Zbirka: Literarne študije
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Beyond the Northlands - Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas(2018) ELEANOR ROSAMUND BARRACLOUGHVezava: Mehka25,22 € -
Reconstructing Contexts(1999) HUME, ROBERT (EVAN PUGH PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, EVAN PUGH PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)An attempt to justify and theorize old historicism, defining archaeo-historicism as reconstructing past contexts in order to interpret works and events of that time. The book identifies legitimate objects for reconstruction and proposes principles by whicVezava: Trda175,56 € -
Revelations of Divine Love(2017) NORWICH, JULIAN OFA classic of Christian spirituality and a famous meditation on the love of God and his presence in sufferingVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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 impuVezava: Mehka33,84 € -
Comedy and Religion in Classical Athens(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 upVezava: Trda160,51 € -
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 soughVezava: Trda405,33 € -
Hygienic Apparatus(2022) DOBRYDEN, PAULTraces 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 representatioVezava: Trda170,24 € -
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 kVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
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 litVezava: Mehka51,67 € -
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.Vezava: Trda66,51 € -
Teenage Writings(2017) AUSTEN, JANEThe 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 fVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Hippocrates, Volume I(2022) HIPPOCRATESVolume 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,Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Was the Cat in the Hat Black?(2019) NEL, PHILIP (UNIVERSITY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY)America is again in a period of civil rights activism, and one of the key places that racism continues to hide is books for young people. Was the Cat in the Hat Black? deftly diagnoses this systemic problem and offers concrete suggestions on how we may coVezava: Mehka36,10 € -
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 settVezava: Trda62,73 € -
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.Vezava: Trda134,77 € -
Rebel Angels(2021) FITZGERALD, JILL (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH)This book examines the ‘fall of the angels’ tradition in early medieval sermons, saints’ lives, legal documents and Old English biblical poetry. It argues that Anglo-Saxon authors adapted apocryphal and patristic accounts in ways that allowed them to exprVezava: Mehka53,46 € -
Superhero Culture Wars(2021) FLEGEL, DR MONICA (LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY, CANADA),LEGGATT, DR JUDITH (LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY, CANADA)Vezava: Mehka29,93 € -
Marie Duval(2020) GRENNAN, SIMON,SABIN, ROGER,WAITE, JULIANMarie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 1847–1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work byVezava: Trda77,52 €
