History And Literacy – alle Bücher, CDs und DVDs, Seite 6

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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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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Thomas Matthew Vozar,
Isaac Barrow's on the Turkish Religion

This edition offers a novel perspective on seventeenth-century European-Islamic encounters by making accessible the Neo-Latin poem On the Turkish Religion (De Religione Turcica ). Written by the Cambridge…

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Nicholas Grene
Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century

An in-depth study of Irish theatre in the contemporary period, including major companies and playwrights, that draws on first-hand experience and interviews with theatre makers.

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Ruby Tandoh
All Consuming

Food dominates our every waking minute: Hype restaurants. Allrecipes. The Great British Bake Off . In this dazzling cultural history, bestselling food writer Ruby Tandoh (author of Cook As You Are ) trace…

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Eddie S Glaude Jr
America, U.S.A.

The New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America's unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us.Celebrated public intellectual Eddie …

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Anne Hillerman,
Tony Hillerman's Landscape

A photographic journey through the landscape immortalized in bestselling author Tony Hillerman' s beloved mystery series featuring the legendary Navajo police officers Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant…

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We Rode the Rhythms as One

We Rode the Rhythms as One offers readers an immersive journey into the life and legacy of one of America's most unorthodox and inspiring poets. More than just a literary analysis, this book captures the …

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Vered Lev Kenaan, Patricia A Rosenmeyer
Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters e…

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Joseph Campbell
Creative Mythology (the Masks of God, Volume 4)

An updated edition of the beloved final volume in Joseph Campbell's monumental Masks of God series, Creative Mythology tells the inner story of humanity's entire philosophical, spiritual, and artistic his…

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Emanuele Severino,
War

The first English translation of Emanuele Severino's provocative analysis of the philosophy behind war in the West.Drawing on a broad range of sources, from Heraclitus to 20th-century grassroots movements…

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Whit Frazier Peterson
The Image and the Fire

Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthologyThe Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology---a small, outsider literary collection---as a key, yet understudied, instrument of litera…

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François-Réne Chateaubriand,
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815-1830

The third part of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, the aristocratic Frenchman who lived through the beginning of the French Revolution and who would become the founder of the Romantic movement in …

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Michael North
Making Common Sense

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been dif…

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Joseph Campbell
Creative Mythology (the Masks of God, Volume 4)

"In this fourth and final volume in The Masks of God series - Joseph Campbell's major work of comparative mythology - the preeminent mythologist looks at the birth of the individualistic mythology of…

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Michael North
Making Common Sense

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been dif…

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Kirsten S Paige
Richard Wagner's Political Ecology

A study of the deep history of the Wagnerian environmental imagination.Richard Wagner's operas are bursting with environmental imagery, from tittering birds to flowing rivers to towering trees. In Richard…

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Atrocity and Early Modern Drama

Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorize the massacres, genocides, assassinations, enslavements, sacks, rapes, riots and regicide…

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Imelda Whelehan,
Post-War Adaptations

Noted scholar Imelda Whelehan looks at key adaptations released during this period and considers the impact of social change, film consumption and film tastes, as well as noting the most popular genres at…

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Stephen J May
Michener's South Pacific

James Michener's first novel, Tales of the South Pacific , winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and the Pulitzer-winning Broadway musical it inspired, South Pacific by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.

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