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By: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9780691019093
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Publication Date: May 1991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Provides the English-speaking reader with what he needs to read and understand the Purgatorio. This volume consists of the prose translation of Giorgio Petrocchi's Italian text (which faces the translation on each page).
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By: Peter Cole
ISBN: 9780691121956
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Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies a faith that transcend the limits of language, place, and time.
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By: Ian Barrow
ISBN: 9781624665967
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Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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"The Passages: Key Moments in History series brings highly accessible introductory histories to students and academics alike, supplemented by a wealth of rich original-source materials. In The East India Company, Ian Barrow elucidates the birth, reign, and death of one of the most formidable commerce companies in the history of the Western world."--Provided by publisher.
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By: Homer
ISBN: 9780872205406
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Publication Date: Sep 2000
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Selections from both the Iliad and the Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.
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By: Homer
ISBN: 9780872209008
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Publication Date: Sep 2007
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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An abridgement of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the "Odyssey", this book offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages.
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By: Timothy Bewes
ISBN: 9780691141664
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Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. This title states that the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that made colonialism possible in the first place.
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By: Anna Elizabeth Balakian
ISBN: 9780691608174
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Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Addressing all readers who value the beauty of language, Anna Balakian examines the work of five twentieth-century poets--Yeats, Valry, Rilke, Stevens, and Guilln--to show how the linguistic richness of the symbolist tradition continued well into the modern period. These writers, all of whom learned the poetry of language from Mallarm, compensated
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By: Jerome Mazzaro
ISBN: 9780691614892
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Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Jerome Mazzaro examines Dante's Vita Nuova as an artistic correlative to what Dante conceived as an image of himself. Specifically, he explores the structure of the work in relation to medieval views of memory, self, music, form, and interpretation, and against the facts of Dante's life and culture as we have come to know them. Originally publishe
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By: Matthew Carl Strecher
ISBN: 9780816691982
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Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Pattiann Rogers
ISBN: 9781595341334
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Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
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A rare collection of daring essays about science, the arts, and spirituality
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By: SparkNotes
ISBN: 9781411469570
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Publication Date: Feb 2014
UK Publication Date: 13th February 2014
Publisher: Spark
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When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.
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By: Helene P. Foley
ISBN: 9780691014791
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Publication Date: Feb 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Includes a poem that tells how Hades, lord of the underworld, abducted the goddess Persephone and how her grieving mother, Demeter, the goddess of grain, forced the gods to allow Persephone to return to her for part of each year.
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By: Jayne Archer
ISBN: 9780719090097
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Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion, politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late fifteenth through the early eighteenth centuries. -- .
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By: Robin Renwick
ISBN: 9781785909023
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Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th September 2024
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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A history of how spies and culture have always been interlinked, from Shakespeare to Bond.
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By: Jack Zipes
ISBN: 9780691159553
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Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. This book presents a provocative theory about why fairy tales were created and retold - and why they became such an indelible and infinitely adaptable part of cultures around the world.
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By: Mark Tredinnick
ISBN: 9781595340184
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Publication Date: Sep 2005
Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
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Profiles of four American writers showing how they interact with the landscapes they live and write in
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By: Karin Lesnik-Oberstein
ISBN: 9780719083235
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Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair. The study argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identitiesThe chapters each analyse through a specific focus how body hair underpins ideas of the 'cultural' and 'natural' in western culture. -- .
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By: Gregory Bassham
ISBN: 9780812695458
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Publication Date: Aug 2003
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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This volume looks at the deeper issues raised by "The Lord of the Rings" such as: can political power be wielded for good, or must it always corrupt Does technology destroy the truly human Is it morally wrong to give up hope and Can we find meaning in chance events
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By: Nicholas Gaskill
ISBN: 9780816679966
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Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Peter Hunt
ISBN: 9781851244799
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Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Generously illustrated with original drawings, fan letters (including one from President Roosevelt) and archival material, this book explores the mysteries surrounding one of the most successful works of childrens literature ever published.
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By: Michelle Van Parys
ISBN: 9780691247960
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Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Simona Sawhney
ISBN: 9780816649969
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Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Samuel R. Delany
ISBN: 9780816645244
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Publication Date: Apr 2004
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Winner of the 1989 Hugo Award for Non-fiction
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By: Paul S Fiddes
ISBN: 9780708315989
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Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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In this collection of essays, which considers the relationship between the novel and spirituality in the cultural setting of the present day, eight novelists draw upon their own experience of authorship.
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