Land and Mind
Kenneth White's Geopoetics in the Arabian Context
This book is a study of Kenneth White’s geopoetics, applying the concept to Charles Doughty’s Arabia Deserta. The result is not only a reinterpretation of an English classic, but an introduction to a regrounded field of culture.
This book is a study of Kenneth White’s geopoetics, applying the concept to Charles Doughty’s Arabia Deserta. The result is not only a reinterpretation of an English classic, but an introduction to a regrounded field of culture.
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Sexing Code
Subversion, Theory and Representation
Sexing Code proposes that the representation of technical ability perpetuates the association of the male with intellect and the female with the body. Challenging this, it highlights women’s contributions and demonstrates how gendering is a salient factor in culture.
Sexing Code proposes that the representation of technical ability perpetuates the association of the male with intellect and the female with the body. Challenging this, it highlights women’s contributions and demonstrates how gendering is a salient factor in culture.
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Truths Breathed Through Silver
The Inklings' Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy
The Oxford Inklings believed old myths held truth to fortify humanity. This collection explores how Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams wove theology and literary craft to connect the mortal with the divine.
The Oxford Inklings believed old myths held truth to fortify humanity. This collection explores how Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams wove theology and literary craft to connect the mortal with the divine.
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This collection of essays explores Neo-Baroque tendencies in contemporary art. Scholars reveal how artists and architects fold past traditions into the present, finding parallels between the Baroque's spectacle and fluidity and our own diverse, pluralistic culture.
This collection of essays explores Neo-Baroque tendencies in contemporary art. Scholars reveal how artists and architects fold past traditions into the present, finding parallels between the Baroque’s spectacle and fluidity and our own diverse, pluralistic culture.
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Recounting the tragic partition of Hindustan, this book brings harsh history to bear on love stories as tragic as the peoples ripped apart by their country’s division. It explores love in a world of madness, where love becomes an answer for the future.
Recounting the tragic partition of Hindustan, this book brings harsh history to bear on love stories as tragic as the peoples ripped apart by their country’s division. It explores love in a world of madness, where love becomes an answer for the future.
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Sights Unseen
Unfinished British Films
Many British films never make it to the screen. This book uses archival resources to reconstruct the stories behind these thwarted productions, providing an illuminating insight into the factors which have undermined the stability of the film industry in Britain.
Many British films never make it to the screen. This book uses archival resources to reconstruct the stories behind these thwarted productions, providing an illuminating insight into the factors which have undermined the stability of the film industry in Britain.
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This book expands academic knowledge of motherhood from a feminist perspective. When mothers are responsible for theorising their own realities, dominant representations are challenged. It is no longer acceptable to regard mothers as objects of research; they are the subjects.
This book expands academic knowledge of motherhood from a feminist perspective. When mothers are responsible for theorising their own realities, dominant representations are challenged. It is no longer acceptable to regard mothers as objects of research; they are the subjects.
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Irelands of the Mind
Memory and Identity in Modern Irish Culture
This compelling series of essays explores changing images of Ireland from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Its prevailing theme is the complicated sense of belonging in modern Irish culture, giving questions of national identity a new treatment.
This compelling series of essays explores changing images of Ireland from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Its prevailing theme is the complicated sense of belonging in modern Irish culture, giving questions of national identity a new treatment.
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This book explores the cultural and social aspects of space in archaeology. Using cutting-edge spatial methods, it reveals how people have used space to subsist, recreate culture, and understand landscape, social relationships, and cultural heritage.
This book explores the cultural and social aspects of space in archaeology. Using cutting-edge spatial methods, it reveals how people have used space to subsist, recreate culture, and understand landscape, social relationships, and cultural heritage.
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In Southern Africa, how we belong is tied to the land. These essays probe the tensions between settler modernity and indigenous world-views, exploring the limits and potential of human compassion for the natural world in a post-colonial era.
In Southern Africa, how we belong is tied to the land. These essays probe the tensions between settler modernity and indigenous world-views, exploring the limits and potential of human compassion for the natural world in a post-colonial era.
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To Inspire and Instruct
A History of Medieval Art in Midwestern Museums
This collection of essays tells the story of how medieval art was collected by individuals and institutions in the American Midwest, considering the motives of donors, the formation of major collections, and evolving curatorial practices.
This collection of essays tells the story of how medieval art was collected by individuals and institutions in the American Midwest, considering the motives of donors, the formation of major collections, and evolving curatorial practices.
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Beyond Money, Cars, and Women
Examining Black Masculinity in Hip Hop Culture
How does hip hop shape black masculinity? Going beyond outsider criticism, this book gives a voice to the men affected. Through interviews, it explores hip hop's damaging and positive effects, and its potential as a powerful tool for social change.
How does hip hop shape black masculinity? Going beyond outsider criticism, this book gives a voice to the men affected. Through interviews, it explores hip hop’s damaging and positive effects, and its potential as a powerful tool for social change.
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Afroeurope@ns
Cultures and Identities
This pioneering collection of essays establishes a comparative agenda for the study of black literatures and identities in the European Union, analyzing diasporic communities and cultural productions across Europe with particular attention to women writers.
This pioneering collection of essays establishes a comparative agenda for the study of black literatures and identities in the European Union, analyzing diasporic communities and cultural productions across Europe with particular attention to women writers.
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History, Politics, Identity
Reading Literature in a Changing World
This book highlights issues of culture and identity, focusing on how cultural encounters are changing the world and its reflection in literature. Emphasizing cultural pluralism and the necessity of coexistence, this collection will appeal to scholars and the general public.
This book highlights issues of culture and identity, focusing on how cultural encounters are changing the world and its reflection in literature. Emphasizing cultural pluralism and the necessity of coexistence, this collection will appeal to scholars and the general public.
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Words into Pictures
E. E. Cummings’ Art Across Borders
This collection of new essays explores E. E. Cummings as both poet and artist. Bringing together the verbal and the visual, the volume examines under-researched fields of his unique, genre-crossing work.
This collection of new essays explores E. E. Cummings as both poet and artist. Bringing together the verbal and the visual, the volume examines under-researched fields of his unique, genre-crossing work.
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This book presents papers by graduate students on sustaining resilience in the Asia Pacific. After identifying contemporary issues, these papers propose frameworks for resolving them from a unique multidisciplinary and multilevel perspective.
This book presents papers by graduate students on sustaining resilience in the Asia Pacific. After identifying contemporary issues, these papers propose frameworks for resolving them from a unique multidisciplinary and multilevel perspective.
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The Worlds of Elias Canetti
Centenary Essays
The essays gathered here challenge conventional wisdom about Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. This volume introduces us to a Canetti we have not yet known, one who belongs to the twenty-first century, and opens up new areas to scholarly investigation.
The essays gathered here challenge conventional wisdom about Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. This volume introduces us to a Canetti we have not yet known, one who belongs to the twenty-first century, and opens up new areas to scholarly investigation.
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This volume explores translation and censorship, focusing on the Iberian dictatorial regimes of Spain and Portugal. Presenting new case studies, it offers a critical view of censorship from Brazil and China to Victorian England and examines self-censorship.
This volume explores translation and censorship, focusing on the Iberian dictatorial regimes of Spain and Portugal. Presenting new case studies, it offers a critical view of censorship from Brazil and China to Victorian England and examines self-censorship.
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This book explores the progress of astronomy and astrophysics in Spain from the late 19th to the early 20th century. The eclipses of 1900 and 1905 were a crucial turning point, connecting Spanish scholars with the international community.
This book explores the progress of astronomy and astrophysics in Spain from the late 19th to the early 20th century. The eclipses of 1900 and 1905 were a crucial turning point, connecting Spanish scholars with the international community.
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Canada
Text and Territory
These essays debate literature, language, immigration, and culture in Canada, Ireland, and Europe. From the place of hockey in literary consciousness to mapping minority languages, the focus is on exploring culture in its widest sense.
These essays debate literature, language, immigration, and culture in Canada, Ireland, and Europe. From the place of hockey in literary consciousness to mapping minority languages, the focus is on exploring culture in its widest sense.
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