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Animal-Human Relationships in Medieval Iceland(2022) EVANS TANG, HARRIET JEAN (AUTHOR)A multi-disciplinary investigation of the links between people and animals, in reality and representation.Vezava: Trda163,65 € -
Tree(2016) FOWLES, JOHNAs lyrical and precise as Fowles' novels, The Tree is a provocative meditation on the connection between the natural world and human creativity, and also a rejection of the idea that nature should be tamed for human purpose.Vezava: Trda21,03 € -
Analysis of Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto(2018) POHL, REBECCAHaraway’s ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of the cyborg to champion a socialist, postmodern, anVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Beyond the Northlands - Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas(2018) ELEANOR ROSAMUND BARRACLOUGHVezava: Mehka24,52 € -
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: Mehka15,41 € -
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 modernisVezava: Mehka60,83 € -
My Judy Garland Life(2019) BOYT, SUSIEAn 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.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
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: Mehka36,10 € -
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.Vezava: Trda26,57 € -
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: Trda152,40 € -
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 toVezava: Trda176,72 € -
Man of the Crowd(2020) PEEPLES, SCOTTHow 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 maVezava: Trda35,55 € -
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: Trda481,33 € -
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: Trda181,59 € -
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 €
