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Greek tragedy is one of the most important cultural legacies of the classical world, with a rich and varied history and reception, yet it appears to have its roots in a very particular place and time. The authors of the surviving works ofGreek tragic drama-Aeschylus,...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-16
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Greek tragedy is one of the most important cultural legacies of the classical world, with a rich and varied history and reception, yet it appears to have its roots in a very particular place and time. The authors of the surviving works ofGreek tragic drama-Aeschylus,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-16
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'My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.'
Émile Zola
The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Débâcle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-15
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'My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.'
Émile Zola
The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Débâcle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-15
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This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-15
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THE LETTERS FROMTHE SUITCASE by Rosheen and Cal Finnigan reveals the detailed and poignant wartime romance between David and Mary Francis. For readers of Sheila Hancock's MISS CARTER'S WAR or Helen Simonson's MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND 'I still have that recurring...
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Tinder Press
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2017-06-15
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'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2017-06-13
ePub
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Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-06-08
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'Which writer today is not a writer of the Holocaust?' asked the late Imre Kertész, Hungarian survivor and novelist, in his Nobel acceptance speech: 'one does not have to choose the Holocaust as one's subject to detect the broken voice that has dominated modern European...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-02
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Polybius boldly declared that 'now that all places have become accessible by land or sea, it is no longer appropriate to use poets and writers of myth as witnesses of the unknown' (4.40.2). And yet, in reality, the significance of myth did not diminish as the borders of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-02
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The colonnaded axes define the visitor's experience of many of the great cities of the Roman East. How did this extraordinarily bold tool of urban planning evolve?The street, instead of remaining a mundane passage, a convenient means of passing from one place to...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-02
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In the last twenty years, reception studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of the ways in which Classics has shaped modern Western culture, but very little attention has been directed toward the reception of classical architecture. Housing the New Romans:...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-01
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From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS - an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a bookEvery book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional resonance. It is a...
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Penguin
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2017-06-01
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How is it possible to belong to a territory when its boundaries are no longer exclusively physical?How can we define the centre, or allegiance to that centre, at the beginning of the third millennium, if that centre cannot hold? 2In an age when appeals are made both to...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires François-Rabelais
Parution :
2017-06-01
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GRAAT
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Individually, these articles approach narrative from various angles, focusing both on matters that have been debated since even before the advent of narratology and on questions that have been dealt with in only a limited way in the past; together, they show that...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires François-Rabelais
Parution :
2017-06-01
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GRAAT
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'Which writer today is not a writer of the Holocaust?' asked the late Imre Kertész, Hungarian survivor and novelist, in his Nobel acceptance speech: 'one does not have to choose the Holocaust as one's subject to detect the broken voice that has dominated modern European...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-05-26
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Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the 'new' nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that have followed. The first full-length study of affect in South Africa's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-05-26
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The colonnaded axes define the visitor's experience of many of the great cities of the Roman East. How did this extraordinarily bold tool of urban planning evolve?The street, instead of remaining a mundane passage, a convenient means of passing from one place to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-05-26
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After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality. This collection of essays, featuring twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments as well as law schools, showcases the vibrancy of recent...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-05-25
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