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Flourishing Fasts: Vegetarian Sects in Late Imperial and Modern Chinese Societies (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Flourishing Feasts is the first book to explore the socioreligious history of the Zhaijiao, “vegetarian sects,” that... Læs mere
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In six lectures covering everything from James Bond to antisemitic conspiracy theories, Umberto Eco offers a master class in the philosophy of fiction. Dissecting the... Læs mere
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This Craft of Verse (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In a series of incandescent lectures given at Harvard in 1967–1968, Jorge Luis Borges explores poetic meaning, prose forms, literary history, translation theory, and philosophical... Læs mere
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Other Traditions (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
John Ashbery appraises the lesser-known poets who shaped his own confounding, infinitely inventive work. In lectures on John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John... Læs mere
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The Shape of Content (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In six wide-ranging lectures on art history, the problems of form, and his own career, celebrated twentieth-century activist-painter Ben Shahn explores the labor of artistic creation, the confines of formal instruction, and the realization of a genuine artistic voice.
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Jesuit World Philology & the Birth of Comparative Grammar: The "Ianua Indica" of Ignazio Arcamone SJ (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Ianua Indica (Indian Gateway) of Ignazio Arcamone S.J. (ca. 1615–1683) is the first comparative grammar of two South Asian vernaculars, Konkani and Marathi. This volume offers a... Læs mere
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The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 1932 Sigmund Freud and diplomat William Bullitt completed a well-informed psychobiography... Læs mere
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The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts contain early versions of six episodes later included in Marcel Proust’s In Search of... Læs mere
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Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Branko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key... Læs mere
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Mason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Established to calm intracolonial tensions, the Mason-Dixon Line first marked a region of breakneck development and Native American resistance, then the boundary... Læs mere
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The Image of the European in African Art (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Image of the European in African Art-a companion to The Image of the Black in Western Art series-is profusely illustrated, including little-known works,... Læs mere
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Fascism in India: Race, Caste, and Hindutva (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Luna Sabastian traces the evolution of Hindutva since the 1920s, arguing that it is a form of fascism. Influenced by Euro-American race thought, but also... Læs mere
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