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The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics' Crucial Decade (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical discussions... Læs mere
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William Spratling, His Life and Art (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900-1967), Taylor Littleton reintroduces one of the most fascinating... Læs mere
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Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this groundbreaking study, Gary Ciuba examines how four of the American South's most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction - Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy - expose the roots of violence in southern culture.
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Prophet of Decline: Spengler on World History and Politics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
John Farrenkopf takes advantage of the historical perspective the end of the millennium provides to reassess visionary thinker Oswald Spengler and his challenging ideas on world history and politics and modern civilisation.
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The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores how southern writers of the 1930s and 1940s responded to Fascism, and most tellingly to the suggestion that the racial politics of Nazi Germany had a special, problematic relevance to the South and its segregated social system.
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Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869-1879 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
According to William Gillette, recent reinterpretation of Reconstruction by revisionist historians has often tended to overemphasise idealistic motivations at the... Læs mere
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The Supreme Court from Taft to Burger (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Language Is Sermonic: Richard M. Weaver on the Nature of Rhetoric (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Richard M. Weaver believed that “rhetoric at its truest seeks to perfect men by showing them better versions of themselves.” Language is Sermonic offers eight of Weaver's best essays on the nature of traditional rhetoric and its role in shaping society.
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Herbert Corey's Great War: A Memoir of World War I by the American Reporter Who Saw It All (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
With publication of Herbert Corey’s Great War, coeditors Peter Finn and John Maxwell Hamilton reestablish... Læs mere
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The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Collects and annotates a unique and little-known body of Civil War literature: narrative sketches, accounts, and poetry by veterans who lost... Læs mere
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The New View from Cane River: Critical Essays on Kate Chopin's "at Fault (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Features ten in-depth essays that provide fresh, diverse perspectives on Kate Chopin’s first novel, At Fault. The essays in this volume provide multiple approaches for understanding this complex work, with particular attention to the dynamics of the post-Reconstruction era.
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Three Centuries of Girls' Education: Regulations of the Ursuline Nuns of the Congregation of Paris (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers both an examination and the first English translation of Les Reglemens des religieuses Ursulines de la Congregation de Paris. Published in 1705, Regulations is the first pedagogical system explicitly designed for the education of girls.
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