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  • Text/Image Mosaics in French Culture

    Emblems and Comic Strips

    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    This study compares text/image interaction as manifested in emblem books (and related forms) and the modern bande dessinée, or French-language comic strip. It moves beyond the issue of defining the emblematic genre to examine the ways in which emblems - and their modern counterparts - interact with the surrounding culture, and what they disclose about that culture. Drawing largely on primary ... Leer más

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  • The Age of Insight

    The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

    de Eric Kandel ...
    A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to art.At the turn of the century, Vienna was the cultural capital of Europe. Artists and scientists ... Leer más

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  • Dictionary of Untranslatables

    A Philosophical Lexicon

    Series series Translation/Transnation
    Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters.This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn ... Leer más

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  • Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

    The Boom in British Thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed

    de Mike Ripley ...
    WINNER OF THE HRF KEATING AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK 2018An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her thrillers helped save the world. With a foreword by Lee Child.When Ian Fleming dismissed his books in a 1956 letter to Raymond Chandler ... Leer más

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  • Illuminating Eco

    On the Boundaries of Interpretation

    Series series Warwick Studies in the Humanities
    Illuminating Eco covers the range of British scholarship on the prolific literary and theoretical work of Umberto Eco. With essays by scholars such as Michael Caesar and David Robey, the volume provides an overview of current research being carried out by a new generation of academics. In addition, it provides an opportunity to view the interaction between Eco's fiction and his theoretical texts ... Leer más

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  • Epistolary Selves

    Letters and Letter-Writers, 1600–1945

    Edición de Rebecca Earle ...
    Series series Warwick Studies in the Humanities
    This volume of ten essays discusses the pivotal role that letters have played in social, economic and political history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The recent scholarly interest in the history of reading has as yet yielded few studies which consider letters as a category of readable material. The contributors to this book seek to redress this oversight, viewing letters as texts ... Leer más

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  • Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century

    The Transatlantic Production of Fame and Gender

    Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century biographies, autobiographical accounts, periodicals, and fiction, Brenda R. Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of visibility in relation to gender, sex, and the body. Looking both at discursive patterns and specific Anglo-American texts that foreground the figure of the successful woman writer, Weber ... Leer más

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  • Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England

    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    Drawing on broad research, this study explores the different social and theatrical masking activities in England during the Middle Ages and the early 16th century. The authors present a coherent explanation of the many functions of masking, emphasizing the important links among festive practice, specialized ceremonial, and drama. They elucidate the intellectual, moral and social contexts for ... Leer más

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  • Untranslating Machines

    A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought

    de Jacques Lezra ...
    Series series New Critical Humanities
    On what basis can we establish an alternative to the unifying of cultures brought about by economic globalization? When ideas, like objects and words, can be translated and marketed everywhere, what forms of critique are available? Straddling the fields of political philosophy, comparative literature, animal studies, global studies, and political economy, Untranslating Machines proposes to this ... Leer más

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  • African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts

    Crossing the Strait

    Series series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
    Around the turn of 21st Century, Spain welcomed more than six million foreigners, many of them from various parts of the African continent. How African immigrants represent themselves and are represented in contemporary Spanish texts is the subject of this interdisciplinary collection. Analyzing blogs, films, translations, and literary works by contemporary authors including Donato Ndongo ... Leer más

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  • On Biblical Poetry

    On Biblical Poetry takes a fresh look at the nature of biblical Hebrew poetry beyond its currently best-known feature, parallelism. F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp argues that biblical poetry is in most respects just like any other verse tradition, and therefore biblical poems should be read and interpreted like other poems, using the same critical tools and with the same kinds of guiding assumptions in place. ... Leer más

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  • Israel... From Goshen to Sinai - Easy Reader Edition

    Synchronizing the Bible, Enoch, Jasher, and Jubilees

    Series Libro 6 - Ancient Texts and the Bible
    The Ancient Texts and the Bible series was compiled by Ahava Lilburn and produced by Minister 2 Others. This ten volume set synchronizes the manuscripts of Enoch, Jasher, and Jubilees into the Bible, making one complete storyline. The books are interwoven using the Torah as the backbone, and the extra-biblical texts as the fleshing out of that backbone.The sixth book in this series contains Exodus ... Leer más

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