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This book investigates how Chinese adolescents construct and negotiate gender identity while learning English. It shows how the EFL classroom can open a space for students to become aware of gender, highlighting a new educational function for language learning.
This book investigates how Chinese adolescents construct and negotiate gender identity while learning English. It shows how the EFL classroom can open a space for students to become aware of gender, highlighting a new educational function for language learning.
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Amid rapid economic and political change, this volume investigates the impact of global reality and EU integration on the Balkan and Black Sea countries, and explores the possibilities and perspectives for their economies.
Amid rapid economic and political change, this volume investigates the impact of global reality and EU integration on the Balkan and Black Sea countries, and explores the possibilities and perspectives for their economies.
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Latin Elegy and Hellenistic Epigram
A Tale of Two Genres at Rome
This volume explores the impact of Hellenistic Greek epigram on Latin erotic elegy in light of new papyrus discoveries. Chapters examine the reception of epigrams in Propertius and Ovid and the appropriation of their thematic and structural motifs.
This volume explores the impact of Hellenistic Greek epigram on Latin erotic elegy in light of new papyrus discoveries. Chapters examine the reception of epigrams in Propertius and Ovid and the appropriation of their thematic and structural motifs.
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This analysis of Hardy’s tragedies finds his famed pessimism is a mask for evolutionary ethics. Women's suffering is an adapted parental investment in survival, a force of superiority granting greater fitness than the heroic deeds of men.
This analysis of Hardy’s tragedies finds his famed pessimism is a mask for evolutionary ethics. Women’s suffering is an adapted parental investment in survival, a force of superiority granting greater fitness than the heroic deeds of men.
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Shakespeare on Love
The Sonnets and Plays in Relation to Plato’s Symposium, Alchemy, Christianity and Renaissance Neo-Platonism
Plato’s vision of universal love, alchemy, and Christian ideas strongly influenced Shakespeare's Sonnets. He inserted these themes into his plays, creating a paradoxical combination of erotic mysticism with real lovers. The Dark Lady finds her supreme realisation in Cleopatra.
Plato’s vision of universal love, alchemy, and Christian ideas strongly influenced Shakespeare’s Sonnets. He inserted these themes into his plays, creating a paradoxical combination of erotic mysticism with real lovers. The Dark Lady finds her supreme realisation in Cleopatra.
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Modes of British Imperial Control of Africa
A Case Study of Uganda, c.1890-1990
Uncovering the legacy of British rule in Uganda, this book argues that informal imperial control encouraged leaders to seek external legitimacy, fueling human rights violations by removing the need for popular consent.
Uncovering the legacy of British rule in Uganda, this book argues that informal imperial control encouraged leaders to seek external legitimacy, fueling human rights violations by removing the need for popular consent.
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The Plastic Venuses
Archaeological Tourism in Post-Modern Society
Consumerism and virtual reality are transforming archaeology. When ancient sites become theme parks and finds are exhibited in casinos, what is authenticity? This book is an innovative, critical, and stimulating appraisal of our relationship with the past.
Consumerism and virtual reality are transforming archaeology. When ancient sites become theme parks and finds are exhibited in casinos, what is authenticity? This book is an innovative, critical, and stimulating appraisal of our relationship with the past.
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This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region's literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer's role as a political activist.
This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region’s literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer’s role as a political activist.
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Ethics is not just ‘being good’, but living a ‘good life’. This book highlights that being good is a matter of acting good—of performing certain roles and duties. It explores this relationship between ethics and performance from natality to fatality.
Ethics is not just ‘being good’, but living a ‘good life’. This book highlights that being good is a matter of acting good—of performing certain roles and duties. It explores this relationship between ethics and performance from natality to fatality.
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Spanning the Easter Rising to the Troubles, these essays reveal the nexus of Irish art and politics. Discover how literary giants like Joyce, Yeats, and Beckett and popular icons like Father Ted shaped a nation.
Spanning the Easter Rising to the Troubles, these essays reveal the nexus of Irish art and politics. Discover how literary giants like Joyce, Yeats, and Beckett and popular icons like Father Ted shaped a nation.
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Postcolonial Odysseys
Derek Walcott’s Voyages of Homecoming
This study charts Derek Walcott's postcolonial voyage through Homer's *Odyssey*. It explores the tension between the outward journey and the homecoming, revealing how a modern master can reclaim and transform an ancient epic.
This study charts Derek Walcott’s postcolonial voyage through Homer’s *Odyssey*. It explores the tension between the outward journey and the homecoming, revealing how a modern master can reclaim and transform an ancient epic.
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Peaceful Surrender
The Depopulation of Rural Spain in the Twentieth Century
In the 20th century, Spain experienced one of Europe’s most intense processes of rural depopulation. This book explains how the adaptive strategies of rural populations led to a “peaceful surrender” of traditional society, a view distanced from simple nostalgia.
In the 20th century, Spain experienced one of Europe’s most intense processes of rural depopulation. This book explains how the adaptive strategies of rural populations led to a “peaceful surrender” of traditional society, a view distanced from simple nostalgia.
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Why Europe Will Not Run the 21st Century
Reflections on the Need for a New European Federation
What future awaits Europe? To halt its inexorable decline, the EU requires radical reform. This book argues only a federal Europe, with a common Constitution and central government, can overcome its inability to face internal and external threats.
What future awaits Europe? To halt its inexorable decline, the EU requires radical reform. This book argues only a federal Europe, with a common Constitution and central government, can overcome its inability to face internal and external threats.
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This volume explores the search for wholeness and spirituality in the writings of contemporary African American women. Across fiction, drama, and poetry, this search is analyzed as a source of creativity and agency, healing spirit and body by reconciling past and present.
This volume explores the search for wholeness and spirituality in the writings of contemporary African American women. Across fiction, drama, and poetry, this search is analyzed as a source of creativity and agency, healing spirit and body by reconciling past and present.
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This collection gathers international experts on Iris Murdoch to promote the dialogue between philosophy and literature. Scholars first explore her philosophical concerns and their influence, then retrieve the underlying philosophical thinking from her novels.
This collection gathers international experts on Iris Murdoch to promote the dialogue between philosophy and literature. Scholars first explore her philosophical concerns and their influence, then retrieve the underlying philosophical thinking from her novels.
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Time, Accounts, Surplus Meaning
Settings of the Theophanic
This book harvests the author’s work, over several decades, on narrative and time, the place of imagination in conceptual thinking, and the underlying nature of historical accounts.
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The Yields of Transition
Literature, Art and Philosophy in Early Medieval China
This volume on the Wei Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties (220–589 AD) opens new pathways in sinological studies. It reveals a new image of this period, undermining common historical interpretations and showing its decisive achievements.
This volume on the Wei Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties (220–589 AD) opens new pathways in sinological studies. It reveals a new image of this period, undermining common historical interpretations and showing its decisive achievements.
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As men and women question gender roles, this book examines masculine expression across Europe, Africa, and the Americas. In this collection, authors write about men’s challenges, friendships, and outcasts to foster understanding and tolerance of all sexualities.
As men and women question gender roles, this book examines masculine expression across Europe, Africa, and the Americas. In this collection, authors write about men’s challenges, friendships, and outcasts to foster understanding and tolerance of all sexualities.
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Anti-Tales
The Uses of Disenchantment
The anti-tale is the fairy tale’s evil twin. It subverts, inverts, and deconstructs familiar stories. In this collection, Red Riding Hood retaliates, Cinderella’s stepmother tells her side, and Snow White becomes a postmodern vampire.
The anti-tale is the fairy tale’s evil twin. It subverts, inverts, and deconstructs familiar stories. In this collection, Red Riding Hood retaliates, Cinderella’s stepmother tells her side, and Snow White becomes a postmodern vampire.
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Cinema and Intermediality
The Passion for the In-Between
This book investigates what the “inter-” of “intermediality” entails in cinema. Essays explore how film positions itself “in-between” media and arts through analyses of directors like Hitchcock, Antonioni, Godard, and Varda.
This book investigates what the “inter-” of “intermediality” entails in cinema. Essays explore how film positions itself “in-between” media and arts through analyses of directors like Hitchcock, Antonioni, Godard, and Varda.
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