Literary History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 4

Kenneth C Davis
The World in Books

A bestselling historian takes readers on an intellectual and cultural adventure, offering a carefully curated guide to great, short nonfiction works by some of the world's most influential writers---from …

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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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Mario Telò,
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

"Considering Butler's "tragic trilogy"-a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides-this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses an…

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Song Woohye, Woohye Song,
Yun Dong-Ju

Chronicling the life of Korea's "National Poet," Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), Song WooHye explores the historical and political backgrounds that influenced Yun's development as a poet and a patriot.…

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Hugh Rose
The Study of Church History Recommended: being the Terminal Divinity Lecture Delivered in Bishop Cosins's Library, March XV, MDCCCXXXIV, before the Right Rev. The Dean, The Chapter, and The University of Durham

Reprint of the original, first published in 1837. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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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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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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Ravi Sharma
Plato's Hippias Minor

Ravi Sharma provides a close study of an important but neglected Socratic dialogue by Plato. A new interpretation of the dialogue thoroughly re-examines the ancient evidence bearing on its interpretation …

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Péter Hajdu,
Modern Hungarian Culture and the Classics

Péter Hajdu examines the cultivation of the Classics as an intellectual framework and crucial ingredient of the western aspect of Hungarian national identity. This book approaches the relationship of mode…

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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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Frances Wood
Great Books of China: From Ancient Times to the Present

Great Books of China invites readers to discover-or rediscover-some of the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. The literature of China remains largely unknown in the West, yet it offer…

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Luisa Ostacchini
Translating Europe in ÆLfric's Lives of Saints

Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed wor…

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Rachel Skokowski
The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching

The first comprehensive study of the Goncourt brothers' etchings, including never-before published images of their work.

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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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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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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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Ryan Ruby
Context Collapse

"Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet--from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafâes of Gr…

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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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Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain

The first book-length study to address the impact of the legacies of slavery on Spanish cultural representations and institutions.

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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