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Working with archival recordings, the authors trace the history of Missouri English and demonstrate how the voices of Missourians born over a century ago provide a unique window on the development of many of the pronunciation features that separate modern American dialects.
Menelaos Christopoulos offers a detailed, original, and thought-provoking analysis of the major thematic questions raised by the Homeric Odyssey. The interpretations in this book shed new light on this emblematic literary work of Western civilization.
This book revisits Japanese modern literature in relation to Kon Wajiro’s urban ethnography and draws a speculative genealogy of dwelling practices in the Japanese capital defined by mobility, affect and the beautiful, in particular what Kon called “accidental beauty.”
Explores divination in antiquity from a range of perspectives, looking both at practices and theories and how and why these changed over time. Important for students and academics working in classics, history of philosophy, and history of religion.
Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, Workings of the Spirit weighs current... Læs mere
Since Dean Howells declared his "realism war" in the 1880s, literary historians have regarded the rise of realism and... Læs mere
The writings of the Marquis de Sade have attained a widely acclaimed position in the canon of world literature, Sade is often celebrated as a heroic apostle of individual... Læs mere