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“Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times.” —Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance Sixty-five extraordinary writers grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral...
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Algonquin Books
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2022-03-22
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An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Irish."Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to...
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Teach Yourself
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2022-03-17
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Readers
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"What this charming, moving and fascinating collection proves is that the [letter] form itself - a scribbled note, a declaration of love, an outpouring of passion, a bitter word - has always been with us." - Mark GatissA good love letter can speak across centuries, and...
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Ilex Press
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2022-01-27
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'A dazzling and joyous celebration' i-D'Dazzling . . . East Side Voices is a thoughtful, painful reminder of the grand narratives that get buried under belittling stereotypes' Bidisha, ObserverIn this bold, first-of-its kind collection, East Side Voices invites us to...
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Sceptre
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2022-01-20
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This book is a collection of great essays which discuss four brilliant and impressive investigators and detectives in literary masterpieces by Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy Bowers. The focus of this book is on Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Jane...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-01-18
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Education and learning have traditionally been areas in which the national specificity has been promoted and asserted in Scotland and apparently with good reason since for several centuries the Scottish population could claim to be the most thoroughly educated in the...
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Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté
Parution :
2022-01-02
Collection :
Annales littéraires
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“New Readings in British Drama: From the Post-War Period to the ContemporaryEra” oers new readings of British plays produced after the Second WorldWar by underlining the fact that literary theories have never been stagnant andexhausted in the eld of drama as part of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-12-22
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Nonostante la leggenda nera di Pietro Aretino pornografo, ateo e flagello dei principi abbia acquisito sin dalla prima modernità la rilevanza di un mito di dimensioni sovranazionali, la ricezione fuori d’Italia di uno tra gli autori più controversi della letteratura...
Editeur :
Librairie Droz
Parution :
2021-12-10
Collection :
Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance
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This volume celebrates the remarkable career of Dr. Preston King, an African American political philosopher with an international reputation. King’s first degree was from Fisk University (1956). He moved directly to the London School of Economics (LSE), completing his...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-11-30
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Ovid has long been celebrated for the versatility of his poetic imagination, the diversity of his generic experimentation throughout his long career, and his intimate engagement with the Greco-Roman literary tradition that precedes him; but what of his engagement with...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-05
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Political Conversations in Ciceronian Rome offers for the first time a perspective of Roman politics through the proxy of conversations and meetings. In Rome oral was the default mode of communication in politics: oratory before the people in assemblies, addresses and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-05
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Political Conversations in Ciceronian Rome offers for the first time a perspective of Roman politics through the proxy of conversations and meetings. In Rome oral was the default mode of communication in politics: oratory before the people in assemblies, addresses and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-05
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From the epic saga of the Buendía family in One Hundred Years of Solitude to the enduring passion of Love in the Time of Cholera to the exploration of tyranny in The Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez has built a literary world that continues to captivate...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-10-26
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British representations of Spain and Portugal have often relied on persistent ideological biases, prejudices, and interpretations. This volume aims to offer a broader, more nuanced outlook on the last five hundred years of Anglo-Iberian relations. The chapters focus on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-10-18
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Nature imitates art--not a paradox from Oscar Wilde's pen, but instead the bold formulation of the Latin poet Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE), marking a radical turning point in ancient aesthetics, founded on the principle of mimesis. For Ovid, art is independent of reality, not...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-05
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Nature imitates art--not a paradox from Oscar Wilde's pen, but instead the bold formulation of the Latin poet Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE), marking a radical turning point in ancient aesthetics, founded on the principle of mimesis. For Ovid, art is independent of reality, not...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-05
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This book explores the representations of disability, gender and old age in the novels of Samuel Beckett. His works go against the foundations of Western thought, which has been traditionally focused on success, clarity, learning and ability, while Beckett chose to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-09-29
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Reading is a peculiar kind of experience. Although its practice and theory have a very long tradition, the question of aesthetic pleasure is as perplexing as ever. Why do we read? What exactly thrills us in the text? One of the most prominent scholars having addressed...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-09-27
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Greek myth comes to us through many different channels. Our best source for the ways that local communities told and used these stories is a travel guide from the second century AD, the Periegesis of Pausanias. Pausanias gives us the clearest glimpse of ancientGreek...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-16
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Greek myth comes to us through many different channels. Our best source for the ways that local communities told and used these stories is a travel guide from the second century AD, the Periegesis of Pausanias. Pausanias gives us the clearest glimpse of ancientGreek...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-16
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