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A Stranger in My Own Land: Sofia Casanova, a Spanish Writer in the European Fin de Siecle (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Offers analysis of the works of the Galician-Spanish expatriate writer Sofia Casanova (1861-1958), a transnational... Læs mere
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Tilting Cervantes: Baroque Reflections on Postmodern Culture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines a number of contemporary cultural texts - from ""Fight Club"" and ""Toy Story"" to ""The Matrix"" and ""The Moor's Last Sigh"" - by reflecting them against a cluster of early modern Spanish literary works, principally Miguel de Cervantes' ""Don Quixote"".
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Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Since 2002, the Roman Catholic Church has been in crisis over the sexual abuse of minors by priests and the cover-up of those crimes by bishops. This book examines factors internal to the Church and outside of it that drew this scandal into the public square and kept it there.
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Wheeling and Dealing: Living with Spinal Cord Injury (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In a series of interviews, 32 men and women describe the ways in which they have responded to their spinal cord injuries. They discuss their sex... Læs mere
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Can Literature Promote Justice?: Trauma Narrative and Social Action in Latin American Testimonio (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Taking up the relationship between ethics and literature, this is a political autobiography of,Kimberly... Læs mere
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The Utopian Nexus in Don Quixote (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the mythic utopian desires that drive Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in ""Don Quixote"". By tracing the discourses surrounding what the authors identify as a myth... Læs mere
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Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Using the one-act comedy ""El parto de Juan Rana"" (""John Frog Gives Birth"") as a point of departure, this title argues... Læs mere
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Parenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A professor's job might seem like a dream occupation - flexible schedule, the ability to work from home, summers off. But as this... Læs mere
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Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Few books have had more impact on US history than ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Slavery apologists from North and South... Læs mere
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Writing in the Margins: The Ethics of Expatriation from Lawrence to Ondaatje (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Marilyn Papayanis investigates the ""ex-centric"" expatriate - a metropolitan figure led away from the industrial West to... Læs mere
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On Our Own, Together: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Looks in depth at eight successful peer-run programs for adults with serious mental illnesses. The book grew out of a 1998 meeting that... Læs mere
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Gertrude Stein and the Essence of What Happens (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In this study, Dana Cairns Watson traces Gertrude Stein's growing fascination with the cognitive and political ramifications of conversation and how that interest influenced her writing over the course of her career.
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