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Hanging on to the edges : essays on science, society and the academic life
What does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the world into categorical distinctions that obstruct rather than clarify its complexities. In this book Daniel Nettle urges the reader to unpick such distinctions—biological versus social sciences, mind versus body, and …
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- 9781783745821
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- 262 p.; 23 cm.
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- 802.4 NET h
Perspectives on science and culture
"Edited by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert, Perspectives on Science and Culture explores the intersection between scientific understanding and cultural representation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Contributors to the volume analyze representations of science and scientific discourse from the perspectives of rhetorical criticism, comparative cultural studies, narratolo…
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- 9781557537973
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- 308 p.; 23 cm.
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- 306.45 RUT p
The cultural net: early modern drama as a paradigm
This volume offers a new theoretical approach to cultural production inspired by the metaphor of culture as a virtual network. Following a thorough outline of this approach, the theoretical framework is elucidated in a second part through examples drawn from early modern European drama. A third and final part then presents a critical discussion of the concept of national culture and literature,…
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- 9783110536638
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- vi, 328p.
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- 800 KUP t
Indian literature and the world : multilingualism, translation, and the publi…
Moves beyond restrictive Anglocentric approaches Features contributions from a spectrum of academics, from early career researchers to key names in the fieldAddresses areas such as translation studies as well as postcolonial studies and world literature
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- 9781137545497
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- 288 p.; 23 cm.
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- 891.4
Love and Intrigue : a tragedy
"Schiller’s play Kabale und Liebe, usually translated into English as Love and Intrigue, represents the disastrous consequences that follow when social constraint, youthful passion, and ruthless scheming collide in a narrow setting. Written between 1782 and 1784, the play bears the marks of life at the court of the despotic Duke of Württemberg, from which Schiller had just fled, and of a fra…
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- 9781783747429
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- 130 p.; 23 cm.
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- 802.07 SCH l
Text genetics in literary modernism and other essays
This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and editing that are inflected by our advance into the digital era; structurally analyses arts of compo…
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- 9781783743667
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- 410 p.; 23 cm.
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- 801.93 GAB t
Love and its Critics from the song of songs to Shakespeare and Milton’s Eden
"This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge. Bryson and Movsesian argue that the poetry they explore c…
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- 9781783743506
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- 576 p.; 22 cm.
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- 801.93 BRY l
Poetics and politics
Far from teleological historiography, the pan-European perspective on Early Modern drama offered in this volume provides answers to why, how, where and when the given phenomena of theatre appear in history. Using theories of circulation and other concepts of exchange, transfer and movement, the authors analyze the development and differentiation of European secular and religious drama, within t…
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- 9783110536690
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- 280 p.; 22 cm.
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- 822 POE p
Story and emotion : a study in affective narratology
Per Thomas Andersen analyzes literary works by Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, Ibsen, Hamsun, J.P. Jacobsen, Schoenberg and Knausgaard. Based on perspectives from literary studies, philosophy, cognitive psychology, neurobiology and media studies, professor Andersen analyzes characters in the novels, temporal and spatial aspects of the narratives, sources of emotional impulses, and different ways in w…
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- 9788215028255
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- 186 p.; 22 cm.
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- 808.8 AND s
How to read a folktale
How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a series of tests and duels, he and his lover are joyfully united with a marriage that affirms the royal lineage. These fairytal…
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- 9781909254077
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- 163 p.; 22 cm
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- World Oral Literature Series: Volume 4
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- 398.2 HOW h
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