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The Real Middle Earth: Exploring the Magic and Mystery of the Middle Ages, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Lord of the RingsJ.R.R. Tolkien claimed that he based the land of Middle Earth on a real place. The Real Middle Earth brings alive, for the first time, the very real civilization in which those who lived had a vision of life animated by beings beyond the...
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Ecology and Modern Scottish LiteratureAuthor: Louisa GairnPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 11/18/2022Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44dISBN: 9781399507981Audience: Young Adult
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Islam and New Directions in World LiteratureSince its advent, Islam has been a representational force to be reckoned with, cross-pollinating world literatures in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean and the Americas. Yet, scholarship on Islam in world literatures has been sparse despite its significant presence. This book understands Islamic...
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Platonische AufsätzeDer Band enthält eine Auswahl von Aufsätzen zu Platon von seinen sokratischen Anfängen bis zu seiner Nachwirkung bei Donald Davidson und Hans Georg Gadamer. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf der Problematik der Idee des Guten und der Frage ihrer Transzendenz und Immanenz.Author: Rafael FerberPublisher:...
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Nólë Hyarmenillo: An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on TolkienThe present collection, Nólë Hyarmenillo ('Lore from the South' in Quenya), features essays written by Spanish and Portuguese scholars on diverse topics related to Tolkien and his legendarium, ranging from an analysis of film posters and adaptations, to studies of comparative literature, ecocritical analysis...
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The American Western in Canadian LiteratureThe Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the...
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Interwar Itineraries: Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel WritingHow people traveled, and how people wrote about travel, changed in the interwar years. Novel technologies eased travel conditions, breeding new iterations of the colonizing gaze. The sense that another war was coming lent urgency and anxiety to the search for new places and...
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Second Star: And Other Reasons for LingeringA #1 bestseller in France, Second Star is an inspiring series of lyrical meditations on life's smallest moments, from peeling a clementine, drinking a cold mojito, to washing your windows A still life in motion, Second Star "consumes the present" with a patient curiosity,...
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Katharina von AlexandrienKatharina von Alexandrien zählt zu den meistverehrten weiblichen Heiligen. Ihre Legende erfuhr im Hoch- und Spätmittelalter in zahlreichen lateinischen wie volkssprachigen Vers- und Prosaredaktionen, daneben in Mirakeln, Hymnen, Gebeten, Offizien, Predigten und Spielen weite Verbreitung. Die hier erstmals edierte, bisher nahezu unbeachtet gebliebene mittelhochdeutsche...
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Judeo-Persian Writings: A Manifestation of Intellectual and Literary LifeIntroducing Judeo-Persian writings, this original collection gives parallel samples in Judeo-Persian and Perso-Arabic script and translations in English. Judeo-Persian writings not only reflect the twenty-seven centuries of Jewish life in Iran, but they are also a testament to their intellectual, cultural, and socioeconomic conditions....
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Wilhelm Von Humboldt and Transcultural Communication in a Multicultural World: Translating HumanityShows that the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) forms a philosophy of dialogue and communication that is crucially relevant to contemporary debates in the Humanities. Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) is the progenitor of modern linguistics and the originator of the modern teaching and...
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MetropolisThis city of the future encompasses two worlds: that of the hedonistic ruling class and that of a segregated subculture, toilers in a mechanized underworld who labor to provide the rich with their pleasures. When a charismatic leader arises, she seeks a savior to...
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El Fantasma de Canterville Y Otros Cuentos TDHistorias de siempre para intrépidos de todas las edadesUna selección de cuentos de Oscar Wilde que contiene algunos tan imprescindibles como El fantasma de Canterville o El príncipe felizAuthor: Wilde WildePublisher: Planeta PublishingPublished: 06/28/2022Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 5.50h x 7.10w x 1.10dISBN: 9786070784804Language:...
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Astrology And ReincarnationA description of Karma as experienced by each individual astrological sign; includes Vedic and Tibetan methods for evaluating past and future lives from the birth chart. Astrology is another disputed subject which is gaining widespread public support. With computerization available, almost every aspect of...
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'Gypsies' in Nineteenth-Century Children's Books: A Comparative Study of Four National Literary TraditionsThis book is about the origin and development of the presentation of gypsies as narrative device in West-European children's literature.Author: Jean KommersPublisher: BrillPublished: 09/01/2022Pages: 368Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9789004522800This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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Latin American Literatures in Global Markets: The World InsideCutting-edge critical and theoretical studies of the impact of globalization on Latin American literary production, by first-rate interdisciplinary scholars working in Europe, Latin America and the United States.Author: Mabel MorañaPublisher: BrillPublished: 11/10/2022Pages: 336Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9789004523487This title is not returnableThis title is only available...
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RomboSeven survivors of the 1976 Friuli earthquake in northeastern Italy, which left hundreds dead and thousands unhoused, speak of their lives after the catastrophe in this poignant, propulsive work of fiction by a noted poet, translator, and novelist. Il rombo is an Italian term...
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Tokio, Estación de UenoAuthor: Yu MiriPublisher: BatiscafoPublished: 11/22/2022Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.12w x 0.55dISBN: 9788418668142Language: Spanish
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Museo de la Rendición Incondicional, ElAuthor: Dubravka UgresicPublisher: BatiscafoPublished: 11/22/2022Pages: 464Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 7.50h x 5.50w x 1.40dISBN: 9788418668401Language: Spanish
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La Abadía de NorthangerNorthanger Abbey is Jane Austen's freest and most unorthodox work. Although it was her first work, fate and a negligent editor made it appear as though it was published posthumously. This is relevant, because in a way Northanger Abbey is the Quixote of ghost...
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