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The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning
A methodical analysis of relations of domination and subordination through media narratives of nationhood in an African context.Nation as Grand Narrative offers a methodical analysis of how relations of domination and subordination are conveyed through media narratives of nationhood. Using …
View book details for Heresy and Heretics in the Thirteenth Century
The Textual Representations
The first book to deal with all the principal treatments of heresy and anti-heretical writings during their heyday in the thirteenth century.Heresy is always relative; the traces that it leaves to us are distorted and one-sided. In the last few …
View book details for Chaucer's <I>Book of the Duchess</I>
Contexts and Interpretations
First entire collection centred on Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, making a compelling case for its importance and value.The Book of the Duchess, Chaucer's first major poem, is foundational for our understanding of Chaucer's literary achievements in relation to late-medieval …
View book details for Painting, Literature and Film in Colombian Feminine Culture, 1940-2005
Of Border Guards, Nomads and Women
This book explores crucial moments in the emergence of feminine culture in Colombia through the work of ground-breaking artist Debora Arango, best-selling novelist Laura Restrepo, and three generations of documentary filmmakers.Women artists, writers and filmmakers in Colombia have consistently foregrounded …
View book details for The Haskins Society Journal 16
2005. Studies in Medieval History
The latest volume of the Haskins Society Journal, presenting recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, includes topics ranging from examinations of the cultures of power and peacemaking to analyses of …
The first English translation of a presciently modern portrayal of emerging feminist sensibilities in a nineteenth-century family, by one of Germany's leading pre-First World War writers.Best known now for her involvement with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud, Lou Andreas-Salome (1861-1937) first …
An introduction to the entire Convocation Records of the Church of England, offering an invaluable survey of this important source.The convocation records of the Churches of England and Ireland are the principal source of our information about the administration of …
Letters I Never Mailed: Clues to a Life, by Alec Wilder, in a new, annotated edition with introduction and supplementary material by David Demsey, foreword by jazz pianist Marian McPartland, and photographs by Louis Ouzer.Letters I Never Mailed: Clues to …
View book details for Old English Medievalism
Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Old English language and literary style have long been a source of artistic inspiration and fascination, providing modern writers and scholars with the opportunity not only to explore the past but, in doing so, to find new perspectives on the …
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Spanish Civil War Commemoration in America
A detailed history of the commemorations of US activist involvement in the Spanish Civil War, based on a combination of archival and ethnographic evidence.Nostalgia can serve as a vital tool in the emotional reconstitution and preservation of suppressed histories, rather …
A selection of the best papers written by Brazilian Kant scholars.Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some …
View book details for The Haskins Society Journal 15
2004. Studies in Medieval History
The 2006 volume of the Haskins Society features another impressive array of academics addressing the period from Anglo-Saxon to Angevin.This latest volume of the Haskins Society Journal presents recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the …
View book details for English Medieval Church Towers
The Northern Province
A beautifully illustrated guide to the medieval church towers of the Northern Province of England.Church towers are a prominent feature of the English landscape and stand as a testament to the skill and ingenuity of medieval masons. The Northern Province, …
An insightful look at the urban sensibility that gives the Great American Songbook its pizzazz.Nothing defines the songs of the Great American Songbook more centrally than their urban sensibility. During the first half of the twentieth century, songwriters such as …
This edition provides the full set of letters in English translation. It is complemented by the letters' online availability in their original language.Rosa Harriet Newmarch [1857-1940] was well-known in her lifetime as the leading British authority on Russian music, yet …
The nature of political prophecy in the middle ages analysed, confirming its importance in the discussion of public affairs.In this first general survey of political prophecy in medieval England for almost a hundred years, Lesley Coote examines the nature of …
View book details for E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Serapiontic Principle
Critique and Creativity
A comprehensive investigation of Hoffmann's "Serapiontic Principle" and what it implies for his oeuvre.Critics have long sought to elucidate the multilayered texts of E. T. A. Hoffmann by applying to them a particular set of theories and ideas that Hoffmann …
View book details for Trees in Anglo-Saxon England
Literature, Lore and Landscape
A powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape.Trees played a particularly important part in the rural economy of Anglo-Saxon England, both for wood and timber and as a wood-pasture resource, with hunting gaining a …
View book details for Writing Power in Anglo-Saxon England
Texts, Hierarchies, Economies
New study of the complexities of how power operates in a number of Anglo-Saxon texts.A work of fine and nuanced intelligence... Skilled and learned readings of a number of important texts. Fluent, polished, and beautifully written. Dr Katy Cubitt, University …
New light is shed on the motives and objectives for the compiling of the still-mysterious Domesday Book, revolutionising our understanding of the period.The Domesday Book is one of our major sources for a crucial period of English history; yet it …
Examines some of the varied African literary responses to politics and social justice and injustice under colonialism/neocolonialism.In 1965, Chinua Achebe, in his classic essay "The Novelist as Teacher", declared that the "African past - with all its imperfections - was …
Madre Ana's account of her life gives insight into the nature of female monasticism at the turn of the seventeenth century.In two relaciones of her life, Madre Ana de San Agustin, a member of the Discalced Carmelite reform under Santa …
Christabel Pankhurst, one of the leading champions of women's suffrage in Britain, entered the evangelical world after the first world war as a preacher of the second coming. Larsen shows that the two causes, far from being automatically antagonistic, could …
Detailed overview of Handel's final 22 operas - including major masterpieces such as Orlando, Ariodante and Alcina and the brilliant lighter works Partenope, Serse and Imeneo - by the world's leading authority.Handel ranks with Monteverdi, Mozart and Verdi among the …
A full and accessibly-written survey of Bede and his works, including a chapter on his legacy for subsequent history.The Venerable Bede is a crucial figure for Anglo-Saxonists, arguably the most important, known character from the period. A scholar of international …
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