Literature
Please note - the books listed here are print editions. Click on the thumbnails to see ebook buying options.
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The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices [eBook (PDF)]
Philip J. Boyes(Editor); Philippa M. Steele(Editor); Natalia Elvira Astoreca(Editor)
£0.00ISBN: 9781789254815
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS)
Volume: 2
Writing is not just a set of systems for transcribing language and communicating meaning, but an important element of human practice, deeply embedded in the cultures where it is present and fundamentally interconnected with all other aspects of hu... .... Learn More -
Early Greek Alphabetic Writing: A Linguistic Approach [eBook (PDF)]
Natalia Elvira Astoreca(Author)
£0.00ISBN: 9781789258318
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS)
Volume: 5
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions ar... .... Learn More -
Forbidden Literature: Case studies on censorship [Paperback]
Erik Erlanson (Editor)
£37.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9789188661876
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
Freedom of the printed word is a defining feature of the modern world. Yet censorship and the suppression of literature never cease, and remain topical issues even in the most liberal of democracies. Today, just as in the past, advances in media t... .... Learn More -
Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology [Paperback]
Heleene De Jonckheere (Editor); Marie-Hélène Gorisse (Editor); Agnieszka Rostalska (Editor)
£38.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789252828
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Puspika: Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Traditions
Volume: 5
This volume is the outcome of the Ninth International Indology Graduate Research Symposium held at Ghent University in September 2017, the fifth publication of proceedings from this series of symposiums. Like previous volumes, the current edition ... .... Learn More -
Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets [eBook (PDF)]
Philippa M. Steele(Editor); Philip J. Boyes(Editor)
£0.00ISBN: 9781789250954
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS)
Volume: Volume 1
Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Facul... .... Learn More -
War Remains: Mediations of Suffering and Death in the Era of the World Wars [Hardback]
Marie Cronqvist (Editor)
£29.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9789188168818
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
What remains after war? In the World War era more than 120 million people died an untimely or violent death. The horrifying experience of mass death lingered on in cultural narratives for years. The cultural output repeated, re-inforced, or renego... .... Learn More -
Hype: Bestsellers & Literary Culture [Paperback]
Jon Helgason (Editor)
£29.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9789187675065
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
Best-sellers are the books that sell well, are read by large numbers of people, and are widely talked about in the media and among readers. Yet there has been little research on the creation, reception, and cultural and social significance of best... .... Learn More -
Re-Mapping Lagerloff: Performance, Intermediality & European Transmissions [Hardback]
Helena Forsas-Scott (Editor)
£35.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9789187351211
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
For the first time ever, cutting-edge research about the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf and her work is made available to a world-wide audience in one comprehensive volume. Written by an international group of scholars, this book highlights... .... Learn More -
Women's Language: An Analysis of Style & Expression in Letters Before 1800 [Hardback]
Eva Haettner Aurelius (Editor)
£32.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9789187121876
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
Is there a special niche reserved for women's language? This is the theory tested empirically by the authors of Women's language, by means of an exhaustive stylistic analysis of a voluminous body of letters written in five different languages -- L... .... Learn More -
Chronicle of Duke Erik: A Verse Epic from Medieval Sweden [Hardback]
Erik Calquist (Author)
£32.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9789185509577
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
'The Chronicle of Duke Erik' is a Swedish classic with resounding national status like the English Beowulf or Finnish Kalevala. Here, at last, it is made available to a wider international readership in an English version. Written in the fourteent... .... Learn More
