The End of Meaning
Studies in Catastrophe
Our long romance with catastrophe is a search for elusive truth. From classical Greece to contemporary America, The End of Meaning demonstrates that catastrophe has always been generic. This book asks: what if meaning itself is a catastrophe?
Our long romance with catastrophe is a search for elusive truth. From classical Greece to contemporary America, The End of Meaning demonstrates that catastrophe has always been generic. This book asks: what if meaning itself is a catastrophe?
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Twentieth Century Borrowings from French to English
Their Reception and Development
French's vast influence on English is well-known, but recent borrowings are little studied. This work analyzes 1677 20th-century loanwords from the OED to reveal their modern impact and semantic evolution.
French’s vast influence on English is well-known, but recent borrowings are little studied. This work analyzes 1677 20th-century loanwords from the OED to reveal their modern impact and semantic evolution.
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A World of Lost Innocence
The Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen
A World of Lost Innocence charts the psychological journey from innocence to experience in Elizabeth Bowen's fiction, exploring her characters' confrontations with identity, sexuality, and politics.
A World of Lost Innocence charts the psychological journey from innocence to experience in Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction, exploring her characters’ confrontations with identity, sexuality, and politics.
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Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch
Thinking about Television’s Mad Men
Twenty-six authors explore the Emmy-winning series Mad Men. In eighteen engaging essays, this collection delves into the show's cultural impact, complex characters, and its interrogations of nostalgia, identity, gender, and mass communication.
Twenty-six authors explore the Emmy-winning series Mad Men. In eighteen engaging essays, this collection delves into the show’s cultural impact, complex characters, and its interrogations of nostalgia, identity, gender, and mass communication.
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Florida Studies
Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association
This volume contains essays on Florida literature and history. The first section focuses on the college classroom, while "Old Florida" explores writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Jack Kerouac. The final section identifies the state’s place within larger traditions.
This volume contains essays on Florida literature and history. The first section focuses on the college classroom, while “Old Florida” explores writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Jack Kerouac. The final section identifies the state’s place within larger traditions.
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Linguistics, Literature and Culture
Millennium Realities and Innovative Practices in Asia
Sixteen essays by academics explore the changing realities in Asian linguistics, literature, and culture resulting from globalization. This book showcases original research on the interface between the global and the local in a variety of multicultural settings.
Sixteen essays by academics explore the changing realities in Asian linguistics, literature, and culture resulting from globalization. This book showcases original research on the interface between the global and the local in a variety of multicultural settings.
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Creating Cultural Synergies
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Interculturality and Interreligiosity
This book brings together international researchers from diverse fields to explore how intercultural competence can work in today’s society. The contributors elucidate the challenges and potentials of interculturality and interreligiosity.
This book brings together international researchers from diverse fields to explore how intercultural competence can work in today’s society. The contributors elucidate the challenges and potentials of interculturality and interreligiosity.
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EU Energy Law
Constraints with the Implementation of the Third Liberalisation Package
This book investigates legal shortfalls in new EU energy legislation from a business perspective. By comparing former and present rules, it shows how liberalisation of the EU energy market is achievable and suggests improvements for future legislation.
This book investigates legal shortfalls in new EU energy legislation from a business perspective. By comparing former and present rules, it shows how liberalisation of the EU energy market is achievable and suggests improvements for future legislation.
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The European Avant-Garde
Text and Image
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores European Avant-Garde movements (1900-1940) in text and image. Covering movements like Futurism and Surrealism, it examines themes of the body, translation, identity, and exile.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores European Avant-Garde movements (1900-1940) in text and image. Covering movements like Futurism and Surrealism, it examines themes of the body, translation, identity, and exile.
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Physiology of Organisations
An Integrated Functional Perspective
Can we imagine organisations as human bodies? Organisational science today is fragmented. This book fills that gap by constructing a physiological theory of organising to treat organisations when they are ill and ensure they work at maximum efficiency.
Can we imagine organisations as human bodies? Organisational science today is fragmented. This book fills that gap by constructing a physiological theory of organising to treat organisations when they are ill and ensure they work at maximum efficiency.
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This book analyzes Central Asian economies in transition, covering their economic and political challenges, integration into the global world, international trade, and the energy sector. It offers a comprehensive picture for academics, politicians, and business leaders.
This book analyzes Central Asian economies in transition, covering their economic and political challenges, integration into the global world, international trade, and the energy sector. It offers a comprehensive picture for academics, politicians, and business leaders.
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Shifting Borders
European Perspectives on Creolisation
More than a metaphor, creolisation is a powerful tool for understanding the dynamics of intercultural encounter and conflict. This book investigates creole patterns in literature, arts, and politics, addressing problems of citizenship and difficult cohabitations.
More than a metaphor, creolisation is a powerful tool for understanding the dynamics of intercultural encounter and conflict. This book investigates creole patterns in literature, arts, and politics, addressing problems of citizenship and difficult cohabitations.
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This collection connects theatre and performance studies with public sphere theory. Essays from prominent scholars explore how performing in public shapes identity, class, and political agency across three centuries and in multiple global contexts.
This collection connects theatre and performance studies with public sphere theory. Essays from prominent scholars explore how performing in public shapes identity, class, and political agency across three centuries and in multiple global contexts.
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Partnership for Development
Alternative Approaches to Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh
This book examines how Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) can alleviate poverty in Bangladesh. Using case studies, it evaluates the performance and effects of novel PPP arrangements, identifying opportunities and constraints for their success.
This book examines how Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) can alleviate poverty in Bangladesh. Using case studies, it evaluates the performance and effects of novel PPP arrangements, identifying opportunities and constraints for their success.
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The Third Wave of Historical Scholarship on Nigeria
Essays in Honor of Ayodeji Olukoju
This volume in honor of historian Ayodeji Olukoju ventures into uncharted terrain in Nigerian history. It presents groundbreaking scholarship on underresearched topics like sexuality, youth, and crime, offering historical explanations for Nigeria’s challenges.
This volume in honor of historian Ayodeji Olukoju ventures into uncharted terrain in Nigerian history. It presents groundbreaking scholarship on underresearched topics like sexuality, youth, and crime, offering historical explanations for Nigeria’s challenges.
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Images of the Lisbon Treaty Debate in the British Press
A Corpus-based Approach to Metaphor Analysis
This book analyses metaphors in the UK press discourse on the Lisbon Treaty. Using Critical Metaphor Analysis, it reveals how metaphors function in political debate, identifying stereotyped roles and exposing journalistic and political attitudes.
This book analyses metaphors in the UK press discourse on the Lisbon Treaty. Using Critical Metaphor Analysis, it reveals how metaphors function in political debate, identifying stereotyped roles and exposing journalistic and political attitudes.
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This overview compares how languages express modality (possibility, necessity) covertly. Drawing on diverse languages, it shows that typical Indo-European patterns are not universal, yet reveals recurrent forms that allow for new generalizations.
This overview compares how languages express modality (possibility, necessity) covertly. Drawing on diverse languages, it shows that typical Indo-European patterns are not universal, yet reveals recurrent forms that allow for new generalizations.
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Relevance Theory
More than Understanding
This volume covers topics central to pragmatic research: politeness, communication, metaphor, and humour. Alongside innovative theoretical proposals, it offers interesting analyses and discussions.
This volume covers topics central to pragmatic research: politeness, communication, metaphor, and humour. Alongside innovative theoretical proposals, it offers interesting analyses and discussions.
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Life and Mind
A Philosophical Quest
This provocative book argues that life and mind elude purely materialistic explanations. It posits intelligence as a precondition for organic existence, a serious challenge to modern science, and culminates in a philosophical proof of the mind system.
This provocative book argues that life and mind elude purely materialistic explanations. It posits intelligence as a precondition for organic existence, a serious challenge to modern science, and culminates in a philosophical proof of the mind system.
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The Churches and the Working Classes
Leeds, 1870-1920
As religious allegiance declined in the nineteenth century, churches struggled to attract the working classes. This book traces their efforts from 1870 to 1920 and the ambivalent public response, focusing on the industrial city of Leeds.
As religious allegiance declined in the nineteenth century, churches struggled to attract the working classes. This book traces their efforts from 1870 to 1920 and the ambivalent public response, focusing on the industrial city of Leeds.
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