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Dictionary of the Khazars (M)

Author : Milorad Pavic
Publisher : Vintage
Release Date : 1989-10-23
ISBN 10 : 9780679724612
Pages : 357 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (679 users)

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Dictionary of the Khazars

Author : Milorad Pavić
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
Release Date : 1989
ISBN 10 : IND:32000003273085
Pages : 360 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (32 users)

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Dictionary of the Khazars

Author : Milorad Pavic
Publisher :
Release Date : 1989
ISBN 10 : 0575038713
Pages : pages
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Dictionary of the Khazars

Author : Milorad Pavic
Publisher :
Release Date : 1988-10-01
ISBN 10 : 0318334046
Pages : 338 pages
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Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation

Author : Andrew Wachtel
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1998
ISBN 10 : 0804731810
Pages : 324 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (731 users)

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Dictionary of the Khazars

Author : Milorad Pavić
Publisher :
Release Date : 2017
ISBN 10 : 8664571368
Pages : 341 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (571 users)

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Dictionary of the Khazars

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Release Date : 2002
ISBN 10 : OCLC:445874356
Pages : 106 pages
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The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel

Author : Michael Sollars
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : 9781438108360
Pages : 957 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (438 users)

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Dictionary of the Khazars

Author : Milorad Pavić
Publisher :
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 8673466296
Pages : 338 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (466 users)

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Global Elements in Chinese Literature

Author : Sihe Chen
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2022-11-28
ISBN 10 : 9789004522978
Pages : 403 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (4 users)

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What Is World Literature?

Author : David Damrosch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
ISBN 10 : 9780691188645
Pages : 324 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (691 users)

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The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture

Author : Heike Schaefer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-08-28
ISBN 10 : 9783030225452
Pages : 277 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (3 users)

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Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity

Author : Peta Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
ISBN 10 : 9781135913939
Pages : 232 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (135 users)

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Olga Tokarczuk

Author : Lidia Wiśniewska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-03-14
ISBN 10 : 9781000841282
Pages : 152 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 ( users)

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The World of the Khazars

Author : Peter Golden
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2007-08-30
ISBN 10 : 9789047421450
Pages : 468 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (47 users)

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Brushing History Against the Grain

Author : Qingxin Lin
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2005-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9622096972
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (96 users)

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Literary Visualities

Author : Ronja Bodola
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-06-26
ISBN 10 : 9783110378030
Pages : 283 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (11 users)

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Download Literary Visualities PDF by Ronja Bodola Full Free and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the focus on pictoriality as central constituent of visual culture from the perspective of literary studies, which in the wake of an ‘intermedial turn’ so far focused on the ways texts relate to pictures and visual media either in praesentia (e.g. word and image studies) or in absentia (e.g. ekphrasis). Instead, it emphasizes literature’s participation in visual culture at large and focuses on three areas of investigation: (1) the depiction of, for instance, visual perceptions in the literary mode of description, which is paramount to formatting the mental aspect of visual culture; (2) the readerly practice of visualising situations and events of the fictional world, which mediates between those mentefacts and techniques of writing; (3) textual visibilities which are grounded in materiality. The volume explores these three areas from a systematically integrated perspective and the essays include in-depth treatments of seminal examples taken from Western literatures (primarily English and German, but also French and American literature) from early modern times to the present. This book’s aim is to work out literature’s active role in shaping visual culture, thus demonstrating its relevance for “image studies”.