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Stichting Praemium Erasmianum De nieuwe kosmopoliet
Erasmusprijs 2008; Erasmus Prize 2008
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Nederlands | Engels | 63 pagina's | Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, Amsterdam | 2009
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George Gissing The hope of pessimism
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Engels | Nederlands | 78 pagina's | Flanor, Nijmegen | 2009
Gedrukt boek
Worldviews and cultures
philosophical reflections from an intercultural perspective
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Engels | Springer, [Dordrecht] | 2009
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Christopher Kelen Poetry, consciousness and community
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Engels | 199 pagina's | Rodopi, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2009
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Stephen T. Asma On monsters
an unnatural history of our worst fears
Extraordinary beings -- Ancient monsters. Alexander fights monsters in India ; Monsters are nature's playthings ; Hermaphrodites and man-headed oxen ; Monstrous desire -- Medieval monsters : messages from God. Biblical monsters ; Do monsters have souls? ; The monster killer ; Possessing demons and witches -- Scientific monsters : the book of nature is riddled with typos. Natural history, freaks, and nondescripts ; The medicalization of monsters ; Darwin's mutants -- Inner monsters : the psychological...
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Engels | 351 pagina's | Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford | 2009
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Alexandra Ganser Roads of her own
gendered space and mobility in American women's road narratives, 1970-2000
Reading Jack Kerouac's 'On the road' through Virginia Woolf's 'A room of one's own', the author examines women's road narratives. The study shows how women's literature has inscribed itself into the American discourse of the 'freedom of the road'. Women writers have participated in this myth, yet at the same time also have rejected it as fundamentally based on gendered and racial/ethnic hierarchies and power structures. The book analyzes stories about female runaways, outlaws, adventurers, kidnaps,...
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Engels | 339 pagina's | Rodopi, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2009
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Catrin Gersdorf The poetics and politics of the desert
landscape and the construction of America
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Engels | 355 pagina's | Rodopi, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2009
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Uit het geheugen
over weten en vergeten
Essays vanuit wetenschappelijke, historische en artistieke invalshoeken over het geheugen.
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Nederlands | Frans | Engels | 191 pagina's | Lannoo, Tielt | 2009
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Jan van Eyck Akademie New public spaces
dissensual political and artistic practices in the post-Yugoslav context
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Engels | 194 pagina's | Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht | 2009
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Peter Burke Cultural hybridity
"The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips recently voted the favourite dish in Britain - to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu, 'Bollywood' films or salsa and reggae music. Some people celebrate these phenomena, whilst others fear or condemn them. No wonder, then, that theorists such as Homi Bhabha, Stuart...
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Engels | 142 pagina's | Polity, Cambridge [etc.] | 2009
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