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Global war, global catastrophe : neutrals, belligerents and the transformatio…
Winner of the World War One Historical Association’s 2021 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize Global War, Global Catastrophe presents a history of the First World War as an all-consuming industrial war that forcibly reshaped the international environment and, with it, impacted the futures of all the world’s people. Narrated chronologically, and available open access, the authors identify key the…
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- 13
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- 9781474275880
- Collation
- 248 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 940.3 MAA g
Essays on Paula Rego : smile when you think about hell
In these powerful and stylishly written essays, Maria Manuel Lisboa dissects the work of Paula Rego, the Portuguese-born artist considered one of the greatest artists of modern times. Focusing primarily on Rego’s work since the 1980s, Lisboa explores the complex relationships between violence and nurturing, power and impotence, politics and the family that run through Rego’s art. Taking …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978183747580
- Collation
- 510 pages (xvi+494)
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- -
- Call Number
- 759 Lis
The afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European cultures : concept…
The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region. Introducing the conceptual frame of postcatastrophe, the collected es…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003050544
- Collation
- xii ; 360p : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 808.80358405318 THE t
Botticelli past and present
The recent exhibitions dedicated to Botticelli around the world show, more than ever, the significant and continued debate about the artist. Botticelli Past and Present engages with this debate. The book comprises four thematic parts, spanning four centuries of Botticelli’s artistic fame and reception from the fifteenth century. Each part comprises a number of essays and includes a short intr…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787354593
- Collation
- xix, 307 p. ill;
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- -
- Call Number
- 759.5 BOT A
Ethnographic experiments with artists, designers and boundary objects : exhib…
Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects is a lively investigation into anthropological practice. Richly illustrated, it invites the reader to reflect on the skills of collaboration and experimentation in fieldwork and in gallery curation, thereby expanding our modes of knowledge production. At the heart of this study are the possibilities for transdisciplinary coll…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800081086
- Collation
- xiii, 201 p. ill;
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- -
- Call Number
- 708 ETH F
Authorizing early modern European women. From biography to biofiction
The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and biographers interested in bringing the stories of early modern women to modern audiences. It also pays attention to the historical women creators themselves, who, be they saints or midwives, visual artists or poets and playwrights, stand out for their roles as active practitioners of …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048552900
- Collation
- 290 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.4094 FIT a
Sensational internationalism : the Paris Commune and the remapping of America…
In refocusing attention on the Paris Commune as a key event in American political and cultural memory, Sensational Internationalism radically changes our understanding of the relationship between France and the United States in the long nineteenth century.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781474411226
- Collation
- xii, 240 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 970.980 COG s
Art in the global present
Art in the Global Present presents a fascinating collection of essays that together reveal how art is currently navigating a globalised world. It addresses social issues such as the impact of migration, the ‘war on terror’ and the global financial crisis, and questions the transformations produced by new forms of flexible labour and the digital revolution. Through examining the resistance t…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780987236999
- Collation
- 290 p.: Colour, Illustrations
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- -
- Call Number
- 709.05 PAP a
Virtual play and the victorian novel : the ethics and aesthetics of fictional…
Pondering the town he had invented in his novels, Anthony Trollope had 'so realised the place, and the people, and the facts' of Barset that 'the pavement of the city ways are familiar to my footsteps'. After his novels end, William Thackeray wonders where his characters now live, and misses their conversation. How can we understand the novel as a form of artificial reality? Timothy Gao propose…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108938518
- Collation
- vi, 238 p. ; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 823.809357 GAO v
Originality, imitation, and plagiarism : teaching writing in the digital age
A timely intervention in national debates about what constitutes original or plagiarized writing
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472070343
- Collation
- 269p. : ill.
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- -
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- 808 ORI o
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