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Shakespeare's Comedies Explorations in Form

Shakespeare's Comedies Explorations in Form

In this lucid and original study first published in 1972 Ralph Berry discusses the ten comedies that run from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night. Berry’s purpose is to identify the form of each play by relating the governing idea of the play to the action that expresses it. To this end the author employs a variety of standpoints and techniques and taken together these chapters present a lively and coherent view of Shakespeare’s techniques concerns and development. This title will be of interests to students of literature and drama. | Shakespeare's Comedies Explorations in Form

GBP 28.99
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Hearing Form Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

Hearing Form Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score Third Edition is a complete course package for undergraduate courses on musical forms with comprehensive coverage from the Baroque to the Romantic. Placing emphasis on listening it teaches students to analyze music both with and without the use of a score covering phrase endings and cadences harmonic sequence types modulations formal sections and musical forms. Hearing Form is supported by an integrated workbook section its own full-score anthology and a companion website containing an instructor’s manual test bank and audio streaming and downloads of recordings for the pieces in the anthology. Key updates in the third edition include: Treatment of phrases and cadences now allows the book to be used by both instructors who teach that all phrases end with cadences and those who teach that some phrases do not New pieces added to the anthology widen the range of composers represented With an engaging and practical approach informed by recent scholarship Hearing Form enables students to recognize musical elements both by sight and by ear. This is the Hearing Form textbook only. For the Hearing Form anthology see ISBN 978-0-367-70388-2. For the textbook and anthology package see ISBN 978-0-367-70391-2. | Hearing Form Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

GBP 42.99
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Anthology for Hearing Form Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

Anthology for Hearing Form Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score Third Edition is a complete course package for undergraduate courses on musical forms with comprehensive coverage from the Baroque to the Romantic. Placing emphasis on listening it teaches students to analyze music both with and without the use of a score covering phrase endings and cadences harmonic sequence types modulations formal sections and musical forms. Hearing Form is supported by an integrated workbook section its own full-score anthology and a companion website containing an instructor’s manual test bank and audio streaming and downloads of recordings for the pieces in the anthology. Key updates in the third edition include: Treatment of phrases and cadences now allows the book to be used by both instructors who teach that all phrases end with cadences and those teach that some phrases do not New pieces added to the anthology widen the range of composers represented With an engaging and practical approach informed by recent scholarship Hearing Form enables students to recognize musical elements both by sight and by ear. This is the Hearing Form anthology only. For the Hearing Form textbook see ISBN 978-0-367-70380-6. For the textbook and anthology package see ISBN 978-0-367-70391-2. | Anthology for Hearing Form Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

GBP 52.99
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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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Schenkerian Analysis Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm Motive and Form

Schenkerian Analysis Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm Motive and Form

Schenkerian Analysis: Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm Motive and Form Second Edition is a textbook directed at all those—whether beginners or more advanced students—interested in gaining understanding of and facility at applying Schenker’s ideas on musical structure. It begins with an overview of Schenker’s approach to music and then progresses systematically from the phrase and its various combinations to longer and more complex works. Unlike other texts on this subject Schenkerian Analysis combines the study of multi-level pitch organization with that of phrase rhythm (the interaction of phrase and hypermeter) motivic repetition at different structural levels and form. It also contains analytic graphs of several extended movements separate works and songs. A separate instructor’s manual provides additional advice and solutions (graphs) of all recommended assignments. This second edition has been revised to make the early chapters more accessible and to improve the pedagogical effectiveness of the book as a whole. Changes in musical examples have been carefully made to ensure that each example fully supports student learning. Informed by decades of teaching experience this book provides a clear and comprehensive guide to Schenker’s theories and their applications. | Schenkerian Analysis Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm Motive and Form

GBP 56.99
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Hearing Form - Textbook and Anthology Set Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

Hearing Form - Textbook and Anthology Set Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score Third Edition is a complete course package for undergraduate courses on musical forms with comprehensive coverage from the Baroque to the Romantic. Placing emphasis on listening it teaches students to analyze music both with and without the use of a score covering phrase endings and cadences harmonic sequence types modulations formal sections and musical forms. Hearing Form is supported by an integrated workbook section its own full-score anthology and a companion website containing an instructor’s manual test bank and audio streaming and downloads of recordings for the pieces in the anthology. Key updates in the third edition include: Treatment of phrases and cadences now allows the book to be used by both instructors who teach that all phrases end with cadences and those teach that some phrases do not New pieces added to the anthology widen the range of composers represented With an engaging and practical approach informed by recent scholarship Hearing Form enables students to recognize musical elements both by sight and by ear. This two-book package contains both the Hearing Form paperback textbook and the accompanying paperback anthology. | Hearing Form - Textbook and Anthology Set Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

GBP 79.99
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Katherine Philips: Form Reception and Literary Contexts

Katherine Philips: Form Reception and Literary Contexts

Katherine Philips (1632–1664) is widely regarded as a pioneering figure within English-language women’s literary history. Best known as a poet she was also a skilled translator letter writer and literary critic whose subjects ranged from friendship and retirement to politics and public life. Her poetry achieved a high reputation among coterie networks in London Wales and Ireland during her lifetime and was published to great acclaim after her death. The present volume drawing on important recent research into her early manuscripts and printed texts represents a new and innovative phase in Philips's scholarship. Emphasizing her literary responses to other writers as well as the ambition and sophistication of her work it includes groundbreaking studies of her use of form and genre her practices as a translator her engagement with philosophy and political theory and her experiences in Restoration Dublin. It also examines the posthumous reception of Philips’s poetry and model theoretical and digital humanities approaches to her work. This book was originally published as two special issues of Women’s Writing. | Katherine Philips: Form Reception and Literary Contexts

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From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman

From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is for his architecture. While much has been written about his built works and his philosophies most books focus on one or the other aspect. By structuring this volume around the concept of form Stefano Corbo links together Eisenman’s architecture with his theory. From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman argues that form is the sphere of mediation between our body our inner world and the exterior world and as such it enables connections to be made between philosophy and architecture. From the start of his career on Eisenman has been deeply interested in the problem of form in architecture and has constantly challenged the classical concept of it. For him form is not simply a cognitive tool that determines a physical structure which discriminates all that is active from what is passive what is inside from what is outside. He has always tried to connect his own work with the cultural manifestations of the time: firstly under the influence of Colin Rowe and his formalist studies; secondly by re-interpreting Chomsky’s linguistic theories; in the 80’s by collaborating with Derrida and his de-constructivist approach; more recently by discovering Henri Bergson's idea of Time. These different moments underline different phases different projects different programmatic manifestos; and above all an evolving notion of form. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach based on the intersections between architecture and philosophy this book investigates all these definitions and in doing so provides new insights into and a deeper understanding of the complexity of Eisenman’s work.

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Creating Improvised Theatre Tools Techniques and Theories for Short Form and Narrative Improvisation

Creating Improvised Theatre Tools Techniques and Theories for Short Form and Narrative Improvisation

Creating Improvised Theatre: Tools Techniques and Theories for Short Form and Narrative Improvisation is a complete guide to improvised theatre for performers and instructors. This book provides a modern view of improvised theatre based on the rapid evolution of this art form shedding new light on classic theories as well as developing lesser known and emerging techniques such as the Trance Mask. Instead of simply referencing classic theories the book revisits them and places them in the context of contemporary improvisation techniques. Designed as a practical support this guide contains over 130 exercises that allow its theories to come alive in workshops rehearsals and performance. The book is divided into four sections: Nuts and bolts: The fundamental tools of improvisation to explore how to be spontaneously creative build with your partner and learn from masks to discover your scene instant by instant. Short form: Techniques for scene work and short form performance including how to get the most out of a scene remain connected to the relational stakes provoke change (physical status and emotional) and maintain a playful attitude. Narrative improvisation: Theories to help navigate long form narrative-based shows with narrative waypoints generate variety develop protagonists work on genres and manipulate creative transitions. The bits box: Advice for warming-up before a rehearsal or a show with a collection of useful games. Written to inspire creativity and provide the tools to develop innovative improvised shows and experiences Creating Improvised Theatre is an invaluable source book for anyone interested in the art of improvised theatre whether a beginning student or experienced performer. | Creating Improvised Theatre Tools Techniques and Theories for Short Form and Narrative Improvisation

GBP 31.99
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Hannibal Lecter’s Forms Formulations and Transformations Cannibalising Form and Style

Hannibal Lecter’s Forms Formulations and Transformations Cannibalising Form and Style

This book examines how the iconic character Hannibal Lecter has been revised and redeveloped across different screen media texts. Hannibal The Cannibal Lecter has become one of Western culture’s most influential and enduring models of monstrosity since his emergence in 1981 in Red Dragon Thomas Harris’ first Lecter book. Lecter is now at the centre of an extensive cross-mediated mythology the most recent incarnation of which is Bryan Fuller’s television program Hannibal (NBC 2013-2015). This acclaimed series is the focus of Hannibal Lecter’s Forms Formulations and Transformations which examines how Fuller’s program harnesses the iconic character to experiment with traditional boundaries of genre medium taste and narrative form. Featuring chapters from established and emerging screen and popular culture scholars from around the world the book outlines how the show operates as a striking experiment with televisual form and formula. The book also explores how this experimentation is embodied by the boundary-defying character the savage cannibalistic serial killer practicing psychiatrist and cultured art enthusiast Hannibal Lecter. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Quarterly Review of Film and Video. | Hannibal Lecter’s Forms Formulations and Transformations Cannibalising Form and Style

GBP 38.99
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The Institutional Transition of China's Township and Village Enterprises Market Liberalization Contractual Form Innovation and Privatization

The Institutional Transition of China's Township and Village Enterprises Market Liberalization Contractual Form Innovation and Privatization

This title was first published in 2000. This work provides a new insight into china's township and village enterprises (TVEs). It views the governance structure of TVEs as effectively combining the comparative advantage of local government officials in external management and of dual firm managers in internal management to overcome imperfections in both market and government during the transitional period. Through extensive field investigation analysis and case studies this work shows that the governance structure of TVEs has been evolving during the past fifteen years. To adapt to the changing environment TVEs have continuously innovated firm contractual form from a government official dominant fixed-wage form to a partnership style profit-sharing form then to a privatization oriented fixed-rent form. This work develops a complete model to explain how the central government’s partial reform efforts in market liberalization have become the driving force to induce the contractual form innovation and to explicate how heterogeneity in firms’ technical structures and in local economic settings may affect local government’s decisions regarding contractual form innovation. Using the author’s unique data set the model simulations predict that the development in the whole market system will result in the diffusion of contractual form innovation and lead to an 'induced privatization’ in this sector. The following empirical studies show this to be a powerful prediction and the progress toward such ’induced privatization' can be expected in China in near future. This research work provides a rich empirical study on China’s institutional transition towards a market system. It explains how a bottom-up endogenous instead of top-down exogenous property rights reform can be realized in transitional economies. This work will serve as a valuable reference for researchers and students in economics economic development and institutional economics - and especially for those interested in research. | The Institutional Transition of China's Township and Village Enterprises Market Liberalization Contractual Form Innovation and Privatization

GBP 21.99
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The Institutional Transition of China's Township and Village Enterprises Market Liberalization Contractual Form Innovation and Privatization

The Institutional Transition of China's Township and Village Enterprises Market Liberalization Contractual Form Innovation and Privatization

This title was first published in 2000: This work provides a new insight into china's township and village enterprises (TVEs). It views the governance structure of TVEs as effectively combining the comparative advantage of local government officials in external management and of dual firm managers in internal management to overcome imperfections in both market and government during the transitional period. Through extensive field investigation analysis and case studies this work shows that the governance structure of TVEs has been evolving during the past fifteen years. To adapt to the changing environment TVEs have continuously innovated firm contractual form from a government official dominant fixed-wage form to a partnership style profit-sharing form then to a privatization oriented fixed-rent form. This work develops a complete model to explain how the central government’s partial reform efforts in market liberalization have become the driving force to induce the contractual form innovation and to explicate how heterogeneity in firms’ technical structures and in local economic settings may affect local government’s decisions regarding contractual form innovation. Using the author’s unique data set the model simulations predict that the development in the whole market system will result in the diffusion of contractual form innovation and lead to an 'induced privatization’ in this sector. The following empirical studies show this to be a powerful prediction and the progress toward such ’induced privatization' can be expected in China in near future. This research work provides a rich empirical study on China’s institutional transition towards a market system. It explains how a bottom-up endogenous instead of top-down exogenous property rights reform can be realized in transitional economies. This work will serve as a valuable reference for researchers and students in economics economic development and institutional economics - and especially for those interested in researc | The Institutional Transition of China's Township and Village Enterprises Market Liberalization Contractual Form Innovation and Privatization

GBP 74.99
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The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research The Future of the Magazine Form

The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research The Future of the Magazine Form

Scholarly engagement with the magazine form has in the last two decades produced a substantial amount of valuable research. Authored by leading academic authorities in the study of magazines the chapters in The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research not only create an architecture to organize and archive the developing field of magazine research but also suggest new avenues of future investigation. Each of 33 chapters surveys the last 20 years of scholarship in its subject area identifying the major research themes theoretical developments and interpretive breakthroughs. Exploration of the digital challenges and opportunities which currently face the magazine world are woven throughout offering readers a deeper understanding of the magazine form as well as of the sociocultural realities it both mirrors and influences. The book includes six sections: -Methodologies and structures presents theories and models for magazine research in an evolving global context. Magazine publishing: the people and the work introduces the roles and practices of those involved in the editorial and business sides of magazine publishing. Magazines as textual communication surveys the field of contemporary magazines across a range of theoretical perspectives subjects genre and format questions. Magazines as visual communication explores cover design photography illustrations and interactivity. Pedagogical and curricular perspectives offers insights on undergraduate and graduate teaching topics in magazine research. The future of the magazine form speculates on the changing nature of magazine research via its environmental effects audience and transforming platforms. | The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research The Future of the Magazine Form

GBP 52.99
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Foundations of Flat Patterning and Draping For the Female Form

Foundations of Flat Patterning and Draping For the Female Form

Foundations of Flat Patterning and Draping: For the Female Form provides the foundational tools necessary for success in the techniques of flat patterning and draping clothes and costumes. This book begins with the basics of taking measurements preparing the fabric for draping and preparing the dress form. The following chapters explore flat patterning and draping practices for bodices skirts pants dresses sleeves collars cuffs and facings through detailed step-by-step instructions checklists and numerous diagrams. The bodice drafting instructions in this book specifically are a new method that accommodates all bust and cup sizes. There are instructions for small and large cup sizes allowing for a fit that does not gap at the armscye as typically happens with previous patterning methods and additional sections for bodices and sleeves and how to manipulate them to create alternate looks. The techniques in this book generalize across sizes and shapes making it universally applicable for the student technician as well as the person the garment is being developed for. Each method of drafting and draping has been class-tested and proven to produce well-fitting garments. Presented in an accessible format with clear instructions and detailed illustrations this book is well suited for use as a textbook for the undergraduate college instructor teaching costuming or fashion as well as for the student or individual learning on their own in theatre film or fashion industries. | Foundations of Flat Patterning and Draping For the Female Form

GBP 34.99
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Building Regulations and Urban Form 1200-1900

Building Regulations and Urban Form 1200-1900

Towns are complicated places. It is therefore not surprising that from the beginnings of urban development towns and town life have been regulated. Whether the basis of regulation was imposed or agreed ultimately it was necessary to have a law-based system to ensure that disagreements could be arbitrated upon and rules obeyed. The literature on urban regulation is dispersed about a large number of academic specialisms. However for the most part the interest in urban regulation is peripheral to some other core study and consequently there are few texts which bring these detailed studies together. This book provides perspectives across the period between the high medieval and the end of the nineteenth century and across a geographical breadth of European countries from Scandinavia to the southern fringes of the Mediterranean and from Turkey to Portugal. It also looks at the way in which urban regulation was transferred and adapted to the colonial empires of two of those nations. | Building Regulations and Urban Form 1200-1900

GBP 39.99
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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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Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers Race Ethics Narrative Form

Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers Race Ethics Narrative Form

Contemporary African American and Black British Women Writers: Narrative Race Ethics brings together British and American scholars to explore how in texts by contemporary black women writers in the U. S. and Britain formal narrative techniques express new understandings of race or stimulate ethical thinking about race in a reader. Taken together the essays also demonstrate that black women writers from both sides of the Atlantic borrow formal structures and literary techniques from one another to describe the workings of structural racism in the daily lives of black subjects and to provoke readers to think anew about race. Narratology has only recently begun to use race as a category of narrative theory. This collection seeks both to show the ethical effects of narrative form on individual readers and to foster reconceptualizations of narrative theory that account for the workings of race within literature and culture. | Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers Race Ethics Narrative Form

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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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Curating Interpretation and Museums When Attitude Becomes Form

Curating Interpretation and Museums When Attitude Becomes Form

Following a period of strategic and ideological change in museums this book outlines new attitudes in curating and display education and learning text and interpretation access inclusion participation space and the issues around the sustainability of the encyclopaedic collection. Focused on the contemporary period the author questions the extent to which the museum visitor has become reliant on interpretative text and examines the development of new museum spaces where visitor interaction and engagement is welcomed. Changes of attitude have transformed our museums into modern spaces that reflect current needs and modern expectations and yet our permanent collections remain relatively unchanged sometimes an uncomfortable reminder of a time when values ethics and attitudes were very different. The author will discuss these conflicts of ideology. Written by a researcher with expertise in museum practice this shortform book offers a new approach that will be valuable reading for students and scholars of cultural management and policy as well as providing insights for reflective museum practitioners. | Curating Interpretation and Museums When Attitude Becomes Form

GBP 48.99
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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

GBP 130.00
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Change and Stability in Urban Europe Form Quality and Governance

Change and Stability in Urban Europe Form Quality and Governance

This title was first published in 2001. Significant transformations in the spatial organization of European cities have taken place over the past two decades. Social fragmentation increasingly complex systems of governance the transformation of relations to public space and the shift of work from the industrial to the communications sectors have placed increasing importance on a city’s position in terms of the global network. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of European experts to discuss how these transformations have forced a radical reconsideration of the traditional definitions of the city. Comparing a wide range of European cities the book highlights the diversity of urban forms and tackles the questions regarding the quality of life in new urban spaces. The result is a comprehensive and incisive examination of the capacity of urban policies to evoke real changes in the city and to regenerate the systems of urban governance. | Change and Stability in Urban Europe Form Quality and Governance

GBP 21.99
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Change and Stability in Urban Europe Form Quality and Governance

Change and Stability in Urban Europe Form Quality and Governance

This title was first published in 2001. Significant transformations in the spatial organization of European cities have taken place over the past two decades. Social fragmentation increasingly complex systems of governance the transformation of relations to public space and the shift of work from the industrial to the communications sectors have placed increasing importance on a city’s position in terms of the global network. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of European experts to discuss how these transformations have forced a radical reconsideration of the traditional definitions of the city. Comparing a wide range of European cities the book highlights the diversity of urban forms and tackles the questions regarding the quality of life in new urban spaces. The result is a comprehensive and incisive examination of the capacity of urban policies to evoke real changes in the city and to regenerate the systems of urban governance. | Change and Stability in Urban Europe Form Quality and Governance

GBP 74.99
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Attraction Explained The science of how we form relationships

Attraction Explained The science of how we form relationships

When it comes to relationships there’s no shortage of advice from self-help ‘experts’ pick-up artists and glossy magazines. But modern-day myths of attraction often have no basis in fact or – worse – are rooted in little more than misogyny. Based on science rather than self-help clichés psychologist Viren Swami debunks these myths and draws on cutting-edge research to provide a ground-breaking and evidence-based account of relationship formation. At the core of this book is a very simple idea: there are no ‘laws of attraction’ no fool-proof methods or strategies for getting someone to date you. But this isn’t to say that there’s nothing to be gained from studying attraction. Based on science rather than self-help clichés Attraction Explained looks at how factors such as geography physical appearance reciprocity and similarity affect who we fall for and why. With updated statistics this second edition also includes new content on online dating queer relationships racism in dating shyness and individual differences. It remains an engaging and accessible introduction to attraction relationship formation for professionals students and general readers. | Attraction Explained The science of how we form relationships

GBP 21.99
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Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland Transformation Symbolic Form and National Identity

Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland Transformation Symbolic Form and National Identity

Garish churches gabled panel blocks neo-historical tenements—this book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland between 1975 and 1989 a period characterised by the decline of the authoritarian socialist regime and waves of political protest. During that period committed architects defied repressive politics and persistent shortages and designed houses and churches which adapted eclectic historical forms and geometric volumes and were based on traditional typologies. These buildings show a very different background of postmodernism far removed from the debates over Robert Venturi Philip Johnson or Prince Charles in Western Europe and North America—a context in which postmodern architecture stood not for world-weary irony in an economically saturated society but for individualised counter-propositions to a collectivist ideology for a yearning for truth and spiritual values and for a discourse on distinctiveness and national identity. Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland argues that this new architecture marked the beginning of socio-political transformation and at the same time showed postmodernism's reconciliatory potential. In light of massive historical ruptures and wartime destruction these buildings successfully responded to the contradictory desires for historical continuity and acknowledgment of rupture and loss. Next to international ideas the architects took up domestic traditions such as the ideas of the Polish school of historic conservation and long-standing national-patriotic narratives. They thus contributed to the creation of a built environment and intellectual climate that have been influential to date. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars interested in postmodern architecture and urban design as well as in the socio-cultural background and transformative potential of architecture under socialism. | Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland Transformation Symbolic Form and National Identity

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