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| Title: â Bound Hand and Foot and yet Dancing as if Freeâ Satires II 1, II 2, and I 2 from Alexander Popeâ s Imitations of Horace |
| By (author): Gerhild Salcher |
| ISBN10-13: 3898213412 : 9783898213417 |
| Embedded in a discussion of the 18th century literary practice of imitation, this study offers an in-depth analysis of the three full-length satires from Alexander Popeâ s Imitations of Horace. Taking into account aspects such as content, metre, message, personal references, and language, the three satires are compared to their Latin originals, shedding light on how Pope succeeds in transferring the texts into his contemporary world and idiom whilst sticking very closely to the original framework on a larger scale. Thus, they â show the poet bound hand and foot and yet dancing as if free.â |
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Pages: 104
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| Published: ibidem - March 2004 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 16.90 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 1 of: 893 |
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| Title: â Disdeining life, desiring leaue to dieâ . Spenser and the Psychology of Despair |
| By (author): Paola Baseotto Series edited by: Koray Melikoglu |
| ISBN10-13: 3898215679 : 9783898215671 |
| Paola Baseottoâ s important study stresses deathâ s ubiquity as a concept in Spenserâ s works, always present in intimate relation to life, whether in the recurring, disturbing, figures of â deathwishers,â characters who seem to belong as much to the dead as the living, or as a perspective, challenging both characters and readers, to reassess their own apprehension of death and the way in which it shapes our lives. Baseottoâ s analyses of Spenserâ s â deathwishersâ and â living deadâ focus our attention on some of the most compelling and distinctive images in Spenserâ s work, illuminating our understanding of their power and significance through a combination of detailed attention to language and context, and a thoroughly informed understanding of contemporaneous religious ideas and attitudes. Through close and sensitive study of Spenserâ s writing from The Shepheardes Calender, through The Faerie Queene, to such little discussed poems as The Ruines of Time and Daphnaida in Complaints, Baseotto establishes the centrality, the subtlety and the distinctiveness of Spenserâ s figuring of death. Baseottoâ s study offers us a new and illuminating understanding of an aspect of Spenserâ s writing that is fundamental, but which has been strangely neglected in recent decades. â Elizabeth Heale (Senior Lecturer, University of Reading) Author of The Faerie Queene: A Readerâ s Guide (Cambridge University Press, 1987, 1999) and Autobiography and Authorship in Renaissance Verse (Palgrave, 2003). Exhaustive and succinct, rigorous and readable, Baseotto examines Spenserâ s obsession with death, and shows us what a remarkable, independent and surprisingly modern sensibility he had. Here is a Spenser who engages our sympathies with unexpected intensity. â Tim Parks (Lecturer, IULM University, Milan) Novelist and frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. |
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Pages: 194
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| Published: ibidem - October 2008 |
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| List Price: 19.90 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: â Malleable at the European Willâ : British Discourse on Slavery (1784â 1824) and the Image of Africans |
| By (author): Helmut Meier |
| ISBN10-13: 3838212738 : 9783838212739 |
| Helmut Meierâ s study of pro- and anti-slavery texts from 1784â 1825 focuses on understanding the distinct image of Africans in the British debate on the slave trade and slavery as such. Starting from the premise that, at the threshold from the early to the late modern period, the distinct image of Africans as slaves was instrumental in universalizing a Eurocentric concept of capitalist wage labor both at the colonial centres and margins, Meier argues that, by portraying African slaves as suffering wretches, especially anti-slavery texts created colonial Others in an indistinct zone between inclusion and exclusion from humanity. The discourse on slavery thus constructs African slaves as mimetic Others which could subsequently become the objects of a discourse of colonial reform and â bettermentâ . |
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Pages: 360
Size: 210x150mm
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| Published: ibidem - May 2019 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: European history : Slavery & abolition of slavery |
| List Price: 26.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 3 of: 893 |
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| Title: â Nailed to the rolls of honour, crucifiedâ : Irish Literary Responses to the Great War |
| Sub-title: The War Writings of Patrick MacGill, James Hanley, and Liam O’Flaherty |
| By (author): Robert Starr |
| ISBN10-13: 3838213319 : 9783838213316 |
| This book explores the war writings of Patrick MacGill, James Hanley, and Liam Oâ Flaherty, working class, Roman Catholic Irishmen, all of whom fought in the First World War as privates and who, collectively, it is argued, constitute a distinct trio of war writers. Through discussions focusing upon class, camaraderie, violence, religion, trauma, and the body, this book considers these Irish soldiers within a cultural, social, and historical context. Central to this examination is the idea that the motives for enlistment and the experience of army labor and even combat was such that military service was perceived as work rather than a duty or vocation undertaken in support of any prevailing doctrines of patriotism or sacrifice. The menâ s Catholicism also shaped their aesthetic and philosophical responses to the war, even while the war conversely troubled their faith or confirmed their religious scepticism. The war writing of these men is located within both an Irish and a pan-European literary working class tradition, thereby permitting the texts to be viewed within a wider context than literature of the First World War, and from a perspective that goes beyond Ireland and Britain. These characteristics shape a perspective on the conflict very different from that of the canonical officer-writers, men such as Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, or Edmund Blunden, whose work is considered alongside those of the three Irish soldier-writers. |
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Pages: 318
Size: 210x150mm
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| Published: ibidem - October 2019 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: First World War |
| List Price: 36.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 4 of: 893 |
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| Title: â Optimizingâ Higher Education in Russia |
| Sub-title: University Teachers and their Union Universitetskaya solidarnost’ |
| By (author): David Mandel Series edited by: Andreas Umland |
| ISBN10-13: 3838215192 : 9783838215198 |
| In 2012, soon after his election to a third presidential term as president, following a four-year stint as prime minister (to avoid modifying the constitution), and in the wake of an unprecedented wave of popular protests, Vladimir Putin issued his â May Decrees.â Notable among them was the governmentâ s commitment to increase the salaries of doctors, scientific researchers and university teachers to double the average in their respective regions by 2018. But then on December 30 of that year, the government issued a â road mapâ for education, revealing that the salary increases in higher education would be paid for, not by significant new government funding, but by â optimization,â which would eliminate 44% of the current teaching positions in higher education. This was justified in part by a forecasted drop in student enrollment. Thus opened a new, accelerated period of reform of higher education. David Mandel examines the impact of these reforms on the condition of Russiaâ s university teachers and the collective efforts of some teachers, a small minority, to organize themselves in an independent trade union to defend their professional interests and their vision of higher education. Apart from the subjectâ s intrinsic interest, an in-depth examination of this specific aspect of social policy provides valuable insight into the nature of the Russian state as well as into the condition of â civil society,â in particular the popular classes, to which Russian university teachers belong according to their socio-economic situation, if not necessarily their self-image. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Introduction; Overview of State Policy; The Condition of University Teachers Following the “Optimizing” Reforms of 2012-18; “Universitetskaya solidarnost’”; UniSol at MFTI; Rethinking Strategy: By Way of Conclusion; Bibliography. |
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"This book is full of unique insights into higher education in Russia: the day-to-day realities for lecturers, the workplace relationships, the extent of academic freedom and both the successes and shortcomings of trade union activity. No-one is better placed to understand these dynamics than David Mandel, who has not only researched trade unions, but also actively supported and cooperated with trade union militants in Russia, for decades. His account is sympathetic to, but realistic about, these militants: this is not a view through rose-tinted spectacles." —Simon Pirani, Honorary Professor, University of Durham, and author of The Russian Revolution in Retreat and Change in Putin’s Russia
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Pages: 156
Size: 210x150mm
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| Published: ibidem - March 2021 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Higher & further education, tertiary education : Russia |
| List Price: 22.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 5 of: 893 |
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| Title: â Spirits that Iâ ve cited â ¦ ?â |
| Sub-title: VladimÃr Clementis (1902–1952). The Political Biography of a Czechoslovak Communist |
| By (author): Josette Baer Foreword by: Vlasta Jaksicsová |
| ISBN10-13: 3838207467 : 9783838207469 |
| Baerâ s biography of the former Czechoslovak Foreign Minister VladimÃr Clementis (1902â 1952) is the first historical study on the Communist politician who was executed with Rudolf SlánskÃ" and other top Communist Party members after the show trial of 1952. Born in Tisovec, Central Slovakia, Clementis studied law at Charles University in Prague in the 1920s and had his own law firm in Bratislava in the 1930s. After the Munich Agreement of 1938, he went into exile to France and Great Britain, where he worked at the Czechoslovak broadcast at the BBC for the exile government of Edvard BeneÅ¡. After the Second World War, Clementisâ political career at the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry blossomed: In 1945, he became Assistant Secretary of State under Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk. After Masarykâ s mysterious death in 1948, Clementis was appointed Foreign Minister. This biography offers an unprecedented insight into the mind of a Slovak leftist intellectual of the interwar generation who died at the command of the comrade he had admired since his youth: Generalissimus Stalin. |
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Pages: 417
Size: 210x148mm
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| Published: ibidem - October 2017 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Biography: historical, political & military |
| List Price: 22.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 6 of: 893 |
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| Title: "Our Glorious Past" |
| Sub-title: Lukashenka`s Belarus & the Great Patriotic War |
| By (author): David R Marples |
| ISBN10-13: 383820574X : 9783838205748 |
| This timely book examines how the regime of President Aliaksandr Lukashenka has used the 'Great Patriotic War' (1941-45) as a key element in state and identity formation in Belarus. The campaign was discernible from 2003 and intensified after a rift with Russia that led to a re-examination of the earlier policy of close political and economic partnership. David R. Marples focuses in particular on the years 2009 and 2010, which commemorated two 65th anniversaries: the liberation of Minsk (3 July 1944) and the end of World War II in Europe (9 May 1945). Using a variety of sources, this unique book critically examines the official interpretations of the war from various angles: the initial invasion, occupation, the Partisans, historic sites and monuments, films, documentaries, museums, schools, and public occasions commemorating some of the major events. Relying on first-hand research, including books recommended by the Ministry of Education, state-controlled media and examinations through personal visits to the major historic sites and monuments of Belarus, Marples explains and measures the effectiveness of Lukashenkas program. In outlining the main tenets of the state interpretation of the war years, the book highlights the distortions and manipulations of historical evidence as well as the dismissal of alternative versions as 'historical revisionism'. It assesses the successes and weaknesses of the campaign as well as its long term effects and prospects. |
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Pages: 410
Size: 210x135mm
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| Published: Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag - April 2014 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Second World War : International relations : Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe) : Belarus (Belorussia) |
| List Price: 44.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 7 of: 893 |
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| Title: "There It Is": Narratives of the Vietnam War |
| By (author): Tom Burns |
| ISBN10-13: 3838215613 : 9783838215617 |
| This book provides a critical survey of the literature on the Vietnam War and is intended both for academic and general readers. Earlier works of this kind constantly recycled criticism of a half-dozen of the same works. In this study, the aim was to discuss a much greater number of works, including a few that have never been discussed. To appeal to non-academic readers, Lit-Crit jargon was kept to a minimum, and parallels with earlier works of war literature, especially those of the two world wars, were established. |
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| Acknowledgments; Introduction; Early Adventurers; Fictional History & Historical Fiction: The Fall of Diem; Advisors & Friendlies: Pro-War Novels; Advisors & Friendlies II: Ambivalent Warriors; Soldiers & Civilians; Combat Memoirs; Allegory; Combat Realism; Combat vs. Ideology; Deviations; Inventions: Fantasy & Metafiction; Correspondents; Ordinary People: Oral Memoirs; Vets: The Return of the Repressed; Bibliography; Primary Works; Secondary Works. |
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"The book 'There it is': Narratives of the Vietnam War is a fine result of years of research and dedication. Co-editor of works such as Literatura e guerra [Literature and War] (2010; Ed. UFMG); Revisiting 20th Century Wars: New Readings of Modern Armed Conflicts in Literature and Image Media (2012; ibidem); and War and Literature: Looking Back on 20th Century Armed Conflicts (2014; ibidem), Tom Burns, one of our main researchers in the field of studies of the relation of literature and war, gives the reader a competent critical study on the Vietnam War (1955-1975) through an analysis of a large number of both fictional and non-fictional narratives, including autobiographical works. This book is both a broad and detailed study of works in English and offers the reader the literary wealth of one of the principal armed conflicts of the 20th century." -Professor Elcio Cornelsen, Federal University of Minas Gerais
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Pages: 686
Size: 210x150mm
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| Published: ibidem - September 2021 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Literature: history & criticism : North America |
| List Price: 80.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 8 of: 893 |
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| Title: [T]axing Greenhouse Gases |
| Sub-title: An Australian Perspective |
| By (author): Lex Fullarton |
| ISBN10-13: 3838212541 : 9783838212548 |
| Lex Fullarton takes a closer look at the three pillars of the sustainable development framework known as the Triple Bottom Line (TBL). The concept of the TBL is that for a project to be sustainable it must not simply be profitable in economic terms, but it must also benefit society and enhance the natural environment. In the 21st century, the greatest threat to Earthâ s natural environment and the population of the planet is the rise of greenhouse gas emissions caused from burning fossil fuel as an energy source. The rise of GHG emissions has resulted in a rise in the ambient air temperature of the Earthâ s atmosphere and is resulting in a significant change in climatic conditions on Earth. Fullarton scrutinizes the problem of getting industry and governments to understand the significance of creating harmony within the TBL. One of the main problems is that partisan politics tends to fragment the factors of the TBL rather than bring them together. Fullarton takes a strong stand in suggesting that taxation systems, which have traditionally been viewed primarily as a means of raising government finance, can be effectively applied to influence industrial and consumer attitudes towards transiting away from polluting fossil-fuel energy sources towards non-polluting renewable energy use. |
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Pages: 244
Size: 210x148mm
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| Published: ibidem - March 2019 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Central government policies : Environmental policy & protocols |
| List Price: 18.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 1 |
| Title: 9 of: 893 |
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| Title: A Brief Modern Chinese History |
| By (author): Haipeng Zhang, Jinyi Zhai Series edited by: Ole Döring Translated by: Zhen Chi |
| ISBN10-13: 3838214412 : 9783838214412 |
| This book is part of an initiative in cooperation with renowned Chinese publishers to make fundamental, formative, and influential Chinese thinkers available to a western readership, providing absorbing insights into Chinese reflections of late. Haipeng Zhang and Jinyi Zhai provide us with a history of China's struggle for national independence and prosperity, reflecting the â humiliationâ in the â sinkingâ period and the â struggleâ during the â risingâ period. After the Japanese aggressions against China had caused more damage to China than all previous invasions, Chinese society not only avoided the continued "sinking", but also laid the foundation for China's modernization and the recent success story to the present day. |
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Pages: 336
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| Published: ibidem - October 2020 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Asian history : China |
| List Price: 53.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 10 of: 893 |
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