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Feminism, masculinity and fairy tale figure within an extended analysis of Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991), in light of the live-action remake, Beauty and the Beast (2017). The history of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast is compared with Disney's adaptation...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-11
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Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881–1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-26
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On Human Bondage—a critical reexamination of Orlando Patterson’s groundbreaking Slavery and Social Death—assesses how his theories have stood the test of time and applies them to new case studies. Discusses the novel ideas of social death and natal alienation, as...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-12-22
Collection :
Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. Hrafnkel tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a vengeance, so to...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-22
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A COMPANION TO EURIPIDESA COMPANION TO EURIPIDES Euripides has enjoyed a resurgence of interest as a result of many recent important publications, attesting to the poet’s enduring relevance to the modern world.A Companion to Euripides is the product of this contemporary...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2016-12-14
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Die interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Studie stützt sich auf die Untersuchung eines umfangreichen Korpus phantastischer Kinder- und Jugendliteratur der Gegenwart. Ausgewählt wurden hierbei Romane und Filme, die Strukturelemente und Motive aus der antiken Mythologie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-05
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The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture.The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not in the distant...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-18
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Anyone who reads the Gospels carefully will notice that there are differences in the manner in which they report the same events. These differences have led many conservative Christians to resort to harmonization efforts that are often quite strained, sometimes to the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-17
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Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By the 6th century...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-14
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When we encounter a text, whether ancient or modern, we typically start at the beginning and work our way toward the end. In Tracking the Master Scribe, Sara J. Milstein demonstrates that for biblical and Mesopotamian literature, this habit can lead to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-09
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Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By the 6th century...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-08
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This comprehensive study of families in the Mediterranean world spans the Bronze Age through Late Antiquity, and looks at families and households in various ancient societies inhabiting the regions around the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to break down artificial...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-08-23
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A Companion to Greek Architecture provides an expansive overview of the topic, including design, engineering, and construction as well as theory, reception, and lasting impact. Covers both sacred and secular structures and complexes, with particular attention to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-06-13
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Was wäre geschehen, wenn…? Diese Frage wird an zentralen Ereignissen und großen Persönlichkeiten der griechischen und römischen Geschichte bearbeitet, wobei die Einbindung in den jeweils kulturellen Kontext Beachtung findet. Ziel des Buches ist es, Gedankenspiele...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-03
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Der Autor thematisiert die Funktion der Tropologie in Origenes’ Hermeneutik und Exegese. Er behandelt dessen Tropus-Begriff, Methodologie und Zeichentheorie. In diesem Kontext klärt er die Methode des Alexandriners, biblische Ausdrücke nach dem heuristischen Prinzip der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-13
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The Adventure of the Human Intellect presents the latest scholarship on the beginnings of intellectual history on a broad scope, encompassing ten eminent ancient or early civilizations from both the Old and New Worlds. Borrows themes fromThe Intellectual Adventure of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-04-27
Collection :
Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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This book offers the first presentation of Hellenistic and Roman period ceramic assemblages from the city of Hierapytna, located on the southeast coast of Crete. Recovered from three rescue excavations in the heart of the ancient city, this pottery records a diachronic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-19
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Das Spektrum des Argumentierens über die Begründung und Rechtfertigung des Krieges in der attischen Rhetorik des 4. Jh. v. Chr. gestaltete sich breiter und komplexer als bisher angenommen. Der Autor analysiert einschlägige historische Reden und publizistische...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-08
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Greek Sculpture presents a chronological overview of the plastic and glyptic art forms in the ancientGreek world from the emergence of life-sized marble statuary at the end of the seventh century BC to the appropriation ofGreek sculptural traditions by Rome in the first...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-03-16
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A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day. Represents the first volume to offer a complete...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-02-29
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception
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