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Poetry's afterlife: verse in the digital age
At a time when most commentators fixate on American poetry's supposed ""death,"" Kevin Stein's Poetry's Afterlife instead proposes the vitality of its aesthetic hereafter. The essays of Poetry's Afterlife blend memoir, scholarship, and personal essay to survey the current poetry scene, trace how we arrived here, and suggest where poetry is headed in our increasingly digital culture. The result …
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- 9780472050994
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- 810.09 STE p
Geographies of the university
This open access volume raises awareness of the histories, geographies, and practices of universities and analyzes their role as key actors in today’s global knowledge economy. Universities are centers of research, teaching, and expertise with significant economic, social, and cultural impacts at different geographical scales. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and countries offer origina…
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- 9783319755939
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- xiv, 676p. : ill.
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- 378.009 GEO g
Indic manuscript cultures through the ages. material, textual, and historical…
This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions of the researchers who collaborated with it, it covers a wide range of topics related to South As…
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- 9783110543100
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- xviii, 783 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 14
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- 091 IND i
Humour and laughter in history transcultural perspectives
Humour can be used as a »weapon« or as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis. The book presents examples from different cultures (Russia, Europe, USA), from different historical epochs (from the Napoleonic era up to the current time) and from different medias (caricature, journalism, film). By looking at the individual cases it becomes pos…
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- 9783837628586
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- 137 p.; 22 cm.
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- Historische Lebenswelten in populären WissenskulturenHistory in Popular Cultures | Volume 15
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- 909 HUM h
Cultivating femininity: women and tea culture in Edo and Meiji Japan
The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (chanoyu). In Cultivating Femininity, Rebecca Corbett writes women back into this history and shows how tea practice for women was understood, articulated, and promoted in the Edo (1603–1868) and Meiji (1868–1912) periods. Viewing chano…
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- 9780824872076
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- 394.150952 CAR c
Critical rhythm : the poetics of a literary life form
Explores both the theory and practice of rhythm in literature with a focus on nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry. Emphasis on rhythm’s role in contemporary literary criticism, including debates about poetic form and genre. This collection intervenes in recent debates over formalism, historicism, poetics, and lyric by focusing on one of literary criticism’s most important, most vested, …
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- 9780823282043
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- 801.95 GLA c
Global history and new polycentric approaches : Europe, Asia and the Americas…
Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its emergence in Asia with the rapid development of th…
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- 9789811040535
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- xxx, 352p. : ill.
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The Law of Nations and Natural Law 1625-1800
Twelve international scholars offer innovative studies of the law of nations from the Peace of Westphalia to the Enlightenment. The focus is on little known contexts and sources, and on novel interpretations of classics in the field. Readership: Philosophers, historians, legal scholars and political theorists interested in the history of international law, and anyone concerned with modern natur…
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- 9789004384200
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- 341.09033 ZUR t
Public goods provision in the early modern economy : comparative perspectives…
Historically, for sustaining and reproducing their economic lives, people have obtained goods and services through various ways. How did people tackle issues that the market did not handle well? This volume compares early modern efforts to provide “public goods”—defined in contraposition to market-mediated goods and goods provided through personal relations, such as kinship ties. We exami…
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- 9780520972797
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- XIII, 313 p.
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- 330.903 PUB p
The social life of economic inequalities in contemporary Latin America : deca…
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to …
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- 9783319615363
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- xix, 289p. : ill.
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- 305.8 SOC s
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