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Representations of transnational human trafficking : present-day news media, …
This open access edited collection examines representations of human trafficking in media ranging from British and Serbian newspapers, British and Scandinavian crime novels, and a documentary series, and questions the extent to which these portrayals reflect the realities of trafficking. It tackles the problematic tendency to under-report particular types of victim and forms of trafficking, and…
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- 9783319782140
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- 401.41 REP r
China dreams
"The year 2019 marked a number of significant anniversaries for the People’s Republic of China (PRC), each representing different ‘Chinese dreams’. There was the centennial of the May Fourth Movement — a dream of patriotism and cultural renewal. The PRC celebrated its seventieth anniversary — a dream of revolution and national strength. It was also thirty years since the student-led P…
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- 9781760463731
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- 328 p.; 22 cm.
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- 814.18 CHI c
World literatures : exploring the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange
"Placing itself within the burgeoning field of world literary studies, the organising principle of this book is that of an open-ended dynamic, namely the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange. As an adaptable comparative fulcrum for literary studies, the notion of the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange accommodates also highly localised literatures. In this way, it redresses what has repeatedly been i…
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- 9789176350768
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- 421 p.
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- Stockholm English Studies, 3
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- 800 WOR w
From Laṅkā eastwards : the rāmāyaṇa in the literature
The Kakawin Ramayana, arguably the oldest Old Javanese epic text in Indic metres (circa 9th century AD), holds a unique position in the literary heritage of Indonesia. The poem has retained a remarkable vitality through the centuries in the Archipelago, inspiring many forms of artistic expression not only in the domain of literature but also in the visual and performing arts, from the reliefs o…
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- 9789067183840
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- XIV, 259 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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- 294.5922 CRE l
Montaigne and the origins of modern philosophy
Montaigne’s Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. Ann Hartle’s Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy argues that the essay is actually the perfect expression of Montaigne as what he called "a new figure: an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher." Unpremeditated philosophy is philosophy made sociable—brought down from the heavens to t…
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- 9780810129658
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- xxi, 216 pages ; 23 cm
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- 844.3 HAR m
The economy as a complex spatial system : macro, meso and micro perspectives
This collected volume represents the final outcome of the COST Action IS1104 “The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models, tools and policy evaluation”. Visualizing the EU as a complex and multi-layered network, the book is organized in three parts, each of them dealing with a different level of analysis: At the macro-level, Part I considers the interactions within la…
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- 9783319656274
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- xii, 220p. : ill.
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- 330.9 ECO e
World literature, cosmopolitanism, globality : beyond, against, post, otherwise
In view of the current crisis of globalization, this book aims to interrogate one of its key concepts in the past decades: World Literature. In a historical moment where the established focus on transnational identities, linguistic intersections, and other cosmopolitan cultural configurations is being challenged, the contributions of this volume explore possible adjustments, critiques, reconcep…
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- 9783110641134
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- VI, 240 p.
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- 809 WOR w
Creating standards. Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript cultures
Manuscript cultures based on Arabic script feature various tendencies in standardisation of orthography, script types and layout. Unlike previous studies, this book steps outside disciplinary and regional boundaries and provides a typological cross-cultural comparison of standardisation processes in twelve Arabic-influenced writing traditions where different cultures, languages and scripts inte…
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- 9783110639063
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- 336 p.; 22 cm
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures; Volume 16
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- 492.7 CRE c
Specialised and professional discourse across media and genres
This book deals with discursive aspects of specialised communication, looking in particular at the role and scope of language and discourse in professional practice across a variety of fields and modes. Its chapters are diverse in their outlooks, analytical procedures, and object of enquiry, and span across different specialised domains, settings, genres, and media (from face-to-face communicat…
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- 9788867056552
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- 287 p.; 22 cm.
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- 400 SPE s
Architecture and the novel under the Italian fascist regime
Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime discusses the relationship between the novel and architecture during the Fascist period in Italy (1922-1943). By looking at two profoundly diverse aesthetic phenomena within the context of the creation of a Fascist State art, Billiani and Pennacchietti argue that an effort of construction, or reconstruction, was the main driving force …
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- 9783030194284
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- xviii, 229p. : ill.
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- 853.9109 BIL a
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