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Oedipus the King is the best-known play we have from the pen of Sophocles and was recognized as a masterpiece in Aristotle's Poetics, which cites the play more often than any other as an example of how to write tragedy.
The principal character is the king of a city...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-03-31
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When Sarah Hanson-Young called out the abuse she received from male parliamentarians as slut-shaming, she sparked a national conversation about the rampant sexism in politics. Placing the responsibility on women to defend themselves is the same cheap trick as asking,...
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Hachette Australia
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2020-03-31
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On Series
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"When women share the truth about life and loss . . . hope is restored" in this enlightening and comforting memoir about purpose, personal growth, and nature's ability to heal (Sarah Ban Breathnach)."There is so much life in the garden. That is why I come. Life that is...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020-03-24
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Nel tempo in cui viviamo, le diverse soggettività sessuali o di genere, i vissuti della propria e altrui "diversità", anche da parte di chi si colloca nella cosiddetta "normalità", modificano i contesti e creano nuovi modelli affettivi e comunitari, alternativi a quelli...
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Rosenberg & Sellier
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2020-03-16
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Questioni di genere
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Il concetto di omofobia emerge all’inizio degli anni Settanta del secolo scorso e rapidamente si impone come strumento scientifico per interrogare ciò che prima della sua invenzione era ritenuto normale: l’avversione sociale verso persone gay e lesbiche. Altrettanto...
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Rosenberg & Sellier
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2020-03-16
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Questioni di genere
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-27
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-27
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For John Freeman - literary critic, essayist, editor, poet and 'one of the preeminent book people of our time' (Dave Eggers) - it is a rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action was the only...
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Corsair
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2020-01-16
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In questo libro, colleghi e amici di Remo Bodei ne ripercorrono l’opera filosofica restituendo un quadro articolato e affascinante che si presenta come una vera e propria introduzione al suo pensiero. Nei suoi numerosi libri, Remo Bodei non separa mai la dimensione...
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Rosenberg & Sellier
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2019-12-20
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Phy´sis. Collana di filosofia
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From a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of everyday life. When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2019-12-03
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No British periodical or weekly magazine has a richer and more distinguished archive than The New Statesman, which has long been at the centre of British political and cultural life. Some astonishing things were first published in its pages: great poems such as W.B....
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2019-11-28
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2019 RUNNER-UP OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE‘Where are you going?The voice came again, and two figures appeared … It was clear that these men were not working for the government. They wore green uniforms, with the small red logo of the Ta’ang National...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-11-14
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2019 WINNER OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE'Surkh gulaaban day mausam vich,Phulaan de rang kaalay.(In the season of red roses,These flowers are turning black.)'Your Tongue Is Still Yours is a poetic meditation on language, regional cultures and how...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-11-14
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2019 RUNNER-UP OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE‘In the Andean cultural context, the mouth of the mine is a portal between worlds. Outside, the miners are Catholic. Inside, the human soul has escaped the jurisdiction of God.’In this searing investigation,...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-11-14
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In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his friends, it rapidly turned into a huge word-of-mouth success. And...
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John Murray
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2019-11-14
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'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts...
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Penguin
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2019-11-07
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The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and disdaining, passionate and minutely considered' John BanvilleJames Wood is...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-11-07
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From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of Can't and Won't and The End of the Story - a crystalline collection of literary essays for fans of Susan Sontag and Joan Didion'She's a joy. There's no writer quite like her' Ali Smith 'Among my most favourite...
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Penguin
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2019-11-07
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'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.'
For over two centuries after Boccaccio's groundbreaking Decameron, the Italian novella exercised a crucial influence over European prose fiction. With thirty-nine stories...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-10-29
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