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The embodied child : readings in children's literature and culture
The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children’s bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. The chapters examine the ideology behind the cultural constructions of the child’s body and the i…
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- 9781315101262
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- ix, 295 p. ; ill
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- 809.89282 ZIP t
Commitment and beyond : reflections on/of the political in arabic literature …
This book is about the relations between literature, society and politics in the Arab world. It is an attempt to come to terms with the changing conceptualizations of the political in Arabic literature (and to a certain extent theater and the visual arts) in recent modern history. It examines historical and contemporary conceptions of literary commitment (iltizām) and how notions of ‘writing…
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- 9783954906130
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- 358 p.
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- 892.709 YVO c
American cities in post-apocalyptic science fiction
Visions of the American city in post-apocalyptic ruin permeate literary and popular fiction, across print, visual, audio and digital media. American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction explores the prevalence of these representations in American culture, drawing from a wide range of primary and critical works from the early-twentieth century to today. Beginning with science fiction in li…
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- 9781800080980
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- ix, 201 p. : ill
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- 810.9321732 YEA a
The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity : volume 6 war a…
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the M…
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- 9781783745418
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- 324 p. : ill. ; 25.4 cm.
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- 841.109 ZIO t
The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity : volume 5 tumbl…
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the M…
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- 9781783745364
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- 397 p. : ill. ; 25.4 cm.
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- 841.109 ZIO t
Ancient greek I : a 21st century approach
In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the ancient Greek language in an imaginative and accessible way that promotes creativity, deep learning, and diversity. The course is built on three pillars: memory, analysis, and logic. Readers memorize the top 250 most frequently occurring ancient Greek words, the essential word end…
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- 9781800642560
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- xxiii, 610 p. : ill. ; 20.3 cm.
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- 488 PEE a
DiverCity - global cities as a literary phenomenon : Toronto, New York, and L…
Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (»DiverCity«). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, »What We All Long For« (2005), Chang-rae Lee's New York, »Native Speaker« (1995), and Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, »Tropic of Orange« (1997), Melanie U. Pooch provides the connecting link f…
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- 20
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- 9783839435410
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- 241 p. : ill.
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- 810.9 POO d
Dialogues between media
This book unites essays on the interplay of media or inter-arts studies, as well as papers with a focus on comics studies, further testimony to the fact that comics have truly arrived in mainstream academic discourse. "Adaptation" is a key term for the studies presented in this volume various articles discuss the adaptation of literary source texts in different target media - cinematic versions…
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- 9783110642056
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- 665 p. : B&W, ill.
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- XXI. Congress of the ICLA - Proceedings,
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- 809 FER d
Asian literary voices : from marginal to mainstream
Brings together some of the most exciting recent scholarship on Asian literature and culture, emphasising East Asia yet extending to South Asia Combines original findings of interest to specialists with a clear style of writing and argumentation that makes the volume accessible and appealing to the general reader Brings to life a wide range of Asian literary and scholarly figures important in t…
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- 9789048508198
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- 163p.
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- 809.895 ASI w
Annotations in scholarly editions and research : functions, differentiation, …
The notion of annotation is associated in the Humanities and Information Sciences with different concepts that vary in coverage, application and direction of impact, but have conceptual parallels as well. This publication reflects on different practices and associated concepts of annotation, puts them in relation to each other and attempts to systematize their commonalities and divergences in a…
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- 7
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- 9783110689112
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- viii, 399 p. : ill.
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- 801.9590285 NAN a
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