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  • Matthew: An Introduction and Study Guide

    The Basileia of the Heavens is Near at Hand

    by Elaine M. Wainwright ...
    Series series T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the New Testament
    Recent decades have seen significant shifts in biblical scholarship opening up a range of ways of engaging the biblical narrative - both methodologically (the tools and techniques for engaging the text) and hermeneutically (the perspectives that inform an interpreter's approach to the text and to the interpretative task). It is these shifts that give shape to this introduction and study guide, so ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic

    Darwinian Essays on Literature

    by M. Wainwright ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature. This wide-ranging analysis includes studies of the works of Oscar Wilde, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Theodore Dreiser, John Roderigo Dos Passos, and William Faulkner. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Faulkner’s Gambit

    Chess and Literature

    by M. Wainwright ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers the first full-length study of the chess structures, motifs, and imagery in William Faulkner's Knight's Gambit . Wainwright looks at the importance of chess as a literary device and examines the structural analogy drawn between the game and linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • King Solomon's Mines

    by H. Rider Haggard, Sheba Blake ...
    King Solomon's Mines is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary genre. Allan Quatermain ... Read more

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  • Lost Christianities:The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew

    The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew

    by Bart D. Ehrman ...
    The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine, while others said he was divine but not human. In Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Great War And Modern Memory

    by Paul Fussell ...
    The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

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  • Higher Gossip

    Essays and Criticism

    by John Updike ...
    One of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century—and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series—delivers the intimate, generous, insightful, and beautifully written collection he was compiling when he died.This collection of miscellaneous prose opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter, a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Jewish Annotated New Testament

    by Amy-Jill Levine;Marc Z. Brettler ...
    Although major New Testament figures--Jesus and Paul, Peter and James, Jesus' mother Mary and Mary Magdalene--were Jews, living in a culture steeped in Jewish history, beliefs, and practices, there has never been an edition of the New Testament that addresses its Jewish background and the culture from which it grew--until now. In The Jewish Annotated New Testament, eminent experts under the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Bible For Kids

    Great Bible Stories For Kids

    by Speedy Publishing ...
    Bible stories are exciting. Many kids don't understand the big words written in the Bible. Having a book that is Bible based but puts words on their levels would be great. Children can watch the pages of the Bible come to life through illustrations and words they can understand. There's no reason why ever child wouldn't want a book about a man being eaten by a fish or a little boy killing a giant. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Emergence of Pre-Cinema

    Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination

    by Alberto Gabriele ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The book investigates the dispersed emergence of the new visual regime associated with nineteenth-century pre-cinematic spectacles in the literary imagination of the previous centuries. Its comparative angle ranges from the Medieval and Baroque period to the visual and stylistic experimentations of the Romantic age, in the prose of Anne Radcliffe, the experiments of Friedrich Schlegel, and in ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

    Edited by Mark Richardson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • God's Arbiters

    Americans and the Philippines, 1898 - 1902

    by Susan K. Harris ...
    Series series Imagining the Americas
    When the U.S. liberated the Philippines from Spanish rule in 1898, the exploit was hailed at home as a great moral victory, an instance of Uncle Sam freeing an oppressed country from colonial tyranny. The next move, however, was hotly contested: should the U.S. annex the archipelago? The disputants did agree on one point: that the United States was divinely appointed to bring democracy--and with ... Read more

    $27.59 USD