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The Boundless Present: Space and Time in the Literary Fairy Tales of Novalis …
This volume is a study in the Romantic reshaping of space and time to evoke the fantastic interior landscape and the temporal dynamics of subjective experience. Close textual analysis is coupled with frequent reference to literary and intellectual history in the reassessment of the narrative art of Novalis and Tieck. The author examines Novalis' "Hyazinth und Rosenblüte", "Atlantis", "Arion" a…
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- UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures, 95
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- 909 BIR b
Comparative Federalism and Covid-19: Combating the Pandemic
This comprehensive scholarly book on comparative federalism and the Covid-19 pandemic is written by some of the world’s leading federal scholars and national experts. The Covid-19 pandemic presented an unprecedented emergency for countries worldwide, including all those with a federal or hybrid-federal system of government, which account for more than 40 per cent of the world’s population. …
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Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain: From Amadís de…
The Iberian chivalric romance has long been thought of as an archaic, masculine genre and its popularity as an aberration in European literary history. Chivalry, Reading, and Women’s Culture in Early Modern Spain contests this view, arguing that the surprisingly egalitarian gender politics of Spain’s most famous romance of chivalry has guaranteed it a long afterlife. Amadís de Gaula had a …
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- 9789048536641, 9789462985490
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- Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World, 3
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- 801 TRI c
Modernisation in Russia since 1900
"Modernisation has been a constant theme in Russian history at least since Peter the Great launched a series of initiatives aimed at closing the economic, technical and cultural gap between Russia and the more ‘advanced’ countries of Europe. All of the leaders of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia have been intensely aware of this gap, and have pursued a number of strategies, some more…
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Sustainable Land Management in a European Context
This open access book presents and discusses current issues and innovative solution approaches for land management in a European context. Manifold sustainability issues are closely interconnected with land use practices. Throughout the world, we face increasing conflict over the use of land as well as competition for land. Drawing on experience in sustainable land management gained from seven y…
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- 978-3-030-50841-8
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The Social Effects of Native Title: Recognition, Translation, Coexistence
The papers in this collection reflect on the various social effects of native title. In particular, the authors consider the ways in which the implementation of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth), and the native title process for which this Act legislates, allow for the recognition and translation of Aboriginal law and custom, and facilitate particular kinds of coexistence between Aboriginal tit…
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- Research Monograph, 27
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- 305.8 SMI s
Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet - Studies in the Cultural History of India
The selected and revised articles in this volume by Hans Bakker deal with Indian culture, religion and history: Hinduism, epigraphy, archaeology, iconography in combination with Sanskrit textual studies. The studies focus on the Skandapurana, Vakataka—Gupta history, Ramtek (Ramagiri), Mansar, Ayodhya, Benares, pilgrimage and holy places (tirtha). Readership: All interested in the cultural his…
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The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema
The Altering Eye covers a "golden age" of international cinema from the end of WWII through to the New German Cinema of the 1970s. Combining historical, political, and textual analysis, Kolker develops a pattern of cinematic invention and experimentation from neorealism through the modernist interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Rainer Maria Fassbinder, focusing along the way on such major figur…
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Challenges in Cybersecurity and Privacy - the European Research Landscape
Cybersecurity and Privacy issues are becoming an important barrier for a trusted and dependable global digital society development. Cyber-criminals are continuously shifting their cyber-attacks specially against cyber-physical systems and IoT, since they present additional vulnerabilities due to their constrained capabilities, their unattended nature and the usage of potential untrustworthiness…
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- 9781000795509, 9788770220880
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- 005.8 CHA c
The 1970s: Portrait of a Generation at the Doorstep
This book draws a sociological portrait of the age group born in the 1970s in Estonia and discusses its generational features and constructions. This cohort’s coming of age coincided with the social and emotional turmoil of the re-independence movement in the late 1980s and with the transformation of society in the 1990s. This was the first cohort to negotiate its transition to adulthood in t…
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