New Conservative Explications
Reasoning with some Classic English Poems
As interest in explicating classic poems has declined, many still puzzle readers. This book provides new explications for twelve poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Yeats, and others, arguing that this practice can reveal their sense and conserve them.
As interest in explicating classic poems has declined, many still puzzle readers. This book provides new explications for twelve poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Yeats, and others, arguing that this practice can reveal their sense and conserve them.
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Refashioning Myth
Poetic Transformations and Metamorphoses
Mythology has been a field richly mined by poets and artists from antiquity to the present day. This volume presents a diverse collection of analytical and creative works by scholars, poets and visual artists exploring the prolific dialogue between myth and poetry.
Mythology has been a field richly mined by poets and artists from antiquity to the present day. This volume presents a diverse collection of analytical and creative works by scholars, poets and visual artists exploring the prolific dialogue between myth and poetry.
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From Critique to Action
The Practical Ethics of the Organizational World
This book applies ethical thinking to business, management and computing. Based on the practical experience of researchers and practitioners, it is written in an accessible way with a strong, cross-disciplinary and intercultural flavour.
This book applies ethical thinking to business, management and computing. Based on the practical experience of researchers and practitioners, it is written in an accessible way with a strong, cross-disciplinary and intercultural flavour.
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Analysing Desecuritisation
The Case of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Education and Water Management
This book applies securitisation theory to the Israeli-Palestinian situation, focusing on the potential for a desecuritisation process. It develops desecuritisation as a framework for analysing conflict resolution and peace, exploring the prospects for reconciliation.
This book applies securitisation theory to the Israeli-Palestinian situation, focusing on the potential for a desecuritisation process. It develops desecuritisation as a framework for analysing conflict resolution and peace, exploring the prospects for reconciliation.
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This volume analyses how seventeenth-century English news writers shaped their discourse. Examining corantos, newsbooks, and gazettes, it reveals the strategies they used to inform, persuade, and entertain a news-obsessed readership.
This volume analyses how seventeenth-century English news writers shaped their discourse. Examining corantos, newsbooks, and gazettes, it reveals the strategies they used to inform, persuade, and entertain a news-obsessed readership.
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Churchill likened Lloyd George’s attitude to Germany to Marshal Pétain. This book reveals why. Believing Germany was an underdog, Lloyd George supported appeasement even during Hitler's chancellorship and advocated a compromise peace during World War Two.
Churchill likened Lloyd George’s attitude to Germany to Marshal Pétain. This book reveals why. Believing Germany was an underdog, Lloyd George supported appeasement even during Hitler’s chancellorship and advocated a compromise peace during World War Two.
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Animals and Science
From Colonial Encounters to the Biotech Industry
What does a focus on animals bring to anthropological studies of science? This collection explores the intersections between animals and science, challenging our ideas of what it means to be human and suggesting that our Western knowledge is in need of rethinking.
What does a focus on animals bring to anthropological studies of science? This collection explores the intersections between animals and science, challenging our ideas of what it means to be human and suggesting that our Western knowledge is in need of rethinking.
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Second Language Competence
The Acquisition of Complex Syntax in Spanish
This volume analyzes the acquisition of complex syntax by non-native learners of Spanish. It examines native language transfer and proficiency changes, focusing on key grammatical structures to bridge the gap between linguistic theory and its applications.
This volume analyzes the acquisition of complex syntax by non-native learners of Spanish. It examines native language transfer and proficiency changes, focusing on key grammatical structures to bridge the gap between linguistic theory and its applications.
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The Sacred Tree
Ancient and Medieval Manifestations
For ancient and medieval Europeans, the sacred tree was the center of the world and a picture of the cosmos, symbolizing stability and order. When these Pagan peoples adopted Christianity, this potent symbol was transformed, but its power endured.
For ancient and medieval Europeans, the sacred tree was the center of the world and a picture of the cosmos, symbolizing stability and order. When these Pagan peoples adopted Christianity, this potent symbol was transformed, but its power endured.
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Believing ‘no text is an island,’ this book explores intertextuality and transformation. It examines texts—especially children's literature—that traverse boundaries of genre, medium, and geography, with essays from a wide range of international scholars.
Believing ‘no text is an island,’ this book explores intertextuality and transformation. It examines texts—especially children’s literature—that traverse boundaries of genre, medium, and geography, with essays from a wide range of international scholars.
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Despite unimaginable technological progress, we feel a profound unease. While philosophers have analyzed technological society, their secular ideas are limited. This book argues that where philosophy ends, a religious discourse is needed to articulate our ultimate concerns.
Despite unimaginable technological progress, we feel a profound unease. While philosophers have analyzed technological society, their secular ideas are limited. This book argues that where philosophy ends, a religious discourse is needed to articulate our ultimate concerns.
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James Bond in World and Popular Culture
The Films are Not Enough, Second Edition
The most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena ever published. 40 original essays provide new insights into the Bond girl, video games, music, fashion, and Ian Fleming himself, showing how this cultural icon has changed the world.
The most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena ever published. 40 original essays provide new insights into the Bond girl, video games, music, fashion, and Ian Fleming himself, showing how this cultural icon has changed the world.
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This book analyses the connections between Victorian perceptions of childhood and the anxieties of the Fin-de-Siècle. It examines how children in literature came to represent both the promise and the threat of the future in an age of upheaval.
This book analyses the connections between Victorian perceptions of childhood and the anxieties of the Fin-de-Siècle. It examines how children in literature came to represent both the promise and the threat of the future in an age of upheaval.
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Table Talk
Perspectives on Food in Medieval Italian Literature
These essays explore the multifaceted role of food within medieval Italian culture. Through the writings of authors from Dante and Boccaccio to Catherine of Siena, this volume examines the medical, religious, social, and political role of foodways.
These essays explore the multifaceted role of food within medieval Italian culture. Through the writings of authors from Dante and Boccaccio to Catherine of Siena, this volume examines the medical, religious, social, and political role of foodways.
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British Political Parties and National Identity
A Changing Discourse 1997-2010
This book examines party political debates on Britishness under New Labour (1997–2010). It shows how discussions on devolution, multiculturalism, and globalisation led to a new consensus, while the European Union remained a deep, divisive cleavage.
This book examines party political debates on Britishness under New Labour (1997–2010). It shows how discussions on devolution, multiculturalism, and globalisation led to a new consensus, while the European Union remained a deep, divisive cleavage.
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Transculturality and Perceptions of the Immigrant Other
“From-Heres” and “Come-Heres” in Virginia and North Rhine-Westphalia
In our age of globalization, migration sparks passionate debate. These essays use the concept of transculturality to rethink cultural difference, investigating how migration creates not just conflict, but also negotiation, hybrid identities, and new forms of belonging.
In our age of globalization, migration sparks passionate debate. These essays use the concept of transculturality to rethink cultural difference, investigating how migration creates not just conflict, but also negotiation, hybrid identities, and new forms of belonging.
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Centres and Peripheries
Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Journalism in the Twenty-First Century
These essays explore centre/periphery relationships in journalism on a wide geographical canvas. Academics and journalists discuss issues from regional news agendas to the technological and financial challenges facing journalism in the digital age.
These essays explore centre/periphery relationships in journalism on a wide geographical canvas. Academics and journalists discuss issues from regional news agendas to the technological and financial challenges facing journalism in the digital age.
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Women and Work
The Labors of Self-Fashioning
The essays in Women and Work explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers represent the work of being women—encompassing not only paid labor but also the work of performing femininity and domesticity.
The essays in Women and Work explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers represent the work of being women—encompassing not only paid labor but also the work of performing femininity and domesticity.
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This study explains the stunning vitality and success of postcolonial Indian novels. It analyses themes of empire, nation, gender, and language to show how writers from Rushdie to Roy have created a truly world literature, liberated from the nation.
This study explains the stunning vitality and success of postcolonial Indian novels. It analyses themes of empire, nation, gender, and language to show how writers from Rushdie to Roy have created a truly world literature, liberated from the nation.
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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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