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Writing and Materiality in Ancient China: The Textual Culture of the Mawangdui Tombs (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book is an interdisciplinary study of the varied forms of writing found at the Mawangdui tomb site in south-central China, exploring the different roles that texts played in the lives and afterlives of Chinese elites during the Han dynasty.
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Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Dictating Reality shows how states are battling to control and shape the news in order to entrench their power, evade scrutiny, and ensure that their political narratives are accepted.
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The The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the “music of poetry.” This book gives substance to the metaphor by building on recent research in linguistics and music theory to propose a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.
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Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Hollywood’s Others explores the affective ties between white, non-disabled audiences and the fascinatingly different stars with whom they identified—but only up to a point.
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The The Rise of Celebrity Authorship: Nineteenth-Century Print Culture and Antislavery (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Sarah Danielle Allison illuminates the collective creation of celebrity by tracing unexpected connections within the anarchic nineteenth-century literary marketplace.
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Beauty and the Nation: Women, Culture, and the National Image in Interwar Vietnam (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Christina E. Firpo explores the development of beauty culture during the interwar years, showing how women’s faces and bodies became contested sites for envisioning what it meant to be Vietnamese in the modern world.
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Image and Imagination in Mongolian Buddhism: Art, Texts, and Rituals (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary exploration of Mongolian Buddhism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, drawing on previously unexamined writings and artworks to shed new light on the intricate interrelationships that define this tradition.
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What Is Political Theology? (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This field-changing interdisciplinary book brings together three of the leading voices in political theology—a Christian theologian, a critical theorist, and an anthropologist—to offer new entry points to understand religion and politics.
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The The Inner Life of Mrs. Dalloway (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Edward Mendelson explores the deepest questions of Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway, focusing on the core themes of medicine, empire, and love.
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The The Inner Life of Mrs. Dalloway (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Edward Mendelson explores the deepest questions of Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway, focusing on the core themes of medicine, empire, and love.
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The The Classroom and the Crowd: Poetry and the Promise of Digital Community (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In The Classroom and the Crowd, Al Filreis reflects on his decades of experience as a founder of participatory literary communities and teacher of online courses, demonstrating that student-centered education offers new possibilities for humane social networking.
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Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A. J. Bauer traces how decades of right-wing criticism of the “liberal media” reshaped US news culture and came to define conservative politics.
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