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Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
What happens when performance defies social and political boundaries? Performing Transgression offers a new cultural history of non-elite... Læs mere
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Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan, Ariel Stilerman examines the transformation of classical Japanese poetry (waka) from the exclusive... Læs mere
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Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Uncanny Beliefs seeks to understand what “superstition” has meant in modern China—and questions why superstitious thinking has remained such an... Læs mere
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Mezukak Shivatayim: Studies in Jewish Life and Literature in Honor of Bernard Septimus (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The essays in Mezukak Shivatayim pay tribute to Bernard Septimus’s writing and teaching, covering rabbinic culture, Jewish thought and literature, and Jewish communities in their Christian and Muslim contexts from the tenth to the twentieth centuries.
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Through the Looking Glass: The Narrative Performance of Anarkali (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Informed by oral poetics, performance theory, and memory studies, Through the Looking Glass approaches Anarkali—the supposed lover of both... Læs mere
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By Heart or From the Scroll: Text Quotation and Memory on the Grammatika Vases (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
By Heart or From the Scroll studies six grammatika vases depicting scenes from the Odyssey, offering new insights into the... Læs mere
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Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees: Metaphors and Metonyms that Construct the Homeric Odyssey (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in the Odyssey to better... Læs mere
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I Am the Wounded Victim of a Suicide Bomber (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
I Am the Wounded Victim of a Suicide Bomber presents a selection of poems, translated into English and including the Persian texts, by Fazel Ahad Ahadi, a... Læs mere
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Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 43: 2024 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Volume 43 includes Liam Breatnach on the Senchas Már, an early Irish legal text, Benjamin Bruch keynote on Cornish and Welsh linguistics as well as articles on literature, folklore, and identity.
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Letter to Melania (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Letter to Melania, Christian philosopher Evagrius of Pontus (345–399) meditates on the power of language, the composition of humanity in light of the three persons of God, and the... Læs mere
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The Rise and Fall of Rational Control: The History of Modern Political Philosophy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Harvey C. Mansfield traces the birth of modern political philosophy to Machiavelli’s brief on behalf of rational control... Læs mere
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Trading at the Edge of Empires: Francesco Carletti's World, c. 1600 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
