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Book Reviews [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America (Michael L. Morgan) Poetry after Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew (Susan Gubar) Holocaust Representation: Art within the Limits of History and Ethics (Berel Lang) (Reviewed by Naomi ...
Editors, Criticism
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Time, eternity, truth, and death: history as allegory

open access: yes, 2009
The act of remembrance through history, the desire to impose 'form on formless time', lies deep in our culture? Not in all cultures, as Levi Strauss remarked: historical thinking is not necessary thinking, is not essential to our humanity.' But in ...
Curthoys, Ann, Docker, John
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Pyramids in America: Rewriting the “Egypt of the West” in Rick Riordan’s \u3ci\u3eThe Kane Chronicles\u3c/i\u3e series [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this paper, I examine the use of well-known American landmarks in Rick Riordan’s The Kane Chronicles (2010-2012), a set of Children’s Fantasy novels that place Ancient Egyptian mythology in the modern world.
Cyr, Heather K.
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Tutmania: An Exploration of Western Portrayals of King Tutankhamun and Orientalism in Egypt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Since his discovery on November 4, 1922, King Tutankhamun has been turned into a symbol of ancient Egyptian culture by the Western world. Through Orientalist representation, the West has ensconced Tutankhamun into their own visualization of ancient Egypt
Danton, William
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Coping Through Curse: Confronting British Metropolitan Identity Through the "Curse of Tutankhamen" (1923-1933) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This thesis was submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors.This thesis seeks to understand the origins of the curse of Tutankhamen within interwar British society ...
Hollman, Olivia G.
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King Tutankhamun: Bringing Egyptian Culture to America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
A review of the impact of three different tours of artifacts from the burial chamber of King Tutankhamun on American culture and knowledge of ancient ...
Settle, Lora E.
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