ISBN: 9780520066076 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 384 Rok wydania: 1992
Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this...
ISBN: 9780520222991 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 374 Rok wydania: 2001
Germany of the 1920s offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still...
ISBN: 9780520063297 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 464 Rok wydania: 1988
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian...
ISBN: 9780520071612 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 384 Rok wydania: 1990
Conflicting interests and conflicting attitudes toward the war characterized the uneasy relationship between Washington and Hollywood during World War II. There was deep disagreement within the...
ISBN: 9780520205710 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 332 Rok wydania: 1997
To what extent are our most romantic moments determined by the portrayal of love in film and on TV? Is a walk on a moonlit beach a moment of perfect romance or simply a simulation of the familiar...
ISBN: 9780520204515 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 250 Rok wydania: 1996
The death of the book has been duly announced, and with it the end of brick-and-mortar libraries, traditional publishers, linear narrative, authorship, and disciplinarity, along with the emergence...
ISBN: 9780520032750 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 447 Rok wydania: 1992
This book contains eighteen original essays żeby leading Joyce scholars on the eighteen separate chapters of "Ulysses". It attempts to explore the richness of Joyce's extraordinary...
ISBN: 9780520209008 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 317 Rok wydania: 1997
Tokugawa Japan ranks with ancient Athens as a society that not only tolerated, but celebrated, male homosexual behavior. Few scholars have seriously studied the subject, and until now none have...
ISBN: 9780520205086 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 449 Rok wydania: 1996
In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian...
ISBN: 9780520258167 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 300 Rok wydania: 2008
A lively and wide-ranging study of the men and ideas of late antique education, this book explores the intellectual and doctrinal milieux in the two great cities Athens and Alexandria from the...
ISBN: 9780520286726 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Marilyn Schwartz; Amy Einsohn Ilość stron: 568 Rok wydania: 2019
Unstuffy, hip, and often funny, The Copyeditor's Handbook has become an indispensable resource both for new editors and for experienced hands who want to refresh their skills and broaden their...
ISBN: 9780520273269 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 368 Rok wydania: 2014
Following on the success of her books on Brunello di Montalcino, renowned author and wine critic Kerin O'Keefe takes readers on a historic and in-depth journey to discover Barolo and...
ISBN: 9780520254220 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 216 Rok wydania: 2007
Ants are among the most conspicuous and the most ecologically important of insects. This concise, easy-to-use, authoritative identification guide introduces the fascinating and diverse ant fauna of...
ISBN: 9780520211513 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 1998
The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically...
ISBN: 9780520258112 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 278 Rok wydania: 2008
"Adventures in Yiddishland" examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the...
ISBN: 9780520272910 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 336 Rok wydania: 2012
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales' disturbing story of slavery...
ISBN: 9780520240797 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 297 Rok wydania: 2003
Allan Kaprow's 'happenings' and 'environments' were the precursors to contemporary performance art, and his essays are some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential...
ISBN: 9780520261730 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 736 Rok wydania: 2010
This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry....
ISBN: 9780520082878 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 816 Rok wydania: 1993
The Companion is a major contribution to the literary evaluation of Pound's great, but often bewildering and abstruse work, The Cantos. Available in a one-volume paperback edition for the first...
ISBN: 9780520279940 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 792 Rok wydania: 2015
The surprising final chapter of a great American life. When the first volume of Mark Twain's uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf...