Menopause

A Comic Treatment

MK Czerwiec

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“Often informative, sometimes moving, and ambitious in its frank talk about what is oddly taboo: an inevitable experience for half of humanity.”—Publishers Weekly

Titian’s Icons

Tradition, Charisma, and Devotion in Renaissance Italy

Christopher J. Nygren

“An erudite study of Titian’s small-format paintings of biblical subjects. Through a careful analysis of this group of paintings, and with particular attention to the early modern conflicts between the traditions of devotional images and theorizations of art, Nygren’s book revises our understanding of Titian’s position in the history of early modern sacred art.”—Jodi Cranston, author of Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice

Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy

Machiavelli to Tocqueville

Edited by Steven Frankel and Martin D. Yaffe

“This excellent collection of essays on that old and timely subject brings out both the common assumptions and a range of controversies among liberalism’s founding thinkers. Add to the mix a healthy dose of disagreement among the essays’ authors, and there is much food for thought here.”—J. Judd Owen, author of Making Religion Safe for Democracy: Transformation from Hobbes to Tocqueville

The Letters of Edgar Degas

Edited by Theodore Reff

“[Degas’s] correspondence shows a different side of him. . . . Such a devoted and passionate letter writer could hardly have been the misanthropic grump that his popular image often suggests.”—Tobias Grey, The Wall Street Journal

“An Excellent Fortress for His Armies, a Refuge for the People”

Egyptological, Archaeological, and Biblical Studies in Honor of James K. Hoffmeier

Edited by Richard E. Averbeck and K. Lawson Younger Jr.

James Hoffmeier is a giant in the field of Egyptology. Among his many publications are two volumes of archaeological reports from Tell el-Borg, where he led excavations from 1999 to 2008. He is also well known for his interest in how ancient Egypt and the biblical world intersected, having edited and written several books on the subject, including the recent. . . (more)

Untersuchungen Zur Transtextuellen Poetik

Assyrischer Herrschaftlich-Narrativen Texte

Johannes Bach

This study investigates inter-, hyper- and architextual (or “transtextual”) poetics within the corpus of Assyrian royal narrative texts. The first section outlines a method of transtextual analysis tailored to the Assyrian texts, using a structural analytical methodology developed on the basis of pertinent modern theories. The second section of the book analyzes genre formation in the Old and Middle Assyrian periods in light of. . . (more)