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This collection explores the Berlin Wall in language, literature, and visual media. Essays discuss its portrayal as a dividing and uniting boundary, its continued existence in the minds of Germans, and how controversial the division of Germany remains.
This collection explores the Berlin Wall in language, literature, and visual media. Essays discuss its portrayal as a dividing and uniting boundary, its continued existence in the minds of Germans, and how controversial the division of Germany remains.
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Mourning and Disaster
Finding Meaning in the Mourning for Hillsborough and Diana
Why did the Hillsborough disaster and the death of Princess Diana provoke such contrasting scenes of public mourning? This book asks what these events reveal about society, identity, and the ways we grieve for those we don't know personally.
Why did the Hillsborough disaster and the death of Princess Diana provoke such contrasting scenes of public mourning? This book asks what these events reveal about society, identity, and the ways we grieve for those we don’t know personally.
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Showing the World to the World
Political Fictions in French Cinema of the 1990s and early 2000s
This book explores the socio-political themes that marked French cinema of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines how these "political fictions" contribute to a new realism through in-depth discussions of films from *La Haine* to lesser-known works.
This book explores the socio-political themes that marked French cinema of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines how these “political fictions” contribute to a new realism through in-depth discussions of films from *La Haine* to lesser-known works.
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This work brings new dimensions to the relationship between Islam and the Holy region. It unveils that Islamicjerusalem (Bayt al-Maqdis) is not a single city but a large spiritual region, delving into overlooked topics and raising questions for further scholarship.
This work brings new dimensions to the relationship between Islam and the Holy region. It unveils that Islamicjerusalem (Bayt al-Maqdis) is not a single city but a large spiritual region, delving into overlooked topics and raising questions for further scholarship.
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Challenging traditional film musicology, this book approaches the film score from practical to theoretical perspectives. Essays explore films from art-house to mainstream, and include interviews with influential composers Trevor Jones and Michael Nyman.
Challenging traditional film musicology, this book approaches the film score from practical to theoretical perspectives. Essays explore films from art-house to mainstream, and include interviews with influential composers Trevor Jones and Michael Nyman.
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This collection of scholarly papers fills a gap in the literature on fiscal decentralisation in India. The papers critically review decentralisation since the 73rd/74th constitutional amendments, with a special focus on Kerala's innovative initiatives.
This collection of scholarly papers fills a gap in the literature on fiscal decentralisation in India. The papers critically review decentralisation since the 73rd/74th constitutional amendments, with a special focus on Kerala’s innovative initiatives.
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Modernist Group Dynamics
The Politics and Poetics of Friendship
Modernist scholarship has moved beyond solitary figures to the group formations that fostered these movements. The essays in Modernist Group Dynamics explore how artists worked in concert and conflict, reconsidering well-known figures and recovering groups worldwide.
Modernist scholarship has moved beyond solitary figures to the group formations that fostered these movements. The essays in Modernist Group Dynamics explore how artists worked in concert and conflict, reconsidering well-known figures and recovering groups worldwide.
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This volume addresses the representation of warfare, assessing the veracity of war images and their impact. War images may trigger horror or paradoxically attain sublimity, blurring the narrow margin between ethics and aesthetics, information, and propaganda.
This volume addresses the representation of warfare, assessing the veracity of war images and their impact. War images may trigger horror or paradoxically attain sublimity, blurring the narrow margin between ethics and aesthetics, information, and propaganda.
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Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Iraq
Policies, Programs and International Perspectives
Current reconstruction in Iraq is failing because a top-down approach cannot succeed. This volume presents expert analysis from an international conference on rebuilding sustainable communities with lessons from across the globe for Iraq.
Current reconstruction in Iraq is failing because a top-down approach cannot succeed. This volume presents expert analysis from an international conference on rebuilding sustainable communities with lessons from across the globe for Iraq.
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Death and Fantasy
Essays on Philip Pullman, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald and R. L. Stevenson
This collection of essays explores how a range of fantasy texts deal with the reality of death, uncovering fascinating links and tensions between the writers.
This collection of essays explores how a range of fantasy texts deal with the reality of death, uncovering fascinating links and tensions between the writers.
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Relevant Worlds
Current Perspectives on Language, Translation and Relevance Theory
This volume examines Relevance Theory, an influential pragmatic approach to communication. It tests the theory's internal coherence and its applicability to translation, literature, and conversational humour, making it a valuable resource for scholars and students.
This volume examines Relevance Theory, an influential pragmatic approach to communication. It tests the theory’s internal coherence and its applicability to translation, literature, and conversational humour, making it a valuable resource for scholars and students.
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Emma di Resburgo
Melodramma eroico in due atti; Poesìa di Gaetano Rossi Musica di Giacomo Meyerbeer
A tale of dynastic rivalry, kidnap, and usurpation in a wild Scotland, Emma di Resburgo established Meyerbeer's reputation in Italy. This milestone of Romantic opera blends the Rossinian idiom with the composer's own technical mastery and rich invention.
A tale of dynastic rivalry, kidnap, and usurpation in a wild Scotland, Emma di Resburgo established Meyerbeer’s reputation in Italy. This milestone of Romantic opera blends the Rossinian idiom with the composer’s own technical mastery and rich invention.
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Based on interviews with working women in Karachi, this book explores their struggle for identity and survival in a male-dominated society. Using clear graphs and case studies, it details the problems they face in a gender-biased world.
Based on interviews with working women in Karachi, this book explores their struggle for identity and survival in a male-dominated society. Using clear graphs and case studies, it details the problems they face in a gender-biased world.
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Sonic Mediations
Body, Sound, Technology
Sonic Mediations is a collection of essays that invites readers to rethink mediation by examining the relationships between the body, sound, and technology. It addresses key questions about performance, perception, and the role of the listener.
Sonic Mediations is a collection of essays that invites readers to rethink mediation by examining the relationships between the body, sound, and technology. It addresses key questions about performance, perception, and the role of the listener.
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Language Acquisition and Development
Proceedings of GALA 2007
This volume gathers fifty papers on the syntax and phonology of child language from the perspective of generative grammar—the theoretical outlook which first placed language acquisition at the centre of linguistic inquiry.
This volume gathers fifty papers on the syntax and phonology of child language from the perspective of generative grammar—the theoretical outlook which first placed language acquisition at the centre of linguistic inquiry.
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New applications of Role & Reference Grammar
Diachrony, Grammaticalization, Romance languages
This book applies RRG to diachronic syntax, grammaticalization, and Romance languages. Articles analyze topic-focus structure, case assignment, the syntax-semantics interface, and different aspects of verbs and the structures they involve.
This book applies RRG to diachronic syntax, grammaticalization, and Romance languages. Articles analyze topic-focus structure, case assignment, the syntax-semantics interface, and different aspects of verbs and the structures they involve.
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Neo-Romantic Landscapes
An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger
This reappraisal of Powell and Pressburger's films challenges their status as 'un-British' outsiders. Focusing on the use of landscape, it connects their wartime cinema to Neo-Romantic painting, resituating them firmly in British visual art traditions.
This reappraisal of Powell and Pressburger’s films challenges their status as ‘un-British’ outsiders. Focusing on the use of landscape, it connects their wartime cinema to Neo-Romantic painting, resituating them firmly in British visual art traditions.
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Writing the Other
Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England
Writing the Other: Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England explores the dynamic opposition between the "human" and the "barbarous." These essays reveal how the cultural Other was invented to forge identities, from England to North Africa and the New World.
Writing the Other: Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England explores the dynamic opposition between the “human” and the “barbarous.” These essays reveal how the cultural Other was invented to forge identities, from England to North Africa and the New World.
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Insanity and Genius
Masks of Madness and the Mapping of Meaning and Value
The truths we need come from a way of knowing not of logic, but of expression—a world that takes us beyond the grasp of reason. This book is an exploration of the greatest minds and how they have struggled to find the deepest truths about the human condition.
The truths we need come from a way of knowing not of logic, but of expression—a world that takes us beyond the grasp of reason. This book is an exploration of the greatest minds and how they have struggled to find the deepest truths about the human condition.
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Declensions of the Self
A Bestiary of Modernity
This work is a collective reflection on the modern self. A bestiary of articles rethinks modern dichotomies: the real and the ideal, self and world. An introspective journey where we are both the spectator and the spectacle—the beast subject to the gaze.
This work is a collective reflection on the modern self. A bestiary of articles rethinks modern dichotomies: the real and the ideal, self and world. An introspective journey where we are both the spectator and the spectacle—the beast subject to the gaze.
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