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This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances that gave voice and legitimacy to various political regimes in our species’ history. Our genetic and cultural evolution...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-25
Collection :
Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
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Der Mythos von Orpheus und Eurydike ist allgegenwärtig. Die vorliegende Publikation verfolgt seine Spuren in der Gegenwart. In Texten und Medien aller Arten treten der mythische Sänger und seine todgeweihte Frau auf. Stets aufs Neue stellen diese Werke die Frage nach...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-10-25
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Pop music is a deeply transmedial art form, a hybrid of images, attitudes, performances and texts. This bilingual volume examines the diverse transmedial processes in which German-language pop music and other forms of art enrich each other. It aims to make an important...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-10-25
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Der Sammelband versammelt Beiträge zum Thema Provinz in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur seit der Jahrtausendwende. Die Autoren analysieren die Gestaltungsweise von nationalen und globalen Phänomenen in Regional-, Dorf- und Provinzromanen. Die Provinz und das...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-10-25
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Das „Genie“ als etwas Gebärendes, Lebens-Verantwortendes – und damit Mütterliches? Auf dieser Grundlage wirft die Studie einen neuen Blick auf die Geniefigur in der deutschsprachigen Literatur von 1750-1950. Den Ausgangspunkt bildet eine Überlegung von Julia Kristeva,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-10-25
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This study of the literary relationship between Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis during the years 1936-1945 focuses on the theme of 'co-inherence' at the centre of their friendship. The idea of 'co-inherence' has long been recognized as an important contribution of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-21
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This study of the literary relationship between Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis during the years 1936-1945 focuses on the theme of 'co-inherence' at the centre of their friendship. The idea of 'co-inherence' has long been recognized as an important contribution of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-21
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Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-21
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Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-21
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The Covid-19 pandemic has thrust us all into a warped, disjointed ‘coronatime,’ which has both uncontrollably accelerated, and interminably decelerated, or got frozen. Just like the pandemic, this book provides a chance to reevaluate neoliberalism’s temporal regimes of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-10-21
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Political, literary, and cultural historians of the early modern Anglophone world have long characterized the crucial century between 1642 and 1742 as the period when absolutist theories of sovereignty yielded their dominance to shared models of governance and a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-21
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Political, literary, and cultural historians of the early modern Anglophone world have long characterized the crucial century between 1642 and 1742 as the period when absolutist theories of sovereignty yielded their dominance to shared models of governance and a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-21
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This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-21
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This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-21
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W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the great African American intellectuals of the early twentieth century. He was a prominent civil rights leader, sociologist, historian, educator, author of several works of fiction, and one of the founding figures of Pan-Africanism. Du...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-10-18
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This book elucidates the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives in extensive fragments among the Herculaneum papyri. Although his treatise was primarily polemical and lacks positive exposition, his...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-10-18
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H.D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism takes on the daring task of examining the connection between two queer women, one a poet and the other a historical novelist, living from the late 19th century through the 20th century. When they met in 1918,H.D. was...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-10-15
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Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World understands the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales to communicate a radical uncertainty haunting most human endeavors, one that challenges effective knowledge of the future, the past, or the distant present;...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-14
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Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World understands the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales to communicate a radical uncertainty haunting most human endeavors, one that challenges effective knowledge of the future, the past, or the distant present;...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-14
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Emotions, creativity, aesthetics, artistic behavior, divergent thoughts, and curiosity are both fundamental to the human experience and instrumental in the development of human-centered artificial intelligence systems that can relate, communicate, and understand human...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-13
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