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Border Crossing : Russian Literature into Film
Each time a border is crossed there are cultural, political and social issues to be considered. Applying the metaphor of the ‘border crossing' from one temporal or spatial territory into another, this book examines the way classic Russian texts have been altered to suit new cinematic environments. In these essays, international scholars examine how political and economic circumstances ââ…
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- 9781474411424
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- 272 halaman
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- 800 BUR b
Bodies that bleed : Metamorphosis in Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales
This work aims to develop new readings of the poetics and the politics of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) in the light of the bodily metamorphoses represented in the fairy tales. Metamorphic processes can be said to inform the stories of the collection both in a thematic and a stylistic perspective and address the need to rethink human experience altogether, especi…
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- 9788867055425
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- 137 halaman
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- 800 BOD
Rhetoric, Rhetoricians and Poets : Studies in Renaissance Poetry and Poetics
The Netherlandish rhetoricians of the sixteenth century have, in the course of the last decades, shed their image of third-rate poets who, lacking all sense of true beauty, were capable only of pompous verbosity and a shallow manipulation of form. The new scholarly assessment has also shed light on the role they played in the cultural and literary life of their time, and it now appears that man…
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- 9789053564004
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- 169 halaman
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- 800 SPI r
Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions : Connectivities and World-making
This volume draws together essays by leading art experts observing the dramatic developments in Asian art and exhibitions in the last two decades. The authors explore new regional and global connections and new ways of understanding contemporary Asian art in the twenty-first century. The essays coalesce around four key themes: world-making; intra-Asian regional connections; art’s affective…
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- 9781925022001
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- Asian Studies Series Monograph 6
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- 808.84 CON
In This Together : Teachers' Experiences with Transnational, Telecollaborativ…
This book provides a nexus between research and practice through teachers’ narratives of their experiences with telecollaboration. The book begins with a chapter outlining the pedagogical and theoretical underpinnings of telecollaboration (also known as Virtual Exchange), followed by eight chapters that explain telecollaborative project design, materials and activities as well as frank discus…
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- 9783034335348
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- 232 halaman
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- Telecollaboration in Education, Volume 6
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- 800 OWE i
As You Law It : Negotiating Shakespeare
Shakespeare was fascinated by law, which permeated Elizabethan everyday life. The general impression one derives from the analysis of many plays by Shakespeare is that of a legal situation in transformation and of a dynamically changing relation between law and society, law and the jurisdiction of Renaissance times. Shakespeare provides the kind of literary supplement that can better illustrate…
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- 9783110590821
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- 276 halaman
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- Law & Literature Volume 15
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- 800 ASY
Authorizing Early Modern European Women : From Biography to Biofiction
The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and biographers interested in bringing the stories of early modern women to modern audiences. It also pays attention to the historical women creators themselves, who, be they saints or midwives, visual artists or poets and playwrights, stand out for their roles as active practitioners of …
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- 9789463727143
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- 288 halaman
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- Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
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- 800 AUT
Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Seventeenth Century Women's Visionar…
In medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of cultural restrictions and negative stereotypes. In this book, Deborah Frick analyses medieval visionary writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century visionary writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Carey…
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- 9783839456897
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- 156 halaman
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- Lettre
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- 800 FRI a
The Deliverance of Others : Reading Literature in a Global Age
The Deliverance of Others is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by globalization, we continue the tradition of valorizing literature for bringing the lives of others to us, admitting them into our world and valuing the difference that they introduce into our lives? In th…
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- 9780822352501
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- 240 halaman
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- 800 PAL d
Decolonizing Diasporas : Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature
Decolonizing Diasporas proposes a new way to read the literary and cultural productions of the Afro-Atlantic. Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking Sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Figueroa-Vásquez argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists offer ways of imagining new worldviews which dismantle the logics of colonial modernity. Utilizing women of color fe…
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- 9780810142435
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- 304 halaman
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- 800 FIG d
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