The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading, Paperback - Meir Sternberg

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The question of the materiality of the book has surprising consequences when applied to dramatic writing. In Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama,...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Sanford BudickIllustration(s): 2 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 192Collection: Edin...

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What does it mean to "fail" in performance? How might staging failure reveal theatre’s potential to expand our understanding of social, political a...

The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines lit...

Athenian comedy was written for performance in competitions at religious festivals. This book applies traditional philological techniques to five o...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Michael DavidsonIllustration(s): 24 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Collection: CripPublication...

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In an original study, Patrick Colm Hogan brings the insights of global comparative literature to bear on central issues of ethics. A compelling, na...

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, P...

Reducere. Evolution makes good scientific sense. The question is whether it makes good theological sense as well. Christians who find evolution contrary to f...

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A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stonePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Fabio BarryIllustration(s...

Reducere. Reveals the presence of God in the creative works of human life and culture What are the "poetics of everyday life"? What can they teach us about G...

Examines the ideology of divine and human rule in Daniel's historical resumes or reviews found in chaps 2, 7, 8, 9, 10-12.

Rachel Douglas traces the genesis, transformation, and afterlives of the different versions of C. L. R. James's landmark The Black Jacobins across ...

This book locates Polwhele's work within key preoccupations of the age and will be of interest to those working in the field of late eighteenth and...

Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoAuthor(s): AristotleNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 141 x 216 x 5Cover type: Paperba...

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from Sout...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Tobias WilkeIllustration(s): 5 color plates, 39 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Tobias WilkeIllustration(s): 5 color plates, 39 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

Reducere. This book provides an overview of the grand narrative of the Bible, showing how God's action in the world gives meaning to our lives and provides u...

This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 ye...

Reducere. The world-renowned pediatrician, T. Berry Brazelton, and Bertrand G. Cramer, psychoanalyst and pioneer in infant psychiatry, have combined lifetime...

The exciting and authentic story of the creation and exploits of the JDL, by its founder.

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Art. Music. Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. BLACK...

Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from John Bartram's botanical garden in Philadelphia and the a...

From the bestselling author of Landmarks and Mountains Of The Wild, comes a autobiographical essay on the importance of giving and receiving books....

The first literary and cultural reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, a major Greek epic from the height of the Roman Empire which tells the ...

This history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to today's digital revol...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Antonello (University of Pisa, Italy) BoschiIllustration(s): 42 Line drawings, black and white; 76 Halfto...

Reducere. Henri de Lubac, S.J. De Lubac traces the origin of 19th century attempts to construct a humanism apart from God, the sources of contemporary atheis...

This book is a timely investigation of a poet whose work seems simultaneously to invite analysis and to refuse explanations of its sensuous, allusi...

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Features essays about why we read. This work explores the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin ...

DescriptionContents- Shibboleth: For Paul Celan- "A Self-Unsealing Poetic Text" Poetics and Politics of Witnessing- Language Does Not Belong: An In...

Reducere. DescriptionRhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry, making legible a range of ways poetry affects us that cannot be parsed...

An anthology of essays about the joys of reading and of giving books, from some of the world's most beloved writers. Inspired by and including Robe...

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Reducere. It would be difficult to imagine what human life would be like without stories--from myths recited by Pueblo Indian healers in the kiva, ballads su...

Reducere. Reveals how young children use drawing to play with ideas. Through engaging anecdotes, Ursula Kolbe gives insight into the rich possibilities of dr...

A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the priv...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Emily (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley) ZazuliaNumber...

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University PressAuthor(s): Peter J. BaileyNumber of pages: 295Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 168 x 242 x 20Cover ...

Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015 - Kate McLoughlin