1117 títulos para "University Of Pennsylvania Press"
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Promised Lands
Blockmans, Willem Pieter / Blockmans, Wim / Prevenier, Walter
978-0-8122-1382-9They were, in the words of one contemporary observer, ""the Promised Lands."" In all of Europe, only Northern Italy could rival the economic power and cultural wealth of the Low Countries in the later Middle Ages. In The Promised Lands, Wim Blockman
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Body, Movement, and Culture
Ness, Sally Ann
978-0-8122-1383-6In Body, Movement, and Culture, Sally Ann Ness provides an original interpretive account of three forms of sinulog dancing practiced in Cebu City in the Philippines: a healing ritual, a dance drama, and a "cultural" exhibition dance. Ness's examination of these dance forms yields rich insights into...
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Modern/Postmodern
Gaggi, Silvio
978-0-8122-1384-3This survey of 20th-century arts and ideas attempts to identify underlying epistemological, aesthetic and ethical issues. The author emphasizes how works from diverse media relate to one another and how their relationships affect the contemporary artistic and philosophical climate.
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The Shakespeare Trade
Hodgdon, Barbara
978-0-8122-1389-8In these provocative case studies, Barbara Hodgdon examines not only how Shakespeare's plays are staged and restaged by readers and critics as well as by performers and directors, but also how the Elizabethan age itself is recirculated and marketed. Hodgdon's look at The Taming of the Shrew...
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The Book of Sainte Foy
Sheingorn, Pamela
978-0-8122-1512-0The miracle stories surrounding Sainte Foy form one of the most complete sets of material relating to a medieval saint's cult and its practices. Pamela Sheingorn's superb translation from the Medieval Latin texts now makes this literature available in English. The Book of Sainte Foy recounts the vir...
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Dreiser's "Jennie Gerhardt"
West III, James L. W.
978-0-8122-1513-7In 1992 the University of Pennsylvania Press published a new edition of Theodore Dreiser's second novel, Jennie Gerhardt. The original published text was altered significantly from the author's intentions: its sexual energy was short-circuited, its criticisms of organized religion were blunted, its...
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Women at War
Norman, Elizabeth
978-0-8122-1317-1Women at War The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam Elizabeth Norman "This is a powerful story about some of nursing's finest contributions. The profession is indebted to this author for her persistence and sensitivity in capturing this important piece of history."--American Journ...
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A Nation Dedicated to Religious Liberty
Adams, Arlin M. / Emmerich, Charles J.
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The Laws of the Salian Franks
Drew, Katherine Fisher
978-0-8122-1322-5"Makes easily available to legal historians and medievalists alike an important source for social and political no less than legal history."--American Journal of Legal History Following the collapse of the western Roman Empire, the Franks established in northern Gaul one of the most enduring of the...
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Rethinking the "Romance of the Rose"
978-0-8122-1395-9The Romance of the Rose has been a controversial text since it was written in the thirteenth century. There is evidence for radically different readings as as early as the first half of the fourteenth century. The text provided inspiration for both courtly and didactic poets. Some read it as a celeb...
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