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Moments of Magical Realism in US Ethnic Literatures
A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magic realism serve to …
Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 CE
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download …
Volume 16, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs
While Kierkegaard is perhaps known best as a religious thinker and philosopher, there is an unmistakable literary element in his writings. He often explains complex concepts and …
Historic Figures of the Arthurian Era
The author has determined in an earlier McFarland book (The Historic King Arthur, 1996, paperback 2007) that there was not a historic King Arthur during the sixth century. …
Transnational Cultures of Expertise
Building on the new critical historiography about the evolution of the European state, the book analyses how administrators, scientists, popular publicists and other actors tried …
Nature's Classroom: Birds
Discover the world outside your window with fascinating facts, quick quizzes and outdoor projects that bring birds to life in nature's classroom
Toxic Exposures
Mustard gas is typically associated with the horrors of World War I battlefields and trenches, where chemical weapons were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. Few realize, …
Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England
Hamlin's study provides the first full-scale account of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient scepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (c. 1570-1630). Offering …
The Morton W. Bloomfield Lectures, 1989-2005
Shortly after Morton Bloomfield's death in 1987, a number of his friends and colleagues sought a way to honor and preserve his memory. The result was a lecture of more than …
Shakespeare's Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture
Taking cross-disciplinary and comparative approaches to the volume's subject, this exciting collection of essays offers a reassessment of Shakespeare's erotic and Ovidian mythology …
Sinores stora dag
Hur är det att gå i skolan egentligen? Hur tar man sig dit, vad får man lära sig och vad gör man på rasten? I denna bok följer vi med Sinore på hennes första dag i skolan, en dag …
African Empires: Volume 2
African Empires presents a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the major empires of the African continent over thousands of years. This book penetrates into the various kingdoms …