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  • The Dream of Bernat Metge

    The Dream of Bernat Metge is the first English translation of Lo Somni, a prose dialogue written around 1397 by the Catalan humanist Bernat Metge (?1340-1413). It stands as a noteworthy example of nascent humanism and a vivid document of contemporary customs in the Crown of Aragon. As a document touching on eschatology, faith and scepticism, politics, classical mythology, traditional mysogyny and ... Read more

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  • Why Kerouac Matters

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  • Against World Literature

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  • The Deep Zoo

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  • Pause and Effect

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  • Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670-1730

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  • Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures

    Reading Transnational Cultural Commodities

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