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Leading composers, producers and writers consider the role of the composer in the community in Britain today and over the last fifty years.With his Aspen award lecture (1964), Benjamin Britten expressed a unique commitment to community and place. This book …
A new look at how reading was practised and represented in England from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, finding many kinships between reading cultures across the medieval longue duree. Even as it transforms human cultures, …
An investigation of the depiction of the story of Theophilus in both its original texts, and images.The legend of Theophilus stages an iconic medieval story, its widespread popularity attesting to its grip on the imagination. A pious clerk refuses a …
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Index to the acclaimed six-volume set of The Entring Book of Roger Morrice.Index to the acclaimed six-volume set of The Entring Book of Roger Morrice.
A groundbreaking interrogation of the myriad causes and effects of African migration, from the pre-colonial to the modern era.Migration, whether forced or voluntary, continues to be an issue vital to Africa, arguably the continent most affected by internal displacement. Over …
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<I>Grandeza mexicana</I> (1604) de Bemardo de Balbuena y el discurso criollo novohispano
Terukina ofrece una nueva biografia de Bernardo de Balbuena y analiza la compleja matriz interdisciplinaria de Grandeza mexicana (1604). Terukina offers an updated biography of Bernardo de Balbuena and analyzes the complex interdisciplinary matrix within which Grandeza mexicana (1604) is …
View book details for Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film
Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933
The first study to propose a unifying logic underlying the many and varied representations of the vampire in literature and culture.For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented …
A new analysis of a vital source for the history of Ireland and Scotland in the middle ages.Ireland has the most substantial corpus of annalistic chronicles for the early period in western Europe. They are crucial sources for understanding the …
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An Investigation into Musical Beauty
This book is a philosophical tour through the experience of beauty: what it is, and how the composer, performer, and listener all contribute. It explores -- with insight, patience, and humor -- profound issues at the essence of our experience. …
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The Man, the Music, the Legend
A celebration of Sinatra's enduring impact on American entertainment and cultural life.For nearly sixty years, Frank Sinatra [1915-98] triumphed in concert, in the recording studio, on television, and on the big screen, refashioning his image to suit the temper of …
A view of a long-neglected classic of Weimar cinema - now restored and widely available - as both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film.Artur Robison's Warning Shadows - in German simply Schatten, shadows …
View book details for Cameralism in Practice
State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe
The first book that acknowledges cameralism as a European rather than just a German historical phenomenon.This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern state-building and economy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. It argues that …
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The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990
Essays shedding light on the increasingly open cultural debate on the German past.Since unification in 1990, Germany has seen a boom in the confrontation with memory, evident in a sharp increase in novels, films, autobiographies, and other forms of public …
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<I>Berlin Alexanderplatz</I> from Doblin to Fassbinder
The first book to treat both Doblin's novel and the film adaptations of it, which it does while also articulating theories of literary and film montage.Alfred Doblin's novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and its film adaptations by Jutzi and Fassbinder are canonical …
Essays in this volume seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history.The many catastrophes of German history have often been …
A thoroughly researched and documented study of Catalan literature under the Franco regime, focussed on several key post-Civil War novels and their authors.During the 1950s and 1960s, several key Catalan authors set about rewriting some of their narrative work despite …
Annual collection of essays on diverse aspects of the fifteenth century, this year emphasizing topics in medieval literature.The fifteenth century defies consensus on fundamental issues; most scholars agree, however, that the period outgrew the Middle Ages, that it was a …
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The Politics of Language in African Literature
Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I …
View book details for The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack
Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures
An intriguing study of a unique and unsettling cultural phenomenon in Victorian England.WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award NEW LOWER PRICE This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular …
View book details for Writing Europe, 500-1450
Texts and Contexts
Essays on the writing and textual culture of Europe in the middle ages.Medieval Europe was characterized by a sophisticated market for the production, exchange and sale of written texts. This volume brings together papers on a range of topics, centred …
View book details for Studies on Spanish Poetry in Honour of Trevor J. Dadson
Entre los Siglos de Oro y el siglo XXI
A collection of essays on Spanish poetry honouring a distinguished British Hispanist.Trevor J. Dadson is a British Hispanist of international distinction whose remarkable scholarly range has resulted in a published output that embraces cultural, literary and social history, textual editing, …
Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read - or re-read - the stories selected.On the assumption that John Updike …
View book details for Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe
Concepts, Origins, Transformations
The great strength of this collection is its wide range...a valuable work for anyone interested in the social aspects of the medieval nobility. CHOICE Articles on the origins and nature of "nobility", its relationship with the late Roman world, its …
Examines how the lives of pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia are deeply affected by the creation of mutually exclusive ethnic territories and proposes ways to reverse this trend.Focuses on pastoralism, politics, policies and development in northern Kenya and …
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The Critical Conversation
A contextualizing overview of the polarized critical reception of Willa Cather, one of the pre-eminent US authors of the twentieth-century.The ever-growing body of criticism on Willa Cather and her fiction is indicative of her enduring position as a pre-eminent figure …
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