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Performance and Culture
Narrative, Image and Enactment in India
This book deals with performance in India, especially dance and dance-drama, as a narrative. It discusses the social equations and cultural ideas a performance portrays, often redefining well-known religious traditions in the process of performance.
This book deals with performance in India, especially dance and dance-drama, as a narrative. It discusses the social equations and cultural ideas a performance portrays, often redefining well-known religious traditions in the process of performance.
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Book Illustration in the Long Eighteenth Century
Reconfiguring the Visual Periphery of the Text
Book illustration has entered mainstream scholarship. This collection is the first step in reconfiguring the visual periphery of eighteenth-century texts, offering a multifaceted approach to a society immersed in visual culture and communication.
Book illustration has entered mainstream scholarship. This collection is the first step in reconfiguring the visual periphery of eighteenth-century texts, offering a multifaceted approach to a society immersed in visual culture and communication.
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This collection of essays re-evaluates the connections between music, fine art, and architecture during the flowering of modernism, c. 1849–1950. Through detailed case-studies, this book re-thinks modernism itself to advocate for a multiplicity of modernisms.
This collection of essays re-evaluates the connections between music, fine art, and architecture during the flowering of modernism, c. 1849–1950. Through detailed case-studies, this book re-thinks modernism itself to advocate for a multiplicity of modernisms.
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Poetry, the Geometry of the Living Substance
Four Essays on Ágnes Nemes Nagy
The first study in English of modernist Hungarian poet Ágnes Nemes Nagy. Through close readings of her poetry and prose, this book explores the relation between language, trauma, and memory, drawing parallels with thinkers like Rilke and Beckett.
The first study in English of modernist Hungarian poet Ágnes Nemes Nagy. Through close readings of her poetry and prose, this book explores the relation between language, trauma, and memory, drawing parallels with thinkers like Rilke and Beckett.
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What ought philosophy of religion be? How should it relate to religion today? This collection offers a variety of perspectives on contemporary issues like faith, reason, atheism, and politics, without privileging any single philosophical or religious orientation.
What ought philosophy of religion be? How should it relate to religion today? This collection offers a variety of perspectives on contemporary issues like faith, reason, atheism, and politics, without privileging any single philosophical or religious orientation.
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We Are Playing Football
Sport and Postcolonial Subjectivity, Panapompom, Papua New Guinea
This pioneering study of grassroots sport in Papua New Guinea explores how Panapompom villagers’ attempts to recreate global football entangle them in circuits of colonial power, challenging what it means to be “globalised.”
This pioneering study of grassroots sport in Papua New Guinea explores how Panapompom villagers’ attempts to recreate global football entangle them in circuits of colonial power, challenging what it means to be “globalised.”
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Idiomatic expressions challenge Machine Translation (MT), as they cannot be translated literally. This book shows how MT systems can correctly process and translate idioms using simple linguistic resources, providing a practical foundation with plenty of examples.
Idiomatic expressions challenge Machine Translation (MT), as they cannot be translated literally. This book shows how MT systems can correctly process and translate idioms using simple linguistic resources, providing a practical foundation with plenty of examples.
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Merchants, Barons, Sellers and Suits
The Changing Images of the Businessman through Literature
This collection of essays investigates the changing image of the businessman throughout literature in America and Europe. From pop culture icons to Willy Loman, the essays are arranged in a timeline, allowing the image to evolve with each chapter.
This collection of essays investigates the changing image of the businessman throughout literature in America and Europe. From pop culture icons to Willy Loman, the essays are arranged in a timeline, allowing the image to evolve with each chapter.
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Philosophy of Sport
International Perspectives
Leading moral and philosophical academics examine the global significance of sport. Articles provide a diverse set of ideas, from the ethics of performance enhancing substances and fair play, to nationalism and how sport can contribute to human well-being.
Leading moral and philosophical academics examine the global significance of sport. Articles provide a diverse set of ideas, from the ethics of performance enhancing substances and fair play, to nationalism and how sport can contribute to human well-being.
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Redwood undertakes a close formal analysis of Tarkovsky’s later films. Charting the stylistic and narrative innovations in Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia and The Sacrifice, he succeeds in shedding new light on these celebrated, but often misunderstood, masterpieces.
Redwood undertakes a close formal analysis of Tarkovsky’s later films. Charting the stylistic and narrative innovations in Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia and The Sacrifice, he succeeds in shedding new light on these celebrated, but often misunderstood, masterpieces.
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This guide to English Author Lexicography traces its development from early concordances to modern resources. It analyzes linguistic dictionaries (e.g., Shakespeare’s insults) and encyclopedic works for writers like Chaucer, Milton, and Dickens.
This guide to English Author Lexicography traces its development from early concordances to modern resources. It analyzes linguistic dictionaries (e.g., Shakespeare’s insults) and encyclopedic works for writers like Chaucer, Milton, and Dickens.
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Language Acquisition and Development
Proceedings of GALA 2009
An invaluable reference on Language Acquisition, this collection covers a wide range of topics from the GALA conference. It compares L1, L2, and atypical development across all areas of language, from phonology and syntax to semantics and pragmatics.
An invaluable reference on Language Acquisition, this collection covers a wide range of topics from the GALA conference. It compares L1, L2, and atypical development across all areas of language, from phonology and syntax to semantics and pragmatics.
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Science in the Nursery
The Popularisation of Science in Britain and France, 1761-1901
For the first time, this collection compares popular science for children in Britain and France from the 18th to the 19th century. It reveals how these texts engaged with debates on gender and religion and reflected contemporary scientific tensions.
For the first time, this collection compares popular science for children in Britain and France from the 18th to the 19th century. It reveals how these texts engaged with debates on gender and religion and reflected contemporary scientific tensions.
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Training the Composer
A Comparative Study Between the Pedagogical Methodologies of Arnold Schoenberg and Nadia Boulanger
Uncover the teaching methods of masters Schoenberg and Boulanger. For the first time in print, this text analyzes their materials, contrasting the German and French schools to forge a new, effective pedagogy for composition teachers.
Uncover the teaching methods of masters Schoenberg and Boulanger. For the first time in print, this text analyzes their materials, contrasting the German and French schools to forge a new, effective pedagogy for composition teachers.
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Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes
Figurational Approaches to American Culture
This collection applies Norbert Elias’s theory of the “civilizing process” to American history and culture. Scholars explore topics from democracy in the early republic to the modern-day black ghetto, offering new answers to the question of America's peculiar characteristics.
This collection applies Norbert Elias’s theory of the “civilizing process” to American history and culture. Scholars explore topics from democracy in the early republic to the modern-day black ghetto, offering new answers to the question of America’s peculiar characteristics.
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Teaching English in Multilingual Contexts
Current Challenges, Future Directions
This collection of innovative papers discusses the teaching of English in multilingual countries. Written by experienced practitioners, it examines how English can be more effectively taught to students in Asia. A powerful resource for language educators.
This collection of innovative papers discusses the teaching of English in multilingual countries. Written by experienced practitioners, it examines how English can be more effectively taught to students in Asia. A powerful resource for language educators.
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Leading experts on Sudan analyze its chronic history of conflict since 1956 and the international efforts for peace. As the nation faces the separation of South Sudan, these essays offer compelling lessons from six decades of war. Must reading for what unfolds.
Leading experts on Sudan analyze its chronic history of conflict since 1956 and the international efforts for peace. As the nation faces the separation of South Sudan, these essays offer compelling lessons from six decades of war. Must reading for what unfolds.
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This book examines the politics and culture of the Lebanese Diaspora. Essays explore identity formation, political activism, and cultural representation among migrants and their descendants, challenging fixed notions of homeland and identity.
This book examines the politics and culture of the Lebanese Diaspora. Essays explore identity formation, political activism, and cultural representation among migrants and their descendants, challenging fixed notions of homeland and identity.
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Connections~Verbindungen
Irish-German Perspectives through Etching
When artist Gerhardt Gallagher discovered etchings by his German grandmother Margarethe, whose career was disrupted by war, it led to an exhibition and this book. This volume connects Irish and German cultures through the work of two artists and a family history.
When artist Gerhardt Gallagher discovered etchings by his German grandmother Margarethe, whose career was disrupted by war, it led to an exhibition and this book. This volume connects Irish and German cultures through the work of two artists and a family history.
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Early Childhood Programs as the Doorway to Social Cohesion
Application of Vygotsky’s Ideas from an East-West Perspective
The theories of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky have had profound impacts on early childhood education. This volume of papers by leading experts examines his legacy in the East and West, offering ideas to benefit children and societies across the globe.
The theories of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky have had profound impacts on early childhood education. This volume of papers by leading experts examines his legacy in the East and West, offering ideas to benefit children and societies across the globe.
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