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This volume explores the role of music as a source of inspiration and provocation for modernist writers. In its consideration of modernist literature within a broad political, postcolonial, and internationalist context, this book is an important intervention in the growing field of Words and Music studies. It expands the existing critical debate to include lesser-known writers alongside Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett, a wide-ranging definition of modernism, and the influence of contemporary music on modernist writers. From the rhythm of Tagore's poetry to the influence of jazz improvisation,...

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Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife investigates
the fleeting appearance in the Bible of Job's wife and its impact on the
imaginations of readers throughout history.
It begins by presenting key
interpretive gaps in the biblical text concerning Job and his wife, explaining
the way gender studies offers guiding principles with which the author engages
a reception history of their marriage. After analyzing Job and his wife within
medieval Christian theology of Eden, the author identifies ways in which Job's
wife visually aligns with...

Es gibt Zeiten, da liegt unser Leben "auf Eis" und wir fühlen uns wie aus der Welt gefallen. Durch eine Krankheit oder den Verlust eines geliebten Menschen, durch Arbeitslosigkeit. Auch ein freudiges Ereignis wie die Geburt eines Kindes kann uns aus dem Gleichgewicht bringen. Katherine May nennt diese Zeiten des Rückzugs, die ihr selbst nur allzu vertraut sind, »Winter«. Und wie auch in der winterlichen Kälte alles ruht, um Kraft für den Frühling zu sammeln, so gibt May sich dem "Überwintern" hin. Sie reist nach Tromsø zu den Polarlichtern, schwimmt im eisigen Meer, schwitzt in...

A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
Winner of the John Burroughs Riverby Award for Young Readers

Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them-just twenty-six miles from the Golden Gate Bridge

A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants dine on steaks, salads, and sandwiches, the great white sharks return to California's Farallon Islands to dine on their favorite meal: the seals that live on the island's rocky coasts....