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Harmonious Disagreement [PDF ebook] 
Matteo Ricci and His Closest Chinese Friends

150 years after Alice”s Adventures in Wonderland was first published, Lewis Carroll”s eponymous heroine has become one of the most familiar figures in the cultural landscape. The enduringly iconic …

James Joyce and Classical Modernism contends that the classical world animated Joyce”s defiant, innovative creativity and cannot be separated from what is now recognized as his modernist aesthetic. …

Birgitta of Sweden (Birgitta Birgersdotter, 1302/03-1373) and her younger contemporary Catherine of Siena (Caterina Benincasa, 1347-1380) form the most powerful and influential female duo in European …

Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in li …

This new introduction to Euripides” fascinating interpretation of the story of Electra and her brother Orestes emphasizes its theatricality, showing how captivating the play remains to this day. …

Biblical Limits is a new series which brings to the traditional field of Biblical Studies literary criticism, anthropology and gender-based approaches, thus reaching new ways of understanding Biblica …

Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze maps a new intellectual and literary history of postcolonial Caribbean writing and thought spanning from the 1930s surrealist movement to the present, …

Beyond his pivotal place in the history of scientific thought, Charles Darwin”s writings and his theory of evolution by natural selection have also had a profound impact on art and culture and …

This new study of the major prose and plays of Oscar Wilde argues that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style. It is this major emphasis on style and attitude which helps mark Wilde so …

This book, first published in 1994, sets ‘repertoire against raconteur’ in order to explore one of the world’s largest collections of folk literature. The author’s findings, and his creative and synt …