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Deliberation, representation, equity: research approaches, tools and algorith…
What can we learn about the development of public interaction in e-democracy from a drama delivered by mobile headphones to an audience standing around a shopping center in a Stockholm suburb? In democratic societies there is widespread acknowledgment of the need to incorporate citizens’ input in decision-making processes in more or less structured ways. But participatory decision making is …
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- 9781783743056
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- 376 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 323.042 DEL d
DiverCity - global cities as a literary phenomenon : Toronto, New York, and L…
Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (»DiverCity«). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, »What We All Long For« (2005), Chang-rae Lee's New York, »Native Speaker« (1995), and Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, »Tropic of Orange« (1997), Melanie U. Pooch provides the connecting link f…
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- 20
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- 9783839435410
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- 241 p. : ill.
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- 810.9 POO d
Dialogues between media
This book unites essays on the interplay of media or inter-arts studies, as well as papers with a focus on comics studies, further testimony to the fact that comics have truly arrived in mainstream academic discourse. "Adaptation" is a key term for the studies presented in this volume various articles discuss the adaptation of literary source texts in different target media - cinematic versions…
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- 9783110642056
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- 665 p. : B&W, ill.
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- XXI. Congress of the ICLA - Proceedings,
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- 809 FER d
Asian literary voices : from marginal to mainstream
Brings together some of the most exciting recent scholarship on Asian literature and culture, emphasising East Asia yet extending to South Asia Combines original findings of interest to specialists with a clear style of writing and argumentation that makes the volume accessible and appealing to the general reader Brings to life a wide range of Asian literary and scholarly figures important in t…
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- 9789048508198
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- 163p.
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- 809.895 ASI w
Migration, workers, and fundamental freedoms : pandemic vulnerabilities and s…
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a mass exodus of India’s migrant workers from the cities back to the villages. This book explores the social conditions and concerns around health, labour, migration, and gender that were thrown up as a result of this forced migration. The book examines the failings of the public health systems and the state response to address the humanitarian crisis which u…
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- 9781003145509
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- ix, 127 p. : ill.
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- 331.5440954 HAN m
Annotations in scholarly editions and research : functions, differentiation, …
The notion of annotation is associated in the Humanities and Information Sciences with different concepts that vary in coverage, application and direction of impact, but have conceptual parallels as well. This publication reflects on different practices and associated concepts of annotation, puts them in relation to each other and attempts to systematize their commonalities and divergences in a…
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- 7
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- 9783110689112
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- viii, 399 p. : ill.
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- 801.9590285 NAN a
Strategic imaginations : women and the gender of sovereignty in European culture
"What is the gender of political power ? What happens to the history of sovereignty when we reconsider it from a gender perspective ? Political sovereignty has been a major theme in European thought from the very beginning of intellectual reflection on community. Philosophy and political theory, historiography, theology, and literature and the arts have, often in dialogue with one another, soug…
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- 9789461663504
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- 310 p. : ill.
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- 321.0082 GIL s
Entertaining the idea : shakespeare, performance, and philosophy
To entertain an idea is to take it in, pay attention to it, give it breathing room, dwell with it for a time. The practice of entertaining ideas suggests rumination and meditation, inviting us to think of philosophy as a form of hospitality and a kind of mental theatre. In this collection, organized around key words shared by philosophy and performance, the editors suggest that Shakespeare’s …
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- 9781487536237
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- ix, 237 p.
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- 822.33 GAL e
The life and letters of William Sharp and "Fiona Macleod." : Volume III 1900-…
William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and …
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- 9781800640078
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- x, 471 p. : ill. ; 15.6 cm.
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- 820.8 WIL t
Critical alliances : economics and feminism in English women's writing, 1880-…
Critical Alliances argues that late-Victorian and modernist feminist authors saw in literary representations of female collaboration an opportunity to produce new gender and economic roles for women. It is not often that one thinks of female allegiances – such as kinship networks, cultural inheritance, or lesbian marriage – as influencing the marketplace; nor does one often think of economi…
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- 9781442625600
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- x, 297p.
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- 820.93522 CRI c
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