Material Worlds
Proceedings of the Conference held at Glasgow University, 2005
This volume examines how the intangible is made real, how culture mediates our experience of the world, and what about the real resists transcription. Analyses include attempts to inscribe the soul and the material manifestations of capitalism and empire.
This volume examines how the intangible is made real, how culture mediates our experience of the world, and what about the real resists transcription. Analyses include attempts to inscribe the soul and the material manifestations of capitalism and empire.
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Loss, Hurt and Hope
The Complex Issues of Bereavement and Trauma in Children
What happens when a child experiences bereavement or trauma? Untreated, it causes devastating loss. *Loss, Hurt and Hope* gathers the wisdom of professionals, providing the tools to help these children move from despair to hope and renewal.
What happens when a child experiences bereavement or trauma? Untreated, it causes devastating loss. *Loss, Hurt and Hope* gathers the wisdom of professionals, providing the tools to help these children move from despair to hope and renewal.
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Catalogues of Proper Names in Latin Epic Poetry
Lucretius - Virgil - Ovid
This book explores the poetic catalogue from Homer to Ovid. It examines how internal structural patterns and external framing devices evolved, contrasting Virgil’s supportive function with Lucretius’s subversion and Ovid’s sophisticated innovations.
This book explores the poetic catalogue from Homer to Ovid. It examines how internal structural patterns and external framing devices evolved, contrasting Virgil’s supportive function with Lucretius’s subversion and Ovid’s sophisticated innovations.
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Out of the Stream
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Mural Painting
This book reveals the vitality of Medieval & Renaissance murals from Europe's periphery, focusing on the link between image, audience, and daily life. From Denmark to Portugal, these studies offer new perspectives on art from Giotto to anonymous painters.
This book reveals the vitality of Medieval & Renaissance murals from Europe’s periphery, focusing on the link between image, audience, and daily life. From Denmark to Portugal, these studies offer new perspectives on art from Giotto to anonymous painters.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
The Non-Operatic Texts
Beyond his famous operas, Giacomo Meyerbeer wrote extensively for the voice in other genres. This volume presents the texts for his non-operatic stage works, occasional public pieces, sacred music, and songs, in the original and in English translation.
Beyond his famous operas, Giacomo Meyerbeer wrote extensively for the voice in other genres. This volume presents the texts for his non-operatic stage works, occasional public pieces, sacred music, and songs, in the original and in English translation.
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Film scholars, drawing upon psychology, analyze the connections between stylistic patterns and aesthetic effects. This selection of essays focuses on elements of filmic narration to gain tangible insight into the ancient mystery of the link between art and experience.
Film scholars, drawing upon psychology, analyze the connections between stylistic patterns and aesthetic effects. This selection of essays focuses on elements of filmic narration to gain tangible insight into the ancient mystery of the link between art and experience.
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In the 1970s, Romanian tourism was blooming. This book analyzes the evolution of its tourism and hotel industry since 1990. Has Romanian tourism returned to its golden age? Has it built a country brand to differentiate itself from competing nations?
In the 1970s, Romanian tourism was blooming. This book analyzes the evolution of its tourism and hotel industry since 1990. Has Romanian tourism returned to its golden age? Has it built a country brand to differentiate itself from competing nations?
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Through Other Eyes
The Translation of Anglophone Literature in Europe
This volume investigates how English literary works have been translated and disseminated in Europe since the Renaissance. It explores translators’ intentions, faithfulness to the source text, and why translations are often portrayed in a different light to the original.
This volume investigates how English literary works have been translated and disseminated in Europe since the Renaissance. It explores translators’ intentions, faithfulness to the source text, and why translations are often portrayed in a different light to the original.
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Francophone Women Coming of Age
Memoirs of Childhood and Adolescence from France, Africa, Quebec and the Caribbean
These essays explore growing up female in male-dominated Francophone cultures. Spanning Africa, Europe, and North America, the works analyze conflicts of culture and family, sharing a common search for identity and liberation through writing.
These essays explore growing up female in male-dominated Francophone cultures. Spanning Africa, Europe, and North America, the works analyze conflicts of culture and family, sharing a common search for identity and liberation through writing.
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As terms like race and ethnicity become problematic in our “post-multicultural” world, this volume offers new approaches to difference in theatre history. Essays examine topics from race, gender, and sexuality to nationalism and class with new theories.
As terms like race and ethnicity become problematic in our “post-multicultural” world, this volume offers new approaches to difference in theatre history. Essays examine topics from race, gender, and sexuality to nationalism and class with new theories.
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Romanticism and Parenting
Image, Instruction and Ideology
How do parents encode and decode our world? Romantic writers explored what it meant to “parent” in the domestic and political sphere. This collection reveals how the Romantic period has come to profoundly influence our own current constructions of the politics of parenting.
How do parents encode and decode our world? Romantic writers explored what it meant to “parent” in the domestic and political sphere. This collection reveals how the Romantic period has come to profoundly influence our own current constructions of the politics of parenting.
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Eastwards / Westwards
Which Direction for Gender Studies in the 21st Century?
This collection of essays on gender in Asian countries offers a critical transnational perspective. It explores the interplay between local and global forces in the (re)invention of male and female identities across politics, literature, and popular culture.
This collection of essays on gender in Asian countries offers a critical transnational perspective. It explores the interplay between local and global forces in the (re)invention of male and female identities across politics, literature, and popular culture.
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This collection of studies on languages for specific purposes (LSP) analyses discourse across academic and professional areas. It offers valuable insights into communicative strategies and methodological approaches for teaching specialised communication skills.
This collection of studies on languages for specific purposes (LSP) analyses discourse across academic and professional areas. It offers valuable insights into communicative strategies and methodological approaches for teaching specialised communication skills.
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Writing Imagined Diasporas
South Asian Women Reshaping North American Identity
This study argues that diasporic South Asian women writers are not merely assimilating to North American culture but actively reshaping it. Their writings of imagined diasporas create new, hybrid identities that challenge "national" discourses.
This study argues that diasporic South Asian women writers are not merely assimilating to North American culture but actively reshaping it. Their writings of imagined diasporas create new, hybrid identities that challenge “national” discourses.
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Shifting Borders explores borders in visual culture. While globalization advocates for fewer national barriers, veiled borders rise to maintain cultural exclusion. These essays re-examine inherited knowledge to open up new understandings of cultural difference.
Shifting Borders explores borders in visual culture. While globalization advocates for fewer national barriers, veiled borders rise to maintain cultural exclusion. These essays re-examine inherited knowledge to open up new understandings of cultural difference.
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Movie Time studies temporal mythmaking in American movies. It explores how films make sense of our world by reconstructing pasts like the 1950s, defining the present through the rise of conservatism, and foreseeing alternative futures.
Movie Time studies temporal mythmaking in American movies. It explores how films make sense of our world by reconstructing pasts like the 1950s, defining the present through the rise of conservatism, and foreseeing alternative futures.
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English in Southeast Asia
Varieties, Literacies and Literatures
This is the first single volume to publish such diverse work on English in Southeast Asia. Sections cover Varieties, Literacies, and Literatures, from code-switching to new writings. An excellent resource for university students and academics.
This is the first single volume to publish such diverse work on English in Southeast Asia. Sections cover Varieties, Literacies, and Literatures, from code-switching to new writings. An excellent resource for university students and academics.
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Researching the Self
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and computer science unite to explore the self. What are its neural correlates? Can individuals have multiple selves? How do selves depend on others? Will engineers ever construct artificial selves?
Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and computer science unite to explore the self. What are its neural correlates? Can individuals have multiple selves? How do selves depend on others? Will engineers ever construct artificial selves?
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This collection reconsiders the history of science in nineteenth-century Britain. Moving away from a Darwin-focused history, these interdisciplinary essays offer fresh insights into scientific development through history, religion, literature, and art.
This collection reconsiders the history of science in nineteenth-century Britain. Moving away from a Darwin-focused history, these interdisciplinary essays offer fresh insights into scientific development through history, religion, literature, and art.
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This book challenges the wisdom that separates liberal democracies from authoritarian systems. It argues that a liberal democracy not only can be as evil as its counterparts, but can become more authoritarian as it advances—an advanced stage of democracy itself.
This book challenges the wisdom that separates liberal democracies from authoritarian systems. It argues that a liberal democracy not only can be as evil as its counterparts, but can become more authoritarian as it advances—an advanced stage of democracy itself.
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