Objects in Italian Life and Culture: Fiction, Migration, and Artificiality: 2016
Laura Rascaroli and Paolo Bartoloni
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This book makes visible the hidden relations between things and individuals through a discussion of...
Pindar's Eyes: Visual and Material Culture in Epinician Poetry
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Pindar's Eyes is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions between Greek...
Reading the Male Gaze in Literature and Culture: Studies in Erotic Epistemology
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This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and...
Testimony/Bearing Witness: Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture
Sigrid Weigel and Sybille Kramer
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What is the epistemological value of testimony? What role does language, images, and memory play in...
Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts: Court Culture in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe
Kristoffer Neville and Lisa Skogh
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As queen consort and dowager, Hedwig Eleonora (1636-1715) held a unique position in Sweden for more...
Urban Ecologies: City Space, Material Agency, and Environmental Politics in Contemporary Culture
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The term "urban ecology" has become a buzzword in various disciplines, including the social and...
The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture
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Walter Kendrick traces the relatively recent concept of pornography--the word was not coined until...
Peranakan Chinese Home: Art and Culture in Daily Life
Ronald G. Knapp and A. Chester Ong
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Discover the rarified Peranakan (native-born Chinese of Southeast Asia) aesthetics that are today...