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Yeats's Mask: Yeats Annual No. 19
Gould, Warwick; Mills Harper, MargaretOpen Book PublishersYeats’s Mask, Yeats Annual No. 19 is a special issue in this renowned research-level series. Fashionable in the age of Wilde, the Mask changes shape until it emerges as Mask in the...
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The Living Stream: Yeats Annual No. 18
Open Book PublishersYeats Annual No. 18 is another special issue in this renowned research-level series offering a tribute to the pioneering Yeats scholar, A. Norman Jeffares. Memories of the man are...
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The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture
Open Book PublishersDigital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed using devices that are...
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The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts
Atkinson, DavidOpen Book PublishersThis is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad shoul...
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Storytelling in Northern Zambia: Theory, Method, Practice and Other Necessary Fictions
Cancel, RobertOpen Book PublishersMore than just a book, Storytelling in Northern Zambia lets you watch videos of the storytellers while you read. Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life o...
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The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines
Open Book PublishersThe Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading Holofernes, the general of a powerful army, to free her people. The story has fascinated artists and autho...
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Is Behavioral Economics Doomed? The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary
Levine, David K.Open Book PublishersIt is fashionable to criticize economic theory for focusing too much on rationality and ignoring the imperfect and emotional way in which real economic decisions are reached. All o...
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The Theatre of Shelley
Mulhallen, JacquelineOpen Book PublishersThis is the first full-length study of Shelley’s plays in performance. It offers a rich, meticulously researched history of Shelley’s role as a playwright and dramatist and a reass...
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Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation
Finnegan, RuthOpen Book PublishersQuoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-e...
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Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53-86: Latin Text with Introduction, Study Questions, Commentary and English Translation
Gildenhard, IngoOpen Book PublishersLooting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world’s greatest orators. This par...
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Text and Genre in Reconstruction: Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviours, Products and Institutions
Open Book PublishersIn this broad-reaching, multi-disciplinary collection, leading scholars investigate how the digital medium has altered the way we read and write text. In doing so, it challenges th...
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The End and the Beginning: The Book of My Life
Zur Mühlen, HermyniaOpen Book PublishersFirst published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious young woman’s struggle to achieve independence. Born in 188...
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Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45: Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary
Gildenhard, Ingo; Owen, MathewOpen Book PublishersThe emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villains, and Tacitus’ Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream hi...
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Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics
Open Book PublishersAcademic institutions are starting to recognize the growing public interest in digital humanities research, and there is an increasing demand from students for formal training in i...
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The End of the World: Apocalypse and its Aftermath in Western Culture
Lisboa, Maria ManuelOpen Book PublishersOur fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries of space and time, recurs in all human communities and finds e...
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Beyond Holy Russia: The Life and Times of Stephen Graham
Hughes, MichaelOpen Book PublishersThis biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, describing his ad...
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The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925: Theory of a Genre
Goyet, FlorenceOpen Book PublishersThe ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity....
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Coleridge's Laws: A Study of Coleridge in Malta
Hough, Barry; Davis, HowardOpen Book PublishersSamuel Taylor Coleridge is best known as a great poet and literary theorist, but for one, quite short, period of his life he held real political power — acting as Public Secretary...
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Xiipúktan (First of All): Three Views of the Origins of the Quechan People
Bryant, George; Miller, AmyOpen Book PublishersThe Quechan people live along the lower part of the Colorado River in the United States. According to tradition, the Quechan and other Yuman people were created at the beginning of...
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Foundations for Moral Relativism
Velleman, J. DavidOpen Book PublishersIn Foundations for Moral Relativism a distinguished moral philosopher tames a bugbear of current debate about cultural difference. J. David Velleman shows that different communitie...