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Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Research
Focuses on binge-watching and its role in contemporary television studies.
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Postmodern Crises: From Lolita to Pussy Riot
Postmodern Crises collects previously published and yet unpublished Mark Lipovetsky’s articles on Russian literature and film. Written in different years, they focus on cultural and aesthetic crises that, taken together, constitute the postmodern condition of Russian culture. The reader will find here articles about classic subversive texts (such as Nabokov’s Lolita), performances (Pussy Ri…
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- 9781618115591
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Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene
Approaching King Lear from an eco-materialist perspective, Posthuman Lear examines how the shift in Shakespeare’s tragedy from court to stormy heath activates a different sense of language as tool-being — from that of participating in the flourish of aristocratic prodigality and circumstance, to that of survival and pondering one’s interdependence with a denuded world. Dionne frames the t…
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The Poems of Aimeric de Peguilhan
Poems of Aimeric de Peguilhan is the first critical, annotated translation in English of the collected work of poet Aimeric de Peguilhan. In it, William P. Shepard and Frank M. Chambers provide translations and introductory material to the work of the medieval French troubadour.
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Perspectives on Science and Culture
Edited by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert, Perspectives on Science and Culture explores the intersection between scientific understanding and cultural representation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Contributors to the volume analyze representations of science and scientific discourse from the perspectives of rhetorical criticism, comparative cultural studies, narratolog…
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Our Mythical Childhood...: The Classics and Literature for Children and Young…
This volume offers a survey of the reception of Classical Antiquity in the literature for youngsters by applying regional perspectives from East-Central and Western Europe, Africa, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, and the United States. The title Our Mythical Childhood hints at the elusive and paradoxical potential of the ancient tradition that is both a fixed base shared by many people worl…
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Feminist IR in Europe :knowledge production in academic institutions
The aim of this open access book is to take stock of, critically engage, and celebrate feminist IR scholarship produced in Europe. Organized thematically, the volume highlights a wealth of excellent scholarship, while also focusing on the politics of location and the international political economy of feminist knowledge production. Who are some of the central feminist scholars located in Europe…
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- 9783030919993
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- ix, 174 p.
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Novel Districts: Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm
"Finland-Swedish writer Monika Fagerholm is one of the most important contemporary Nordic authors. Her experimental, puzzling and daring novels, such as Underbara kvinnor vid vatten (1994) and Den amerikanska flickan (2004), have attracted much critical attention. She has won several literary awards, including the Nordic prize from the Swedish Academy in 2016; her works have travelled across na…
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Improving Psychiatric Care For Older People : Barbara Robb’s Campaign 1965-…
Therecould be no better qualified person to document this enlightening storythan Claire Hilton. Claire is a dedicated, talented clinician, a psychiatristworking with older people, who has for some years immersed herself in thehistory of the development of the specialty of old age psychiatry in thetwentieth century. She has illuminated the period by bringing together thecharacters and politics o…
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- 978-3-319-54813-5
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- Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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Embodiment In Evolution And Culture
From its beginnings, the theory of evolution has unsettled fundamental anthropological assumptions about the place of human beings in nature. The integration of human origins into natural history by Darwinism was countered by the philosophical anthropologies of the 20th century. Their attempts were to hold on even more resolutely to the special status of humans as beings 'open towards the world…
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