Modern Classics – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

Marion A. Wells
Gender, Affect, and Emotion from Classical to Early Modern Literature

Drawing both on historical accounts of the emotions and on contemporary affect theory, this book explores the intersection of social constructions of sex and gender with the development of norms for emoti…

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Salena Baca
Crochet Granny Square Tops, Bags, and More

Unlock the endless possibilities of Granny Squares with 10 stylish patterns that transform this classic stitch into trendy tops, bags, and more, all guided by expert tips for a flawless finish!Though ofte…

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Vin Nardizzi
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance

John Gerard's natural history of plants, The Herball (1597), is considered a failure in the history of science. Despite this reputation, it has endured as an aesthetic resource. Its illustrations were use…

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Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism shows that Wharton was highly engaged with global issues of her time, due in part to her extensive travel abroad. Examining both her canonical and lesser-known works and …

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Edward Watts
Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the "Indian Hater" in American writing fr…

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Amanda Anderson, Simon During
Humanities Theory

Humanities Theory argues that there exists a global humanities world which not only transcends disciplinary divisions but joins the professional academic humanities to a thriving amateur public humanities…

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Eliot Now

Eliot Now -the first collection of essays written with full access to T. S. Eliot's recently published Complete Prose and Poems-combines contemporary critical approaches with a sustained inquiry into the …

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Naama Harel
The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast critically examines the entanglements between Jewishness, gender, and animality in modernist Hebrew fiction. Analyzing the effeminate Jew vis-à-vis the animalized woman …

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Amanda Anderson, Simon During
Humanities Theory

Humanities Theory argues that there exists a global humanities world which not only transcends disciplinary divisions but joins the professional academic humanities to a thriving amateur public humanities…

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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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Len Deighton
London Match

Penguin Modern Classics

'Spying at its most captivating and intricate' The Times 'Deighton has woven an intricate and satisfying plot, peopled it with convincing characters and even given a new twist to the spy story. But then h…

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George Orwell
Down an Out in Paris and London

Penguin Modern Classics

'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them'. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Pa…

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Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Penguin Modern Classics

Von der übrigen Außenwelt abgeschottet führen die Schloßbewohner Merricat, ihre Schwester und ihr Onkel ein exzentrisches - vielleicht sogar mörderisches- aber durchaus zufriedenes Leben. Mit aller Macht …

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Czeslaw Milosz,
The Issa Valley

Penguin Modern Classics

'Thomas was born in the village of Gine at that time of year when a ripe apple thumps to the ground during an afternoon lull.' So a boy's life begins in a winding river valley on the Polish-Russian border…

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Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God

Virago Modern Classics

Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth.When, at sixteen, Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, …

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Philip Guston
I Paint What I Want to See

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Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century 'Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light'How does a painter…

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Tove Ditlevsen,
Vilhelm's Room

Penguin Modern Classics

The unforgettable final novel from the great Danish writer and author ofThe Copenhagen Trilogy'Recently escaped a long, unhappy marriage - aged 51, but youthful in spirit - wonderful son, aged 15 - househ…

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Elsa Morante,
Lies and Sorcery

Penguin Modern Classics

'Thrillingly addictive, magnificent, luxurious . . . as staggering and absorbing as a great 19th-century novel' Telegraph'I loved it and it had been a long time since I had read anything that gave me such…

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Seicho Matsumoto,
Twilight in Musashino

Penguin Modern Classics

Musashino, 1959. A young Japanese flight attendant is found strangled on the icy banks of the river. The police suspect foul play - but the deeper they dig, the more they collide with a wall of silence.At…

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Jack Kerouac
On the Road

Penguin Modern Classics

Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride around the United States. Their hedonistic drive for release through drink, sex, drugs and jazz be…

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