Literary History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 5

Tony Hsu
Chasing the Modern

At the height of his literary prowess, Xu Zhimo was the most famous living poet in all of China. With his round spectacles and aristocratic profile, Xu had a face that became as iconic as his poetry. Duri…

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Martha H Patterson, Henry Louis Gates
The New Negro

An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racismThis book brings together a wealth of…

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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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Eleni Bozia
Politics of Language

Examining the identity and belonging of native and non-native speakers of Greek during the time of the High Roman Empire, Eleni Bozia closely studies grammarians, lexicographers and literary writers who u…

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Duncan F Kennedy
The Emergence of Ontological Styles of Thinking in Ancient Greece

This book presents an innovative theoretical framework for exploring the intellectual culture of ancient Greece in the period 450-350 BC. The bewildering questions and surprising opportunities posed by em…

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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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Steve Courtney
Bewitching Place

A Bewitching Place: The Story of the Mark Twain House in Hartford is the official guide to The Mark Twain House & Museum, an institution dedicated to preserving the author's home, literary legacy, and…

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Joe Freeman, Aung Naing Soe
Frontline Poets

Combining poems by contemporary Burmese poets along with their life stories. The book demonstrates the power of the written word and is both a parallel story of Burmese political turmoil and the life-affi…

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Leah O'Hearn
Akrasia and the Catullan Lover

Exploring how the Roman poet Catullus portrays erotic desire as a problem of self-control, Leah O'Hearn argues that Catullus presents himself as a lover plagued by akrasia (the failure to act on better ju…

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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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The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature

Histories of Latin literature have often treated the period from the second to the seventh centuries as an epilogue to the main action - and yet the period includes such towering figures as Apuleius, Clau…

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The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature

Histories of Latin literature have often treated the period from the second to the seventh centuries as an epilogue to the main action - and yet the period includes such towering figures as Apuleius, Clau…

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Barbara Seaman
Lovely Me

The definitive biography of Jacqueline Susann, author of the top 20 all-time bestselling novel in the 20th century, now a cult classic, Valley of the Dolls . With a new introduction by Maris Kriezman for …

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Shakespeare and Italy

Examining the relationship between Shakespeare and Italy, this collection considers how Shakespeare was inspired by Italian history, culture and literature, as well as the ways that Italy has, in turn, be…

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The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne

This new volume in the prestigious Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne contains thirteen sermons preached by Donne as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral between November 1626 and November 1628. For each …

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Tragedy as a Travelling Form

Covering a broad historical spectrum from Greek Antiquity to the 21st century, this open access book asks how tragedy's formal features have impacted its travels, and how these travels have shaped its for…

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Secret Voices

'Totally addictive.' - Alice Loxton, The Daily Telegraph'An intriguing, highly snackable guide to women's experiences.' - Independent'A modern classic.' - Alison Weir, author and historian'The sort of boo…

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Sam Tabet
Beyond the Lesbian Vampire

A study of the rebirth and subversion of the violent lesbian trope in queer horror.Beyond the Lesbian Vampire is a groundbreaking dive into the pervasive archetype of the violent lesbian in cinema. This b…

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Daniel Schillinger
Luckless

What is luck? What is the significance of luck for our ethical and political lives? Could it be the case that luck is an intoxicating illusion, which threatens to obscure the true explanations of human ac…

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Julian Richards,
Shakespeare in the Theatre Glen Byam Shaw and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre

Glen Byam Shaw was a pivotal but overlooked figure in the development of Shakespearean performance in 20th century Britain. This book serves as the first full analysis of Shaw's work as Director of the Sh…

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