Literary History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 3

Meegan Kennedy
Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy

Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism tracks Victorians' skeptical romance with the microscope, from a time when microscopists struggled for scientific authority, to one where th…

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Joseph Mitchell,
The Bottom of the Harbor

Classic portraits of New York City's hidden corners from one of The New Yorker's most iconic writers, now featuring stunning new illustrations by renowned artist Joana AvillezThroughout its long literary …

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Emily Hauser
Penelope's Bones

Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The liv…

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Anne Sophie Refskou
Shakespeare's Compassion

This book shows that Shakespeare's dramatization of compassion, far from expressing a sense of universal empathy, stages a conflicted emotion available to be solicited, manipulated and at times even monop…

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Dk
Lego Minifigure a Visual History (Library Edition)

Celebrate the epic journey of the LEGO® minifigure.Enter the world of LEGO minifigures with this fully updated and expanded edition. The first minifigure was created in 1978, and today the entire minifigu…

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Alex Mullen, Anna Willi
Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West

This volume offers a detailed anatomy of the spread of Latin and local and regional language change across Britain, Gaul, the Germanies, and the Iberian Peninsula during the late Roman republic to the end…

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William Elliott Hazelgrove
Hemingway's Attic

Reveals hidden depths of the Hemingway mystique through the eyes of a modern writer who spent a decade immersed in the legendary author's atticHemingway's Attic offers a fresh perspective on Ernest Heming…

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Stephen Marino
Arthur Miller's New York

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the 20th century, brought to life with images from Miller's time and today.

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Kenneth C Davis
The World in Books

A bestselling historian takes readers on an intellectual and cultural adventure, offering a carefully curated guide to great, short nonfiction works by some of the world's most influential writers---from …

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Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

How did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views compare to modern perceptions? Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman A…

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Esther Eidinow
Metamorphosis, Landscape, and Trauma in Greco-Roman Myth

This study explores the hidden histories offered by Greco-Roman myths of metamorphosis, and what they can reveal about the lived experience of ancient men and women. It investigates the role of the body, …

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Marius Hentea
Literary Treason

Can you commit treason by "mere words"? "Do civilized peoples shoot their poets?" Are there limits to free expression? Grappling with these questions, this open access book tells the f…

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Nicholas Jenkins
The Island

Nicholas Jenkins explores war, love, and politics in the early works of W. H. Auden, one of the twentieth century's most controversial and moving poets. Auden's poems embraced both haunted meditations on …

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Song Woohye, Woohye Song,
Yun Dong-Ju

Chronicling the life of Korea's "National Poet," Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), Song WooHye explores the historical and political backgrounds that influenced Yun's development as a poet and a patriot.…

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Fumiko Joo
Peony Lantern Tales

""The Story of the Peony Lantern" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347-1433) travelled across lingual, cultural, and geopolitical borders in early modern East Asia. The original tale, set in …

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Molly Farrell
New World Calculation

Molly Farrell tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking to argue that colonialism and the rise of r…

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Molly Farrell
New World Calculation

Molly Farrell tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking to argue that colonialism and the rise of r…

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Oleksandr Mykhed,
I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal

A sweeping narrative introduction to the Donbas, I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal: Snapshots from the East of Ukraineexplores the fraught histories and complicated present reality of the country's easternm…

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Ira Halpern
Imagining Health

A surprising look at how American writers envision a more equitable healthcare systemIn the United States, a deep suspicion of professional medical expertise is becoming increasingly prominent. Meanwhile,…

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Emily Hauser
Penelope's Bones

"Three millennia ago, in an ancient Greece where men spoke and women were silenced, some of the world's first epics were born: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But these are not just tales about heroic men…

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