Figuring the East ElectricityExamines the ambiguous constructions of the Orient in the works of four major twentieth century French writers. The four authors treated here Victor Segalen, Andr Malraux, Marguerite Duras, and Roland Barthes each experienced at one point in his or her life a deep dissatisfaction with modern European values, followed by a turn toward the East. However, due to different class, gender, and personal backgrounds, they each entertained diverse and complex
and Paul Celan and Herta Müller-Poetics of Breathing suggests that each offers a different conception of literary or poetic breath as a precondition of writing
Every item is beautifully illustrated in full colour and an extended introduction charts the history and context of the collections
That school holds that for antiquity there is nothing we may call "Judaism
the Modern Greek Enlightenment and the Greek War of Independence of 1821
Volume 2 ISBN 9781905670222
This lavishly illustrated volume will delight both scholars and fans – as well as bringing the underappreciated Peckinpah to new audiences in a new millennium
While human rights discourse arose in a Christian culture
and are influenced by the contexts in which they are embedded
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In its place we will see a proliferation of new digital currencies
and in which complex negotiations of power have taken place
the book describes the anti-heroic army career of Richard Ennis
