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This collection of essays by international scholars explores Henry James's use of duplicity—a key strategy in his arsenal of ambiguity. The essays examine duplicitous characters, subtexts, and self-representation in his fiction and non-fiction.
This collection of essays by international scholars explores Henry James’s use of duplicity—a key strategy in his arsenal of ambiguity. The essays examine duplicitous characters, subtexts, and self-representation in his fiction and non-fiction.
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This collection of essays focuses on the relevance of Henry James’s work for understanding current problems. Studies explore his influence on modernist and postmodern writers and his connections to visual and new media, revealing continuities between his era and our own.
This collection of essays focuses on the relevance of Henry James’s work for understanding current problems. Studies explore his influence on modernist and postmodern writers and his connections to visual and new media, revealing continuities between his era and our own.
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This book reimagines Dido and Aeneas as a site of cultural memory, tracing how artists and audiences have reshaped its meaning across boundaries. It reveals how Dido’s lament continues to be significant precisely because it is never the same.
This book reimagines Dido and Aeneas as a site of cultural memory, tracing how artists and audiences have reshaped its meaning across boundaries. It reveals how Dido’s lament continues to be significant precisely because it is never the same.
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This book explores Henry van de Velde’s German period (1900-1916) through his writings and major works, including his unpublished manuscript on ornament. The study casts light on this major figure's aesthetic theory, centered on themes of “rational conception” and “empathy”.
This book explores Henry van de Velde’s German period (1900-1916) through his writings and major works, including his unpublished manuscript on ornament. The study casts light on this major figure’s aesthetic theory, centered on themes of “rational conception” and “empathy”.
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Herbert Croly’s The Promise of American Life is an enduring classic that influenced Theodore Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the Great Society. This anthology presents essays analyzing the book's impact on the 20th century and its suitability for the 21st.
Herbert Croly’s The Promise of American Life is an enduring classic that influenced Theodore Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the Great Society. This anthology presents essays analyzing the book’s impact on the 20th century and its suitability for the 21st.
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This volume analyses the evolving dialogue between humankind and nature. Spanning Africa, America, Asia, and Europe, it provides a meeting ground between plants and humanity in different dimensions.
This volume analyses the evolving dialogue between humankind and nature. Spanning Africa, America, Asia, and Europe, it provides a meeting ground between plants and humanity in different dimensions.
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Here, and Here
Essays on Affirmation and Tragic Awareness
These essays explore using logos without its negative, restricting aspects through affirmation and tragic awareness. It is all about arrangements that say yes, since they do not raise absolute boundaries. The arrangement is a logos without logos: a cosmos.
These essays explore using logos without its negative, restricting aspects through affirmation and tragic awareness. It is all about arrangements that say yes, since they do not raise absolute boundaries. The arrangement is a logos without logos: a cosmos.
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Heritage and Exchanges
Multilingual and Intercultural Approaches in Training Context
This bilingual text represents the proceedings of a seminar held at the University of La Reunion in 2014, and offers a reflection on scholarship and plural identity constructions, with a specific focus on the Indian Ocean area, an unexplored region in current scholarship.
This bilingual text represents the proceedings of a seminar held at the University of La Reunion in 2014, and offers a reflection on scholarship and plural identity constructions, with a specific focus on the Indian Ocean area, an unexplored region in current scholarship.
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Studying the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent, this collection questions various linguistic, literary and artistic appropriations of the past. It does this to address the conflicting comprehensions of the present and the figuring/imagining of a possible future.
Studying the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent, this collection questions various linguistic, literary and artistic appropriations of the past. It does this to address the conflicting comprehensions of the present and the figuring/imagining of a possible future.
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This collection explores the diverse landscape of heritage language education in Greece and Cyprus. Through empirical studies of community, day, and family schools, it establishes a novel evidence base to act as a catalyst for research and drive change in policy and practice.
This collection explores the diverse landscape of heritage language education in Greece and Cyprus. Through empirical studies of community, day, and family schools, it establishes a novel evidence base to act as a catalyst for research and drive change in policy and practice.
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Heritage Studies
Stories in the Making
Heritage has grown beyond monuments into economics and human rights. How has this changed its study? Is heritage a resource to be cashed in on, a political tool, or the remains of the past? At a turning point, this volume explores how we use the past to construct meaning.
Heritage has grown beyond monuments into economics and human rights. How has this changed its study? Is heritage a resource to be cashed in on, a political tool, or the remains of the past? At a turning point, this volume explores how we use the past to construct meaning.
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Interpretation is the medium through which the world becomes thinkable and shaped. This book journeys through domains from alchemy to dark matter and living ecologies, showing how meaning unfolds across time and scale. An invitation for readers who seek to cross boundaries.
Interpretation is the medium through which the world becomes thinkable and shaped. This book journeys through domains from alchemy to dark matter and living ecologies, showing how meaning unfolds across time and scale. An invitation for readers who seek to cross boundaries.
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Ismail engages with problematic issues arising when translating and interpreting classical Arabic texts, which represent a challenging business for many scholars, especially with regards to religious works.
Ismail engages with problematic issues arising when translating and interpreting classical Arabic texts, which represent a challenging business for many scholars, especially with regards to religious works.
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This book offers a provocative new interpretation of megaliths, arguing they mark humanity's transition from natural selection to civilization. It reveals their original purpose as scenes for primordial theatrical performance and explores sites from Stonehenge to Gobekli Tepe.
This book offers a provocative new interpretation of megaliths, arguing they mark humanity’s transition from natural selection to civilization. It reveals their original purpose as scenes for primordial theatrical performance and explores sites from Stonehenge to Gobekli Tepe.
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Heroes and Saints
The Moment of Death in Cross-cultural Perspectives
This volume explores the moment of death in ancient cultures, from Asian religions to heroic sagas. Despite the diversity of traditions, these essays reveal a fundamental human need to see in death a possibility of choice and a promise of hope.
This volume explores the moment of death in ancient cultures, from Asian religions to heroic sagas. Despite the diversity of traditions, these essays reveal a fundamental human need to see in death a possibility of choice and a promise of hope.
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Heroes, Monsters and Values
Science Fiction Films of the 1970s
This anthology of essays on 1970s sci-fi films from Alien to Zardoz explores what it means to be human. Challenging our ideas on heroism, technology, and morality, this is an enlightening work for science fiction and film enthusiasts.
This anthology of essays on 1970s sci-fi films from Alien to Zardoz explores what it means to be human. Challenging our ideas on heroism, technology, and morality, this is an enlightening work for science fiction and film enthusiasts.
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
A Taste for Eccentricity
More than a hostess or a footnote to Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi was a pioneering writer. This volume links her subversive biography to her innovative works, revealing how a scandalous marriage launched her career as a public author.
More than a hostess or a footnote to Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi was a pioneering writer. This volume links her subversive biography to her innovative works, revealing how a scandalous marriage launched her career as a public author.
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Hidden Legacies of Baroque Thought in Contemporary Literature
The Realms of Eternal Present
This monograph presents, from the point of view of the early modern historian, the legacy of Baroque thought in modern and contemporary literature. It highlights the patterns of thought that our time owes to the age of Baroque, namely both temporal and spatial plurality.
This monograph presents, from the point of view of the early modern historian, the legacy of Baroque thought in modern and contemporary literature. It highlights the patterns of thought that our time owes to the age of Baroque, namely both temporal and spatial plurality.
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High-Tech Pan-Materialism and Humanist Ethics
From a Chinese-Western Historical Perspective
While science has advanced our material civilization, our spiritual stamina has weakened. This book argues for a reorganized human sciences, centered on humanistic ethics, to balance the dominance of technology and guide us toward a new era of enlightenment.
While science has advanced our material civilization, our spiritual stamina has weakened. This book argues for a reorganized human sciences, centered on humanistic ethics, to balance the dominance of technology and guide us toward a new era of enlightenment.
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Higher Education and Research in the Post-Knowledge Society
Scenarios for a Future World
How will higher education evolve to underpin sustainable societies? This book explores future scenarios against a background of transformation, including digital advances, globalization, socio-economic inequality, and climate change.
How will higher education evolve to underpin sustainable societies? This book explores future scenarios against a background of transformation, including digital advances, globalization, socio-economic inequality, and climate change.
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