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17 produkter
Divided Cities
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003
E-bok, 2006
277 kr
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Cities, at their best, are cradles of diversity, opportunity, and citizenship. Why, then, do so many cities today seem scarred by divisions separating the powerful and privileged from the victims of deprivation and injustice? What is it like to live on the wrong side of the divide in Paris, London, …
Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe
Encounters with a Certain Something
E-bok, 2005
2467 kr
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What is the je-ne-sais-quoi? How-if at all-can it be put into words? In addressing these questions, Richard Scholar offers the first full-length study of the je-ne-sais-quoi and its fortunes in early modern Europe. He describes the rise and fall of the expression as a noun and as a topic of debate, …
Divided Cities
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003
Häftad, 2006
471 kr
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Cities, at their best, are cradles of diversity, opportunity, and citizenship. Why, then, do so many cities today seem scarred by divisions separating the powerful and privileged from the victims of deprivation and injustice? What is it like to live on the wrong side of the divide in Paris, London, …
The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe
Encounters with a Certain Something
Inbunden, 2005
4363 kr
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What is the je-ne-sais-quoi? How-if at all-can it be put into words? In addressing these questions, Richard Scholar offers the first full-length study of the je-ne-sais-quoi and its fortunes in early modern Europe. He describes the rise and fall of the expression as a noun and as a topic of debate, …
Émigrés
French Words That Turned English
Inbunden, 2020
302 kr
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The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and …
Emigres
French Words That Turned English
E-bok, 2020
263 kr
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The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the world English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and …
Émigrés
French Words That Turned English
Häftad, 2022
194 kr
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The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and …
Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800
Av Alexis Tadie, Richard Scholar
E-bok, 2016
956 kr
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The uses of fiction in early modern Europe are far more varied than is often assumed by those who consider fiction to be synonymous with the novel. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the significant role that fiction plays in early modern European culture, not only in a variety of its …
Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800
Av Alexis Tadie, Richard Scholar
E-bok, 2016
956 kr
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The uses of fiction in early modern Europe are far more varied than is often assumed by those who consider fiction to be synonymous with the novel. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the significant role that fiction plays in early modern European culture, not only in a variety of its …
Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800
Av Richard Scholar, Alexis Tadié
Inbunden, 2010
2905 kr
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The uses of fiction in early modern Europe are far more varied than is often assumed by those who consider fiction to be synonymous with the novel. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the significant role that fiction plays in early modern European culture, not only in a variety of its …
Montaigne in Transit
Essays in Honour of Ian MacLean
Av Neil Kenny, Richard Scholar m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
223 kr
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Caribbean Globalizations, 1492 to the Present Day
Av Eva Sansavior, Richard Scholar
Häftad, 2021
673 kr
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Caribbean Globalizations explores the relations between globalization and the Caribbean since 1492, when Columbus first arrived in the region, to the present day. It aims to help change prevalent ways of thinking, not only about the Caribbean archipelago as a complex field of historical enquiry and …
Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking
Häftad, 2016
343 kr
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Education, religion, scepticism, politics, friendship, sex, and style – Montaigne’s major themes are revealed here in the making of a text that practises freedom of thought by putting it to the test. This is an audacious close reading of the Essays and a demonstration of how Montaigne’s great book …
Montaigne in Transit: Essays in Honour of Ian Maclean
Av Neil Kenny, Richard Scholar
Inbunden, 2017
1516 kr
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Montaigne libre penseur
E-bok, 2015
321 kr
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Il y a plusieurs bonnes raisons de voir en Montaigne un Don Quichotte du monde des lettres. Certes, l’analogie entre le chevalier errant espagnol et son contemporain français est loin d’être exacte : non seulement Montaigne vit ses aventures en pensée et non en fait, mais au lieu de moulins à vent, …
Caribbean Globalizations, 1492 to the Present Day
Av Eva Sansavior, Richard Scholar
Inbunden, 2015
2384 kr
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Caribbean Globalizations explores the relations between globalization and the Caribbean since 1492, when Columbus first arrived in the region, to the present day. It aims to help change prevalent ways of thinking, not only about the Caribbean archipelago as a complex field of historical enquiry and …
Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking
Av Richard Scholar, Francis Robinson
Inbunden, 2010
466 kr
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We know a great deal of what Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), Shakespeare’s near-contemporary and fellow literary mastermind, thinks. We know, because he tells us on page after page of his Essais, which have marked literature and thought since the European Renaissance and remain to this day …
