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Raising Milton'S Ghost - John Milton And The Sublime Of Terror In The Early Romantic Period

by Joseph Crawford

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 How did 'Milton the Regicide', a man often regarded in his lifetime as a dangerous traitor and heretic, become 'the Sublime Milton'? This book uncovers the cultural historical background against which the Romantics and their contemporaries encountered and interacted with Milton's reputation and works.
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Sympathetic Sentiments - Affect, Emotion And Spectacle In The Modern World

by John Jervis

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 This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Sympathetic Sentiments develops an innovative interdisciplinary framework to explore the implications of living in a culture of feeling that seems ill at ease with itself, one in which sentiments are frequently denounced for being sentimental and self-indulgent. These tensions are traced back to the inheritance of the eighteenth century, enabling us to identify a distinctive ''spectacle of sympathy'', in which sympathy entails public forms of expression whereby being on show is both a condition of the authenticity of such affects and of their capacity to be masked and simulated. This, John Jervis suggests, is at the root of a range of controversies central to modern life, art and culture, including contemporary debates around trauma and compassion fatigue. Connected to these debates is the issue of modern sensationalism, discussed here and elaborated in a companion volume: Sensational Subjects: The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World, which is published simultaneously by Bloomsbury.
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Sensational Subjects - The Dramatization Of Experience In The Modern World

by John Jervis

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 This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Under what conditions does ''sensation'' become ''sensational''? In the early nineteenth century murder was a staple of the sensationalizing popular press and gruesome descriptions were deployed to make a direct impact on the sensations of the reader. By the end of the century, public concern with the thrills, spills, and shocks of modern life was increasingly articulated in the language of sensation. Media sensationalism contributed to this process and magnified its impact, just as sensation was, in turn, taken up by literature, art and film. In the contemporary world the dramatization of these experiences in an era of media panics over terrorism and paedophilia has taken an overtly melodramatic form, in which battles of good and evil play out across the landscapes of our lives. Sensational Subjects develops an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to exploring these themes, their impact and their implications for understanding the modern world. A companion volume, Sympathetic Sentiments: Affect, Emotion and Spectacle in the Modern World is published simultaneously by Bloomsbury.
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Joseph Cornell Versus Cinema

by Michael (Associate Professor Of Video Art And Digital Media, University Of Warwick, Uk) Pigott

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 This contribution to the WISH List of interdisciplinary studies in the humanities makes the case for the significance of Joseph Cornell's films, for both an Art History and a Film Studies audience. It should also have significant appeal to students of American Studies and all those interested in pop culture, celebrity and fandom.
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Confessions - The Philosophy Of Transparency

by Thomas Docherty

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 This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book explores what is at stake in our confessional culture. Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings from Augustine to Montaigne and from Sylvia Plath to Derrida, arguing that through all this work runs a philosophical substratum - the conditions under which it is possible to assert a confessional mode - that needs exploration and explication. Docherty outlines a philosophy of confession that has pertinence for a contemporary political culture based on the notion of ''transparency''. In a postmodern ''transparent society'', the self coincides with its self-representations. Such a position is central to the idea of authenticity and truth-telling in confessional writing: it is the basis of saying, truthfully, ''here I take my stand''. The question is: what other consequences might there be of an assumption of the primacy of transparency? Two areas are examined in detail: the religious and the judicial. Docherty shows that despite the tendency to regard transparency as a general social and ethical good, our contemporary culture of transparency has engendered a society in which autonomy (or the very authority of the subject that proclaims ''I confess'') is grounded in guilt, reparation and victimhood.
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Dress, Law And Naked Truth - A Cultural Study Of Fashion And Form

by Gary Watt

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 This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Why are civil authorities in so-called liberal democracies affronted by public nudity and the Islamic full-face ''veil''? Why is law and civil order so closely associated with robes, gowns, suits, wigs and uniforms? Why is law so concerned with the ''evident'' and the need for justice to be ''seen'' to be done? Why do we dress and obey dress codes at all? In this, the first ever study devoted to the many deep cultural connections between dress and law, the author addresses these questions and more. His responses flow from the radical thesis that ''law is dress and dress is law''. Engaging with sources from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare, Carlyle, Dickens and Damien Hirst, Professor Watt draws a revealing history of dress and civil order and offers challenging conclusions about the nature of truth and the potential for individuals to fit within the forms of civil life.
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Joseph Cornell Versus Cinema

by Michael Pigott

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 This contribution to the WISH List of interdisciplinary studies in the humanities makes the case for the significance of Joseph Cornell's films, for both an Art History and a Film Studies audience. It should also have significant appeal to students of American Studies and all those interested in pop culture, celebrity and fandom.
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Constitution Of English Literature - The State, The Nation And The Canon

by Michael Gardiner

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 Michael Gardiner examines the ideology of the discipline of English Literature, arguing that it is intimately linked with the emergence of the English State, and that it has consequently suppressed the idea of the nation.
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Open-Space Learning - A Study In Transdisciplinary Pedagogy

by Carol Chillington Rutter, Jonathan Heron, Jonothan Neelands e Nicholas Monk

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 A unique resource for educators wishing to develop a workshop model of teaching and learning. Despite the proliferation of virtual learning there is still real value to interaction in the classroom. The authors show how the techniques of the theatrical rehearsal room are applicable and effective across a wide range of disciplines.
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Public Value Of The Humanities

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 Why should governments invest public money funding research into ancient Greek tragedy or philosophical conundrums? Does such research deliver 'value for money' and 'public benefit'? In this book a group of distinguished humanities researchers reflect on the public value of their discipline, using particular research projects as case-studies.
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Reading And Rhetoric In Montaigne And Shakespeare

by Peter Mack

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 Shakespeare and Montaigne are the English and French writers of the sixteenth century who have the most to say to modern readers. This fascinating and rigorous book explores the relationship between the work of these great writers in the light of their rhetorical training.
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Survival Of The Sparkliest! (The Wish List #4)

by Sarah Aronson

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Danish Modern - Between Art And Design

by Mark (University Of Washington, Usa) Mussari

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Danish Modern - Between Art And Design

by Mark (University Of Washington, Usa) Mussari

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My First Santa Is Coming To Wales

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Oracle Bpm Suite 12c Modeling Patterns

by Vivek Acharya

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Advanced Uft 12 For Test Engineers Cookbook

by Jonathon Lee Wright e Meir Bar-Tal

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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

by Alexandre Borges

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Nietzsche And Political Thought

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 An introduction examining the controversies surrounding Nietzsche's thought and its legacy for politics, making a case for a fresh examination of the topic. An international team of leading scholars provide vital new perspectives on both core and novel topics including justice, democratic and the Enlightenment.
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Phenomenology And Virtue Ethics

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Michel Houellebecq And The Literature Of Despair

by Dr Carole (Goldsmiths University Of London, Uk) Sweeney

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Emily Bronte And The Religious Imagination

by Dr Simon (University Of Liverpool, Uk) Marsden

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 "Through close readings from her literary writings - from Wuthering Heights to her poems, essays and diaries - this book explores Emily Bronte's theological beliefs"--
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Boethiusâ€™ Consolation Of Philosophy As A Product Of Late Antiquity

by Antonio (Queens College, Cuny, Usa) Donato

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 An exploration of Boethius' social, political background, his notion of philosophy and its sources, and his understanding of the relationship between Christianity and classical culture.
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Religious Statues And Personhood - Testing The Role Of Materiality

by Dr. Amy R. (Oxford Brookes University, Uk) Whitehead

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