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28 produkter
Prague Palimpsest
Writing, Memory, and the City
Inbunden, 2010
489 kr
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A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly revised and rewritten - from the medieval and …
Prague Palimpsest
Writing, Memory, and the City
E-bok, 2010
1068 kr
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A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly revised and rewritten—from the medieval and …
Cultures of Forgery
Making Nations, Making Selves
Inbunden, 2003
780 kr
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In Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other.
Cultures of Forgery
Making Nations, Making Selves
Häftad, 2003
294 kr
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In Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other.
Blessed Shore
England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare
Inbunden, 2007
1021 kr
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In The Winter's Tale, Antigonus announces that his ship has washed up on the shores of Bohemia. How and why landlocked Bohemia? Did Shakespeare not know his geography, or is something else at work here? Alfred Thomas answers these questions by exploring cross-cultural interactions between England …
Anne's Bohemia
Czech Literature and Society, 1310-1420
Häftad, 1998
348 kr
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The first book in English on medieval Czech literature.Anne’s Bohemia is the first general book in English to introduce the little-known riches of medieval Bohemian culture. Alfred Thomas considers the development of Czech literature and society from the election of Count John of Luxembourg as king …
Cultures of Forgery
Making Nations, Making Selves
E-bok, 2013
379 kr
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In Cultures of Forgery , leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other.
Cultures of Forgery
Making Nations, Making Selves
E-bok, 2013
370 kr
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In Cultures of Forgery , leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other.
Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War politics. The book uses the Cold War experience of dissenting artists in theatre and film to highlight the coded religio-political subtexts in Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and The Winter's …
Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War
E-bok, 2014
896 kr
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Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare''s drama through the lens of Cold War politics. The book uses the Cold War experience of dissenting artists in theatre and film to highlight the coded religio-political subtexts in Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and The …
Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe
Anne of Bohemia and Chaucer’s Female Audience
E-bok, 2016
896 kr
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Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the "Father of English Literature," evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and specifically European women. Rereading the Canterbury Tales , Thomas argues that Chaucer imagined Anne of Bohemia, wife of famed Richard II, as an ideal reader, an aspect …
Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe
Anne of Bohemia and Chaucer’s Female Audience
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the "Father of English Literature," evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and specifically European women. Rereading the Canterbury Tales , Thomas argues that Chaucer imagined Anne of Bohemia, wife of famed Richard II, as an ideal reader, an aspect …
Collision Repair and Refinishing
A Foundation Course for Technicians
Av Alfred Thomas, Michael Jund
Inbunden, 2017
1434 kr
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This trusted, reader-friendly text provides you with a thorough guide to all major areas of collision repair and refinishing as outlined by ASE Education Foundation. COLLISION REPAIR AND REFINISHING: A FOUNDATION COURSE FOR TECHNICIANS, Third Edition, covers structural and non-structural analysis …
Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War
Häftad, 2014
635 kr
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Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War politics. The book uses the Cold War experience of dissenting artists in theatre and film to highlight the coded religio-political subtexts in Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and The Winter's …
Court of Richard II and Bohemian Culture
Literature and Art in the Age of Chaucer and the Gawain Poet
Inbunden, 2020
1290 kr
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First detailed exploration of the role played by Bohemian tradition and customs in the court of Richard II.Bohemian culture exercised an important influence on the court of King Richard II, but it has been somewhat overlooked, with previous scholarship on its writers and artists generally confined …
Czech Legend of St Catherine of Alexandria
The Text and its Contexts
Inbunden, 2024
977 kr
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The first complete translation of a fascinating piece of Czech literature.The virgin martyr St Catherine was one of the pre-eminent and most popular saints in the Middle Ages, her legend spreading far and wide throughout Europe. A Bohemian version of her Vita was written in the second half of the …
Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages
Maimed Rights
Häftad, 2019
961 kr
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Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in order to critique the …
Writing Plague
Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19
Inbunden, 2022
801 kr
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Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present …
Writing Plague
Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19
E-bok, 2022
1776 kr
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Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present …
Writing Plague
Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19
Häftad, 2023
801 kr
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Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present …
Wounded Knights
Violence, Masculinity, and Medieval Courtly Love
Inbunden, 2025
1441 kr
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This broad-ranging book draws on Freudian and post-Freudian theory to offer a new and original perspective on courtly love from its origins in eleventh-century Occitania to its transformation into conflicting chivalric and courtly discourses in the later Middle Ages. Comparative and transnational …
Wounded Knights
Violence, Masculinity, and Medieval Courtly Love
E-bok, 2025
1955 kr
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This broad-ranging book draws on Freudian and post-Freudian theory to offer a new and original perspective on courtly love from its origins in eleventh-century Occitania to its transformation into conflicting chivalric and courtly discourses in the later Middle Ages. Comparative and transnational …
Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages
Maimed Rights
Inbunden, 2018
1322 kr
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Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in order to critique the …
Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages
Maimed Rights
E-bok, 2018
1250 kr
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Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in order to critique the …
