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Alex P Jassen

Violence, Power, and Society in the Dead Sea Scrolls

"Violence is one of the key themes in the Dead Sea Scrolls. In this volume, Alex P. Jassen explores the intersection of violence and power in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the ancient sectarian movement w…

John Berendt

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout th…

Masculinities and Migration in Latinx and Francophone Literatures and Cultures

This book adopts a transatlantic approach to consider literature and cultural products produced by authors confronted with the experience of migration, working from or looking in the direction of the Glob…

Paul Joseph Zajac

Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature

This book offers the first full-length study of early modern contentment, the emotional and ethical principle that became the gold standard of English Protestant psychology and an abiding concern of Engli…

Leslie Winston

Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art

How artists used metaphors of non-heteronormative bodies and sexualities to resist authoritative dicta

Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha, Edith Hall

Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature

This collection of 24 essays provides the first comprehensive study of the way the passing of time, temporal setting, and the relationship between past, present, and future are presented in diverse genres…

Eleonora Natale

Military Families, Political Violence, and Transitional Justice in Argentina

Perpetrators within? provides the first ethnographic account of the experiences of military families of the Argentine dictatorship (1976-83). At the crossover of multiple disciplines, this groundbreaking …

Lara Ehrenfried

Literature and Sound Film in Mid-Century Britain

This book traces how film adjusted to the new sound technology and how literature responded to the fact that cinema could now provide a synchronized, audio-visual entertainment experience to its viewers. …

Gaze, Vision, and Visuality in Ancient Greek Literature

Visual culture, performance and spectacle lay at the heart of all aspects of ancient Greek daily routine, such as court and assembly, cult and ritual, and art and culture. Seeing was considered the most s…

Roisín Laing

The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture

This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture - canonical literature, children's fiction, scientific texts, and writing by children - to argue that precocity challenges the …

Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204)

Explores the abundant poetic production of an especially fertile period in Byzantine literary history. Examines schools as important venues for the composition and use of verse texts, sheds new light on t…

Jane Ellen Harrison

Myths of the Odyssey in Art and Literature

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Cultural Labour and Contemporary World Literatures in Portuguese

This book examines the evolution of contemporary narrative in Portuguese from the point of view of cultural labour. The main objective of this volume is to analyse the panorama of contemporary literary fi…

Violence Against Women and Children in the Hebrew Bible

What did violence against women and children mean for ancient audiences and how do modern audiences hear and process the meaning of violence in the texts of the Hebrew Bible? The rape of Tamar, the sacrif…

Representations of the Moon in Literature and Art

This book brings together a collection of essays on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of the first man on the moon ¿ a time when tourist journeys to the moon, now a real possibility,…

Uli Molsen

Artikulations-Kurs

Rachel Gotlieb,

Ceramics in the Victorian Era

"This book broadens the discussion of pottery and china in the Victorian era by situating them in the national, imperial, design reform, and domestic debates between 1840 and 1890. Largely ignored in…

Homer Sprague

Masterpieces in English Literature, and Lessons in the English Language

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Ross Collin

Literature and Ethics in High School English Classes

This book argues that when students read literature together in English class, they engage in ethical dimensions of reading unavailable to the solitary readers.