Télécharger le livre :  The Many Faces of Defeat
This book examines the great variety of experiences of the German people at the end of World War II, beginning with the frightening bombings, the passage of armies, the imprisonment of soldiers and civilians, the troop occupation of each of five separate zones, plus...

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Télécharger le livre :  Culture, Politics, and National Identity in Mexican Literature and Film, 1929-1952
From 1929 to 1952 Mexico underwent a period of intense nationalism as the state, newly emerging from the Mexican Revolution, sought to legitimize itself, consolidate its institutions, and promote economic growth. As a consequence, these years also witnessed a fervent...

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Télécharger le livre :  The German Occupation of Belgium 1940-1944
The study of German occupation policies during the Second World War and of the relation of the people in the occupied territories to these policies provides valuable insight into the political dynamics of World War II. This book describes the structure and activities of...

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Télécharger le livre :  The German-Jewish Dialogue Reconsidered
Was there a German-Jewish dialogue? This seemingly innocent question was silenced by the Holocaust. Since then, it is out of the question to take comfortable refuge to a distant past when Mendelssohn and Lessing started this dialogue. Adorno/Horkheimer, Arendt, and...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Trauma Novel
This study attempts to make sense of a group of novels that deal in a symbolic way with contemporary forms of collective disaster (the prospect of nuclear war, the Holocaust, environmental destruction). It shows similarities among British, American, Canadian and other...

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Télécharger le livre :  Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa
This book is a collection of papers read at the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999. Thirty biblical scholars and theologians – mainly from Eastern Africa, but some also from South Africa and Europe – came together to discuss...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Sceptical Theory of Morality and Law
A Sceptical Theory of Morality and Law aims ultimately to cast light on some contentious issues in the philosophy of law, including the nature of rights and of judicial interpretation. The answers one gives, however, rest on the moral theory one finds most convincing....

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Télécharger le livre :  Staging Difference
This volume seeks to determine how contemporary American playwrights and theatre practitioners translate the current debate on cultural pluralism in the United States. While offering re-visions of the Melting Pot, they often challenge its idealistic assumptions, thus...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Huguenots, the Protestant Interest, and the War of the Spanish Succession, 1702-1714
By 1700, the Protestants of Europe, above all the Calvinists (Reformed), felt threatened anew by Roman Catholicism. Activists, especially Huguenot émigrés, pleaded to friendly rulers to restore Protestantism in France and to protect it in the Holy Roman Empire as aims...

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Télécharger le livre :  Beneath the Fiction
Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares rival Don Quijote in complexity and significance. This book analyzes all twelve novelas, seeking to illuminate the inherent tensions between the usually affirmative resolutions and lessons proposed byCervantes's narrators, on the one hand,...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Complete Correspondence of Clara and Robert Schumann
The second volume of the Schumann correspondence contains letters written by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896) in 1839, documenting the major events of that year: Clara's concert tour and stay in Paris, Friedrich Wieck's continued vehement...

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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Chinese Aesthetics
This book is a collection of translations of recent work by contemporary Chinese aestheticians. Because of the relative isolation of China until recently, little is known of this rich and ongoing aesthetics tradition in China. Although some of the articles are concerned...

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Télécharger le livre :  Witchcraft, Lycanthropy, Drugs and Disease
Long before the political mass-murders witnessed in the present century, western Europe experienced another kind of holocaust – the witch-hunts of the early modern period. Condemned of flying through the air, changing into animals, and worshipping the Devil, over a...

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Télécharger le livre :  New Essays in Chinese Philosophy
New Essays in Chinese Philosophy explores various facets of Chinese thought which have received dynamic and creative scholarly attention in the recent past. It argues that Chinese culture is not «logic-less». The Confucian perception of moral sense and of reason can be...

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Télécharger le livre :  Readings in Italian Mannerism
The aim of this book is to focus on the origin of the historiography of the terms Mannerism and Maniera in paintings and drawings of the sixteenth-century in Italy.The articles herewith presented fall into two categories.The first group explains the definition of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Guenter Grass
Günter Grass ist einer der wenigen deutschsprachigen Autoren, denen es gelungen ist, Politik und Literatur in ein ästhetisch produktives Verhältnis zu setzen. Immer, wenn er es für nötig hielt, Stellung für Unterdrückte und Marginalisierte zu beziehen, tat er es ohne...

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Télécharger le livre :  Translators as Storytellers
In the third century B.C.E., translators began retelling the stories of the Hebrew Bible in Greek. The Septuagint was born but its analysis had just begun. To date, most Septuagint translation technique analysis has focused on the linguistic sensitivity of these...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Australian Novel 1830-1980
This volume introduces the reader to a powerful and rewarding territory: the Australian novel. Both drawing from and rebelling against the power of Europe. Australian writers asserted from the beginning that experience «down under» demands thorough observation and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Paul Auster and Postmodern Quest
Paul Auster published his first prose work, the autobiographical The Invention of Solitude, in 1982; since then his fiction has gained ever growing popular and critical acclaim. This book is a stimulating pioneering study of eight works that make up the Auster canon:...

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Télécharger le livre :  Against the Christians
Against the Christians examines the anti-Christian polemic works of Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian the Apostate. The first book to analyze the phenomenon of early anti-Christian literature in depth, it chooses the critics' objection to Christian exclusivism as its...

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