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- The Myth of the Jacobite Clans - M. Pittock
The Myth of the Jacobite Clans - M. Pittock
- Edinburgh University Press
- 2009
- Pittock, Murray G. H
- 240
The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to...
- Introduction to English Lexicology
Introduction to English Lexicology
- 192
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Lexicology is about words, their meanings and the relationships between them, their origins and their structure. It combines the study of derivational morphology with lexical...
- VAMPIRES IN ITALIAN CINEMA 1956 19
VAMPIRES IN ITALIAN CINEMA 1956 19
- 2022
- GUARNERI MICHAEL
- 232
- anglické
Positioning itself at the intersection of Italian film history, horror studies and cultural studies, this fascinating book asks why, and how, was the protean, transnational and...
- Shimmer
Shimmer
- 2022
- Rose, Deborah Bird
- 240
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In this deeply personal book, the last one she wrote before hear death in 2018, Deborah Bird Rose explores the shimmer of life - the iridescent pulse of beauty and power, the...
- Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900
- 2022
- Schwartz, Kevin L
- 248
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Integrating forgotten tales of literary communities across Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia - at a time when Islamic empires were fracturing and new state formations were...
- Period Drama
Period Drama
- 2022
- Woods, Faye
- 192
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Period drama is a genre of prestige and pleasure, spectacle and intimacy. It is a genre embedded in national pasts yet also talks to the present. Invested in the play of gender...
- Islamic Modernism and the Re-Enchantment of the Sacred in the Age of History
Islamic Modernism and the Re-Enchantment of the Sacred in the Age of History
- 2022
- Ringer, Monica M
- 216
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This book is principally a study of the complex relationship of religion to modernity. Monica M. Ringer argues that modernity should be understood as the consequence, not the...
- Beckett'S Breath
Beckett'S Breath
- 2019
- Goudouna, Sozita
- 232
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This book attends to fifty breath-related artworks (including sculpture, painting, new media, sound art, performance art) and contextualises Beckett's Breath within the...
- Soviet Defectors
Soviet Defectors
- 2022
- Riehle, Kevin
- 248
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When intelligence officers defect, they take with them privileged information and often communicate it to the receiving state.
- Modern Hadith Studies
Modern Hadith Studies
- 2022
- 232
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This book is dedicated to examining the various methods and trends in Hadith Studies across the globe. Bringing together contributions from ten scholars of Hadith, it addresses...
- Pragmatics
Pragmatics
- 2019
- Cummins, Chris
- 240
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An exploration of English pragmatics with a thorough integration of theoretical and experimental research A central goal of pragmatics is to identify the capabilities that...
- Political Agency and the Medicalisation of Negative Emotions
Political Agency and the Medicalisation of Negative Emotions
- 2022
- Degerman, Dan
- 208
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This book explores negative emotions like anger, fear and sadness as important drivers of political action. It examines how treating these feelings as medical problems affects...
- Lawful Forest
Lawful Forest
- 2022
- Clark, Cristy a Page, John
- 240
- anglické
Using the forest as a thematic device, Clark and Page explore the tensions that pervade our propertied relationships; between commodity and community, abstraction and context,...
- Militant Cosmopolitics
Militant Cosmopolitics
- 2022
- Caraus, Tamara
- 224
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This book explores cosmopolitanism's radical dynamic as expressed in the struggles from below, all over the world, against exclusion and domination, pointing to the horizon of...
- Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume
Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume
- 2022
- Morejon, Gil
- 216
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Three early modern philosophers - Spinoza, Leibniz and Hume - understood that minds necessarily involve ideas and patterns of thinking that are not conscious. Morejon shows that...
- Reader's Joyce
Reader's Joyce
- 2022
- Corser, Sophie
- 240
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Rethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James Joyce.
- Reanimated
Reanimated
- 2022
- Mee, Laura
- 224
- anglické
Explores American horror remakes produced since 2000 within key cultural, industry and reception contexts
- Legacies of the Past
Legacies of the Past
- 2022
- 200
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Riven with unresolved traumas and appropriated by successive governments, the past haunts spaces in Mexican film and visual culture. These events, without consensus or a...
- Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature
Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature
- 2022
- Pulham, Patricia
- 240
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This book argues that, in Victorian literature, transgressive desires that cannot be openly acknowledged are often buried and encrypted in the marble
- Deleuze's Difference and Repetitio - H. Somers-Hall
Deleuze's Difference and Repetitio - H. Somers-Hall
- Edinburgh University Press
- 2013
- Somers-Hall, Henry
- 224
This is the essential toolkit for anyone approaching Deleuze for the first time. "Difference and Repetition" (first published in 1968) is widely accepted as Gilles Deleuze's...
- Texture - a Cognitive Aesthetics of - P. Stockwell
Texture - a Cognitive Aesthetics of - P. Stockwell
- Edinburgh University Press
- 2012
- Stockwell, Peter
- 224
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Representing the latest advance in cognitive poetics, this book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach to...
- Constituent Power
Constituent Power
- 2022
- 232
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With a strong focus on constitutional law, this book examines the legal as well as the political power of 'the people' in constitutional democracies. Bringing together an...
- Screen Acting
Screen Acting
- 2022
- Leberg, Dan
- 212
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This book approaches film and television acting from an actor's perspective rather than that of an audience member, and therefore theorizes how screen acting works as a process...
- Pina Bausch's Dance Theatre: Tracing the Evolution of Tanztheater Weir LucyPaperback
Pina Bausch's Dance Theatre: Tracing the Evolution of Tanztheater Weir LucyPaperback
- 2019
- Weir, Lucy
- 224
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First full-scale thematic analysis of Pina Bausch's Tanztheater, critically evaluating the impact of modernist theatre on her choreographic method This book presents a new...