Literary History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

Silvia Valisa
The Periodical Life of Modernity

The Milan-based publishing firm Sonzogno was an essential yet historically overlooked cultural player in nineteenth-century Italy. Positioning Sonzogno as both exceptional in its commercial success and em…

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Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court

Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court is the first translation into English of eight works by Theodore II Laskaris, a thirteenth-century ruler of the Empire of Nicaea. It includes a satir…

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Ruth Perry
The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland

This is a scholarly biography of Anna Gordon Brown, posthumously known as Mrs Brown of Falkland, an eighteenth-century Scottish ballad collector. This pioneering new study takes us to the overlapping worl…

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Megan C Reynolds
Like

"A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language"--

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David Streitfeld
Western Star

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove , The Last Picture Show , and Brokeback …

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John Julius Norwich
The Ultimate Christmas Cracker

In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his…

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Shakespeare and Comics

From their inception, 'low culture' comics have intersected with the 'high culture' of Shakespeare. This is the first book-length collection dedicated entirely to the exploration of this collision.Its cha…

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Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe

What are the contexts (political, social, legal, cultural) of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe? Given the abolition of state-sanctioned and institutional forms of stage censorship in the …

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Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis Tusculanarum Disputationum)

This is a critical edition of Cicero's Tusculanae Disputationes , which presents in dialogue form his views on the fear of death and endurance of pain, on distress and a range of other emotions, and on th…

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Aa Vv
The Passenger: Thailand

"These books are so rich and engrossing that it is rewarding to read them even when one is stuck at home."-The TLSThe Passenger makes its first stop in Southeast Asia. A journey to one of the wo…

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Renée Bergland
Natural Magic

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known a…

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Paul Allen Miller
Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero

Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero offers a fundamental re-examination of the relation between truth and enjoyment as understood in the traditional confrontation between rhetoric and philosophy in Cicero. His …

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Erica Weaver
The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England

This book writes the cultural and intellectual history of distraction through the study of the affective practices of a particular community of medieval writers and readers: the influential circle of Ã†th…

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Charles Taylor
Cosmic Connections

Charles Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy of language. Taylor holds that Romantic poetry responded to disenchantment: with old cosm…

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Michael J Shapiro
Thinking Outside the Canon

Thinking Outside the Canon traces author Michael J. Shapiro's intellectual journey as a political theorist who has adapted multidisciplinary practices and unconventional texts across his career to develop…

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Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome, J: Three Men in a Boat

Three late-Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as their fox terrier Montmorency take a trip in a boat along the River Thames to Oxford. What ensues is a hilarious journey th…

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Amal Eqeiq
Indigenous Affinities

Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing 'affinity' as a framework for global solidarityInspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity…

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Amal Eqeiq
Indigenous Affinities

Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing 'affinity' as a framework for global solidarityInspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity…

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Thomas Wright, Paul Kinsella
Oscar Wilde, Parnellite Home Ruler and Gladstonian Liberal

This book presents original archival findings concerning Wilde's membership of a Liberal Party club and his views on Irish Home Rule. The findings have significant implications for our understanding of hi…

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Kelly Ann Fitzpatrick
Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy

The medieval in the modern world is here explored in a variety of media, from film and book to gaming.Medievalism - the ways in which post-medieval societies perceive, interpret, reimagine, or appropriate…

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