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by Martina Kolb
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The Mediterranean region of Liguria, where the Maritime Alps sweep down to the coasts of northwest Italy and southeast France, the Riviera, marks the intersection of two of Europe’s major cultural landscapes. Remote, liminal, compact, and steep, the terrain has influenced many international authors...
Fact and Fiction
Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined,...
Modern Drama
Defining the Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Theatre, like other subjects in the humanities, has recently undergone quintessential changes in theory, approach, and research. Modern Drama – a collection of twelve essays from leading theatre and drama scholars – investigates the contemporary meanings and the cultural and political resonances...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Exploring the relationship between dramatic language and its theatrical aspects, Reading Modern Drama provides an accessible entry point for general readers and academics into the world of contemporary theatre scholarship. This collection promotes the use of diverse perspectives and critical methods...
by Desiderius Erasmus
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Erasmus yearned to make the New Testament an effective instrument of reform in society, church, and everyday life, and to this end he composed the Paraphrases, in which the words of Holy Scripture provide the core of a text that was vastly expanded to embrace the reforming “philosophy of Christ.”...
Revolting Families
Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realisms in the German Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Revolting Families places the literary depiction of familial and intimate relations in 1960s West Germany against the backdrop of public discourse on the political significance of the private sphere. Carrie Smith-Prei focuses on debut works by German authors considered to be part of the “new”...
The Natural City
Re-envisioning the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
Urban and natural environments are often viewed as entirely separate entities - human settlements as the domain of architects and planners, and natural areas as untouched wilderness. This dichotomy continues to drive decision-making in subtle ways, but with the mounting pressures of global climate...
Articulating Dinosaurs
A Political Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how dinosaurs and their natural worlds are articulated into being by the action of specimens and humans together. Following the complex exchanges of palaeontologists, museums specialists, film- and media-makers, science...
by M. Brock Fenton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
Bats are dangerous to man. Right?
Wrong.
Here is the truth about chiroptera, the only mammals that fly, in a short, well-illustrated account based on solid research but intended for a general reader.
Bats, of which there are about 850 species in the world, are maligned as carriers...
Between Worlds
The Rhetorical Universe of Paradise Lost
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
John Milton's Paradise Lost has long been celebrated for its epic subject matter and the poet's rhetorical fireworks. In Between Worlds, William Pallister analyses the rhetorical methods that Milton uses throughout the poem and examines the effects of the three distinct rhetorical registers observed...
Adages
Ii1 to Iv100
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1982
Erasmus' Adagia has been called 'one of the world's biggest bedside books,' and certainly the more than 4000 proverbs and maxims gathered and commented on by Erasmus, sometimes in a few lines and sometimes in full-scale essays, have great appeal for both scholar and educated layman. The aim of the...
by Nathaniel Culverwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Composed in a period of religious and political upheaval, Culverwell's Discourse of the Light of Nature is an imaginative statement of the teachings of Christian humanism concerning the nature and limits of human reason and the related concepts of natural and divine law. The lengthy introduction to...
Lawrence Grassi
From Piedmont to the Rocky Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Lawrence Grassi was a trailblazer in every sense of the word. A working-class man of humble Italian origins who worked as a labourer and a coal miner for most of his life, Grassi had a deep passion for the Rocky Mountains. He was famous in the region for his commitment as a guide, a mountain climber,...
Beyond Sambation
Selected Essays and Editorials 1928-1955 (Collected Works of A.M. Klein)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
The broad range of A.M. Klein’s interests, ideas, and activities is reflected in this selection of articles, editorials, and reviews – a selection that also displays the qualities that distinguished all his creative writing and the highly idiosyncratic nature of his style.
The writings...