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 worlds most influential writersfrom Plato to Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway to b...Lasīt vairāk
This book promotes a novel and nuanced understanding of how the practices of comparative literature have engaged with the politics of nation-building in postcolonial Southeast Asia. It provides readings of Southeast Asian literatures in a comparat...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295754031)
Redefining space, power, and identity in Chinas largest internal diasporaIn the late imperial period of China, two major historical forces reshaped cultural and social landscapes in ways that have not been explored in depth: the Hu...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295754024)
Redefining space, power, and identity in Chinas largest internal diasporaIn the late imperial period of China, two major historical forces reshaped cultural and social landscapes in ways that have not been explored in depth: the Hu...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477332504)
How the classic aesthetic of 1960s pulp comics influenced art, culture, and politics. As a form of visual art, comic books rely on a distinct and eye-catching aesthetic. This is especially true of the iconic comics, graphic novels, a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700639991)
An expert on presidential history and national identity explores the complicated and conflicted ways Americans remember Thomas Jefferson and what these impressions reveal about the nation he helped to found.Thomas Jefferson is everyw...Lasīt vairāk
A users guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises Close readingmaking an argument based in close attention to a textis the foundation of literary studies. This book offers...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691265698)
A users guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises Close readingmaking an argument based in close attention to a textis the foundation of literary studies. This book offers...Lasīt vairāk
Xavier F Salomon, Benoit Constensoux, Jacques Charles-Gaffiot, Marie-Armelle Beaulieu, Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Maria Pia Pettinau Vescina, Beatrix Saule, Daniele Veron-Denise
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: D Giles Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781913875756)
This illuminating and richly illustrated volume celebrates the Custodia di Terra Sancta (Custody of the Holy Land), its history, its legacy,and its precious treasures.The Custodia di Terra Sancta is a branch of the Franciscan order,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691274638)
A beautifully illustrated journey through the most beloved classics of childrens literature, spanning more than twenty countries and one hundred and fifty years From Little Women to Harry Potter, childrens literature is a treasure trove o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953878)
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953885)
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Random House Inc, ISBN-13: 9780593518618)
This dazzling Christmas poem by Maya Angelou is powerful and inspiring for people of all faiths.In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469688947)
In the wake of World War II, Americans struggled to grasp the shifting scale of violence brought on by the nuclear era. To grapple with the overwhelming suffering of the sociopolitical moment, new ways of thinking about violence—as structural,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469688930)
In the wake of World War II, Americans struggled to grasp the shifting scale of violence brought on by the nuclear era. To grapple with the overwhelming suffering of the sociopolitical moment, new ways of thinking about violenceas structural, system...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783119145435)
The epigraphic database Clauss Slaby (EDCS) was founded and developed 40 years ago by Manfred Clauss and Wolfgang Slaby at the University of Eichstätt. Today, it is the largest and most important digital tool for epigraphic research worldwide, provi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111624167)
Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for American cultural and poli...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Ohio State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814215999)
Puts major theories of narrative in dialogue with post-postmodernist theory to present a new pluralist narratological framework, expanding consideration of recent works that employ unnatural devices for feminist purposes. Authors under discussion in...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9781501520341)
Narratives of Working Women in Early Modern London: Gendering the City analyzes depictions of non-elite, working women in relation to specific London neighborhoods and sites in early modern drama and culture from primarily the late sixte...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111579900)
Phrynichus Praeparatio sophistica ranks not last among the most importat works of ancient scholarly literature which we wish we could read in its original, full redaction. It was Phrynichus magnum opus, and the high status of...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783119145558)
Despite the assumption that we live today in a rather rationalist and mechanized world, there remain many aspects that neither medicine nor physics can fully explain. The Catholic Church continues to pronounce individuals as saints because scienti...Lasīt vairāk
The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bions O pays homage to Wilfred Bions lifelong love of poetry and his desire to integrate it with his psychoanalytic work as a means of communicating profound levels of emotional experience....Lasīt vairāk
The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bions O pays homage to Wilfred Bions lifelong love of poetry and his desire to integrate it with his psychoanalytic work as a means of communicating profound levels of emotional experie...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226843841)
An exploration of poetic form, centering on the alphabet as both its medium and constraint. The poems of Daniel Schonnings debut collection range from personal examinations of childhood suffering and loss of faith to deep observations of images and...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226843766)
Cynthia Cruzs latest collection, Sweet Repetition, deftly embraces cyclicality and the accumulation of meaning over time. Words, phrases, and titles echo throughout this book-length sequence of poems, forming new constellations with each passing en...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487509231)
Gender Battles: Latin American Women, War, and Feminism by gender studies and Latin Americanist scholar Vanesa Miseres focuses on the overlooked voices of women who wrote about and participated in Latin American and global wars from the 1...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487541415)
Oscar Wildes Paris explores Wildes connection with the French capital from his rise to fame to his eventual exile and death, examining his self-fashioning in the city, its impact on his career, and his eventual absorption into Parisian cultural hist...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783119145282)
This study examines ten Irish versions of Greek tragedy that have been written and produced between 1988 and 2019. Its focus is on the transformations that different formal elements of the Greek plays undergo in conjunction with the foregrounding...Lasīt vairāk
There are few features of the contemporary world more significant than national and regional borders. In modern Europe, the practices of human division have defined the continent from the early years of the Cold War to the present barriers of Fortre...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a material ecocritical rereading of late-Victorian science fiction and its depiction of the dynamic, agential reality with which humankind is inescapably entangled-- Provided by publisher. Adrian Tait argues that late...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765124185)
Through short essays, leading poetry critics and Bob Dylan experts analyze songs from a range of perspectives to illuminate the songs poetic and literary character.An innovative resource for Bob Dylan fans and scholars alike, these...Lasīt vairāk
Unruly by David Mitchell meets Super Infinite by Katherine Rundell in this quick, light-hearted and very funny tour through English poetry by bestselling author Mark Forsyth....Lasīt vairāk
What does Jane Austen mean when she writes approvingly of a characters gentility and delicacy, or critically of anothers indolence and impertinence? What are her characters doing when they take the measure of a persons air and ...Lasīt vairāk
What does Jane Austen mean when she writes approvingly of a characters gentility and delicacy, or critically of anothers indolence and impertinence? What are her characters doing when they take the measure of a persons air and ...Lasīt vairāk
Ardent fans of Jane Austens works can take a deep dive into the worlds of her beloved novels with this deck featuring 400 questions and answers that go well beyond the basics!Deluxe set: Includes 100 full-color custom il...Lasīt vairāk
A History of European Literature provides a comprehensive survey of European literature, designed to cater to teachers, undergraduate students of literature, and general readers with an interest in the subject. It fills a significant gap in material...Lasīt vairāk
In this significant contribution to aesthetic philosophy from one of the foremost writers on American poetry, Charles Altieri champions the neglected, non-cognitive, aspects of our encounters with works of art....Lasīt vairāk
This delightful miniature kit includes everything you need to cross-stitch three Jane Austen-inspired designs:Book Includes. 32-page full-color mini book with spot illustrations featuring 4 patterns and cross-stitching instructi...Lasīt vairāk
The Concise Companion to World Literature will be drawn from the six-volume, 3808-page Companion to World Literature, and will offer some 72 chapters selected and edited from the 300 chapters currently contained in the full-length work. Meeting a de...Lasīt vairāk
What are the forces that shape us? In The Women, Hilton Als exploreswith breath taking originalitythe role of sexual and racial identity in marginalized lives. With a blend of fact and fiction, Als brings to vivid life a number of extraordinary char...Lasīt vairāk
Psychoanalyst and literary scholar Peter L. Rudnytsky trains his critical eye on canonical works from St. Augustines Confessions to Miltons major poems. Arguing that the Oedipus complex can be viewed as the latent content of the Fall, Rudnytsky...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765131138)
A work of feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism that offers original readings of early canonical works of the Western tradition.In cogently argued and brilliant readings of texts ranging from St. Augustines Confessions ...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers an original and innovative study of how the intersection of the Doppelgänger and the Gothic reveals repressed aspects of our singular and collective past, while also serving as a lens to investigate ourselves and our historical mome...Lasīt vairāk
A go-to guide to help undergraduates navigate their way through university Shakespeare, examining 16 key plays. Addressing the transition from pre-university to undergraduate Shakespeare studies, this introductory critical guide examine...Lasīt vairāk
