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1934-, Pilkuhn M. H., ed. High excitation and short pulse phenomena: Proceedings of the third Trieste ICTP-IUPAP Semiconductor Symposium, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 2-6 July 1984. North Holland, 1985.

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Kortazar, Jon. De la periferia al centro: nuevas escritoras vascas. Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-594-0.

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Between late 2018 and early 2020, in a short period of time, two events converged in the Basque literary system, that brought women writers from the periphery to the centre. Firstly, the Euskadi Award of Literature, the most renowned award of the Basque literary system, drew attention to the work of women writers. In 2018, Eider Rodríguez (1977) won the award with her book of short stories Bihotz handiegia. In 2019, Irati Elorrieta (1979) was the winner with her novel Neguko argiak / Luces de invierno. Moreover, the 2020 Award went for Karmele Jaio (1970) and her novel Aitaren etxea. At the sa

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Fink, Moritz. Understanding The Simpsons. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462988316.

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Another book on The Simpsons? you might wonder. Isn’t the yellow cartoon troupe around the eponymous chaotic family somewhat worn-out? Perhaps you even ask yourself whether that nineties’ show is still on the air anyhow. Accolades such as "the best TV show of the twentieth century" or "the longest-running scripted series on American prime-time television" have elevated The Simpsons to the pop culture pantheon, while also suggesting the very vintage character of the program. But the label "The Simpsons" refers not just to a show that seems to belong to a bygone television era, it implies a rich

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The day gravity was turned off in Topeka: And other short-lived phenomena of modern life. St. Martin's Press, 1985.

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Sabor, Peter. ‘Moral Romance’ and the Novel at Mid-Century. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580033.003.0035.

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This chapter discusses several developments pertaining to the phenomenon of ‘moral romance’ as well as the state of the novel at mid-century. The 1740s were a pivotal decade for the novel in English, particularly because of the rivalry between Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding. Both writers notably disparaged conventional ideas about romance. In addition, the chapter explores moral romance in Sarah Fielding's The Adventures of David Simple (1744). It shows that, although she uses the phrase ‘Moral Romance’ so diffidently in her short-lived Advertisement, Sarah Fielding has more to say about

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Sáenz, Carmen López. The Phenomenal Body Is Not Born; It Comes to Be a Body-Subject. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190608811.003.0011.

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Phenomenology distinguishes body-object (Körper) from lived body (Leib). It is interested in the latter, in the body that manifests itself to us in our lived experiences and gives them expression. Beauvoir’s phenomenology of sexual difference shares this starting point. This contribution continues Beauvoir’s hermeneutic by focusing on her well-known declaration: “On ne naît pas femme: on le devient,” keeping in mind that interpretations are given from and for certain situations; our situation is that of the 21st century and of phenomenological and feminist investigations. Given that translatio

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Davis, Stephen J. Monasticism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198717645.001.0001.

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Monasticism is a social and religious phenomenon that originated in antiquity, which remains relevant in the 21st century. Monasticism: A Very Short Introduction discusses the history of monasticism from the earliest evidence for it, and the different types that have developed. It considers where monasteries are located around the world, and how their settings impact the everyday life and worldview of the monks and nuns who dwell in them. Exploring how monastic communities are organized, this VSI also looks at how all aspects of life are regimented. Finally, it discusses what the stories about

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Stackhouse, John G. Evangelicalism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780190079680.001.0001.

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Evangelicalism: A Very Short Introduction examines the heart of the evangelical phenomenon. Evangelicalism encompasses many Protestant denominations that share core tenets of Christianity. It is foremost defined by its fervent worship, its regard for the Bible as the ultimate theological and ethical authority, the desire to evangelize, and the insistence on religious conversion known as being “born again.” As the Evangelical movement has grown rapidly, so has its influence on the political stage. This VSI tells the evangelical story from the preacher-led revivals of the eighteenth century, thr

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Kastner, Jill, and William C. Wohlforth. A Measure Short of War. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197683163.001.0001.

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Abstract This book is a primer on the history of subversion—hostile domestic interference to undermine or manipulate a rival—among rival great powers. It provides a conceptual apparatus for understanding why and when great powers meddle in each other’s domestic affairs and examines subversion via compact case studies exploring 2,000 years of mischief and manipulation. Evidence from classical antiquity and early modern Europe to the great-power rivalries of the nineteenth century, the 1930s, and the Cold War illustrates subversion’s allure, its operational possibilities, and the means for fight

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Huq, Aziz Z. The Rule of Law: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780197657423.001.0001.

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Abstract The Rule of Law: A Very Short Introduction sets out the origins and development of an English-language debate centered around the phrase “rule of law.” It aims is to explore the distinctive ethical contributions offered by various thinkers to this specific phrase, first theorized by the English scholar A. V. Dicey, while largely setting aside how the same questions are framed and resolved in other traditions. The book opens by canvassing the classical and early modern sources upon which Dicey and his successors explicitly drew. It then explores the ideas of Dicey, which it flags as th

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Jaramillo, George S., and Juliane Tomann, eds. Transcending the Nostalgic: Landscapes of Postindustrial Europe beyond Representation. Berghahn Books, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/9781800732216.

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Even as the global economy of the twenty-first century continues its dramatic and unpredictable transformations, the landscapes it leaves in its wake bear the indelible marks of their industrial past. Whether in the form of abandoned physical structures, displaced populations, or ecological impacts, they persist in memory and lived experience across the developed world. This collection explores the affective and “more-than-representational” dimensions of post-industrial landscapes, including narratives, practices, social formations, and other phenomena. Focusing on case studies from across Eur

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Ellis, Katharine. Researching Audience Behaviors in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Edited by Christian Thorau and Hansjakob Ziemer. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466961.013.2.

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This chapter starts by revisiting a now-familiar text: James H. Johnson’s book Listening in Paris (1995). On the basis of concert and opera reviews, images, and the paratexts of concert programs, Ellis reframes Johnson’s question “When did audiences fall silent?” as “Where and why did audiences fail to fall silent?” Multilayered answers show how (1) many of the noisier phenomena of the eighteenth century resurfaced in new guises from the 1850s onward; (2) the democratization of art music took place in contexts that could not always impose “religious” listening; and (3) there was a resurgent de

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Shabliy, Elena V., Dmitry Kurochkin, and Gloria Y. A. Ayee. Women’s Human Rights in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978737785.

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Women’s Human Rights in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture sheds light on women's rights advancements in the nineteenth century and early twentieth-century through explorations of literature and culture from this time period. With an international emphasis, contributors illuminate the range and diversity of women’s work as novelists, journalists, and short story writers and analyze the New Woman phenomenon, feminist impulse, and the diversity of the women writers. Studying writing by authors such as Alice Meynell, Thomas Hardy, Netta Syrett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mary Seacole, Charlotte

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Saler, Robert Cady. “Death to the World” and Apocalyptic Theological Aesthetics. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780567704467.

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Robert Saler examines the small but influential “Death to the World” (DTTW) movement in US Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Presenting a case study in theological aesthetics, Saler demonstrates how a relatively small consumer phenomenon within US Eastern Orthodoxy sits at the centre of a variety of larger questions, including: - The relationship between formal ecclesial and para-church structures - The role of the Internet in modern religiosity - Consumer structures and patterns as constitutive of piety - How theology can help us understand art and vice versa Understanding DTTW as an instance of

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Ystehede, Per Jørgen. Contested Spaces. Edited by Paul Knepper and Anja Johansen. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352333.013.17.

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This article provides an outline of the history of crime museums, monuments, and crime memorials and suggests how these can be understood as historical, social, and cultural phenomena. First, some common characteristics of crime museums, monuments, and memorials are set out. Second, a short historical outline of the rise of the (crime) museum from the Renaissance period until the twenty-first century is provided, followed by a consideration of crime museums, crime monuments, and memorials as separate categories and objects of study. A selection of examples of crime museums, monuments, and memo

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Salzman, Paul. Authorship, Publication, Reception (1). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580033.003.0001.

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This chapter charts the nature of prose fiction from the beginning of printing to the start of the Restoration period. The development, diversity, and increasing popularity of prose fiction from this era are an extraordinary literary phenomenon. Prose romance circulated from the 1470s through the sixteenth century in both print and manuscript, and formed the cornerstone of prose narrative during the late fifteenth through to the mid-sixteenth centuries. While it is impossible to find a great deal of hard evidence about the early readership for these works, their proliferation and their variety

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Brickey, Russell. Edward FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Revisited. Lexington Books, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978748422.

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Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Revisited: The Wine, the Vine, and the Rose examines an overlooked masterpiece which was a phenomenon in its day. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883), sold millions of copies between its first publication in 1859 and World War II, becoming one of the best-selling books of all time, only to disappear from the public eye until the age of the Internet revived interest in the work. Russell Brickey synthesizes scholarship and close reading in the first monograph dedicated to the Rubáiyát, taking into account the original

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Size matters: measuring the effects of inequality and growth shocks. UNU-WIDER, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2020/934-1.

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Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and social scientists. In this paper we use a Bayesian structural vector autoregression approach to estimate the relationship between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979–2018. We find that a growth shock is inequality-increasing, and an inequality shock is growth-reducing. We also find, however, that the sizes of the effects of these shocks are very small, accounting for under 2 per cent of the varia

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Fink, Moritz. Understanding The Simpsons. Amsterdam University Press B.V., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9789048561834.

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Accolades such as the best TV show of the twentieth century or the longest-running scripted series on American prime-time television have not only elevated The Simpsons to the comedy pantheon, they have come to suggest the very dinosaur character of the program. But the label The Simpsons not just refers to a show that seems to belong to a bygone television era; it implies a rich narrative universe, including a set of iconic figures, familiar across continents and generations. Through a transmedia-studies lens, Understanding The Simpsons traces the yellow-branded franchise's trajectory, from i

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Souter, Gerry. The Earnhardts. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400643118.

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The story of NASCAR's preeminent family and the multibillion dollar sport they helped create. From mid-century dirt tracks to today's super speedways, The Earnhardts: A Biography tells the remarkable story of a racing family—Dale, his father Ralph, and son Dale Jr.—whose careers span the full history of NASCAR and whose accomplishments define this unique American motorsport. Drawing on extensive research, including interviews with friends, family, and sports writers covering the NASCAR scene, Gerry Souter follows the Earnhardts' story from Ralph's short track racing in cars he built himself to

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Cahana-Blum, Jonathan. Wrestling with Archons. Lexington Books, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978739413.

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This book demonstrates that ancient Christian Gnosticism was an ancient form of cultural criticism in a mythological garb. It establishes that, much like modern forms of critical theory, ancient Gnosticism was set on deconstructing mainstream discourses and cultural premises. Strains of critical theory dealt with include the Frankfurt School, queer theory, and poststructural philosophy. The book documents how in both ancient Gnosticism and modern critical theories issues that used to serve as premises for discussion or as concepts relegated to the realms of the “natural” and the “given” in the

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Leonte, Florin. Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441032.001.0001.

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Manuel II Palaiologos was not only a Byzantine emperor but also a remarkably prolific rhetorician and theologian. His oeuvre included letters, treatises, dialogues, short poems and orations. This book deals with several of his texts shaped by a didactic intention to educate the emperor’s son and successor, John VIII Palaiologos. It is argued that the emperor constructed a rhetorical persona which he used in an attempt to compete with other contemporary power-brokers. While Manuel Palaiologos adhered to many rhetorical conventions of his day, he also reasserted the civic role of rhetoric. With

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Eller, Jonathan R. The Anthology Game. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036293.003.0032.

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This chapter examines Ray Bradbury's failed attempt to publish a mainstream literary anthology of science fiction stories centered on Mars. The development of the Illinois novel was slowed by Bradbury's increased focus on the science fiction stories he was writing and revising with more and more frequency. Despite Don Congdon's influence with a wide range of editors, these stories were still not selling to the major magazines at all. What sustained both his spirit and his reputation during this period was his almost phenomenal success with the premier award anthologies of the day such as the B

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Deusner, Melody Barnett. The Impossible Exedra. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190272333.003.0006.

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The sudden appearance and proliferation of Greco-Roman exedrae (and their domestic derivations) in American parks and homes at the close of the nineteenth century marks a particularly revealing collision between the Classical past and the present, the private and the public, the ideal and the startlingly real. In its various manifestations as house, street, and garden furniture, the somber and pedigreed form of the exedra encouraged dignified bodily management, quiet contemplation, and polite socialization, but also proved dismayingly susceptible to unconstrained lounging, sprawling, loitering

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Plain, Gill. Agatha Christie. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191896095.001.0001.

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Abstract Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction explores the enduring appeal of the world’s bestselling novelist, whose works have been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie’s prolific career, spanning 1920 to the 1970s, includes plays, thrillers, middlebrow melodramas, domestic noir, and the clue-puzzle detective fiction that made her name. This VSI explores how Christie’s fiction works, and considers the curious alchemy of her style, characterization, and plotting, while also noting her playfulness and satirical edge. The book also examines Christi

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Wilder, JeffriAnne. Color Stories. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400628610.

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This book offers an in-depth sociological exploration of present-day colorism in the lives of black women, investigating the lived experiences of a phenomenon that continues to affect women of African descent. Race still matters. And for black women, the related issues of skin tone are just as important today as in decades past. Part cultural commentary, part empirical analysis, this book offers a compelling study and discussion of colorism a widely discussed but understudied issue in "post-racial" America that demonstrates how powerful a factor skin color remains in the everyday lives of youn

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Trites, Roberta Seelinger. Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children's and Adolescent Literature. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496813800.001.0001.

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Twenty-First Century Feminisms in Children’s and Adolescent Literature employs methodologies from material feminism to demonstrate how feminist thinking has influenced literature for the young in the last two decades. Material feminism provides people with ways of thinking about the interactions among discourse, embodiment, technology, the environment, cognition, and the ethics of caring. This book thus applies the principles behind material feminism and interrelated manifestations of feminism (such as Critical Race Theory and ecofeminism) to texts written for the young to demonstrate how shif

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Hobson, Suzanne. Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192846471.001.0001.

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Unbelief offers a new account of the relationship between literary and secularist scenes of writing in interwar Britain. Organized secularism has sometimes been seen as a phenomenon that lived and died with the nineteenth century. But associations such as the National Secular Society and the Rationalist Press Association survived into the twentieth and found new purpose in the promotion and publishing of serious literature. This book assembles a group of literary figures whose work was recommended as being of particular interest to the unbelieving readership targeted by these organizations. So

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Moynihan, Sinéad. Ireland, Migration and Return Migration. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786941800.001.0001.

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Drawing on historical, literary and cultural studies perspectives, this book examines the phenomenon of the “Returned Yank” in the cultural imagination, taking as its point of departure the most exhaustively discussed Returned Yank narrative, The Quiet Man (dir. John Ford, 1952). Often dismissed as a figure that embodies the sentimentality and nostalgia of Irish America writ large, this study argues that the Returned Yank’s role in the Irish cultural imagination is much more varied and complex than this simplistic construction allows. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first,

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Fife, Brian L. Winning the War on Poverty. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216036234.

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Applying lessons from history to the reality of poverty today in the United States—the most affluent country in the world—this book analyzes contributing factors to poverty and proposes steps to relieve people affected by it. American history is replete with efforts to alleviate poverty. While some efforts have resulted in at least partial success, others have not, because poverty is a multifaceted, complicated phenomenon with no simple solution. Winning the War on Poverty studies the history of poverty relief efforts in the United States dating to the nineteenth century, debunking mispercepti

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Stokes, Christopher. Romantic Prayer. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857808.001.0001.

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Whilst religion and the secular have been continually debated contexts for literature of the Romantic era, the dominant scholarly focus has always been on doctrines and denominations. In analysing the motif of devotion, this book shifts attention to the quintessential articulation of religion as lived experience, as practice, and as a performative rather than descriptive phenomenon. In an era when the tenability and rationality of prayer were much contested, poetry—a form with its own interlinked history with prayer, especially via lyric—was a unique place to register what prayer meant in mode

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Williams, Jay, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Jack London. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199315178.001.0001.

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Robert Scholes and Clifford Wulfman define modernism and modernity this way: “Modernity is a social condition. Modernism was a response to that condition.” Modernity “is an urban condition” “reached in certain parts of the world in the late nineteenth century … a mass phenomenon” characterized by the rise of technology, print culture, and material consumption. Jack London, who is routinely categorized as a naturalist and realist, can also be called a modernist. The word modern appears often in the pages of this handbook, and though it is not new to call London a modernist, the breadth of schol

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Fischer-Lichte, Erika. Tragedy’s Endurance. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199651634.001.0001.

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The book is devoted to the remarkable phenomenon of Greek tragedy’s endurance on German stages during the last 200 years. It examines how performances of Greek tragedies since 1800 contributed to the emergence, stabilization, and transformation of the German Bildungsbürgertum’s (educated middle class) cultural identity. Its focus lies on performances that either introduced a new theatre aesthetics or a new image of ancient Greece, or both. Key here are the truly transformative moments as well as the cultural dynamics involved. In this context, the overall political situation of the 200 years b

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Myers, Alicia D. An Introduction to the Gospels and Acts. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190926809.001.0001.

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Introducing the Gospels and Acts is not just about reading the first five books of the New Testament. It requires entering the first-century Mediterranean world where the events recorded in these writings happened. This short book takes readers on a journey through the Gospels and Acts, introducing them to the world of Jesus of Nazareth and of the believers who composed and shared stories inspired by him. It provides overviews of context and major passages in each canonical work, and also introduces readers to the apocryphal gospels and acts to demonstrate the larger phenomenon of early Christ

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Richard, Birgit, Shirley R. Steinberg, and Priya Parmar. Contemporary Youth Culture. Greenwood, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216190899.

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Youth as a unique group is a 20th century idea. The changes wrought worldwide by World War II, propelled adolescence to a status and identity that coincided with unparalleled economic growth. While developmental psychologists refined their theories of normal growth and maturation, society and the media were at work constructing youth as consumers,thereby liberating them from traditional family controls. An increasingly smaller world impinges mightily on the culture of youth. An international and inter-disciplinary roster of experts shed light by exploring such topics as hip hop culture; punk c

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Byrne, Joseph P. Daily Life during the Black Death. Greenwood, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400636721.

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Daily life during the Black Death was anything but normal. When plague hit a community, every aspect of life was turned upside down, from relations within families to its social, political, and economic stucture. Theaters emptied, graveyards filled, and the streets were ruled by the terrible corpse-bearers whose wagons of death rumbled day and night. Daily life during the Black Death was anything but normal. During the three and a half centuries that constituted the Second Pandemic of Bubonic Plague, from 1348 to 1722, Europeans were regularly assaulted by epidemics that mowed them down like a

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Hanson, Jarice. 24/7. Praeger, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400605765.

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Just as the automobile radically changed people's lives at the beginning of the 20th century, so too has the revolution in online services (including blogging, podcasting, videogaming, shopping, and social networking) and cell-phone use changed our lives at the turn of the 21st century. In addition, many other services, activities, and devices—including the Palm Pilot, the BlackBerry, the iPod, digital cameras, and cell cameras—have been made possible by the combination of these two technologies. Whereas the automobile allowed people for the first time to work in cities and live comfortably in

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Priewe, Sascha. Prehistoric Figurines in China. Edited by Timothy Insoll. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199675616.013.023.

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In early China there was no widespread tradition of making figurines until about the mid-first millennium bc when human figurines started to be placed in burials to accompany the deceased into the afterlife. In prior millennia only pockets of China had seen the emergence of figurines, but these appeared to be short-lived phenomena clearly rooted and linked to local and regional cultures. The overall paucity of three-dimensional imagery and relative rarity of human representations both in two and three dimensions meant that China does not feature in surveys of early figurines. This chapter surv

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Legare, Cristine H., and Andrew Shtulman. Explanatory pluralism across cultures and development. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789710.003.0019.

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Humans use natural and supernatural explanations for phenomena such as illness, death, and human origins. These explanations are available not just to different individuals within a society, but to the same individual, coexisting within a single mind. This chapter proposes that understanding the coexistence of qualitatively different explanations is fundamentally a cognitive–developmental endeavor, speaking to general questions of knowledge acquisition, socialization, and the interaction of cognition and culture. The chapter first reviews research demonstrating that coexistence of natural and

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Balbier, Uta A. ‘Billy Graham’s Cold War Crusades’. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798071.003.0013.

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This chapter explores the Billy Graham revival campaigns in Washington, London, New York, and Berlin in the 1950s as expressions of a transnational religious revival that took place simultaneously in the USA, Germany, and the UK. During this short-lived revival, discourses around Christianity, anti-Communism, democracy, and the Free World blended, produced new forms of civil religious identities, and seemed to briefly challenge secularization processes. The chapter explores the mindset of political and religious leaders who supported the Billy Graham Crusades as well as the staging of events a

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Ornston, Darius. Good Governance Gone Bad. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501726101.001.0001.

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The small, open economies of Nordic Europe are hailed as paragons of good governance, adapting flexibly to rapid, technological change and shifting patterns of economic competition. But they have also made strikingly poor policy choices and suffered devastating economic crises, as evidenced by the Finnish and Swedish banking crises of the early 1990s, Finnish dependence on Nokia, and Iceland's financial meltdown. Good Governance Gone Bad argues that the reasons for these two, seemingly contradictory phenomena is one and the same. The dense, cohesive relationships that enable these countries to

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Wieringa, Saskia. A Political Biography of the Indonesian Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Movement. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350422834.

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Here, the history of the Indonesian LBT movement is charted, from invisibility, to visibility and now as it moves again into hiding. In the early 1980s, during the oppressive military dictatorship called the New Order in Indonesia, the first organizations of Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans persons were established. They were short-lived, but prepared the ground for a more comprehensive LBT rights movement after the democratic opening of society in 1998. From 2000 to 2015 the visibility of the movement grew, until a vicious state-sponsored backlash set in, driven by majoritarian, fundamentalist Isl

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Chattopadhyay, Swati. Small Spaces. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350288256.

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Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized people—the servants, women, children, subalterns, and racialized minorities—who held up the infrastructure of empire. In so doing it opens up an important new approach to architectural history: an invitation to shift our attention from the large to the small scale. Taking the British empire in India as its primary focus, this bo

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