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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Harold Kirson,
Writing Against Infamy

A rare documentation of a Jewish American serviceman in the war. Writing Against Infamy presents a personal account of the Second World War through the correspondence of Harold Kirson, a Jewish American s…

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Harold Kirson,
Writing Against Infamy

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Lego Minifigure a Visual History (Library Edition)

Celebrate the epic journey of the LEGO® minifigure. Features an exclusive LEGO minifigure!Enter the world of LEGO minifigures with this fully updated and expanded edition. The first minifigure was created…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Amy Motlagh
Colorblind

With this book, Amy Motlagh considers how racial thinking underpins cultural practices in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Despite cultural traditions depicting black people and the documented presence of b…

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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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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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