Literary History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

Kendra Strand
An Unfamiliar Place

In mid-fourteenth-century Japan, amid decades of civil unrest caused by a violent rivalry over imperial succession, three men embarked on journeys that would lead them to reimagine their world: the second…

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Ruby Tandoh
All Consuming

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Food dominates our every waking minute: Hype restaurants. Allrecipes. The Great British Bake Off . In this dazzling cultural history, bestselling food writer Ruby Tandoh (aut…

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Fallou Ngom
Beyond African Orality

This book brings to English-speaking audiences the voice of one of sub-Saharan Africa's greatest Sufi poets: Sëriñ Mbay Jaxate of Senegal. Mbay Jaxate composed poems in his native Wolof tongue using an en…

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Jen Soriano
Nervous

"Nervous takes the focus from the abstract and does what doctors (and historians) failed to do: makes her story, her pain, and her life as real as any history that proceeded. Nervous gives face and w…

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Anna Chiara Corradino,
Representations of Endymion and Selene

A focused study of an ancient myth and its reception, which provokes new consideration of how myth in general can challenge social norms. Analyzing the visual and literary transformations of the myth of E…

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Duncan Bell, Douglas Mao
Utopia

Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different disciplines join to co…

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Susan McCready
Commemorative Acts

In the aftermath of the Great War, a remarkable wave of collective commemoration emerged, but the aesthetic diversity of this period has often been overshadowed by a singular focus on the combatant experi…

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François-Réne Chateaubriand,
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815-1830

The third part of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, the aristocratic Frenchman who lived through the beginning of the French Revolution and who would become the founder of the Romantic movement in …

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss
The Books That Made Us: Deconstructing the Modern Christian Classics

What do you do when you realize that the books you were taught to revere imbued you with false perspectives on humanity, society, and morals?This is the question editor and journalist Rebecca Bratten Weis…

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Michael North
Making Common Sense

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been dif…

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Alex Trustrum-Thomas
Russian Theatre at the Margins of High Putinism

Russian Theatre at the Margins of High Putinism traces the development of fringe theatre in Russia over the course of the second decade of the twenty-first century.

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Megan O'Grady
How It Feels to Be Alive

A vital testament to how art makes us who we are-and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives.Barbara Kruger once defined art as the ability "to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent sho…

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Melissa Alexander
Conversation Pieces

Conversation Pieces sketches an object-oriented lineage for modernism, showing that Virginia Woolf's passion for objects was fuelled by her participation in a widespread conversation about philosophical e…

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Megan O'Grady
How It Feels to Be Alive

A vital testament to how art makes us who we are-and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives.Barbara Kruger once defined art as the ability "to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent sho…

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James Marcus
Glad to the Brink of Fear

An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readersMore than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American c…

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Anthony Sharwood
Kosciuszko

Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko: freedom fighter, friend of Thomas Je…

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Michael Allan
Cinema Before the World

Cinema before the World investigates the transnational origins of filmmaking by focusing on a case study in world cinema -- the 1896-1897 voyage of one of the Lumière Brothers camera operators, Alexandre …

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James Reichert
Literature for the Masses

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as period fiction or mass literature. It highlights the important cultural and ideological work…

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Elizabeth Barrios
Failures of the Imagination

Despite the precariousness of an oil-based economy and the government's professed concern about climate change, a failure of imagination regarding alternatives continues to trap Venezuela in an oil-fueled…

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Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

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