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Taylor & Francis Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisGreek Folktales and Psychoanalysis presents a dialogue between psychoanalysis and folktales from the Greek oral tradition, many of which have never before been published in English. Each folktale or group of related tales is presented in full, followed by an analytic text that explores the central themes. The wealth of tales includes versions of oral stories that have been passed down through generations and that will provide professionals in the psychoanalytic field with a vast, unexpected panoply of strong images and metaphors on which to draw in their clinical work. Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training. It will also be relevant reading for academics and students of psychoanalytic literary criticism, folklore and oral tradition, Greek history and culture, mythology and anthropology.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Tamil Prose after Bharathi
Book SynopsisBefore Bharathi, Tamil writers considered writing in a way readers cannot understand as a mark of punditry. It was almost a tradition to employ a difficult style to explain even a simple matter. After showing the readers how involuted and difficult the styles of writers before Bharathi were, Vallikannan discusses the innovative features of Bharathi and the impact they made on his successors. He discusses the individualistic features of several great writers of Tamil fiction and their contribution to the development of Tamil as a language reflecting modernity and capable of coping with the knowledge explosion witnessed up to the present day.The book discusses the works of the stalwarts of Tamil fiction: Kalki, Puthumaipithan, Ku. Pa. Rajagopalan, La. Sa. Ra., Mouni, Jayakanthan, Sujatha and many more including a few Sri Lankan Tamil writers. Apart from these, Vallikannan has made an incisive study of the oratorical style of C. N. Annadurai, one of the most accomplished statesme
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Childrens Digital Picture Books
Book SynopsisDuring the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, children's media use increased (Mesce et al. 2021) while a decrease in print-book reading was observed (Nolan et al. 2022). An increase in tablet use suggests that when children were reading, it was mostly online in the form of ePub3 pdf files for illustrated works and prescribed school texts, while smartphone use was linked to apps and games. (Susilowati et al. 2021) For many years now, children's publishers have experimented with digital picture-book formats but have regarded the genre as not suitable for digitisation.This book documents the findings of a one-year research project engaging the children's publishing sector for feedback on reading trends and digital publishing in picture-book genres. The research assesses the plight of picture books in the current climate and considers how picture-book publishers cater to diverse readerships and new reading platforms post Covid-19 lockdowns and into the digital age.Written by an
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Taylor & Francis Understanding Public Debates
Book SynopsisBy historicizing and contextualizing them through readings of carefully selected literary texts, literary studies can contribute to understanding and rationalizing key debates waged in many pluralist societies today â whether on different conceptions of liberty, identity politics, historical commemoration, challenges of globalization or responses to climate change. Understanding Public Debates presents case studies including Milton's Paradise Lost, P.B. Shelley's 1820 Reform essay, Philip Roth's The Human Stain, the songwriting of Neil Young and Edward Young's 1720s Sea Odes, recent climate fiction as well as non-literary conflict narratives. Rather than mining texts for arguments for or against certain positions, this book is interested in how texts stage these debates by means of multiple perspectives, narrative situations or ambiguities. By suggesting how educators might use literary texts as conversation starters for more rational deba
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Taylor & Francis Dreams in Chinese Fiction
Book SynopsisThis book considers the contemporary political formula of the âœChinese Dreamâ in the light of the treatment of dreams in Chinese literary history since antiquity. Sinic literary and philosophical texts document an extensive spectrum of dream possibilities: starting with Zhuangziâs eminent butterfly dream, an early example of the inversion of the dreamerâs reality, through to confusing visions of the spiritual realm. In classical dramas, novels, and ghost stories, dreams see the earthly realm enter into conflict with higher realms of existence. They indulge the dreamerâs quest for sensual pleasures, but then spiritual beings relentlessly harvest the dreamersâ life energy. Dreams promise spiritual enlightenment â only to abandon the dreamer in a state of utter confusion. In the early twentieth century, traditional dream knowledge is abandoned in favour or Freudian episodes of sexual repression. In this context, the collective national dream emerges as an unexpected vehicle of the pained individualâs hope for national rejuvenation.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporaneity of the Mahabharata Narrative
Book SynopsisNotwithstanding its renowned comprehensive narrative encapsulation of the Indic culture, the Mahabharata keeps on posing a challenge to its contemporary readers: how do we relate to something over two-millennia old in today's context without freezing it in time? This volume looks at the problem from diverse periods and standpoints and shows us that this challenge is, in fact, a legacy of the Mahabharata and the responses to this challenge are what makes the text ever-contemporary to different readers of different times and positions.It traces the evolution of the Mahabharata from its inception in the fifth century BCE to twenty-first century, spanning classical Sanskrit tradition, Persian and Bengali adaptations, the Mahabharata as a serialized TV show to more recent graphic narratives. By attempting to analyse this diversity, this volume further delves into how the issues in the Mahabharata resonate across time, from the world of ancient sages to contemporary struggles of wo
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Taylor & Francis Translating Indigenous Knowledges
Book SynopsisIn this book, Vidal presents a new way of translating indigenous epistemologies. For centuries, the Western world has ordained what knowledge is and what it should be and has also been responsible for transmitting that knowledge. This universal knowledge has traveled to the four corners of the globe.In recent decades, there has been a steadily growing interest in dialogical epistemologies. Disciplines ranging from historiography and philosophy to anthropology are calling for this universalist idea of knowledge to be modified. Thanks to this change of perspective, other forms of knowledge, which until now have been ignored, are gradually coming to light. Indigenous knowledges are not constructed with the scientific, binary, static, Cartesian, or univocal logic characteristic of Western societies. Non-Western types of knowledge incorporate senses, emotions, body, objects, and matter. It is impossible to reduce indigenous knowledges to Western conceptualizations. The types of tr
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Taylor & Francis Economics and Literature
Book SynopsisEconomics and fiction often pursue parallel objectives. Economists analyze human decisions and interactions in markets and other institutions. Fiction writers also provide keen insights into individual minds and motives, examining how their characters respond to conflict and tensions in varied situations. This book explores the insights to be gained from developing this parallel.In each chapter, economists discuss classic or contemporary literary creations, exploring economic incentives that motivate the characters, the economic mechanisms that tie them together, and/or the economic context in which they live and develop. Exploring the synergy across economics and literature offers new understandings of themes, including capitalism and colonialism, marriage and markets, gender norms, inheritance and estates, and the political economy of poverty. The broad and deep range of literary works includes writers from Shakespeare and Goethe, through Chekov and Steinbeck, to recent Nobelists Abdulrazak Gurnah and Han Kang. By offering new understandings of both economics and literature, readers will gain deeper insights into peopleâs thought processes, choices, and consequences.This book will captivate readers in economics, social sciences, and the humanities and open their minds to the viewing of economic ideas and concepts through the prism of great works of literature.
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Taylor & Francis Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature
Book SynopsisPandemics and Apocalypse rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle Ages (Dante, Boccaccio) and Modernity (Defoe, Manzoni, Artaud, Camus) as a basis for contemplating the significance of the recent Covid-19 pandemic. It concerns how we are to confront future pandemics and other inextricably related crises, notably those of an ecological nature. Responses to Covid-19 typically set everything on defeating this âœenemy,â but actually we cannot eliminate viruses without eliminating ourselves. We need to see the pandemic as revealing us to ourselves in our inherently vulnerable condition as a first step to admitting the infinite openness to one another and to our Groundâphysical and metaphysicalâthat alone can save our world by engendering a different attitude, open and engaged, to one another and to the Earth as sources of our collective life.
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Taylor & Francis Writing with Research
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Taylor & Francis Nigerian Speculative Fiction
Book SynopsisThis book is an exciting addition to a gap in non-Western genre studies of African fiction. It challenges the dominant canonicity of African literature, overshadowed by texts concerned with the colonial discourse and âwriting backâ while exploring speculative themes in Nigerian fiction and writings that stem from an African cosmology and culture.The book examines important twentieth-century precursors of the post-millennial âboomâ in Nigerian Speculative Fiction (SF), reading texts that were omitted from the Nigerian literary canon developed in the 1960s. It combines of the analysis of recent fiction and criticism with a historical overview of the development of the under-researched area of Nigerian SF. Through these readings, the author demonstrates the range of concerns explored by Nigerian SF including futurism, posthumanism, horror, fantasy and science fiction, among others. This book argues that these narratives exceed the binary implicitly sustained by the texts that wr
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American
Book SynopsisThis book offers a clear, substantive, and authoritative guide to transnationalism in American literature. Leading scholars provide a history of the field, key debates, and instances of literary readings, identifying key modes by which writers have responded to major historical, political, and ethical issues prompted by globalization.Trade Review'… deeply thoughtful, rich in examples, indeed exemplary. … the book matters because the links between capitalism, imperialism, diasporas, and transnationalism, on the one hand, and literature, race, and gender, on the other, are not yet properly understood and consolidated into a strong theoretical frame. … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' K. Tölölyan, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction. The transnational turn Yogita Goyal; Part I. Shape of the Field: 1. Rethinking nation and empire Shelley Fisher Fishkin; 2. American literature, world literature Wai Chee Dimock; 3. The transnational turn and postcolonial studies Yogita Goyal; 4. Transnational aesthetics Russ Castronovo; Part II. Literary Histories: 5. Transnationalism and nineteenth-century literature Johannes Voelz; 6. Transnational modernisms Jessica Berman; 7. Transnational postmodern and contemporary literature David James; Part III. Critical Geographies: 8. Black Atlantic and diaspora literature Destiny Birdsong and Ifeoma Nwankwo; 9. Borders and borderland literature John Alba Cutler; 10. American Indian transnationalisms Jodi Byrd; 11. Pacific Rim and Asian American literature Viet Nguyen; 12. Hemispheric literature Josefina Maria Saldaña; Part IV. Literature and Geopolitics: 13. Transnational feminism Crystal Parikh; 14. Queer transnationalism Petrus Liu; 15. Islam and transnationalism Timothy Marr.
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Cambridge University Press The Value of Ecocriticism
Book SynopsisThe Value of Ecocriticism offers a brief, incisive overview of the fast-changing field of environmental literary criticism in a bewildering age of global environmental threat. The intellectual, moral and political complexity of environmental issues, especially at the global scale (the so-called 'Anthropocene') forms a new challenge of inventiveness for both literature and criticism. Ecocriticism has been going through a period of radical change and has become a diverse and huge field on the exciting but unstable boundary between the humanities and the sciences, with a mix of cultural, political, scientific and activist strands. Its mantra is that the environmental crisis demands a reconsideration of society's basic values, constitution and purposes, and that art and literature can be vital in that work. As a leading figure in this field, Timothy Clark surveys recent developments in ecocriticism lucidly, but also sometimes critically. This book examines ecopoetics, material ecocriticismTrade Review'Clark's insightful, well-researched book will be a valuable resource for ecocritics … Recommended' W. DiPasquale, Choice'Clark provides a comprehensive introduction that is useful to a broad audience. This little volume will be useful to teachers and students, as much as to scholars of the field that seek to brush up on their grasp of the field.' Eva Rüskamp, British Society for Literature and ScienceTable of Contents1. The 'Anthropocene'?: Nature and complexity; 2. Scalar literacy; 3. Ecopoetry; 4. The challenge for prose narrative; 5. Material ecocriticism; 6. 'Postcolonial ecocriticism' … and beyond?
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Cambridge University Press The Rainbow The Cambridge Edition of the Works of
Book SynopsisD. H. Lawrence expected The Rainbow to have 'a bit of a fight' before it was accepted, but 'The fight will have to be made, that is all'. It was suppressed, just over a month after publication, in November 1915. The American publisher would make thirteen further cuts and 'dribble out' the book quietly. In 1930 the British government would again consider suppressing a new printing of The Rainbow. Professor Mark Kinkead-Weekes gives the composition history and collates the surviving states of the text to assess the damage done to Lawrence's novel, and to provide a text as close to that which the author wrote as is now possible. The final manuscript, revisions in the typescript and the first edition are recorded in full in the textual apparatus so the reader can follow the novel's development and evaluate what outside interference may have done to it. Also included are explanatory notes to historical references and allusions, and an interior chronology of the book itself.Table of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue titles; Introduction; The Rainbow; Appendix 1. Fragment of 'The Sisters'; Appendix 2. Fragment of 'The Sisters II'; Appendix 3. Report and letter on 'The Wedding Ring'; Appendix 4. Chronology of The Rainbow; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; A note on pounds, shillings and pence.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the History of the
Book SynopsisThroughout human history, the world's knowledge and fruits of the creative imagination have been produced, circulated and received through the medium of the material text. This Companion provides a wide-ranging account of the history of the book and its ways of thinking about works from ancient inscription to contemporary e-books, discussing thematic, chronological and methodological aspects of this interdisciplinary field. The first part considers book cultures from local, national and global perspectives. Part two, organized around the dynamic relationship between the material book and the mutable text, develops a loosely chronological narrative from early writing, through manuscript and early printing, to the institution of a mechanized book trade, and on to the globalization of publishing and the introduction of the electronic book. A third part takes a practical turn, discussing methods, sources and approaches: bibliographical, archival and reading experience methodologies, as welTrade Review'Francis Bacon said 'some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly'. This book is firmly in the latter category. My own copy is already looking somewhat mauled and well used, with ample marginalia, highlighted lines and references, and bookmarks sticking out of key sections. I cannot think of a better way to show how highly I recommend it.' Samantha J. Rayner, English'As a whole, the collection accomplishes what it sets out to do: it is an effective introduction to the field and its issues and practices, and it points the way toward new and exciting developments.' Marta Kvande, Papers of the Fall Bibliographical Society of CanadaTable of ContentsChronology; 1. The study of book history Leslie Howsam; Part I. Book Cultures, Local, National and Global: 2. Books in the library Karen Attar; 3. Books in the nation Trish Loughran; 4. Books in global perspectives Sydney Shep; Part II. The Material Book and the Mutable Text: 5. Materials and meanings Peter Stoicheff; 6. Handwriting and the book Margaret J. M. Ezell; 7. The coming of print to Europe Adrian Johns; 8. The authority and subversiveness of print in early modern Europe Cyndia Clegg; 9. The industrial revolution of the book James Raven; 10. The book in the long twentieth century Alistair McCleery; 11. The digital book Jon Bath and Scott Schofield; Part III. Methods, Sources and Approaches to the History of the Book: 12. Book history from descriptive bibliographies Michael F. Suarez, S.J.; 13. Book history from the archival record Katherine Bode and Roger Osborne; 14. Book history in the reading experience Mary Hammond; 15. Book history in the classroom Leslie Howsam; Glossary of technical terms; Guide to further reading.
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Cambridge University Press The Staunton Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis is the second of three volumes of Shakespeare's plays compiled and edited by Howard Staunton, originally published in 1859 and acclaimed for their combination of meticulous research and common sense. The text is embellished by numerous black-and-white illustrations by John Gilbert and accompanied by critical notes.Table of Contents1. All's Well That Ends Well; 2. King Henry the Fifth; 3. As You Like It; 4. Pericles, Prince of Tyre; 5. Twelfth Night; or, What You Will; 6. The First Part of King Henry the Sixth; 7. The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth; 8. The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth; 9. Timon of Athens; 10. Richard the Third; 11. Measure For Measure; 12. King Henry the Eighth; 13. Cymbeline.
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Cambridge University Press Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary
Book SynopsisMary Delany (née Granville, 170088) was famed for her paper-cut botanical illustrations, but she was also a prolific correspondent and knew many of the leading cultural figures of the eighteenth century. This six-volume work, edited by her great-great-niece, Lady Llanover (180296), was published in 18612.Table of Contents5. From Mrs Pendarves's return from her visit to Ireland to the marriage of her sister Mrs Ann Granville - continued; 6. From the marriage of Mrs Dewes to Mrs Pendarves's marriage with Dr Delany. 1740–3; 7. From November, 1743 to 1746; 8. Mrs Delany to Mrs Dewes; 9. January, 1750, to December, 1750.
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Cambridge University Press Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary
Book SynopsisMary Delany (née Granville, 170088) was famed for her paper-cut botanical illustrations, but she was also a prolific correspondent and knew many of the leading cultural figures of the eighteenth century. This six-volume work, edited by her great-great-niece, Lady Llanover (180296), was published in 18612.Table of Contents19. From the death of Mrs Dewes to the last illness of the Dean of Down. 1761 to May 1768; 20. Death of the Dean of Down. 1768–9; 21. January 1770 to December 1771; 22. 1772; 23. January 1773–June 1774.
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Cambridge University Press Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary
Book SynopsisMary Delany (née Granville, 170088) was famed for her paper-cut botanical illustrations, but she was also a prolific correspondent and knew many of the leading cultural figures of the eighteenth century. This six-volume work, edited by her great-great-niece, Lady Llanover (180296), was published in 18612.Table of Contents27. January, 1781–December, 1785; Appendix; Index; Errata.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespearean Arrivals
Book SynopsisIn this distinctive study, Nicholas Luke explores the abiding power of Shakespeare''s tragedies by suggesting an innovative new model of his character creation. Rather than treating characters as presupposed beings, Luke shows how they arrive as something more than functional dramatis personae - how they come to life as ''subjects'' - through Shakespeare''s orchestration of transformational dramatic events. Moving beyond dominant critical modes, Luke combines compelling close readings of Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear with an accessible analysis of thinkers such as Badiou, Žižek, Bergson, Whitehead and Latour, and the ''adventist'' Christian tradition flowing from Saint Paul through Luther to Kierkegard. Representing a significant intervention into the way we encounter Shakespeare''s tragic figures, the book argues for a subjectivity which is not singular or abiding, but perilous and leaping.Trade Review'The book is at its best, its most exciting and enjoyable, when focused on the texts at hand, which Luke makes new. There is a great deal to value here, especially for those who are looking for a philosophical and theoretical consideration of character as exemplified by Shakespearean tragedy. Shakespearean Arrivals is sure to excite debate and to force a reconsideration of character as dynamic and multiple, shifting and changing, and, hence, new.' Cristina León Alfar, Renaissance Quarterly'The book is at its best, its most exciting and enjoyable, when focused on the texts at hand, which Luke makes new. There is a great deal to value here, especially for those who are looking for a philosophical and theoretical consideration of character as exemplified by Shakespearean tragedy. Shakespearean Arrivals is sure to excite debate and to force a reconsideration of character as dynamic and multiple, shifting and changing, and, hence, new.' Cristina León Alfar, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Thinking arrivals: rupture, event, subject; 2. The subject of love in Romeo and Juliet; 3. Love's late arrival: wonder and terror in Othello's 'High-Wrought Flood'; 4. The ghostly event(s) of Hamlet; 5. Macbeth: the arrival of evil; 6. The Cordelia event: seizing the vanished in King Lear; Conclusion; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Women Booksellers in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisThe British women booksellers who built and ran successful businesses before, during, and after the Second World War have largely been forgotten. This Element seeks to reclaim some of these histories from where they lie hidden or obscured in archives, accounts of the book trade of the time, and other sources. Though they were often called ''formidable'', this research reveals astonishing impact at local, national, and international levels. Divided into four main sections, the Element first gives a literature review of materials about booksellers, before giving a short context to bookselling, the book trade, and book buyers and readers of the early twentieth century. A third section examines the position of women in society at that time, including how they were viewed as part of the book trade; the final section provides histories of nine women booksellers. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Cambridge University Press Molière in Context
Book SynopsisThis definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics, undergraduates and theatre professionals alike. Equally thorough and wide-ranging, it is an exceptional tribute to the premier French dramatist on the 400th anniversary of his birth.Table of ContentsBiographical preface Georges Forestier; Part 1. Socio-political Context: 1. A Bourgeois at court Mathieu da Vinhae; 2. The religious climate Julia Prest; 3. Medicine Valerie Worth-Stylianou; 4. Family law Janine Lanza; 5. Women Wendy Perkins; 6. Gender, masculinity and cross-dressing Joseph Harris; Part 2. Intellectual and Artistic Context: 7. Philosophical influences Jean-Luc Robin; 8. Molière and classical theatre Michael Call; 9. The survival of medieval and renaissance professional practices Marie Bouhaïk-Gironès; 10. Commedia dell'arte Claude Bourqui; 11. The literary establishment Richard Maber; 12. Are the Précieuses only ridicules? Molière, salon culture and the shaping of France's collective memory Faith E. Beasley; Part 3. Theatrical Context (Paris): 13. Molière's theatres in Paris Philippe Cornuaille; 14. Stage design in Paris Philippe Cornuaille; 15. Company administration Jan Clarke; 16. The theatre industry and cultures of consumption Sabine Chaouche; 17. Acting style Sabine Chaouche; Part 4. Theatrical Context (Court): 18. Colbert, cultural policy and the propaganda of spectacle Georgia Cowart; 19. The decors of comedy-ballet: from the 'Songe de Vaux' to the 'Rêve de Versailles' Marie-Claude Canova-Green; 20. Court performances and their audiences Laura Naudeix; 21. Music Anne Piéjus; 22. The livrets of Molière's plays Marine Roussillon; Part 5. Reception and dissemination: 23. Audience laughter Coline Piot; 24. The triumph of publicity Christophe Schuwey; 25. Molière and his critics: the 'Querelles' Jeanne-Marie Hostiou; 26. Molière and his publishers Michael Call; 27. Molière In print Michael Hawcroft; 28. Early modern English translations of Molière Suzanne Jones; Part 6. Afterlives: 29. Molière at the hôtel Guénégaud and the Comédie-Française: the early years Jan Clarke; 30. Comedy after Molière Guy Spielmann; 31. Molière as national hero Mechele Leon; 32. Molière in performance: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century productions Noël Peacock; 33. Molière on the modern Anglophone stage Cédric Ploix; 34. Who and what is Molière? The film director's perspective Noël Peacock; 35. Molière in the Arab world Angela Daiana Langone; 36. Digital Molière Claude Bourqui.
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University of London Press TrasladosTranslations Essays on Latin America in
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Harvard University, Korea Institute Azalea Journal of Korean Literature and Culture 1
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Azalea is about Korean literature and literary culture, and therefore about writing, publishing, translating, and reading. The writing has already happened, the translation too, but now for the reading! We have looked at original works, wondering who might best translate a gem. Or we have discovered a strong translation and asked, 'Can we publish it?' And how might artwork of various kinds, or perhaps photographs of Korea contemporaneous with the literary works, be added to the mix? The occasional hortatory note, such as my own in this issue about the 1953 short story 'Cranes' by Hwang Sunwon, may add another edge, perhaps, to the reader's framing and reframing of the piece." - from the Editor's Note"
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Awaiaulu Inc. Ka Moolelo o Hiiakaikapoliopele
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Awaiaulu Inc. The Epic Tale of Hiiakaikapoliopele
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Ohio State University Press I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Helping Skills for Counselors and Health
Book SynopsisHelping Skills for Counselors and Health Professionals provides a model of foundational helping skills that is grounded in a multicultural framework. Chapters explicitly examine implicit bias and the role of culture and systems of oppression and marginalization within the lives of both individuals and communities. The text also uses ecological systems theory to assist readers in conceptualizing the ways in which culture influences communication styles, perceptions of professional helpers, and individual needs. Readers will be introduced to concepts that increase awareness of micro and macro-level influences on helping skills, communication, and the patient's life. Within the book's multicultural framework, readers will also find tools for increasing self-awareness for improving the communication skills and cultural humility. Trade Review"In a world in which we often assume people skills cannot be taught, this text provides an evidence-based overview of how to build, maintain, and optimize relationships in health professions education and practice." Aimee K. Gardner, PhD, professor and associate dean, Baylor College of Medicine"This book should be added to every graduate course seeking to grow culturally competent and self-reflective mental health practitioners. Guided by Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, this text delivers a culturally accountable framework that enhances self-awareness and supports practitioners’ efforts to integrate cultural considerations as they develop their helping style and counseling skills."Layla Kurt, PhD, associate professor, University of Dayton"In a decade ushered in by a pandemic and honed in an active crucible that exposed the impact of systemic racism, trauma, and disregard for science, this textbook is a timely antidote and a classic primer for helping skills instruction. This collection of eleven chapters is written clearly and authentically, with expert integration of trauma informed care, cultural humility, and ethical practice into the presentation of evidence-based empathic helping skills. Sophisticated enough for graduate classes and clinical settings, this book is also a valuable gem to reach undergraduates seeking skills in how to build relationships. It offers a rare and buffet of theories and applications, from Rogers to Prochaska to Bronfenbrenner. This is a truly comprehensive and accessible text, perfect for use in college, in clinics, and by anyone wishing to learn how to better connect with people across settings, populations, and histories."Anne Sullivan-Soydan, ScD, clinical associate professor, Boston University, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesTable of ContentsSection 1: Helping in a Complex World 1. Introduction to Helping 2. Ethical Helping Relationships 3. Helping in a Pluralistic Society 4. Human Development and the Helping Process Section 2: Techniques for Helping 5. Helping Behaviors: Nonverbal and Paraverbal Skills 6. Helping Behaviors: Verbal Skills to Encourage 7. Helping Behaviors: Verbal Skills to Understand and Connect 8. Helping Behaviors: Verbal Skills to Invite Exploration Section 3: Putting Helping Skills to Work 9. Basic Mental Health Assessment 10. Evidence-Based Practice 11. Helping Skill Integration
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Taylor & Francis Signing the Body
Book SynopsisThe ïrst major scholarly investigation into the rich history of the marked body in the early modern period, this interdisciplinary study examines multiple forms, uses, and meanings of corporeal inscription and impression in France and the French Atlantic from the late sixteenth through early eighteenth centuries. Placing into dialogue a broad range of textual and visual sources drawn from areas as diverse as demonology, jurisprudence, mysticism, medicine, pilgrimage, commerce, travel, and colonial conquest that have formerly been examined largely in isolation, Katherine Dauge-Roth demonstrates that emerging theories and practices of signing the body must be understood in relationship to each other and to the development of other material marking practices that rose to prominence in the early modern period. While each chapter brings to light the particular histories and meanings of a distinct set of cutaneous marksâdevilâs marks on witches, demonâs marks upon the possessed, devotionaTrade ReviewThis brilliant and gracefully written study weaves an eclectic and original corpus of primary sources into a compelling argument about the cultural implications of body marking in France and its colonies during the early modern period. In addition to being understood as magical signs, devotional gestures or material by-products of the power of the imagination, body marks also served as a powerful means of self-fashioning, and as signs of identification and authoritative control. The book is a must read for anyone interested in how the ancient practice of body marking became transformed into a product of the modern state.- Allison Stedman, Professor of French, University of North Carolina – CharlotteWhole worlds of meaning were legible in the marks written by God and man, nature and the cosmos, on the delicate surface that clothed, however porously, the bodies of renaissance men and women. Wounds of many different provenances; tattoos on pilgrims from the holy land, on prisoners and on the native peoples across the globe; birthmarks of various colors and shapes spoke to matters of deep cultural exigency. In this book Katherine Dauge-Roth constitutes, explores and interprets beautifully a whole lost archive of writing on the body. - Thomas W. Laqueur, Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor Emeritus of HistoryUniversity of California – BerkeleySigning the Body reveals how cutaneous marks were deeply embedded in early modern European culture. In this abundantly researched work, Dauge-Roth examines demonic marks and sacred stigmata, the branding of criminals, Amerindian tattooing, and the Jerusalem tattoos traditionally received by Christian pilgrims. These diverse dermal practices are united, Dauge-Roth argues, by the desire to make the human body a stable site of signification in an age of cultural upheaval and physical mobility. Signing the Body reveals the ubiquity of body marking in early modern Europe, confirming the relatively familiar status of European tattooing practices once thought extraordinary.- Craig Koslofsky, Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignTable of ContentsList of Figures AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Impressionable Body1 Seals of Satan: Demonologists and the Devil’s Mark2 Demonic Marks, Divine Stigmata: The Female Body Inscribed3 The Amerindian Tattoo: Signs of Identity in New France4 Jerusalem Arms: The European Pilgrim Tattoo5 Stigma and State Control: Branding the Deviant BodyConclusion: Lasting ImpressionsBibliographyIndex
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Literature and
Book SynopsisIn 1959, C. P. Snow lamented the presence of what he called the ''two cultures'': the apparently unbridgeable chasm of understanding and knowledge between modern literature and modern science. In recent decades, scholars have worked diligently and often with great ingenuity to interrogate claims like Snow''s that represent twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and science as radically alienated from each other. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science offers a roadmap to developments that have contributed to the demonstration and emergence of reciprocal connections between the two domains of inquiry. Weaving together theory and empiricism, individual chapters explore major figures - Shakespeare, Bacon, Emerson, Darwin, Henry James, William James, Whitehead, Einstein, Empson, and McClintock; major genres and modes of writing - fiction, science fiction, non-fiction prose, poetry, and dramatic works; and major theories and movements - pragmatism, critical theory, scienceTrade Review'The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science is a serious, substantial, and illuminating volume. The contributors are among the most highly regarded and influential scholars in their respective areas of expertise in literature and science. Together, their contributions provide a comprehensive, consistently informative, and frequently enlightening survey of what is an extremely varied and theoretically challenging interdisciplinary field. The volume will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars working in any area of literature and sciences studies.' Paul Peppis, University of Oregon'… original, transformative, and enormously valuable as a fresh perspective on the field.' Martin Willis, The British Society for Literature and Science Reviews (www.bsls.ac.uk)'It is an inclusive and urgent gathering of work, which presents an innovative and transformative broadening of the field of Literature and Science in the twenty-first century.' Gemma Curto, Notes and QueriesTable of ContentsIntroduction Steven Meyer; Part I. Glimpses of Present and Future: Literature and Science Studies: 1. Science fiction to science studies Isabelle Stengers; Part II. Snapshots of The Past: Literature and Science: 2. Shakespeare and modern science Mary Baine Campbell; 3. Darwin and literature Devin Griffiths; 4. William James, Henry James, and the impact of science Joan Richardson; 5. Empson's Einstein: science and modern reading Kitt Price; Part III. In Theory: Literary Studies and Science Studies: 6. Science studies and literary theory Hugh Crawford; 7. From writing science to digital humanities Haun Saussy and Tim Lenoir; 8. Science studies as cultural studies James J. Bono; 9. Reading affect: literature and science after Klein and Tomkins Adam Frank; Part IV. In Practice: Literary Studies and Science: 10. The global turn: Thoreau and the sixth extinction Wai Chee Dimock; 11. Literary studies and cognitive science Alan Richardson; 12. Modernism, technology, and the life sciences Tim Armstrong; 13. The long history of cognitive practices: literacy, numeracy, aesthetics Reviel Netz; Futures past and present: literature and science in an age of Whitehead Steven Meyer.
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Cambridge University Press Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
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Cambridge University Press A History of English Georgic Writing
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Ausable Press Vectors Aphorisms TenSecond Essays
Book Synopsis James Richardson is one of the finest poets now writing, and the best contemporary practitioner of the art of aphorism.Publishers Weekly Not since the appearance of W. S. Merwin''s translations and adaptations of aphorisms in Asian Figures, some thirty years ago, has an American poet managed to put down so much delightful and compelling wisdom.American Literary Review No one theme or moral pervades these tesserae of specificity. Rather, Richardson''s elegant compression invites the reader to fill in the blanks with personal experience Richardson''s knack for the quintessential, sustained for more than a hundred pages, left me satisfied yet hungry for more. Times Literary Supplement Readers will be obsessed by this book; they will memorize passages, give copies to friends, proselytize. That''s because Vectors so generously provides the best that poetry can offer. It is a masterpiece of practicali
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Blue-Tongue Books A Reading of The Tale of Genji
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Cambridge University Press Defoes Tour and Early Modern Britain
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Cambridge University Press Dante and the Practice of Humility
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Cambridge University Press Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy
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Taylor & Francis Evolution Feminism and Romantic Fiction
Book SynopsisRomantic fiction has long been dismissed as trivial and denounced for peddling supposedly oppressive patriarchal myths of heterosexual love and marriage. Despite such criticism, the popularity of romantic fiction has only increased in recent decades.Drawing on research from the evolutionary sciences, Ania Grant proposes that narrative patterns of romantic stories and their enduring appeal reflect the importance of love as a fundamental human drive. She examines two of the most successful and critically scrutinized romantic narratives of the past 200 years, Jane Austenâs classic novel Pride and Prejudice and the hit television series Sex and the City, and argues that such texts simulate the cognitive and emotional complexities of mate choiceâone of the most consequential decisions from both a biological and a cultural perspective. Her biocultural analysis aligns the interpretation of romantic fiction with the feminist ideals of female autonomy and gender equality. It also suggests that positive identification with romantic heroines gives audiences the hope and energy to pursue the transformation of gender relations in real life.The book will be of interest to anyone who ever wondered why so many women (and some men) around the world are enthralled by romantic stories. It will also appeal to anyone who has ever been inspired by romantic happy endings to strive for a world in which men and women love and cooperate with each otherâeven if it seems like a utopian ideal while the war of the sexes rages on.
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Taylor & Francis Childrenâs Literature and Culture
Book SynopsisChildrenâs Literature & Culture: An Introduction guides readers in the study of culture in, around, and through childrenâs literature. Childrenâs literature has long been used as a mechanism by which a culture passes its values from one generation to the next. Because of this culturally didactic purpose, childrenâs literature can be viewed as one of the most fruitful areas of study of any given culture, while attending to the cultures from which works of childrenâs literature emerge and in which they circulate can also help better understand not only the ideas of childhood that underpin individual texts for children, but the role they play in the construction and transmission of different cultural ideologies. This book teaches readers this double work of using culture to understand childrenâs literature and vice versa. This volume traces the scholarly methodologies and histories that have attended the study of each of the twenty chaptersâ given subject - from the representation of race in and around childrenâs literature to questions of censorship to how libraries can and do shape childrenâs literature. In the process, it prepares readers to confidently enter and forward scholarly debates and to teach such debates to their own students.
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Alex Cooper The Power of Positive Thinking by Alex Cooper
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
Book SynopsisThe first English-language history of Japanese literature in a single volume, from its beginnings in pre-medieval times to the present day, accompanied by extensive bibliographies. Indispensable not only for scholars and students, but for all those interested in learning more about one of the world's great literatures.Table of ContentsPart I. The Ancient Period (Beginnings to 794); Part II. The Heian Period (794–1185); Part III. The Medieval Period (1185–1600); Part IV. The Edo Period (1600–1867); Part V. The Modern Period (1868 to Present).
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Cambridge University Press Mansfield Park The Cambridge Edition of the Works
Book SynopsisIn recent years, Mansfield Park has come to be regarded as Austen's most controversial novel. It was published in two editions in her lifetime and here the 1814 and 1816 texts are fully collated for the first time. All the variants are included on the page, allowing readers to see the differences between the first edition and the second, which include some important amendments made by Jane Austen herself. Also included, with a brief note on Elizabeth Inchbald, is the text of Lovers' Vows, the play around which much of the plot of Mansfield Park revolves. The volume, first published in 2005, provides comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction covering the context and publication history of the work, a chronology of Austen's life and an authoritative textual apparatus.Trade Review''Well! This is brilliant indeed! - This is admirable! - Excellently contrived, upon my word. Nothing wanting. Could not have imagined it.' Miss Bates at the ball at the Crown Inn might have been welcoming The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen. … aims are achieved in an apparently seamless and readable manner. … The authors have largely achieved an admirable impartiality, but delightfully not always. … judgements can be made … novels themselves are printed in large type and a pleasure to read. The copytext adopted is the one that in each case was nearest to Jane Austen. … notes are copious and informative. The Cambridge Edition justifies its claim to be 'the first ever scholarly edition of the works of Jane Austen', and is a fine tribute to her for the twenty-first century.' Jane Austen SocietyTable of ContentsGeneral Editor's preface; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; Note on the text; Mansfield Park; Introductory Note on Lovers' Vows; Lovers' Vows by Elizabeth Inchbald; Corrections and emendations; Appendix. commentary on the text; Abbreviations; Explanatory notes.
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Cambridge University Press Studies in Words
Book SynopsisLanguage - in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings - is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Nature; 3. Sad; 4. Wit; 5. Free; 6. Sense; 7. Simple; 8. Conscience and conscious; 9. World; 10. Life; 11. I dare say; 12. At the fringe of language; Index.
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Bancroft Press Last Call at the 7Eleven Fine Dining at 2am
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Cambridge University Press Familiar Studies of Men and Books
Book SynopsisPublished together in 1882, these literary essays explore the lives and works of nine writers from around the world and across the centuries, including Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman and Samuel Pepys. The studies are known for their conversational style and unusual combination of character assessment and scholarly critique.Table of ContentsPreface, by way of criticism; 1. Victor Hugo's romances; 2. Some aspects of Robert Burns; 3. Walt Whitman; 4. Henry David Thoreau; 5. Yoshia-Torajiro; 6. François Villon; 7. Charles of Orleans; 8. Samuel Pepys; 9. John Knox and women.
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N+1 What We Should Have Known
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Blackstone Publishing Meander Spiral Explode
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Naxos de Profundis
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