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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “vivienne westbrook”
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  • Long Travail and Great Paynes

    A Politics of Reformation Revision

    by Vivienne Westbrook ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Some of England's most fascinating Renaissance texts have been forgotten by historians, literary critics and theologians alike. The earliest printed Bibles in the English language provide an astonishingly rich resource for interdisciplinary studies in the 21st century. Long Travail and Great Paynes is a close textual analysis of seven texts that for a wide range of reasons, but no good ones, have ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Sharks in the Arts

    From Feared to Revered

    by Vivienne Westbrook, Shaun Collin, Dean Crawford, Mark Nicholls ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    This book is the most thorough exploration to date of the many ways in which a wild creature has been absorbed, reimagined and represented across the ages in all of the major art forms. The authors consider not only how the identity of sharks in the natural environment became incorporated into a cultural environment but also how sharks came to be considered the most feared creatures in the open ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Humour in Times of Confrontation, 1901 to the Present

    Edited by Shun-Liang Chao, Vivienne Westbrook ...
    Series series Humor in Literature and Culture
    Humour in Times of Confrontation: 1901 to the Present examines the various and surprising ways in which humour has been powerfully employed, through a wider range of media than possible at any other time in history, as a response to conflict.With no earlier century undergoing more diverse, more extensive, and more intense conflicts than the period in question, the last twelve decades provide a ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Oceans, Seas and Shorelines

    A Cultural Introduction

    Edited by Vivienne Westbrook, Mark Nicholls ...
    Series series Oceans, Seas, and Shorelines
    While humans have successfully exploited the Earth’s land surfaces, the seventy percent of our planet covered by water has confronted them with greater challenges and many seemingly insoluble mysteries. Oceans and seas, and the shorelines that connect them with land, continue to escape human grasp, and that elusiveness persists despite unrelenting and multifaceted human engagement with the great ... Read more

    $91.63 CAD

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  • Catholic Renewal and Protestant Resistance in Marian England

    Edited by Vivienne Westbrook, Elizabeth Evenden ...
    Series series Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
    Mary Tudor's reign is regarded as a period where, within a short space of time, an early modern European state attempted to reverse the religious policy of preceding governments. This required the use of persuasion and coercion, of propaganda and censorship, as well as the controversial decision to revive an old statute against heresy. The efforts to renew Catholic worship and to revive Catholic ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Humour in the Arts

    New Perspectives

    Edited by Vivienne Westbrook, Shun-liang Chao ...
    Series series Studies for the International Society for Cultural History
    This collection demonstrates the usefulness of approaching texts—verbal, visual and aural—through a framework of humour. Contributors offer in-depth discussions of humour in the West within a wider cultural historical context to achieve a coherent, chronological sense of how humour proceeds from antiquity to modernity. Reading humorously reveals the complexity of certain aspects of texts that ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    In Search of the Giants of the Sea

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  • Vienna

    How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

    by Richard Cockett ...
    How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens—every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some ... Read more

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  • Grand Hotel Abyss

    The Lives of the Frankfurt School

    by Stuart Jeffries ...
    “Marvelously entertaining, exciting and informative.” —Guardian“An engaging and accessible history.” —New York Review of BooksThis group biography is “an exhilarating page-turner” and “outstanding critical introduction” to the work and legacy of the Frankfurt School, and the great 20th-century thinkers who created it (Washington Post).In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and in... ... Read more

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  • Fathoms

    The World in the Whale

    by Rebecca Giggs ...
    Winner of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship with other ... Read more

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  • Capitalism: A Horror Story

    Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination

    by Jon Greenaway ...
    A horror-story history of capitalism and its relationship to the haunted and the gothic, and a manifesto of Gothic Marxism, which finds revolutionary hope in the nightmare of modernity.What does it mean to see horror in capitalism? What can horror tell us about the state and nature of capitalism?Blending film criticism, cultural theory, and philosophy, Capitalism: A Horror Story examines ... Read more

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  • The Avant Garde

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Prof David Cottington ...
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    'The avant-garde' is perhaps the most important and influential concept in the history of modern culture. For over a hundred years it has governed critical and historical assessment of the quality and significance of an artist or a work of art, in any medium-if these have been judged to be 'avant-garde', then they have been worthy of consideration. If not, then by and large they have not, and ... Read more

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