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I Saw Water: An Occult Novel and Other Selected Writings (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The first publication of I Saw Water, the second novel by the surrealist artist, writer, and occultist Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988). Also included is a selection of her writings and images.
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The Arras Witch Treatises: Johannes Tinctor's Invectives contre la secte de vauderie and the Recollectio casus, status et condicionis Valdensium ydolatrarum by the Anonymous of Arras (1460) (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
English translations of two major treatises, Tinctor’s Invectives and the anonymous Recollectio, that arose from the famous Arras witch hunts and trial in the mid-fifteenth century in France.
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Aliceheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A graphic memoir of the author’s experiences of her mother’s battle with dementia. Illustrates the two-way nature of storytelling as a process that heals both the giver and the receiver of story.
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Painting the Hortus deliciarum: Medieval Women, Wisdom, and Time (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the visual traditions in a lost late twelfth-century manuscript, the Hortus deliciarum, compiled by Abbess Herrad for the sisters... Læs mere
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Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the proliferation of spiritualist séances in mid-nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, and the connection to the contemporary evolution of the media entertainment industry.
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Without God: Michel Houellebecq and Materialist Horror (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Addresses the religious, metaphysical, and existential dimensions of French novelist Michel Houellebecq’s work. Argues that Houellebecq is the foremost contemporary chronicler of the spiritual anxieties of Western and specifically French modernity.
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Measuring Shadows: Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Focusing on the astronomer Johannes Kepler's 1604 treatise on optics, explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how he posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge in the early modern period.
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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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Being at Genetic Risk: Toward a Rhetoric of Care (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Advocates a conversation around the genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancers that focuses less on choice and more on care. Offers a new set of conceptual starting points for understanding what is at stake with a BRCA diagnosis and what the focus on choice obstructs from view.
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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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