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  • Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy

    Performance, Ethics, Poetics

    by Michael Meere ...
    The performance of violence on the stage has played an integral role in French tragedy since its inception. Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy is the first book to tell this story. It traces and examines the ethical and poetic stakes of violence, as playwrights were experimenting with the newly discovered genre during decades of religious and civil war (c. 1550-1598). The study ... Read more

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  • The Dark Thread

    From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales

    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    In The Dark Thread, scholars examine a set of important and perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American literatures. Over fourteen essays, contributors highlight the connections between works from early modernity and subsequent texts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, in which incidents such as ... Read more

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    The Dontalia Facility

    Unabridged

    16 hours 24 min

    Written as a script for a video game, a manga and RPG-inspired story, this stand-alone tale follows Ashton Lighten, a 20-year-old Psychology Honours student, who is transported to a world of elemental manipulators. The years following the events of The Rostical Users and The Rostical Guild series have resulted in many changes in this alternate dimension.Ashton, armed with the memories of his ... Read more

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  • French Renaissance and Baroque Drama

    Text, Performance, Theory

    The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of what would become known as neoclassical French theater of the seventeenth century. In essays ranging from conventional stage plays (tragedies, comedies, pastoral, and mystery plays) to court ballets, royal entrances, and meta- and para-theatrical ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Coups de maître

    Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture, in Honour of John D. Lyons

    Series Book 18 - Medieval and Early Modern French Studies
    This collection is dedicated to John D. Lyons, Commonwealth Professor of French at the University of Virginia and a preeminent scholar of early modern France and Italy. Lyons’s long and influential academic career has been instrumental in shaping generations of undergraduates, postgraduates and early career researchers through his teaching, advising, mentorship and critical reading. Bringing ... Read more

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  • Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language

    New Perspectives for Teaching and Teacher Education in Germany

    Series series Routledge Advances in Teaching English as an International Language Series
    The worldwide spread, diversification, and globalization of the English language in the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has significant implications for English Language Teaching and teacher education.We are currently witnessing a paradigm shift towards Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL) that aims to promote multilingualism and awareness of the diversity ... Read more

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  • Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle and Switzerland

    Serious and less serious musings!

    The Reichenbach Irregulars of Switzerland, an international group of Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle enthusiasts, publish their reflections and thoughts in what is the first ever Reichenbach Irregulars book, profusely illustrated! Each essay is based on a paper delivered at a Reichenbach Irregulars conference over the past 30 years, sometimes held in rather remote parts of the Swiss Alps. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pheromone Communication In Social Insects

    Ants, Wasps, Bees, And Termites

    Bringing together for the first time prominent researchers in social insect pheromone communication, including nestmate recognition, this book looks at ants, wasps, bees, and termites, highlighting areas of convergence and divergence among these groups, and identifying areas that need further investigation. Presenting broad synthetic overviews as well as species-specific studies, the volume will ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    Plant Tissue Culture, Third Edition builds on the classroom tested, audience proven manual that has guided users through successful plant culturing A.tumefaciens mediated transformation, infusion technology, the latest information on media components and preparation, and regeneration and morphogenesis along with new exercises and diagrams provide current information and examples. The included ... Read more

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  • French Literature

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    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Boasting one of Western culture's oldest and richest literary traditions, French literature has long been a pioneer of style and innovation. From the farcical comedies of Moliere to the torment of Baudelaire's verse, it has inspired writers and artists everywhere throughout the ages. This comprehensive Beginner's Guide tells French literature's compelling story from the beginning right up to today ... Read more

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