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Publishing research in English as an additional language :practices, pathways…
Many universities worldwide now require established and novice scholars, as well as PhD students, to publish in English in international journals. This growing trend gives rise to multiple interrelated questions, which this volume seeks to address through the perspectives of a group of researchers and practitioners who met in Coimbra, Portugal in 2015 for the PRISEAL and MET conferences. The vo…
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- 9781925261523
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- xviii, 258p. : ill.
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- 808.066378 PUB p
Religious dissimulation and early modern drama:the limits of toleration
Kilian Schindler examines how playwrights such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe represented religious dissimulation on stage and argues that debates about the legitimacy of dissembling one's faith were closely bound up with early modern conceptions of theatricality. Considering both Catholic and Protestant perspectives on religious dissimulation in the absence of full…
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- 9781009226295
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- xi, 274 pages
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- 822.309382 SCH r
Read till it shatters :nationalism and identity in modern Thai literature
This book introduces readers to modern Thai literature through the themes of modernity, nationalism, identity and gender. In the cultural, political and social transformations that occurred in Thailand during the first half of the twentieth century, Thai literature was one of the vehicles that moved the changes. Taking seriously ‘read till it shatters’, a Thai phrase that instructs readers …
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- 9781760462260
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- 895.91 CHA r
Decolonizing the English literary curriculum
An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reforming the English Literary Curriculum from specific decolonial perspectives in this book, using evidence-based arguments from classroom contexts, as well as establishing new critical agendas
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- 9781009299985
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- x, 522 pages; illustration
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- 820.71 MUK d
Classics and celtic literary modernism:yeats, joyce, macdiarmid and jones
Celtic modernism had a complex history with classical reception. In this book, Gregory Baker examines the work of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, David Jones and Hugh MacDiarmid to show how new forms of modernist literary expression emerged as the evolution of classical education, the insurgent power of cultural nationalisms and the desire for transformative modes of artistic invention converged acro…
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- 9781108953825
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- xxvi, 300 pages
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- 820.9 BAK c
Decolonizing the English literary curriculum
An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reforming the English Literary Curriculum from specific decolonial perspectives in this book, using evidence-based arguments from classroom contexts, as well as establishing new critical agendas
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- 9781009299985
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- x, 522 pages; illustration
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- 820.71 MUK d
Religious dissimulation and early modern drama:the limits of toleration
Kilian Schindler examines how playwrights such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe represented religious dissimulation on stage and argues that debates about the legitimacy of dissembling one's faith were closely bound up with early modern conceptions of theatricality. Considering both Catholic and Protestant perspectives on religious dissimulation in the absence of full…
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- 9781009226295
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- xi, 274 pages
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- 822.309382 SCH r
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
The Pathway to Publishing:A Guide to Quantitative Writing in the Health Sciences
Writing manuscripts is central to the advance of scientific knowledge. For an early career aspiring scientist, writing first author manuscripts is an opportunity to develop critical skills and to credential their expertise. Writing manuscripts, however, is difficult, doubly so for scientists who use English as a second language. Many science students intentionally avoid a writing-intensive curr…
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- 9783030981754
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- XIII; 186p;
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- 808.06661 PAT S
The Pathway to Publishing:A Guide to Quantitative Writing in the Health Sciences
Writing manuscripts is central to the advance of scientific knowledge. For an early career aspiring scientist, writing first author manuscripts is an opportunity to develop critical skills and to credential their expertise. Writing manuscripts, however, is difficult, doubly so for scientists who use English as a second language. Many science students intentionally avoid a writing-intensive curr…
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- 9783030981754
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- XIII; 186p;
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- 808.06661 PAT S
ACTIVIST AUTHORS AND BRITISH CHILD READERS OF COLOUR
Exploring a history of activists writing for and about children of colour from abolition to Black Lives Matter, this open access book examines issues such as the space given to people of colour by white activists; the voice, agency and intersectionality in activist writing for young people; how writers used activism to expand definitions of Britishness for child readers; and how activism and wr…
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- 9781350196056
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- viii, 216p.
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- 820.809282 ACT s
Early modern German Shakespeare :and, The taming of the shrew : Tito Andronic…
This open access book provides translations of early German versions of Titus Andronicus and The Taming of the Shrew. The introductory material situates these plays in their German context and discusses the insights they offer into the original English texts. English itinerant players toured in northern Continental Europe from the 1580s. Their repertories initially consisted of plays from the L…
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- 9781350094765
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- xvi, 472p.
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- 822.33 EAR s
Beards and texts :images of masculinity in medieval German literature
Beards and Texts explores the literary portrayal of beards in medieval German texts from the mid-twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. It argues that as the pre-eminent symbol for masculinity the beard played a distinctive role throughout the Middle Ages in literary discussions of such major themes as majesty and humanity. At the same time beards served as an important point of reference in…
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- 9781787352216
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- xi, 220p. ill;
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- 830.935211 BEA S
Empire Under the Microscope :Parasitology and the British Literary Imaginatio…
This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor…
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- 9783030847173
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- xiii, 294 p.
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- 823.8093561 EMP E
Scales of captivity :racial capitalism and the Latinx child
Mary Pat Brady traces the figure of the captive and cast-off child over 150 years of Latinx/Chicanx literature as a critique of colonial modernity and the forms of confinement that underpin racialized citizenship.
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- 9781478092445
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- ix, 313p.
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- 810.9868073 SCA b
Context in literary and cultural studies
Context in Literary and Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary volume that deals with the challenges of studying works of art and literature in their historical context today. The relationship between artworks and context has long been a central concern for aesthetic and cultural disciplines, and the question of context has been asked anew in all eras. Developments in contemporary culture and…
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- 9781787356245
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- xv, 210 p. ill;
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- 809 CON J
Creating the ancient rhetorical tradition
This book explores the history of rhetorical thought and examines the gradual association of different aspects of rhetorical theory with two outstanding fourth-century BCE writers: Lysias and Isocrates. It highlights the parallel development of the rhetorical tradition that became understood, on the one hand, as a domain of style and persuasive speech, associated with the figure of Lysias, and,…
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- 9781108873956
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- xii; 278p; ill.
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- 808.00938 CRE L
Songs on the Road :Wandering Religious Poets in India, Tibet, and Japan
The chapter proceeds from the sense of mutual dependence that existed between rudimentary warrior-elites and specialized supp-liers of prestige in archaic Greek and Indo-Iranian societies. While this tension was fraught with the danger of bankruptcy and disloy-alty, it also fostered new modes of antinomian religiosity. The Greek and Vedic comparanda revolve around the notion of sacrif…
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- 9789176351369
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- 154pg
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- 808.819382 LAR s
Electronic literature as digital humanities :contexts, forms, and practices
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms & Practices is a volume of essays that provides a detailed account of born-digital literature by artists and scholars who have contributed to its birth and evolution. Rather than offering a prescriptive defini…
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- 9781501363481
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- ix; 392 pg; ill.
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- 801.950285 ELE e
Writing manuals for the masses
This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has non…
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- 9783030536145
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- xxii; 412 PG; ill.
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- 808.0209 WRI w
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