Close Reading – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

Jacqueline Beatty
In Dependence

Examines the role of the American Revolution in the everyday lives of women Patriarchal forces of law, finance, and social custom restricted women's rights and agency in revolutionary America. Yet women i…

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Stefanie Heine
Tangential Terrains

Tangential Terrains is an ecocritical study of the work of Cormac McCarthy, focusing primarily on his depictions of the desert and inorganic nature in Blood Meridian . Close readings of previously unexami…

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Swedish Children's Cinema

Swedish children's cinema has a long and rich history. It encompasses the rascal films of the 1920s, the realism of the 1940s, the ambitious artistic renewal of the 1970s, the child empowering films of th…

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Irene Mata
Beyond the Moment

Exploring cultural resistance by creating and archiving Latinx performance artPerformance is often seen as ephemeral, a condition that seemingly reduces its activist possibilities. After all, not everyone…

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Willem A. M. Beuken,
Seal the Instruction Among My Disciples

Forschungen zum Alten Testament

This volume brings together forty essays by Willem A. M. Beuken spanning more than four decades of scholarship on the book of Isaiah. Interacting widely with the best of both classic and contemporary scho…

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Simone Stirner
Poetic Grief

Grief is non-linear and destabilizing. It can unravel our sense of time and relation to the world. Poetic Grief follows these effects across poems written in the wake of National Socialism. Moving beyond …

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Eliot Weinberger,
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways)

The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty-from a transl…

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David J Vázquez
Decolonial Environmentalisms

A critical examination of the environmental movement and the Latinx voices that are shifting how to think about a future shaped by climate change.In Decolonial Environmentalisms, David VÁzquez argues that…

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Jose G. Izaguirre III
Becoming La Raza

In 1965, striking farm workers in the San Joaquin Valley sparked the beginning of the Chican@ movement. As the movement quickly gained traction across the southwestern United States, public frictions and …

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Richard Jenkyns
The Path from Aulis

The first book to re-assess the Oresteia for a new generation of Classicists.Bridging between the disciplines of Classics, literary studies, gender studies, moral philosophy, and theories of imagery, Jenk…

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Xavier Kalck
American Objectivist Poetry Across the 20th Century

Offering a new introduction to an important yet often overlooked group of 20th century American poets, this book re-examines their work as a group while giving special attention to their individual trajec…

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Elen Caldecott
Writing for Young People

Applying the approach of 'reading-as-a-writer' to the craft of writing for young people, this textbook combines critical analysis, unique author-insight and practical application of ideas to give writers …

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Elen Caldecott
Writing for Young People

Applying the approach of 'reading-as-a-writer' to the craft of writing for young people, this textbook combines critical analysis, unique author-insight and practical application of ideas to give writers …

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Athina Papachrysostomou
FrC 16.4 Epikrates - Eriphos

This book is the first comprehensive study ever devoted to the comic poets Epicrates, Epigenes, and Eriphus, figures previously known only through scattered quotations from later sources. The volume studi…

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Helen Kapstein
Petroforms

Petroforms contributes a much-needed theory of form and genre to the cutting-edge field of petrocriticism, itself an offshoot of developments in postcolonial ecocriticism. Studies of resource fiction and …

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Charles C. Chiasson
Herodotus and the Greek Poetic Tradition

This is the first comprehensive analysis in any language of Herodotus' interaction with the Greek poetic tradition, including epic, lyric, and tragic poetry. It is essential reading for scholars of ancien…

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After the Broken Spears

Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal …

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Chelsea Burns
The Exotic Self

When Europeans and North Americans listen to music by Latin American composers, what do they hear? What, for that matter, do these composers' compatriots hear? The answer, historically, has been the sound…

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Jessica Frazier
Gadamer on Being

This book uses the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer to paint a picture of a creative, communal and hopeful modernity once promised, but almost forgotten behind 'end of history' and 'clash of civilizations' pred…

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Michelle Stork
Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives

Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture

This book analyzes contemporary Anglophone road narratives from a transcultural perspective. By bringing together texts set in Australia, Africa, Canada, Europe, Aotearoa/New Zealand, India, and the US, i…

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