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Guerzoni, Gianluca. I fondamenti della moralità nel pensiero di John Finnis. Dehoniana Libri, 2010.

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Reason, morality, and law: The philosophy of John Finnis. Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Scandroglio, Tommaso. La teoria neoclassica sulla legge naturale di Germain Grisez e John Finnis. G. Giappichelli editore, 2012.

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Wolfgang, Mommsen. Christliche Ethik und Teleologie: Eine Untersuchung der ethischen Normierungstheorien von Germain Grisez, John Finnis und Alan Donagan. Oros Verlag, 1993.

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Maestri, Enrico. La vita umana "presa sul serio": Uno studio sul perfezionismo bioetico di John M. Finnis e sul liberalismo bioetico di Ronald Dworkin. Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 2009.

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Ramírez, Vicente Jaime. Versiones contemporáneas del derecho natural: Un estudio sobre la fundamentación del derecho en la ley natural en la obra de John Finnis. Señal Editora, 2001.

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Kolehmainen, John Ilmari. The Finns in America and Finland: A bibliography of the writings of John I. Kolehmainen, 1936-1995. Heidelberg College, 1995.

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The defence of natural law: A study of the ideas of law and justice in the writings of Lon L. Fuller, Michael Oakeshot, F.A. Hayek, Ronald Dworkin, and John Finnis. St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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Covell, Charles. The defence of natural law: A study of the ideas of law and justice in the writings of Lon L. Fuller, Michael Oakeshot(t), F.A. Hayek, Ronald Dworkin and John Finnis. St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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1943-, Nevala Maria-Liisa, ed. "Sain roolin johon en mahdu": Suomalaisen naiskirjallisuuden linjoja. Otava, 1989.

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Twain, Mark. Historical romances: The prince and the pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court, Personal recollections of Joan of Arc. Library of America, 1994.

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Finnis, John. Collected Essays of John Finnis: Volumes I-V. Oxford University Press, 2013.

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CORDIOLI, LEANDRO. A JUSTIÇA E A LEI NATURAL EM JOHN FINNIS. Editora Fundação Fênix, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36592/9786587424453.

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Finnis, John. The Collected Essays of John Finnis: Volumes I-V. Oxford University Press, 2011.

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George, Robert P., and John Keown. Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis. Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Zambrano, Pilar, and William L. Saunders. Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights: Leading Constitutional Cases under Scrutiny. Concluding Reflections by John Finnis. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2019.

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Zambrano, Pilar, and William L. Saunders. Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights: Leading Constitutional Cases under Scrutiny. Concluding Reflections by John Finnis. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2019.

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Zambrano, Pilar, and William L. Saunders. Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights: Leading Constitutional Cases under Scrutiny. Concluding Reflections by John Finnis. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2019.

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Zambrano, Pilar, and William L. Saunders. Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights: Leading Constitutional Cases under Scrutiny. Concluding Reflections by John Finnis. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2019.

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Long, Steven A. Minimalist natural law: A study of the natural law theories of H.L.A. Hart, John Finnis, and Lon Fuller. 1993.

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Massa, Mark S. Germain Grisez and the “New Natural Law”. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190851408.003.0006.

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This chapter is an extended examination of a revisionist approach to natural law, explored by Germain Grisez and John Finnis. Grisez and Finnis elucidated an entirely new paradigm that they believed to be both sounder intellectually than the paradigms of the neo-scholastics and revisionists and much closer in outline to the paradigm offered by St. Thomas Aquinas. This approach is usually labeled the “new natural law.” The author proposes that the entire “new natural law” project undertaken by Grisez and Finnis could be viewed as being about saving natural law by reestablishing it on distinctly different foundations that avoided any appeal to metaphysical claims, which modern science had long rejected as outdated and unscientific.
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Boland, Donald. Natural Law - Australian Style: A Study in Disputation Focusing on the Work of Peter Singer, John Finnis and Tracey Rowland. En Route Books & Media, 2022.

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Covell, Charles. Defence of Natural Law: A Study of the Ideas of Law and Justice in the Writings of Lon L. Fuller, Michael Oakeshot, F. A. Hayek, Ronald Dworkin and John Finnis. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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Covell, Charles. The Defence of Natural Law: A Study of the Ideas of Law and Justice in the Writings of Lon L. Fuller, Michael Oakeshot, F. A. Hayek, Ronald Dworkin and John Finnis. Palgrave Macmillan, 1992.

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1929-, Bourret Joan Liffring-Zug, Kangas Gerry, and Crum Dorothy, eds. Finnish touches: Recipes & traditions / [editors, Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret, Gerry Kangas, and Dorothy Crum]. Penfield Books, 2002.

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Macpherson, Ben. Joan Littlewood. Edited by Robert Gordon and Olaf Jubin. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988747.013.19.

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This chapter reassesses the work of Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop from the 1950s to the 1970s. It finds that, in many instances, Littlewood’s visionary approach to collaborative devising and her innovative borrowing from a breadth of theatrical traditions broadened the scope of the British musical as a vehicle for social engagement, with a legacy that is both tangible and vital as part of the history of twentieth-century musical theatre. Yet, the chapter argues that in many ways, at the root of Littlewood’s approach was an often contradictory world view: at once critical of the Establishment and simultaneously embedded within it. The chapter concludes by arguing that this paradoxical approach is what makes Littlewood’s work so innovative and, ultimately, so typically British.
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Hoegaerts, Josephine, Tuire Liimatainen, Laura Hekanaho, and Elizabeth Peterson, eds. Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality. Helsinki University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.33134/hup-17.

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This multidisciplinary volume reflects the shifting experiences and framings of Finnishness and its relation to race and coloniality. The authors centre their investigations on whiteness and unravel the cultural myth of a normative Finnish (white) ethnicity. Rather than presenting a unified definition for whiteness, the book gives space to the different understandings and analyses of its authors. This collection of case-studies illuminates how Indigenous and ethnic minorities have participated in defining notions of Finnishness, how historical and recent processes of migration have challenged the traditional conceptualisations of the nation-state and its population, and how imperial relationships have contributed to a complex set of discourses on Finnish compliance and identity. With an aim to question and problematise what may seem self-evident aspects of Finnish life and Finnishness, expert voices join together to offer (counter) perspectives on how Finnishness is constructed and perceived. Scholars from cultural studies, history, sociology, linguistics, genetics, among others, address four main topics: 1) Imaginations of Finnishness, including perceived physical characteristics of Finnish people; 2) Constructions of whiteness, entailing studies of those who do and do not pass as white; 3) Representations of belonging and exclusion, making up of accounts of perceptions of what it means to be ‘Finnish’; and 4) Imperialism and colonisation, including what might be considered uncomfortable or even surprising accounts of inclusion and exclusion in the Finnish context. This volume takes a first step in opening up a complex set of realities that define Finland’s changing role in the world and as a home to diverse populations.
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Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Edited by Michael Cotsell. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199536252.001.0001.

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Following his father's death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he marries Bella Wilfur. To observe her character he assumes another identity and secures work with his father's foreman, Mr Boffin, who is also Bella's guardian. Disguise and concealment play an important role in the novel and individual identity is examined within the wider setting of London life: in the 1860s the city was aflame with spiralling financial speculation while thousands of homeless scratched a living from the detritus of the more fortunate-indeed John Harmon's father has amassed his wealth by recycling waste. This edition includes extensive explanatory notes and significant manuscript variants.
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Haivry, Ofir. John Selden and the Jewish Religious Fountainhead of the International Law of the Sea. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805878.003.0006.

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Modern international maritime law (IML) was born primarily out of two works, written about 400 years ago: Mare Liberum (1609) by Hugo Grotius, which argued for a complete freedom of the seas; and Mare Clausum (1635), by John Selden (1584–1654) arguing for the principle and practice of dominion and ownership over tracts of sea. Until relatively recently IML tended far more towards Grotius, since technological limitations limited application of Selden’s view mainly to the concept of the ‘territorial waters’. However, in the last three decades, as technological advances enable the establishment of far wider areas of maritime control and ever more ambitious finds of resources lying under the sea-bed, there has been a dramatic rise in the import of John Selden’s ideas for IML.
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Price, Huw. The Flow of Time. Edited by Craig Callender. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199298204.003.0010.

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Might the explanation of some temporal asymmetries simply be that time itself is asymmetric? Some people believe that time flows, and others that it is intrinsically directed. But what do such claims mean, precisely? This chapter considers three ways of understanding flow—through a distinguished present, an objective temporal direction, and a flux-like character—and finds them all wanting. It considers, in particular, the idea that the world possesses a time orientation, critically scrutinizing the theories of John Earman and Tim Mauldin on temporal orientation and time's arrow.
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Bullard, Paddy. Eighteenth-Century Minds. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.013.95.

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During the last decade of the seventeenth century John Locke established himself as a new kind of natural historian of the human mind—describing its powers, classifying its ideas, and tracing the evolution of its faculties. The century that followed saw a flowering of psychological thinking, marked by a rapid distribution of theories from the realm of philosophy across the realm of literature. This chapter finds the traces of that intellectual movement in the work of three literary authors: Laurence Sterne, Samuel Richardson, and Edmund Burke. It finds that Sterne and Burke were less original than Richardson in their speculations, belonging squarely to the Lockeian associationist tradition, but that their sense of cognition as an embodied, distributed process (as opposed to Richardson’s more abstracted idea of the mind’s functions) offers scope to align them with certain aspects of modern cognitive neurology.
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Duran, Angelica, Islam Issa, and Jonathan R. Olson, eds. Milton in Translation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198754824.001.0001.

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Milton in Translation is an unprecedented collaboration that demonstrates the breadth of John Milton’s international reception from the seventeenth century through today. The volume presents new essays on the translation of Milton’s works written by an international roster of experts. Chapters are grouped geographically but also, by and large, chronologically. The chapters on the twenty-three individual languages are framed by an introduction and two major chapters on the global reach and the aural nature of Milton’s poetry at the beginning, and an epilogue at the end: ‘Part II: Influential Translations’ (English, Latin, German, French); ‘Part III: Western European and Latin American Translations’ (Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Italian, Portuguese, European Spanish, Latin American Spanish), ‘Part IV: Central and Eastern European Translations’ (Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian/Montenegrin, Serbo-Croatian languages), ‘Part V: Middle Eastern Translations’ (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian), and ‘Part VI: East Asian Translations’ (Chinese, Japanese, Korean).
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Osteen, Mark. A Little Larceny. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038594.003.0010.

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This chapter looks at the '50s heist picture—a subgenre of '50s gangster noir—examining John Huston's Asphalt Jungle (1950). In Huston's film, the criminal gang resembles nothing so much as a corporation that mimics the increasing organization and alienation of the “age of anxiety.” Subsequent noir heist films elaborate on this topic, dramatizing the conflict between the individual and the crime syndicate. In these “capers,” the “foot soldier” frequently finds himself caught between the police and the boss—the Law and “Murder, Inc.”—a dire predicament where, as always seems to be the case in the overdetermined universe of classic noir, there's no way out.
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Schlapbach, Karin. Dance as Method and Experience: Emotional and Epistemic Aspects of Dance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807728.003.0004.

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This chapter elucidates philosophical and religious aspects of ancient dance discourse. It traces novel connections from the poetic and philosophical motif of the dance of the stars to later ancient dance discourse. A link is found in the genre of exhortations (protreptics) to philosophy, which influenced Lucian’s On Dancing, and in the philosophical ideal of heavenly contemplation. The latter yields a particularly interesting variation by Augustine, who finds in dance spectacles an occasion to know things through themselves. The remainder of the chapter discusses the evidence for the role of dancing in ancient mystery cults and argues that in this context dance represents a way to attain cognition through sensory and emotional experience. This path is pursued further with an examination of the early Christian dance ritual depicted in the apocryphal Acts of John.
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Snyder, Mary H. Adaptation in Theory and Practice. Edited by Thomas Leitch. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199331000.013.6.

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Chapter 6 aims to navigate the distance between practitioners who write adaptations and scholars who write about adaptations. Screenwriters and adaptation scholars perform a similar function in that they both build their writing from a source text (or texts), requiring a focus on the way a source text is read or interpreted. In “Lamia,” John Keats, contrasting the reading of a text for uncritical pleasure and the reading of a text specifically in order to judge it, finds neither effective in fully identifying or understanding the multiplicities and complexities inherent within texts. The deconstruction practiced by Roland Barthes and J. Hillis Miller offers a middle ground for reading source texts. Intensive interpretations of source texts and a purposeful divergence from fidelity in adaptation help to close the gap between practitioners of adaptation and adaptation scholars.
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Wagner, J. Ross. The Prophets in the New Testament. Edited by Carolyn J. Sharp. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859559.013.21.

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Traditions about Israel’s ancient prophets, along with sacred texts handed down in their names, exercised a profound influence on the various portrayals of Jesus in the New Testament; at the same time, by reading the prophetic scriptures in light of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection, the New Testament writers discovered indispensable resources for shaping emerging Christian convictions and practices. The first claim is developed through a brief examination of John the Baptist, Jesus, and other prophetic figures in Luke-Acts. The second finds exemplification in three case studies that show how particular New Testament writers employ prophetic texts to convey the significance of Jesus’ life (the Gospel of Matthew), to promote a distinctive communal ethic (1 Peter), and to disclose the divine plan for Israel and the nations (Romans 9–11).
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Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence. Class in the Millennium Memory Bank, 1998–2000. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812579.003.0007.

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This chapter examines discourses of class in interviews for the Millennium Memory Bank, at the end of the 1990s. It finds similar themes to those traced in earlier chapters: ordinariness, authenticity, and ambivalence were prominent in interviewees’ testimonies—working-class, middle-class, and even upper-class. Many thought the idea of ‘classlessness’, as espoused by John Major, was attractive; none thought he had achieved this goal, but many did think class divides had declined in the post-war period, and that an ‘ordinary’ middle group was now the largest in society. This chapter also examines narratives of upward social mobility in the 1990s, suggesting that the range of important sociological studies of the ‘hidden injuries’ and cultural facets of class that appeared in that decade were shaped by the experiences of upwardly mobile men and women who knew about the dislocations of moving class because they themselves had done it.
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Strawson, Galen. “Person”. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691161006.003.0002.

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This chapter examines John Locke's use of the word “person” as the root cause of the misunderstanding about his theory of personal identity. Most of Locke's readers tend to take the term “person” as if it were only a sortal term of a standard kind, that is, a term for a standard temporal continuant, like “human being” or “thinking thing.” However, they fail to take into account the fact that Locke is using “person” as a “forensic” term, that is, a term that finds its principal use in contexts in which questions about the attribution of responsibility (praise and blame, punishment and reward) are foremost. The chapter explains how a Lockean person, or more specifically Person [P], differs from the standard person and describes the three components of [P]: a whole human material body, an immaterial soul, and a set of actions both present and past.
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Newton, Michael. Rosemary's Baby. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781838719074.

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Rosemary’s Baby is one of the greatest movies of the late 1960s and one of the best of all horror movies, an outstanding modern Gothic tale. An art-house fable and an elegant popular entertainment, it finds its home on the cusp between a cinema of sentiment and one of sensation. Michael Newton's study of the film traces its development at a time when Hollywood stood poised between the old world and the new, its dominance threatened by the rise of TV and cultural change, and the roles played variously by super producer Robert Evans, the film's producer William Castle, director Polanski and its stars including Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes. Newton’s close textual analysis explores the film's meanings and resonances, and, looking beyond the film itself, he examines its reception and cultural impact, and its afterlife, in which Rosemary's Baby has become linked with the terrible murder of Polanski's wife and unborn child by members of the Manson cult, and with controversies surrounding the director.
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Ryoo, Jean J., Jane Margolis, and Charis JB. Power On! The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14166.001.0001.

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A diverse group of teenage friends learn how computing can be personally and politically empowering and why all students need access to computer science education. This lively graphic novel follows a diverse group of teenage friends as they discover that computing can be fun, creative, and empowering. Taylor, Christine, Antonio, and Jon seem like typical young teens—they communicate via endless texting, they share jokes, they worry about starting high school, and they have each other's backs. But when a racially-biased artificial intelligence system causes harm in their neighborhood, they suddenly realize that tech isn't as neutral as they thought it was. But can an algorithm be racist? And what is an algorithm, anyway? In school, they decide to explore computing classes, with mixed results. One class is only about typing. The class that Christine wants to join is full, and the school counselor suggests that she take a class in “Tourism and Hospitality” instead. (Really??) But Antonio's class seems legit, Christine finds an after-school program, and they decide to teach the others what they learn. By summer vacation, all four have discovered that computing is both personally and politically empowering. Interspersed through the narrative are text boxes with computer science explainers and inspirational profiles of people of color and women in the field (including Katherine Johnson of Hidden Figures fame). Power On! is an essential read for young adults, general readers, educators, and anyone interested in the power of computing, how computing can do good or cause harm, and why addressing underrepresentation in computing needs to be a top priority.
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McRae, Calista. Lyric as Comedy. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750977.001.0001.

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A poet walks into a bar... this book explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about deeply personal, often embarrassing, experiences. Lyric poems, the book finds, can be surprising sites of a shifting, unruly comedy, as seen in the work of John Berryman, Robert Lowell, A. R. Ammons, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, and Monica Youn. The book draws out the ways in which key American poets have struggled with persistent expectations about what expressive poetry can and should do. It reveals how the modern lyric, rather than bestowing order on the poet's thoughts and emotions, can center on impropriety and confusion, formal breakage and linguistic unruliness, and self-observation and self-staging. The close readings in the book also provide new insight into the theory and aesthetics of comedy, taking in the indirect, glancing comic affordances of poetry. In doing so, the book captures varieties of humor that do not align with traditional terms, centering abjection and pleasure as facets of contemporary lyric practice.
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Trollope, Anthony. Can You Forgive Her? Edited by Dinah Birch. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199578177.001.0001.

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‘She loved him much, and admired him even more than she loved him…Would that he had some faults!’ Alice Vavasor is torn between a risky marriage with her ambitious cousin George and the safer prospect of a union with the formidably correct John Grey. Her indecision is reflected in the dilemmas of her friend Lady Glencora, confined in the proprieties of her life with Plantagenet Palliser but tempted to escape with her penniless lover Burgo Fitzgerald, and of her aunt, the irreverent widow Mrs Greenow, who must choose between a solid farmer and an untrustworthy soldier as her next husband. Each woman finds her choice bound up with the cold realities of money, and the tension between public expectation and private inclination. Can You Forgive Her? is the first of Trollope’s six Palliser novels, and its focus on the exercise of power, whether in the masculine world of parliament and the professions, or within the domesticities of friendship, courtship, and marriage, signals a new breadth and diversity of interest in his fiction.
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Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Ian Duncan. Kidnapped. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199674213.001.0001.

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Your bed shall be the moorcock’s, and your life shall be like the hunted deer’s, and ye shall sleep with your hand upon your weapons.’ Tricked out of his inheritance, shanghaied, shipwrecked off the west coast of Scotland, David Balfour finds himself fleeing for his life in the dangerous company of Jacobite outlaw and suspected assassin Alan Breck Stewart. Their unlikely friendship is put to the test as they dodge government troops across the Scottish Highlands. Set in the aftermath of the 1745 rebellion, Kidnapped transforms the Romantic historical novel into the modern thriller. Its heart-stopping scenes of cross-country pursuit, distilled to a pure intensity in Stevenson’s prose, have become a staple of adventure stories from John Buchan to Alfred Hitchcock and Ian Fleming. Kidnapped remains as exhilarating today as when it was first published in 1886. This new edition is based on the 1895 text, incorporating Stevenson’s last thoughts about the novel before his death. It includes Stevenson’s ‘Note to Kidnapped’, reprinted for the first time since 1922.
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Grimm, Dieter. The Basic Law as a Barrier against a Transformation of the EU into a State. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805120.003.0011.

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This chapter examines how Germany’s Basic Law can prevent the transformation of the European Union into a state. It begins with a discussion of the German Federal Constitutional Court’s (Bundesverfassungsgericht) 2009 decision on the compatibility of the Lisbon Treaty with the Basic Law. In particular, it highlights the message of the Bundesverfassungsgericht’s judgment: that European integration will not be hindered by Germany but finds it limits in the Basic Law. It then explains why, on the side of the EU, the German Court puts so much weight on the treaty character of the EU’s legal basis and why, on the side of the Member States, much emphasis is placed on sovereignty. It also considers the question of whether Germany would be allowed to join a federal European state if its democratic legitimacy were at the level required by Article 79(3) Basic Law.
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Henricks, Thomas S. The Play of Possibility. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039072.003.0010.

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This final chapter summarizes the book's major themes, including the thesis that play is a distinctive strategy of meaning-making that finds its end in self-realization. It begins with a discussion of a general theory of play, with particular emphasis on the relationship between sense-making and play as well as the distinction between ideal play and real play. It then considers the role of play in human agency and revisits Johan Huizinga's challenge to evaluate the role of play in the contemporary era. It also describes some problematic qualities of play and concludes with an analysis of questions of whether and how play should be evaluated by arguing that play as action is not equivalent to play as interaction or to play as activity; therefore, interactive (and thus intersubjective) play should respect the freedom of all participants.
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Wells, Elizabeth. After Anger. Edited by Robert Gordon and Olaf Jubin. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988747.013.10.

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The late 1950s saw an astonishing emergence of iconoclastic and modernistic approaches to the genre of the British musical. Directors like Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop company produced a number of dark, cynical, and experimental musicals in the late 1950s that provided British theatre professionals and audiences alike with an alternative to the dominant American style. Many attempted to bring this new and particularly British voice to the West End. An investigation of the musical, dramatic, and cultural context of the exceptional and important ‘Soho’ shows, which include Expresso Bongo, The Crooked Mile, Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be, and Make Me an Offer, reveals these works as microcosms of their cultural environment as well as marking new directions in British musical theatre. Culminating in Oliver!, arguably the best-known British musical of this era, this development heralded a time of experimentation, social commentary, and modernism.
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Hegland, Frode, ed. The Future of Text ||. Future Text Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.48197/fot2021.

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The second anthology of perspectives on the future of text, one of our most important mediums for thinking and communicating. Foreword by the founder of the modern Library of Alexandria, Ismail Serageldin. With astounding developments in computer special effects in movies and the emergence of powerful AI, text has developed little beyond spellcheck and blue links. In this work we look at myriads of perspectives to inspire a rich future of text through contributions from academia, the arts, business & tech. Ismail Serageldin • Frode Hegland • Alexandra Saemmer • Ann Bessemans • Barbara Tversky • Robert E. “Bob” Horn • Bob Stein • Brendan Langen • Daniel Berleant • Daveed Benjamin • Erik Vlietinck • Fabian Wittel & David Felsmann • Fabio Brazza • Faith Lawrence • Imogen Reid • Jad Esber • Jamie Joyce • Jay Hooper • Jeffrey Chan • Jessica Rubart • Joe Devlin • John Hockenberry • Jonathan Finn • Karl Hebenstreit, Jr. • Kyle Booten • Lesia Tkacz • Luc Beaudoin • Mark Anderson • Megan Ma • Niels Ole Finnemann • Peter Wasilko • Philippe Bootz • Rafael Nepô • Richard A. Carter • Rob Haisfield • Sam Brooker • Sam Winston • Sarah Walton • Stephen Fry • Tim Brookes • Vinton G. Cerf • Yohanna Joseph Waliya This is a Future of Text initiative, along with the software Author & Reader: www.augmentedtext.info
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Huler, Scott. A Delicious Country. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648286.001.0001.

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In 1700, a young man named John Lawson left London and landed in Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to make a name for himself. For reasons unknown, he soon undertook a two-month journey through the still-mysterious Carolina backcountry. His travels yielded A New Voyage to Carolina in 1709, one of the most significant early American travel narratives, rich with observations about the region's environment and Indigenous people. Lawson later helped found North Carolina's first two cities, Bath and New Bern; became the colonial surveyor general; contributed specimens to what is now the British Museum; and was killed as the first casualty of the Tuscarora War. Yet despite his great contributions and remarkable history, Lawson is little remembered, even in the Carolinas he documented.In 2014, Scott Huler made a surprising decision: to leave home and family for his own journey by foot and canoe, faithfully retracing Lawson's route through the Carolinas. This is the chronicle of that unlikely voyage, revealing what it's like to rediscover your own home. Combining a traveler's curiosity, a naturalist's keen observation, and a writer's wit, Huler draws our attention to people and places we might pass regularly but never really see. What he finds are surprising parallels between Lawson's time and our own, with the locals and their world poised along a knife-edge of change between a past they can't forget and a future they can’t quite envision.
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Shinko, Rosemary E. Sovereignty as a Problematic Conceptual Core. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.300.

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The concept of sovereignty has been the subject of vigorous debate among scholars. Sovereignty presents the discipline of international law with a host of theoretical and material problems regarding what it, as a concept, signifies; how it relates to the power of the state; questions about its origins; and whether sovereignty is declining, being strengthened, or being reconfigured. The troublesome aspects of sovereignty can be analyzed in relation to constructivist, feminist, critical theory, and postmodern approaches to the concept. The most problematic aspects of sovereignty have to do with its relationship to the rise and power of the modern state, and how to link the state’s material reality to philosophical discussions about the concept of sovereignty. The paradoxical quandary located at the heart of sovereignty arises from the question of what establishes law as constitutive of sovereign authority absent the presumption or exercise of sovereign power. Philosophical debates over sovereignty have attempted to account for the evolving structures of the state while also attempting to legitimate these emergent forms of rule as represented in the writings of Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. These writers document attempts to grapple with the problem of legitimacy and the so-called “structural and ideological contradictions of the modern state.” International law finds itself grappling with ever more nuanced and contradictory views of sovereignty’s continued conceptual relevance, which are partially reflective and partially constitutive of an ever more complex and paradoxical world.
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Jahner, Jennifer. Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198847724.001.0001.

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Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta traces the fortunes of literary training and experimentation across the early history of the English common law, from its beginnings in the reign of Henry II to its tumultuous consolidations under the reigns of John and Henry III. The period from the mid-twelfth through the thirteenth centuries witnessed an outpouring of innovative legal writing in England, from Magna Carta to the scores of statute books that preserved its provisions. An era of civil war and imperial fracture, it also proved a time of intensive self-definition, as communities both lay and ecclesiastic used law to articulate collective identities. Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta uncovers the role that grammatical and rhetorical training played in shaping these arguments for legal self-definition. Beginning with Thomas Becket, the book interweaves the histories of literary pedagogy and English law, showing how foundational lessons in poetics helped generate both a language and theory of corporate autonomy. Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s phenomenally popular Latin compositional handbook, the Poetria nova, finds its place against the diplomatic backdrop of the English Interdict, while Robert Grosseteste’s Anglo-French devotional poem, the Château d’Amour, is situated within the landscape of property law and Jewish-Christian interactions. Exploring a shared vocabulary across legal and grammatical fields, this book argues that poetic habits of thought proved central to constructing the narratives that medieval law tells about itself and that later scholars tell about the origins of English constitutionalism.
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