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The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature Subject Ecology Form

The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature Subject Ecology Form

Resonating with contemporary ecological and queer theory this book pioneers the theorization of the Victorian idyll establishing its nature lineaments and significance as a formal mode widely practised in nineteenth-century British culture across media and genre. Chapters trace the Victorian idyll’s emergence in the 1830s its flourishing in the 1860s and its evolution up to the century’s close drawing attention to the radicalism of idyllic experiments with pictorial photographic dramatic literary and poetic form in the work of canonical and lesser-known figures. Approaching the idyll through three intersecting categories—subject ecology and form—this book remaps Victorian culture reshaping thinking about artistic form in the nineteenth century and recalibrating accepted chronologies. In the representations by a host of Victorian artists and writers engaging with other-than-human forms and in the natures of the subjectivities animated by these encounters we find versions of Victorian ecology providing provocative imaginative material for ecocritics scholars writers and artists today. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history English literature Victorian studies British history queer and trans* theory musicology and ecocriticism and will enliven debates pertaining to the environmental across periods. | The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature Subject Ecology Form

GBP 130.00
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Exteriorless Architecture Form Space and Urbanities of Neoliberalism

Exteriorless Architecture Form Space and Urbanities of Neoliberalism

The current phase of capitalist development manifests itself through a very diverse range of spatial byproducts: data centers warehouses container terminals logistics parks and many others. Generally considered as mediocre and banal examples that sit outside of pre-established disciplinary canons these architectural episodes are extremely relevant. They are relevant not for their aesthetic or historic qualities but for what they represent – for the system of values these spaces embed. They express specific power relations exacerbate issues of labor and generate dramatic processes of subjectivity. Most importantly these architectures despite their formal and typological heterogeneity belong to a common paradigm: the EXTERIORLESS. How can an architecture of the EXTERIORLESS be defined? How does it differentiate from examples and manifestations of the past? How do notions of legibility form versus function typological articulation come into play? In situating the spatialities of contemporary capitalism within the larger debate on Anthropocene Post-Anthropocene and Capitalocene the book attempts to answer those questions by delineating three main characteristics for an architecture of the EXTERIORLESS: its physical and symbolic role as interface; its ambiguous condition of being at the same time local and global isolated and connected compressed and expanded; and lastly its contribution to new forms of urbanity in absence of the traditional city. These three defining aspects constitute the main sections of the book. Each section includes two chapters covering a wide spectrum of themes and examples. In its tripartite organization the book describes the influence that the experimental architecture of the 1960s has exerted on late-capitalist spatial byproducts; it analyzes the impact of logistics on the redesign of the territory; and it introduces the radical processes of urban transformation generated by the EXTERIORLESS. | Exteriorless Architecture Form Space and Urbanities of Neoliberalism

GBP 120.00
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Ideology and Form in Yan Lianke’s Fiction Mythorealism as Method

Ideology and Form in Yan Lianke’s Fiction Mythorealism as Method

Xie analyzes three novels by the international award-winning Chinese writer Yan Lianke and investigates how his signature “mythorealist” form produces textual meanings that subvert the totalizing reality prescribed by literary realism. The term mythorealism which Yan coined to describe his own writing style refers to a set of literary devices that incorporate both Chinese and Western literary elements while remaining primarily grounded in Chinese folk culture and literary tradition. In his use of mythorealism carrying a burden of social critique that cannot allow itself to become “political ” Yan transcends the temporality and provinciality of immediate social events and transforms his potential socio-political commentaries into more diversified concerns for humanity existential issues and spiritual crisis. Xie identifies three modes of mythorealist narrative exemplified in Yan’s three novels: the minjian (folk) mode in Dream of Ding Village the allusive mode in Ballad Hymn Ode and the enigmatic mode in The Four Books. By positioning itself against an ambiguous articulation of social determinants of historical events that would perhaps be more straightforward in a purely realist text each mode of mythorealism moves its narrative from the overt politicality of the subject matter to the existential riddle of negotiating an alternative reality. A groundbreaking study of one of contemporary China’s most important authors that will be of great value to scholars and students of Chinese literature. | Ideology and Form in Yan Lianke’s Fiction Mythorealism as Method

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Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel Order Form and Creative Un-Doing

Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel Order Form and Creative Un-Doing

Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel is a major contribution to the study of the literary influence of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens. Stevens’s lifelong poetic quest for order and the championing of the creative affordances of the imagination finds compelling articulation in the positioning of the Irish novel as a response to larger legacies of Anglo-American modernism and how aesthetic re-imagining can be possible in the aftermath of the destruction of certainties and literary tradition heralded by postmodern practice and metatextual consciousness. It is this book’s argument that intertextual influences flowing from Stevens’s poetry towards the vitality of the novelistic imagination enact robust dialectical exchanges between existential chaos and artistic order contemporary form and poetic precursors. Through readings of novels by important contemporary Irish novelists John Banville Colum McCann Ed O’Loughlin Iris Murdoch and Emma Donoghue this book contemporizes Stevens’s literary influence with refence to novelistic style themes and thematic preoccupations that stake the claim for the international status of the contemporary Irish novel as it shapes a new understanding of “world literature” as exchange between national languages cultures and alternative formulations of aesthetic modernity as continuing project. | Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel Order Form and Creative Un-Doing

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The Role of University Governing Boards in Canadian Higher Education Sociological Perspectives on the Form and Functioning of Boards

The Role of University Governing Boards in Canadian Higher Education Sociological Perspectives on the Form and Functioning of Boards

This book explores the historical and social foundations of Canadian higher education and provides a detailed analysis of university boards within this broader context of university governance. By examining rich empirical data from a sociological perspective it offers unique insights into the role of boards and the structures and practices that frame their work. It explores board composition the professional backgrounds of board members how members perceive their role and the complex relationships between the board and the university president. The authors also compare and contrast the Canadian experience with governance reforms in Europe and other regions over recent decades. Drawing on multiple theoretical perspectives the authors provide a nuanced analysis of the role of boards in terms of oversight protecting university autonomy representing societal interests and dealing with increasing complexity and expectations. This innovative original study makes an enormous contribution to our understanding of the role and work of Canadian university boards and to international scholarship on higher education governance. It will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests across higher education international and comparative education and the sociology of education. | The Role of University Governing Boards in Canadian Higher Education Sociological Perspectives on the Form and Functioning of Boards

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Lynd Ward’s Wordless Novels 1929-1937 Visual Narrative Cultural Politics Homoeroticism

Lynd Ward’s Wordless Novels 1929-1937 Visual Narrative Cultural Politics Homoeroticism

This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the wordless novels of American woodcut artist and illustrator Lynd Ward (1905–1985) who has been enormously influential in the development of the contemporary graphic novel. The study examines his six pictorial novels each part of an evolving experiment in a new form of visual narrative that offers a keen intervention in the cultural and sexual politics of the 1930s. The novels form a discrete group – much like Beethoven’s piano sonatas or Keats’s great odes – in which Ward evolves a unique modernist style (cinematic expressionist futurist realist documentary) and grapples with significant cultural and political ideas in a moment when the American experiment and capitalism itself hung in the balance. In testing the limits of a new narrative form Ward’s novels require a versatile critical framework as sensitive to German Expressionism and Weimar cinema as to labor politics and the new energies of proletarian homosexuality. | Lynd Ward’s Wordless Novels 1929-1937 Visual Narrative Cultural Politics Homoeroticism

GBP 145.00
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Return to the Scene of the Crime The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Crime Fiction

Return to the Scene of the Crime The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Crime Fiction

A crime novel at once disturbing and perversely comforting factually has been known to curtail social anxieties through the ‘open and shut case’ of its narrative form. But what happens to that form in a world where guilt and innocence are not easily assigned? Return to the Scene of the Crime takes place on the trope of an investigator returning to the post-colony on a quest for knowledge. In tandem with solving the case they must also grapple with the complexities of their origins. Kamil Naicker shows how five authors defy generic expectations to illustrate the complexities of personal identity transitional justice and civil violence in the post-colonial world. Congregating novels set in South Africa China Guatemala Sri Lanka and Somalia this book intervenes in literary studies by bringing the trend of the returnee figure and exploring the possibilities of world-making through the explosion of a familiar form. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa. | Return to the Scene of the Crime The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Crime Fiction

GBP 130.00
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Fundamentals of Fluvial Geomorphology

Fundamentals of Fluvial Geomorphology

Rivers are significant geomorphological agents they show an amazing diversity of form and behaviour and transfer water and sediment from the land surface to the oceans. This book examines how river systems respond to environmental change and why this understanding is needed for successful river management. Highly dynamic in nature river channels adjust and evolve over timescales that range from hours to tens of thousands of years or more and are found in a wide range of environments. This book provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in river channel management clearly illustrating why an understanding of fluvial geomorphology is vital in channel preservation environmentally sensitive design and the restoration of degraded river channels. It covers: flow and sediment regimes: flow generation; flow regimes; sediment sources transfer and yield channel processes: flow characteristics; processes of erosion and sediment transport; interactions between flow and the channel boundary; deposition channel form and behaviour: controls on channel form; channel adjustments; floodplain development; form and behaviour of alluvial and bedrock channels response to change: how channels have responded to past environmental change; impacts of human activity; reconstructing past changes river management: the fluvial hydrosystem; environmental degradation; environmentally sensitive engineering techniques; river restoration; the role of the fluvial geomorphologist. Fundamentals of Fluvial Geomorphology is an indispensable text for undergraduate students. It provides straightforward explanations for important concepts and mathematical formulae backed up with conceptual diagrams and appropriate examples from around the world to show what they actually mean and why they are important. A colour plate section also shows spectacular examples of fluvial diversity.

GBP 120.00
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A Skin for Thought Interviews with Gilbert Tarrab on Psychology and Psychoanalysis

A Skin for Thought Interviews with Gilbert Tarrab on Psychology and Psychoanalysis

A French analyst discusses the interface between psychoanalysis and psychology. A Skin for Thought takes the form of ten transcribed discussions between Didier Anzieu and Gilbert Tarrab recorded in Montreal during Anzieu's lecture tour there. A practitioner and theoretician of individual and group analysis Anzieu speaks frankly of the | A Skin for Thought Interviews with Gilbert Tarrab on Psychology and Psychoanalysis

GBP 130.00
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Aviation Law and Regulation

Aviation Law and Regulation

The development of civil aviation in the early 20th century presented a range of new legal and regulatory challenges concerning the rights of an aircraft from one state to enter the aerial territory of another. International flights threatened the territorial integrity of nation states and prompted politicians to draw up new aerial legislation and regulations to govern this new form of aerial movement. Whereas some states advocated free and open access to airspace and unrestricted aerial movement other nations pursued a more protectionist stance based on regulation and reciprocal access arrangements. Technological developments in aircraft design and performance combined with changing global political relations and the introduction of new forms of economic regulation have all fundamentally affected the development of air transport. This Volume explores carefully selected aspects of aviation law and regulation and examines the implications of changing regulatory intervention on the form and function of civil aviation worldwide.

GBP 140.00
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Prison A Symposium

Prison A Symposium

First published in 1963 the original blurb reads: This may be a unique generation which has so widely felt the full range of suffering. It is common in London or New York to spend evenings in the company of people who were prisoners of the Japanese of Hitler of the Hungarian Communists – or of their own stress and breakdown. Prison in some form is the symbol of it. This is an attempt to discover what has been learnt of this whole range of prison experience – taking prison to be any form of enforced separation from the world of normal life. Thus there are chapters on mental asylum and hospital as well as political prison and concentration camp. And the emphasis is on the return rather than the experience. What is the lesson of that time of separation? Having travelled to the end of fear was it the death of fear – or its exposure? That is the question each author was invited to answer. | Prison A Symposium

GBP 90.00
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The Oedipus Complex Today Clinical Implications

The Oedipus Complex Today Clinical Implications

A collection of papers focusing on the Kleinian conception of the Oedipus complex how this is now understood and what effect it has had on clinical practice. The papers by the authors which form the greater part of The Oedipus Complex Today were originally given at the Melanie Klein Conference on the Oedipus Complex in September 1987 at University College London. The conference jointly organized by Professor J. Sandler of the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College and Mrs. Ruth Riesenberg-Malcolm on behalf of the Melanie Klein Trust was considered such a successful statement of modern Kleinian views on the subject that the Trust has decided to present the papers in book form together with an expanded version of the introduction by Dr Hanna Segal and also a reprint of Melanie Klein's 1945 paper 'The Oedipus Complex in the Light of Early Anxieties'. The three papers writes Dr Segal 'are based on central concepts first put forward by Mrs Klein. | The Oedipus Complex Today Clinical Implications

GBP 130.00
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Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music

Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music

Grime music has been central to British youth culture since the beginning of the 21st century. Performed by MCs and DJs it is an Afrodiasporic form that developed on street corners on pirate radio and at raves. Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music offers the first long-form ethnographic study of grime practice; it questions how and why artists do what they do; and it asks what this can tell us about creative process and improvisation more widely. Based on research conducted in London’s grime scene—facilitated by the author’s long-standing role as a DJ and broadcaster—this book explores the form’s emergence before taking a magnifying glass to the contemporary scene and its performance protocol exploring the practice of key artists and their crews living and working in the city. The resultant model of creative interaction provides a comprehensive mapping of collective social learning in London’s informal cityscape offering new ways to conceptualise improvisatory practice within ensembles.

GBP 120.00
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West Germany A Contemporary History

West Germany A Contemporary History

First Published in 1982 West Germany presents a new approach to the study of contemporary Germany. The past history of the country is used to explain its present state since the roots of many of the events of this century can be found as far back as the Middle Ages. In order to understand Germany’s relative backwardness in the nineteenth century it is vital to have some conception of her medieval history and likewise the descriptions of the constitutions of 1871 and 1919 help to explain why the Basic Law of 1949 took the form it did. The form the book takes is slightly unusual in that the amount of space devoted to an epoch increases as the present-day approaches but this is consistent with the aim of the book. This is an important historical document for scholars and researchers of German history and European history. | West Germany A Contemporary History

GBP 105.00
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Engenderings Constructions of Knowledge Authority and Privilege

Engenderings Constructions of Knowledge Authority and Privilege

Naomi Scheman argues that the concerns of philosophy emerge not from the universal human condition but from conditions of privilege. Her books represent a powerful challenge to the notion that gender makes no difference in the construction of philosophical reasoning. At the same time it criticizes the narrow focus of most feminist theorizing and calls for a more inclusive form of inquiry. | Engenderings Constructions of Knowledge Authority and Privilege

GBP 175.00
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Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum

Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum

First published in 1991 Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum provides a context for debates about the place of Shakespeare within the English curriculum in the 1990s and examines the possibilities in teaching Shakespeare afforded by the application of contemporary critical approaches such as communication cultural and gender studies in the classroom and seminar room. The collection will be of particular to interest to sixth-form students secondary school teachers teacher trainers and students and lecturers in further and higher education.

GBP 105.00
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Aesthetic Practices in African Tourism

Aesthetic Practices in African Tourism

Aesthetic Practices in African Tourism explores Rastahood a community youth culture and new tourist art form created by young men on the margins of the Ghanaian economy as they came of age at the turn of the millennium. This book focuses on art music and affective experience created within tourism contexts which enabled young men without educational or class capital to achieve mobility through work with foreigners transforming the temporal horizon by expanding the geographic one. It traces the path that led young men down the path to Rastahood and investigates how they created an art form in and of a particular place and then used it to propel themselves far beyond its confines. The book ends with a leap forward into the present out of Ghana and beyond Rastahood as men now in middle age look back upon the path that Rastahood created. It explores the social effects of neoliberal capitalism specifically the rise of neoliberal subjectivities collectivities and socialities. The book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of anthropology cultural studies tourism art African and Africana Studies popular culture; gender studies; migration; youth studies and those interested in African cities.

GBP 130.00
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Love and Technology An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin

Love and Technology An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin

Love and Technology: An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin explores how dating apps fit into Berlin’s unique dating culture and brand of intimacy and form a tangible nucleus around which users navigate dating rituals romantic biographies and digitally mediated intimacies within city space. Drawing on the field of digital anthropology this book takes the form of an immersive ethnography resulting from 13 months of fieldwork with young dating app users across Tinder Bumble and OkCupid in Berlin. It argues that dating apps offer or impose depending on their context of use a series of affordances. These affordances and the technological devices they rely upon exist through the relation between users and their environment both in terms of physical spaces and cultural frameworks. The book posits that dating apps are woven into spatial practices and self-narrativisation constituting imagined communities for their users as well as a canvas alongside the city of Berlin against which to characterise romantic experiences. Scholars interested in digital anthropology ethnography dating and regional Berlin will find that Love and Technology offers a vibrant springboard for thinking through both theoretical and methodological concerns. | Love and Technology An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin

GBP 130.00
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Historical Explanation An Anti-Causalist Approach

Historical Explanation An Anti-Causalist Approach

This book is concerned with the appropriate form of explanations in historiography and the social sciences. It combines action theory and philosophy of historiography and develops a theory of teleological explanations of human actions based on late-Wittgensteinian and Ordinary Language Philosophy insights. In philosophy of action many philosophers favor causal theories of human action. Additionally in current philosophy of historiography the majority view is that historians should explain historical phenomena by their causes. This book pushes back against these mainstream views by reviving an anti-causal view of explanation of current and past human actions. The author argues that disciplines that deal with human actions require a certain form of explanation namely a teleological or intentional explanation. This means that past human actions and their results will have to be explained by reasons of agents not by causes. Therefore historiography employs a method of explanation which is in stark contrast to the sciences. The author thus proposes a Verstehen (understanding) approach in historiography and the social sciences. Historical Explanation will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of action philosophy of history and philosophy of the social sciences. | Historical Explanation An Anti-Causalist Approach

GBP 130.00
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Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy

This classic work not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama it also analyses the reasons for these changes. It provides illuminating answers to questions that have confronted generations of students such as:* why did Aeschylus introduce the second actor?* why did Sophocles develop character drawing?* why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and others so good?Greek Tragedy is neither a history nor a handbook but a penetrating work of criticism which all students of literature will find suggestive and stimulating.

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