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Do we have the free will necessary for moral responsibility, or does determinism make it impossible? This volume offers new perspectives from leading philosophers on these questions, exploring fairness, obligation, and meaningfulness in a deterministic universe.
Do we have the free will necessary for moral responsibility, or does determinism make it impossible? This volume offers new perspectives from leading philosophers on these questions, exploring fairness, obligation, and meaningfulness in a deterministic universe.
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The Globetrotting Shopaholic
Consumer Spaces, Products, and their Cultural Places
This book examines the cultural, political, and social reasons why we consume. Exploring global consumer spaces—from Canada's West Edmonton Mall to Japanese theme parks—it reveals how consumer goods and spaces define who we are as human beings.
This book examines the cultural, political, and social reasons why we consume. Exploring global consumer spaces—from Canada’s West Edmonton Mall to Japanese theme parks—it reveals how consumer goods and spaces define who we are as human beings.
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The articles in this volume vitalize diaspora studies, challenging how we understand 'culture' beyond the nation-state. They examine recent literature, film, and art, interrogating seminal thinkers and offering alternative perspectives on diaspora theory.
The articles in this volume vitalize diaspora studies, challenging how we understand ‘culture’ beyond the nation-state. They examine recent literature, film, and art, interrogating seminal thinkers and offering alternative perspectives on diaspora theory.
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These provocative essays explore the uneasy relationship between religion and film in the works of masters like Bergman, Tarkovsky, and del Toro. This spiritual and critical journey challenges us to think more forcefully about the values that shape our lives.
These provocative essays explore the uneasy relationship between religion and film in the works of masters like Bergman, Tarkovsky, and del Toro. This spiritual and critical journey challenges us to think more forcefully about the values that shape our lives.
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The World as a Global Agora
Critical Perspectives on Public Space
Ranging from architecture to gender studies, the essays in this collection explore public space as a vital aspect of public life. The authors agree that no matter what form it takes, public space remains fundamental to all societies as the basis for civic action.
Ranging from architecture to gender studies, the essays in this collection explore public space as a vital aspect of public life. The authors agree that no matter what form it takes, public space remains fundamental to all societies as the basis for civic action.
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Words and Images on the Screen
Language, Literature and Moving Pictures
Word has been a primordial companion to cinema from its beginnings. This volume offers a collection of essays that question the role of words and images in moving pictures, covering their interconnectedness through in-depth case studies and general surveys.
Word has been a primordial companion to cinema from its beginnings. This volume offers a collection of essays that question the role of words and images in moving pictures, covering their interconnectedness through in-depth case studies and general surveys.
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Berlin Since the Wall’s End
Shaping Society and Memory in the German Metropolis since 1989
Since the Wall fell, Berlin has confronted the daunting challenges of reunification. This book examines two broad concerns—society and historical memory—casting light on a metropolis scarred, but not destroyed, by the upheavals of recent history.
Since the Wall fell, Berlin has confronted the daunting challenges of reunification. This book examines two broad concerns—society and historical memory—casting light on a metropolis scarred, but not destroyed, by the upheavals of recent history.
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Seeking the Self – Encountering the Other
Diasporic Narrative and the Ethics of Representation
This collection offers new insights into diasporic experiences. It examines how we can ethically read and interpret encounters with the cultural, sexual, and ethnic other in narratives of displacement, belonging, and exclusion.
This collection offers new insights into diasporic experiences. It examines how we can ethically read and interpret encounters with the cultural, sexual, and ethnic other in narratives of displacement, belonging, and exclusion.
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These essays explore 'translation' as a key term for language, literature, and culture. The volume connects translation studies with postcolonial studies and World Englishes, revealing the profound interrelationship between language and culture.
These essays explore ‘translation’ as a key term for language, literature, and culture. The volume connects translation studies with postcolonial studies and World Englishes, revealing the profound interrelationship between language and culture.
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For readers certain there were diverse, socially relevant voices in early Canadian women’s writing—and for sceptics—this collection offers proof. These essays explore the literary voices women created to work for diversity and social change in Canada.
For readers certain there were diverse, socially relevant voices in early Canadian women’s writing—and for sceptics—this collection offers proof. These essays explore the literary voices women created to work for diversity and social change in Canada.
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Discover current scholarship on the Middle and Far East. These essays offer new perspectives on the region's languages, literatures, and cultures, from theory and gender to pedagogy.
Discover current scholarship on the Middle and Far East. These essays offer new perspectives on the region’s languages, literatures, and cultures, from theory and gender to pedagogy.
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Representing Culture
Essays on Identity, Visuality and Technology
Defying traditional boundaries, these interdisciplinary essays offer new perspectives for cultural criticism. They explore current experience through the intersecting axes of identity politics, visual culture and technology.
Defying traditional boundaries, these interdisciplinary essays offer new perspectives for cultural criticism. They explore current experience through the intersecting axes of identity politics, visual culture and technology.
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This anthology examines iconic films and the visionary auteurs who introduced new ways of seeing that shifted US culture. A unique collection with a diversity of genres and theoretical approaches, this indispensable text is accessible to scholars and lay readers.
This anthology examines iconic films and the visionary auteurs who introduced new ways of seeing that shifted US culture. A unique collection with a diversity of genres and theoretical approaches, this indispensable text is accessible to scholars and lay readers.
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Postcolonial Artist
Johnny Doran and Irish Traveller Tradition
Irish Travellers have had little input into how they are represented. This book redresses this imbalance, exploring the Traveller experience through the musical oeuvre of artist Johnny Doran to outline the importance of cultural hybridity in postcolonial Ireland.
Irish Travellers have had little input into how they are represented. This book redresses this imbalance, exploring the Traveller experience through the musical oeuvre of artist Johnny Doran to outline the importance of cultural hybridity in postcolonial Ireland.
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Myths and Facts about Football
The Economics and Psychology of the World’s Greatest Sport
This book presents economic and psychological analyses of football, investigating popular conceptions and misconceptions. Are teams more likely to concede a goal after scoring? Does the team going first in a penalty shoot-out have an advantage?
This book presents economic and psychological analyses of football, investigating popular conceptions and misconceptions. Are teams more likely to concede a goal after scoring? Does the team going first in a penalty shoot-out have an advantage?
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New Literatures of Old
Dialogues of Tradition and Innovation in Anglophone Literature
Artistic creativity is fuelled by dialogues between the past and the present. This book explores how these exchanges become active agents of intervention, creating spaces of dialogue and confrontation when establishing the cultural identity of a community.
Artistic creativity is fuelled by dialogues between the past and the present. This book explores how these exchanges become active agents of intervention, creating spaces of dialogue and confrontation when establishing the cultural identity of a community.
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War is a terrible disaster, yet it is a universal characteristic of human existence. Why? This multi-disciplinary collection of essays explores the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.
War is a terrible disaster, yet it is a universal characteristic of human existence. Why? This multi-disciplinary collection of essays explores the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.
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Sacred Space, Beloved City
Iris Murdoch’s London
Explore Iris Murdoch’s London. Essays and guided walks link her plots to real landmarks and routes, revealing how characters experience their surroundings. Illustrated with atmospheric sketches, the book includes a complete glossary of London places from her 26 novels.
Explore Iris Murdoch’s London. Essays and guided walks link her plots to real landmarks and routes, revealing how characters experience their surroundings. Illustrated with atmospheric sketches, the book includes a complete glossary of London places from her 26 novels.
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Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns
Essays on Fiction and Culture
Essays by international scholars explore Victorian writers like Dickens and Eliot in their cultural context. The collection then examines NeoVictorian returns in contemporary literature and film, revealing the era's ongoing dialogue with the modern world.
Essays by international scholars explore Victorian writers like Dickens and Eliot in their cultural context. The collection then examines NeoVictorian returns in contemporary literature and film, revealing the era’s ongoing dialogue with the modern world.
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This book explores the cultural notion of “Shakespeare.” His collaborators are not only his contemporaries but all who give his works new life as plays, films, and novels, collaborating in both a literal and figurative sense.
This book explores the cultural notion of “Shakespeare.” His collaborators are not only his contemporaries but all who give his works new life as plays, films, and novels, collaborating in both a literal and figurative sense.
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