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Sensitive Reading: The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to enjoy a translated text? This volume provides opportunities to explore such questions by bringing together a whole set of new translations by David Shulman, noted scholar of South Asia. The translated selectio…
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Selected Poems of Gregory of Nazianzus: I.2.17; II.1.10, 19, 32: A Critical E…
St. Gregory of Nazianzus' (ca. AD 330-390) classicizing Christian verse is the earliest Greek verse of its kind that survives in any great quantity. This is a critical edition, with introduction and commentary, of four poems (I.2.17; II.1.10, 19, 32). The commentary is primarily linguistic, but attention is paid to historical and theological matters. The poems' fate in Byzantium is also examine…
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Language and scientific explanation : Where does semantics fit in?
This book discusses the two main construals of the explanatory goals of semantic theories. The first, externalist conception, understands semantic theories in terms of a hermeneutic and interpretive explanatory project. The second, internalist conception, understands semantic theories in terms of the psychological mechanisms in virtue of which meanings are generated. It is argued that a fruitfu…
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- 978-3-96110-263-1
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- Conceptual Foundations of Language Science 5
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John C. Parkin, Archives and Photography : Reflections on the Practice and Pr…
Architectural practice in post-World War II Canada brought substantial change to the face of the Canadian built environment, led by the contribution of John C. Parkin. As senior partner at the Toronto-based architectural firm John B. Parkin Associates (no relation) from 1947 to the 1970s, Parkin oversaw the creation of a large number of modernist projects, including hospitals, airports, schools…
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- 978-1-55238-639-2
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Routledge Handbook of African Literature
Routledge Handbook of African Literature
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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma
Literary trauma studies is a rapidly developing field which examines how literature deals with the personal and cultural aspects of trauma and engages with such historical and current phenomena as the Holocaust and other genocides, 9/11, climate catastrophe or the still unsettled legacy of colonialism.The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma is a comprehensive guide to the history and t…
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Jacob Grimm : An Address Delivered At The Annual Meeting of The Philological …
This short publication contains a copy of the lecture given at the annual meeting of the Philological Society on the subject of Jacob Grimm.
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Roman Gods: A Conceptual Approach
Drawing exclusively on the evidence from urban Rome up to the age of Constantine, the book analyzes the pagan, Jewish, and Christian concepts of 'god' along the lines of space, time, personnel, function, iconography and ritual.
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Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War: Representations of Nuclear Weapons and Post-…
Ranging across novels and poetry, critical theory and film, comics and speeches, Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War: Representations of Nuclear Weapons and Post-Apocalyptic Worlds explores how writers, thinkers, and filmmakers have answered the following question: are nuclear weapons ‘white'? Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War listens to voices from around the Anglophone world and the debates f…
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Theaters of Citizenship: Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Gardist Performance…
Theaters of Citizenship investigates the Egyptian movement for free theater, arguing that it evolved from an avant-gardist movement to an undercommons of revolutionary cultural practice. Using historiography, ethnography, and performance analysis, the book tells a story of this avant-garde from 2004-2014, analyzing its staging of rights claims, generational identity politics, and post-revolutio…
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