Testimony, Witness, Authority
The Politics and Poetics of Experience
This international, interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how testimony, witness, and authority shape human experience. Scholars and artists explore how stories bear witness to experience through a web of verbal and near-verbal media.
This international, interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how testimony, witness, and authority shape human experience. Scholars and artists explore how stories bear witness to experience through a web of verbal and near-verbal media.
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This book addresses teaching and assessing foreign language for academic purposes in a plurilingual context. Based on a research project, it describes a model LAP test and shows findings on the performance of students from both Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages.
This book addresses teaching and assessing foreign language for academic purposes in a plurilingual context. Based on a research project, it describes a model LAP test and shows findings on the performance of students from both Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages.
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In Pakistan, Board Examinations encourage students to memorize essays, damaging learners’ creative talents. This book investigates the negative impact on classroom practice and argues that changes to the examination system and textbooks will improve teaching and assessment.
In Pakistan, Board Examinations encourage students to memorize essays, damaging learners’ creative talents. This book investigates the negative impact on classroom practice and argues that changes to the examination system and textbooks will improve teaching and assessment.
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Testing the Boundaries
Self, Faith, Interpretation and Changing Trends in Religious Studies
Progressive movements are challenging how we understand the Divine. In Testing the Boundaries, ten scholars explore faith, our image of Self, our relation to the religious Other, and more, testing the boundaries of traditional theology where possibilities gather.
Progressive movements are challenging how we understand the Divine. In Testing the Boundaries, ten scholars explore faith, our image of Self, our relation to the religious Other, and more, testing the boundaries of traditional theology where possibilities gather.
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Classroom language tests are an everyday feature of teaching, yet they remain under-studied. This volume illuminates this area by featuring teachers' own tests and commentary, identifying the expert reasoning behind them. An accessible resource for teachers.
Classroom language tests are an everyday feature of teaching, yet they remain under-studied. This volume illuminates this area by featuring teachers’ own tests and commentary, identifying the expert reasoning behind them. An accessible resource for teachers.
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Text and Image in the City
Manuscript, Print and Visual Culture in Urban Space
The essays within discuss how the city is textualized, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They investigate how the creation, distribution and consumption of urban texts and images affect the shaping of the city itself.
The essays within discuss how the city is textualized, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They investigate how the creation, distribution and consumption of urban texts and images affect the shaping of the city itself.
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From Ireland to Byzantium, medievalists face constraints interpreting texts. Problems of authorship, transcription, and translation create a complex discourse. These chapters prise truths about texts, transmission, and the critical literacies needed to interpret both.
From Ireland to Byzantium, medievalists face constraints interpreting texts. Problems of authorship, transcription, and translation create a complex discourse. These chapters prise truths about texts, transmission, and the critical literacies needed to interpret both.
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Text in Contemporary Theatre
The Baltics within the World Experience
This collection of articles is devoted to the relationship between text and performance in contemporary theatre. Focusing on the Baltics but with wider insight into world drama, this book is recommended for both theatre and drama theoreticians and practitioners.
This collection of articles is devoted to the relationship between text and performance in contemporary theatre. Focusing on the Baltics but with wider insight into world drama, this book is recommended for both theatre and drama theoreticians and practitioners.
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This book pioneers corpus design for Setswana lexicography, filling a major research gap in African languages. It explores the crucial question of whether linguistic variability from diverse text types is essential for compiling dictionaries.
This book pioneers corpus design for Setswana lexicography, filling a major research gap in African languages. It explores the crucial question of whether linguistic variability from diverse text types is essential for compiling dictionaries.
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Text, Body and Indeterminacy
Doppelgänger Selves in Pater and Wilde
This book forges a link between the philosophical self and the literary character. Using neo-pragmatist thought, it assesses Pater and Wilde’s characters, contrasting the textual self with the somatic to reveal the ethical gains of a self rooted in the body.
This book forges a link between the philosophical self and the literary character. Using neo-pragmatist thought, it assesses Pater and Wilde’s characters, contrasting the textual self with the somatic to reveal the ethical gains of a self rooted in the body.
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Language is central to our existence, structuring our thoughts and identity. It interacts with social, political, and economic power structures in complex ways. This book explains the relations between language and society, exploring identity to trigger a novel discourse.
Language is central to our existence, structuring our thoughts and identity. It interacts with social, political, and economic power structures in complex ways. This book explains the relations between language and society, exploring identity to trigger a novel discourse.
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Translation and the paratext surrounding it are not innocent. Publishers manipulate a text’s presentation, while writers use prefaces and notes to push their own interpretations. These articles reveal how these elements impact a text's production and reception.
Translation and the paratext surrounding it are not innocent. Publishers manipulate a text’s presentation, while writers use prefaces and notes to push their own interpretations. These articles reveal how these elements impact a text’s production and reception.
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Texts and Territories
Historicized Fiction and Fictionalised History in Medieval England and Beyond
History turns into literary narrative, and narrative turns into history. This volume explores how medieval texts straddle this borderland, engaging with an array of texts from 11th-15th century England to uncover under-explored concepts of the past and historiography.
History turns into literary narrative, and narrative turns into history. This volume explores how medieval texts straddle this borderland, engaging with an array of texts from 11th-15th century England to uncover under-explored concepts of the past and historiography.
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Texts and Textiles
Affect, Synaesthesia and Metaphor in Fiction
This study illustrates how fiction that makes use of textiles as an essential element utilizes synaesthetic writing and metaphor to create an affective link to, and response in, the reader. These links and responses are assessed using affect theory and work on synaesthesia.
This study illustrates how fiction that makes use of textiles as an essential element utilizes synaesthetic writing and metaphor to create an affective link to, and response in, the reader. These links and responses are assessed using affect theory and work on synaesthesia.
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This volume is a rigorous update of the state of the art in the investigation of Old and Middle English. Written by some of the best known experts in this field, it addresses various issues, such as etymology, manuscript sources, and medieval literary traditions, among others.
This volume is a rigorous update of the state of the art in the investigation of Old and Middle English. Written by some of the best known experts in this field, it addresses various issues, such as etymology, manuscript sources, and medieval literary traditions, among others.
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That Elusive Fountain of Wisdom
A Tale of the Human Thirst for Knowledge
In the university town of Leuven, Belgium, visiting scholars pursue their personal and academic objectives. What starts out as an academic sojourn becomes a life-changing experience as their paths cross and they learn about each other, themselves, and life itself.
In the university town of Leuven, Belgium, visiting scholars pursue their personal and academic objectives. What starts out as an academic sojourn becomes a life-changing experience as their paths cross and they learn about each other, themselves, and life itself.
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That Was Then, This Is Now
Contemporary Archaeology and Material Cultures in Australia
This title represents a compendium of innovative research into the ideas, experiences, and iconographies embodied in materialities of the recent past. Drawing upon a variety of disciplines, the contributors examine themes of relevance to the contemporary world.
This title represents a compendium of innovative research into the ideas, experiences, and iconographies embodied in materialities of the recent past. Drawing upon a variety of disciplines, the contributors examine themes of relevance to the contemporary world.
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The ‘New’ Documentary Nexus
Networked|Networking in Interactive Assemblages
The rise of digital media has caused paradigm shifts in documentary. This book explores central questions about interactive documentary, developing methods to analyze this dynamic field for documentary theorists, media scholars, and students of media and communication studies.
The rise of digital media has caused paradigm shifts in documentary. This book explores central questions about interactive documentary, developing methods to analyze this dynamic field for documentary theorists, media scholars, and students of media and communication studies.
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This book questions the credibility of modern Quran translations. It addresses whether translations can be a true reflection of the divine message, assesses flaws in English versions, and discusses the best methods for translating religious texts, supported by expert interviews.
This book questions the credibility of modern Quran translations. It addresses whether translations can be a true reflection of the divine message, assesses flaws in English versions, and discusses the best methods for translating religious texts, supported by expert interviews.
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The “Nation” in War
A Study of Military Literature and Hindi War Cinema
The Nation in War explores notions of nation and nationalism in Indian military literature and Hindi war cinema. This book examines how these narratives construct the “nation,” create consensus for war, and portray women as national subjects.
The Nation in War explores notions of nation and nationalism in Indian military literature and Hindi war cinema. This book examines how these narratives construct the “nation,” create consensus for war, and portray women as national subjects.
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