Close Reading – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 5

Shannon Lambert,
Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature

Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science and ecology, this book considers how, in contemporary literature, affective experiences like desire, suffering, anxiety,…

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Renewed Hasidism

This groundbreaking volume bridges ancient wisdom and contemporary Jewish spirituality, offering fresh insights into Hasidic homilies as dynamic sources of meaning and renewal. Featuring nineteen scholars…

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Form and Transformation in Soviet Underground Writing

Form and Transformation in Soviet Underground Writing examines the rich literary and cultural innovation that thrived under Soviet censorship in the post-Stalin era. Moving beyond the idea of the undergro…

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Ted Widmer
The Living Declaration: A Biography of America's Founding Text

INSIDE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: A historian and former presidential speechwriter traces the origins and legacy of the words and ideas that made America.Illustrations and close readings of 60 origi…

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Serena Ferrando
Channelling Nature

What if poetry could teach us to live differently -- alongside plants, animals, and water? Channelling Nature: Plants, Animals, and Water in Italian Poetry explores how twentieth-century Italian literatur…

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Chakrita M Saulina,
Satan's Fall and God's Redemption Story in the Gospel of Luke

Chakrita M. Saulina offers an extensive examination of Luke's treatment of evil spirits and how they are related to many of Luke's theological agendas, such as his Christology, soteriology, and eschatolog…

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Héctor Jaimes
The Mexican Novel in Times of Rupture

Literatures of the Americas

This book offers a close reading analysis of contemporary Mexican authors whose novels, in both form and content, are reshaped by the forces of globalization and postmodernism. Drawing on an interdiscipli…

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Gina Filo
Shattering the Self in Early Modern English Verse

Rethinking the Early Modern

Reconfiguring our understanding of early modern English erotic and literary landscapesRejecting the ideals of stability and sexual mastery demanded of masculine subjects, early modern English poets threw …

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Ishani Anwesha Joshi, Sathyaraj Venkatesan
Drawing the Pandemic

This book examines the emergence of a new normal that has structured the lived experiences of individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic through a close reading of graphic medical texts from both digital an…

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Rose Casey
Aesthetic Impropriety

"Aesthetic Impropriety reconceives the aesthetic force of literature to theorize justice. Casey's gorgeous close readings and keen attention to the histories of English-derived property law generate …

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Ruby Cohn,
Glancing at Dramatists' Dialogue

This book examines dramatic dialogue in English-language theatre, tracing verbal invention across four centuries from Shakespeare and Restoration comedy right up to contemporary English and American theat…

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George Frederick Rambow
From Mimesis to Myth

Christianity in Late Antiquity

From Mimesis to Myth traces the transformation of a Greek account of the life of Cyprian of Carthage into the legendary tale of Cyprian of Antioch as a means of exploring how late antique Christian author…

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Rose Casey
Aesthetic Impropriety

"Aesthetic Impropriety reconceives the aesthetic force of literature to theorize justice. Casey's gorgeous close readings and keen attention to the histories of English-derived property law generate …

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Benjamin M Han
Reckoning with the World

For many Koreans, Latin America is foreign and unfamiliar, but popular television shows have generated considerable interest in this region of the Global South. In Reckoning with the World , Benjamin Han …

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Amy De'Ath
Behind Our Backs

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital's impersonal compulsions -- by what happens "behind our backs." Chal…

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Lena Ahlin, Maria Freij
Transnational Adoption Memoirs

This book connects the memoir boom of recent decades with the growing public debate about transnational adoption. Through the close reading of a range of American and Swedish memoirs by transnationally ad…

lieferbar ab 20.5.2026.

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Rachel R Rosner
Adorno and the Question of Theology

Can we move beyond the religious-secular divide and live together ethically in a shared political world? Adorno and the Question of Theology: Religion and Reason Beyond Foundations says yes-and shows how.…

lieferbar ab 28.5.2026.

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Simone Stirner
Poetic Grief

Grief is non-linear and destabilizing. It can unravel our sense of time and relation to the world. Poetic Grief follows these effects across poems written in the wake of National Socialism. Moving beyond …

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Gina Filo
Shattering the Self in Early Modern English Verse

Reconfiguring our understanding of early modern English erotic and literary landscapesRejecting the ideals of stability and sexual mastery demanded of masculine subjects, early modern English poets threw …

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Willem A. M. Beuken,
Seal the Instruction Among My Disciples

Forschungen zum Alten Testament

This volume brings together forty essays by Willem A. M. Beuken spanning more than four decades of scholarship on the book of Isaiah. Interacting widely with the best of both classic and contemporary scho…

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