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  1. A companion to narrative theory
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Blackwell Pub., Malden, MA

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780470996935; 0470996935; 140515196X; 9781405151962; 9781405114769; 1405114762; 9781405165037; 1405165030; 1280285990; 9781280285998
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    Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 33
    Subjects: Verteltheorie; Narration; Narrativa (ensaios); Teoria literária; Narration (Rhetoric); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; REFERENCE / Writing Skills; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing; Narration; Narration (Rhetoric); Erzähltheorie; Erzählforschung
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 571 p.), 26 cm
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    The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry. The essays represent all the major critical approaches to narrative - narratological, rhetorical, feminist, post-structuralist, historicist - and investigate and debate the relations among them. In addition, they stretch the boundaries of the field by considering narratives in different disciplines, such as law and medicine, and in a variety of media, including film, music, and painting. The volume is divided into six parts: competing accounts of the history of the field; examinations of recurrent problems; suggestions for theoretical revisions and innovations; explorations of the relations among form, history, politics, and ethics; analyses of the way narrative operates in different disciplines and in media beyond the written word; and speculations about the future of narrative and of narrative theory.; At the same time, it offers provocative analyses of a wide range of works, both canonical and popular, from the Bible through novels by Dickens, Woolf, and Arundhati Roy on to Bernard Herrmann's film music and the action paintings of Jackson Pollock. Among its contributors are many of the leading figures in the field, including such early pioneers as Wayne C. Booth, Seymour Chatman, J. Hillis Miller, and Gerald Prince

  2. Belonging and estrangement in the poetry of Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Charles Causley
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Burlington, VT

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  3. Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Teil 1, Nachtragsband
    Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  W. de Gruyter, Berlin

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783110285499; 3110285495; 9783110284607
    Subjects: Drama / Bio-bibliography; Opera / Bio-bibliography; Theater / Germany / Bio-bibliography; Theater / Germany / Dictionaries; DRAMA / Continental European; Drama; Opera; Theater; Theater; Theater; Drama; Opera
    Scope: 422 pages
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    This supplement to the Deutsches Theater-Lexikon [German Lexicon of Theater], which was completed in 2011, amplifies and extends Volumes I-IV (A-T), which first appeared between 1953 and 1998. Articles have been re-edited and expanded with an emphasis on the 20th century, and personalities from the world of German-language theater who were not previously included have been newly added. The lexicon contains bio-bibliographic information about playwrights, composers, theatrical directors, producers, actors, singers, set designers, and costume designers

  4. Scientific writing in a second language
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Parlor Press, Anderson. South Carolina

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    ISBN: 1602353816; 9781602353817; 9781602353800; 1602353808; 9781602353794; 1602353794
    Series: Second language writing
    Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; REFERENCE / Writing Skills; English language / Study and teaching / Foreign speakers; Second language acquisition; Technical writing; Englisch; Array
    Scope: 1 online resource (xii, 195 pages :), illustrations
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  5. G - J
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783110287585; 3110287587
    Subjects: Theater / Germany / Bio-bibliography; Drama / Bio-bibliography; Opera / Bio-bibliography; Theater / Germany / Dictionaries; DRAMA / Continental European; Drama; Opera; Theater; Theater; Drama; Opera; Theater
    Scope: 432 pages
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    Vorwort; Abkürzungsverzeichnis; G; H; I; J.

    This supplement to the Deutsches Theater-Lexikon amplifies and extends Volumes I-IV (A-T, appeared between 1953 and 1998). Articles have been re-edited with an emphasis on the 20th century, and personalities of German-language theater who were not previously included have been newly added. The lexicon contains bio-bibliographic information about playwrights, composers, theatrical directors, producers, actors, singers, set and costume designers

  6. Iberian modalities
    a relational approach to the study of culture in the Iberian Peninsula
    Contributor: Resina, Joan Ramon (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Of late the term Iberian Studies has been gaining academic currency, but its semantic scope still fluctuates. For some it is a convenient way of combining the official cultures of two states, Portugal and Spain; yet for others the term opens up... more

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    Of late the term Iberian Studies has been gaining academic currency, but its semantic scope still fluctuates. For some it is a convenient way of combining the official cultures of two states, Portugal and Spain; yet for others the term opens up disciplinary space, altering established routines. A relational approach to Iberian Studies shatters the state’s epistemological frame and complexifies the field through the emergence of lines of inquiry and bodies of knowledge hitherto written off as irrelevant. This timely volume brings together contributions from leading international scholars who demonstrate the cultural and linguistic complexity of the field by reflecting on the institutional challenges to the practice of Iberian Studies. As such, the book will be required reading for all those working in the field

     

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    Contributor: Resina, Joan Ramon (Herausgeber)
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    ISBN: 9781846317880; 9781846318337
    Subjects: Geschichte; Portugalforschung; Spanienforschung
    Scope: 1 online resource (xv, 271 pages)
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  7. Latin American cyberculture and cyberliterature
    Contributor: Taylor, Claire (Herausgeber); Pitman, Thea (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    This collection of critical essays investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in Latin America: cyberliterature and cyberculture in their varying manifestations, including blogs and hypertext narratives,... more

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    This collection of critical essays investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in Latin America: cyberliterature and cyberculture in their varying manifestations, including blogs and hypertext narratives, collective novels and e-mags, digital art and short Net-films. Highly innovative in its conception, this book provides the first sustained academic focus on this area of cultural production, and investigates the ways in which cyberliterature and cyberculture in the broadest sense are providing new configurations of subjects, narrative voices, and even political agency, for Latin Americans. The volume is divided into two main sections. The first comprises eight chapters on the broad area of cyberculture and identity formation/preservation including the development of different types of cybercommunities in Latin America. While many of the chapters applaud the creative potential of these new virtual communities, identities and cultural products to create networks across boundaries and offer new contestatory strategies, they also consider whether such phenomena may risk reinforcing existing social inequalities or perpetuate conservatism. The second section comprises six chapters and an afterword that deal with the nature of cyberliterature in all its many forms, from the (cyber)cultural legacies of writers such as Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges, to traditional print literature from the region that reflects on the subject of new technology, to weblogs and hypertext and hypermedia fiction proper

     

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    Contributor: Taylor, Claire (Herausgeber); Pitman, Thea (Herausgeber)
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    ISBN: 9781846313462; 9781846310614
    Subjects: Alltag, Brauchtum; Gesellschaft; Cyberspace / Social aspects / Latin America; Latin American literature / 21st century; Computers and civilization; Literature and the Internet; Internet / Social aspects / Latin America; Internetliteratur
    Scope: 1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages)
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  8. Queer universes
    sexualities in science fiction
    Contributor: Pearson, Wendy G. (Herausgeber); Hollinger, Veronica (Herausgeber); Gordon, Joan (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious... more

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    Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious authority can declare lesbians antihuman while some nations legalise same-sex marriage and are becoming increasingly tolerant of a variety of non-normative sexualities, it is hardly surprising that science fiction, in turn, takes up the task of imagining a diverse range of queer and not-so-queer futures. The essays in Queer Universes investigate both contemporary and historical practices of representing sexualities and genders in science fiction literature. Queer Universes opens with Wendy Pearson’s award-winning essay on reading sf queerly and goes on to include discussions about ‘sextrapolation’ in New Wave science fiction, ‘stray penetration’ in William Gibson’s cyberpunk fiction, the queering of nature in ecofeminist science fiction, and the radical challenges posed to conventional science fiction in the work of important writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Joanna Russ. In addition, Queer Universes offers an interview with Nalo Hopkinson and a conversation about queer lives and queer fictions by authors Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge

     

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    Contributor: Pearson, Wendy G. (Herausgeber); Hollinger, Veronica (Herausgeber); Gordon, Joan (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781846313882; 9781846315015
    Subjects: Science fiction / History and criticism; Queer theory; Homosexuality and literature; Gays in literature; Gender identity in literature; Homosexualität <Motiv>; Englisch; Science-Fiction-Literatur
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  9. Science in modern poetry
    new directions
    Contributor: Holmes, John (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Over the last thirty years, more and more critics and scholars have come to recognize the importance of science to literature. 'Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions' is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on what poets in the... more

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    Over the last thirty years, more and more critics and scholars have come to recognize the importance of science to literature. 'Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions' is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on what poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have made of the scientific developments going on around them. In a collection of twelve essays, leading experts on modern poetry and on literature and science explore how poets have used scientific language in their poems, how poetry can offer new perspectives on science, and how the 'Two Cultures' can and have come together in the work of poets from Britain and Ireland, America and Australia. What does the poetry of a leading immunologist and a Nobel-Prize-winning chemist tell us about how poetry can engage with science? Scientific experiments aim to yield knowledge, but what do the linguistic and formal experiments of contemporary American poets suggest about knowledge in their turn? How can universities help to bring these different experimental cultures and practices together? What questions do literary critics need to ask themselves when looking at poems that respond to science? How did developments in biology between the wars shape modernist poetry? What did William Empson make of science fiction, Ezra Pound of the fourth dimension, Thomas Hardy of anthropology? How did modern poets from W. B. Yeats to Elizabeth Bishop and Judith Wright respond to the legacy of Charles Darwin? This book aims to answer these questions and more, in the process setting out the state of the field and suggesting new directions and approaches for research by students and scholars working on the fertile relationship between science and poetry today

     

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    ISBN: 9781846317743; 9781846318092
    Subjects: Poetry / History and criticism; Literature and science; Science in literature; Lyrik; Englisch; Naturwissenschaften <Motiv>; Wissenschaft <Motiv>
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  10. Obelisk
    a history of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    This remarkable book details the work of one of the most extraordinary publishing enterprises in history. Censor-baiting, provocative, simultaneous publisher of the literary elite and of ‘dirty books’, Jack Kahane’s Obelisk Press published Henry... more

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    This remarkable book details the work of one of the most extraordinary publishing enterprises in history. Censor-baiting, provocative, simultaneous publisher of the literary elite and of ‘dirty books’, Jack Kahane’s Obelisk Press published Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Durrell, D. H. Lawrence, and James Joyce among others. At the same time Kahane subsidised his literary endeavours with cheap erotica and trash fiction from long-forgotten eccentrics such as New York Daily News’ Rome correspondent and self-styled ‘Marco Polo of Sex’ N. Reynolds Packard. Kahane’s business model was simple: if a book was banned in the UK and US it could be profitably published in Paris. Here, for the first time, Neil Pearson has pulled together the incendiary story of Obelisk, including biographies of Kahane and his major and minor authors, and a bibliography of Obelisk books. This beautifully written volume – part cultural history, part reference book – will be required reading for anyone interested in controversial writing, censorship, 1920s Paris, publishing history and authors such as Miller, Joyce and Nin

     

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    ISBN: 9781846313684; 9781846311017
    Subjects: Geschichte; Publishers and publishing / France / History / 20th century; Pornografie; Literatur
    Other subjects: Kahane, Jack / 1887-1939; Kahane, Jack (1887-1939)
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  11. The historical Jesus and the literary imagination, 1860-1920
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Fictional reconstructions of the Gospels continue to find a place in contemporary literature and in the popular imagination. Present day writers of New Testament fiction and drama are usually considered as part of a tradition formed by... more

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    Fictional reconstructions of the Gospels continue to find a place in contemporary literature and in the popular imagination. Present day writers of New Testament fiction and drama are usually considered as part of a tradition formed by mid-to-late-twentieth-century authors such as Robert Graves, Nikos Kazantzakis and Anthony Burgess. This book looks back further to the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, when the templates of the majority of today’s Gospel fictions and dramas were set down. In doing so, it examines the extent to which significant works of biblical scholarship both influenced and inspired literary works. Focusing on writers such as Oscar Wilde, George Moore and Marie Corelli, this timely new addition to the English Association Monographs series will be essential reading for scholars working at the intersection of literature and theology

     

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    ISBN: 9781846316159; 9781846314704
    Subjects: Bibel; Christianity in literature; Geschichtlichkeit; Englisch; Literatur
    Other subjects: Jesus Christus; Jesus Christ / In literature; Jesus Christus
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  12. Spanish spaces
    landscape, space and place in contemporary Spanish culture
    Author: Davies, Ann
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Spanish Spaces is a pioneering study that marries contemporary cultural geography with contemporary Spanish culture. The field of cultural geography has grown both extensively and rapidly, as has the field of cultural analysis and debate on Spanish... more

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    Spanish Spaces is a pioneering study that marries contemporary cultural geography with contemporary Spanish culture. The field of cultural geography has grown both extensively and rapidly, as has the field of cultural analysis and debate on Spanish cultural texts; yet despite a convergence in study between cultural geography (and cultural studies more widely) and cultural texts themselves, this has made little impact to date within the area of contemporary Spanish cultural studies. Yet Spain’s varied terrain, with complex negotiations between rural, urban and coastal (negotiations that have on occasion spilled over into political and violent conflict), and perhaps its very lack of a contemporary landscape tradition familiar to British and German cultural studies, offer the opportunity for fresh insights into questions of landscape, space and place. Spanish Spaces consists of thematic case studies (memory and forgetting, nationalism and terrorism, crime and detection, gender, tourism and immigration as negotiated through cultural texts), selected for their currency and their links to each other and drawing on the explorations of these themes in contemporary Spanish film and literature. Throughout the chapters the author investigates what it means to think of space and place in specifically Spanish terms

     

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    ISBN: 9781846317750; 9781846318221
    Subjects: Alltag, Brauchtum; Film; Cultural geography / Spain; Cultural landscapes / Spain; Motion pictures / Spain / 20th century / History and criticism; Landscapes in motion pictures; Landscapes in literature; Literatur; Landschaft; Film
    Scope: 1 online resource (xii, 190 pages)
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  13. Spatial ecologies
    urban sites, state and world-space in French Cultural theory
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the "spatial turn" in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne... more

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    Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the "spatial turn" in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the midst of considerable political and economic turmoil. The book considers why French critical theorists turned away from questions of time and looked instead toward questions of space. It asks what writing about space can tell us about life in late capitalism. Conley links this question to the problematic of habitality, taking us back to Heidegger and showing how it informs much of French theory. Building on the author's acclaimed earlier study Ecopolitics, Spatial Ecologies argues, through the voices of the authors taken up the eight chapters, for recognition of the virtue of spatial theory and its pragmatic applications in the global milieu. It will be required reading for scholars of literary and cultural theory, and twentieth- and twenty-first century French culture

     

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    ISBN: 9781846317217; 9781846317545
    Subjects: Place (Philosophy); Philosophy, French / 20th century; Raum; Kulturtheorie
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  14. Solar flares
    science fiction in the 1970s
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as "confused, self-involved, and stale." The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf – on the one hand it aspired... more

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    Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as "confused, self-involved, and stale." The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf – on the one hand it aspired to be a serious form, addressing issues such as race, Vietnam, feminism, ecology and sexuality, on the other hand it broke box office records with Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien and Superman: The Movie. Across the political spectrum, writers perceived a series of invisible enemies: radicals addressed the ideological structures of racism, sexism, homophobia, colonialism, pollution and capitalism and the possibility of new social structures, whereas conservatives feared the gains made by the civil rights movement, feminism, gay liberation, independence movements, ecology and Marxism and the perceived threats to the nuclear family. Sf would never be the same again. Beginning with chapters on the First sf and New Wave authors who published during the 1970s, Solar Flares examines the ways in which the genre confronted a new epoch and its own history, including the rise of fantasy, the sf blockbuster, children’s sf, pseudoscience and postmodernism. It explores significant figures such as Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany and Octavia Butler. From Larry Niven’s Ringworld to Thomas M. Disch’s On Wings of Song, from The Andromeda Strain to Flash Gordon and from Doctor Who to Buck Rogers, this book reclaims seventies sf writing, film and television – alongside music and architecture – as a crucial period in the history of science fiction

     

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    ISBN: 9781846317798; 9781846318344
    Subjects: Science fiction / History and criticism; Science-Fiction-Film; Science-Fiction-Literatur
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  15. Religion, toleration, and British writing, 1790-1830
    Author: Canuel, Mark
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

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    ISBN: 0521815770
    Series: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 53
    Subjects: Geschichte; English literature; Religion and literature; Religious tolerance in literature; Religion and literature; Religious tolerance; Religious tolerance; English literature; Romanticism; Literatur; Englisch; Romantik; Religiöse Literatur; Religiöse Toleranz
    Scope: vi, 317 p
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  16. Keywords for Environmental Studies
    Contributor: Adamson, Joni (Publisher); Gleason, William A. (Publisher); Pellow, David N. (Publisher)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  NYU Press, New York

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    RVK Categories: EC 1879
    Series: Keywords
    Subjects: Environmental protection; Umweltschutz; Ecocriticism
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  17. Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible in the Bodleian and Oxford college libraries
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    The catalogue is the first step towards a systematic description of the manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible, one of the most influential medieval English works. The Bible is the first complete translation of the Vulgate in English, produced at the... more

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    The catalogue is the first step towards a systematic description of the manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible, one of the most influential medieval English works. The Bible is the first complete translation of the Vulgate in English, produced at the end of the 14th century by the followers of the Oxford theologian John Wyclif. In spite of being condemned and banned within twenty five years of its appearance, it became the most widely disseminated medieval English text.

    The catalogue contains detailed descriptions of all (64 in total) manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible in Oxford collections (the Bodleian and college libraries). This is a substantial part of the whole corpus: 250 manuscripts of the Bible survive and Oxford has the largest number of copies in any single location. The descriptions are subdivided into sections covering textual contents, decoration, dialect, physical makeup and binding of each manuscript, and are accompanied by bibliographies. The descriptions are preceded by an introduction with a discussion of the manuscript tradition of the Wycliffite Bible and the findings resulting from the study of Oxford copies. The catalogue also contains several appendices illustrating important features of the manuscripts

     

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    Subjects: Übersetzung; Englisch; Handschrift; Bibliothek
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  18. Editing medieval texts
    an introduction, using examplary materials derived from Richard Rolle, 'Super Canticum' 4
    Author: Hanna, Ralph
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    This book draws on a lengthy experience of teaching graduates how to approach medieval books. It leads the reader through the stages of the editorial process, using part of Richard Rolle's Commentary on the Song of Songs as the working exemplar.In... more

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    This book draws on a lengthy experience of teaching graduates how to approach medieval books. It leads the reader through the stages of the editorial process, using part of Richard Rolle's Commentary on the Song of Songs as the working exemplar.In the humane sciences, the need for texts is ubiquitous; they provide the regular objects of study. But far less prevalent than editions is any discussion of the premises underlying these objects, or the mechanisms by which they have been constructed. This volume takes up both challenges. First, in a preliminary chapter, it discusses what is at stake in any edition one might read; the persistent argument is that these represent products of modern scholarly decision-making, the imposition of various kinds of unity on the extremely diverse evidence medieval books offer for any literary work. This chapter also explains broadly various options for the presentation of texts – and the difficulties inherent in them all. The remainder of the volume is given over to a step-by-step guide to the process of editing (and eventually to a finished presentation of) a heretofore unpublished medieval text. The discussion seeks to exemplify the decisions editors routinely face, and to suggest ways of addressing them

     

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    Subjects: Manuscripts, Medieval; Incunabula; Editing
    Other subjects: Rolle, Richard / 1290?-1349 / Super Canticum IV.
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  19. Guide to scripts used in English writings up to 1500
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    The resurgence of interest in the history of the English language has prompted this indispensable introductory guide to the scripts used in Old and Middle English writing. The best way to gain a sense of changes in scripts across time is through... more

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    The resurgence of interest in the history of the English language has prompted this indispensable introductory guide to the scripts used in Old and Middle English writing. The best way to gain a sense of changes in scripts across time is through visual examples. The reader is introduced gradually to vocabulary suitable for the description of script through a range of plates, for example, Caedmon’s Hymn (the earliest extant English poem); the opening of an Exeter Book poem; the Lindisfarne Gospels; the opening page of King Alfred’s first translation; an illustrated version of the story of Abraham and Isaac; passages from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; early (Laȝamon) and late tellings of the story of Arthur (Malory); contrasting manuscripts of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde; Langland; York plays. Each plate is reproduced full size where possible, accompanied by a full transcript, commentary and notes

     

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    Subjects: English language / Old English, ca. 450-1100 / Writing; English language / Middle English, 1100-1500 / Writing; Literatur; Schrift; Mittelenglisch; Altenglisch; Handschrift; Englisch
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  20. Stanislaw Lem
    philosopher of the future
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem’s life, career, and literary legacy to light. Part One traces the context of his cultural influence, telling the story of one of the greatest writers and thinkers of... more

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    Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem’s life, career, and literary legacy to light. Part One traces the context of his cultural influence, telling the story of one of the greatest writers and thinkers of the century. It includes a comprehensive critical overview of Lem’s literary and philosophical oeuvre which comprises not only the classics like Solaris, but his untranslated first novels, realistic prose, experimental works, volumes of nonfiction, latter-day metafiction, as well as the final twenty years of polemics and essays. The critical and interpretive Part Two examines a range of Lem’s novels with a view to examining the intellectual vistas they open up before us. It focuses on several of Lem’s major but less studied books. "Game, Set, Lem" uses game theory to shed light on his arguably most surreal novel, the Kafkaesque and claustrophobic Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (1961). "Betrization Is the Worst Solution… Except for All Others" takes a close look at the quasi-utopia of Return From the Stars (1961) and at the concept of ethical cleansing and mandatory de-aggression. "Errare Humanum Est" focuses on the popular science thriller The Invincible (1964) in the context of evolution. "A Beachbook for Intellectuals" is a critical fugue on Lem’s medical thriller cum crime mystery, The Chain of Chance (1976). Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future closes with a two-part coda. "Fiasco" recapitulates and reflects on the literary and cognitive themes of Lem’s farewell novel, and "Happy End of the World!" reviews The Blink of an Eye, Lem’s farewell book of analyses and prognoses from the cusp of our millennium

     

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    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 51
    Subjects: Lem, Stanisław;
    Other subjects: Lem, Stanisław / Criticism and interpretation; Lem, Stanisław (1921-2006)
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  21. Vietnam and beyond
    Tim O'Brien and the power of storytelling
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Vietnam and Beyond: Tim O’Brien and the Power of Storytelling is a comprehensive, in-depth study of one of the most thought-provoking writers of the Vietnam war generation. This volume breaks away from previous readings of O’Brien’s development as a... more

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    Vietnam and Beyond: Tim O’Brien and the Power of Storytelling is a comprehensive, in-depth study of one of the most thought-provoking writers of the Vietnam war generation. This volume breaks away from previous readings of O’Brien’s development as a trauma artist and an outspoken chronicler of the American involvement in Vietnam: its thematic, rather than chronological, approach contextualizes O’Brien’s work beyond the confines of war literature. The necessary exploration of O’Brien’s recurrent engagement with the conflict in Vietnam leads to a thorough discussion of the writer’s revision of key American (and western) ideas and concerns: the association between courage, heroism and masculinity, the celebration of the pioneering spirit in the frontier narrative, the sense of superiority in the encounter with foreign civilizations, the fraught relationship between power and truth, or reality and imagination, and the attempt and the right to speak about unspeakable events. All these themes, as Ciocia illustrates, highlight O’Brien’s compelling preoccupation with the role and the ethical responsibility of the storyteller. With his clear privileging of ‘story-truth’ over ‘happening-truth’, O’Brien makes a bold, serious investment in the power of fiction, as testified by his formal experimentations, metanarrative reflections and sustained meditations on matters such as individual agency, moral accountability and authenticity. Approached from this fresh perspective, O’Brien emerges as a figure deserving to find a wider audience and demanding renewed scholarly attention for his remarkable achievements as a contemporary mythographer, an acute observer of the human condition and a sharp critic of American culture

     

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    Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 / Literature and the war; Vietnamkrieg <Motiv>
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  22. Solar flares
    science fiction in the 1970s
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as "confused, self-involved, and stale." The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf – on the one hand it aspired... more

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    Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as "confused, self-involved, and stale." The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf – on the one hand it aspired to be a serious form, addressing issues such as race, Vietnam, feminism, ecology and sexuality, on the other hand it broke box office records with Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien and Superman: The Movie. Across the political spectrum, writers perceived a series of invisible enemies: radicals addressed the ideological structures of racism, sexism, homophobia, colonialism, pollution and capitalism and the possibility of new social structures, whereas conservatives feared the gains made by the civil rights movement, feminism, gay liberation, independence movements, ecology and Marxism and the perceived threats to the nuclear family. Sf would never be the same again. Beginning with chapters on the First sf and New Wave authors who published during the 1970s, Solar Flares examines the ways in which the genre confronted a new epoch and its own history, including the rise of fantasy, the sf blockbuster, children’s sf, pseudoscience and postmodernism. It explores significant figures such as Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany and Octavia Butler. From Larry Niven’s Ringworld to Thomas M. Disch’s On Wings of Song, from The Andromeda Strain to Flash Gordon and from Doctor Who to Buck Rogers, this book reclaims seventies sf writing, film and television – alongside music and architecture – as a crucial period in the history of science fiction

     

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    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 43
    Subjects: Science fiction / History and criticism; Science-Fiction-Film; Science-Fiction-Literatur
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  23. Ramsey Campbell and modern horror fiction
    Author: Joshi, S. T.
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Ramsey Campbell is one of the world’s leading writers of supernatural stories, although he has received far less attention than other practitioners of the genre. Joshi focuses in a thematic rather than chronological approach on the whole of... more

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    Ramsey Campbell is one of the world’s leading writers of supernatural stories, although he has received far less attention than other practitioners of the genre. Joshi focuses in a thematic rather than chronological approach on the whole of Campbell’s rich and varied work, from his early tales to the powerfully innovative stories collected in Demons by Daylight: The Doll Who Ate His Mother (1975) to Silent Children (1999) are also examined in detail. Throughout this book, the author places Campbell’s oeuvre within the context of contemporary horror literature

     

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    Subjects: Horror tales, English / History and criticism
    Other subjects: Campbell, Ramsey / 1946- / Criticism and interpretation; Campbell, Ramsey (1946-)
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  24. Jules Verne
    journeys in writing
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    A hundred years after his death, Jules Verne (1828-1905) has in the popular imagination become synonymous with prediction of the future. Yet the actual texts of Verne’s major novels (the vast series known as the Voyages extraordinaires) still remain... more

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    A hundred years after his death, Jules Verne (1828-1905) has in the popular imagination become synonymous with prediction of the future. Yet the actual texts of Verne’s major novels (the vast series known as the Voyages extraordinaires) still remain unknown to many. In the English-speaking world, translations of Verne’s best-known novels (Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon) have often contained wholesale distortions of his plots and characters, and the popular (and false) image of Verne as a foreteller of the future often comes not through what he actually wrote, but through films and other adaptations of his work. It is against this background of misrepresentation and misconception that the present study has been produced. Verne was, Unwin argues, a master of the self-conscious novel, his work a pastiche of science discourse, fictional and non-fictional writings, and flamboyant, theatrical narrative. Unwin makes a compelling case for Verne as a master of the nineteenth-century experimental novel, in the company of Gustave Flaubert and other canonical French writers. The text will be a wonderful addition to the shelves of those interested in science fiction, experimental writing, and critical theory

     

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  25. The country you have never seen
    essays and reviews
    Author: Russ, Joanna
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    In 1959, at the age of 22, Joanna Russ published her first science fiction story, "Nor Custom Stale," in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. In the forty-five years since, Russ has continued to write some of the most popular, creative, and... more

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    In 1959, at the age of 22, Joanna Russ published her first science fiction story, "Nor Custom Stale," in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. In the forty-five years since, Russ has continued to write some of the most popular, creative, and important novels and stories in science fiction. She was a central figure, along with contemporaries Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree, in revolutionizing science fiction in the 1960s and 1970s, and her 1970 novel The Female Man is widely regarded as one of the most successful and influential depictions of a feminist utopia in the entire genre. The Country You Have Never Seen gathers Joanna Russ’s most important essays and reviews, revealing the vital part she played over the years in the never-ending conversation among writers and fans about the roles, boundaries, and potential of science fiction. Spanning her entire career, the collection shines a light on Russ’s role in the development of new wave science fiction and feminist science fiction, while at the same time providing fascinating insight into her own development as a writer

     

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    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 31
    Subjects: Science fiction, American / History and criticism; Science-Fiction-Literatur
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