Literature in the Modern World, Paperback

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It, Paperback - Art

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Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages, Paperback - ***

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Tolkien delved into the Middle Ages to create a critique of the modern world in his fantasy, yet did so in a form of modernist literature with post...

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World Literature in Motion: Institution, Recognition, Location, Paperback - Flair Donglai Shi

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Apathy Is Out: Selected Poems. Ni Ceadmhach Neamhshuim: Rogha Danta, Paperback - Sean O Riordain

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Sean O Riordain (1916-77) was the most important Irish-language poet of modern times. He revitalised poetry in Irish, combining the world of Irish ...

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The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization, Paperback - ***

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The Dutch in the Early Modern World: A History of a Global Power, Paperback - David Onnekink

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When Love Comes to Light: Bringing Wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita to Modern Life, Paperback - Richard Freeman

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The Blazing World, Paperback - Margaret Cavendish

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Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children's Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Maria Sachiko Cecire

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From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world Why a...

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Emma, Paperback - Jane Austen

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Decameron, Paperback - Giovanni Boccaccio

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Crime and Punishment: A New Translation, Paperback - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature...

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Revolt Against the Sun. The Selected Poetry of Nazik al-Mala'ika: A Bilingual Reader, Paperback - Nazik Al-Malaika

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A key resource for students and teachers of Arabic and world literature, as well as for readers interested in discovering an alternative narrative ...

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Known World, Paperback - Edward P. Jones

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Masterful, Pulitzer-prize winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original...

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Land at the End of the World, Paperback - Antonio Antunes

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Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece, Paperback - Declan Kiberd

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Witchcraft: The Basics, Paperback - Marion Gibson

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Modern Greek for Classicists, Paperback - Ilias Kolokouris

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The Complete Plays of Sophocles, Paperback - Sophocles

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Award-winningpoet-playwrights Robert Bagg and James Scully presenta gripping new translation of Western literature's earliest treasures in TheCompl...

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A Modern Utopia, Paperback - H. G. Wells

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In A Modern Utopia, two travelers fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government....

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The Apocalyptic Literature, Paperback - Stephen L. Cook

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Biblical texts create worlds of meaning and invite readers to enter them. When readers enter such textual worlds, which are strange and complex, th...

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The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World, Paperback - John Boardman

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From the epic poems of Homer to the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age, to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership,...

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Sacred Act of Reading. Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature, Paperback - Anne Margaret Castro

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From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spir...

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Heroes Masked and Mythic: Echoes of Ancient Archetypes in Comic Book Characters, Paperback - Christopher Wood

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Story of the World, Vol. 4 Activity Book, Revised Edition: The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR - Susan Wise Bauer

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The World Is a Book, Indeed: Writing, Reading, and Traveling, Paperback - Peter Lasalle

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Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug, Paperback - Augustine Sedgewick

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extremely wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest literature rooted more in ...

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Unbridled Dreamer, Paperback - Wylie Graham McLallen

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A Dictionary of Symbols, Paperback - Juan Eduardo Cirlot

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Contributor(s): Author: Juan Eduardo CirlotIntroduction by: Philip PullmanTranslator: Valerie MilesA classic encyclopedia of symbols by Catalan pol...

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How Literatures Begin: A Global History, Paperback - Joel B. Lande

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

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A History of Tokyo 1867-1989: From EDO to Showa: The Emergence of the World's Greatest City, Paperback - Edward Seidensticker

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Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, Paperback - Gustave Flaubert

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One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on...

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Principles of Geology, Paperback - Charles Lyell

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One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to expla...

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Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World, Paperback - Nicholas Terpstra

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Shakespeare Beyond Science: When Poetry Was the World, Paperback - Sky Gilbert

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This means jettisoning the yearning to find the 'true meaning' of Shakespeare's texts--as Shakespeare wrote at a time when poetry was not meant to ...

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Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Avila and the Spanish Mystics, Paperback - ***

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Publisher: Modern Language Association of AmericaNumber of pages: 297Collection: Approaches to Teaching World Literature 109Publication date: 2009D...

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Paradise Lost, Paperback - John Milton

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Reducere. Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. FallonJohn Milton's Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen an...

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Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections, Paperback - Johan Schimanski

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Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World, Paperback - Carrie L. Ruiz

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Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the sp...

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The Secret Doctrine, Paperback - H. P. Blavatsky

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Complete and unabridged, here is the unparalleled landmark of occult philosophy and lost history that reshaped the modern spiritual mindset and con...

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Story of the World, Vol. 3 Activity Book: History for the Classical Child: Early Modern Times (Revised Edition), Paperback - Susan Wise Bauer

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The Winter's Tale, Paperback - William Shakespeare

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Origins: The Ancient Impact and Modern Implications of Genesis 1-11, Paperback - Paul Copan

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The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic, Paperback - Ramesh Menon

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The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts, Paperback - Jiri Koten

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French Decadent Tales, Paperback - ***

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Miracle of the Rose, Paperback - Jean Genet

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An Introduction to Modern Arab Culture, Paperback - Bassam Frangieh

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The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World, Paperback - Lewis Hyde

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Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, Paperback - Yogita Goyal

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Argues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining templ...

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Under African Skies: Modern African Stories, Paperback - Charles R. Larson

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Inferno, Paperback - ***

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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Paperback - Jacob Burckhardt

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For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world ...

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Iran: A Modern History, Paperback - Abbas Amanat

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Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words, Paperback - Jeremy Mynott

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Birds pervaded the ancient world. They impressed their physical presence on the daily experience and imaginations of ordinary people in town and co...

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The Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Epic Stories, Ancient Traditions, New ed, Paperback - ***

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The ancient Mabinogi is a great world literature and fascinating Celtic mythology. Here in the much-loved Guest translation and including companion...

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Pill, Paperback - Robert Bennett

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Critique of Pure Reason, Paperback - Immanuel Kant

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Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History, Paperback - Alan Strathern

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DescriptionWhy was religion so important for rulers in the pre-modern world? And how did the world come to be dominated by just a handful of religi...

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The Divine Comedy, Paperback - ***

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Reducere. "Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third." - T. S. Eliot"Dante's poem is, for many, the greatest single work ...

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The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Paperback - Nawal El Saadawi

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Contributor(s): Author: Nawal El SaadawiA classic of modern Arab writing, The Hidden Face of Eve receives fresh life with this beautiful new editio...

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Dante: Poet of the Secular World, Paperback - Erich Auerbach

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Erich Auerbach's Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and...

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Let Me Be Frank with You: A Frank Bascombe Book, Paperback - Richard Ford

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Reducere. A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Basco...

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