Comparing the Literatures. Literary Studies in a Global Age, Paperback - David Damrosch

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): David DamroschIllustration(s): 14 b/w illus.Number of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the colon...

DescriptionParamahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), a Hindu missionary to the United States, wrote one of the world's most highly acclaimed spiritual cla...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social...

The Family of Man is the most widely seen exhibition in the history of photography. The book of the exhibition, still in print, is also the most co...

Revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or values. This book explores how this classical idea can be applied to ...

From the book's signature "toolkit" approach to the new chapter on the Environment and Sustainability to the accompanying videos and interactive le...

From the book's signature "toolkit" approach to the new chapter on the Environment and Sustainability to the accompanying videos and interactive le...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressIllustration(s): 8 halftonesNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 23Cover typ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Suzanne S. (National Institute of Education, Singapore) ChooIllustration(s): 2 Line drawings, black and w...

Reducere. A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and wi...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): David DamroschNumber of pages: 496Collection: Pelican BooksPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 142 x 222 x 36C...

Hoyt Long offers both a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational methods and an introduction to the history, theory, an...

This volume addresses manifestations of Holocaust-engendered global discourse by critically examining their function and inherent dilemmas, and the...

A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from anc...

Reporter, editor and lecturer Stanley Flink knows the news business. He has worked as a journalist and editor for many years, in many different ven...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcNumber of pages: 304Collection: Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World LiteraturesPublication date: 2022Dime...

DescriptionThe first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeois...

Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolution...

Reducere. As Christians, how do we address the contentious and often disturbing subject of demonology? Our cultural paradigms pit us between the extremes of ...

The critically acclaimed global story of football in the twenty-first century.

Reducere. Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health brings together scholars working in disability studies, mad studies, feminist theory, ...

A globe-spanning narrative history of the 1850s - a time of electrifying change - seen through the eyes of the men and women who embraced the adven...

Reducere. In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwin...

Reducere. Wrapped in the glow of the computer or phone screen, we cruise websites; we skim and skip. We glance for a brief moment at whatever catches our eye...

Reducere. Claims that our current political upheavals, exemplified by the far-right populism of billionaire Donald Trump, reveal fundamental flaws in secular...

Publisher: Geological SocietyIllustration(s): Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.)Number of pages: 247Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 198 ...

This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contracts with...

Reducere. With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in No...

Muslims in the Movies provides an introduction to the subject of Muslims and film for new readers while also serving as new works of critical analy...

Reducere. Waking Giant is a brilliant, definitive history of America's vibrant and tumultuous rise during the Jacksonian era from David S. Reynolds, the Banc...

Reducere. In his lucid and bracing history, [David] Bell helps us better understand how [a] charismatic grifter came to occupy the most powerful office in th...

Reducere. Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this "useful, entertaining and informative" story of the first great epic (The W...

This book tells the story of diverse online creators--women, ethnic and racial minorities, queer folk and those from hardscrabble backgrounds--prod...

World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challen...

Austerity and structural adjustment programs are just the latest forms of neoliberal policy to have a profoundly damaging impact on the targeted po...

Contributor(s): Author: Scott C. LeviThis book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth an...