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Chick lit hat seit ihrer Entstehung Mitte der 1990er Jahre kulturelle, geographische u...
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2022; Vol. 00016
Chick lit hat seit ihrer Entstehung Mitte der 1990er Jahre kulturelle, geographische und sprachliche Grenzen überschritten. Ihre globale Popularität wurde lange als Transfer von den weißen westlichen »Zentren« in die »Peripherien« beschrieben, vom originären anglo-amerikanischen Genre zu adaptierten, ethnischen Subgenres. Sandra Folie zeigt anhand von Fallbeispielen vermeintlich peripherer ethnic chick lit aus Asien und Afrika, wie sexistische und ethnisierende Labeling- und Vermarktungsstrategien international erfolgreiche Gegenwartsliteratur von Frauen• abwerten und vereinheitlichen. Ihre vergleichende Analyse zeichnet ein Bild pluraler Herkunftsnarrative und Entwicklungstendenzen.
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Fiction--Women authors--History and criticism - Indonesian fiction--Women authors--History and criticism - Young women in literature - African fiction--Women authors--History and criticism - Chick lit--History and criticism - Chinese fiction--Women authors--History and criticism - Middle Eastern fiction--Women authors--History and criticismContent provider:
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A Century of Maritime Science : The St. Andrews Biological Station
Jennifer M. Hubbard;David Wildish;Robert L. Stephenson;Jennifer M. Hubbard;...
Located on the Bay of Fundy, the St. Andrews Biological Station is Canada's oldest per...
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A Century of Maritime Science : The St. Andrews Biological Station
2016
Located on the Bay of Fundy, the St. Andrews Biological Station is Canada's oldest permanent marine research institution. A Century of Maritime Science reviews the fisheries, environmental, oceanographic, and aquaculture research conducted over the last hundred years at St. Andrews from the perspective of the participating scientists. Introductory essays by two leading historians of science situate the work at St. Andrews within their historical context.With topics including the contributions of women to the early study of marine biology in Canada; the study of scallops, Atlantic salmon, and paralytic shellfish poisoning; and the development of underwater camera technology, A Century of Maritime Science offers a captivating mixture of first-hand reminiscences, scientific expertise, and historical analysis.
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Marine biologists--Canada--History - Marine biology--Research--Canada--History - Research institutes--Canada--HistoryContent provider:
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Interrelaciones entre la imagen, el texto y las tecnologías digitales, Nuevas perspectivas en la enseñanza de las ciencias sociales.
Castro León, Elke (Coordinador);Castro León, Elke (Coordinador)
La continua exposición a contenidos audiovisuales y productos mediáticos a los que se ...
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Interrelaciones entre la imagen, el texto y las tecnologías digitales, Nuevas perspectivas en la enseñanza de las ciencias sociales.
2023; Vol. 00154
La continua exposición a contenidos audiovisuales y productos mediáticos a los que se encuentran expuestos los educandos a lo largo del día y el uso en todas las esferas de la vida de las tecnologías digitales llevan a los profesionales de la educación a tomar conciencia de la necesidad de incorporar estos elementos que forman parte de la cotidianeidad del individuo como recursos y estrategias para el aprendizaje en las aulas de los diferentes niveles del sistema educativo, desde las enseñanzas obligatorias hasta las superiores,Hoy más que nunca, los individuos que intervienen en el ámbito educativo, con independencia del papel que estos desempeñen en el sector como: especialistas, investigadores o docentes, coinciden en afirmar que la construcción del conocimiento no es un hecho que tenga lugar exclusivamente en el contexto educativo formal, así como tampoco es un fenómeno que pueda ser alcanzado en soledad y sin la interacción y cooperación con diferentes sujetos, ya sea de modo presencial o a través de la pantalla, Es por ello por lo que, en la actualidad se hace necesaria la observación y exploración de la función que desempeñan los aprendizajes no formales e informales del alumnado y concretamente en las enseñanzas de las Ciencias Sociales como es el caso que nos ocupa en esta obra, Interrelaciones entre la imagen, el texto y las tecnologías digitales, Nuevas perspectivas en la enseñanza de las Ciencias Sociales,
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Internet in education - Education--Audio-visual aids - Social sciences--Study and teachingContent provider:
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Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta : A Call for Reclamation
Ned Randolph;Ned Randolph
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of Califor...
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Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta : A Call for Reclamation
2024
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta uses the story of mud to answer a deceptively simple question: How can a place uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise be one of the nation's most promiscuous producers and consumers of fossil fuels? Organized around New Orleans and South Louisiana as a case study, this book examines how the unruly Mississippi River and its muddy delta shaped the people, culture, and governance of the region. It proposes a framework of'muddy thinking'to gum the wheels of extractive capitalism and pollution that have brought us to the precipice of planetary collapse. Muddy Thinking calls upon our dirty, shared histories to address urgent questions of mutual survival and care in a rapidly changing world.
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The Greater Gulf : Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of St Lawrence
Claire Elizabeth Campbell;Edward MacDonald;Brian Payne;Claire Elizabeth Cam...
The largest estuary in the world, the Gulf of St Lawrence is defined broadly by an eco...
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The Greater Gulf : Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of St Lawrence
2019; Vol. 00006
The largest estuary in the world, the Gulf of St Lawrence is defined broadly by an ecology that stretches from the upper reaches of the St Lawrence River to the Gulf Stream, and by a web of influences that reach from the heart of the continent to northern Europe. For more than a millennium, the gulf's strategic location and rich marine resources have made it a destination and a gateway, a cockpit and a crossroads, and a highway and a home. From Vinland the Good to the novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Gulf has haunted the Western imagination. A transborder collaboration between Canadian and American scholars, The Greater Gulf represents the first concerted exploration of the environmental history – marine and terrestrial – of the Gulf of St Lawrence. Contributors tell many histories of a place that has been fished, fought over, explored, and exploited. The essays'defining themes resonate in today's charged atmosphere of quickening climate change as they recount stories of resilience played against ecological fragility, resistance at odds with accommodation, considered versus reckless exploitation, and real, imagined, and imposed identities. Reconsidering perceptions about borders and the spaces between and across land and sea, The Greater Gulf draws attention to a central place and part of North Atlantic and North American history. Contributors include Rainer Baehre (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Jack Bouchard (Folger Institute), Claire Campbell (Bucknell University), Caitlin Charman (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Jack Little (Simon Fraser University), Edward MacDonald (University of Prince Edward Island), Matthew McKenzie (University of Connecticut), Suzanne Morton (McGill University), Brian Payne (Bridgewater State University), John G. Reid (St. Mary's University), and Daniel Soucier (University of Maine).
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International Handbook of Engineering Education Research
Aditya Johri;Aditya Johri
This comprehensive handbook offers a broad overview of contemporary research on engine...
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International Handbook of Engineering Education Research
2023
This comprehensive handbook offers a broad overview of contemporary research on engineering education and its practical application. Over the past two decades, the field of engineering education research (EER) has become a vibrant and impactful community with new journals, conferences, and doctoral and research programs established across the globe. The increased interest in this area has helped improve the education and training of the next generation of engineers, as well as supporting growth in the use of technology for teaching and learning, increased attention to broadening participation, diversity and inclusion in the field, and a wide international expansion of the field. Drawing on the work of 100 expert contributors from over 20 countries, this volume covers both emergent and established areas of research within engineering education, giving voice to newcomers to the field as well as perspectives from established experts. Contents include: Sociocognitive and affective perspectives on engineering education. Technology and online learning in engineering education. Cultural and ethical issues including diversity, equity, and inclusion in engineering education. Curriculum design, teaching practices, and teacher education at all levels. Research methods and assessment in engineering education. This book offers an innovative and in-depth overview of engineering education scholarship and practice, which will be of use to researchers in engineering education, engineering educators and faculty, teacher educators in engineering education or STEM education, and other engineering and STEM-related professional organizations. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Engineering--Study and teaching--ResearchContent provider:
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International Security in a World of Fragile States : Islamic States and Islamist Organizations
S. Yaqub Ibrahimi;S. Yaqub Ibrahimi
Following the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, DC, there has been an increasin...
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International Security in a World of Fragile States : Islamic States and Islamist Organizations
2022
Following the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, DC, there has been an increasing interest among scholars, students, and the interested public to study and learn about the Islamist-oriented terrorist organizations called Jihadi Salafi Groups (JSGs). Considering that these organizations emerged in highly fragile states, S. Yaqub Ibrahimi asks: how and why is state fragility linked to the emergence of JSGs? Ibrahimi bases his study on three events: the establishment of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in 1998, the rise of Islamic State in the post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, and the failed al-Qaeda effort to establish a base in Saudi Arabia in 2003. These case studies contain major aspects and features of the rise of JSGs and, together, explain the contribution of state fragility to the process of the formation and expansion of these terrorist organizations. International Security in a World of Fragile States stands out as a pivotal work on the interconnection between the root causes of JSGs and state fragility conditions and their amalgamated role in the formation and evolution of these organizations. It contributes to IR and international security debates by developing a comprehensive but readily understandable narrative of the rise of JSGs in Islamic countries, and examining them in an analytical framework in which their root causes are categorized on individual, group, and international levels.
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Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam - Terrorism--Islamic countries - Security, InternationalContent provider:
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Times of History, Times of Nature : Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge
Anders Ekström;Staffan Bergwik;Anders Ekström;Staffan Bergwik
As climate change becomes an increasingly important part of public discourse, the rela...
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Times of History, Times of Nature : Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge
2022; Vol. 00005
As climate change becomes an increasingly important part of public discourse, the relationship between time in nature and history is changing. Nature can no longer be considered a slow and immobile background to human history, and the future can no longer be viewed as open and detached from the past. Times of History, Times of Nature engages with this historical shift in temporal sensibilities through a combination of detailed case studies and synthesizing efforts. Focusing on the history of knowledge, media theory, and environmental humanities, this volume explores the rich and nuanced notions of time and temporality that have emerged in response to climate change.
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Time--History - Human ecology--Historiography - History--Periodization - Time--Philosophy - Natural history--Philosophy - ChangeContent provider:
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Advances in Phytochemistry, Textile and Renewable Energy Research for Industrial Growth : Proceedings of the International Conference of Phytochemistry, Textile and Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development (ICPTRE 2020), August 12-14, Eldoret, Ke...
Charles Nzila;Nyamwala Oluoch;Ambrose Kiprop;Rose Ramkat;Isaac S. Kosgey;Ch...
The International Conference on Phytochemistry, Textile, & Renewable Energy Technologi...
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Advances in Phytochemistry, Textile and Renewable Energy Research for Industrial Growth : Proceedings of the International Conference of Phytochemistry, Textile and Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development (ICPTRE 2020), August 12-14, Eldoret, Ke...
2021
The International Conference on Phytochemistry, Textile, & Renewable Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development (ICPTRE 2020) was hosted by the World bank funded Africa Centre of Excellence in Phytochemicals, Textile and Renewable Energy (ACEII-PTRE) based at Moi University in conjunction with Donghua University, China and the Sino–Africa International Symposium on Textiles and Apparel (SAISTA). The theme of the conference was Advancing Science , Technology and Innovation for Industrial Growth. The research relationships between universities and industry have enabled the two entities to flourish and, in the past, have been credited for accelerated sustainable development and uplifting of millions out poverty. ICPTRE 2020 therefore provided a platform for academic researchers drawn from across the world to meet key industry professionals and actively share knowledge while advancing the role of research in industrial development, particularly, in the developing nations. The conference also provided exhibitors with an opportunity to interact with professionals and showcase their business, products, technologies and equipment. During the course of the conference, industrial exhibitions, research papers and presentations in the fields of phytochemistry, textiles, renewable energy, industry, science , technology, innovations and much more were presented.
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Textile chemistry--Congresses - Botanical chemistry--Congresses - Renewable energy sources--Congresses - Industrialization--CongressesContent provider:
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Handbuch Politische Ökologie : Theorien, Konflikte, Begriffe, Methoden
Daniela Gottschlich;Sarah Hackfort;Tobias Schmitt;Uta von Winterfeld;Daniel...
Globale Krisen wie der Klimawandel und die Corona-Pandemie machen die Politische Ökolo...
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Handbuch Politische Ökologie : Theorien, Konflikte, Begriffe, Methoden
2022; Vol. 00110
Globale Krisen wie der Klimawandel und die Corona-Pandemie machen die Politische Ökologie zu einem unverzichtbaren Forschungsfeld der Zukunft. Die Beiträger•innen des ersten deutschsprachigen Handbuchs zum Thema stellen die hierfür relevanten Theorien vor und zeigen anhand konkreter Konflikte und Kämpfe die Aktualität und den Mehrwert einer politisch-ökologischen Herangehensweise auf. Sie erläutern die zentralen Begriffe, die für Analyse, Kritik und Transformation von gesellschaftlichen Naturverhältnissen wichtig sind, und stellen für die Politische Ökologie fruchtbare Methoden und Arbeitsweisen vor. Ein übersichtliches Nachschlagewerk für unübersichtliche Verhältnisse.
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The Waning Sword : Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf'
Edward Pettit;Edward Pettit
The image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the ...
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The Waning Sword : Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf'
2020
The image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the Old English heroic poem Beowulf. This meticulously researched book investigates the nature and significance of this golden-hilted weapon and its likely relatives within Beowulf and beyond , drawing on the fields of Old English and Old Norse language and literature, liturgy, archaeology, astronomy, folklore and comparative mythology. In Part I, Pettit explores the complex of connotations surrounding this image (from icicles to candles and crosses) by examining a range of medieval sources, and argues that the giant sword may function as a visual motif in which pre-Christian Germanic concepts and prominent Christian symbols coalesce. In Part II, Pettit investigates the broader Germanic background to this image, especially in relation to the god Ing/Yngvi-Freyr, and explores the capacity of myths to recur and endure across time. Drawing on an eclectic range of narrative and linguistic evidence from Northern European texts, and on archaeological discoveries, Pettit suggests that the image of the giant sword, and the characters and events associated with it, may reflect an elemental struggle between the sun and the moon, articulated through an underlying myth about the theft and repossession of sunlight. The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in'Beowulf'is a welcome contribution to the overlapping fields of Beowulf-scholarship, Old Norse-Icelandic literature and Germanic philology. Not only does it present a wealth of new readings that shed light on the craft of the Beowulf-poet and inform our understanding of the poem's major episodes and themes; it further highlights the merits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach alongside a comparative vantage point. As such, The Waning Sword will be compelling reading for Beowulf-scholars and for a wider audience of medievalists.
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Epic poetry, English (Old)--History and criticism - Swords in literatureContent provider:
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A Long Voyage to the Moon : The Life of Naval Aviator and Apollo 17 Astronaut Ron Evans
Geoffrey Bowman;Geoffrey Bowman
As command module pilot of Apollo 17, the last crewed flight to the moon, Ron Evans co...
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A Long Voyage to the Moon : The Life of Naval Aviator and Apollo 17 Astronaut Ron Evans
2021
As command module pilot of Apollo 17, the last crewed flight to the moon, Ron Evans combined precision flying and painstaking geological observation with moments of delight and enthusiasm. On his way to the launchpad, he literally jumped for joy in his spacesuit. Emerging from the command module to conduct his crucial spacewalk, he exclaimed, “Hot diggity dog!” and waved a greeting to his family. As a patriotic American in charge of command module America, Evans was nicknamed “Captain America” by his fellow crew members. Born in 1933 in St. Francis, Kansas, Evans distinguished himself academically and athletically in school, earned degrees in electrical engineering and aeronautical engineering, and became a naval aviator and a combat flight instructor. He was one of the few astronauts who served in combat during the Vietnam War, flying more than a hundred missions off the deck of the USS Ticonderoga, the same aircraft carrier that would recover him and his fellow astronauts after the splashdown of Apollo 17. Evans's astronaut career spans the Apollo missions and beyond . He served on the support crews for 1, 7, and 11 and on the Apollo 14 backup crew before being selected for Apollo 17 and flying on the final moon mission in 1972. He next trained with Soviet cosmonauts as backup command module pilot for the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission and carried out early work on the space shuttle program. Evans then left NASA to pursue a business career. He died suddenly in 1990 at the age of fifty-six.
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Astronauts--United States--BiographyContent provider:
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Handbook of Environmental Sociology
Beth Schaefer Caniglia;Andrew Jorgenson;Stephanie A. Malin;Lori Peek;David ...
This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and invites readers to p...
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Handbook of Environmental Sociology
2021
This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and invites readers to push boundaries in their exploration of this important subdiscipline. It offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of environmental sociology and its role in this era of intensified national and global environmental crises. Its timely frameworks and high-impact chapters will assist in navigating this moment of great environmental inequality and uncertainty. The handbook brings together an outstanding group of scholars who have helped redefine the scope of environmental sociology and expand its reach and impact. Their contributions speak to key themes of the subdiscipline—inequality, justice, population, social movements, and health. Chapter topics include environmental demography, food systems, animals and the environment, climate change, disasters, and much more. The emphasis on public environmental sociology and the forward-thinking approach of this collection is what sets this volume apart. This handbook can serve as an introduction for students new to environmental sociology or as an insightful treatment that current experts can use to further their own research and publication. It will leave readers with a strong understanding of environmental sociology and the motivation to apply it to their work.
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Environmental sociology--Handbooks, manuals, etcContent provider:
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The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics : Studies in the History, Application, and Teaching of Rhetoric Beyond Traditional Greco-Roman Contexts
Keith Lloyd;Keith Lloyd
The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics offers a broad and comprehensive...
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The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics : Studies in the History, Application, and Teaching of Rhetoric Beyond Traditional Greco-Roman Contexts
2021
The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics offers a broad and comprehensive understanding of comparative or world rhetoric, from ancient times to the modern day. Bringing together an international team of established and emergent scholars, this Handbook looks beyond Greco-Roman traditions in the study of rhetoric to provide an international, cross-cultural study of communication practices around the globe. With dedicated sections covering theory and practice, history, pedagogy, hybrids and the modern context, this extensive collection will provide the reader with a solid understanding of: how comparative rhetoric evolved how it re-defines and expands the field of rhetorical studies what it contributes to our understanding of human communication its implications for the advancement of related fields, such as composition, technology, language studies, and literacy. In a world where understanding how people communicate, argue, and persuade is as important as understanding their languages, The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics is an essential resource for scholars and students of communication, composition, rhetoric, cultural studies, cultural rhetoric, cross-cultural studies, transnational studies, translingual studies, and languages.
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Rhetoric, Ancient--Handbooks, manuals, etc - Rhetoric - Communication--History - Intercultural communication--Cross-cultural studiesContent provider:
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Poor Man's Fortune : White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950
Jarod Roll;Jarod Roll
White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, par...
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Poor Man's Fortune : White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950
2020
White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, Poor Man's Fortune tells a different story, excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the century from the Civil War to World War II. With a close study of metal miners in the Tri-State district of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, Jarod Roll reveals why successive generations of white, native-born men willingly and repeatedly opposed labor unions and government-led health and safety reforms, even during the New Deal. With painstaking research, Roll shows how the miners'choices reflected a deep-seated, durable belief that hard-working American white men could prosper under capitalism, and exposes the grim costs of this view for these men and their communities, for organized labor, and for political movements seeking a more just and secure society. Roll's story shows how American inequalities are in part the result of a white working-class conservative tradition driven by grassroots assertions of racial, gendered, and national privilege.
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White nationalism - Working class white people--Attitudes - Miners--Tri-State Mining District--History--20th century - Miners--Tri-State Mining District--History--19th century - Masculinity--Economic aspects - Conservatism--Tri-State Mining District--History - Working class men--AttitudesContent provider:
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Poetry Unbound : Poems and New Media From the Magic Lantern to Instagram
Mike Chasar;Mike Chasar
It's become commonplace in contemporary culture for critics to proclaim the death of p...
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Poetry Unbound : Poems and New Media From the Magic Lantern to Instagram
2020
It's become commonplace in contemporary culture for critics to proclaim the death of poetry. Poetry, they say, is no longer relevant to the modern world, mortally wounded by the emergence of new media technologies. In Poetry Unbound, Mike Chasar rebuts claims that poetry has become a marginal art form, exploring how it has played a vibrant and culturally significant role by adapting to and shaping new media technologies in complex, unexpected, and powerful ways.Beginning with the magic lantern and continuing through the dominance of the internet, Chasar follows poetry's travels off the page into new media formats, including silent film, sound film, and television. Mass and nonprint media have not stolen poetry's audience, he contends, but have instead given people even more ways to experience poetry. Examining the use of canonical as well as religious and popular verse forms in a variety of genres, Chasar also traces how poetry has helped negotiate and legitimize the cultural status of emergent media. Ranging from Citizen Kane to Leave It to Beaver to best-selling Instapoet Rupi Kaur, this book reveals poetry's ability to find new audiences and meanings in media forms with which it has often been thought to be incompatible. Illuminating poetry's surprising multimedia history, Poetry Unbound offers a new paradigm for understanding poetry's still evolving place in American culture.
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Mass media and poetryContent provider:
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Nigeria's Third-Generation Literature : Content and Form
Ode Ogede;Ode Ogede
This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria's third-generation li...
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Nigeria's Third-Generation Literature : Content and Form
2023
This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria's third-generation literature, which emerged between the late 1980s and the early 1990s and is marked by expressive modes and concerns distinctly different from those of the preceding era. The creative writing of this period reflects new sensibilities and anxieties about Nigeria's changing fortunes in the post-colonial era. The literature of the third generation is startling in its candidness, irreverence as well as the brutal self-disclosure of its characters, and it is governed by an unusually wide-ranging sweep in narrative techniques. This book examines six key texts of the oeuvre: Maria Ajima's The Web, Okey Ndibe's Foreign Gods, Inc., Teju Cole's Open City, Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters Street, Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck. The texts interpret contemporary corruption and other unspeakable social malaise; together, they point to the exciting future of Nigerian literature, which has always been defined by its daring creativity and inventive expressive modes. Even conventional storytelling strategies receive revitalizing energies in these angst-driven narratives. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of contemporary African literature, Sociology, Gender and women's studies, and post-colonial cultural expression more broadly. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Literature and society--Nigeria--History--21st century - Literature and society--Nigeria--History--20th century - Nigerian fiction (English)--History and criticism - Postcolonialism in literatureContent provider:
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Operatic Pasticcios in 18th-Century Europe : Contexts, Materials and Aesthetics
Berthold Over;Gesa zur Nieden;Berthold Over;Gesa zur Nieden
In Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing ...
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Operatic Pasticcios in 18th-Century Europe : Contexts, Materials and Aesthetics
2021; Vol. 00045
In Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing material were part of the established working methods in many arts. In the world of 18th-century opera, such practices ensured that operas could become a commercial success because the substitution or compilation of arias fitting the singer's abilities proved the best recipe for fulfilling the expectations of audiences. Known as »pasticcios« since the 18th-century, these operas have long been considered inferior patchwork. The volume collects essays that reconsider the pasticcio, contextualize it, define its preconditions, look at its material aspects and uncover its aesthetical principles.
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Auld Lang Syne : A Song and Its Culture
Morag Josephine Grant;Morag Josephine Grant
In Auld Lang Syne: A Song and its Culture, M. J. Grant explores the history of this ic...
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Auld Lang Syne : A Song and Its Culture
2021
In Auld Lang Syne: A Song and its Culture, M. J. Grant explores the history of this iconic song, demonstrating how its association with ideas of fellowship, friendship and sociality has enabled it to become so significant for such a wide range of individuals and communities around the world. This engaging study traces different stages in the journey of Auld Lang Syne, from the precursors to the song made famous by Robert Burns to the traditions and rituals that emerged around the song in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including its use as a song of parting, and as a song of New Year . Grant's painstaking study investigates the origins of these varied traditions, and their impact on the transmission of the song right up to the present day. Grant uses Auld Lang Syne to explore the importance of songs and singing for group identity, arguing that it is the active practice of singing the song in group contexts that has made it so significant for so many. The book offers fascinating insights into the ways that Auld Lang Syne has been received, reused and remixed around the world, concluding with a chapter on more recent versions of the song back in Scotland. This highly original and accessible work will be of great interest to non-expert readers as well as scholars and students of musicology, cultural and social history, social anthropology and Scottish studies. The book contains a wealth of illustrations and includes links to many more, including manuscript sources. Audio examples are included for many of the musical examples. Grant's extensive bibliography will moreover ease future referencing of the many sources consulted.
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Music--19th century--History and criticism.650 - Songs, Scots--History and criticismContent provider:
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Solo Performances : Staging the Early Modern Self in England
Ute Berns;Ute Berns
In this volume an international cast of scholars explores conceptions of the self in t...
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Solo Performances : Staging the Early Modern Self in England
2010; Vol. 00132
In this volume an international cast of scholars explores conceptions of the self in the literature and culture of the Early Modern England. Drawing on theories of performativity and performance, some contributors revisit monological speech and the soliloquy - that quintessential solo performance - on the stage of Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson. Other authors move beyond the theatre as they investigate solo performances in different cultural locations, from the public stage of the pillory to the mental stage of the writing self. All contributors analyse corporeality, speech, writing and even silence as interrelated modes of self-enactment, whether they read solo performances as a way of inventing, authorizing or even pathologizing the self, or as a mode of fashioning sovereignty. The contributions trace how the performers appropriate specific discourses, whether religious, medical or political, and how they negotiate hierarchies of gender, rank or cultural difference. The articles cut across a variety of genres including plays and masques, religious tracts, diaries and journals, poems and even signatures. The collection links research on the inward and self-reflexive dimension of solo-performances with studies foregrounding the public and interactive dimension of performative self-fashioning. The articles collected here offer new perspectives on Early Modern subjectivity and will be of interest to all scholars and students of the Early Modern period.
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Self in literature - English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticismContent provider:
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Second Nature : An Environmental History of New England
Richard W. Judd;Richard W. Judd
Winner of the 2014 New England Historical Association's John P. Hanlan Book Award Boun...
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Second Nature : An Environmental History of New England
2014
Winner of the 2014 New England Historical Association's John P. Hanlan Book Award Bounded by the St. Lawrence Valley to the north, Lake Champlain to the west, and the Gulf of Maine to the east, New England may be the most cohesive region in the United States, with a long and richly recorded history. In this book, Richard W. Judd explores the mix of ecological process and human activity that shaped that history over the past 12,000 years . He traces a succession of cultures through New England's changing postglacial environment down to the 1600s, when the arrival of Europeans interrupted this coevolution of nature and culture. A long period of tension and warfare, inflected by a variety of environmental problems, opened the way for frontier expansion. This in turn culminated in a unique landscape of forest, farm, and village that has become the embodiment of what Judd calls'second nature'— culturally modified landscapes that have superseded a more pristine'first nature.'In the early 1800s changes in farm production and industrial process transformed central New England, while burgeoning markets at the geographical margins brought rapid expansion in fishing and logging activities. Although industrialization and urbanization severed connections to the natural world, the dominant cultural expression of the age, Romanticism, provided new ways of appreciating nature in the White Mountains and Maine woods. Spurred by these Romantic images and by a long tradition of local resource management, New England gained an early start in rural and urban conservation. In the 1970s environmentalists, inspired by a widespread appreciation for regional second-nature landscapes, moved quickly from battling pollution and preserving wild lands to sheltering farms, villages, and woodlands from intrusive development. These campaigns, uniquely suited to the region's land-use history, ecology, and culture, were a fitting capstone to the environmental history of New England.
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A State-by-State History of Race and Racism in the United States : [2 Volumes]
Patricia Reid-Merritt;Patricia Reid-Merritt
Providing chronologies of important events, historical narratives from the first settl...
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A State-by-State History of Race and Racism in the United States : [2 Volumes]
2019
Providing chronologies of important events, historical narratives from the first settlement to the present, and biographies of major figures, this work offers readers an unseen look at the history of racism from the perspective of individual states.From the initial impact of European settlement on indigenous populations to the racial divides caused by immigration and police shootings in the 21st century, each American state has imposed some form of racial restriction on its residents. The United States proclaims a belief in freedom and justice for all, but members of various minority racial groups have often faced a different reality, as seen in such examples as the forcible dispossession of indigenous peoples during the Trail of Tears, Jim Crow laws'crushing discrimination of blacks, and the manifest unfairness of the Chinese Exclusion Act.Including the District of Columbia, the 51 entries in these two volumes cover the state-specific histories of all of the major minority and immigrant groups in the United States, including African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. Every state has had a unique experience in attempting to build a community comprising multiple racial groups, and the chronologies, narratives, and biographies that compose the entries in this collection explore the consequences of racism from states'perspectives, revealing distinct new insights into their respective racial histories.
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Racism--United States--States--History--ChronologyContent provider:
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2021
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post-industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
