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Challenging Change
Literary and Linguistic Responses
Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses is a collection of articles examining change as the need to redefine theories, histories, and language. Authors from around the world respond to this challenge from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.
Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses is a collection of articles examining change as the need to redefine theories, histories, and language. Authors from around the world respond to this challenge from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.
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This study traces the picaresque from its Spanish roots to contemporary novels, arguing it has never left the British literary scene. Postcolonial authors also favour this genre for their own stories of displaced characters and modern-day rogues.
This study traces the picaresque from its Spanish roots to contemporary novels, arguing it has never left the British literary scene. Postcolonial authors also favour this genre for their own stories of displaced characters and modern-day rogues.
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Pope Gregory’s Letter-Bearers
A Study of the Men and Women who carried letters for Pope Gregory the Great
The first-ever study of Pope Gregory’s letter-bearers. From 590-604, in an age of invasions and peril, a surprising number of men and women—clerics, farmers, widows—made dangerous journeys to carry his 850+ surviving letters across the world.
The first-ever study of Pope Gregory’s letter-bearers. From 590-604, in an age of invasions and peril, a surprising number of men and women—clerics, farmers, widows—made dangerous journeys to carry his 850+ surviving letters across the world.
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The Future of Post-Human Migration
A Preface to a New Theory of Sameness, Otherness, and Identity
The "melting pot" and "salad bowl" are opposing noble lies. This book offers a new theory—the cyclical progression of migration—to change how we think about Sameness, Otherness, and identity, with enormous implications for the human future.
The “melting pot” and “salad bowl” are opposing noble lies. This book offers a new theory—the cyclical progression of migration—to change how we think about Sameness, Otherness, and identity, with enormous implications for the human future.
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Developing big information systems is inefficient. This book presents Knowledge Based Automated Software Engineering (KBASE), a method to improve the process by automatically generating the final software product from a verified business model.
Developing big information systems is inefficient. This book presents Knowledge Based Automated Software Engineering (KBASE), a method to improve the process by automatically generating the final software product from a verified business model.
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The Belligerent Prelate
An Alliance between Archbishop Daniel Mannix and Eamon de Valera
This book is an examination of the pivotal alliance between Taoiseach Eamon de Valera and Archbishop Daniel Mannix. It explores how their bond aided Ireland’s push for independence and why Mannix, once revered, became an isolated figure after 1925.
This book is an examination of the pivotal alliance between Taoiseach Eamon de Valera and Archbishop Daniel Mannix. It explores how their bond aided Ireland’s push for independence and why Mannix, once revered, became an isolated figure after 1925.
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Literature and Politics
Pushing the World in Certain Directions
George Orwell argued writers want to change the world. This collection of new work by scholars explores political literature over the last century, from The Communist Manifesto to Oryx and Crake, showing its continuing ability to inform, enrage and engage.
George Orwell argued writers want to change the world. This collection of new work by scholars explores political literature over the last century, from The Communist Manifesto to Oryx and Crake, showing its continuing ability to inform, enrage and engage.
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Name and Naming
Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives
This book analyses names and the act of naming from an intercultural, synchronic, and diachronic perspective. Its originality lies in a multi-disciplinary approach, merging onomastics with sociolinguistics, history, literature, pragmatics, and more.
This book analyses names and the act of naming from an intercultural, synchronic, and diachronic perspective. Its originality lies in a multi-disciplinary approach, merging onomastics with sociolinguistics, history, literature, pragmatics, and more.
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Byron’s dubious status as an icon disguises that he is one of the greatest English poets. This book ignores his iconography and concentrates on his poems. Written by leading authorities, it puts his real achievement as a creative writer back into focus.
Byron’s dubious status as an icon disguises that he is one of the greatest English poets. This book ignores his iconography and concentrates on his poems. Written by leading authorities, it puts his real achievement as a creative writer back into focus.
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Birth and Death in British Culture
Liminality, Power, and Performance
Why look at birth and death together? These 13 interdisciplinary articles prove that looking at the two in tandem throws their distinct patterns and shared socio-political issues into sharp relief, probing their medialisation and commodification.
Why look at birth and death together? These 13 interdisciplinary articles prove that looking at the two in tandem throws their distinct patterns and shared socio-political issues into sharp relief, probing their medialisation and commodification.
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Rethinking Mimesis
Concepts and Practices of Literary Representation
Literary mimesis, an age-old and contested concept, has been brought back to the forefront of scholarly interest. This volume explores how literature produces its reality effects, challenging our understanding of representation through textual analyses.
Literary mimesis, an age-old and contested concept, has been brought back to the forefront of scholarly interest. This volume explores how literature produces its reality effects, challenging our understanding of representation through textual analyses.
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Jovial Bigotry
Max O’Rell and the Transnational Debate over Manners and Morals in 19th Century France, Britain and the United States
The late 19th-century debate over manners and morals in France, Britain, and the US was truly about gender and sexuality. Commentators used stereotypes of women to discuss their roles, but this analysis reveals a common outlook: an agreement on patriarchy.
The late 19th-century debate over manners and morals in France, Britain, and the US was truly about gender and sexuality. Commentators used stereotypes of women to discuss their roles, but this analysis reveals a common outlook: an agreement on patriarchy.
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From Utah Beach to Okinawa, they braved live bombs and enemy rockets. Nine from Aberdeen is the first history of the US Army’s Bomb Disposal Branch in WWII, the courageous forerunners of today’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) specialists.
From Utah Beach to Okinawa, they braved live bombs and enemy rockets. Nine from Aberdeen is the first history of the US Army’s Bomb Disposal Branch in WWII, the courageous forerunners of today’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) specialists.
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Pilgrimage in the Age of Globalisation
Constructions of the Sacred and Secular in Late Modernity
This collection of studies explores sacred and secular pilgrimage in the age of globalisation. It shows how pilgrimage unifies physical and metaphysical mobility into a holistic project of self-realisation and inner transformation through motion.
This collection of studies explores sacred and secular pilgrimage in the age of globalisation. It shows how pilgrimage unifies physical and metaphysical mobility into a holistic project of self-realisation and inner transformation through motion.
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Teresa de la Parra
A Literary Life
This is the first comprehensive study of Teresa de la Parra for English readers. It includes analyses of her novels and lectures, plus translations of her letters and stories, showcasing her as a model of Latin American women’s writing.
This is the first comprehensive study of Teresa de la Parra for English readers. It includes analyses of her novels and lectures, plus translations of her letters and stories, showcasing her as a model of Latin American women’s writing.
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This volume provides new insights into the interface of humour and media discourse. It analyzes the roles humour plays and the butts it targets across cultures, covering everything from wordplay in sitcoms to news satire in online media.
This volume provides new insights into the interface of humour and media discourse. It analyzes the roles humour plays and the butts it targets across cultures, covering everything from wordplay in sitcoms to news satire in online media.
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Internal Structure of Verb Meaning
A Study of Verbs in Tamazight (Berber)
This study makes years of academic research on Tamazight (Berber) verbs accessible to a wide audience. It investigates the internal structure of verb meaning, revealing insights from a millennia-old language that has resisted oppression and is spoken by millions.
This study makes years of academic research on Tamazight (Berber) verbs accessible to a wide audience. It investigates the internal structure of verb meaning, revealing insights from a millennia-old language that has resisted oppression and is spoken by millions.
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Linguists of Tomorrow
Selected Papers from the 1st Cyprus Postgraduate Student Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
This collection of papers by established and up-and-coming researchers covers topics from theoretical linguistics to psycholinguistics and applied linguistics. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in current issues in linguistics.
This collection of papers by established and up-and-coming researchers covers topics from theoretical linguistics to psycholinguistics and applied linguistics. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in current issues in linguistics.
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Style, Wit and Word-Play
Essays in Translation Studies in Memory of David Hawkes
In memory of David Hawkes, pre-eminent translator of The Story of the Stone. This collection of essays by international scholars explores his work and the art of translating Chinese literature into English.
In memory of David Hawkes, pre-eminent translator of The Story of the Stone. This collection of essays by international scholars explores his work and the art of translating Chinese literature into English.
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The City and the Ocean
Journeys, Memory, Imagination
Throughout history, cities have been locations of human encounter, especially along shorelines where water has both separated and connected communities. A group of diverse scholars maps key encounters between peoples, past and present, and their urgent consequences.
Throughout history, cities have been locations of human encounter, especially along shorelines where water has both separated and connected communities. A group of diverse scholars maps key encounters between peoples, past and present, and their urgent consequences.
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