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The ambassadors of death: The sister arts, western canon and the silent lines of a Hebrew survivor. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2011.

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The hongs of Canton: Western merchants in south China 1700-1900, as seen in Chinese export paintings. London: English Art Books, 2009.

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Conner, Patrick. The hongs of Canton: Western merchants in south China 1700-1900, as seen in Chinese export paintings. London: English Art Books, 2009.

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Conner, Patrick. The hongs of Canton: Western merchants in south China 1700-1900, as seen in Chinese export paintings. London: English Art Books, 2009.

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Rogers, Hiromi T. Anjin - The Life and Times of Samurai William Adams, 1564-1620. GB Folkestone: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9781898823858.

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The year is 1600. It is April and Japan’s iconic cherry trees are in full flower. A battered ship drifts on the tide into Usuki Bay in southern Japan. On board, barely able to stand, are twenty-three Dutchmen and one Englishman, the remnants of a fleet of five ships and 500 men that had set out from Rotterdam in 1598. The Englishman was William Adams, later to be known as Anjin Miura by the Japanese, whose subsequent transformation from wretched prisoner to one of the Shogun’s closest advisers is the centrepiece of this book. As a native of Japan, and a scholar of seventeenth-century Japanese

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Balbierz, Jan, ed. Strindberg and the Western Canon. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/k7068.245/19.19.15526.

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During the whole of his writing career August Strindberg was a restless canon-maker. In his capacity as writer, librarian, cultural scholar, polemicist and amateur researcher he constantly quoted sources, both historical and contemporary, included and excluded certain authors in his own work, as well as re-evaluated the boundaries of aesthetics and culture around the turn of the twentieth century. At the same time, he was a very active author in his own right, living in self-imposed exile but in close contact with cosmopolitan intellectual circles. All of this raises questions about his relati

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Kivy, Peter. The Dilemma of Emma. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190689414.003.0009.

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In the Penguin Classics edition of Jane Austen’s Emma, the editor of the volume, Fiona Stafford, writes: “From its first appearance, late in December 1815, Emma has been criticized for its lack of action. . . .” These are harsh words for a novel, suggesting deficiency in story. Is Emma then a failed novel? Yet the novel is published in a series called Penguin Classics. In other words, Emma belongs to the Western literary canon. That hardly spells “failure.” It appears that Emma presents a kind of informal paradox or dilemma for the philosophy of art. Emma, although it is agreed on all hands to

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Merchant, Tanya. Like Tereshkova in the Cosmos. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039539.003.0004.

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This chapter examines how women perform post-Soviet nationalism using the canon of European classical music by focusing on a project designed to produce Uzbek Western art music, one that retains prominence in independent Uzbekistan. The project has involved getting composers engaged in the creation of a sense of Uzbek style in composition. In Uzbekistan, from remarkably early in the Soviet period, women have been important figures in the performance and promulgation of Uzbek compositions. The chapter first provides a historical overview of Western art music in Soviet Uzbekistan and compares it

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Voloshchuk, Yevgeniya, and Boris Bigun. The Era of “isms”: Modernism and Avantgarde in Western European Literature of the First Half of the XX Century. PH “Akademperiodyka”, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/akademperiodyka.275.324.

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The book by Ye.V. Voloshchuk and B.Ya. Bigun “The Era of “isms”: Modernism and Avantgarde in Western European Literature of the First Half of the XX Century” highlights the basic theoretical and historical-literary issues of contemporary modernism studies, as well as a number of literary portraits of classics of modernism and avantgarde. Reviews of artistic practice of artists are supplemented by the analysis of some of their works, which are included in the literary canon of the XX century. The publication is intended for students of philological faculties, masters, graduate students, teacher

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El-Rouayheb, Khaled, and Sabine Schmidtke. Introduction. Edited by Khaled El-Rouayheb and Sabine Schmidtke. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199917389.013.40.

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The study of Islamic philosophy has recently entered a new and exciting phase. Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the grand narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. The bulk of twentieth-century Western scholarship on Arabic or Islamic philosophy focused on the period from the ninth century to the twelfth. It is a measure of the transformation that is currently underway in the field that the present Handbook gives roughly equal weight to every century from the ninth to the twentieth. Moreover, its entries are w

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Ashley, Richard. Musical improvisation. Edited by Susan Hallam, Ian Cross, and Michael Thaut. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199298457.013.0038.

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Musical improvisation is, to many in the Western world, an activity shrouded in mystery. Most listeners are familiar with some genres of music in which improvisation is a commonplace, such as rock and other popular styles, jazz, or perhaps ‘ethnic’ musics – that is to say, composed or improvised ‘traditional’ musics falling outside the typical Western canons. Therefore listeners are aware that many musicians can, and routinely do, produce novel musical utterances in real time. The question for most them is ‘How is improvisation carried out?’ With this formulation of the question, musical impro

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El-Rouayheb, Khaled, and Sabine Schmidtke, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199917389.001.0001.

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The study of Islamic philosophy has recently entered a new and exciting phase. Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the grand narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. The bulk of twentieth-century Western scholarship on Arabic or Islamic philosophy focused on the period from the ninth century to the twelfth. It is a measure of the transformation that is currently underway in the field that the present Handbook gives roughly equal weight to every century from the ninth to the twentieth. The Handbook differs from p

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Durrant, Colin. The Framing of Choirs and Their Conductors. Edited by Frank Abrahams and Paul D. Head. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199373369.013.12.

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The British choral tradition is rooted in its ancient cathedrals and chapels, where the office of Evensong is sung, often daily. In addition, choral societies are to be found in most localities where singers come together and perform some of the major works in the western canon. Although singing itself occurs in a variety of forms this chapter looks at conductor-led choral singing. It does not give a fulsome picture of UK choral conducting and singing. Nonetheless, through a brief history starting from the John Curwen’s tonic sol-fa ideas for singing and culminating in a 20th century choral mu

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Lienhard, John H. The Engines of Our Ingenuity. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195135831.001.0001.

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Millions of people have listened to John H. Lienhard's radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." In this fascinating book, Lienhard gathers his reflections on the nature of technology, culture, and human inventiveness. The book brims with insightful observations. Lienhard writes that the history of technology is a history of us--we are the machines we create. Thus farming dramatically changed the rhythms of human life and redirected history. War seldom fuels invention--radar, jets, and the digital computer all emerged before World War II began. And the medieval Church was a driving force b

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Stavans, Ilan. Other Diaspora Jewish Literatures Since 1492. Edited by Martin Goodman. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199280322.013.0025.

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Since their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492, the dissemination of the Jews in Europe, northern Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas has resulted not only in the production of a literature in modern Jewish languages and dialects such as Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, Judaeo-Italian, and Judaeo-Arabic, but also in a Jewish literature delivered in virtually every major Western tongue. These literatures in non-Jewish languages obviously fit into their respective national canons: Jewish-Portuguese authors are part of Portuguese letters, Jewish-Polish authors part of Polish letters

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Adler, Eric. The Battle of the Classics. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197518786.001.0001.

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The Battle of the Classics criticizes contemporary apologetics for the humanities and presents a historically informed case for a decidedly different approach to rescuing the humanistic disciplines in American higher education. It uses the so-called Battle of the Classics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a springboard for crafting a novel foundation for the humanistic tradition. The book argues that current defences of the humanities rely on the humanistic disciplines as inculcators of certain poorly defined skills such as “critical thinking.” It finds fault with this co

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Robinson, Harlow. Lewis Milestone. University Press of Kentucky, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178332.001.0001.

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This book tells the remarkable personal and professional story of Lewis Milestone (1895-1980), one of the most prolific, creative and respected film directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Among his many films are the classics All Quiet on the Western Front, Of Mice and Men, A Walk in the Sun, Pork Chop Hill, the original Ocean’s Eleven and Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando. Born in Ukraine, he came to America as a teenager and learned about film in the U.S. Army in World War I. By the early 1920s he was editing silent films in Hollywood, and soon graduated to shooting his own features

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Phillips, Lynne. Genders, Spaces, Places. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.193.

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The concepts of gender, space, and place have significant social and political implications for the kind of world that people inhabit and the kinds of lives we can lead. That there has been a transformation in thinking about these concepts is indicated in references today to pluralized (and polymorphic) spaces, to the waxing, and waning of distinctions between space and place, and to the idea that gender, space, and place are something produced rather than simply lived in, or ventured into. These subtle shifts hint at a complex history of ideas about what constitutes gender, space, and/or plac

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