Pennsylvania State University Press Forlag
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Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the ghost stories of writer and academic Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936). Focuses on the intersection between his scholarly work and his fiction, arguing that his two careers are intriguingly intertwined.
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Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the influence of experimental science, concerned with the workings of the body, the mind, and their various pathologies, on the works of late nineteenth-century artists Maurice Denis, Édouard Vuillard, August Strindberg, and Edvard Munch.
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Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays on various aspects of the position of magic in the modern world. Essays explore the ways in which modernity... Læs mere
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Don Quixote of La Mancha (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
"An adaptation, in graphic novel format, of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes"--Provided by publisher.
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Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the ’60s (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the practices of ecological art, a genre addressing the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related... Læs mere
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The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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First Isaiah and the Disappearance of the Gods (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the rhetorical strategies behind the monotheizing rhetoric of First Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible.
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Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores how, in the Americas, people of African birth or descent found spiritual and social empowerment in the orbit of the Church. Draws connections between Afro-Catholic festivals and their precedents in the early modern Christian kingdom of Kongo.
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Robert Burton’s Rhetoric: An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well... Læs mere
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Songs of the Lisu Hills: Practicing Christianity in Southwest China (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the history and practice of Lisu Christianity in southwest China, describing how the Lisu maintained their Christian faith through China’s tumultuous twentieth century and into the present.
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Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Illustrates how the discovery of electromagnetism in 1820 not only led to technological inventions, such as the dynamo and the telegraph, but also... Læs mere
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Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the western European idea of the witches’ sabbath, based on translations of five texts dating from the 1430s, and examines how these texts went on to influence conceptions of diabolical witchcraft for centuries to come.
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