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This book is a history of the initiative, its projects and actors, notably the architect and planner Ernst May, and its achievements, set within the turbulent context of the Weimar decade. It chronicles its many accomplishments: the construction of housing settlements,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Cinematic Reveries
The 29 prose poems in Cinematic Reveries: Gestures, Stillness, Water provide distinctive points of entry into a select group of films through attention to evocative gestures, a sense of stillness, and images of water. These original writings offer film criticism in a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Subaltern Writings
Subaltern Writings focuses on one of the most important Brazilian novelists of the first half of the twentieth century, Graciliano Ramos, and critically examines two of his novels, Caetés and Angústia. The analysis is based on the premise that the reader must bring to...

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Télécharger le livre :  Ruins, Revolution, and Manifest Destiny
As American literary and cultural scholars reconsider the foundations of U.S. relations with other nations, Ruins, Revolution, and Manifest Destiny: John Lloyd Stephens Creates the Maya locates in Stephens’s immensely popular nineteenth-century travel narratives (1841,...

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Télécharger le livre :  La Andalucía rural vista por viajeros extranjeros
La gavilla de artículos reunidos en este volumen forma un conjunto coherente de ensayos en torno a un tema común, la vida en la Andalucía rural en sus múltiples aspectos culturales, contada por viajeros extranjeros a lo largo de los dos siglos pasados. Con mayor o...

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Télécharger le livre :  Gender, Genre, and the Myth of Human Singularity
In literary works, the law of genre – generic boundaries determined by institutions and conventions of art and literature – reacts to threats of impurity. The three significant modernist works addressed herein by James Joyce (Ulysses), Virginia Woolf (Between the Acts),...

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Télécharger le livre :  Valéry’s Graveyard
Valéry’s Graveyard is in two parts. The first part presents the French text of PaulValéry’s poem Le Cimetière marin (The Graveyard by the Sea) and a facing English translation, followed by a descriptive account of the poem that sets out its main structural and dynamic...

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Télécharger le livre :  Rome and Judea in Transition
Rome and Judea in Transition is the first English-language book to study exclusively the first century and a half of Roman-Judean political relations (164–37 B.C.). It presents a comprehensive reassessment of the Late Republic's involvement in the Levant, the motives of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Desire and Disillusionment
Desire and Disillusionment: A Guide to American Fiction Since 1890 departs from the typical academic study in that it appeals to the general reading public, undergraduate and graduate students, and literary scholars. The book’s focus on a highly relatable subject,...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Gender Dance
C. S. Lewis, fantasy novelist, literary scholar, and Christian apologist, is one of the most original and well-known literary figures of the twentieth century. As one who stood at the crossroads of Edwardian and modern thinking, he is often read as a sexist or even...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Spiritual Narratives of Adoptive Parents
Although much attention has been given to the various social and psychological experiences of two essential parts of the adoption triad – adopted persons and birth parents – adoptive parents are largely overlooked in the literature. More particularly, sparse information...

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Télécharger le livre :  Llámenme «el mexicano»
Llámenme «el mexicano»: Los almanaques y otras obras de Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora presenta una visión fresca, iluminadora y provocativa de partes de la vida y escritos de Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora poco conocidos o analizados hasta ahora. Seis de los almanaques...

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Télécharger le livre :  Durable Goods
Ancient Greek philosophers generally accept the claim that e?da?µ???a is within our power to achieve, regardless of circumstance. Conversely, external goods – physical health, education, social standing – are frequently present or absent due to circumstances beyond our...

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Télécharger le livre :  Africana Women Writers
Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 1976 byAfricana women writers. From a cross-cultural, transnational perspective, the author examines how these women writers –...

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Télécharger le livre :  Judaism and Emotion
Judaism and Emotion breaks with stereotypes that, until recently, brandedJudaism as a rigid religion of laws and prohibitions. Instead, authors from different fields of research discuss the subject ofJudaism and emotion from various scholarly perspectives; they present...

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Télécharger le livre :  Mountain of Paradise
Mountain of Paradise challenges conventional taxonomies of world civilizations by introducing a new and formidable candidate: the civilization of Greater California presently incubating as the evolution of California into a veritable «nation-state» or «world...

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Télécharger le livre :  Renaissance Studies
This Festschrift is dedicated to Edward J. Olszewski and was created by his former PhD students in gratitude and honor of a professor whose innovative and comprehensive research spans the Renaissance and Baroque periods. His research provided much insight to the arts,...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Continuum of Consciousness
The Continuum of Consciousness: Aesthetic Experience and Visual Art in Henry James’s Novels examines the transformative experience of art in James’s fiction. In a 1915 letter to H. G. Wells, James declares, «It is art that makes life.» This book traces the rich...

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Télécharger le livre :  Dangerous Dreams
In the documentary Celluloid Closet (1995), actress Susan Sarandon said films are «important – and they’re dangerous – because we’re the keepers of the dreams.» The visual media hold a powerful sway, influencing attitudes on class, gender, race, and ethnicity, politics,...

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Télécharger le livre :  The World of Stephanie St. Clair
Born in Guadeloupe in 1897, Stephanie St. Clair entered the United States thirteen years later. By 1923 at the age of twenty-six she would create and manage a highly lucrative policy bank in Harlem – earning a quarter of a million dollars a year. To this day, she...

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