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“Catch if you can your country’s moment”
Recovery and Regeneration in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich
These essays explore Adrienne Rich’s work, arguing for a shift from her personal feminist awakening to her later, public re-imagination of America. A transformative cartographer of words, Rich remaps our culture for the marginalized and the resistant.
These essays explore Adrienne Rich’s work, arguing for a shift from her personal feminist awakening to her later, public re-imagination of America. A transformative cartographer of words, Rich remaps our culture for the marginalized and the resistant.
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With Poetry and Philosophy
Four Dialogic Studies—Wordsworth, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy
This book explores the dialogue between poetry and philosophy, from Kant and Wordsworth to Adorno and Hardy. Outlining a new ‘dialogic’ approach, it produces considerations on language and thought that are unexpected, yet strangely fitting.
This book explores the dialogue between poetry and philosophy, from Kant and Wordsworth to Adorno and Hardy. Outlining a new ‘dialogic’ approach, it produces considerations on language and thought that are unexpected, yet strangely fitting.
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Figures like Germaine Tillion, the Aubracs, and Marc Bloch made the radical decision to resist. This collection of essays addresses how resisters made sense of their world, and how later generations have engaged with the complex legacy of the Resistance.
Figures like Germaine Tillion, the Aubracs, and Marc Bloch made the radical decision to resist. This collection of essays addresses how resisters made sense of their world, and how later generations have engaged with the complex legacy of the Resistance.
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This book explores how literature portrays riots not as chaos, but as popular politics. Spanning from Shakespeare to postcolonial uprisings, these essays analyze the charged language of power and resistance, revealing the tension between official culture and the crowd.
This book explores how literature portrays riots not as chaos, but as popular politics. Spanning from Shakespeare to postcolonial uprisings, these essays analyze the charged language of power and resistance, revealing the tension between official culture and the crowd.
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Crash Cinema
Representation in Film
Cinema does more than simply amuse or horrify; it communicates to us about ourselves. This book analyzes the politics of representation, asking whose ‘truth’ is being represented and why, and uncovering cinema's power to shock, surprise, and explore the taboo.
Cinema does more than simply amuse or horrify; it communicates to us about ourselves. This book analyzes the politics of representation, asking whose ‘truth’ is being represented and why, and uncovering cinema’s power to shock, surprise, and explore the taboo.
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Body Politic
Political Metaphor and Political Violence
For millennia, society has been imagined as a body. This engrossing book is more than a history of a metaphor: it is a history of how the idea is converted into action, taking us from ancient India to computer hackers, from assassination to aerial warfare.
For millennia, society has been imagined as a body. This engrossing book is more than a history of a metaphor: it is a history of how the idea is converted into action, taking us from ancient India to computer hackers, from assassination to aerial warfare.
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Cultural Status, Genre and Critique
An incisive collection of essays exploring subversive texts, with readings of authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Neil Gaiman, and Philip Pullman, and filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Orson Welles.
An incisive collection of essays exploring subversive texts, with readings of authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Neil Gaiman, and Philip Pullman, and filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Orson Welles.
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State of Exception
Cultural Responses to the Rhetoric of Fear
In the state of exception, the law is suspended to preserve order, justifying any abuse of power. This book examines the implications of this juridical no-man's land, focusing on Italy's history and its cultural and cinematic representations.
In the state of exception, the law is suspended to preserve order, justifying any abuse of power. This book examines the implications of this juridical no-man’s land, focusing on Italy’s history and its cultural and cinematic representations.
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A valuable and timely collection by specialists tackling terrorism, human rights, Islamic radicalism, and identity in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Highly recommended.
A valuable and timely collection by specialists tackling terrorism, human rights, Islamic radicalism, and identity in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Highly recommended.
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H. G. Wells
Interdisciplinary Essays
H. G. Wells is known for his ‘scientific romances,’ but he was a polymath. This collection of new essays examines his varied writings, from works like The Time Machine to lesser-known novels, assessing his lasting philosophical and political impact.
H. G. Wells is known for his ‘scientific romances,’ but he was a polymath. This collection of new essays examines his varied writings, from works like The Time Machine to lesser-known novels, assessing his lasting philosophical and political impact.
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These twelve essays provide a basis for reassessing European traditions of beauty in the arts, literature, and film, as a constructive means of realising the potential of the arts for the 21st century.
These twelve essays provide a basis for reassessing European traditions of beauty in the arts, literature, and film, as a constructive means of realising the potential of the arts for the 21st century.
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In Germany, privately run boulevard comedy theatres attract larger audiences than state theatres. This book analyzes this unique phenomenon, exploring everything from its specialized plays and actors to its artistic management, production, and reception.
In Germany, privately run boulevard comedy theatres attract larger audiences than state theatres. This book analyzes this unique phenomenon, exploring everything from its specialized plays and actors to its artistic management, production, and reception.
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This collection explores the frontiers between sociology and psychology, where theories are freely borrowed. Sociologists use psychological theory for studies of sociological phenomena, and vice versa. Featuring international authors, including Thomas J. Scheff.
This collection explores the frontiers between sociology and psychology, where theories are freely borrowed. Sociologists use psychological theory for studies of sociological phenomena, and vice versa. Featuring international authors, including Thomas J. Scheff.
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These essays examine the interaction between translation, language and culture. Scholars from countries including Austria, Italy, Russia, and Slovenia offer fascinating insights into the complex phenomenon of cross-cultural communication.
These essays examine the interaction between translation, language and culture. Scholars from countries including Austria, Italy, Russia, and Slovenia offer fascinating insights into the complex phenomenon of cross-cultural communication.
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G. I. Gurdjieff
Armenian Roots, Global Branches
This volume presents a selection of writings on G.I. Gurdjieff, an important 20th-century figure whose influence continues to grow. Articles explore his key ideas and contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, philosophy, music, and education.
This volume presents a selection of writings on G.I. Gurdjieff, an important 20th-century figure whose influence continues to grow. Articles explore his key ideas and contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, philosophy, music, and education.
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Reflections
New Directions in Modern Languages and Cultures
Twelve essays explore “reflections” in literary and visual culture—from Italian theatre to Cuban film. For students and scholars, this volume provides a fresh, interdisciplinary look at Modern Language Studies, highlighting the dialogue between language and culture.
Twelve essays explore “reflections” in literary and visual culture—from Italian theatre to Cuban film. For students and scholars, this volume provides a fresh, interdisciplinary look at Modern Language Studies, highlighting the dialogue between language and culture.
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Resisting Modernity
Counternarratives of Nation and Masculinity in pre-Independence India
Samir Dayal’s Resisting Modernity is provocative. Drawing on postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, Dayal complicates our understanding of Ramakrishna, Tagore, and Gandhi, seeing them as resisting the modernist rhetoric of sovereignty and rational nationalism.
Samir Dayal’s Resisting Modernity is provocative. Drawing on postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, Dayal complicates our understanding of Ramakrishna, Tagore, and Gandhi, seeing them as resisting the modernist rhetoric of sovereignty and rational nationalism.
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This book shows how Greek thought and Judaism rendered Christ’s work different from that of Socrates. Arguing that Christianity is not Greek at its source, it provides a useful, objective, and all-encompassing overview of the main currents of scholarship.
This book shows how Greek thought and Judaism rendered Christ’s work different from that of Socrates. Arguing that Christianity is not Greek at its source, it provides a useful, objective, and all-encompassing overview of the main currents of scholarship.
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From Weimar to Christiania
German and Scandinavian Studies in Context
From Weimar to Christiania is a compilation of graduate student work in German and Scandinavian Studies. These essays use a variety of disciplinary approaches to connect the fields, delivering compelling research that expands knowledge in northern European studies.
From Weimar to Christiania is a compilation of graduate student work in German and Scandinavian Studies. These essays use a variety of disciplinary approaches to connect the fields, delivering compelling research that expands knowledge in northern European studies.
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“Survivor” – Representations of the “New Irish”
Dúchas Dóchasach
This book is a window on the new multicultural Irish experience. As the poems and paintings in this volume attest, the experiences of exile and renewal remain as perennial as human nature itself. I ndeireadh na dála, níl ach cine amháin ann agus sin an cine daonna.
This book is a window on the new multicultural Irish experience. As the poems and paintings in this volume attest, the experiences of exile and renewal remain as perennial as human nature itself. I ndeireadh na dála, níl ach cine amháin ann agus sin an cine daonna.
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