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Ferguson, Pamela. Discourse structuring in the context of United Kingdom educational policy for bilingual pupils: A study illustratedby analysis of pupils writing of argumentative discourse at key stage 3, and of provision for these pupils in a sample of Northern Irish schools. The Author], 1993.
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Ferrara, Guido, Giulio Gino Rizzo, and Mariella Zoppi, eds. Paesaggio: didattica, ricerche e progetti (1997-2007). Firenze University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-123-6.
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A collection of essays such as this is intended primarily as evidence of a disciplinary process, a path that is moreover similar to that pursued in other Italian universities, while also being unique in its evolution and as specific as every experience must be. Ten years of scientific and educational work on the landscape were deserving of comment, and we have made this in the only way we know: in writing. Hence there is no celebratory intention. It is simply one of many ways of making a sort of self-analysis, of gaining a deeper insight into ourselves and expounding our experience to others, explaining what we have produced, how we did it and what the results were, with the aim of putting our experience at the disposal of those who deal with the same disciplinary areas or with analogous issues.
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Arpioni, Maria Pia, and Alberto Zava. Guido Piovene. Articoli dall’Unione Sovietica (1960). Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-430-1.
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In the twenty-nine articles that constitute the result of the 1960s travel experience in the Soviet Union, which have so far appeared only on the third page of La Stampa, the cultural-literary operation of Guido Piovene is outlined, perfectly reflecting the programmatic intention to conduct a wide-ranging investigation into Soviet society in the early 1960s, providing a useful comparison with the condition of the western world and overcoming the appearance and conventionality of preconceived ideas (by the visitor) and prepackaged information (from part of the Soviet administrative system). In his reportage Piovene is able to activate the dynamic functions that constitute the main lines of his literary writing: the inclusion of the landscape in the narrative context and the deep internal investigation conducted on the characters, in a balance between inside and outside, between observation and analysis, between reality and dream. The result is a corpus of articles that constitute an important cultural document of that historical period but at the same time another great literary reportage by one of the most refined journalist-writers of the Italian twentieth century.
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Popova, Elena. Pre-trial cooperation agreement: criminal procedural and forensic aspects. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1003100.
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The textbook analyzes the rules governing the special procedure for making a pre-trial decision on cooperation, problems arising during their implementation, and offers recommendations for resolving these problems.
 To consolidate the passed material, various types of practical tasks and topics for writing abstracts and reports are offered. As part of the implementation of the practice-oriented approach in training, the texts of real (at the same time impersonal) procedural documents containing errors are presented, which are proposed to be identified using the material contained in the manual.
 Meets the requirements of the Federal state educational standards of higher education of the last generation.
 For students of educational institutions of higher education, studying in the direction of training 40.04.01 "Jurisprudence", as well as graduate students, students of additional professional education, teachers, scientists and employees of preliminary investigation, other law enforcement agencies, as well as a wide range of readers interested in criminal proceedings, criminology and advocacy.
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Brioni, Simone, and Shirin Ramzanali Fazel. Scrivere di Islam. Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-411-0.
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Scrivere di Islam. Raccontare la diaspora (Writing About Islam. Narrating a Diaspora) is a meditation on our multireligious, multicultural, and multilingual reality. It is the result of a personal and collaborative exploration of the necessity to rethink national culture and identity in a more diverse, inclusive, and anti-racist way. The central part of this volume – both symbolically and physically – includes Shirin Ramzanali Fazel’s reflections on the discrimination of Muslims, and especially Muslim women, in Italy and the UK. Looking at school textbooks, newspapers, TV programs, and sharing her own personal experience, this section invites us to change the way Muslim immigrants are narrated in scholarly research and news reports. Most importantly, this section urges us to consider minorities not just as ‘topics’ of cultural analysis, but as audiences and cultural agents. Following Shirin’s invitation to question prevailing modes of representations of immigrants, the volume continues with a dialogue between the co-authors and discusses how collaboration can be a way to avoid reproducing a ‘colonial model’ of knowledge production, in which the white male scholar takes as object of analysis the work of an African female writer. The last chapter also asserts that immigration literature cannot be approached with the same expectations and questions readers would have when reading ‘canonised’ texts. A new critical terminology is needed in order to understand the innovative linguistic choices and narrative forms that immigrant writers have invented in order to describe a reality that has lacked representation or which has frequently been misrepresented, especially in the discourse around the contemporary Muslim diaspora.
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Peacock, Janet L., Sally M. Kerry, and Raymond R. Balise. Writing a research protocol. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198779100.003.0003.
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Chapter 3 describes how to write a research protocol, including the background, study design, sample size calculations, and statistical analysis plan. It outlines the ethics/IRB approvals needed for research.
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Peacock, Janet L., and Sally M. Kerry. Writing a research protocol. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198599661.003.0003.
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Chapter 3 discusses writing a research proposal, and covers the development cycle, the title, primary and secondary aims, study design, sample sizes, statistical analysis, ethical approval, and where it can go wrong.
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Peacock, Janet L., and Sally M. Kerry. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198599661.003.0001.
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Chapter 1 gives and introduction and description of the resource in general, and describes the presentation of required statistical information through the entire research process, from the development of the research proposal, through to applying for ethical approval, to analysing the data, and then writing up the results. We use the term ‘statistical information’ to include describing the study design, the calculation of sample size, and data processing, as well as the data analysis and reporting of results. It is written for researchers in medicine and in the professions allied to medicine.
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Maniquis, Robert M. Writing About Coleridge. Edited by Frederick Burwick. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199644179.013.0038.
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This article discusses issues relevant to critical writing about the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It suggests that critical analysis of Coleridge's works is problematic because his poems bristle with interpretive puzzles and his prose has provided a problematic base for modern interpretation itself. The article argues that Coleridge wrote the most obscure yet the most influential critical paragraph in English literature.
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Mukherjee, Supriya. Indian Historical Writing since 1947. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199225996.003.0026.
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This chapter focuses on Indian historical writing. The end of colonial rule in 1947 was a turning point in Indian historical writing and culture. History emerged as a professional discipline with the establishment of new state-sponsored institutions of research and teaching. Attached to the institutionalization was the political imperative of a newly independent nation in search of a coherent and comprehensive historical narrative to support its nation-building efforts. At the same time, there was a desire to establish an autonomous Indian perspective, free of colonial constraints and distortions. In this, post-independence historiography owed much to earlier strands of nationalist historiography. During the first two decades after independence, three main trajectories of historical writing emerged: an official and largely secular nationalist historiography, a cultural nationalist historiography with strong religious overtones, and a critical Marxist trajectory based on analyses of social forms.
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Burwick, Frederick. Introduction. Edited by Frederick Burwick. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199644179.013.0001.
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This introductory article explains the coverage of this book, which is about the works of the English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This book provides biographical information about Coleridge, including his early years at Jesus College Cambridge and his later collaboration with William Wordsworth, and presents critical analysis of some of his most notable prose and poetic works. It examines sources and influences on Coleridge's writings and describes his literary influence throughout the world following his death.
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Muthiah, Puvenesvary, R. Sivabala Naidu, Mastura Badzis, Noor Fadhilah Mat Nayan, Radziah Abdul Rahim, and Noor Hashima Abdul Aziz. Qualitative Research: Data Collection and Data Analysis Techniques -2nd Edition. UUM Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9789672363415.
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Qualitative Research: Data Collection & Data Analysis Techniques (2nd Edition)has been systematically revised with additional content, more in-depth explanations, and latest references to enhance the knowledge and skills required for those interested in conducting qualitative research. The reader-friendly organisation and writing style of this edition provides guaranteed accessibility to a wide array of readers ranging from established scholars to novice researchers and undergraduates. Each chapter in this edition is set to provide a clear, contextualised andcomprehensive coverage of the main qualitative research methods (interviews, focus groups, observations, diary studies, archival document analysis, and content analysis) aimed at equipping readers with a thorough understanding of the design, procedures and skills to effectively undertake qualitative research. At the same time, the authors have anticipated major concerns such as ethical issues that qualitative researchers often face and addressed them in the various chapters. This effort has been made possible through the collaboration involvingnotable qualitative research scholars from different tertiary institutions Assoc. Prof. Dr. Puvensvary Muthiah (ELT Consultant), Dr. R. Sivabala Naidu (Taylors College), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mastura Badzis (International Islamic University Malaysia), Dr. Radziah Abdul Rahim (formerly attached to National Defense University of Malaysia), Dr. Noor Fadhilah Mat Nayan (University of Reading), and Assoc. Prof. Noor Hashima Abd Aziz (Universiti Utara Malaysia).
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Edwards, Pamela. Coleridge on Politics and Religion: The Statesman's Manual, Aids to Reflection, on the Constitution of Church and State. Edited by Frederick Burwick. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199644179.013.0013.
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This article examines Samuel Taylor Coleridge's views on politics and religion. It argues that Coleridge, from his earliest writings on politics and religion, had grounded his accounts of government and civil society in philosophical and theological understandings of truth. The article analyses three works that are key to understanding Coleridge's political and religious thought. These are The Statesman's Manual, Aids to Reflection, and On the Constitution of Church and State According to the Idea of Each.
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Innes, Matthew. Historical Writing, Ethnicity, and National Identity: Medieval Europe and Byzantium in Comparison. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199236428.003.0027.
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This chapter analyzes the wider reverberations of debates about the premodern origins of modern nationalism. It looks at the different ways in which issues of origin and identity were articulated in Western historical writing up to the beginning of the thirteenth century, and Byzantine historiography of the same period. It argues that debate about premodern ethnic and national identity has a specific valency, with its roots in Western modernity. The concepts and questions used in the discussion of premodern ethnicity and national identity are therefore rooted in a Eurocentric framework, so as to avoid misrepresenting ‘ethnic’ and ‘national’ modes of identification when used in premodern Eurasia. These problems are not solely those of interpretation, but are also rooted in the way that the sources for premodern European history are organized and encountered by modern historians.
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Adlington, Hugh. John Donne. Edited by Andrew Hiscock and Helen Wilcox. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672806.013.20.
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This chapter argues that the distinctive qualities of John Donne’s religious thought and temperament are revealed as much through the manner or expressive mode of his religious writing as they are through its matter or doctrinal content. To illustrate, the chapter analyses the rhetoric and prosody of Holy Sonnet 19 (‘Oh, to vex me’) in the light of two key contexts: Donne’s letters, poems, and prose works from his middle years (1606–14), and the religious and theological controversies of the same period, including fiercely argued doctrinal debates about the means of salvation and bitter religio-political disputes over the Oath of Allegiance. The chapter concludes by showing the degree to which Donne’s compelling union of dialectical reason and associative poesis in his religious writing both shares in and departs from literary traits and mentalities found in other religious writers of the period.
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Bramwell, Michael. Potter’s Field. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199390205.003.0014.
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Writing as an installation and performance artist, Michael Bramwell ties Drake to some of the same traumatic legacies of the Middle Passage and slavery that function as a horizon of authenticity in his own art. Bramwell’s video performances of himself sweeping the doorways of abandoned Harlem buildings in a standard-issue janitor’s uniform disrupt easy associations between African American identity and historic forms of oppression typical to celebrations of black art. In this chapter, Bramwell works through an analysis of Drake, while turning and returning to the legacy of historic trauma that lingers at the core of African American art.
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Crowley, Patrick, and Shirley Jordan, eds. What Forms Can Do. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620658.001.0001.
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The chapters in this book respond to important questions about the formal properties of French literary texts and the agency of form. A central feature of twentieth- and twenty-first century French and Francophone writing has been the exploration of how cultural forms (literary, philosophical and visual) create distinctive semiotic environments and at the same time engage with external realities. The aim of this volume is to explore how the formal properties of a range of texts inflect our reading of them and, through that exploration, to renew the engagement with form that has been a key feature of French cultural production and of analysis in French studies.
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Burwick, Frederick, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199644179.001.0001.
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The Oxford Handbook of Coleridge is a single-volume source of original scholarship on all aspects of Coleridge's diverse writings. Thirty-seven articles present an in-depth assessment of a major author of British Romanticism. The book is divided into sections on Biography, Prose Works, Poetic Works, Sources, and Influences, and Reception. The Coleridge scholar today has ready access to a range of materials previously available only in library archives on both sides of the Atlantic. The Bollingen edition of the Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, forty years in production, was completed in 2002. The Coleridge Notebooks (1957–2002) were also produced during this same period, five volumes of text with an additional five companion volumes of notes. The Clarendon Press of Oxford published the letters in six volumes (1956–71). To take full advantage of the convenient access and new insight provided by these volumes, the Oxford Handbook examines the entire range and complexity of Coleridge's career. It analyses the many aspects of Coleridge's literary, critical, philosophical, and theological pursuits, and furnishes both students and advanced scholars with the proper tools for assimilating and illuminating Coleridge's rich and varied accomplishments.
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Winnicott, D. W. The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott. Edited by Lesley Caldwell and Helen Taylor Robinson. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780190271336.001.0001.
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The collected works and letters of Donald Winnicott Volume 1 (1911-39) gathers together early memorabilia, his earliest medical writings and his first complete book, Clinical Notes on the Disorders of Childhood. The volume shows Winnicott the paediatrician at work at the same time as Winnicott the psychoanalyst, feeling his way into a deeper acquaintance with psychoanalysis through his analysis with James Strachey, his training at the British Society and his encounter with Melanie Klein. The volume includes his BPAS membership paper, ‘The Manic Defence’. Some papers written after he became a member show Winnicott deploying Kleinian terminology while moving towards his own account of early development. Volume 1 includes an introduction by Ken Robinson.
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Hurst, Henry. The Textual and Archaeological Evidence. Edited by Martin Millett, Louise Revell, and Alison Moore. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697731.013.005.
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This chapter challenges the traditional view that we have little written documentation for Roman Britain by outlining the mass of written evidence found within Britain, much of it discovered or published since the 1980s, and it looks at examples relating to different sectors of society. Texts are seen as artefacts, and so their study should not just be about their content, but also about how they might have functioned in a society which was mainly illiterate. The integration of textual and archaeological information has sometimes been misjudged, but ultimately 'histories' and 'archaeologies' of Roman Britain have the same target. If different disciplinary requirements in analysis are respected, information can be synthesized to good effect. Histories and archaeologies of Roman Britain need to take more account of the body of writing we have now, rather than that which existed a generation or more ago.
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Bonner, Ali. The Myth of Pelagianism. British Academy, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266397.001.0001.
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Pelagius is the first known British author, important because of his persuasive advocacy of two ideas: that human nature was inclined to goodness, and that man had free will. After a campaign to vilify him, he was excommunicated in AD 418 for allegedly inventing a new heresy, and his name was made synonymous with arrogance. This book shows that Pelagius defended the contemporary ascetic account of Christianity and that, far from being the leader of a separatist group, he was one of many propagandists for the ascetic movement which swept through Christianity at this time and generated medieval monasticism. Textual analysis proves that Pelagius did not teach the ideas attributed to him or propose anything new. It is impossible to differentiate between Pelagius’ writings and other ascetic literature, and there was no separate group of ‘Pelagians’. This book also examines how and why the myth was created, setting this process in its historical context and in the context of scholarship on the function of heresy in religion and sociological analysis of the creation of deviance. Finally, manuscript evidence supports the argument that ‘Pelagianism’ was a deliberately created myth. Travelling under false attributions, Pelagius’ writings were staples of monastic book collections because they contained the same ideas as other texts promoting the ascetic version of Christianity. In the fourteenth century, when Christians once more sought a confident anthropology, it was Pelagius’ works to which they turned. This book presents a paradigm shift in our understanding of the history of Christianity in the West.
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Ferguson, Rex. Identification Practices in Twentieth-Century Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865568.001.0001.
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The task of identifying the individual has given rise to a number of technical innovations, including fingerprint analysis and DNA profiling. A range of methods has also been created for storing and classifying people’s identities, such as identity cards and digital records. Identification Practices and Twentieth-Century Fiction tests the hypothesis that these techniques and methods, as practised in the UK and US in the long twentieth century, are inherently related to the literary representation of self-identity from the same period. Until now, the question of ‘who one is’ in the sense of formal identification has remained detached from the question of ‘who one is’ in terms of the representation of unique individuality. Placing these two questions in dialogue allows for a re-evaluation of the various ways in which uniqueness has been constructed during the period and for a reassessment of the historical and literary historical context of such construction. In chapters ranging across the development of fingerprinting, the institution of identity cards during the Second World War, DNA profiling and contemporary digital surveillance, and an analysis of writing by authors including Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen, J. G. Ballard, Don DeLillo, and Jennifer Egan, Identification Practices and Twentieth-Century Fiction makes an original contribution to Literary Studies, History, and Cultural Studies.
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Touchon, Justin C. Applied Statistics with R. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198869979.001.0001.
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Whether at the undergraduate, graduate, or post-graduate level, Applied Statistics with R: A Practical Guide for the Life Sciences teaches readers to properly analyze data in an efficient, accessible, plainspoken, frank, and occasionally humorous manner. Readers will come away with the knowledge of which analyses they should use and when they should use them, an important skill in an age when the statistical analyses used in the life-sciences are becoming increasingly advanced. This book uses the statistical language R, which is the choice of ecologists worldwide and is rapidly becoming the ‘go-to’ stats program throughout the life-sciences. Written around a single real-world dataset, Applied Statistics with R which encourages readers to become deeply familiar with an imperfect but realistic set of data, much like they themselves might collect. Early chapters are designed to teach basic data manipulation skills and build good habits in preparation for learning more advanced analyses. This approach also demonstrates the importance of viewing data through different lenses, facilitating an easy and natural progression from linear and generalized linear models through to mixed effects versions of those same analyses. Readers will also learn advanced plotting and data-wrangling techniques, and gain an introduction to writing their own functions. Applied Statistics with R is suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate students, professional researchers, and practitioners throughout the life-sciences, whether in the fields of ecology, evolution, environmental studies, or computational biology.
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Langston, Joy K. The Dinosaur that Did Not Die. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190628512.003.0001.
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This chapter provides an introduction to the question of why Mexico’s PRI—one of the longest-serving authoritarian parties in the world—was able to survive after the transition to democracy in 2000. Many analysts believed that it would fragment, as its politicians would leave the party or voters would reject the party’s label and the candidates running under it. It was not clear whether, without access to resources and with a weaker leadership, the internal groups would be able to negotiate their differences. The book’s argument is that beyond the resource advantages posited by other authors writing on the same topic, institutions, such as federalism, a strong party system, and fiscal decentralization, all played a major role in allowing the PRI’s factions to cooperate after 2000 and prevented a mass defection of voters. Furthermore, these same institutions strengthened the party’s governors while giving the national party headquarters a strong role to play in the years out of power (2000–2012). This chapter also provides a roadmap for the rest of the book.
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Kellner, Menachem. Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism. Liverpool University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781904113294.001.0001.
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This book presents Maimonides against the religious background that informed his many innovative and influential choices. The book not only analyses the thought of the great religious thinker but contextualizes it in terms of the ‘proto-kabbalistic’ Judaism that preceded him. The book shows how the Judaism that Maimonides knew had come to conceptualize the world as an enchanted universe, governed by occult affinities. It shows why Maimonides rejected this and how he went about doing it. The book argues that Maimonides' attempted reformation failed, the clearest proof of that being the success of the kabbalistic counter-reformation which his writings provoked. It shows how Maimonides rethought Judaism in different ways. It is in highlighting this and identifying Maimonides as a religious reformer that this book makes its key contribution. Maimonides created a new Judaism, ‘disenchanted’, depersonalized, and challenging; a religion that is at the same time elitist and universalist. The book's analysis also shows the deep configuration of Judaism in a new light. If Maimonides was able to reform so many aspects of rabbinic Judaism single-handedly, to enrich it by importing such dramatically different concepts, it shows that the profound structures of this religion are flexible enough to allow the emergence and success of astonishing reforms. The fact that, great as Maimonides was, he did not overcome the traditional forms of proto-kabbalism shows that the dynamic of religion is much more complex than subscribing to authorities, however widely accepted.
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McNaughton, James. Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198822547.001.0001.
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Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath explores Beckett’s creative response to the Irish Civil War and the crisis of commitment in 1930s Europe, to the rise of fascism and the atrocities of World War II. Grounded in archival material, the book reads Beckett’s letters and German Diaries to demonstrate Beckett’s personal attunement to propaganda and expectations for war. We see how profoundly Beckett’s fiction and theater engage with specific political strategies, rhetoric, and events. Deep into literary form, syntax, and language, Beckett contends with ominous political and historical developments taking place around him. More, he satirizes aesthetic and philosophical interpretations that overlook them. From critiques of the Irish Free State’s inability to examine its foundational violence to specific analysis of the functioning of Nazi propaganda, from exploring how language functions in conditions of authoritarian power to challenging postwar Europe’s conveniently limited definitions of genocide, Beckett’s writing challenges many political pieties with precision and force. He burdens all aesthetic production with guilt for how imagination and narrative form help to effect atrocity as well as cover it up. This book develops new readings of Beckett’s early and middle work up to Three Novels and Endgame.
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Myers, Alicia D. Taste that the Lord is Good! Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190677084.003.0004.
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Building on the review of generative and parturitive theories from Chapter 3, this chapter explores the physiological constructions of breastmilk in the ancient Mediterranean context. Breastmilk is portrayed as the same substance communicated to a fetus in the womb now provided by a mother’s breast. For this reason, breastmilk was understood as character forming, and an important part of the educational process of children. Using this background, this chapter analyzes the breastmilk and nursing imagery found in the Gospel of John, Pauline letters (Gal; 1 Thess; 1 Cor), Hebrews, and 1 Peter. The unconventional and male mothers that surface in the metaphors used in these New Testament writings birth and provide superior milk in the place of literal, female mothers. At the same time, however, their metaphors rely on the constructions and work of actual, biological mothers whom they claim to replace.
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Duncan, Dennis. The Oulipo and Modern Thought. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198831631.001.0001.
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The impact of the Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), one of the most important groups of experimental writers of the late twentieth century, is still being felt in contemporary literature, criticism and theory, both in Europe and the US. Founded in 1960 and still active today, this Parisian literary workshop has featured among its members such notable writers as Italo Calvino, Georges Perec, and Raymond Queneau, all sharing in its light-hearted, slightly boozy bonhomie, the convivial antithesis of the fractious, volatile coteries of the early twentieth-century avant-garde. For the last fifty years the Oulipo has undertaken the same simple goal: to investigate the potential of ‘constraints’ in the production of literature—that is, formal procedures such as anagrams, acrostics, lipograms (texts which exclude a certain letter), and other strange and complex devices. Yet, far from being mere parlour games, these methods have been frequently used as part of a passionate—though sometimes satirical—involvement with the major intellectual currents of the mid-twentieth century. Structuralism, psychoanalysis, Surrealism, analytic philosophy: all come under discussion in the group’s meetings, and all find their way in the group’s exercises in ways that, while often ironic, are also highly informed. Using meeting minutes, correspondence, and other material from the Oulipo archive at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, The Oulipo and Modern Thought shows how the group have used constrained writing as means of puckish engagement with the debates of their peers, and how, as the broader intellectual landscape altered, so too would the group’s conception of what constrained writing can achieve.
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Moody, Alys. The Art of Hunger. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828891.001.0001.
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As literary modernism was emerging in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a number of its most important figures and precursors began to talk about their own writing as a kind of starvation. The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism uses this trope as a lens through which to examine contemporary literature’s engagement with modernism, arguing that hunger offers a way of grappling with the fate of aesthetic autonomy through modernism’s late twentieth-century afterlives. The art of hunger appears at moments where aesthetic autonomy enters a period of crisis, and in this context, the writers examined here develop an alternate theory of aesthetic autonomy, which imagines art not as a conduit for freedom, but rather as an enactment of unfreedom. This book traces this theme from the origins of modernism to the end of the twentieth century, focusing particularly on three authors who redeploy the modernist art of hunger as a response to key moments in the history of modernist aesthetic autonomy’s delegitimization: Samuel Beckett in post-Vichy France; Paul Auster in post-1968 Paris and New York; and J. M. Coetzee in late apartheid South Africa. Combining historical analysis of these literary fields with close readings of individual texts, and drawing extensively on new archival research, this book offers a counter-history of modernism’s post-World War II reception and a new theory of aesthetic autonomy as a practice of unfreedom.
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Ingleheart, Jennifer. Masculine Plural. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198819677.001.0001.
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The Classics were core to the curriculum and ethos of the intensely homosocial Victorian and Edwardian public schools. Yet ancient homosexuality and erotic pedagogy were problematic to the educational establishment, which expurgated classical texts with sexual content. This volume analyses the intimate nexus between the Classics, sex, and education primarily through the figure of the schoolmaster Philip Gillespie Bainbrigge (1890–1918), whose clandestine writings explore homoerotic desires and comment on classical education. It reprints Bainbrigge’s surviving works: Achilles in Scyros (a verse drama featuring a cross-dressing Achilles and a Chorus of lesbian schoolgirls) and a Latin dialogue between schoolboys (with a translation by Jennifer Ingleheart). Like other similarly educated men of his era, Bainbrigge used Latin as an intimate homoerotic language; after reading Bainbrigge’s dialogue, A. E. Housman went on to write a scholarly article in Latin about ancient sexuality, Praefanda. This volume, therefore, also examines the parallel of Housman’s Praefanda, its knowing Latin, and bold challenge to mainstream morality. Bainbrigge’s works show the queer potential of Classics. His underground writings owe more to a sexualized Rome than an idealized Greece, offering a provocation to the study of Classical Reception and the history of sexuality. Bainbrigge refuses to apologize for homoerotic desire, celebrates the pleasures of sex, and disrupts mainstream ideas about the Classics and the relationship between ancient and modern. As this volume demonstrates, Rome is central to Queer Classics: it provided a male elite with a liberating erotic language, and offers a variety of models for same-sex desire.
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Nath, Pratyay. Climate of Conquest. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199495559.001.0001.
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What can war tell us about empire? Climate of Conquest is built around this question. Pratyay Nath eschews the conventional way of writing about warfare primarily in terms of battles and technologies. Instead, he unravels the deep connections that Mughal war-making shared with the broader dynamics of society, culture, and politics. In the process, he offers a new analysis of the Mughal empire from the vantage point of war. Climate of Conquest closely studies the dynamics of the military campaigns that helped the Mughals conquer North India and project their power beyond it. In the first part, Nath argues that these campaigns unfolded in constant negotiation with the diverse natural environment of South Asia. The empire sought to discipline the environment and harness its resources to satisfy its own military needs. At the same time, environmental factors like climate, terrain, and ecology profoundly influenced Mughal military tactics, strategy, and deployment of technology. In the second part, Nath makes three main points. Firstly, he argues that Mughal military success owed a lot to the efficient management of military logistics and the labour of an enormous non-elite, non-combatant workforce. Secondly, he explores the making of imperial frontiers and highlights the roles of forts, routes, and local alliances in the process. Finally, he maps the cultural climate of war at the Mughal court and discusses how the empire legitimized war and conquest. In the process, what emerges is a fresh interpretation of Mughal empire-building as a highly adaptive, flexible, and accommodative process.
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Boutcher, Warren. The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198739661.001.0001.
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This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne’s Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern Western university. Volume 1 focuses on contexts from within Montaigne’s own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Volume 2 focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. The two volumes work together to offer a new picture of the book’s significance in literary and intellectual history. The school of Montaigne potentially included everyone in early modern Europe with occasion and means to read and write for themselves and for their friends and family, unconstrained by an official function or scholastic institution. The Essais were shaped by the post-Reformation battle to regulate the educated individual’s judgement in reading and acting upon the two books bequeathed by God to man. The book of scriptures and the book of nature were becoming more accessible through print and manuscript cultures. But at the same time that access was being mediated more intensively by teachers such as clerics and humanists, by censors and institutions, by learned authors of past and present, and by commentaries and glosses upon those authors. Montaigne enfranchised the unofficial reader-writer with liberties of judgement offered and taken in the specific historical conditions of his era.
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Mellette, Justin. Peculiar Whiteness. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496832535.001.0001.
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Peculiar Whiteness argues for deeper consideration of the complexities surrounding the disparate treatment of poor whites throughout southern literature and attests to how broad such experiences have been. While the history of prejudice against this group is not the same as the legacy of violence perpetrated against people of color in America, individuals regarded as ‘white trash’ have suffered a dehumanizing process in the writings of various white authors. Poor white characters are frequently maligned as grotesque and anxiety-inducing, especially when they are aligned in close proximity to blacks or with other troubling conditions such as physical difference. Thus, as a symbol, much has been asked of poor whites, and various iterations of the label (e.g., ‘white trash,’ tenant farmers, or even people with a little less money than average) have been subject to a broad spectrum of judgment, pity, compassion, fear, and anxiety. Peculiar Whiteness engages key issues in contemporary critical race studies, whiteness studies, and southern studies, both literary and historical. Through discussions of authors including Charles Chesnutt, Thomas Dixon, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, and Flannery O’Connor, the book analyzes how we see how whites in a position of power work to maintain their status, often by finding ways to re-categorize and marginalize people who might not otherwise have seemed to fall under the auspices or boundaries of ‘white trash.’
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Fiddian, Robin. Postcolonial Borges. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794714.001.0001.
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This work considers geopolitical and postcolonial themes in a range of writings by Jorge Luis Borges, analysing the development of a postcolonial sensibility in works such as ‘Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires’, ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’, ‘Theme of the Traitor and the Hero’, and ‘Brodie’s Report’. It examines Borges’s treatment of national and regional identity and of East–West relations in several essays and poems, contained, for example, in Other Inquisitions, The Self and the Other, and Seven Nights. The theoretical concepts of ‘coloniality’ and ‘Occidentalism’ shed new light on several works by Borges, who acquires a sharper political profile than previously acknowledged. The book pays special attention to Oriental subjects in Borges’s works of the 1970s and 1980s, where their treatment is bound up with a critique of Occidental values and assumptions. Classified by some commentators as a precursor of postcolonialism, Borges emerges as a prototype of the postcolonial intellectual exemplified by James Joyce, Aimé Césaire, and Edward Said. From a regional perspective, his repertoire of geopolitical and historical concerns resonates with those of Leopoldo Zea, Enrique Dussel, Eduardo Galeano, and Joaquín Torres, amongst others, who illustrate different strands and kinds of Latin American postcolonialism(s) of the mid- to late twentieth century. At the same time, essential differences in respect of political and artistic temperament mark Borges out as a postcolonial intellectual and creative writer who is unquestionably sui generis.
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Howells, Coral Ann, Paul Sharrad, and Gerry Turcotte. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199679775.003.0001.
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THE Oxford History of the Novel in English concludes with the present volume, which focuses on the novels written in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific since 1950. A sequel of sorts to Volume 9, The World Novel in English to 1950, the present work examines the literary production of a set of diverse writings from a geographically varied and extensive region. Its component cultural entities are connected by historical networks of trading and colonialism and by contemporary systems of global production and circulation. The fiction covered in this volume emanates from countries either bordering on the Pacific Ocean or surrounded by it. For at least one century they were all interconnected by sailing ships, and they have all faced the crisis of reinventing themselves as postcolonial nations since the Second World War. In that regard, this volume—allowing for many differences in historical and sociological circumstances—also serves as a companion to studies of Asian and African fiction in Volumes 10 and 11. At the same time, each zone of literary production surveyed here retains specific differences of temporal, political, and ethnic formations that cannot be contained within one neat comparative frame. This fact is reflected in the structure of the volume: a mix of comparative surveys centred on genres or modes, a section on book history, another providing sociocultural contexts focused on the notion of shifting identities, a series of regional analyses with more detailed discussion of key figures from each zone, and concluding with chapters on the periodicals supporting literary production and on literary histories across the entire area....