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  • The Iliad

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    innbundet, 2013, Engelsk, ISBN 9780199326105

    Homer's Iliad is one of the foundational texts of Western Civilization. The timelessness of its story, of men battling fate amidst the horrors of war, still stirs the imaginations

  • Henry David Thoreau

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    innbundet, 2024, Engelsk, ISBN 9780197684269

    "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden

  • Olivier Messiaen

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    innbundet, 2016, Engelsk, ISBN 9780190277949

    The 20th century French composer Olivier Messiaen was a devout Roman Catholic and notably claimed that his music was an expression of his faith. Unsurprisingly, many performers and

  • Vestiges of a Philosophy

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    innbundet, 2022, Engelsk, ISBN 9780197613917

    Vestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson covers a fascinating yet little known moment in history. At the turn of the twentieth century, Henri

  • The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

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    innbundet, 2011, Engelsk, ISBN 9780199747498

    Is reading under threat? No, says Alan Jacobs--but people do need help iand encouragemnt to enjoy it to the full. Jacobs's experience as a lecturer and many-time author suggests

  • The Literary Mind

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    innbundet, 1997, Engelsk, ISBN 9780195104110

    We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the

  • The Revelations of St. Birgitta of Sweden: Volume I

    innbundet, 2006, Engelsk, ISBN 9780195166446

    St. Birgitta of Sweden (1303-1373, canonized 1391) was one of the most charismatic and influential female visionaries of the later Middle Ages. Altogether, she received some 700

  • Kinesic Humor

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    innbundet, 2021, Engelsk, ISBN 9780190930066

    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF

  • Cognitive Literary Science

    innbundet, 2017, Engelsk, ISBN 9780190496869

    This book brings together researchers with cognitive-scientific and literary backgrounds to present innovative research in all three variations on the possible interactions between

  • A Literary Tour de France

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    innbundet, 2018, Engelsk, ISBN 9780195144512

    The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if