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The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition
This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda. Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly preserved in medieval manuscripts, especially the thirteenth-century Icelandic codex traditionally known as the Codex Regi…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800647725, 9781800647732
- Collation
- 894
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 801 PET p
Bourdieu and Literature
Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary works. One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Bourdieu has become a standard…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781906924423
- Collation
- 203
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 301 RWS b
The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twenti…
From the central concept of the field—which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field— have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure’s theory of language. In The Cosmic Web, N. Katherine Hayles seeks to establish the scope of the field concept and to assess its importance for contemporary though…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781501722974, 9781501727931
- Collation
- 210
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 530.143 HAY c
The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Literature
This comprehensive Handbook presents the major perspectives within philosophy and literary studies on the relations, overlaps and tensions between philosophy and literature. Drawing on recent work in philosophy and literature, literary theory, philosophical aesthetics, literature as philosophy and philosophy as literature, its twenty-nine chapters plus substantial Introduction and Afterword exa…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-54794-1
- Collation
- Literasi Filsafat
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 379
Kafka's Zoopoetics : Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier
Kafka's Zoopoetics is the first extensive account of animals and human-animal relations in the work of Franz Kafka. The book appeals to a broad audience, including scholars and students of Comparative Literature, German Studies, Cultural Studies, and Human-Animal Studies. Kafka’s pivotal role in world literature cannot be overestimated. Exploring the multidimensional relations between humans …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472131792
- Collation
- 216 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 800 HAR k
An Historical and Analytical Bibliography of the Literature of Cryptology
Originally published in 1945, An Historical and Analytical Bibliography of the Literature of Cryptology provides a comprehensive listing of the most important works written up to that time on cryptography, as well as works in related fields in which cryptography appears. It includes a vast range of materials: scientific and technical works dealing with military, diplomatic, and commercial uses …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780810138414
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 800 GAL h
Henry James' Europe : Heritage and Transfer
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781906924386
- Collation
- 316 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 800 TRE h
The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry : Romanticism, Subje…
This book radically refigures the conceptual and formal significance of childhood in nineteenth-century English poetry. By theorizing infancy as a poetics as well as a space of continual beginning, Ruderman shows how it allowed poets access to inchoate, uncanny, and mutable forms of subjectivity and art. While recent historicist studies have documented the "freshness of experience" childhood co…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781317276487
- Collation
- 288 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 800 RUD i
Interpreting Chekhov
The author’s contention is that Chekhov’s plays have often been misinterpreted by scholars and directors, particularly through their failure to adequately balance the comic and tragic elements inherent in these works. Through a close examination of the form and content of Chekhov’s dramas, the author shows how deeply pessimistic or overly optimistic interpretations fail to sufficiently ac…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781920942687
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 800 BOR i
Mimetic Lives : Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel
What makes some characters seem so real? Mimetic Lives explores this unprecedented question on the rich ground of Tolstoy’s and Dostoevsky’s fiction. Each author discovered techniques for intensifying the aesthetic illusion Kitzinger calls mimetic life: the reader’s sense of a character’s embodied existence. Both authors tested the limits of that illusion by pushing it toward the novelâ…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780810143975
- Collation
- 256 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 800 KIT m
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