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Autor:
Arthur Conan Doyle, Douglas Kerr
For the first time, the volume provides students, enthusiasts and researchers with everything needed for a serious appreciation of Memories and Adventures, the autobiography of Conan Doyle's life in literature, medicine, travel, politics, war, sport
Autor:
Francis Lee, Joseph Man Chan
This book analyzes how collective memory regarding the 1989 Beijing student movement and the Tiananmen crackdown was produced, contested, sustained, and transformed in Hong Kong between 1989 and 2019. Drawing on data gathered through multiple sources
Autor:
Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman
In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase'the concentrationary universe'to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the un
Autor:
Bronwen Neil, Kosta Simic
These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural, and political r
Autor:
Lin Hai-yin
Through the keen eyes and curious mind of a young girl, Ying-tzu, we are given a glimpse into the adult world of Peking in the 1920s. The five sequential stories in this collection can be read as either stand-alone pieces, or as a novel, due to the c
Autor:
Vincent Antonin Lépinay
Once the home of Catherine the Great's private art collection, Russia's State Hermitage Museum became the largest museum in the Soviet Union and, since the collapse of the USSR, one of the most active museums in the world. The Hermitage is a global m
Autor:
Njelle W. Hamilton
Phonographic Memories is the first book to perform a sustained analysis of the narrative and thematic influence of Caribbean popular music on the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide attention to the deep connections between music and memory in th
Autor:
Luca Castagnoli, Paola Ceccarelli
Greek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and practices of memory in the Greek world, from the archaic period to Late Antiquity, across all the main literary genres, and to trace some fundamental changes
Autor:
Matt Perry
This book explores the eight-month wave of mutinies that struck the French infantry and navy in 1919. Based on official records and the testimony of dozens of participants, it is the first study to try to understand the world of the mutineers. Examin
Autor:
Oswaldo Estrada
2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleIn Troubled Memories, Oswaldo Estrada traces the literary and cultural representations of several iconic Mexican women produced in the midst of neoliberalism, gender debates, and the widespread commodification of