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Dionysos in Classical Athens : An Understanding through Images
"Dionysos, with his following of satyrs and women, was a major theme in a big part of the figure painted pottery in 500-300 B.C. Athens. As an original testimonial of their time, the imagery on these vases convey what this god meant to his worshippers. It becomes clear that he was not only appropriate for wine, wine indulgence, ecstasy and theatre. Rather, he was present on many, both happy and…
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- 9789004270121
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- xx, 290 halaman
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- Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Volume: 181
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- 900 ISL d
Disability, Literature, Genre : Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fic…
Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s, Disability, Literature, Genre is a major contribution to both cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies. Drawing on recent work on affect and emotion, the book explores how disability makes us feel, and how those feelings shape i…
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- 9781789620771
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- Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society
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- 800 CHE d
Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature : Prostitutes, Aging Women…
Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories. It explores a wide range of Spanish medical, regulatory and moral discourses, illustrating how such texts inherit, reproduce and propagate an amalgam of …
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- 9781786940780
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- 800 JUA d
Dickens's London : Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity
Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, Dickens's London offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its forms. Julian Wolfreys suggests that in their representations of London - its streets, buildings, public institutions, domestic residences, rooms and phenomena that co…
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- 9780748640409
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- 272 halaman
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- 800 WOL d
Death and the Pearl Maiden : Plague, Poetry, England
Shows how English responses to the Black Death were hidden in plain sight—as seen in the Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight poems.
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- 9780814213902
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- 800 COL d
Demonic History : From Goethe to the Present
In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spengler, Benjamin, Lukács, and Doderer. Wetters focuses especially on the philological and metaphorological resonances of the demonic from its core formatio…
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- 9780810129764
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- 800 WET d
Denis Diderot 'Rameau’s Nephew' – 'Le Neveu de Rameau' : A Multi-Media Bi…
In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out from time to tim…
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- 9781909254923
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- 262 halaman
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- Open Book Classics
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- 800 DID d
Diaspora, Law and Literature
The well-known challenges of international migration have triggered new departures in academic approaches, with 'diaspora studies' evolving as an interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary field of study. Its emerging methodology shares concerns with another interdisciplinary field, the study of the relations between law and literature, which focuses on the ways in which the two cultural prac…
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- 9783110485417
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- 359 halaman
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- 800 DIA
Dialogues on Poetry : Mediatization and New Sensibilities
This book’s inquiry into contemporary poetry takes two directions. The first direction leads to several close examinations of digital, multi-modal and performative poetry, and how perspectives or perhaps just an awareness of a new media landscape recondition our understanding of an old literary genre. The second direction expands into considerations of contextual theories of affect and atmosp…
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- 9788771126501
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- 370 halaman
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- Studies in Contemporary Poetry
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- 800 DIA
Development of Writing Skills in Individuals with Learning Difficulties : Und…
This volume highlights writing development and its relation to other cognitive domains, such as language and reading, for individuals who struggle to acquire writing proficiency, including those with specific learning disorders (SLD; e.g., dyslexia, dysgraphia, and specific language impairment) which affect writing skills (e.g., handwriting, composition). Writing and writing development are pre…
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- 9789004345812
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- Studies in Writing Volume: 35
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- 800 MIL d
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