Mythic Worlds, Modern Words 9781608684175, 9781611780314, 9781543662498

Turning Words, Spinning Worlds 9781134435708

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Words and Worlds: World Languages Review 9781853598289

World Languages Review aims to examine the sociolinguistic situation of the world: to describe the linguistic diversity

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Ritual Encounters: Otavalan Modern and Mythic Community 0252092872, 9780252092879

This book examines ritual practices and public festivals in the Otavalo and Cotacachi areas of northern Andean Ecuador&#

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Words and Worlds: A Lexicon for Dark Times 9781478021476

The contributors to Words and Worlds examine the state of politics and the political imaginary within contemporary socie

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Persephone Rising: mythic poetry 9781463217259

Persephone Rising is the story of the Greek goddess Persephone that brings to life the ancient world of Greek myth to a

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Kenneth Burke’s Weed Garden: Refiguring the Mythic Grounds of Modern Rhetoric 9780271094281

Since its publication in 1950, Kenneth Burke’s A Rhetoric of Motives has been one of the most influential texts of theor

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Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds 1032397209, 9781032397207

The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships amon

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Between Two Worlds: Modern Wives in a Traditional Setting 9789814345736

This study focuses on married couples' decision concerning the timing of their first child and attempts to identify

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Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism 9780812201550

Adopting a comparative historical approach, J. H. Chajes uncovers a strain of Jewish belief to which scant attention has

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Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe 9781501705069

During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds—geographic worlds foun

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