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The Travellers depicted in this book were essential agents in their own depiction. Paul Harrison’s arresting photos show a “hidden Ireland” relegated to the societal margins. They haunt the viewer and interrogate what it means to be human.
The Travellers depicted in this book were essential agents in their own depiction. Paul Harrison’s arresting photos show a “hidden Ireland” relegated to the societal margins. They haunt the viewer and interrogate what it means to be human.
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Rewriting/Reprising in Literature
The Paradoxes of Intertextuality
This book offers a fresh outlook on rewriting-reprising. Taking a text’s origin as untraceable, it reconsiders trauma in relation to creative repetition. The act of reprising is a creation ex nihilo: the repetitive stitching of what is constantly ripped up.
This book offers a fresh outlook on rewriting-reprising. Taking a text’s origin as untraceable, it reconsiders trauma in relation to creative repetition. The act of reprising is a creation ex nihilo: the repetitive stitching of what is constantly ripped up.
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About Face
Depicting the Self in the Written and Visual Arts
How do we represent ourselves and the cultures we live in? To represent the self is to create it. This book explores the multifaceted nature of self-representation from the Middle Ages to contemporary culture through literature, philosophy, and the visual arts.
How do we represent ourselves and the cultures we live in? To represent the self is to create it. This book explores the multifaceted nature of self-representation from the Middle Ages to contemporary culture through literature, philosophy, and the visual arts.
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Muslim Societies in the Age of Mass Consumption
Politics, Culture and Identity between the Local and the Global
Muslim consumers are not passive victims of globalization. They adapt global brands, reshaping their culture. This volume uses consumption as a prism to understand the enormous transformations that Muslim societies have undergone in the past few decades.
Muslim consumers are not passive victims of globalization. They adapt global brands, reshaping their culture. This volume uses consumption as a prism to understand the enormous transformations that Muslim societies have undergone in the past few decades.
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American Modernism
Cultural Transactions
This book explores American literary modernism as a by-product of cultural transactions between the United States and Europe. Eminent scholars re-examine the works of Wharton, Pound, and Eliot, viewing American literature in a broad international context.
This book explores American literary modernism as a by-product of cultural transactions between the United States and Europe. Eminent scholars re-examine the works of Wharton, Pound, and Eliot, viewing American literature in a broad international context.
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Cosmic Order and Cultural Astronomy
Sacred Cities of India
In India, sacredscapes arise where culture, geography, and cosmos create transcendent power. This volume's essays explore cultural astronomy and cosmic order through case studies of sacred sites like Khajuraho, Gaya, Kashi, Vindhyachal, and Chitrakut.
In India, sacredscapes arise where culture, geography, and cosmos create transcendent power. This volume’s essays explore cultural astronomy and cosmic order through case studies of sacred sites like Khajuraho, Gaya, Kashi, Vindhyachal, and Chitrakut.
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Naked and Alone in a Strange New World
Early Modern Captivity and its Mythos
This analysis of early modern captivity narratives argues the harrowing tales are not historically accurate. Instead, they are cultural artifacts that offer insight into the mentalities of the age, aiding understanding of sixteenth-century peoples and societies.
This analysis of early modern captivity narratives argues the harrowing tales are not historically accurate. Instead, they are cultural artifacts that offer insight into the mentalities of the age, aiding understanding of sixteenth-century peoples and societies.
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This collection of essays marks a different approach to Mark Twain. It explores how geography—from the Mississippi River to Europe and beyond—influenced his work. These essays use Twain’s concepts of space to help us understand his greatest masterpieces.
This collection of essays marks a different approach to Mark Twain. It explores how geography—from the Mississippi River to Europe and beyond—influenced his work. These essays use Twain’s concepts of space to help us understand his greatest masterpieces.
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In early modern cities, oligarchies collided with community expectations for participation. This book offers new interpretations of the techniques elites used to cope with these tensions, examining elections, consent, dissent, and even urban revolts.
In early modern cities, oligarchies collided with community expectations for participation. This book offers new interpretations of the techniques elites used to cope with these tensions, examining elections, consent, dissent, and even urban revolts.
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Cinemas, Identities and Beyond examines how film represents and constructs identities, transcending national and temporal boundaries. This collection of essays challenges ideological paradigms and contributes to contemporary debates in film studies.
Cinemas, Identities and Beyond examines how film represents and constructs identities, transcending national and temporal boundaries. This collection of essays challenges ideological paradigms and contributes to contemporary debates in film studies.
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Family History in Lancashire
Issues and Approaches
Leading historians explore the family in Lancashire during industrialisation. This book shows how the family was society’s most effective shock absorber, adapting to the social stresses created by immense economic change.
Leading historians explore the family in Lancashire during industrialisation. This book shows how the family was society’s most effective shock absorber, adapting to the social stresses created by immense economic change.
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The study of Thracian has been hindered by outdated methods that caused various misunderstandings. This book introduces a new method resting on phonological analysis of onomastics, providing a more rigorous and convincing account of the language.
The study of Thracian has been hindered by outdated methods that caused various misunderstandings. This book introduces a new method resting on phonological analysis of onomastics, providing a more rigorous and convincing account of the language.
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Asian English Writers of Chinese Origin
Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong
This book brings together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent to explore postcolonial impacts on race, class, and language. It takes a special look at gender politics and how Chinese women defy the Orientalist gaze and native patriarchy.
This book brings together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent to explore postcolonial impacts on race, class, and language. It takes a special look at gender politics and how Chinese women defy the Orientalist gaze and native patriarchy.
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Building Cultures of Peace
Transdisciplinary Voices of Hope and Action
In a world torn apart by conflict, from families to nations, how do we build a culture of peace? This volume of essays presents multiple perspectives from scholars and practitioners on fostering hope and creating peace in a conflict-ridden world.
In a world torn apart by conflict, from families to nations, how do we build a culture of peace? This volume of essays presents multiple perspectives from scholars and practitioners on fostering hope and creating peace in a conflict-ridden world.
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Generations in Towns
Succession and Success in Pre-Industrial Urban Societies
This book fills a gap in urban history with twelve studies of generations in late medieval and early modern European towns. Dealing with topics like succession, inheritance, and conflict, the articles demonstrate the importance of generational studies on pre-modern towns.
This book fills a gap in urban history with twelve studies of generations in late medieval and early modern European towns. Dealing with topics like succession, inheritance, and conflict, the articles demonstrate the importance of generational studies on pre-modern towns.
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Musical Islands
Exploring Connections between Music, Place and Research
Islands are imagined as unique places where unexpected treasures can be found. This collection applies this powerful metaphor to musicology, showcasing innovative research from Australia and New Zealand in both established and uncharted territories.
Islands are imagined as unique places where unexpected treasures can be found. This collection applies this powerful metaphor to musicology, showcasing innovative research from Australia and New Zealand in both established and uncharted territories.
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Pursuits and Joys
Great Victorian Antiquarians and Intellects
This volume is a collection of updated papers exploring the remarkable Lukis family and their contemporaries. It examines their pioneering work and the evolution of archaeology as a discipline in the nineteenth century across Britain and Europe.
This volume is a collection of updated papers exploring the remarkable Lukis family and their contemporaries. It examines their pioneering work and the evolution of archaeology as a discipline in the nineteenth century across Britain and Europe.
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Crossing Cultural Boundaries
Taboo, Bodies and Identities
What are the consequences of transgression? This collection of essays explores how cultural boundaries are challenged and redefined through the intricacies of taboos, bodies, and identities. Deconstructing boundaries becomes part of the project of redefining the self.
What are the consequences of transgression? This collection of essays explores how cultural boundaries are challenged and redefined through the intricacies of taboos, bodies, and identities. Deconstructing boundaries becomes part of the project of redefining the self.
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Banaras
Making of India’s Heritage City
Narrating the making of Banaras, the Hindus’ most sacred city, this book is an insightful guide to the cultural complexities, ritualscapes, and vivid heritagescapes that maintain India’s pride of history and culture.
Narrating the making of Banaras, the Hindus’ most sacred city, this book is an insightful guide to the cultural complexities, ritualscapes, and vivid heritagescapes that maintain India’s pride of history and culture.
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Migration and Development
Factoring Return into the Equation
This book finds that highly-skilled Ghanaian and Ivorian return migrants can be key development agents. Bringing back financial, human, and social capital, they create new businesses and community initiatives, supporting the idea of 'brain circulation'.
This book finds that highly-skilled Ghanaian and Ivorian return migrants can be key development agents. Bringing back financial, human, and social capital, they create new businesses and community initiatives, supporting the idea of ‘brain circulation’.
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