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Distraction is now too easily and often considered a metonym for modern consciousness, but it was also a medieval concern, which posed a particular threat to religious life.Distraction opened the door to all other temptations, and—most disturbingly of all for the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-12
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Susan Sontag (1933-2004) once declared: "My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything'. Being interested in 'everything' had come naturally to me." This statement was made thirty years after the publication of Against Interpretation in 1966, towards the end of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-08
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Susan Sontag (1933-2004) once declared: "My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything'. Being interested in 'everything' had come naturally to me." This statement was made thirty years after the publication of Against Interpretation in 1966, towards the end of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-08
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Reading Quintiliantakes Quintilian's Institutio oratoriaas a coherent literary work: one worth reading in full. This book examines how didactic authority is created and how readers are guided through the Institutiothanks to an overarching framework that holds it...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-05
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Reading Quintiliantakes Quintilian's Institutio oratoriaas a coherent literary work: one worth reading in full. This book examines how didactic authority is created and how readers are guided through the Institutiothanks to an overarching framework that holds it...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-30
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Eine spannende Zeitreise rund um den Planeten Was hat der Siebenjährige Krieg mit der Unabhängigkeit der USA zu tun, und warum studierten die Japaner einst »Hollandkunde«? Was passierte in der Schlacht von Gallipoli, die für die Australier die Schrecken des Ersten...
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Wiley-VCH
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2025-01-23
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François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais' Gargantua and, mostly,in his Quart livre. It unsettles established dichotomies in...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-12-18
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François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais' Gargantua and, mostly,in his Quart livre. It unsettles established dichotomies in...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-12-16
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Liber amicorum H. R. Woudhuysen: a Bibliographical Tribute is a Festschrift for Henry Woudhuysen, one of the most senior and influential early modernists, book historians, and scholarly editors of his day, who retires as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 2024. It...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-16
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Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literature, and its overlap with contemporary formations of collective...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-06
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In early Greek and Near Eastern myth and religion, the gods govern the cosmos.In narrative poetry, they are frequently portrayed through scenes of divine assembly. Did Homer and early Greek poets inherit this feature from their more ancient neighbours? And what can...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-05
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In early Greek and Near Eastern myth and religion, the gods govern the cosmos.In narrative poetry, they are frequently portrayed through scenes of divine assembly. Did Homer and early Greek poets inherit this feature from their more ancient neighbours? And what can...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-05
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Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literature, and its overlap with contemporary formations of collective...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-31
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The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative contributions by many of the top international experts on ancient...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-10
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The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative contributions by many of the top international experts on ancient...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-10
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Liber amicorum H. R. Woudhuysen: a Bibliographical Tribute is a Festschrift for Henry Woudhuysen, one of the most senior and influential early modernists, book historians, and scholarly editors of his day, who retires as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 2024. It...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-09
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The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad, its authenticity having been doubted since antiquity. Modern scholars are divided between those who regard it as a major interpolation by a later poet who was trained in the technique of epic composition and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-03
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The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad, its authenticity having been doubted since antiquity. Modern scholars are divided between those who regard it as a major interpolation by a later poet who was trained in the technique of epic composition and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-03
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A systematic etymological approach to understanding the Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes of "med-speak" Greek and Latin Roots of Medical and Scientific Terminologies explains the Greek and Latin origins of the roots, prefixes, and suffixes of terms used in...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2024-08-19
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The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature explores the literary inheritance of criminal procedure in thirteenth to fifteenth century English law, focusing on felony, the gravest common law offense. Most scholarship in medieval law and literature has...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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