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Довлатов - добрый мой приnЭто одна из самых честных книг о большом русском писателе Сергее Довлатове, родившемся в 1941 году в Уфе и скончавшемся в 1990 году в Нью-Йорке. Его подруга и биограф Людмила Штерн рассказывает о комических и трагических эпизодах жизни своего героя, о литераторах, ставших символами...
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Tolkien's Hidden Pictures: Anthroposophy and the Enchantment in Middle-earth"Despite the plethora of scholarship and commentary on Tolkien's fiction, I make the case that our felt experience of The Lord of the Rings has yet to be coherently understood and that such coherence is achieved through an exploration of the story's 'hidden pictures.'...
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The Turn of Rhythm: How Victorian Poetry Shaped a New ConceptIncredibly, until the cusp of the nineteenth century, the word rhythm was not widely used. It likewise had no cultural connotations. This book traces the complex and overlooked way in which anglophone culture "got rhythm," concentrating on the pivotal role that poetry played in...
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Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth CenturyMotherhood inherently involves labor. The seemingly perennial notion that paid work outside the home and motherhood are incompatible, however, grows out of specific cultural conditions established in Britain and her colonies during the long eighteenth century. With Laboring Mothers, Ellen Malenas Ledoux synthesizes and...
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Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish AmericaDrawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation shows the importance of textual, religious, and bureaucratic ties to struggles over colonial governance and identities.Goldmark analyzes these ties as forms of kinship forged outside...
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Diary of a Black Male MisunderstoodGrowing up in the South can expose you to various concepts and situational experiences. Being a black man in the South is all the more experiential. Nicolas Johnson shares his experiences openly, from extended family relationships and having deeply defining public school experiences in...
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Bram Stoker: Dracula MapBram Stoker's classic novel published in 1897 spans many locations across Europe. Both in Transylvania, where Count Dracula's castle is situated, and in England, where a significant part of the story unfolds. This illustrated map showcases most of the locations and routes described in...
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የሴራ እርካብ፤ የደም መንበርThe writer's name: Yayesew Shimelis -ያየሰው ሽመልስThe compelling book, "የሴራ እርካብ፤ የደም መንበር", penned by Yayesew Shimelis, an intrepid journalist and the proprietor of Ethioforum, the prominent Amharic media outlet, offers an incisive exploration of the turbulent landscape of Ethiopian politics. Yayesew, a young...
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Woden: A Historical CompanionAll-father, warlord, runemaster, kingmaker, healer-manifold aspects, numerous stories. This book brings together the written and physical evidence for the god called Woden or Óðinn (Odin) in his many guises spanning more than a thousand years. Drawing on the latest interpretations of literary evidence and...
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What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last AnimalsLife on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction? examines several key moments that have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two...
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We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to TrumpWhen Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that Douglas Dowland asks in We, Us, and Them. In search of answers, he turns to narratives of American nationhood written since the Vietnam War--stories in which the...
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We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to TrumpWhen Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that Douglas Dowland asks in We, Us, and Them. In search of answers, he turns to narratives of American nationhood written since the Vietnam War--stories in which the...
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Vulnus Amoris: The Transformations of "Love's Wound" in Medieval Romance LiteraturesThe concept of love's wound has haunted European culture for centuries. This book investigates this fundamental concept in Medieval French, Occitan, and Italian literature - with the purpose of tracing its transformation through a selection of medieval literary masterpieces, sacred and profane. The imagery...
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Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in PalestineExamines how young Jewish Americans' fundamentally Jewish values have led them to organize in solidarity with Palestinians Unsettled digs into the experiences of young Jewish Americans who engage with the Palestine solidarity movement and challenge the staunch pro-Israel stance of mainstream Jewish American institutions....
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The Reputation of the Roman MerchantRoman merchants, artisans, and service providers faced substantial prejudice. Contemporary authors labeled them greedy, while the Roman on the street accused merchants of lying and cheating. Legally and socially, merchants were kept at arm's length from respectable society. Yet merchants were common figures in...
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The Poets: Geoffrey Chaucer to Alfred Tennyson, 1340-1892This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language EditionThis book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda. Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly...
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The Permeable Self: Five Medieval RelationshipsHow, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one another to mystics exchanging hearts with Jesus? What special traits gave both saints and demoniacs their ability to...
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The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-Earth for DummiesJ.R.R. Tolkien's novels of Middle-earth--The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Silmarillian--have become some of the most famous, and most beloved, literary works of the twentieth century. And the Lord of the Rings films by director Peter Jackson have reignited interest...
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The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain"The Op-Ed Novel not only elegantly recounts a vital intellectual and cultural history of post-Franco Spain. Carefully exploring the careers of Spain's most eminent writers, it demonstrates, too, the osmotic links between political journalism and literary fiction--salutary reading in the English-speaking countries, where politics...
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