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This volume explores the connections between faith, the presentation of belief and the processes ...

This volume addresses questions of canon, value, historiographical interest, and large-scale hist...

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In reassessing his rich and rewarding 50-year career in film studies, this trailblazing author pr...

An Italian Downton Abbey (1870-1950). This enticing family saga unfolds on the background of Ital...

This collection of essays explores how science fiction films and computer games attempt to come t...

Living Novels: A Journey through Twentieth-Century Fiction is a selection of reviews that the aut...

'These memoirs of an unusually wise and perceptive American diplomat provide rare insight into Am...

This study takes a new look at the literary system from the perspective of network theory, and di...

This book brings to life the lived experience of the disciples after Christ's death, the possibil...