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    Culture

    Martin Puchner

    Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing.

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    Culture

    Martin Puchner

    What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life…

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    Modern Drama

    Contains four volumes that span the historical emergence and the impact of modern drama on critical thought. This collection focuses on the origins of modern drama as well as on…

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    The Language of Thieves: The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family’s Secret History

    Martin Puchner

    The story of the secret language of Central Europe and its legacy on the author’s hidden Nazi family history, from the author of The Written World.

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    Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes

    Martin Puchner

    Tells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book ranges from the Communist Manifesto to the manifestos of the 1960s…

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    The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy

    Martin Puchner

    Most philosophy has rejected the theater, denouncing it as a place of illusion or moral decay; the theater in turn has rejected philosophy, insisting that drama deals in actions, not…

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    The Written World: How Literature Shapes History

    Martin Puchner

    The true story of literature – of how writing changed civilizations, cultures and the history of the world.

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    The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy

    Martin Puchner

    Most philosophy has rejected the theater, denouncing it as a place of illusion or moral decay; the theater in turn has rejected philosophy, insisting that drama deals in actions, not…

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    Literature for a Changing Planet

    Martin Puchner

    Reading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for the planet, scientists, policymakers, and activists…

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    Culture

    Martin Puchner

    Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing.

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    The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, and Civilization

    Martin Puchner

    The story of literature in sixteen acts-from Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto, and how they shaped world history

    In this groundbreaking…

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    The Language of Thieves: My Family’s Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate

    Martin Puchner (Harvard University)

    Tracking an underground language and the outcasts who depended on it for their survival.

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    Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

    Martin Puchner (Harvard University)

    A gripping story of losses and rediscoveries; power plays and heroic journeys; innovations, imitations, and appropriations.

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    The Language of Thieves: My Family’s Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate

    Martin Puchner (Harvard University)

    Tracking an underground language and the outcasts who depended on it for their survival becomes a deeply personal project, one that probes the meaning of language and family, inheritance and…

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    The Norton Anthology of World Literature

    Help all students see the power and relevance of world literature--with the most inclusive and effective teaching anthology available

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    The Norton Anthology of World Literature

    Help all students see the power and relevance of world literature--with the most inclusive and effective teaching anthology available

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    Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama

    Martin Puchner (Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Co-Chair of the Theatre Ph.D. Program, Harvard University)

    While offering an alternative history of modernist theater and literature, Puchner provides a new account of the contradictory forces within modernism.

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    The Norton Anthology of Drama

    Comprehensive and up-to-date, now with more instructor resources

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    The Norton Anthology of Drama

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    The Norton Anthology of Drama

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