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Romanticism, Realism and the Lines of MimesisSince Plato's Republic, mimesis -- the artwork's tacit claim to reflect or imitate real life -- has faced a near-constant stream of assaults, being accused of naturalising a supposedly uncomplicated relationship between world and fiction. Lines of Mimesis offers a revisionary account of mimesis....
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The Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran, 1639-1682: Diplomacy and Borderlands in the Early Modern Middle EastOttoman-Safavid relations after 1639 have been dismissed as marginal and assumed not to have produced sufficient documentation to facilitate a study, wherefore the subject matter has lacked even an introduction providing basic facts, let alone a comprehensive treatment. This book establishes for the first...
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Wollstonecraft and ReligionThis book offers fresh perspectives about the religious convictions and faith of "the Mother of Feminism," many of which have been ignored, misunderstood or misrepresented in Wollstonecraftian scholarship.Author: Brenda AyresPublisher: Anthem PressPublished: 01/16/2024Pages: 380Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781839990182
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Claiming Wagner for France: Music and Politics in the Parisian Press, 1933-1944A pathbreaking study of the Parisian press's attempts to claim Richard Wagner's place in French history and imagination during the unstable and conflict-ridden years of the Third Reich. Richard Wagner was a polarizing figure in France from the time that he first entered French...
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The Other Abyssinians: The Northern Oromo and the Creation of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1913Reframes the story of modern Ethiopia around the contributions of the Oromo people and the culturally fluid union of communities that shaped the nation's politics and society. Although the Oromo are the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, their history has been distorted in order...
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A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of EnlightenmentThis volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlightenment. It argues that comedy in this period is characterized by wit, satire, and humor, provoking both laughter and sympathetic tears. Comic...
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A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of EmpireDrawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theater studies, this volume provides a thorough and varied overview of the many forms comedy took in the 19th century. Given the earth-shattering cultural changes and political...
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A Cultural History of the Home in the Age of EmpireAuthor: Jane HamlettPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPublished: 09/08/2022Pages: 272Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781472584298This title is only available via back order
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A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern AgeAuthor: Despina StratigakosPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPublished: 09/08/2022Pages: 264Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781472584304This title is only available via back order
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A Cultural History of Comedy in the Modern AgeDrawing together contributions by scholars from a variety of fields, including theater, film and television, sociology, and visual culture, this volume explores the range and diversity of comedic performance and comic forms in the modern age. It covers a range of forms and examples...
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New Microhistorical Approaches to an Integrated History of the HolocaustIn 1997, Saul Friedländer emphasized the need for an integrated history of the Holocaust. His suggestion to connect 'the policies of the perpetrators, the attitudes of surrounding society, and the world of the victims' provides the inspiration for this volume. Following in these footsteps,...
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Sacrament an Alter / The Sacrament of the Altar: A Critical Edition with Translation'Sacrament an Alter' (The Sacrament of the Altar) is a Cornish patristic catena selected and translated from Foxe's Book of Martyrs, which is attached to the translation of Bishop Bonner's Homilies in the Tregear Manuscript (BL Add. MS 46397). No complete critical edition of...
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Uncoupling Language and Religion: An Exploration Into the Margins of Turkish LiteratureThis book is an invitation to rethink our understanding of Turkish literature as a tale of two "others." The first part of the book examines the contributions of non-Muslim authors, the "others" of modern Turkey, to the development of Turkish literature during the late...
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Genet's Genres of PoliticsIn this book, Mairéad Hanrahan examines the shifts in political focus in Genet's writing, from the intimate fantasies of the early novels to the struggle for emancipation of the Palestinians in the posthumously published Un Captif amoureux. She argues that his texts have always...
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After Clarice: Reading Lispector's Legacy in the Twenty-First CenturyForty years after her death, Clarice Lispector's startling oeuvre continues to fascinate readers and scholars. Internationally acclaimed writers, from Hélène Cixous to Colm Tóibín, have acknowledged the transformative influence of her writing on their own work. Translations of her novels and short stories appear...
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SPQR in the USSR: Elena Shvarts's Classical AntiquitySince her rise to notoriety among the dissident artists of the 1970s Leningrad underground, Elena Shvarts (1948-2010) has earned a place in the canon of great Russian poets for the originality, riotousness, beauty, and deceptive erudition of her poetry. Many of Shvarts's greatest poems...
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Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical RomanticKaroline von Günderrode's biography - and in particular her early death - have long overshadowed an appreciation of her literary works. Closer attention to her poems, prose writings and plays reveals Günderrode's remarkable engagement with the philosophical, literary, and scientific debates of her age....
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For the Love of ArtHow do we decide what to value as music, or as poetry, or as art? For at least a century, since we were first told that noise might be music, and since Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Kurt Schwitters, and Marcel Duchamp began to stick found...
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Words Like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti and PoundThe avant-garde in the early-twentieth century planted its flag on the ruins of the day's pieties, with religion a particularly urgent target. Movements such as Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism often represented religion in blasphemous, prurient, or sacrilegious ways: but the invocation of spirituality and...
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Psychoanalysis, Ideology and Commitment in Italy 1945-1975: Edoardo Sanguineti, Ottiero Ottieri, Andrea ZanzottoOver the post-war decades, Italy's 'extroverted' cultural identity was mostly oriented towards social and political questions: the inward turn of psychoanalysis was regarded with suspicion, as a fin-de-siècle cure for middle-class neuroses. The consulting room was, for militant intellectuals, antithetic to class-consciousness and the...
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