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Series Book 47 - Literary and Cultural Theory
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Series Book 4 - Mitología
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Cuando el rey de Creta muere, estalla la lucha por el poder. Minos afirma tener el respaldo de los dioses… y Poseidón lo confirma haciendo surgir del mar un espectacular toro blanco.Pero el nuevo rey comete un error imperdonable: se queda con el animal. El castigo divino no tarda en llegar: nace el Minotauro, una criatura brutal que Creta entera aprende a temer.Encerrado en un laberinto imposible,
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Unveiling Desire

Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East

by Devaleena Das, Colette Morrow, Firdous Azim, Paramita Halder, Hafiza Nilofar Khan, Amrit Gangar, Naina Dey, Louis Betty0, Lavinia Benedetti1, Tomoko Kuribayashi2, Meenakshi Malhotra3, Chandrani Biswas4, Radha Chakravarty5, Feroza Jussawalla6, Kuhu Sharma Chanana7 ...

In Unveiling Desire, Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, including Iran, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Japan, and China, this anthology challenges the fascination with Eastern women as passive, abject, or ... Read more

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In Unveiling Desire, Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, including Iran, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Japan, and China, this anthology challenges the fascination with Eastern women as passive, abject, or
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The Seleucid Empire | Children's Middle Eastern History Books

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While the Arthurian folk tales are mostly stories of friendships, this one is focused on the strength and spirit of King Arthur especially when he pulled the sword from the stone. Perfect as a bedtime story, this book will surely be loved by parents and children. What lessons did your child take away from the story of Arthur? Find out soon! ... Read more

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The changing medieval canon

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Series series Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those texts that we now study and teach as the most canonical representations of their era were in fact not popular or even widely read in their day. On the other hand, those texts that were popular, as evidenced by the extant manuscript record, are ... Read more

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Ur III Texts in the Schøyen Collection

by Jacob L. Dahl ...

Series series CUSAS
Judging from the sheer amount of textual material left to us, the rulers of ancient Ur were above all else concerned with keeping track of their poorest subjects, who made up the majority of the population under their jurisdiction. Year after year, administrators recorded, in frightening detail, the whereabouts of the poorest individuals in monthly and yearly rosters, assigning tiny parcels of ... Read more

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Judging from the sheer amount of textual material left to us, the rulers of ancient Ur were above all else concerned with keeping track of their poorest subjects, who made up the majority of the population under their jurisdiction. Year after year, administrators recorded, in frightening detail, the whereabouts of the poorest individuals in monthly and yearly rosters, assigning tiny parcels of
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The Human-Animal Relationship in Pre-Modern Turkish Literature

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In The Human-Animal Relationship in Pre-Modern Turkish Literature: A Study of The Book of Dede Korkut and The Masnavi, Book I, II, Dilek Bulut Sarikaya explores medieval Anatolia, where humans' connectivity to nonhuman animals was not yet disrupted by the capitalist economic systems and demonstrates how ancient societies treated nonhuman animals as self-conscious, spiritual individuals, capable of ... Read more

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In The Human-Animal Relationship in Pre-Modern Turkish Literature: A Study of The Book of Dede Korkut and The Masnavi, Book I, II, Dilek Bulut Sarikaya explores medieval Anatolia, where humans' connectivity to nonhuman animals was not yet disrupted by the capitalist economic systems and demonstrates how ancient societies treated nonhuman animals as self-conscious, spiritual individuals, capable of
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