Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement 9781472965936, 9780819219480

Diva Nation: Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History 9780520969971

Diva Nation explores the constructed nature of female iconicity in Japan. From ancient goddesses and queens to modern si

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Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos 9780520944725

Icons of Life tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institu

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The Construction and Dynamics of Cultural Icons 9463728228, 9789463728225

Topical theme: the volume connects the study of cultural icons to pressing questions on the role of icons and the iconic

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Cultural Reflections of Medusa 103208295X, 9781032082950

This project studies the patterns in which the Medusa myth shapes, constructs, and transforms new meanings of women toda

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Reflections on Translation 9781847694102

This collection of essays brings together a decade of writings on translation by leading international translation studi

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Reflections on hanging

Preface ======= In 1937, during the Civil War in Spain, I spent three months under sentence of death as a suspected spy

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Reflections on Liszt 9781501717031

"No one knows more about Franz Liszt than Alan Walker."—Malcolm Bowie, Times Literary Supplement In a series o

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Reflections on the Psalms

Lewis writes here about the difficulties he has met or the joys he has gained in reading the Psalms. He points out that

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Icons 9781780429250

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Reflections on Syntax 143318432X, 9781433184321

The lectures in this book are immensely Chomskyan in spirit, recursive-syntactic in nature, and tethered to a framework

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