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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “fernando lozano”
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  • Game of Thrones - A View from the Humanities Vol. 2

    Heroes, Villains and Pulsions

    Edited by Alfonso Álvarez-Ossorio, Fernando Lozano, Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Cristina Rosillo-López ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on the characters that populate the Game of Thrones universe and on one of the most salient features of their interaction: violence and warfare. It analyses these questions from a multidisciplinary perspective that is chiefly based on Classical Studies. The book is divided into two sections. The first section explores Martin’s characters as the mainstay of both the novels and the ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Game of Thrones - A View from the Humanities Vol. 1

    Time, Space and Culture

    Edited by Alfonso Álvarez-Ossorio, Fernando Lozano, Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Cristina Rosillo-Lopez ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book reflects on time, space and culture in the Game of Thrones universe. It analyses both the novels and the TV series from a multidisciplinary perspective ultimately aimed at highlighting the complexity, eclecticism and diversity that characterises Martin’s world. The book is divided into three thematic sections. The first section focuses on space—both the urban and natural environment—and ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • The Practice of Research on Migration and Mobilities

    Edited by Liliana Rivera-Sánchez, Fernando Lozano-Ascencio ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The migration process is interpreted in a different way when researchers live in so-called societies of origin, than when it is interpreted from societies of destination—even when research work is multi-situated. The localization of researchers in this field involves numerous factors that influence the modalities for conducting research. Research agendas are clearly mediated by these localizations ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    by Ken Dowden ...
    Series series Approaching the Ancient World
    In an innovative sequence of topics, Ken Dowden explores the uses Greeks made of myth and the uses to which we can put myth in recovering the richness of their culture. Most aspects of Greek life and history - including war, religion and sexuality - which are discernable through myth, as well as most modern approaches, are given a context in a book which is designed to be useful, accessible and ... Read more

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  • Kinesis

    The Ancient Depiction of Gesture, Motion, and Emotion

    Edited by Christina Clark, Edith Foster, Judith P. Hallett ...
    Donald Lateiner, in his groundbreaking work The Sardonic Smile, presented the first thorough study of nonverbal behavior in Homeric epics, drawing a significant distinction between ancient and modern gesture and demonstrating the intrinsic relevance of this “silent language” to psychological, social, and anthropological studies of the ancient world.Using Lateiner’s work as a touchstone, the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Dynamic Epigraphy

    New Approaches to Inscriptions

    Edited by Eleri H. Cousins ...
    This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an attempt to 'shake up' how we deal with inscriptions. Broad themes include the embodied experience of epigraphy, the unique capacities of epigraphic language as a genre, the visuality of inscriptions and the interplay of inscriptions with literary texts. ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Heracles

    by Daniel Ogden ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Heracles is the quintessential ancient Greek hero. The rich and massive tradition associated with him encompasses myths of all kinds: quest myths, monster-fights, world-foundational myths, aetiological myths, philosophical myths, allegorical myths, and more. It informs and is informed by every genre and variety of Classical literature. The figure of Heracles opens windows onto numerous aspects of ... Read more

    $154.79 USD

  • Marvelous Possessions

    The Wonder of the New World

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "A marvelous book . . . a compelling and a powerful one. Nothing so original has ever been written on European responses to 'the wonder of the New World.'" —Anthony Pagden, Times Literary SupplementPulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorA masterwork of history and cultural studies, Marvelous Possessions is a brilliant meditation on the interconnected ways in which Europeans of the Age of Discovery ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Classical Mythology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Helen Morales ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us. But what do those myths represent, and why are they so enduringly fascinating? Why do they seem to be such a potent way of talking about our selves, our origins, and our desires? This imaginative and stimulating Very Short Introduction goes beyond a simple retelling of ... Read more

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  • King Arthur

    The Making of the Legend

    by Nicholas J. Higham ...
    "A leading medievalist takes a clear-eyed look at the evidence for the existence of the legendary Arthur." — The Sunday Times "Best Paperbacks of 2021"According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from the Saxons and reigned over it gloriously sometime around A.D. 500. Whether or not there was a "real" King Arthur has all too often been neglected by scholars; most period specialists today ... Read more

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  • Papyrus

    The Invention of Books in the Ancient World

    by Irene Vallejo ...
    Translated by Charlotte Whittle ...
    **A "masterly" (Economist), prize-winning, internationally bestselling history of books in the ancient world"Exquisite. . . . Beautifully translated into English by Charlotte Whittle, who is able to convey both Vallejo’s passionate narrative presence and her synthesising intelligence.” —The Guardian**Long before books were mass-produced, hand-copied scrolls made from Nile River reeds were the ... Read more

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  • From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

    Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

    Edited by David Charles Wright-Carr, Francisco Marco Simón ...
    From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparison as a point of ... Read more

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