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A Fire of Lilies : Perspectives on Literature and Politics in Modern Iran
This book examines the role of Persian literature in politics in the tumultuous period of Iranian history from 1950 to 2000, illustrating how intellectuals used poetry, plays, novels and short stories to comment on socio-political developments. The unique aspect of the book is its strong empirical perspective as it analyses how Persian intellectuals dealt with sensor, suppression, imprisonment,…
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- 9789087283292
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- 233 hlm
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- 800 KAR f
A Family Occupation : Children of the War and the Memory of World War II in D…
Many of today's Dutch writers were children during World War II. Even today, the traumatic childhood experience of enemy occupation is still central to the work of many of them. This interest cuts across the traditional boundaries between fiction, autobiography and the literature of trauma and recovery. A Family Occupation is the first English-language introduction to Dutch-language texts writt…
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- 9789053562369
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- 208 halaman
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- 800 TAY f
African Literature in the Digital Age
The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media. The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. Arguing that writers are putting their work on cyberspace because communities are emerging from this space, and because increasing numbers of Africans use the internet as part of their da…
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- 9781847012388
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African Literature in African Languages
Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers. Sixty years after the Conference of African Writers of English Expression at Makerere University, the dominance in the global canon of African literatures written in European languages ove…
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- 9781847013460
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A "Labyrinth of Linkages" in Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"
The renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in Anna Karenina (1878). In the same work, moreover, he utilized allegory and symbol to an extent and at a level of sophistication unknown in his other works. In Browning’s study, the author identifies and analyzes previously unnoticed or only briefly mentioned “linkages and keystones” found in two highly developed cl…
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- 9781936235476;9781618116796
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“Tsar and God”: and Other Essays in Russian Cultural Semiotics
Featuring a number of distinguished essays by internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov, this collection encompasses various ground-breaking works appearing in English for the first time. Focusing on several of the most interesting and problematic aspects of Russia’s cultural development, these essays examine the survival and reconceptualization of Ru…
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- 9781618116703
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Women and War in Roman Epic
In Women and War in Roman Epic, Elina Pyy discusses the narrative and ideological functions of gender in the works of Virgil, Lucan, Statius, Silius Italicus and Valerius Flaccus. By examining the themes of violence, death, guilt, grief, and anger in their epics, she offers an account of the intertextual tradition of the genre and its socio-political background. Through a combination of classic…
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- 9789004443457
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- 342 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- The Language of Classical Literature, Volume: 33
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Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600)
'The Open Access publishing costs of this volume were covered by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Veni-project “Leaving a Lasting Impression. The Impact of Incunabula on Late Medieval Spirituality, Religious Practice and Visual Culture in the Low Countries” (grant number 275-30-036).' This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in …
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- 9789004520158
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- 432 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Intersections, Volume: 85
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Time in Ancient Greek Literature = Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, Volume 2
This is the second volume in a series of volumes which together will provide an entirely new history of ancient Greek (narrative) literature. Its organization is formal rather than biographical. It traces the history of central narrative devices, such as the narrator and his narratees,time, focalization, characterization, and space. It offers not only analyses of the handling of such a device b…
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- '9789047422938
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- 556 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 291
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The Skandapurāṇa Volume IIb = Adhyāyas 31-52. The Vāhana and Naraka Cycles
Skandapurāṇa IIb presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 31-52 from the Skandapurāṇa, with an introduction and English synopsis. The text edited in this volume includes central myths of early Śaivism, such as the destruction of Dakṣa's sacrifice and Śiva acquiring the bull for his vehicle. Also included is an extensive description of the thirteen hells (Naraka).
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- 384 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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