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Our understanding of Greek and Roman civilization is in considerable measure a product of the literary skills of its historians. Writing at different times from different viewpoints, they illustrate developments and influences. This book surveys the work of these historians.

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This book traces the emergence of modern Korean literature and its trajectory towards the turn of the twentieth century. In examining the entanglements of literary style, form, and contemporaneous institutions, Young Min Kim illuminates an oft-overlooked period in modern Korean literary history.

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Theresa draws from secret research into the Nazi occupation of Channel Island, and the collaboration of local residents, with terrifying results. A Dead Woman on Holiday is an unlikely love story set during the Nuremberg trials. The Dybbuki, in homage to Anski's Russian classic, traces the last moments of five irreligious Jews.

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Focusing particularly on literary texts, but including biographical and intellectual background, this study examines numinous feeling as it is recorded by a number of seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers: Browne, Drydcn, Pascal; Pope and Swift; Hume and Johnson; eight other poets, including Watts, Smart, Cowper, and Blake; and four novelists,

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Offers students of Greek and scholars interested in Greek literature an English-language commentary on the Battle of Frogs and Mice, a short animal epic ascribed to Homer in the ancient world. This book includes a contextualizing introduction covering issues of literary genre, literary history and the language of Homeric Greek.

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This book examines the major modernist tenets embodied in Leungs literary works. The author argues that Leung paid special attention to issues regarding tradition, daily life, and colonial culture in order to understand his past, his identity, and the unique features of Hong Kong modernism.

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A real delight for puppetry students and theatre practitioners. Generously llustrated with the work of award-winning photographer Simon Annand.

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The HumanAnimal Boundary shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature by combining the question what is human with the question what is animal The objective is to expand the imaginative scope of humananimal relationships by combining perspectives from different disciplines, traditions, and cultural backgrounds.

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Thucydides has long been celebrated for the unflinching realism of his presentation of political life. And yet, as some scholars have asserted, his work also displays a profound humanity. This title provides the complete treatment to date of Thucydides' handling of the problem of injustice.

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A first collection of rare sensitivity.

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"The first volume of critical essays on the contemporary Portuguese novel in English, this book theorizes the concept of the hypercontemporary as a way of reading the novel after its postmodern period"--

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This book surveys the hyperlocal in the works of authors such as Jane Austen, John Keats, and Charles Dickens. It shows that the hyperlocal space or object, though particular, reaches beyond itself, affording an elasticity that can allow those things that seem beneath notice to reveal broader cultural significance.

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An original and beautifully written book on changing perspectives in the art of theater. Through a study of nine plays--Oedipus Rex, Berenice, Tristan und Isolde, Hamlet, Ghosts, The Cherry Orchard, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Noah, Murder in the Cathedral--the author shows how all playwrights seek to "hold the mirror up to nature" and h

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Offers an introduction to Homer's poem which sees it as rooted in a particular culture with its own narrative and thematic conventions that are only partly explained by assumptions about the properties of oral poetry.

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This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Gleason, who had a special love for what he called "the simple beauty of New England," became interested in Thoreau's work when commissioned in 1906 by the Houghton Miffli

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