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'I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand.'
Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789, Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative gives the author's account of his...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-04
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The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives: Oral Traditions from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia investigates both the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from neglected comparative perspectives, offering a revealing exploration of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-08
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Within the newly thriving field of ancient Greek and Roman performance and dance studies, The Anatomy of Dance Discourse offers a fresh and original perspective on ancient perceptions of dance. Focusing on the second century CE, it provides an overview of the dance...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-08
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In the eyes of posterity, ancient Rome is deeply flawed. The list of censures is long and varied, from political corruption and the practice of slavery, to religious intolerance and sexual immorality, yet for centuries the Romans' "errors" have not only provoked...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-08
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Within the newly thriving field of ancient Greek and Roman performance and dance studies, The Anatomy of Dance Discourse offers a fresh and original perspective on ancient perceptions of dance. Focusing on the second century CE, it provides an overview of the dance...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-12-01
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The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives: Oral Traditions from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia investigates both the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from neglected comparative perspectives, offering a revealing exploration of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-12-01
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In the eyes of posterity, ancient Rome is deeply flawed. The list of censures is long and varied, from political corruption and the practice of slavery, to religious intolerance and sexual immorality, yet for centuries the Romans' "errors" have not only provoked...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-12-01
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La tela di fondo su cui si rappresenta la gamma dei sentimenti sembra mostrare che i territori dell’arte e quelli della letteratura implichino uno spazio di energie in continua tensione, sottoposto ad una trasformazione imprevedibile e ad un continuo scontro tra...
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Quodlibet
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2017-11-21
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Quodlibet Studio. Lettere. Ultracontemporanea
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Un “fantasma” sembra aggirarsi nella letteratura francese a partire dagli anni Cinquanta del Novecento e pare destinato a rimanere tale per mezzo secolo, con una latente e, poi, dagli anni Ottanta, con una più riconoscibile capacità di produrre nuove forme o nuovi...
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Quodlibet
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2017-11-21
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Quodlibet Studio. Lettere. Ultracontemporanea
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La letteratura – come del resto tutte le forme artistiche – è capace di far emergere aspetti oscuri dell’esperienza umana, trasformandoli spesso in risorse vitali. Così è anche per la solitudine, condizione particolare attraversata da ogni individuo: le solitudini sono...
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Quodlibet
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2017-11-21
Collection :
Quodlibet Studio. Lettere. Ultracontemporanea
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This is not a book about politics. It is a book about what makes us British, and what makes us European.Spend time with some of your favourite writers and artists in this truly unique collection spanning everything from art, language, food, music and movies, to war,...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2017-11-16
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'Swann's love . . . could not have been torn out of him without destroying him almost entirely'
Swann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-16
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'Swann's love . . . could not have been torn out of him without destroying him almost entirely'
Swann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-16
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A thought-provoking collection of personal essays about home What makes a home? What do equality, safety, and politics have to do with it? And why is it so important to us to feel like we belong? In this collection, 30 women writers explore the theme in personal essays...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2017-11-14
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This volume investigates the history and nature of pain in Greek culture under the Roman Empire (50-250 CE). Traditional accounts of pain in this society have focused either on philosophical or medical theories of pain or on Christian notions of 'suffering'; fascination...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-10
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This volume investigates the history and nature of pain in Greek culture under the Roman Empire (50-250 CE). Traditional accounts of pain in this society have focused either on philosophical or medical theories of pain or on Christian notions of 'suffering'; fascination...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-03
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This volume presents eighteen papers by leading Roman historians and archaeologists discussing trade in the Roman Empire during the period c.100 BC to AD 350. It focuses especially on the role of the Roman state in shaping the institutional framework for trade within...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-11-03
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From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and love letters addressed directly to Knausgaard’s unborn daughterIn Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as the birth of his daughter draws near. In...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-11-02
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A new and exhilarating collection of writings from the author of The Infatuations andA Heart So WhiteInternationally renowned writer Javier Marias is a tireless examiner of the world around us, an enthusiastic debunker of pretensions of every kind, and a true polymath....
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Penguin
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2017-11-02
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An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This literature constitutes...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-01
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