A Glasgow Voice
James Kelman’s Literary Language
This book examines how leading Scottish author James Kelman presents a spoken Glasgow working-class voice in his literature. It analyzes his key textual strategies, showing how he breaks the traditional distinction between speech and writing.
This book examines how leading Scottish author James Kelman presents a spoken Glasgow working-class voice in his literature. It analyzes his key textual strategies, showing how he breaks the traditional distinction between speech and writing.
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Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture
Wittgensteinian Approaches
Are we to see ethics as a thread in the fabric of human culture, or does it transcend culture? Eleven Wittgenstein scholars explore how ethics is embedded in everyday speech, posing radical questions to the mainstream of philosophy.
Are we to see ethics as a thread in the fabric of human culture, or does it transcend culture? Eleven Wittgenstein scholars explore how ethics is embedded in everyday speech, posing radical questions to the mainstream of philosophy.
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This volume presents original research on grammar and discourse in modern Lithuanian and Latvian. Moving beyond historical-comparative linguistics, these studies explore the languages from a synchronic, non-normative point of view.
This volume presents original research on grammar and discourse in modern Lithuanian and Latvian. Moving beyond historical-comparative linguistics, these studies explore the languages from a synchronic, non-normative point of view.
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Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain
A Reader’s Guide
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain explores the philosophical dilemmas of the modern age. This comprehensive commentary explains all references and allusions in the seminal novel, enabling readers to understand and extract the maximum pleasure from it.
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain explores the philosophical dilemmas of the modern age. This comprehensive commentary explains all references and allusions in the seminal novel, enabling readers to understand and extract the maximum pleasure from it.
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The Old World and the New
The Marriage and Colonial Adventures of Lord and Lady Northcote
This biography tells the untold story of two British aristocrats. It details the drama of their personal lives and their rule in colonial India and Australia, examining the decline of an upper class and raising questions of Empire and social mobility.
This biography tells the untold story of two British aristocrats. It details the drama of their personal lives and their rule in colonial India and Australia, examining the decline of an upper class and raising questions of Empire and social mobility.
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This book is an empirical investigation of the EU’s growing external challenges. Exploring security policy, military operations, and relations with powers like Russia and China, it argues for the need for the EU to develop innovative external action.
This book is an empirical investigation of the EU’s growing external challenges. Exploring security policy, military operations, and relations with powers like Russia and China, it argues for the need for the EU to develop innovative external action.
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Art and Food is a collection of essays exploring a range of research topics relating to the representation of food in art and art in food, from iconography and allegory, through class and commensality, to kitchen architecture and haute cuisine.
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This first monograph on Old English adnominal adjectives draws on empirical data to analyze their syntax. The author argues that differences between prenominal and postnominal adjectives go beyond surface placement, requiring two different theoretical treatments.
This first monograph on Old English adnominal adjectives draws on empirical data to analyze their syntax. The author argues that differences between prenominal and postnominal adjectives go beyond surface placement, requiring two different theoretical treatments.
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Health and Hazard
Spa Culture and the Social History of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
The nineteenth-century European spa was an intersection of social class and medical ideas. It offers a unique opportunity to study a key shift: the rise of the order-giving physician over the compliant patient, and the turn from liberalism toward authoritarianism.
The nineteenth-century European spa was an intersection of social class and medical ideas. It offers a unique opportunity to study a key shift: the rise of the order-giving physician over the compliant patient, and the turn from liberalism toward authoritarianism.
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Cases of Intervention
The Great Variety of British Cultural Studies
Cases of Intervention offers new perspectives on the case study in British cultural studies. In this volume, the method takes centre stage as scholars apply theory to diverse topics like the cup of tea, CCTV, and monarchs on film.
Cases of Intervention offers new perspectives on the case study in British cultural studies. In this volume, the method takes centre stage as scholars apply theory to diverse topics like the cup of tea, CCTV, and monarchs on film.
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Critical Essays on Barack Obama
Re-affirming the Hope, Re-vitalizing the Dream
In this collection of critical essays, diverse scholars move beyond personal opinion to examine Barack Obama’s life, writings, and presidency. They explore his impact on race and public policy, his potential to re-shape America, and to re-vitalize the American Dream.
In this collection of critical essays, diverse scholars move beyond personal opinion to examine Barack Obama’s life, writings, and presidency. They explore his impact on race and public policy, his potential to re-shape America, and to re-vitalize the American Dream.
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Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Le Domino noir
By one of the 19th century's most successful opera composers, Le Domino noir is a masterpiece of wit and melodic grace. A noblewoman, destined for the convent, falls for a stranger at a masked ball in a tale of love, duty, and feminine independence.
By one of the 19th century’s most successful opera composers, Le Domino noir is a masterpiece of wit and melodic grace. A noblewoman, destined for the convent, falls for a stranger at a masked ball in a tale of love, duty, and feminine independence.
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This volume expands on orthodox distinctions in language study to explore a wider concept of linguistic interfaces. It examines clashes between languages and politics, contact between languages, and language as influenced by cognitive and other factors.
This volume expands on orthodox distinctions in language study to explore a wider concept of linguistic interfaces. It examines clashes between languages and politics, contact between languages, and language as influenced by cognitive and other factors.
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Documenting Eighteenth Century Satire
Pope, Swift, Gay, and Arbuthnot in Historical Context
This historicized view of Augustan satire shows how works by Pope, Swift, and Gay can be “documented” to reveal richer meanings. Drawing on unpublished sources, it uncovers a literary hoax, new links, and interprets a virtually unknown poem.
This historicized view of Augustan satire shows how works by Pope, Swift, and Gay can be “documented” to reveal richer meanings. Drawing on unpublished sources, it uncovers a literary hoax, new links, and interprets a virtually unknown poem.
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Less than Nations
Central-Eastern European Minorities after WWI, Volume 2
After WWI redefined the map of Central-Eastern Europe, states and nations rarely coincided. This book analyses the conditions of national minorities, from the massacres of Armenians and Jews to the role of Kin States that conditioned the stability of Europe.
After WWI redefined the map of Central-Eastern Europe, states and nations rarely coincided. This book analyses the conditions of national minorities, from the massacres of Armenians and Jews to the role of Kin States that conditioned the stability of Europe.
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This updated text on Nigerian legal methods is written by scholars in simple, easy-to-understand language. Primarily for first-year law students, its unique chapters on advocacy and examination skills offer more detailed analysis than existing texts.
This updated text on Nigerian legal methods is written by scholars in simple, easy-to-understand language. Primarily for first-year law students, its unique chapters on advocacy and examination skills offer more detailed analysis than existing texts.
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This book celebrates the diversity of universities but recognises the challenges faced by new students. It offers research, case studies, and practical advice from international experts on student transition, retention, and the first-year experience.
This book celebrates the diversity of universities but recognises the challenges faced by new students. It offers research, case studies, and practical advice from international experts on student transition, retention, and the first-year experience.
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Global society, cosmopolitanism, and human rights constitute the basis of our future. This volume analyzes the dominant traits of a world beyond the nation-state: the dynamics of unification, cosmopolitan lifestyles, and human rights as regulation.
Global society, cosmopolitanism, and human rights constitute the basis of our future. This volume analyzes the dominant traits of a world beyond the nation-state: the dynamics of unification, cosmopolitan lifestyles, and human rights as regulation.
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Surface and Deep Histories
Critiques and Practices in Art, Architecture and Design
This volume positions surface in architecture within the scholarship of critical theory and design-based approaches, and invites academics and designers, and art and architectural historians based in Australia to consider the uses, figurations, scales, and typologies of surfaces.
This volume positions surface in architecture within the scholarship of critical theory and design-based approaches, and invites academics and designers, and art and architectural historians based in Australia to consider the uses, figurations, scales, and typologies of surfaces.
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Civilisation and Fear
Anxiety and the Writing of the Subject
Civilisation promises to shelter us from fear, but has only created new anxieties. This volume explores the many relations between fear and society, culture, and civilisation, investigating the objects, causes, and various shades of fear itself.
Civilisation promises to shelter us from fear, but has only created new anxieties. This volume explores the many relations between fear and society, culture, and civilisation, investigating the objects, causes, and various shades of fear itself.
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