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Arnold Geulincx Ethics
Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) is a key figure in the history of ideas, whose concepts have been seen as precursors to those developed by Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz and Kant. His Ethics presents a treatment of virtue from the standpoint of occasionalist metaphysics. The great Irish writer Samuel Beckett stated that Geulincx, with his emphasis on the powerlessness and ignorance of the human cond…
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- 9789047411383
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- v, 146 p.: ill
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- 200.9 ARN l
Football in fiction: a history
Football in Fiction represents the most comprehensive historical mapping and analysis of novels related to association football (soccer). It offers a theoretically informed field guide, a scholarly cartography of football fiction’s uncertain – and until now – only partially explored terrain. Combining an extensive search for texts with up-to-date academic research, journals, surveys, c…
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- 9780429344053
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- ix, 184 p
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- 809.393579 LEE f
Contemporary narratives of ageing, illness, care
This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness. It includes both text-based and practice-based contributions by leading and emerging scholars in humanistic studies of ageing. The authors consider care not only in film (feature and documentary) and literature (novel, short story, children’s picturebook) but also in the fields of theatre per…
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- 9781003058618
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- viii + 208 p
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- 362.6 CON c
Unsettling translation : studies in honour of Theo Hermans
This collection engages with translation and interpreting from a diverse but complementary range of perspectives, in dialogue with the seminal work of Theo Hermans. A foundational figure in the field, Hermans’s scholarly engagement with translation spans several key areas, including history of translation, metaphor, norms, ethics, ideology, methodology, and the critical reconceptualization of…
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- 9781003134633
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- xviii + 263 p
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- 418.02 UNS u
Philosophy of race : an introduction
Philosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle. Part I provides an overview of ideas of race and ethnicity in the philosophical canon, egalitarian traditions, race in biology, and race in American and Continental Philosophy. Part II addresses race as it operates in life through colonia…
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- 9783319787299
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- XIX, 258 p
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- 305.8001 ZAC p
Cultural convergence : the dublin gate theatre, 1928-1960
Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) over the first three decades of its existence, discussing some of its remarkable productions in the comparative contexts of avant-garde theatre, Hollywood cinema, popular culture, and the development of Irish-language theatre, respectively. The overarching objecti…
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- 9783030575625
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- XVIII, 244 p
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- 792.09 OND c
Literature and the World
Literature and the World presents a broad and multifaceted introduction to world literature and globalization. The book provides a brief background and history of the field followed by a wide spectrum of exemplary readings and case studies from around the world. Amongst other aspects of World Literature, the authors look at: New approaches to digital humanities and world literature Ecologies of…
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- 9781351203678
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- 809 STE l
Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, a…
Rather than working at the usual scales of distant reading, this book shows what happens when we bring techniques from the digital humanities to bear on a single novel for close readings.
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- 9781503609372
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- 823.914 MAR c
Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities
For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable basis of critical method in the humanities. Against such calls, this book argues that the privilege philology has always enjoyed within the modern humanities silently reinforces a colonial hierarchy. In fact, each of philology's foundatio…
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- 9781503604049
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- 281 p
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- 407 SIR a
Wanderers : literature, culture and the open road
This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as re-fected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical anal-ysis, providing both a fascinating informal history and a necessary vantage point for understanding—in our era—the emergence of new wanderers. Wanderers offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and compelling in-troduction to this s…
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- 9781003255307
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- xii + 143 p
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- 809.93352691 MOR w
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