Outputs (468)
Public Speaking in the City: Debating and Shaping the Urban Experience (2009)
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Providing a compelling analysis of debates in and about the modern city, this book draws upon architecture, history, literary studies, new media and sociology to explore the multiple connections between location, speech and the emerging modern metrop... Read More about Public Speaking in the City: Debating and Shaping the Urban Experience.
La logique de l'amanite : roman (2015)
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Nikonor, érudit snob et acariâtre, vit retranché dans son château, en Corrèze. Il se passionne pour la mycologie (surtout cèpes et amanites) et la littérature. Au fil des pages, on va découvrir les confidences étranges qu’il nous livre sur sa famille... Read More about La logique de l'amanite : roman.
Claude Chabrol's Aesthetics of Opacity (2017)
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Claude Chabrol's cinema is generally associated with a specific type of psychological thriller, one set in the French provinces and fascinated with murder, incest, fragmented families, unstable spaces and inscrutable female characters. But Chabrol's... Read More about Claude Chabrol's Aesthetics of Opacity.
Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism (2000)
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This book seeks, through an examination of the form and content of his texts, to extend our understanding of Adolf Loos and his role in the struggle to define the nature of modernity in Vienna at the turn of the nineteenth century. It makes extensive... Read More about Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism.
Negotiating Positions: Literature, Identity and Social Critique in the Works of Wolfgang Koeppen (2001)
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This book offers new perspectives on Wolfgang Koeppen, a writer too often consigned to the margins of post-1945 literary history. Examining the interaction of the personal and the social in Koeppen's writings, this book demonstrates that the politics... Read More about Negotiating Positions: Literature, Identity and Social Critique in the Works of Wolfgang Koeppen.
Kuna Art and Shamanism: An Ethnographic Approach (2012)
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The first book to study wood carving and its relation to shamanism among Kuna people from the San Blas Archipelago, providing a rich new lens for understanding the Kuna worldview Known for their beautiful textile art, the Kuna of Panama have been scr... Read More about Kuna Art and Shamanism: An Ethnographic Approach.
Rani Bahtin (2012)
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The Early Work of Mikhail Bakhtin engages with the formative intellectual years of the Russian philosopher, literary and cultural critic Mikhail Bakhtin. The volume, which is divided into six chapters, opens with the discussion of Bakhtin’s programma... Read More about Rani Bahtin.
Wearmouth and Jarrow: Northumbrian Monasteries in an Historic Landscape (2013)
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The Anglo-Saxon monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow were amongst the most sophisticated centres of learning and artistic culture in seventh- and eighth-century Europe. As home to the great scholar Bede, their intellectual legacy was felt throughout t... Read More about Wearmouth and Jarrow: Northumbrian Monasteries in an Historic Landscape.
Adonis. The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance. (2013)
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In this detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis in post-Classical times, Carlo Caruso provides an overview of the main texts, both literary and scholarly, in Latin and in the vernacular, which secured for the Adonis myth a unique place in the Early... Read More about Adonis. The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance..
The Shaping of German Identity: Authority and Crisis, 1245-1414 (2012)
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German identity began to take shape in the late Middle Ages during a period of political weakness and fragmentation for the Holy Roman Empire, the monarchy under which most Germans lived. Between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, the idea that... Read More about The Shaping of German Identity: Authority and Crisis, 1245-1414.