeiz und der Notwendigkeit, in dieser neuen ... Read more

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This empirical study investigates the acquisition and development of nominal morphology in L1-English-speaking children acquiring German as a second language in an immersion school context. The focus is on accuracy development in the emerging German article system. Embracing theoretical and applied aspects of second language acquisition research, the study brings together educational, cognitive
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Questioni grammaticografiche

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Spectrums of Shakespearean Crossdressing

The Art of Performing Women

by Courtney Bailey Parker ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of seriousness? Probably not. Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing examines these varied types of female characters in English Renaissance drama, drawing from a range of play texts themselves in order to investigate if ... Read more

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Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of seriousness? Probably not. Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing examines these varied types of female characters in English Renaissance drama, drawing from a range of play texts themselves in order to investigate if
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Feminine Subjects in Masculine Fiction

Modernity, Will and Desire, 1870-1910

by M. Miller ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same time as the central female figure continued to function as a troubling and unreachable object of aesthetic desire. This book examines these inscrutable female characters who were the ground on which fiction reinvented itself as Art. ... Read more

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Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same time as the central female figure continued to function as a troubling and unreachable object of aesthetic desire. This book examines these inscrutable female characters who were the ground on which fiction reinvented itself as Art.
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