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Romanticism and time: literary temporalities
‘Eternity is in love with the productions of time’. This original edited volume takes William Blake’s aphorism as a basis to explore how British Romantic literature creates its own sense of time. It considers Romantic poetry as embedded in and reflecting on the march of time, regarding it not merely as a reaction to the course of events between the late-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centu…
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- 9781800640733
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- xxii, 286 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 809.9145 ROM r
Touch in the time of corona : Reflections on love, care, and vulnerability in…
The COVID-19 pandemic has hooked us all into digital networks as our access to cities, work and social gatherings is restricted and reconfigured. Weaving together cultural history, aesthetics, and urban and digital studies, this short volume reflects on how the possibilities for touch, touching and being touched, both physically and affectively, are reconfigured by the pandemic.
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- 9783110744767
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- 131 p. : ill.
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- 362.1962414 STE t
Aesthetic programming: a handbook of software studies
Aesthetic Programming explores the technical as well as cultural imaginaries of programming from its insides. It follows the principle that the growing importance of software requires a new kind of cultural thinking — and curriculum — that can account for, and with which to better understand the politics and aesthetics of algorithmic procedures, data processing and abstraction. It takes a p…
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- 9781785420931
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- 298p. black and white, ill.
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- 005.118 SOO a
Chivalry, reading, and women's culture in early modern Spain: from Amadís de…
The Iberian chivalric romance has long been thought of as an archaic, masculine genre and its popularity as an aberration in European literary history. Chivalry, Reading, and Women’s Culture in Early Modern Spain contests this view, arguing that the surprisingly egalitarian gender politics of Spain’s most famous romance of chivalry has guaranteed it a long afterlife. Amadís de Gaula had a …
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- 9789048536641
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- 281 p.
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- Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World, 3
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- 860.93522 TRI c
Civic media literacies : re-imagining human connection in an age of digital a…
Civic life today is mediated. Communities small and large are now using connective platforms to share information, engage in local issues, facilitate vibrant debate, and advocate for social causes. In this timely book, Paul Mihailidisexplores the texture of daily engagement in civic life, and the resources—human, technological, and practical—that citizens employ when engaging in civic actio…
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- 9781315526058
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- xiv, 164 p.
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- 302.23 MIH c
Practicing decoloniality in museums : a guide with global examples
The cry for decolonization has echoed throughout the museum world. Although perhaps most audibly heard in the case of ethnographic museums, many different types of museums have felt the need to engage in decolonial practices. Amidst those who have argued that an institution as deeply colonial as the museum cannot truly be decolonized, museum staff and museologists have been approaching the issu…
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- 9789048554836
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- 125 p.
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- 069 ARI p
Building innovation capabilities for sustainable industrialisation: renewable…
This book argues that renewable electrification in developing countries provides important opportunities for local economic development, but new pathways are required for turning these opportunities into successful reality. Building Innovation Capabilities for Sustainable Industrialisation offers a novel input into the debate on development of capabilities for sustainable industrialisation and …
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- 9781003054665
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- xxi, 280 p . : ill.
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- Pathways to Sustainability
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- 333.7091724 LEM b
Learning cultural literacy through creative practices in schools : cultural a…
This open access book discusses how cultural literacy can be taught and learned through creative practices. It approaches cultural literacy as a dialogic social process based on learning and gaining knowledge through emphatic, tolerant, and inclusive interaction. The book focuses on meaning-making in children and young people’s visual and multimodal artefacts created by students aged 5–15 a…
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- 9783030892364
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- xxi, 151 p. : ill.
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- 306.071 LAH l
A fleet street in every town: the provincial press in England, 1855-1900
At the heart of Victorian culture was the local weekly newspaper. More popular than books, more widely read than the London papers, the local press was a national phenomenon. This book redraws the Victorian cultural map, shifting our focus away from one centre, London, and towards the many centres of the provinces. It offers a new paradigm in which place, and a sense of place, are vital to the …
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- 9781783745616
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- 455 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 941.081 HOB a
From darkness to light: writers in museums 1798-1898
Written by an array of international experts, these collected essays gather perspectives from a diverse range of cultural sensibilities. From sensitive discussions of Tintoretto’s unique approach to the play of light and darkness as exhibited in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, to the development of museum lighting as part of Japanese artistic self-fashioning, via the story of an epi…
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- 9781783745517
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- xviii, 371 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 729.28 FRO f
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