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Sep 12, 2013
09/13
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Jonathan Kemp
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Through nuanced readings of a handful of modernist texts (Baudelaire, Huysmans, Wilde, Genet, Joyce, and Schreber’s Memoirs), this book explores and interrogates the figure of the penetrated male body, developing the concept of the behind as a site of both fascination and fear. Deconstructing the penetrated male body and the genderisation of its representation, The Penetrated Male offers new understandings of passivity, suggesting that the modern masculine subject is predicated on a...
Topics: JFSK, LIT004160, 5PSG, DSB, JBSJ, gay life, gender studies, masculinity, queer theory, sexuality
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0047.1.00
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Jan 7, 2021
01/21
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Christopher Webster
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This lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitutes a photo-historical survey of select photographers who embraced National Socialism during the Third Reich. These photographers developed and implemented physiognomic and ethnographic photography, and, through a Selbstgleichschaltung (a self-co-ordination with the regime), continued to practice as photographers throughout the twelve years of the Third Reich. The volume explores, through...
Topics: AJ, AJB, AP, JFC, PHO007000, SOC024000, TR73, European Studies, European Studies: German Studies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0202
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May 7, 2012
05/12
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
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Animal, Mineral, Vegetable examines what happens when we cease to assume that only humans exert agency. Through a careful examination of medieval, early modern and contemporary lifeworlds, these essays collectively argue against ecological anthropocentricity. Sheep, wolves, camels, flowers, chairs, magnets, landscapes, refuse and gems are more than mere objects. They act; they withdraw; they make demands; they connect within lively networks that might foster a new humanism, or that might...
Topics: JFC, NAT010000, PHI005000, cultural studies, materialism, object-oriented ontology, posthumanism,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0006.1.00
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Apr 30, 2021
04/21
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Gavin McDowell; Ron Naiweld; Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra
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This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and geographical range and cover material that has not yet received sufficient attention in scholarship. The...
Topics: CFF, CFP, JF, JFSR1, LAN009010, REL006020, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, History,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0219
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Jun 30, 2022
06/22
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Geoffrey Khan; Dorota Molin; Masoud Mohammadirad; Paul M. Noorlander
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This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speaking (‘Syriac’) Christians, Kurdish Muslims and—to a lesser extent—Aramaic-speaking Jews. The first volume contains several introductory chapters on language, folkore motifs and narrative style, followed by samples of glossed texts in each language variety. The second volume is the anthology proper, presenting folklore narratives in several...
Topics: 1FBQ, 2BXK, 2CSA, CFF, CFP, JFHF, HIS026030, LAN009010, SOC011000, GR295.I7, Cambridge Semitic...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0306
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Nov 7, 2022
11/22
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Daniel J. Crowther; Aaron D. Hornkohl; Geoffrey Khan
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This volume brings together papers on topics relating to the transmission of the Hebrew Bible from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern period. We refer to this broadly in the title of the volume as the ‘Masoretic Tradition’. The papers are innovative studies of a range of aspects of this Masoretic tradition at various periods, many of them presenting hitherto unstudied primary sources. They focus on traditions of vocalisation signs and accent signs, traditions of oral reading, traditions of...
Topics: 2CSJ, CFF, HBTD, HRCG7, HRJS, FOR011000, LAN009010, LAN009050, LAN011000, REL006410, REL040030,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0330
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Jun 1, 2020
06/20
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Aaron D. Hornkohl; Geoffrey Khan
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This volume brings together papers relating to the pronunciation of Semitic languages and the representation of their pronunciation in written form. The papers focus on sources representative of a period that stretches from late antiquity until the Middle Ages. A large proportion of them concern reading traditions of Biblical Hebrew, especially the vocalisation notation systems used to represent them. Also discussed are orthography and the written representation of prosody. Beyond Biblical...
Topics: CFF, CFP, LAN009010, REL006020, PJ3023, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, Linguistics,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0207
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Oct 23, 2020
10/20
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Ekkehard Kopp
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Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting with elementary concepts, it leads the reader towards aspects of current mathematical research. The book explains how conceptual hurdles in the development of numbers and number systems were overcome in the course of history, from Babylon to Classical Greece, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and so to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
Topics: PB, PBK, YQM, MAT000000, MAT015000, MAT027000, QA21, Mathematics, Textbooks and Learning Guides,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0236
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Oct 19, 2021
10/21
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Philip S. Peek
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In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the ancient Greek language in an imaginative and accessible way that promotes creativity, deep learning, and diversity. The course is built on three pillars: memory, analysis, and logic. Readers memorize the top 250 most frequently occurring ancient Greek words, the essential word endings, the eight parts of speech, and the grammatical concepts they will most frequently encounter when...
Topics: 2AHA, 4KL, CFP, DB, HBLA1, EDU029080, FOR033000, LIT004190, PA258, Classics, Classics: Greek...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0264
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Jun 30, 2022
06/22
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Geoffrey Khan; Paul M. Noorlander; Masoud Mohammadirad; Dorota Molin
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This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speaking (‘Syriac’) Christians, Kurdish Muslims and—to a lesser extent—Aramaic-speaking Jews. The first volume contains several introductory chapters on language, folkore motifs and narrative style, followed by samples of glossed texts in each language variety. The second volume is the anthology proper, presenting folklore narratives in several...
Topics: 1FBQ, 2BXK, 2CSA, CFF, CFP, JFHF, HIS026030, LAN009010, SOC011000, Cambridge Semitic Languages and...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0307
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Nov 11, 2021
11/21
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KJ Cerankowski
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The landscape of trauma is scattered with ghosts. Wolves hunkering in the shadows. Memory’s spectral persistence and evasion. Leaky bodies and selves gathered up in the storm of pain. Genders imposed and genders made. History’s cruel excisions, scars, the spillage of wounds. A landscape in which we are nevertheless called to build home. Here, “storytelling is a kind of suturing.” Combining memoir, lyrical essay, and cultural criticism, KJ Cerankowski's Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming...
Topics: BM, JFSK, BIO031000, SOC064020, 5PT, DNC, JBSF3, JBSJ, asexuality, BDSM, gender studies, identity,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0357.1.00
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Nov 7, 2016
11/16
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Eric Wilson
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If parapolitics, a branch of radical criminology that studies the interactions between public entities and clandestine agencies, is to develop as an academic discipline, then it must develop a coherent theory of aesthetics in order to successfully perform its primary function: to render perceptible extra-judicial phenomena that have hitherto resisted formal classification. Wilson offers the work of H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) as an example of the relevance of subversive literature—in this...
Topics: JPWJ, conspiracy theory, horror, H.P. Lovecraft, parapolitics, radical criminology
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0155.1.00
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Jul 11, 2022
07/22
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Susan Hallam; Evangelos Himonides
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Building on her earlier work, 'The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of Actively Making Music on the Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and Young People', this volume by Susan Hallam and Evangelos Himonides is an important new resource in the field of music education, practice, and psychology. A well-signposted text with helpful subheadings, 'The Power of Music: An Exploration of the Evidence' gathers and synthesises research in neuroscience, psychology,...
Topics: AVA, JHMC, JMH, MUS006000, MUS007000, MUS015000, MUS020000, ML3830, Education, Performing Arts,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0292
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Jan 14, 2021
01/21
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Laurence A. Rickels
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In The Block of Fame, Edmund Bergler, like the thirteenth fairy in the “Sleeping Beauty,“ uninvited because there wasn’t an extra place setting, crashes the psychoanalytic poetics of daydreaming with a curse. He charges that the overview, according to which art making rarefies daydreaming and delivers omnipotence, overlooks the underlying defense contract. We are hooked to creativity, because it offers the best defense against acknowledging the ultimate and untenable masochistic wish to...
Topics: APFA, DSK, JMAF, LIT004260, PSY026000, ATFA, cultural studies, Edmund Bergler, fantasy, film...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0279.1.00
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Aug 24, 2022
08/22
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William St Clair
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Complementing Who Saved the Parthenon? this companion volume sets aside more recent narratives surrounding the Athenian Acropolis, supposedly ‘the very symbol of democracy itself’, instead asking if we can truly access an ancient past imputed with modern meaning. And, if so, how? In this book William St Clair presents a reconstructed understanding of the Parthenon from within the classical Athenian worldview. He explores its role and meaning by weaving together a range of textual and visual...
Topics: 1DVG, HBLL, JFS, ARC005020, HIS042000, POL031000, NA281, Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0279
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May 26, 2022
05/22
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William St Clair
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In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821–32. Focusing particularly on the question of who saved the Parthenon from destruction during this conflict, with the help of documents that shed a new light on this enduring question, he explores the contributions made by the Philhellenes, Ancient Athenians, Ottomans and...
Topics: 1DVG, 1QDT, HBLL, ARC005020, HIS042000, DF287.P3, Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion, History,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0136
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Feb 1, 2016
02/16
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Roger Paulin
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This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel's extraordinarily diverse interests and writings left a vast intellectual legacy, making him a foundational figure in several branches of knowledge. He was one of the last thinkers in Europe able to practise as well as to theorise, and to...
Topics: BG, BGL, D, DS, BIO007000, LIT004170, LIT024040, PT2503.S3, Biography, European Studies, European...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0069
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Feb 20, 2020
02/20
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Geoffrey Khan
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The form of Biblical Hebrew that is presented in printed editions, with vocalization and accent signs, has its origin in medieval manuscripts of the Bible. The vocalization and accent signs are notation systems that were created in Tiberias in the early Islamic period by scholars known as the Tiberian Masoretes, but the oral tradition they represent has roots in antiquity. The grammatical textbooks and reference grammars of Biblical Hebrew in use today are heirs to centuries of tradition of...
Topics: CFF, CFP, HRCG, LAN009010, REL006020, PJ4865, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0163
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Aug 20, 2019
08/19
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Enrique Dussel; David I. Backer; Cecilia Diego
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Enrique Dussel is considered one of the founding philosophers of liberation in the Latin American tradition, an influential arm of what is now called decoloniality. While he is astoundingly prolific, relatively few of his works can be found in English translation — and none of these focus specifically on education. Founding members of the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society David I. Backer and Cecilia Diego bring to us Dussel’s The Pedagogics of Liberation: A Latin American...
Topics: 1KL, HBTR, JNA, EDU040000, PHI019000, 5PB-US-H, NHTR, Argentina, decoloniality, ethical philosophy,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0257.1.00
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May 27, 2021
05/21
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M.H. Bowker
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In The Anguished and the Enchanted, M.H. Bowker offers a lengthy critical essay and richly annotated English translation of a lost Finnish translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. Featuring a substantial Translator’s Preface, M.H. Bowker develops a psychoanalytic lens through which to regard Saint-Exupéry’s classic work, offering a more nuanced and less "fable-esque" text than any translation and interpretation to date. On Bowker’s reading, dark and...
Topics: JMC, YFH, FIC010000, PSY004000, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, hatred of development, literary...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0311.1.00
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Jun 19, 2020
06/20
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Christine Peel; Jeffrey Love; Erik Simensen; Inger Larsson; Ulrika Djärv
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'A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law' is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of medieval Scandinavia. This polyglot dictionary draws on the vast and vibrant range of vernacular legal terminology found in medieval Scandinavian texts – terminology which yields valuable insights into the quotidian realities of crime and retribution; the processes, application and execution of laws; and the cultural and societal concerns underlying the development and promulgation of such laws. Legal...
Topics: 1DN, 2ACS, CFM, LAF, LAQ, FOR022000, LAW000000, REF000000, REF008000, KJC544.6, L38 2020, Law,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0188
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Jan 17, 2013
01/13
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Eileen A. Joy; Anna Kłosowska; Nicola Masciandaro; The Petropunk Collective; Michael O'Rourke
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Proceedings from the two Speculative Medievalisms symposia, held at King’s College London (Jan. 2011) and The Graduate Center, City University of New York (Sep. 2011), and organized by The Petropunk Collective (Eileen Joy, Anna Klosowska, Nicola Masciandaro, and Michael O’Rourke). These interdisciplinary events were dedicated to dialogue and cross-contamination between traditional concepts of speculatio, present-minded premodern studies, and contemporary speculative realist and...
Topics: DSBB, HIS037010, PHI044000, medieval studies, object-oriented philosophy, speculative philosophy,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0021.1.00
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Oct 13, 2022
10/22
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Roberta Morano
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In this monograph, Roberta Morano re-examines one of the foundational works of the Omani Arabic dialectology field, Carl Reinhardt’s Ein arabischer Dialekt gesprochen in ‘Oman und Zanzibar (1894). This German-authored work was prolific in shaping our knowledge of Omani Arabic during the twentieth century, until the 1980s when more recent linguistic studies on the Arabic varieties spoken in Oman began to appear. Motivated by an urgent need to expand and reinforce our understanding of Omani...
Topics: CFF, CFP, FOR002000, LAN009010, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, Linguistics, Literature,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0298
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Feb 20, 2020
02/20
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Geoffrey Khan
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The form of Biblical Hebrew that is presented in printed editions, with vocalization and accent signs, has its origin in medieval manuscripts of the Bible. The vocalization and accent signs are notation systems that were created in Tiberias in the early Islamic period by scholars known as the Tiberian Masoretes, but the oral tradition they represent has roots in antiquity. The grammatical textbooks and reference grammars of Biblical Hebrew in use today are heirs to centuries of tradition of...
Topics: CFF, CFP, HRCG, LAN009010, REL006020, PJ4865, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0194
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Feb 25, 2019
02/19
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Howard Gaskill
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Friedrich Hölderlin’s only novel, Hyperion (1797–99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and a revolutionary, Hyperion assumes a hermitic existence, during which he writes his letters. Confronting and commenting on his own past, with all its joy and grief, the narrator undergoes a...
Topics: D, FC, FQ, FIC032000, FOR009000, LIT004170, PT2359.H2, European Studies, European Studies: German...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0160
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Nov 13, 2017
11/17
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Louise Hardiman; Nicola Kozicharow
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In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of ‘On the Spiritual in Art’, a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For many artists of late Imperial Russia – a culture deeply influenced by the regime’s adoption of Byzantine Orthodoxy centuries before – questions of religion and spirituality were of paramount importance. As artists and the wider art community experimented with new ideas and interpretations...
Topics: ABA, AFC, AG, ART035000, ART049000, N6987, Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion, European...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0115
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Mar 22, 2018
03/18
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Warwick Gould
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The two great Yeats Family Sales of 2017 and the legacy of the Yeats family’s 80-year tradition of generosity to Ireland’s great cultural institutions provide the kaleidoscope through which these advanced research essays find their theme. Hannah Sullivan’s brilliant history of Yeats’s versecraft challenges Poundian definitions of Modernism; Denis Donoghue offers unique family memories of 1916 whilst tracing the political significance of the Easter Rising; Anita Feldman addresses...
Topics: DSC, LIT004120, LIT014000, POE005020, PR5906, European Studies, European Studies: English and Irish...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0135
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Mar 26, 2020
03/20
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Cameron Hunt McNabb
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The field of disability studies significantly contributes to contemporary discussions of the marginalization of and social justice for individuals with disabilities. However, what of disability in the past? The Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe explores what medieval texts have to say about disability, both in their own time and for the present.This interdisciplinary volume on medieval Europe combines historical records, medical texts, and religious accounts of saints’ lives and...
Topics: HBLC1, JFFG, LIT011000, JBFM, NHDJ, accessibility, disability, embodiment, identity, illness,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0276.1.00
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Dec 26, 2019
12/19
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Adam Simmons
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Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies offers a platform in which the old meets the new, in which archaeological, papyrological, and philological research into Meroitic, Old Nubian, Coptic, Greek, and Arabic sources confront current investigations in modern anthropology and ethnography, Nilo-Saharan linguistics, and the critical and theoretical approaches of postcolonial and African studies. Dotawo gives a common home to the past, present, and future of one of the richest areas of research in...
Topics: 2HNR, HD, HDDG, HRKP1, NK, QRSA, archeology, Egypt, Ethiopia, history, linguistics, Nubian studies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0321.1.00
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Nov 11, 2022
11/22
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C. Jon Delogu
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A worldwide struggle between democracy and authoritarianism set against a backdrop of global surveillance capitalism is unmistakable. Examples range from Myanmar, China, and the Philippines to Hungary, Turkey, Russia, and the United States. Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom offers a multidisciplinary analysis drawing on psychology and literature to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the mechanisms that drive people to abandon democracy in favor of vertically...
Topics: JPA, JPFQ, JPHV, POL007000, POL042030, authoritarianism, democracy, Erich Fromm, fascism, political...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0392.1.00
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Nov 22, 2012
11/12
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Ingo Gildenhard
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Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil’s most powerful work, building on the violent emotions invoked by the storms, battles, warring gods, and monster-plagued wanderings of the epic’s opening. Destined to be the founder of Roman culture, Aeneas, nudged by the gods, decides to leave his beloved Dido, causing her suicide in pursuit of his historical destiny. A dark plot, in which erotic passion culminates in sex, and sex leads to tragedy and death in the human realm, unfolds within...
Topics: 4KL, CFP, HBLA1, FOR033000, HIS002020, LIT004190, PA6801.A6, Classics, Classics: Latin Textbooks,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0023
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Nov 24, 2014
11/14
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A.M. Halpern; Amy Miller
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The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and traders, and they also have a rich oral tradition. The stories in this volume were told by tribal elders in the 1970s and early 1980s. The eleven narratives in this volume take place at the beginning of time and introduce the reader to a variety of traditional characters, including the infamous Coyote and also Kwayúu the...
Topics: 2J, JFHF, JHMC, FOR031000, LIT004060, SOC002010, E99.Y94, American and Latin American Studies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0049
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Jul 14, 2022
07/22
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Roy Christopher
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The physical body has often been seen as a prison, as something to be escaped by any means necessary: technology, mechanization, drugs and sensory deprivation, alien abduction, Rapture, or even death and extinction. Taking in horror movies from David Cronenberg and UFO encounters, metal bands such as Godflesh, ketamine experiments, AI, and cybernetics, Escape Philosophy is an exploration of the ways that human beings have sought to make this escape, to transcend the limits of the human body, to...
Topics: AVGT, HPJ, MUS019000, PHI015000, 6HA, QDTJ, black metal, body horror, Goldflesh, philosophy,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0416.1.00
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Feb 17, 2022
02/22
by
Ian Wood
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The establishment of Christianity in the late- and post-Roman world caused an economic as well as a religious revolution, but, while a great deal of attention has been paid to the religious developments of the period, the impact of the establishment of the Church on the economy has attracted remarkably little attention. The Christian Economy of the Early Medieval West: Towards a Temple Society examines the chronology of the Church’s acquisition of wealth, and particularly of landed property,...
Topics: 3KH-ES-A, HRCC2, HRCV, JBSR, KCZ, NHTB, HIS037010, REL108020, QRM, Church history, early middle...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0371.1.00
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Apr 6, 2021
04/21
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Aaron D. Hornkohl; Geoffrey Khan
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Most of the papers in this volume originated as presentations at the conference Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew: New Perspectives in Philology and Linguistics, which was held at the University of Cambridge, 8–10th July, 2019. The aim of the conference was to build bridges between various strands of research in the field of Hebrew language studies that rarely meet, namely philologists working on Biblical Hebrew, philologists working on Rabbinic Hebrew and theoretical linguists. This volume...
Topics: CFF, CFP, HRCG, LAN009010, REL006020, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, Linguistics,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0250
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Nov 6, 2020
11/20
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Sean McAleer
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This book is a lucid and accessible companion to Plato’s Republic, throwing light upon the text’s arguments and main themes, placing them in the wider context of the text’s structure. In its illumination of the philosophical ideas underpinning the work, it provides readers with an understanding and appreciation of the complexity and literary artistry of Plato’s Republic. McAleer not only unpacks the key overarching questions of the text – What is justice? And Is a just life happier...
Topics: DB, H, HP, HPCA, PHI000000, PHI002000, B395, Classics, Philosophy, Textbooks and Learning Guides,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0229
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Aug 1, 2012
08/12
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Franck Billé; Grégory Delaplace; Caroline Humphrey
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China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of border. Yet, despite their proximity, their practical, local interactions with each other — and with their third neighbour Mongolia — are rarely discussed. The three countries share a boundary, but their traditions, languages and worldviews are remarkably different. Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how the borders between these unique countries are enacted, produced, and crossed....
Topics: JHMC, RGCP, HIS003000, POL011010, SOC002010, DS740.5.R8, Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0026
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Nov 22, 2019
11/19
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Joachim Otto Habeck
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Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North breaks new ground by exploring the concept of lifestyle from a distinctly anthropological perspective. Showcasing the collective work of ten experienced scholars in the field, the book goes beyond concepts of tradition that have often been the focus of previous research, to explain how political, economic and technological changes in Russia have created a wide range of new possibilities and constraints in the pursuit of different ways of life. Each...
Topics: 1DVUA, J, JFC, JH, JHMC, SOC000000, SOC002000, SOC002010, DK757.3, Anthropology, Archaeology and...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0171
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Nov 5, 2020
11/20
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Matthew J. Jones
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From a stage erected in front of the US Capitol, on April 25, 1993, Michael Callen surveyed the throng: an estimated one million people stretched across the National Mall in the largest public demonstration of queer political solidarity in history. “What a sight,” he told the crowd, his earnest Midwestern twang reverberating through loudspeakers. “You’re a sight for sore eyes. Being gay is the greatest gift I have ever been given, and I don’t care who knows about it.” He then...
Topics: BGF, JFSK2, MJCJ2, BIO004000, SOC012000, 5PSG, DNBF, JBSJ, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ Activism, LGBTQ History,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0297.1.00
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Jun 25, 2020
06/20
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Laurence A. Rickels
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Critique of Fantasy, Vol. 1: Between a Crypt and a Datemark addresses both the style or genre of fantasy and the mental faculty, long the hot property of philosophical ethics. Freud passed it along in his 1907 essay on the poetics of daydreaming when he addressed omnipotent wish fantasy as the source and resource of the aspirations and resolutions of art, which, however, the artwork can never look back at or acknowledge. By grounding his genre in the one fantasy that is true, the Gospel, J.R.R....
Topics: APFA, DSK, JMAF, LIT004260, PSY026000, ATFA, cultural studies, fantasy, film studies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0277.1.00
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May 26, 2017
05/17
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Christian Hite
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Coming from behind (derrière)—how else to describe a volume called “Derrida and Queer Theory”? — as if arriving late to the party, or, indeed, after the party is already over. After all, we already have Deleuze and Queer Theory and, of course, Saint Foucault. And judging by Annamarie Jagose’s Queer Theory: An Introduction, in which there is not a single mention of “Derrida” (or “deconstruction”) — even in the sub-chapter titled “The Post-Structuralist Context of Queer”...
Topics: JFSK, PHI043000, SOC064000, deconstruction, gender, Jacques Derrida, queer theory, sexuality
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0172.1.00
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Feb 12, 2016
02/16
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
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Object Oriented Environs is the lively archive of a critical confluence between the environmental turn so vigorous within early modern studies, and thing theory (object oriented ontology, vibrant materialism, the new materialism and speculative realism). The book unfolds a conversation that attempts to move beyond anthropocentrism and examine nonhumans at every scale, their relations to each other, and the ethics of human enmeshment within an agentic material world. The diverse essays,...
Topics: RNT, Early Modern studies, ecocriticism, object-oriented ontology, Shakespeare Studies
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0130.1.00
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Nov 18, 2011
11/11
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Ingo Gildenhard
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Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world’s greatest orators. This particular passage is from the second book of Cicero’s Speeches against Verres, who was a former Roman magistrate on trial for serious misconduct. Cicero presents the lurid details of Verres’ alleged crimes in exquisite and sophisticated prose. This volume provides a portion of the original text of Cicero’s...
Topics: 4KL, CFP, HBLA1, FOR033000, HIS002020, LIT004190, PA6279.A4, Classics, Classics: Latin Textbooks,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0016
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Sep 28, 2021
09/21
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Steffen Böhm; Sian Sullivan
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Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited volume, comprising leading and emerging scholars and climate activists from around the world, takes a critical look at what has gone wrong and what is to be done to create more decisive action. Composed of twenty-eight essays—a combination of new and republished texts—the anthology is organised...
Topics: J, PSAF, RN, RNA, RNT, SCI019000, SCI026000, SCI042000, SOC026040, QC903, Economics, Politics and...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0265
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Aug 23, 2018
08/18
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Kisha G. Tracy; John P. Sexton
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Are you a Lone Medievalist? Working medievalists are often the only scholar of the Middle Ages in a department, a university, or a hundred-mile radius. While working to build a body of focused scholarly work, the lone medievalist is expected to be a generalist in the classroom and a contributing member of a campus community that rarely offers disciplinary community in return. As a result, overtasked and single medievalists often find it challenging to advocate for their work and field. As other...
Topics: DSBB, intellectual life, marginality, medieval studies, pedagogy, university studies
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0205.1.00
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Apr 25, 2022
04/22
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Mihnea Tănăsescu
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Anchored in the diverse ecological practices of communities in southern Italy and Aotearoa/New Zealand, this book devises a unique and considered theoretical response to the shortcomings of global politics in the Ecocene—a new temporal epoch characterised by the increasingly frequent intrusion of ecological processes into political life. Dismantling the use of the term ‘Anthropocene’ as a descriptor for our current ecological and political paradigm, this bold and resolutely original...
Topics: RND, RNKC, RNKH, NAT010000, NAT011000, SCI026000, Economics, Politics and Sociology, Environmental...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0274
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Sep 5, 2016
09/16
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Ingo Gildenhard; Andrew Zissos
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This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once transformed a group of blasphemous sailors into dolphins, Pentheus refuses to acknowledge the divinity of Bacchus or allow his worship at Thebes. Enraged, yet curious to witness the orgiastic...
Topics: CFP, DB, DCF, FOR016000, LIT004190, LIT014000, POE008000, PA6519.M3, Classics, Classics: Latin...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0073
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Dec 12, 2019
12/19
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Ignasi Ribó
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This concise and highly accessible textbook outlines the principles and techniques of storytelling. It is intended as a high-school and college-level introduction to the central concepts of narrative theory – concepts that will aid students in developing their competence not only in analysing and interpreting short stories and novels, but also in writing them. This textbook prioritises clarity over intricacy of theory, equipping its readers with the necessary tools to embark on further study...
Topics: DSB, FYB, H, JNM, YQE, EDU015000, EDU029050, FIC029000, PN212, Literature, Textbooks and Learning...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0187
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May 15, 2016
05/16
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William Turpin
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From Catullus to Horace, the tradition of Latin erotic poetry produced works of literature which are still read throughout the world. Ovid’s Amores, written in the first century BC, is arguably the best-known and most popular collection in this tradition. This book contain embedded audio files of the original text read aloud by Aleksandra Szypowska. Born in 43 BC, Ovid was educated in Rome in preparation for a career in public services before finding his calling as a poet. He may have begun...
Topics: CFP, DB, DCF, FOR016000, LIT004190, LIT014000, POE008000, POE023020, PA6537, Classics, Classics:...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0067
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Sep 15, 2022
09/22
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Gemma John; Hannah Knox
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What does it mean to “speak for the social” in projects of technical and infrastructural change? This is the problem that the contributors to Speaking for the Social: A Catalogue of Methods set out to explore through a series of creative interventions that reimagine the role for qualitative social science in understanding and shaping design and engineering projects. The book departs from familiar methods like interviews, surveys, and participant observations, to propose walks, exhibitions,...
Topics: JHBA, JHMC, SOC002010, SOC024000, artistic research, ethnography, experimental methodologies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0378.1.00
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2010
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Barry Hough; Howard Davis; Lydia Davis
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge is best known as a great poet and literary theorist, but for one, quite short, period of his life he held real political power — acting as Public Secretary to the British Civil Commissioner in Malta in 1805. This was a formative experience for Coleridge which he later identified as being one of the most instructive in his entire life. In this book, Barry Hough and Howard Davis show how Coleridge's actions whilst in a position of power differ markedly from the idealism...
Topics: BGL, LAZ, BIO007000, HIS037020, LAW060000, PR4483, Biography, European Studies, European Studies:...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0005
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Dec 14, 2016
12/16
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Amelia Ishmael
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Not to be confused with metal studies, music criticism, ethnography, or sociology, Helvete: A Journal of Black Metal Theory is a speculative and creative endeavor, one which seeks ways of thinking that count as Black Metal events — and indeed, to see how Black Metal might count as thinking. Theory of Black Metal, and Black Metal of theory. Mutual blackening. Therefore, we eschew any approach that treats theory and Metal discretely, preferring to take the left-hand path by insisting on “some...
Topics: JFCA, black metal, cultural theory, metal theory, musicology, noise studies
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0158.1.00
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Jul 25, 2022
07/22
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Jan M. Ziolkowski
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In this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlier The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Here he focuses particularly on the performing arts. Part one contextualises Our Lady’s Tumbler, a French poem of the late 1230s, by comparing it with episodes in the Bible and miracles in a wide variety of medieval European sources. It relates this material to analogues and folklore across the ages from, among others, Persian, Jewish and...
Topics: ACK, D, JFHF, LIT011000, LIT022000, LIT025040, PQ1534.T5, European Studies: French Studies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0284
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Feb 18, 2021
02/21
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Curt Cloninger
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What if all works of art were better understood as functioning apparatuses, entangling their human audiences in experiences of becoming? What if certain works of art were even able to throw the brakes on becoming altogether, making nothings rather than somethings? What would be the ethical value of making nothing, of stalling becoming; and how might such nothings even be made? Some Ways of Making Nothing: Apophatic Apparatuses in Contemporary Art borrows its understanding of apparatuses from...
Topics: ABA, ACXJ5, ART009000, 6CK, Alfred North Whitehead, apophasis, Arakawa & Gins, conceptual art,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0327.1.00
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Jun 17, 2016
06/16
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Bardsley Rosenbridge
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To Be, or Not to Be: Paraphrased is an expanding deconstruction of Hamlet’s famous existential question, achieved by putting the line through paraphrasing software 50 times. With each permutation, the quotation grows longer and its meaning is distorted, causing the question to question its own existence by acting as a faulty self-replicator, a nonsensical self-affirmation that destroys itself in the process of becoming. This controlled explosion of a sentence was performed by Bardsley...
Topics: DCF, experimental writing, poetry, William Shakespeare
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0227.1.00
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May 19, 2020
05/20
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Shai Heijmans
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This volume presents a collection of articles centring on the language of the Mishnah and the Talmud – the most important Jewish texts (after the Bible), which were compiled in Palestine and Babylonia in the latter centuries of Late Antiquity. Despite the fact that Rabbinic Hebrew has been the subject of growing academic interest across the past century, very little scholarship has been written on it in English. Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew addresses this lacuna, with eight lucid but...
Topics: CFF, CFP, HRCG, LAN009010, REL006020, PJ4908, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0164
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Sep 5, 2013
09/13
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Michael Edward Moore
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In this far-reaching essay, historian Michael Edward Moore examines modernity as an historical epoch following the end of the medieval period — and as a “messianic concept of time.” In the early twentieth century, a debate over the meaning and origins of modernity unfolded among the philosophers Ernst Cassirer, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Hans Blumenberg. These thinkers tried to resolve the puzzle of the fifteenth-century master Nicholas of Cusa. Was Cusanus the last great medieval thinker,...
Topics: HPCB, intellectual history, Middle Ages, modernity, Nicholas of Cusa, philosophy
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0045.1.00
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Jan 22, 2021
01/21
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Sergey Minov
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This volume presents the original text, accompanied by an English translation and commentary, of a hitherto unpublished Syriac composition, entitled the Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands. Produced by an unknown East Syrian Christian author during the late medieval or early modern period, this work offers a loosely organized catalogue of marvellous events, phenomena, and objects, natural as well as human-made, found throughout the world. The Marvels is a unique...
Topics: CFP, D, DF, LAN009010, REL006020, PJ5693.E5, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, Literature,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0237
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Dec 14, 2021
12/21
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Nick Posegay
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In the first few centuries of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike all faced the challenges of preserving their holy texts in the midst of a changing religious landscape. This situation led Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew scholars to develop new fields of linguistic science in order to better analyse the languages of the Bible and the Qurʾān. Part of this work dealt with the issue of vocalisation in Semitic scripts, which lacked the letters required to precisely record all the...
Topics: CFF, CFP, LAN009010, REL006020, PJ5414, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, Linguistics,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0271
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Dec 31, 2018
12/18
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Jonathan Goldberg
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In Sappho, Jonathan Goldberg takes as his model the fragmentary state in which this sublime poet’s writing survives, a set of compositional and theoretical resources for living and thinking in more fully erotic ways in the present and the future. This book thus offers fragmentary commentary on disparate (Sapphic) works, such as the comics of Alison Bechdel, the paintings and cartoons of Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Reid-Pharr’s “Living as a Lesbian,” Madeleine de Scudéry’s Histoire de...
Topics: DSBB, ancient Greece, classical literature, gay poetry, lesbian poetry, queer studies, Sappho,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0238.1.00
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Jan 4, 2019
01/19
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Nico Jenkins
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Echoes of No Thing seeks to understand the space between thinking which Martin Heidegger and the 13th-century Zen patriarch Eihei Dōgen explore in their writing and teachings. Heidegger most clearly attempts this in Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and Dōgen in his Shōbōgenzō, a collection of fascicles which he compiled in his lifetime. Both thinkers draw us towards thinking, instead of merely defining systems of thought. Both Heidegger and Dōgen imagine possibilities not...
Topics: HPDF, PHI018000, PHI028000, Asian philosophy, comparative philosophy, continental philosophy, Eihei...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0239.1.00
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Dec 19, 2016
12/16
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TJ Bliss; Patrick Blessinger
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This insightful collection of essays explores the ways in which open education can democratise access to education for all. It is a rich resource that offers both research and case studies to relate the application of open technologies and approaches in education settings around the world. Global in perspective, this book argues strongly for the value of open education in both the developed and developing worlds. Through a mixture of theoretical and practical approaches, it demonstrates that...
Topics: JNF, JNM, JNQ, JNV, EDU041000, LC5803.C65, Education, democratisation, inclusion, open access, open...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0103
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Sep 22, 2022
09/22
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Stephanie Polsky
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The Dark Posthuman: Dehumanization, Technology, and the Atlantic World explores how liberal humanism first enlivened, racialized, and gendered global cartographies, and how memory, ancestry, expression, and other aspects of social identity founded in its theories and practices made for the advent of the category of the posthuman through the dimensions of cultural, geographic, political, social, and scientific classification. The posthuman is very much the product of world-building narratives...
Topics: JFMG, PDR, POL042020, SOC054000, JBFV5, UBJ, capitalism, colonialism, ecology, liberalism,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0381.1.00
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Sep 26, 2016
09/16
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Kathryn M. Rudy
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Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals and plants), books were expensive and built to last. They usually outlived their owners. Rather than discard them when they were superseded, book owners found ways to update, amend and upcycle...
Topics: DSBB, HRLC, LIT007000, LIT011000, LIT025040, Z105, History of the Book, book personalisation,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0094
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Oct 5, 2015
10/15
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Bret Mulligan
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Trebia. Trasimene. Cannae. With three stunning victories, Hannibal humbled Rome and nearly shattered its empire. Even today Hannibal's brilliant, if ultimately unsuccessful, campaign against Rome during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) make him one of history's most celebrated military leaders. This biography by Cornelius Nepos (c. 100-27 BC) sketches Hannibal's life from the time he began traveling with his father's army as a young boy, through his sixteen-year invasion of Italy and his...
Topics: CFP, DB, HBLA1, FOR016000, HIS002020, LIT004190, DG249, Classics, Classics: Latin Textbooks,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0068
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Dec 1, 2022
12/22
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Leora Fridman
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In the face of unimaginably violent systems, our most vulnerable bodies — sick, disabled, unable to rise from bed — offer the resistance of imperative vulnerability. What can we learn from the body that cannot help but fail? How can porosity perform treachery within entrenched opressions? What kind of reading and relationship to text can enrich relationship instead of inscribing boundaries between us? What does it mean to accept the unacceptable, and what kind of power becomes available...
Topics: BM, JFFH, VFJB, VFJD, BIO017000, SOC010000, DNC, JBFN, apocalypse, autotheory, body, disability,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0411.1.00
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Jul 27, 2016
07/16
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Nandita Dinesh
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Nandita Dinesh places Kipling’s "six honest serving-men" (who, what, when, where, why, how) in productive conversation with her own experiences in conflict zones across the world to offer a theoretical and practical reflection on making theatre in times of war. This timely and important book weaves together Dinesh’s personal narrative with the public story of modern conflict, illustrating as it does, the importance of theatre as a force for ethical deliberation and social justice....
Topics: AN, ANF, JH, JPWS, JWXK, PER011000, PER011010, SOC002010, PN2041.W37, Economics, Politics and...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0099
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Jan 15, 2021
01/21
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Geoffrey Khan; Paul M. Noorlander
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The Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic, which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3,000 years. Due to upheavals in the Middle East over the last one hundred years, thousands of speakers of Neo-Aramaic dialects have been forced to migrate from their homes or have perished in massacres. As a result, the dialects are now highly endangered. The dialects exhibit a remarkable diversity of structures. Moreover, the considerable depth of attestation of Aramaic...
Topics: CFF, CFP, LAN009010, REL006020, PJ5282, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, Linguistics,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0209
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Nov 13, 2018
11/18
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Julietta Singh
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At once memoir, theory, poetic prose, and fragment, No Archive Will Restore You is a feverish meditation on the body. Departing from Antonio Gramsci’s summons to compile an inventory of the historical traces left in each of us, Singh engages with both the impossibility and urgent necessity of crafting an archive of the body. Through reveries on the enduring legacies of pain, desire, sexuality, race, and identity, she asks us to sense and feel what we have been trained to disavow, to re-member...
Topics: BM, BIO026000, SOC064000, DNC, JBSJ, archives, bulimia, literary memoir, motherhood, sexuality
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0231.1.00
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Jan 31, 2013
01/13
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Lionel Gossman
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Born into a prominent German Jewish banking family, Baron Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) was a keen amateur archaeologist and ethnologist. His discovery and excavation of Tell Halaf in Syria marked an important contribution to knowledge of the ancient Middle East, while his massive study of the Bedouins is still consulted by scholars today. He was also an ardent German patriot, eager to support his country's pursuit of its "place in the sun". Excluded by his part-Jewish ancestry from...
Topics: HBJD, HBJF1, HDDC, JFSR1, JPFQ, HIS014000, HIS026000, REL072000, DD231.O66, Asian Studies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0030
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Jul 31, 2017
07/17
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Mark Dimmock; Andrew Fisher
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What does pleasure have to do with morality? What role, if any, should intuition have in the formation of moral theory? If something is ‘simulated’, can it be immoral? This accessible and wide-ranging textbook explores these questions and many more. Key ideas in the fields of normative ethics, metaethics and applied ethics are explained rigorously and systematically, with a vivid writing style that enlivens the topics with energy and wit. Individual theories are discussed in detail in the...
Topics: HPC, HPQ, YQZ, EDU040000, PHI005000, PHI031000, BJ66, Philosophy, Textbooks and Learning Guides,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0125
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Sep 11, 2017
09/17
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Eugenia Smagina; José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente
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Eugenia Smagina (Евгeния Б. Смaгина) first published her grammar of the Old Nubian language in 1986 in Russian. For more than thirty years the work has remained untranslated, even though the late Gerald M. Browne affirmed that “this lucid, well-argued presentation should be available to all Nubiologists and ought therefore be translated into a western language.” Slavicist José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente has prepared a first English translation of this concise but...
Topics: 2HNR, grammar, linguistics, Old Nubian, philology
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0179.1.00
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Aug 5, 2021
08/21
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Linda Knight
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Working from a speculative, more-than-human ontological position, Inefficient Mapping: A Protocol for Attuning to Phenomena presents a new, experimental cartographic practice and non-representational methodological protocol that attunes to the subaltern genealogies of sites and places, proposing a wayfaring practice for traversing the land founded on an ethics of care. As a methodological protocol, inefficient mapping inscribes the histories and politics of a place by gesturally marking...
Topics: ABA, AFKP, ART009000, ART010000, AFF, art practice, cartography, chaosgraphs, ethical wayfinding,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0336.1.00
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Nov 22, 2016
11/16
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Petra Weschenfelder; Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei; Vincent Pierre-Michel Laisney; Giovanni Ruffini; Alexandros Tsakos; Kerstin Weber-Thum
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The Old Nubian Texts from Attiri is the first publication in the Dotawo: Monographs series. It presents heretofore unpublished material: an edition of a series of manuscripts discovered during the Aswan High Dam campaign at the site of Attiri, a rocky island in the Batn el-Hajjar region in Sudan, and does so in an innovative way, through an intensive collaboration of the editors under the name of the Attiri Collaborative. By bringing together their diverse backgrounds in linguistics,...
Topics: 2HNR, archaeology, Attiri, epigraphy, Nubian Studies, Sudan
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0156.1.00
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Apr 16, 2019
04/19
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S.D. Chrostowska
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Through the prism of criticism, the modalities of thinking form a spectrum: on one end, systematic exposition, on the other, the fragment. It is the latter, fragmentary approach that distinguishes Matches—an investigation that does not focus on a single theme developed in all its aspects but, rather, on a constellation of themes in art, literature, philosophy, science, social and political thought, as well as the human in relation to history and nature. The author pursues here in performative...
Topics: DNF, LIT000000, DNL, GBCQ, aphorisms, epigrams, maxims, meditations, sketches
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0251.1.00
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