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The unifying factor of these essays is ambiguity. The volume explores this essential feature of the postmodern age—its definition, purpose, and historical use by writers—and its appearance not only in literature, but in wider social issues.
The unifying factor of these essays is ambiguity. The volume explores this essential feature of the postmodern age—its definition, purpose, and historical use by writers—and its appearance not only in literature, but in wider social issues.
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The English Language and Anglo-American Culture
Its Impact on Spanish Language and Society
This book explores the impact of the English language and Anglo-American culture on Spanish language and society. It compiles studies on shop windows, film titles, and magazines, providing evidence of the pervasive presence of English in Spanish daily life.
This book explores the impact of the English language and Anglo-American culture on Spanish language and society. It compiles studies on shop windows, film titles, and magazines, providing evidence of the pervasive presence of English in Spanish daily life.
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This collection of papers from linguistics and anthropology explores the intricate relation between language, gender, and sexuality. Contributors cover topics from heterosexual, lesbian, gay, and queer experience to voice, silence, and nationalism.
This collection of papers from linguistics and anthropology explores the intricate relation between language, gender, and sexuality. Contributors cover topics from heterosexual, lesbian, gay, and queer experience to voice, silence, and nationalism.
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This volume offers a critical evaluation of interculturality, capturing vigorous debates across four continents. Scholars break with tradition to challenge the tired old notion of ‘culture’ and establish new ways of engaging with the concept.
This volume offers a critical evaluation of interculturality, capturing vigorous debates across four continents. Scholars break with tradition to challenge the tired old notion of ‘culture’ and establish new ways of engaging with the concept.
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Lexical Issues of UNL
Universal Networking Language 2012 Panel
This book explores the Universal Networking Language (UNL), an artificial language designed for machines to represent knowledge independently of human languages. It highlights UNL’s fundamental principles and shows how their materialization has evolved over time.
This book explores the Universal Networking Language (UNL), an artificial language designed for machines to represent knowledge independently of human languages. It highlights UNL’s fundamental principles and shows how their materialization has evolved over time.
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This book identifies effects of the European monetary integration on the financial systems of euro area member countries. It presents a rich collection of original studies by scholars, central bankers, and practitioners on the most relevant issues debated today.
This book identifies effects of the European monetary integration on the financial systems of euro area member countries. It presents a rich collection of original studies by scholars, central bankers, and practitioners on the most relevant issues debated today.
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Disability and Medieval Law
History, Literature, Society
Disability and Medieval Law considers how medieval societies dealt with crime, punishment, and mental illness. When did law take disability into account? When did it choose to cause disabilities? How did authors use disability to discuss law and human nature?
Disability and Medieval Law considers how medieval societies dealt with crime, punishment, and mental illness. When did law take disability into account? When did it choose to cause disabilities? How did authors use disability to discuss law and human nature?
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Life Writing
The Spirit of the Age and the State of the Art
In our age of testimony, what are we to make of all this telling of lives? This collection of essays from leading writers and academics demonstrates the fluidity and diversity of life writing, presenting both the state of the art and the spirit of our age.
In our age of testimony, what are we to make of all this telling of lives? This collection of essays from leading writers and academics demonstrates the fluidity and diversity of life writing, presenting both the state of the art and the spirit of our age.
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Dimensions of Social Exclusion
Ethnographic Explorations
This book revolves around the societal institutions that exclude, discriminate, and deprive groups based on identities such as caste or ethnicity. It examines social exclusion as a complex, multi-dimensional process across a wide spectrum of societies.
This book revolves around the societal institutions that exclude, discriminate, and deprive groups based on identities such as caste or ethnicity. It examines social exclusion as a complex, multi-dimensional process across a wide spectrum of societies.
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Yesterday’s Words
Contemporary, Current and Future Lexicography
Yesterday’s Words explores scholarly issues in historical lexicography and lexicology. Contributions discuss dictionaries of former ages, the vocabulary of the past, current projects, and the modern technology essential for studying yesterday's words.
Yesterday’s Words explores scholarly issues in historical lexicography and lexicology. Contributions discuss dictionaries of former ages, the vocabulary of the past, current projects, and the modern technology essential for studying yesterday’s words.
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Knowing and Being
Perspectives on the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi
Michael Polanyi’s ideas, from his theory of tacit knowledge to a new picture of science where a scientist's passion and trust are essential, are contributions to epistemology and ontology. This volume's critical essays analyze and develop his thought.
Michael Polanyi’s ideas, from his theory of tacit knowledge to a new picture of science where a scientist’s passion and trust are essential, are contributions to epistemology and ontology. This volume’s critical essays analyze and develop his thought.
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Adapting Gaskell
Screen and Stage Versions of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fiction
This collection charts the adaptation of Gaskell’s fiction, placing her alongside authors like Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens. It will surely prompt more investigations into the adaptability of her work. – Deborah Cartmell
This collection charts the adaptation of Gaskell’s fiction, placing her alongside authors like Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens. It will surely prompt more investigations into the adaptability of her work.
– Deborah Cartmell
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The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian
Re-opening the Early Historiography of Modern Architecture
A critical re-reading of early modern architectural history. Through post-war theory, this book unpacks the canon of Pevsner, Hitchcock, and Giedion, extending the critical historiography of Frampton and Tafuri.
A critical re-reading of early modern architectural history. Through post-war theory, this book unpacks the canon of Pevsner, Hitchcock, and Giedion, extending the critical historiography of Frampton and Tafuri.
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Platonism for the Iron Age
An Essay on the Literary Universal
The present book is a study of Platonic idealism as it can play out in daily life. It buttresses its defense of the Platonic through reference both to Classical Greek and eighteenth-century thought, and to language in the pressure cooker of the American street.
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This book presents studies on the influence of childhood abuse on adult functioning, including various symptoms, problems, and personality and neurobiological disorders. It also contains psychotherapeutic issues connected with interpersonal trauma.
This book presents studies on the influence of childhood abuse on adult functioning, including various symptoms, problems, and personality and neurobiological disorders. It also contains psychotherapeutic issues connected with interpersonal trauma.
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Negritude
Legacy and Present Relevance
Is Negritude a relic of the colonial era? This collection shows its continued vitality. African & Caribbean writers demonstrate how, beyond race, Negritude remains a relevant poetic, philosophical, and cultural force in its modern forms.
Is Negritude a relic of the colonial era? This collection shows its continued vitality. African & Caribbean writers demonstrate how, beyond race, Negritude remains a relevant poetic, philosophical, and cultural force in its modern forms.
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Recovering Memory
Irish Representations of Past and Present
This collection of essays examines representations of memory in Irish literature and culture. It explores public and private memory, the intersection between collective and individual, and the relation between memory, identity, and Ireland's tragic past.
This collection of essays examines representations of memory in Irish literature and culture. It explores public and private memory, the intersection between collective and individual, and the relation between memory, identity, and Ireland’s tragic past.
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Revisiting the Past through Rhetorics of Memory and Amnesia
Selected Papers from the 50th Meeting of the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota
This volume investigates how our memories of conflict are shaped by rhetoric. From the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, the authors examine how rhetoric acts as a catalyst not only for what we remember, but also for what we are made to forget.
This volume investigates how our memories of conflict are shaped by rhetoric. From the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, the authors examine how rhetoric acts as a catalyst not only for what we remember, but also for what we are made to forget.
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This volume presents contributions from theoretical linguists on left peripheries and their interface interpretation. It offers eleven studies on clausal and nominal phenomena across diverse languages, underscoring the importance of studying the edge of constituents.
This volume presents contributions from theoretical linguists on left peripheries and their interface interpretation. It offers eleven studies on clausal and nominal phenomena across diverse languages, underscoring the importance of studying the edge of constituents.
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The “Nation” in War
A Study of Military Literature and Hindi War Cinema
The Nation in War explores notions of nation and nationalism in Indian military literature and Hindi war cinema. This book examines how these narratives construct the “nation,” create consensus for war, and portray women as national subjects.
The Nation in War explores notions of nation and nationalism in Indian military literature and Hindi war cinema. This book examines how these narratives construct the “nation,” create consensus for war, and portray women as national subjects.
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