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The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin: Late Republic to Late Antiquity/Annalisa Marzano
Description This volume offers a comprehensive survey of Roman villas in Italy and the Mediterranean provinces of the Roman Empire, from their origins to the collapse of the Empire. The…Catre Magazin -
The Book of Saints: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary, Hardcover/Basil Watkins
Now fully revised and updated The Book of Saints is a comprehensive biographical dictionary of saints canonised by the Roman Catholic Church. It contains the names of over 10,000 saints,…Catre Magazin -
Poetics of Arabic Autobiography. Between Dissociation and Belonging, Hardback/Ariel M. Sheetrit
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Painters, Paintings and Books. An Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12-19th Centuries, Hardback/Yves Porter
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1913: The Year of French Modernism, Hardcover/Effie Rentzou
1913: The year of French modernism is the first book to respond to two deceptively simple questions: "What constituted modernism in France?" and "What is the place of France on…Catre Magazin -
Climate and Literature, Hardcover/Adeline Johns-Putra
Leading scholars examine the history of climate and literature. Essays analyse this history in terms of the contrasts between literary and climatological time, and between literal and literary atmosphere, before…Catre Magazin -
Playful Wisdom: Reimagining the Sacred in American Literature, from Walden to Gilead, Hardcover/Robert Leigh Davis
Playful Wisdom examines how Henry David Thoreau's thinking about religious "play" created a theological legacy in American literature--one that includes Emily Dickinson, Jack Kerouac, Thomas Merton, Annie Dillard, and Marilynne…Catre Magazin -
Mary Wollstonecraft in Context, Hardcover/Nancy E. Johnson
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was one of the most influential and controversial women of her age. No writer, except perhaps her political foe, Edmund Burke, and her fellow reformer, Thomas Paine,…Catre Magazin -
Maps and Territories: Global Positioning in the Contemporary French Novel, Hardcover/Joshua Armstrong
The rapidity of postwar globalization and the structural changes it has brought to both social and spatial aspects of everyday life has meant, in France as elsewhere, the destabilizing of…Catre Magazin -
The Ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books, Hardcover/John Coleman Darnell
Description Darnell and Darnell present the first, complete English translation of the ancient Egyptian books of the Netherworld, originally composed during the middle of the second millennium BCE. These texts…Catre Magazin -
School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe. Volume Two: The Reader-Writer, Hardback/Warren Boutcher
The second volume of a major two-volume study of the fortunes of Michel de Montaigne's Essais in both the early-modern (1580-1725) and the modern period (1900-2000). Volume two focuses on…Catre Magazin -
A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London, Hardcover/Scott Oldenburg
William Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporaries could even read. A Weaver-Poet…Catre Magazin -
Decadence. A Literary History, Hardback/***
This book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates, and faculty who work across Victorian Studies and twentieth-century literature. A comprehensive overview of Decadence , it also expands the methodological, geographical, and…Catre Magazin -
Spanish Culture from Romanticism to the Present: Structures of Feeling, Hardcover/Jo Labanyi
Structures of Feeling makes available two decades of work by the pioneering scholar of Spanish cultural studies, Jo Labanyi, covering literature, cinema, painting, photography, and memory studies, with a frequent…Catre Magazin -
Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, Hardcover/III Lavender, Isiah
In Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century , eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as a powerful and evolving aesthetic practice that communicates the experience of science, technology, and race…Catre Magazin -
Poetry, Painting, Park: Goethe and Claude Lorrain, Hardcover/Franz R. Kempf
Imbued with a pulsating energy that emanates from the sun, Claude Lorrain's landscape draws on the interplay of light and darkness to effect a 'living whole' and evoke the symbolic.…Catre Magazin -
Misfit Modernism, Hardcover/Octavio R. Gonzalez
In this book, Octavio R. Gonz lez revisits the theme of alienation in the twentieth-century novel, identifying an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile, or marginalization from…Catre Magazin -
The Sense of Brown, Hardcover/José Esteban Muñoz
The Sense of Brown is Jos Esteban Mu oz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book, which he…Catre Magazin -
Saracens and their World in Boiardo and Ariosto, Hardcover/Maria Pavlova
A ubiquitous presence in European chivalric literature, the multifaceted figure of the Saracen Other plays a vital role in shaping the knightly values and ideologies underpinning some of the most…Catre Magazin -
Island Genres, Genre Islands. Conceptualisation and Representation in Popular Fiction, Hardback/Lisa Fletcher
The first book length study of the conceptualization and representation of islands in popular fiction.Catre Magazin -
Lily Samii: A Journey Through Life and Fashion, Hardcover/Lily Samii
The life and times of fashion designer Lily Samii , from early life in Iran to her Bay Area boutique LYZ This book invites readers to step inside the mesmerizing…Catre Magazin -
Metamorphoses of Tintin. or Tintin for Adults, Hardback/Jean-Marie Apostolides
The Metamorphoses of Tintin , a pioneering book first published in French in 1984, offers a complete analysis of Herge's legendary hero.Catre Magazin -
Old Norse Images of Women, Hardcover/Jenny Jochens
Working from the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda, and Old Norse prose narratives and laws, Jenny Jochens argues for an underlying cultural continuum of a pagan pantheon and a set…Catre Magazin -
Approaches to Lucretius, Hardcover/Donncha O’Rourke
Both in antiquity and ever since the Renaissance Lucretius' De Rerum Natura has been admired - and condemned - for its startling poetry, its evangelical faith in materialist causation, and…Catre Magazin -
Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre, Hardcover/W. B. Worthen
This urgent and provocative study explores contemporary Shakespeare performance to bring a sense of theatre as technology into view. Rather than merely using technologies, the theatre's distinctively intermedial character is…Catre Magazin -
The Ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books, Paperback/John Coleman Darnell
Description Darnell and Darnell present the first, complete English translation of the ancient Egyptian books of the Netherworld, originally composed during the middle of the second millennium BCE. These texts…Catre Magazin -
Shakespeare And The History Of Soliloquies, Hardback/James E. Hirsh
Shakespeare's soliloquies are not only the most interesting and the most famous, but also the most misunderstood. This text examines them in detail. It also casts new lights on historical…Catre Magazin -
My First 1,000 Jumps: The Evolution of a Skydiver and the Organization That Became His Life, Paperback/Norm E. Heaton
You are holding the only comprehensive history of the early days of the sport of skydiving yet published. It is the story of not just one skydiver but the story…Catre Magazin -
David Milch, Hardback/Jason Jacobs
This book is about the life and work of David Milch , the writer who created NYPD Blue, Deadwood and other important works of US television drama. It locates him…Catre Magazin -
Atlantic Afterlives in Contemporary Fiction. The Oceanic Imaginary in Literature since the Information Age, Hardback/Sofia Ahlberg
Thus, arguing against a conventional comparative approach, this book proposes reading practices that resist the tendency toward an oversupply of reworked literary contexts that seems bent on matching the reach…Catre Magazin -
The Temples of Karnak: Teachings of an Authentic Taoist Immortal, Hardcover/R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz
More than 700 photographs and line illustrations documenting the ancient Egyptian temples of Karnak - A magnificent excursion that explores the monuments, ruins, statues, and bas-reliefs from the ancient and…Catre Magazin -
Tampa: Impressions of an Emigrant, Hardcover/Wenceslao Gálvez Y. Delmonte
In 1896, Wenceslao G lvez y Delmonte fled the violence of Cuba's war for independence and settled in Tampa. He soon made his new home the focus of a work…Catre Magazin -
Reading Homer’s Odyssey, Hardcover/Kostas Myrsiades
Description Homer's Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home, the…Catre Magazin -
Specters of World Literature. Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East, Hardback/Karim Mattar
At the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess how the field…Catre Magazin -
Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies, Hardback/***
Demonstrates the ways post colonial studies has adapted Bourdieu's sociology of literature to examine the institutions that structure the creation, dissemination, and reception of world literature; the foundational values of…Catre Magazin -
David I: King of Scots, 1124-1153, Hardcover/Richard D. Oram
David I was never expected to become king, but on succeeding to the Scottish throne in 1124 he quickly demonstrated that he had the skills, ruthlessness and ambition to become…Catre Magazin -
Poet’s Mistake, Hardback/Erica McAlpine
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Somatic Fictions. Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture, Hardback/Athena Vrettos
This book focuses on the centrality of illness-particularly psychosomatic illness-as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture. It shows how illness shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body…Catre Magazin -
Science, Fiction, and the Fin-de-Siecle Periodical Press, Hardback/Will Tattersdill
This fascinating study explores the ways in which fin-de-siecle periodicals portrayed science, both imaginatively and intellectually. It shows how general interest magazines and those who wrote for them, particularly H.…Catre Magazin -
Good Dogs: Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin’s Nansō Satomi Hakkenden/Glynne Walley
Good Dogs explores the intersection of didacticism, Chinese vernacular scholarship, social criticism, and commercial storytelling in late Tokugawa Japan through an examination of a masterpiece of 19th century popular fiction:…Catre Magazin -
Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism. Language and Cognition in Remediations of the East, Hardback/Eleonora Sasso
Investigates the latent and manifest traces of the East in Pre-Raphaelite literature and culture.Catre Magazin -
Jack London, Hardback/Kenneth K. Brandt
This study explores how Jack London 's Northland odyssey - along with an insatiable intellectual curiosity, a hardscrabble youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, and an acute craving for…Catre Magazin -
Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin, Hardcover/Fiona Hill
Fiona Hill and other U.S. public servants have been recognized as Guardians of the Year in TIME's 2019 Person of the Year issue. From the KGB to the Kremlin: a…Catre Magazin -
Writing Regional Identities in Medieval England – From the Gesta Herwardi to Richard Coer de Lyon, Hardback/Emily Dolmans
An examination of how regional identities are reflected in texts from medieval England.Catre Magazin -
Barack Obama: A Life in American History, Hardcover/F. Erik Brooks
Description Barack Obama stated, "Our destiny is not written for us. It is written by us." Was the former president talking about himself and his rise to the American presidency?…Catre Magazin -
It’s the Disney Version!. Popular Cinema and Literary Classics, Hardback/***
This collection of essays examine how the Disney studio has re-interpreted-for better or worse-classic literature into films both treasured and disdained. The films discussed in this volume include Bambi, The…Catre Magazin -
The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno, Vol. I. Part 2: Commentary, Paperback/Dante
Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy , of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand Dante's great…Catre Magazin -
Thurgood Marshall: A Life in American History, Hardcover/Spencer R. Crew
As a lawyer, Thurgood Marshall played an incredible role in ending legal segregation in the United States. For thirty years he traveled across the country for the NAACP, trying cases…Catre Magazin -
La conversacion civil, Paperback/Stefano Guazzo
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Architecture in Effect: Volume 1: Rethinking the Social in Architecture: Making Effects and Volume 2: After Effects: Theories and Methodologie, Paperback/Sten Gromark
Description Architecture in Effect is a substantial collection of essays emerging from the Swedish research environment of the same name. While it takes its point of departure from within the…Catre Magazin -
Imaginaires et representations litteraires de la mobilite, Hardback/Adina Balint
Cet ouvrage reflechit aux rapports entre les frontieres identitaires, spatiales et poetiques qui produisent de nouvelles figures d'appartenance.Catre Magazin -
Exploring Space. Spatial Notions in Cultural, Literary and Language Studies; Volume 1, Hardback/***
Exploring space: Spatial notions in cultural, literary and language studies falls into two volumes and is the result of the 18th PASE (Polish Association for the Study of English) Conference…Catre Magazin -
Stronger, Truer, Bolder. Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Writing, Nature, and the Environment, Paperback/Karen L. Kilcup
Covering a period that initially regarded children's natural bodies as labouring resources, Stronger, Truer, Bolder traces the shifting pedagogical impulse surrounding nature and the environment through the transformations that included…Catre Magazin -
Rediscovering the American Republic, Volume 1 (1492-1877): A People’s Quest for Ordered Liberty, Paperback/Ryan C. MacPherson
This volume contains over 700 pages of time-tested teaching tools, including classic biographies of five of the most influential people in American history through the era of the Civil War:…Catre Magazin -
Propuestas Par (Re)Construir Una Nacin: El Teatro de Emilia Pardo Bazn, Paperback/Margot Versteeg
Propuestas para (re)construir una naci n explores how Emilia Pardo Baz n (1851-1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909.…Catre Magazin -
Kitty Clive, or the Fair Songster, Hardcover/Berta Joncus
Description Kitty Clive (1711-1785) was a top London stage star. Singing powered her ascent and, for twenty years, was foundational to her success as she came to dominate spoken as…Catre Magazin -
Hamlet’s Problematic Revenge. Forging a Royal Mandate, Hardback/William F. Zak
Amidst a wealth of previously unremarked figurative mirrorings, as well as much of the seemingly digressive material in Hamlet within Shakespearean studies, Hamlet's Problematic Revenge brings to light a new…Catre Magazin -
Wunderkammer of Lady Charlotte Guest, Hardback/Erica Obey
This book examines the life of Lady Charlotte Guest Schreiber, who provided the first complete translation of the Mabinogion and ran her late husband's ironmongery. This book examines how collecting…Catre Magazin -
Post-Apocalyptic Novel in the Twenty-First Century. Modernity beyond Salvage, Hardback/Heather J. Hicks
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, major Anglophone authors have flocked to a literary form once considered lowbrow 'genre fiction': the post-apocalyptic novel.Catre Magazin -
Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature, Hardback/S. Edwards
From devotional literature to political narratives, medieval texts propose that sexual violence victims have privileged moral, ethical, and spiritual insight. This book explores these discourses of survival in a wide…Catre Magazin -
Licensed by Authority. Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship, Hardback/Richard Burt
A provocative reinterpretation of Jacobean and caroline theater censorship and theatrical culture.Catre Magazin -
The Feeling Balletbody, Paperback/Annemari Autere
The Feeling Balletbody by Annemari Autere I am fascinated by how much time six-year-old children can spend making the thumb touch the index finger, then the middle finger, and so…Catre Magazin -
Temple of the Soul Initiation Philosophy in the Temple of Osiris at Abydos: Decoded Temple Mysteries Translations of Temple Inscriptions and Walking P, Hardcover/Muata Ashby
Description Initiation in the Temple of Osiris at Abydos, Egypt with Hieroglyph Translations of Temple Inscriptions detailing the Initiation Zones and Walking Path through The Temple Mysteries of the Priests…Catre Magazin -
The Illustrated Vivian Stanshall: A Fairytale of Grimm Art, Paperback/Ki Longfellow
Contributor(s): Author: Ki Longfellow Illustrator: Ben Wickey Twenty three years ago Vivian Stanshall died in a fire, trapped in a north London flat. Drunk, he slept through his own death.…Catre Magazin -
Keywords in Chinese Culture, Hardcover/Wai-Yee Li
Like every major culture, Chinese has its set of keywords: pivotal terms of political, ethical, literary, and philosophical discourse. Tracing the origins, development, polysemy, and usages of keywords is one…Catre Magazin -
In the Presence of Schopenhauer, Hardcover/Michel Houellebecq
The work of Michel Houellebecq - one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time - is marked by the thought of Schopenhauer. When Houellebecq came across…Catre Magazin -
Lord Byron and Mythology, Hardback/Naji B. Oueijan
This book offers a detailed study of Byron's Mythology. Ever since his childhood and adolescence and before he became a legendary poet, George Gordon Byron felt the sense of escaping…Catre Magazin -
The Bronts and War: Fantasy and Conflict in Charlotte and Branwell Bront’s Youthful Writings, Hardcover/Emma Butcher
This book explores the representations of militarisim and masculinity in Charlotte and Branwell Bront 's youthful writings. It offers insight into how the siblings understood and reimagined conflict (both local…Catre Magazin -
A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery, Paperback/Lyndy Abraham
This dictionary documents alchemical symbolism from the early centuries AD to the late-twentieth century, for use by historians of literary culture, philosophy, science and the visual arts, and readers interested…Catre Magazin -
Frances E. W. Harper. A Call to Conscience, Hardback/Utz Mcknight
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Becoming Property: Art, Theory, and Law in Early Modern France, Hardcover/Katie Scott
Description This original and relevant book investigates the relationship between intellectual property and the visual arts in France from the 16th century to the French Revolution. It charts the early…Catre Magazin -
Two-World Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Early Novels, Hardcover/Rebecca Suter
In this study, Rebecca Suter aims to complicate our understanding of world literature by examining the creative and critical deployment of cultural stereotypes in the early novels of Kazuo Ishiguro.…Catre Magazin -
Comunidades efimeras. Grupos de vanguardia y neovanguardia en la novela hispanoamericana del siglo XX, Hardback/Luis H. Castaneda
Comunidades efimeras estudia una de las vetas mas interesantes, y menos visitadas por la critica, de la imaginacion literaria hispanoamericana: la representacion novelistica de pequenos grupos de vanguardia y neovanguardia…Catre Magazin -
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Place of Intercultural Exchanges. A Translation Perspective, Hardback/Roxana Stefania Birsanu
The focal point of this study is one of the masterpieces of Anglo-American poetry, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, tackled from the perspective of translation. In this particular case, translation…Catre Magazin -
First Civilizations: Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt/Robert Chadwick
First Civilizations is the second edition of a popular student text first published in 1996 in Montreal by Les Editions Champ Fleury. This much updated and expanded edition provides an…Catre Magazin -
On Lingering and Literature, Hardback/Harold Schweizer
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Revolting Families. Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realisms in the German Sixties, Hardback/Carrie Smith-Prei
Revolting Families places the literary depiction of familial and intimate relations in 1960s West Germany against the backdrop of public discourse on the political significance of the private sphere.Catre Magazin -
Doris Kearns Goodwin: The Presidential Biographies: No Ordinary Time, Team of Rivals, the Bully Pulpit/Doris Kearns Goodwin
Description From America's "Historian-in-Chief" ( New York magazine), The Presidential Biographies boxed set--featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's beloved and bestselling biographies No Ordinary Time, Team of Rivals, and The Bully…Catre Magazin -
Duet with the Past: A Composer’s Memoir, Paperback/Daron Hagen
Description Composer, conductor and operatic polymath Daron Hagen has written five symphonies, a dozen concertos, 13 operas, reams of chamber music and more than 350 art songs. His intimate, unsparing…Catre Magazin -
Dante Encyclopedia, Paperback/***
Presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works and the cultural context in which his moral and intellectual imagination took shape.Catre Magazin