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  • Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature

    de Laurel Plapp ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a Western image of the Islamic world that has justified domination, critics have considered the Jewish ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Rilke

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism. In this Companion, leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays on his life and social context, his correspondence, all his major collections of poetry including most famously the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to ... Leer más

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  • Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund

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    Series series Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
    Bernard Goldstein’s memoir describes a hard world of taverns, toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers, handcart porters, and wagon drivers; and of fist-and gunfights with everyone from anti-Semites and Communists to hostile police, which is to say that it depicts a totally different view of life in prewar Poland than the one usually portrayed. As such, the book offers a ... Leer más

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  • Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series

    Murder in the Age of Chaos

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is the first monograph in English that comprehensively examines the ways in which Italian historical crime novels, TV series, and films have become a means to intervene in the social and political changes of the country. This study explores the ways in which fictional representations of the past mirror contemporaneous anxieties within Italian society in the work of writers such as ... Leer más

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  • Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law

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    Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law. Between those who care about the rule of law and those who are interested in contemporary legal theory, there has been a dialogue of the deaf, which cannot continue. Starting from the position that contemporary critiques of linguistic meaning ... Leer más

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  • Boccaccio the Philosopher

    An Epistemology of the Decameron

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian literature. Filippo Andrei argues that Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron has a significant though concealed engagement with philosophy, and that the philosophical implications of its narratives can be understood through an epistemological approach ... Leer más

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  • Academy Dictionaries 1600–1800

    This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to glorify living European languages. The tradition began with the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612) in Florence and the Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (1694) in Paris, and spread across Europe - to Germany, Spain, England, ... Leer más

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  • Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic

    Darwinian Essays on Literature

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  • Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies

    An Anthology of Italian Poetry from Pasolini to the Present, Tome 1, 1956-1975

    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies is an anthology of poems and essays that aims to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II. Beginning with the birth of Officina and Il Verri, and culminating with the crisis of the mid-seventies, this tome features works by such poets as Pasolini, Pagliarani, Rosselli, Sanguineti and Zanzotto, as well as such forerunners ... Leer más

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  • The History of Yiddish Literature

    de Leo Wiener ...
    A SUGGESTION to write the present book reached me in the spring of 1898. At that time my library contained several hundreds of volumes of the best Judeo-German (Yiddish) literature, which had been brought together by dint of continued attention and, frequently, by mere chance, for the transitoriness of its works, the absence of any and all bibliographies, the almost absolute absence of a guide ... Leer más

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