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    Women Modernists and Fascism(2017) ZOX-WEAVER, ANNALISA (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA)
    Modernism both influenced and was fascinated by the rhetorical and aesthetic manifestations of fascism. In examining how four artists and writers represented fascist leaders, Annalisa Zox-Weaver aims to achieve a more complex understanding of the modernis
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    56,95 €
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    My Judy Garland Life(2019) BOYT, SUSIE
    An irresistible mixture of memoir, biography, cultural analysis, experiment and hero-worship about one person's enduring obsession. Anniversary Edition with new preface published to coincide with the new film, Judy, starring Rene Zellweger.
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    15,27 €
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    Beautiful War(2019) BEIDLER, PHILIP D.
    Offers a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant presence of war in our everyday lives. Philip Beidler investigates the assimilation and pervasive presence of the idea of war in popular culture, the impu
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    49,51 €
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    In Search of the Irish Dreamtime(2016) MALLORY, J. P.
    By comparing the world depicted in the earliest Irish literary tradition with the archaeological evidence available on the ground, the author explores Ireland's rich mythological tradition and tests its claims to represent reality.
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    26,34 €
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    Juno's Aeneid(2021) FARRELL, JOSEPH
    A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine Ho
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    64,88 €
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    Camilla(2009) BURNEY, FANNY
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    20,83 €
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    Comedy and Religion in Classical Athens - Narratives of Religious Experiences in Aristophanes' Wealth(2018) BARRENECHEA, FRANCISCO (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK)
    A detailed study of how Aristophanes manipulates traditional narratives of important religious experiences (oracles, healings, epiphanies) to engage with the religious discourse of his time, with a particular focus on the comedy Wealth. This book opens up
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    141,75 €
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    Afterlives of the Roman Poets(2019) GOLDSCHMIDT, NORA (UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM)
    Brings innovations in modern life-writing studies to Roman poetry and its reception. While its core fields are Latin poetry and reception studies, this interdisciplinary book will interest all those working on life-writing. Individual chapters focus on to
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    165,38 €
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    Man of the Crowd(2020) PEEPLES, SCOTT
    How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of supporting his family, Poe sought work in American ma
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    34,36 €
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    Boastful Chef(2000) WILKINS, JOHN (SENIOR LECTURER IN CLASSICS, SENIOR LECTURER IN CLASSICS, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER)
    This is a book about Greek culture. It explains why Greek comedy picked out food in particular as a cultural marker. Hundreds of comic fragments are quoted in translation. The development of comedy is explored together with comic creativity as poets sough
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    444,21 €
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    Hygienic Apparatus(2022) DOBRYDEN, PAUL
    Traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic. Framing hygiene within the project of national reconstruction, the book explores cinema's material contexts alongside its representatio
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    232,12 €
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    Mary Shelley(2022) GORDON, CHARLOTTE (DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT ENDICOTT COLLEGE)
    Famous for her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley was also infamous in her own time for breaking social and literary conventions, and taking a political and philosophical stance advocating for the rights of women. Charlotte Gordon explores the context and k
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    12,50 €
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    Rhetoric of the Page(2020) MAGUIRE, LAURIE (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND TUTORIAL FELLOW, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND TUTORIAL FELLOW, MAGDALEN COLLEGE)
    A readable account of the book as an object: a history of the page as well as a history of the book. Drawing an arc from the medieval scriptorium to googlebooks, this volume shows the creative and playful opportunities blank spaces on the page afforded re
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    74,40 €
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    Literature of Food(2020) HUMBLE, NICOLA (UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON, UK)
    Covering every aspect of food within literary texts, from experimental cook books to the sumptuous dinner parties at the heart of every Victorian Novel, The Literature of Food is the first comprehensive study of its kind and a must-buy for students on lit
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    48,22 €
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    Whitman in Washington(2020) PRICE, PROF KENNETH M. (HILLEGASS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, HILLEGASS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN)
    This book analyses Whitman's integrated life, writings, and government work in his urban context to reevaluate the writer and the nation's capital in a time of transformation.
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    31,51 €
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    Teenage Writings(2017) AUSTEN, JANE
    The young Jane Austen was a precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature, both of which she soon began to imitate and parody. Three volumes of her vivacious teenage writing survive. Devices and themes which appear subtly in her later f
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    13,88 €
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    Hippocrates, Volume I(2022) HIPPOCRATES
    Volume I of the Loeb Hippocrates presents an exemplary selection of works by or attributed to the “Father of Medicine” that illustrate his fundamental contributions to the theory, philosophy, and practice of medicine. Included are Ancient Medicine; Airs,
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    42,98 €
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    Rise of the Arabic Book(2020) GRUENDLER, BEATRICE
    The history of the book has overwhelmingly focused on Europe. But during the Middle Ages, a crucial period of its development, the book was far more popular among speakers of Arabic. Beatrice Gruendler corrects this scholarly oversight, exploring the mate
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    63,66 €
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    Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity(2022) DERBEW, SARAH F. (HARVARD UNIVERSITY, MASSACHUSETTS)
    Sarah Derbew brings into brilliant new focus varied portrayals of blackness in ancient Greek literature and art, while critiquing modern classical misappropriations which retroactively project contemporary theories of race and skin color onto archaic sett
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    55,11 €
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    Writing in Red(2017) GOLDSTEIN, THOMAS W. (AUTHOR)
    This book explores how the East German Writers Union became a site for the contestation of writers' roles in GDR society with consequences well beyond the literary community.
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    158,98 €

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