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  • Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary, and Visual Enumeration

    Edited by Roman Alexander Barton, Julia Böckling, Sarah Link, Anne Rüggemeier ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book attempts to show that an examination of the list’s formal features has the potential to produce genuine insights into the production of knowledge, the poetics of literature and the composition of visual art. Following a conceptual introduction, the twelve single-authored chapters place the list in a variety of well-researched contexts, including ancient Roman historiography, ... Read more

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  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

    by David Bellos ...
    "An award-winning translator describes and defends his profession. . . . Ultimately illuminating, even transformative." — Kirkus Reviews"Dazzingly inventive." — New York Times Book Review , A Notable Book of the Year"A richly original cultural history." — The Economist , A Book ... ... Read more

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  • Book Was There

    Reading in Electronic Times

    by Andrew Piper ...
    Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book and a connoisseur of print, but as a card-carrying member of the first digital generation—and the father of two digital natives—he understands that we ... Read more

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  • Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation

    by Frank R. Ankersmit ...
    In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm von Humboldt, is essentially correct but that its original idealist and romanticist idiom needs to ... Read more

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  • Not Thinking like a Liberal

    by Raymond Geuss ...
    In a compelling meditation on the ideas that shape our lives, one of the world’s most provocative and creative philosophers explains how his eccentric early years influenced his lifelong critique of liberalism.Liberalism is so amorphous and pervasive that for most people in the West it is background noise, the natural state of affairs. But there are nooks and crannies in every society where the ... Read more

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  • Evolution and Conversion

    Dialogues on the Origins of Culture

    by Dr René Girard ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Evolution and Conversion explores the main tenets of René Girard's thought in a series of dialogues. Here, Girard reflects on the evolution of his thought and offers striking new insights on topics such as violence, religion, desire and literature. His long argument is a historical one in which the origin of culture and religion is reunited in the contemporary world by means of a reinterpretation ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Translation Studies

    by Piotr KUHIWCZAK and Karin Littau ...
    A Companion to Translation Studies is the first work of its kind. It provides an authoritative guide to key approaches in translation studies. All of the essays are specially commissioned for this collection, and written by leading international experts in the field. The book is divided into nine specialist areas: culture, philosophy, linguistics, history, literary, gender, theatre and opera, ... Read more

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  • ABC: The Alphabetizaton of the Popular Mind

    by Ivan Illich ...
    In ABC... philosopher and cultural analyst Ivan Illich and medieval scholar and literary critic Barry Sanders have produced an original, meticulous and provocative study of the advent, spread and present decline of literacy. They explore he impact of the alphabet on fundamental thought processes and attitudes, on memory, on political groupings and religous and cultural expectations. Their ... Read more

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  • Re-Imagining Nature

    The Promise of a Christian Natural Theology

    by Alister E. McGrath ...
    Reimagining Nature is a new introduction to the fast developing area of natural theology, written by one of the world’s leading theologians. The text engages in serious theological dialogue whilst looking at how past developments might illuminate and inform theory and practice in the present.This text sets out to explore what a properly Christian approach to natural theology might look like and ... Read more

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  • Trans Historical

    Gender Plurality before the Modern

    Edited by Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, Anna Klosowska ...
    Trans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Poland and Byzantium to Boston.Refuting arguments that transgender people, experiences, and identities were non-existent or even impossible prior to the twentieth century, this volume focuses on archives ... Read more

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  • Translation Studies

    by Susan Bassnett ...
    Series series New Accents
    At a time when millions travel around the planet – some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile – translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance. This guide presents readers with an accessible and engaging introduction to the valuable position translation holds within literature and society.Leading translation theorist Susan Bassnett traces the history of ... Read more

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  • René Girard's Mimetic Theory

    by Wolfgang Palaver ...
    Series series Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
    A systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist René Girard, this essential text explains its three main pillars (mimetic desire, the scapegoat mechanism, and the Biblical “difference”) with the help of examples from literature and philosophy. This book also offers an overview of René Girard’s life and work, showing how ... Read more

    $21.99 USD