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Aphra Behn: A Secret Life(2017) TODD, JANETAn exploration of the life, work, and historical background of Aphra Behn: seventeenth-century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual and spy.Vezava: Mehka23,15 € -
The Ministry of Truth - A Biography of George Orwell's 1984(2019) DORIAN LYNSKEYVezava: Trda23,82 € -
God's Exiles and English Verse(2022) NILES, JOHN D.This is the first integrative, historically grounded book to be written about the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. By approaching the Exeter codex as a whole, the book seeks to establish a sound footing for the understanding of any and all of its parts,Vezava: Mehka44,55 € -
Witnessing Torture(2018)This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chVezava: Mehka14,85 € -
Excavating the Future(2018) MALLEY, SHAWNA cultural study of an array of popular North American science fiction film and television texts, Excavating the Future explores the popular archaeological imagination and the political uses to which it is being employed by the U.S. state and its adversarVezava: Trda84,62 € -
William Blake Now(2019) HIGGS, JOHN'If a thing loves, it is infinite' William BlakeA short, impassioned argument for why the visionary artist William Blake is important in the twenty-first centuryVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
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Shakespeare's Storytelling(2021) EASTMAN, NATEShakespeare’s Storytelling: An Introduction to Genre, Character, and Technique is a textbook focused on specific storytelling techniques and genres that Shakespeare invented or refined.Vezava: Mehka42,76 € -
Inventing Afterlives(2018) JANES, REGINA M.Regina M. Janes proposes a new theory of the origins of the hereafter. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions and contemporary literature and film as well as cognitive science and evolutionary psychology, Inventing Afterlives shows that in asking whVezava: Mehka51,70 € -
Against a Sharp White Background(2019)Covers elements of production, circulation, and reception of African American writing across a range of genres and contexts. This collection challenges mainstream book history and print culture to understand that race and racialization are inseparable froVezava: Trda112,00 € -
Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia(2018) WELLENDORF, JONAS (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY)The first monograph in English on the medieval Scandinavian reception and re-interpretation of pre-Christian Scandinavian religion. Contextualizes the canonical Prose Edda by drawing on a range of less well known texts. Translations are provided of all quVezava: Trda152,40 € -
Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature(2018) DUMITRESCU, IRINA (RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN)This engaging study explores how early medieval writers reflected on the nature of education and the acquisition of wisdom. By studying representations of teaching and learning in five early English texts, Irina Dumitrescu sheds light on the underappreciaVezava: Trda152,40 € -
Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction(2021) VINT, SHERRYL (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE)This book demonstrates how developments in biotechnology such as cloning, synthetic biology, surrogate pregnancies, organ transplants and more have significant implications for personhood, ethics, and governance. Drawing attention to the commodification oVezava: Trda68,43 €
