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Affiche du document An American in Victorian Cambridge — An American in Victorian Cambridge
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Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874) was the favourite grandson of John Jacob Astor (the first American multi-millionaire, and the Astor of the Waldorf-Astoria). After gaining a degree at Yale, Bristed entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1840, graduating in 1845. An American in Victorian Cambridge is a richly detailed account of student life in the Cambridge of the 1840s. The rationale for the book, which is as appealing today as it was then, is that this is pre-eminently a book about an American student at an English university. The book belongs to a fascinating nineteenth-century trans-Atlantic publishing genre: travel accounts designed to describe British culture to Americans and vice-versa. In this new edition, some substantial additions have been made: the Foreword and Introduction both help to contextualise the work, and point to its significance as an important historical source and as a fascinating memoir of life in Victorian Cambridge; annotation helps to identify the individuals who appear in Bristed’s text; and an index allows full use to be made of the text for the first time.Illustrations Photograph of Charles Astor Bristed Foreword by Patrick Leary Introduction by Christopher Stray Bibliography Original dedication Original preface 1. First Impressions of Cambridge [1840] 2. Some Preliminaries, Rather Egotistical but Very Necessary [1835-9] 3. Introduction to College Life 4. The Cantab Language 5. An American Student's First Impressions at Cambridge and on Cambridge 6. Freshman Temptations and Experiences 7. The Boat Race [1841] 8. A Trinity Supper Party [1840] 9. The May Examination [1841] 10. The First Long Vacation [1841] 11. The Second Year [1841-2] 12. Third Year [1842-3] 13. Private Tuition 14. Long Vacation Amusements [1843] 15. A Second Edition of Third Year [1843-4] 16. The Scholarship Examination [1844] 17. The Reading Party [1844] 18. Sawdust Pudding with Ballad Sauce [1844] 19. On the Razor's Edge [1844-5] 20. How I Came To Take a Degree [1845] 21. The Polloi and the Civil Law Classes 22. The Classical Tripos [1845] 23. A visit to Eton. English Public Schools 24. Being Extinguished [1845] 25. Reading for a Trinity Fellowship [1845] 26. The study of Theology at Cambridge 27. Recent Changes at Cambridge 28. The Cambridge System of Education in its Intellectual Results 29. Physical and Social Habits of Cambridge Men. Their Amusements, &c. 30. On the State of Morals and Religion in Cambridge 31. The Puseyite Disputes in Cambridge, and the Cambridge Camden Society 32. Inferiority of our Colleges and Universities in Scholarship 33. Supposed Counterbalancing Advantages of American Colleges 34. The Advantages of Classical Studies, Particularly in Reference to the Youth of our Country 35. What Can and Ought We To Do for our Colleges? Charles Astor Bristed 1820-1874: An annotated bibliography Index

An American in Victorian Cambridge
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Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874) was the favourite grandson of John Jacob Astor (the first American multi-millionaire, and the Astor of the Waldorf-Astoria). After gaining a degree at Yale, Bristed entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1840, graduating in 1845. An American in Victorian Cambridge is a richly detailed account of student life in the Cambridge of the 1840s. The rationale for the book, which is as appealing today as it was then, is that this is pre-eminently a book about an American student at an English university. The book belongs to a fascinating nineteenth-century trans-Atlantic publishing genre: travel accounts designed to describe British culture to Americans and vice-versa. In this new edition, some substantial additions have been made: the Foreword and Introduction both help to contextualise the work, and point to its significance as an important historical source and as a fascinating memoir of life in Victorian Cambridge; annotation helps to identify the individuals who appear in Bristed’s text; and an index allows full use to be made of the text for the first time.Illustrations Photograph of Charles Astor Bristed Foreword by Patrick Leary Introduction by Christopher Stray Bibliography Original dedication Original preface 1. First Impressions of Cambridge [1840] 2. Some Preliminaries, Rather Egotistical but Very Necessary [1835-9] 3. Introduction to College Life 4. The Cantab Language 5. An American Student's First Impressions at Cambridge and on Cambridge 6. Freshman Temptations and Experiences 7. The Boat Race [1841] 8. A Trinity Supper Party [1840] 9. The May Examination [1841] 10. The First Long Vacation [1841] 11. The Second Year [1841-2] 12. Third Year [1842-3] 13. Private Tuition 14. Long Vacation Amusements [1843] 15. A Second Edition of Third Year [1843-4] 16. The Scholarship Examination [1844] 17. The Reading Party [1844] 18. Sawdust Pudding with Ballad Sauce [1844] 19. On the Razor's Edge [1844-5] 20. How I Came To Take a Degree [1845] 21. The Polloi and the Civil Law Classes 22. The Classical Tripos [1845] 23. A visit to Eton. English Public Schools 24. Being Extinguished [1845] 25. Reading for a Trinity Fellowship [1845] 26. The study of Theology at Cambridge 27. Recent Changes at Cambridge 28. The Cambridge System of Education in its Intellectual Results 29. Physical and Social Habits of Cambridge Men. Their Amusements, &c. 30. On the State of Morals and Religion in Cambridge 31. The Puseyite Disputes in Cambridge, and the Cambridge Camden Society 32. Inferiority of our Colleges and Universities in Scholarship 33. Supposed Counterbalancing Advantages of American Colleges 34. The Advantages of Classical Studies, Particularly in Reference to the Youth of our Country 35. What Can and Ought We To Do for our Colleges? Charles Astor Bristed 1820-1874: An annotated bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Poems To Lisi — Poems To Lisi
Francisco De Quevedo
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Poems to Lisi is presented here as an undergraduate student text with parallel-text English verse translations This edition of Quevedo’s Poems to Lisi is a successor to the same editor’s original text in Exeter Hispanic Texts, which only contained the Spanish text of the poems (published in 1988). Rather than reprint that edition, the editor has chosen to make the text more widely available by setting his own English verse translations alongside the Spanish originals. It is intended to provide undergraduates in Hispanic Studies with an accessible edition of a key work of the Spanish Golden Age. The translations are close enough to the originals to be of value to those who have an adequate knowledge of Spanish, while the rendering of the poems into English verse (mainly blank verse sonnets) will enable those lacking such a knowledge to read them as poems in their own right.

Poems To Lisi
Francisco De Quevedo
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Poems to Lisi is presented here as an undergraduate student text with parallel-text English verse translations This edition of Quevedo’s Poems to Lisi is a successor to the same editor’s original text in Exeter Hispanic Texts, which only contained the Spanish text of the poems (published in 1988). Rather than reprint that edition, the editor has chosen to make the text more widely available by setting his own English verse translations alongside the Spanish originals. It is intended to provide undergraduates in Hispanic Studies with an accessible edition of a key work of the Spanish Golden Age. The translations are close enough to the originals to be of value to those who have an adequate knowledge of Spanish, while the rendering of the poems into English verse (mainly blank verse sonnets) will enable those lacking such a knowledge to read them as poems in their own right.

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Affiche du document A Cultural History of School Uniform — A Cultural History of School Uniform
Kate Stephenson
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Littérature & Beaux Arts
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What's a djibbah, how long has the old school tie been around and do yellow petticoats really repel vermin? How have social and educational changes affected the appearance of schoolchildren? This book will provide answers to these questions and more, in an engaging foray into 500 years of British school uniform history from the charity schools of the sixteenth century through the Victorian public schools to the present day. In this cross-disciplinary work, Kate Stephenson presents the first comprehensive academic study of school uniform development in Britain as well as offering an analysis of the social and institutional contexts in which this development occurred. With recent debates around the cost, necessity and religious implications of school uniform and its (re)introduction and increasingly formal appearance in many schools, this book is a timely reminder that modern ideas associated with school uniform are the result of a long history of communicating (and disguising) identity.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Be Keen! Introduction 1. The Charity Schools 1552–1900 Early School Clothing Christ’s Hospital Other Charity Schools Traditional Appearances Viewing Charity Children 2. The Public Schools 1800–1939 Sport and the Introduction of Uniform Clothing Creation of the Public School Ethos Uniform Design Collective Identity Emulation Harrow—A Case Study 3. Public Schools for Girls 1850–1939 Early Girls’ Schools and the Feminine Ideal Sportswear and Uniform Day Uniforms Formality and Conformity 4. Education for All 1860–1939 Middle-Class Secondary Education Elementary Education for the Working Classes Mixed Classes in Secondary Education 5. Fashion and Fancy Dress 1939–Present Post-War Dressing Up Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

A Cultural History of School Uniform
Kate Stephenson
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Littérature & Beaux Arts
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134 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h40min.
What's a djibbah, how long has the old school tie been around and do yellow petticoats really repel vermin? How have social and educational changes affected the appearance of schoolchildren? This book will provide answers to these questions and more, in an engaging foray into 500 years of British school uniform history from the charity schools of the sixteenth century through the Victorian public schools to the present day. In this cross-disciplinary work, Kate Stephenson presents the first comprehensive academic study of school uniform development in Britain as well as offering an analysis of the social and institutional contexts in which this development occurred. With recent debates around the cost, necessity and religious implications of school uniform and its (re)introduction and increasingly formal appearance in many schools, this book is a timely reminder that modern ideas associated with school uniform are the result of a long history of communicating (and disguising) identity.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Be Keen! Introduction 1. The Charity Schools 1552–1900 Early School Clothing Christ’s Hospital Other Charity Schools Traditional Appearances Viewing Charity Children 2. The Public Schools 1800–1939 Sport and the Introduction of Uniform Clothing Creation of the Public School Ethos Uniform Design Collective Identity Emulation Harrow—A Case Study 3. Public Schools for Girls 1850–1939 Early Girls’ Schools and the Feminine Ideal Sportswear and Uniform Day Uniforms Formality and Conformity 4. Education for All 1860–1939 Middle-Class Secondary Education Elementary Education for the Working Classes Mixed Classes in Secondary Education 5. Fashion and Fancy Dress 1939–Present Post-War Dressing Up Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema — The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema
Gerry Turvey
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Cinéma
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This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through an in-depth history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company—also known as ‘B&C’—in the years 1908–1916, the period when it became one of Britain’s leading film producers. It provides an account of its films and personalities, and explores its production methods, business practices and policy changes. Gerry Turvey examines the range of short film genres B&C manufactured, including newsworthy topicals and comics, and series dramas, and how they often drew on the resources of urban Britain’s existing popular culture—from cheap reading matter to East End melodramas. He discusses B&C’s first open-air studio in East Finchley, its extensive use of location filming, and its large, state-of-the-art studio at Walthamstow. He also investigates how the films were photographed and ‘staged’, their developing formal properties, and how the choice of genres shifted radically over time in an attempt to seek new audiences. DOI: https://doi.org/10.47788/SGOE1157List of Figures List of Tables INTRODUCTION Rediscovering British and Colonial PART I: BRITISH AND COLONIAL—A COMPANY HISTORY, 1908–1918 The Bloomfield Years: Period One at B&C, 1908–1912 McDowell in Charge: Period Two at B&C, 1913–1918 PART II: PLANT, STUDIOS AND THE PRODUCTION PROCESS Making Films at East Finchley and on Location, 1911–1914 The Endell Street Plant and the Walthamstow Studio, 1913–1917 PART III: PERSONALITIES AND THEIR BIOGRAPHIES On Screen: Performers and Picture-Personalities Behind the Screen: Policy-Makers, Directors and Writers PART IV: THE B&C FILM Comics, Dramas and Series Films: The B&C Film in Period One Spectacle, Sensation and Narrative: The B&C Film in Period Two PART V: DISTRIBUTION, PROMOTION AND PUBLICITY From the Open Market to the Exclusives System Promoting B&C and its Films CONCLUSION Godal, Aspiration and Bankruptcy: Period Three at B&C, 1918–1924 Notes Bibliography Index

The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema
Gerry Turvey
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269 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h22min.
This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through an in-depth history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company—also known as ‘B&C’—in the years 1908–1916, the period when it became one of Britain’s leading film producers. It provides an account of its films and personalities, and explores its production methods, business practices and policy changes. Gerry Turvey examines the range of short film genres B&C manufactured, including newsworthy topicals and comics, and series dramas, and how they often drew on the resources of urban Britain’s existing popular culture—from cheap reading matter to East End melodramas. He discusses B&C’s first open-air studio in East Finchley, its extensive use of location filming, and its large, state-of-the-art studio at Walthamstow. He also investigates how the films were photographed and ‘staged’, their developing formal properties, and how the choice of genres shifted radically over time in an attempt to seek new audiences. DOI: https://doi.org/10.47788/SGOE1157List of Figures List of Tables INTRODUCTION Rediscovering British and Colonial PART I: BRITISH AND COLONIAL—A COMPANY HISTORY, 1908–1918 The Bloomfield Years: Period One at B&C, 1908–1912 McDowell in Charge: Period Two at B&C, 1913–1918 PART II: PLANT, STUDIOS AND THE PRODUCTION PROCESS Making Films at East Finchley and on Location, 1911–1914 The Endell Street Plant and the Walthamstow Studio, 1913–1917 PART III: PERSONALITIES AND THEIR BIOGRAPHIES On Screen: Performers and Picture-Personalities Behind the Screen: Policy-Makers, Directors and Writers PART IV: THE B&C FILM Comics, Dramas and Series Films: The B&C Film in Period One Spectacle, Sensation and Narrative: The B&C Film in Period Two PART V: DISTRIBUTION, PROMOTION AND PUBLICITY From the Open Market to the Exclusives System Promoting B&C and its Films CONCLUSION Godal, Aspiration and Bankruptcy: Period Three at B&C, 1918–1924 Notes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Ethics and Politics in Seventeenth Century France — Ethics and Politics in Seventeenth Century France
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This collection of twenty essays, of which five are in French, written by leading English and French literary and historical scholars, deconstructs the ethical and political framework supporting and circumscribing the actions of a powerful elite in France between the early 1600s and the final years of Louis XIV’s reign. Reflecting a diversity of individual concerns, the essays are divided into two interrelated parts in acknowledgement of the complex tensions between codes of behaviour and political practice in the different theatrical spaces of government in the real and imaginary world. Together these contributions offer a radical double questioning of the absolute values in which were founded the authority of Church, King and nobility. The dual political and moral theme of this study is not new, but it is one that has always been highly regarded by historians and literary specialists alike. It is in fact one of the classic preoccupations of seventeenth-century studies, to which critics must always return, and to which students must always address themselves, if they are to comprehend the intellectual core of seventeenth-century French studies.Derek Watts Derek Watts: A Bibliography Contributors Part I: The Ethics of Action Introduction, Elizabeth Woodrough 1. 'Alternative' Ethical Systems in France during the Grand Siècle, William D. Howarth 2. A Note on Lay Piety in the Early Seventeenth Century, John Cruickshank 3. Guez de Balzac: The Enduring Influence of Rome, Margaret McGowan 4. L'Image de la Ligue dans les Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz, Simone Bertière 5. The Political Testaments of Richelieu and La Rochefoucauld, Elizabeth Woodrough 6. Considérations morales et politiques autour d'Henri II de Montmorency: Une polyphonie discordante, Noémi Hepp 7. Medicine and Statecraft in the Mémoires of the Cardinal de Retz, Colin Jones 8. The Fouquet-Colbert Rivalry and the 'Revolution' of 1661, Richard Bonney 9. Crescit ut aspicitur: Condé and the Reinterpretation of Heroism, 1650-1662, Mark Bannister 10. Love, Marriage and a Disputed Sentence in La Princesse de Clèves, John Campbell 11. Marie de Villars: A Political Woman?, Wendy Perkins 12. Ascendant et déclinaison de la noblesse française dans le système de Boulainvilliers, Yves Coirault Part II: The Politics of Theatre 13. Corneille: Ethic and Polis, Henry Phillips 14. Sur l'echec des conjurés dans La Mort de Sénèque, Madeleine Bertaud 15. 'Le poids d'une couronne': The Dilemma of Monarchy in La Calprenède's Tragedies, Guy Snaith 16. African Temptresses and Roman Matrons: Female Roles on the Paris Stage, 1634-1643, David Clarke 17. How Quinault uses Political Commonplaces, William Brooks 18. Politics and Tragedy: The Case of the Earl of Essex, C.J. Gossip 19. 'Je commence à rougir': Shame, Self-Esteem and Guilt in the Presentation of Racine's Hippolyte, Edward Forman 20. L'influence de Louis XIV sur la vie littéraire: pour un bilan critique, Jean Rohou Index

Ethics and Politics in Seventeenth Century France
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This collection of twenty essays, of which five are in French, written by leading English and French literary and historical scholars, deconstructs the ethical and political framework supporting and circumscribing the actions of a powerful elite in France between the early 1600s and the final years of Louis XIV’s reign. Reflecting a diversity of individual concerns, the essays are divided into two interrelated parts in acknowledgement of the complex tensions between codes of behaviour and political practice in the different theatrical spaces of government in the real and imaginary world. Together these contributions offer a radical double questioning of the absolute values in which were founded the authority of Church, King and nobility. The dual political and moral theme of this study is not new, but it is one that has always been highly regarded by historians and literary specialists alike. It is in fact one of the classic preoccupations of seventeenth-century studies, to which critics must always return, and to which students must always address themselves, if they are to comprehend the intellectual core of seventeenth-century French studies.Derek Watts Derek Watts: A Bibliography Contributors Part I: The Ethics of Action Introduction, Elizabeth Woodrough 1. 'Alternative' Ethical Systems in France during the Grand Siècle, William D. Howarth 2. A Note on Lay Piety in the Early Seventeenth Century, John Cruickshank 3. Guez de Balzac: The Enduring Influence of Rome, Margaret McGowan 4. L'Image de la Ligue dans les Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz, Simone Bertière 5. The Political Testaments of Richelieu and La Rochefoucauld, Elizabeth Woodrough 6. Considérations morales et politiques autour d'Henri II de Montmorency: Une polyphonie discordante, Noémi Hepp 7. Medicine and Statecraft in the Mémoires of the Cardinal de Retz, Colin Jones 8. The Fouquet-Colbert Rivalry and the 'Revolution' of 1661, Richard Bonney 9. Crescit ut aspicitur: Condé and the Reinterpretation of Heroism, 1650-1662, Mark Bannister 10. Love, Marriage and a Disputed Sentence in La Princesse de Clèves, John Campbell 11. Marie de Villars: A Political Woman?, Wendy Perkins 12. Ascendant et déclinaison de la noblesse française dans le système de Boulainvilliers, Yves Coirault Part II: The Politics of Theatre 13. Corneille: Ethic and Polis, Henry Phillips 14. Sur l'echec des conjurés dans La Mort de Sénèque, Madeleine Bertaud 15. 'Le poids d'une couronne': The Dilemma of Monarchy in La Calprenède's Tragedies, Guy Snaith 16. African Temptresses and Roman Matrons: Female Roles on the Paris Stage, 1634-1643, David Clarke 17. How Quinault uses Political Commonplaces, William Brooks 18. Politics and Tragedy: The Case of the Earl of Essex, C.J. Gossip 19. 'Je commence à rougir': Shame, Self-Esteem and Guilt in the Presentation of Racine's Hippolyte, Edward Forman 20. L'influence de Louis XIV sur la vie littéraire: pour un bilan critique, Jean Rohou Index

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Affiche du document Celluloid War Memorials — Celluloid War Memorials
Connelly Mark
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227 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h50min.
The films made by the British Instructional Films (BIF) company in the decade following the end of the First World War helped to shape the way in which that war was remembered. This is both a work of cinema history and a study of the public’s memory of WW1. By the early twenties, the British film industry was struggling to cope with the power of Hollywood and government help was needed to guarantee its survival. The 1927 Cinematograph Films Act was intended to support the domestic film industry by requiring British cinemas to show a quota of domestically produced films each year. The Act was not the sole saviour of British cinema, but the government intervention did allow the domestic industry to exploit the talents of an emerging group of younger filmmakers including Michael Balcon, Walter Summers and Alfred Hitchcock, who directed the most influential of these BIF war constructions. This book shows that the films are micro-histories revealing huge amounts about perceptions of the Great War, national and imperial identities, the role of cinema as a shaper of attitudes and identities, power relations between Britain and the USA and the nature of popular culture as an international contest in its own right.Introduction Forging an Identity: The Battle of Jutland (1921) and Armageddon (1923) Twisting the dragon’s tail: Zeebrugge (1924) Filming the holy ground of British arms: Ypres (1925) Retreating to Victory: Mons (1926) Praising the not-so-silent service: The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927) Epilogue and conclusion

Celluloid War Memorials
Connelly Mark
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The films made by the British Instructional Films (BIF) company in the decade following the end of the First World War helped to shape the way in which that war was remembered. This is both a work of cinema history and a study of the public’s memory of WW1. By the early twenties, the British film industry was struggling to cope with the power of Hollywood and government help was needed to guarantee its survival. The 1927 Cinematograph Films Act was intended to support the domestic film industry by requiring British cinemas to show a quota of domestically produced films each year. The Act was not the sole saviour of British cinema, but the government intervention did allow the domestic industry to exploit the talents of an emerging group of younger filmmakers including Michael Balcon, Walter Summers and Alfred Hitchcock, who directed the most influential of these BIF war constructions. This book shows that the films are micro-histories revealing huge amounts about perceptions of the Great War, national and imperial identities, the role of cinema as a shaper of attitudes and identities, power relations between Britain and the USA and the nature of popular culture as an international contest in its own right.Introduction Forging an Identity: The Battle of Jutland (1921) and Armageddon (1923) Twisting the dragon’s tail: Zeebrugge (1924) Filming the holy ground of British arms: Ypres (1925) Retreating to Victory: Mons (1926) Praising the not-so-silent service: The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927) Epilogue and conclusion

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Affiche du document Maps And History In South-West England — Maps And History In South-West England
Steven
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This volume of essays considers the practical and political purposes for which maps were used, the symbolic and ideological roles of maps in the history of South-Western England and the ways in which map evidence can be used to recover facts about the past for use in the writing of history. The text is accompanied by 43 pages of maps and illustrations.

Maps And History In South-West England
Steven
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This volume of essays considers the practical and political purposes for which maps were used, the symbolic and ideological roles of maps in the history of South-Western England and the ways in which map evidence can be used to recover facts about the past for use in the writing of history. The text is accompanied by 43 pages of maps and illustrations.

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Affiche du document Eating Disorders in Public Discourse — Eating Disorders in Public Discourse
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193 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h25min.
Eating disorders remain little understood by the public, and sensationalist stories in the media have done little to dispel simplistic and reductionist perspectives. This edited volume uses a range of language-centred approaches to provide much needed critical in-depth analysis and interdisciplinary synthesis. The book brings together researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds – including communication and information studies, journalism, linguistics, mental health, nursing, psychology and public health – in a collective endeavour to explore the complex relationship between eating disorders, public discourse and lived experiences. Topics tackled include the use of stigmatising narrative frames, stereotypes and metaphors; identity construction in online spaces; the ways in which individuals affected by eating disorders interpret media representations; and how parents write about their experiences of caring for children with eating disorders. The volume synthesises evidence from a range of data types, including UK and international newspapers, social media, online communities, blogs and forums, apps and in-depth interviews, and reflects a variety of cultural perspectives, including those held in the United States, the UK, Spain and Turkey. It will be of interest to academics, practitioners, students, mental health advocates, and anyone interested in how we make sense of eating disorders.Introduction Laura A. Cariola DOI: 10.47788/BASF7279 Part I Traditional Media and Public Discourse 1. Eating Disorder Metaphors in the American and Spanish Press Carolina Figueras Bates DOI: 10.47788/QWOM4518 2. Animal Metaphors in Women’s Magazines: Their Potential Link with Eating Disorders Irene López-Rodríguez DOI: 10.47788/HKAQ8861 3. Challenging the Stigma of a ‘Woman’s Illness’ and ‘Feminine Problem’: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of News Stories About Eating Disorders and Men Scott Parrott, Kimberly Bissell, Nicholas Eckhart and Bumsoo Park DOI: 10.47788/LXVK2554 4. Representations of Anorexia Nervosa in National Media: A Frame Analysis of the UK Press Matt Bowen and Rhian Waller DOI: 10.47788/UBYL4471 5. Representations of Eating Disorders in Turkish News Media Hayriye Gulec DOI: 10.47788/UPWL9354 6. Experiencing Newspaper Representations of Eating Disorders: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study Laura A. Cariola and Billy Lee DOI: 10.47788/XATI1798 7. Narrative Experiences of Social Media and the Internet from Men with Eating Disorders Gareth Lyons, Sue McAndrew and Tony Warne DOI: 10.47788/DBCF4677 Part II Participatory Media and User-Generated Discourse 8. Online Negative Enabling Support Group (ONESG) Theory: Understanding Online Extreme Community Communication Promoting Negative Health Behaviours Stephen M. Haas, Nancy A. Jennings and Pamara F. Chang DOI: 10.47788/PISN2308 9. Eating Disorder Discourse in a Diet and Fitness App Community: Understanding User Needs Through Exploratory Mixed Methods Elizabeth V. Eikey, Oliver Golden, Zhuoxi Chen and Qiuer Chen DOI: 10.47788/DCZA4511 10. Using Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Approaches to Investigate Online Communication About Eating Disorders: A Reflective Account Dawn Branley-Bell DOI: 10.47788/QSFW4482 11. ‘I’ll Never Be Skinny Enough’: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Pro-Anorexia Discourse Allyn Lueders DOI: 10.47788/SDQF1133 12. Lived Experiences of Parents Raising Children with Eating Disorders: A Thematic Analysis Emma O’Rourke and Laura A. Cariola DOI: 10.47788/MMRH9260 13. ‘Anorexia is Seen as a GOOD Thing When You’re Fat!’: Constructing ‘Eating Disorders’ in Fat Acceptance Blogs Wendy Solomons, Kate Davenport and Joanne McDowell DOI: 10.47788/UHLM5757 Discussion Index

Eating Disorders in Public Discourse
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Eating disorders remain little understood by the public, and sensationalist stories in the media have done little to dispel simplistic and reductionist perspectives. This edited volume uses a range of language-centred approaches to provide much needed critical in-depth analysis and interdisciplinary synthesis. The book brings together researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds – including communication and information studies, journalism, linguistics, mental health, nursing, psychology and public health – in a collective endeavour to explore the complex relationship between eating disorders, public discourse and lived experiences. Topics tackled include the use of stigmatising narrative frames, stereotypes and metaphors; identity construction in online spaces; the ways in which individuals affected by eating disorders interpret media representations; and how parents write about their experiences of caring for children with eating disorders. The volume synthesises evidence from a range of data types, including UK and international newspapers, social media, online communities, blogs and forums, apps and in-depth interviews, and reflects a variety of cultural perspectives, including those held in the United States, the UK, Spain and Turkey. It will be of interest to academics, practitioners, students, mental health advocates, and anyone interested in how we make sense of eating disorders.Introduction Laura A. Cariola DOI: 10.47788/BASF7279 Part I Traditional Media and Public Discourse 1. Eating Disorder Metaphors in the American and Spanish Press Carolina Figueras Bates DOI: 10.47788/QWOM4518 2. Animal Metaphors in Women’s Magazines: Their Potential Link with Eating Disorders Irene López-Rodríguez DOI: 10.47788/HKAQ8861 3. Challenging the Stigma of a ‘Woman’s Illness’ and ‘Feminine Problem’: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of News Stories About Eating Disorders and Men Scott Parrott, Kimberly Bissell, Nicholas Eckhart and Bumsoo Park DOI: 10.47788/LXVK2554 4. Representations of Anorexia Nervosa in National Media: A Frame Analysis of the UK Press Matt Bowen and Rhian Waller DOI: 10.47788/UBYL4471 5. Representations of Eating Disorders in Turkish News Media Hayriye Gulec DOI: 10.47788/UPWL9354 6. Experiencing Newspaper Representations of Eating Disorders: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study Laura A. Cariola and Billy Lee DOI: 10.47788/XATI1798 7. Narrative Experiences of Social Media and the Internet from Men with Eating Disorders Gareth Lyons, Sue McAndrew and Tony Warne DOI: 10.47788/DBCF4677 Part II Participatory Media and User-Generated Discourse 8. Online Negative Enabling Support Group (ONESG) Theory: Understanding Online Extreme Community Communication Promoting Negative Health Behaviours Stephen M. Haas, Nancy A. Jennings and Pamara F. Chang DOI: 10.47788/PISN2308 9. Eating Disorder Discourse in a Diet and Fitness App Community: Understanding User Needs Through Exploratory Mixed Methods Elizabeth V. Eikey, Oliver Golden, Zhuoxi Chen and Qiuer Chen DOI: 10.47788/DCZA4511 10. Using Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Approaches to Investigate Online Communication About Eating Disorders: A Reflective Account Dawn Branley-Bell DOI: 10.47788/QSFW4482 11. ‘I’ll Never Be Skinny Enough’: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Pro-Anorexia Discourse Allyn Lueders DOI: 10.47788/SDQF1133 12. Lived Experiences of Parents Raising Children with Eating Disorders: A Thematic Analysis Emma O’Rourke and Laura A. Cariola DOI: 10.47788/MMRH9260 13. ‘Anorexia is Seen as a GOOD Thing When You’re Fat!’: Constructing ‘Eating Disorders’ in Fat Acceptance Blogs Wendy Solomons, Kate Davenport and Joanne McDowell DOI: 10.47788/UHLM5757 Discussion Index

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Affiche du document William Morris and John Ruskin — William Morris and John Ruskin
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A wide-ranging collection of essays written for the William Morris Society exploring the various intersections between the life, work and achievements of William Morris (1834-1896) and that of John Ruskin (1819-1900). Subjects covered include Ruskin’s connection with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, the promotion of craft skills and meaningful work, Morris and the division of labour, Ruskin’s engagement with education and the environment, Ruskin and the art and architecture of Red House, the parallels between Ruskin’s support for Laxey Mill and Morris’s Merton Abbey Works, the illustrated manuscript and the contrasts between Ruskin’s Tory paternalism and Morris’s revolutionary socialism. The book includes articles first published in The Journal of William Morris Studies between 1977 and 2012 and new pieces written especially for this volume. Ruskin's beliefs had a profound and lasting impact on Morris who wrote, upon first reading Ruskin whilst at Oxford University, that his views offered a "new road on which the world should travel" - a road that led Morris to social and political change.The William Morris Society Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction - John Blewitt 2 Ruskin and Morris - Peter Faulkner 3 John Ruskin: patron or patriarch? - Robert Brownell 4 ‘“This link between the Earth and Man”: Ruskin, Morris, and Education’ - Sara Atwood 5 Red House and Ruskin - Jacques Migeon 6 Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism - Peter Faulkner 7 Ruskin and Fairfax Murray - David Elliot 8 John Ruskin, William Morris and the Illuminated Manuscript - Evelyn J. Phimister 9 Medievalism in Morris’s Aesthetic Theory - Michael Naslas 10 ‘Bawling the right road’: Morris and Ruskinian social criticism - Chris Brooks 11 From Art to Politics: John Ruskin and William Morris - Lawrence Goldman 12 Laxley Mill: Ruskin’s Parallel to Merton Abbey - David Faldet 13 William Morris and the Division of Labour: the idea of work in News from Nowhere - Christopher Shaw 14 John Ruskin’s Tory Paternalism - John Blewitt Index

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A wide-ranging collection of essays written for the William Morris Society exploring the various intersections between the life, work and achievements of William Morris (1834-1896) and that of John Ruskin (1819-1900). Subjects covered include Ruskin’s connection with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, the promotion of craft skills and meaningful work, Morris and the division of labour, Ruskin’s engagement with education and the environment, Ruskin and the art and architecture of Red House, the parallels between Ruskin’s support for Laxey Mill and Morris’s Merton Abbey Works, the illustrated manuscript and the contrasts between Ruskin’s Tory paternalism and Morris’s revolutionary socialism. The book includes articles first published in The Journal of William Morris Studies between 1977 and 2012 and new pieces written especially for this volume. Ruskin's beliefs had a profound and lasting impact on Morris who wrote, upon first reading Ruskin whilst at Oxford University, that his views offered a "new road on which the world should travel" - a road that led Morris to social and political change.The William Morris Society Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction - John Blewitt 2 Ruskin and Morris - Peter Faulkner 3 John Ruskin: patron or patriarch? - Robert Brownell 4 ‘“This link between the Earth and Man”: Ruskin, Morris, and Education’ - Sara Atwood 5 Red House and Ruskin - Jacques Migeon 6 Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism - Peter Faulkner 7 Ruskin and Fairfax Murray - David Elliot 8 John Ruskin, William Morris and the Illuminated Manuscript - Evelyn J. Phimister 9 Medievalism in Morris’s Aesthetic Theory - Michael Naslas 10 ‘Bawling the right road’: Morris and Ruskinian social criticism - Chris Brooks 11 From Art to Politics: John Ruskin and William Morris - Lawrence Goldman 12 Laxley Mill: Ruskin’s Parallel to Merton Abbey - David Faldet 13 William Morris and the Division of Labour: the idea of work in News from Nowhere - Christopher Shaw 14 John Ruskin’s Tory Paternalism - John Blewitt Index

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Affiche du document Multimedia Histories — Multimedia Histories
John Plunkett
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Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today’s digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from the magic lantern, the stereoscope and early film to the DVD and the internet. By reaching back into the innovative media practices of the nineteenth century, Multimedia Histories outlines many of the revealing continuities between nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century multimedia culture. Comprising some of the most important new work on multimedia culture and history by key writers in this growing field, Multimedia Histories will be an indispensable new sourcebook for the discipline. It will be an important intervention in rethinking the boundaries of Anglo-American film and media history. Contents: Section 1: Exploring Remediation: Old into New Formats; Damian Sutton (Glasgow School of Art): 'The suppleness of everyday life': CGI, Lumieres, and perception after photography; Patrizia Di Bello (Birkbeck College): From the album page to the computer screen: collecting photographs in the home; Michelle Henning (University of West of England): The Return of Curiosity: The World Wide Web as Curiosity Museum; Dan North (University of Exeter): From Android to Synthespian: the myth of mechanical life; Section 2: Culture, Aesthetics and the Influence of New Media; Ian Christie (Birkbeck College): Toys, Instruments, Machines: Spectacular Illusion from Descartes to Moving Pictures and Beyond; Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck College, University of London): 'Half sick of shadows': Optical toys and 'The Lady of Shalott'; Charlie Gere (University of Lancaster): John Cage's Early Warning System; Jonathan Bollen (University of New England, Australia): As Seen on TV: Social Dance pedagogy, Kinaesthetic crossover and the animatic imaginary; Section 3: Media Consumption and Interactivity; John Plunkett (University of Exeter): Depth, Colour, Movement: Embodied Vision and the Stereoscope; Andrew Shail (Northumbria University): Penny Gaffs and Picture Theatres: Popular Perceptions of Britain's First Cinemas; James Bennett (University of Wisconsin Madison): From Museum to Interactive Television, Spectacle to Education: Organising the navigable space of natural history display; Andrea Zapp (Manchester Metropolitan University): Networked Narrative Environments; Section 4: Bringing Media Together: Visions of Convergence; Kaveh Askari (University of California Berkeley): Photographed Poses and the Illusion of Movement in Alexander Black's Picture Plays; William Boddy (Baruch College, CUNY): 'Margin and chaos': Early Wireless and Multimedia History; James Lyons (University of Exeter): From Nip/Tuck to cut/paste: remediating plastic surgery online; Richard Grusin (Wayne State University): The Cinema of Interactions: DVDS, Video Games, and the Aesthetic of the Animate.

Multimedia Histories
John Plunkett
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Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today’s digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from the magic lantern, the stereoscope and early film to the DVD and the internet. By reaching back into the innovative media practices of the nineteenth century, Multimedia Histories outlines many of the revealing continuities between nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century multimedia culture. Comprising some of the most important new work on multimedia culture and history by key writers in this growing field, Multimedia Histories will be an indispensable new sourcebook for the discipline. It will be an important intervention in rethinking the boundaries of Anglo-American film and media history. Contents: Section 1: Exploring Remediation: Old into New Formats; Damian Sutton (Glasgow School of Art): 'The suppleness of everyday life': CGI, Lumieres, and perception after photography; Patrizia Di Bello (Birkbeck College): From the album page to the computer screen: collecting photographs in the home; Michelle Henning (University of West of England): The Return of Curiosity: The World Wide Web as Curiosity Museum; Dan North (University of Exeter): From Android to Synthespian: the myth of mechanical life; Section 2: Culture, Aesthetics and the Influence of New Media; Ian Christie (Birkbeck College): Toys, Instruments, Machines: Spectacular Illusion from Descartes to Moving Pictures and Beyond; Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck College, University of London): 'Half sick of shadows': Optical toys and 'The Lady of Shalott'; Charlie Gere (University of Lancaster): John Cage's Early Warning System; Jonathan Bollen (University of New England, Australia): As Seen on TV: Social Dance pedagogy, Kinaesthetic crossover and the animatic imaginary; Section 3: Media Consumption and Interactivity; John Plunkett (University of Exeter): Depth, Colour, Movement: Embodied Vision and the Stereoscope; Andrew Shail (Northumbria University): Penny Gaffs and Picture Theatres: Popular Perceptions of Britain's First Cinemas; James Bennett (University of Wisconsin Madison): From Museum to Interactive Television, Spectacle to Education: Organising the navigable space of natural history display; Andrea Zapp (Manchester Metropolitan University): Networked Narrative Environments; Section 4: Bringing Media Together: Visions of Convergence; Kaveh Askari (University of California Berkeley): Photographed Poses and the Illusion of Movement in Alexander Black's Picture Plays; William Boddy (Baruch College, CUNY): 'Margin and chaos': Early Wireless and Multimedia History; James Lyons (University of Exeter): From Nip/Tuck to cut/paste: remediating plastic surgery online; Richard Grusin (Wayne State University): The Cinema of Interactions: DVDS, Video Games, and the Aesthetic of the Animate.

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Affiche du document Mental Health Ontologies — Mental Health Ontologies
Janna Hastings
1h33min00
Medecine
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Mental health presents one of the defining public health challenges of our time. Proponents of different conceptions of what mental illness is wage war for the hearts and minds of patients, practitioners, policy-makers, and the public. Debate and fragmentation around the nature of the entities that feature in the mental health domain divide resources and reduce progress. The way mental health is publicly discussed in the media has tangible effects, in terms of stigma, access to healthcare and resources, and private expectations of recovery. This book explores in detail the sorts of statements that are made about mental health in the media and public reporting of scientific research, grounding them in the wider context of the theoretical frameworks, assumptions and metaphors that they draw from. The author shows how a holistic understanding of the way that different aspects of mental illness are interrelated can be developed from evidence-based interpretation of the latest research findings. She offers some ideas about corrective, integrative approaches to discussing mental health-related matters publicly that may reduce the opposition between conceptualisations while still aiming to reduce stigma, shame and blame. In particular, she emphasises that discourse in the media needs to be anchored to an overview of all the research results across the field and argues that this could be achieved using new technological infrastructures. The author provides an integrative account of what mental health is, together with an improved understanding of the factors driving the persistence of oppositional accounts in the public discourse. The book will be of benefit to researchers, practitioners and students in the domain of mental health. Preface Introduction How Do We Talk About Mental Health? What Do We Mean When We Say ‘Biological’? Health and Disease in the Domain of the Mental How Should We Talk About Mental Health? How to Talk More About Mental Health Ontology as an Antidote to Data Disintegration Conclusion Notes References Index

Mental Health Ontologies
Janna Hastings
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Mental health presents one of the defining public health challenges of our time. Proponents of different conceptions of what mental illness is wage war for the hearts and minds of patients, practitioners, policy-makers, and the public. Debate and fragmentation around the nature of the entities that feature in the mental health domain divide resources and reduce progress. The way mental health is publicly discussed in the media has tangible effects, in terms of stigma, access to healthcare and resources, and private expectations of recovery. This book explores in detail the sorts of statements that are made about mental health in the media and public reporting of scientific research, grounding them in the wider context of the theoretical frameworks, assumptions and metaphors that they draw from. The author shows how a holistic understanding of the way that different aspects of mental illness are interrelated can be developed from evidence-based interpretation of the latest research findings. She offers some ideas about corrective, integrative approaches to discussing mental health-related matters publicly that may reduce the opposition between conceptualisations while still aiming to reduce stigma, shame and blame. In particular, she emphasises that discourse in the media needs to be anchored to an overview of all the research results across the field and argues that this could be achieved using new technological infrastructures. The author provides an integrative account of what mental health is, together with an improved understanding of the factors driving the persistence of oppositional accounts in the public discourse. The book will be of benefit to researchers, practitioners and students in the domain of mental health. Preface Introduction How Do We Talk About Mental Health? What Do We Mean When We Say ‘Biological’? Health and Disease in the Domain of the Mental How Should We Talk About Mental Health? How to Talk More About Mental Health Ontology as an Antidote to Data Disintegration Conclusion Notes References Index

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Affiche du document Symbolism, Decadence and the Fin de Siècle — Symbolism, Decadence and the Fin de Siècle
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This is a comparative and interdisciplinary book exploring a variety of perspectives on the artistic culture of France, and its neighbours, in the period 1870–1914. Part One centres on France, and assembles essays on the prose, poetry and painting of Symbolism and Decadence, on avant-garde dance and performance, on women's writing and on early cinema. Part Two explores the relations between France and several cultures in which the debt to France was amply and originally repaid, ranging from the Anglo-Celtic "Rhymers' Club" to the Italian "Crepusculari". The essays consistently point beyond the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth, as they explore the multiple beginnings–as well as the false starts–that characterize the period. All foreign language quotations are translated.Contents: Part 1: Mallarme and the "siecle finissant", Peter Dayan; disinterested Narcissus - the play of politics in decadent form, Jennifer Birkett; experiment in women's writing in the "fin de siecle", Alison Finch; the poetry of symbolism and decadence, Clive Scott; the difficult distance - Mallarme and the symbolist stage, Michael Holland; the kinaesthetics of chance - Mallarme's "Un Coup de des" and avant-garde choreography, Dee Reynolds; Villiers, Verne, Lumiere - the business of immortality, Ian Christie; text and image, allegory and symbol in Gustave Moreau's "Jupiter et Semele", Peter Cooke; between medicine and hermeticism - "the" unconscious in the "fin de siecle". Part 2: primitivism, celticism and morbidity in the Atlantic "fin de siecle", Scott Ashley; Belgian symbolism and the question of Belgian literary identity, Patrick Laude; temporary aesthetes - decadence and symbolism in Germany and Austria, Robert Vilain; the war of the wor(l)ds - symbolist decadent literature and discourses of power in finisecular Spain, Richard A. Cardwell; French symbolism and Italian poetry, 1880-1920, Shirley W. Winall; from Mallarme to Pound - the "Franco-Anglo-American" axis, Patrick McGuinness.

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This is a comparative and interdisciplinary book exploring a variety of perspectives on the artistic culture of France, and its neighbours, in the period 1870–1914. Part One centres on France, and assembles essays on the prose, poetry and painting of Symbolism and Decadence, on avant-garde dance and performance, on women's writing and on early cinema. Part Two explores the relations between France and several cultures in which the debt to France was amply and originally repaid, ranging from the Anglo-Celtic "Rhymers' Club" to the Italian "Crepusculari". The essays consistently point beyond the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth, as they explore the multiple beginnings–as well as the false starts–that characterize the period. All foreign language quotations are translated.Contents: Part 1: Mallarme and the "siecle finissant", Peter Dayan; disinterested Narcissus - the play of politics in decadent form, Jennifer Birkett; experiment in women's writing in the "fin de siecle", Alison Finch; the poetry of symbolism and decadence, Clive Scott; the difficult distance - Mallarme and the symbolist stage, Michael Holland; the kinaesthetics of chance - Mallarme's "Un Coup de des" and avant-garde choreography, Dee Reynolds; Villiers, Verne, Lumiere - the business of immortality, Ian Christie; text and image, allegory and symbol in Gustave Moreau's "Jupiter et Semele", Peter Cooke; between medicine and hermeticism - "the" unconscious in the "fin de siecle". Part 2: primitivism, celticism and morbidity in the Atlantic "fin de siecle", Scott Ashley; Belgian symbolism and the question of Belgian literary identity, Patrick Laude; temporary aesthetes - decadence and symbolism in Germany and Austria, Robert Vilain; the war of the wor(l)ds - symbolist decadent literature and discourses of power in finisecular Spain, Richard A. Cardwell; French symbolism and Italian poetry, 1880-1920, Shirley W. Winall; from Mallarme to Pound - the "Franco-Anglo-American" axis, Patrick McGuinness.

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Affiche du document Performing Grand-Guignol — Performing Grand-Guignol
Richard J. Hand
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From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London’s Grand Guignol - also published by UEP – this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire of Grand-Guignol plays available in the English language. The emphasis in the translation and adaptation of these plays is once again to foreground the performability of the scripts within a modern context – making Performing Grand-Guignol an ideal acting guide. Hand and Wilson have acquired extremely rare acting copies of plays which have never been published and scripts that were published in the early years of the twentieth century but have not been published since – even in French. Includes plays written by, or adapted from, such notable writers as Octave Mirbeau, Gaston Leroux and St John Ervine as well as examples by Grand-Guignol stalwarts René Berton and André de Lorde. Also included is the 1920s London translation of Blind Man’s Buff written by Charles Hellem and Pol d’Estoc and banned by the Lord Chamberlain. A brief history of the Parisian theatre is also included, for the benefit of readers who have not read the previous books. Preface A note on the scripts Section I: A Brief History of the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol Section II: The Grand-Guignol Laboratory Section III: Prefaces and Plays First Programme The Haunted House (La Maison hantée) by Marc Bonis-Charancle The Kama Sutra or Never Play with Fire… (Kama Soutra, ou Il ne faut pas joer avec le feu) by Régis Gignoux Blind Man’s Buff by Charles Hellem and Pol d’Estoc The Light in the Tomb (Gott mit uns! (La Lumière dans la tombeau))by René Berton Second Programme Progress by St. John Ervine A Silk Dress (Une Robe de Soie) by Henriette Charasson The Great Terror (La Grande épouvante) by André de Lorde and Henri Bauche Third Programme The Wax Museum (Figures de Cire) by André de Lorde and Georges Montignac The Lovers (Les Amants) by Octave Mirbeau The Man Who Met the Devil (L’homme qui a vu le diable) by Gaston Leroux The Man Who Killed Death (L’homme qui a tué la mort) by René Berton

Performing Grand-Guignol
Richard J. Hand
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From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London’s Grand Guignol - also published by UEP – this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire of Grand-Guignol plays available in the English language. The emphasis in the translation and adaptation of these plays is once again to foreground the performability of the scripts within a modern context – making Performing Grand-Guignol an ideal acting guide. Hand and Wilson have acquired extremely rare acting copies of plays which have never been published and scripts that were published in the early years of the twentieth century but have not been published since – even in French. Includes plays written by, or adapted from, such notable writers as Octave Mirbeau, Gaston Leroux and St John Ervine as well as examples by Grand-Guignol stalwarts René Berton and André de Lorde. Also included is the 1920s London translation of Blind Man’s Buff written by Charles Hellem and Pol d’Estoc and banned by the Lord Chamberlain. A brief history of the Parisian theatre is also included, for the benefit of readers who have not read the previous books. Preface A note on the scripts Section I: A Brief History of the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol Section II: The Grand-Guignol Laboratory Section III: Prefaces and Plays First Programme The Haunted House (La Maison hantée) by Marc Bonis-Charancle The Kama Sutra or Never Play with Fire… (Kama Soutra, ou Il ne faut pas joer avec le feu) by Régis Gignoux Blind Man’s Buff by Charles Hellem and Pol d’Estoc The Light in the Tomb (Gott mit uns! (La Lumière dans la tombeau))by René Berton Second Programme Progress by St. John Ervine A Silk Dress (Une Robe de Soie) by Henriette Charasson The Great Terror (La Grande épouvante) by André de Lorde and Henri Bauche Third Programme The Wax Museum (Figures de Cire) by André de Lorde and Georges Montignac The Lovers (Les Amants) by Octave Mirbeau The Man Who Met the Devil (L’homme qui a vu le diable) by Gaston Leroux The Man Who Killed Death (L’homme qui a tué la mort) by René Berton

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Affiche du document Critical Essays on British South Asian Theatre — Critical Essays on British South Asian Theatre
Sarah Dadswell
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This volume is an edited collection of critical essays on British Asian theatre. It includes contributions from a number of researchers who have been active in the field for a substantial period of time. This title is complemented by British South Asian Theatres: A Documented History by the same authors, also available from University of Exeter Press. List of Illustrations Contributors Introduction 1. British Asian Theatre: the Long Road to Now, and the Barriers in-between, Naseem Khan 2. Images on Stage: a Historical Survey of South Asians in British Theatre before 1975, Colin Chambers 3. Bridging Divides: the Emergence of Bilingual Theatre in Tower Hamlets in the 1980s, Susan Croft 4. Experiments in Theatre from the Margins: Text, Performance and New Writers, Rukhsana Ahmad 5. Dramatising Refuge(e)s: Rukhsana Ahmad’s Song for a Sanctuary and Tanika Gupta’s Sanctuary, Christiane Schlote 6. Directing Storytelling Performance and Storytelling Theatre, Chris Banfield 7. Engaging the Audience: a Comparative Analysis of Developmental Strategies in Birmingham and Leicester since the 1990s, Claire Cochrane 8. Patriarchy and Its Discontents: the ‘Kitchen-Sink Drama’ of Tamasha Theatre Company, Victoria Sams 9. The Marketing of Commercial and Subsidised Theatre to British Asian Audiences: Tamasha’s Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral (1998 and 2001) and Bombay Dreams (2002), Suman Bhuchar 10. Mixing with the Mainstream: Transgressing the Identity of Place, Jerri Daboo 11. Between Page and Stage: Meera Syal in British Asian Culture, Giovanna Buonanno 12. Imagine, Indiaah ... on the British Stage: Exploring Tara’s ‘Binglish’ and Tamasha’s Brechtian Approaches, Chandrika Patel 13. British Asian Live Art: motiroti, Stephen Hodge 14. On the Making of Mr Quiver, Rajni Shah Notes Bibliography Index

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Sarah Dadswell
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This volume is an edited collection of critical essays on British Asian theatre. It includes contributions from a number of researchers who have been active in the field for a substantial period of time. This title is complemented by British South Asian Theatres: A Documented History by the same authors, also available from University of Exeter Press. List of Illustrations Contributors Introduction 1. British Asian Theatre: the Long Road to Now, and the Barriers in-between, Naseem Khan 2. Images on Stage: a Historical Survey of South Asians in British Theatre before 1975, Colin Chambers 3. Bridging Divides: the Emergence of Bilingual Theatre in Tower Hamlets in the 1980s, Susan Croft 4. Experiments in Theatre from the Margins: Text, Performance and New Writers, Rukhsana Ahmad 5. Dramatising Refuge(e)s: Rukhsana Ahmad’s Song for a Sanctuary and Tanika Gupta’s Sanctuary, Christiane Schlote 6. Directing Storytelling Performance and Storytelling Theatre, Chris Banfield 7. Engaging the Audience: a Comparative Analysis of Developmental Strategies in Birmingham and Leicester since the 1990s, Claire Cochrane 8. Patriarchy and Its Discontents: the ‘Kitchen-Sink Drama’ of Tamasha Theatre Company, Victoria Sams 9. The Marketing of Commercial and Subsidised Theatre to British Asian Audiences: Tamasha’s Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral (1998 and 2001) and Bombay Dreams (2002), Suman Bhuchar 10. Mixing with the Mainstream: Transgressing the Identity of Place, Jerri Daboo 11. Between Page and Stage: Meera Syal in British Asian Culture, Giovanna Buonanno 12. Imagine, Indiaah ... on the British Stage: Exploring Tara’s ‘Binglish’ and Tamasha’s Brechtian Approaches, Chandrika Patel 13. British Asian Live Art: motiroti, Stephen Hodge 14. On the Making of Mr Quiver, Rajni Shah Notes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Acting Greek Tragedy — Acting Greek Tragedy
Graham Ley
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Acting Greek Tragedy explores the dynamics of physical interaction and the dramaturgical construction of scenes in ancient Greek tragedy. Ley argues that spatial distinctions between ancient and modern theatres are not significant, as core dramatic energy can be placed successfully in either context. Guiding commentary on selected passages from Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides illuminates the problems involved with performing monologue, dialogue, scenes requiring three actors, and scenes with properties. A companion website - actinggreektragedy.com - offers recorded illustrations of scenes from the Workshops. What the book offers is a practical approach to the preparation of Greek scripts for performance. The translations used have all been tested in workshops, with those of Euripides newly composed for this book. The companion website can be found here: www.actinggreektragedy.com Preface Introduction First Workshop: Monologues Second Workshop: Dialogues Third Workshop: Three-actor Scenes Fourth Workshop: Properties Last Thoughts: Looking Back, and Forwards Thanks Notes on the Recordings Index of Greek names and characters General Index

Acting Greek Tragedy
Graham Ley
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Acting Greek Tragedy explores the dynamics of physical interaction and the dramaturgical construction of scenes in ancient Greek tragedy. Ley argues that spatial distinctions between ancient and modern theatres are not significant, as core dramatic energy can be placed successfully in either context. Guiding commentary on selected passages from Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides illuminates the problems involved with performing monologue, dialogue, scenes requiring three actors, and scenes with properties. A companion website - actinggreektragedy.com - offers recorded illustrations of scenes from the Workshops. What the book offers is a practical approach to the preparation of Greek scripts for performance. The translations used have all been tested in workshops, with those of Euripides newly composed for this book. The companion website can be found here: www.actinggreektragedy.com Preface Introduction First Workshop: Monologues Second Workshop: Dialogues Third Workshop: Three-actor Scenes Fourth Workshop: Properties Last Thoughts: Looking Back, and Forwards Thanks Notes on the Recordings Index of Greek names and characters General Index

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Affiche du document Grand-Guignolesque — Grand-Guignolesque
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While the infamous Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Paris closed its doors in 1962, the particular form of horror theatre it spawned lives on and has, moreover, witnessed something of a resurgence over the past twenty years. During its heyday it inspired many imitators, though none quite as successful as the Montmartre-based original. In more recent times, new Grand-Guignol companies the world over have emerged to reimagine the form for a new generation of audiences. This book, the fourth volume in University of Exeter Press’s series on the Grand-Guignol by Richard J. Hand and Michael Wilson, examines the ongoing influence and legacy of the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol through an appraisal of its contemporary imitators and modern reincarnations. As with the previous volumes, Grand-Guignolesque consists of a lengthy critical introduction followed by a series of previously unpublished scripts, each with its own contextualizing preface. The effect thereof is to map the evolution of horror theatre over the past 120 years, asking where the influence of the Grand-Guignol is most visible today, and what might account for its recent resurgence. This book will be of interest not only to the drama student, theatre historian and scholar of popular theatre, but also to the theatre practitioner, theatregoer and horror fan.Contents Preface Chapter 1. Establishing the Grand-Guignolesque Chapter 2. The Grand-Guignol’s Contemporary Imitators and Competitors Chapter 3: The New Wave Chapter 4: Afterword Appendix: The Molotov Manifesto, or Acting Grand Guignol, Molotov Style Thirteen Plays of Grand-Guignol and the Grand-Guignolesque Professor Verdier’s Operations (Les Opérations du Professeur Verdier, 1907) by Élie de Bassan Short Circuit (Le Court-Circuit, 1916) by Benjamin Rabier and Eugène Joullot The Little House at Auteuil (La Petite Maison D’Auteuil, 1917) by Robert Scheffer and Georges Lignereux The Unhinged (Les Détraquées, 1924) by Palau and Olaf The Eyes of the Phantom (Les Yeux du Spectre, 1924) by Jean Aragny The Lover of Death (L’Amant de Mort, 1925) by Maurice Renard Orgy in the Lighthouse (L’Orgie dans le phare, 1956) adapted by Eddie Muller from Alfred Machard’s play The Sticking Place (2008) by Lucas Maloney and Michael McMahon, with Alex Zavistovich A Room With No View (2009) by James Comtois The Ghost Hunter (2013) by Stewart Pringle We’ll Fix It! (2013) by Les Williams Leviticus: Evil Resides Within (2014) by Antonio Rimola Abel Hartmann's Grand-Guignol: A History of Violence (2015) by Dreamcatcher Horror Theatre Bibliography Webography Index

Grand-Guignolesque
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While the infamous Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Paris closed its doors in 1962, the particular form of horror theatre it spawned lives on and has, moreover, witnessed something of a resurgence over the past twenty years. During its heyday it inspired many imitators, though none quite as successful as the Montmartre-based original. In more recent times, new Grand-Guignol companies the world over have emerged to reimagine the form for a new generation of audiences. This book, the fourth volume in University of Exeter Press’s series on the Grand-Guignol by Richard J. Hand and Michael Wilson, examines the ongoing influence and legacy of the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol through an appraisal of its contemporary imitators and modern reincarnations. As with the previous volumes, Grand-Guignolesque consists of a lengthy critical introduction followed by a series of previously unpublished scripts, each with its own contextualizing preface. The effect thereof is to map the evolution of horror theatre over the past 120 years, asking where the influence of the Grand-Guignol is most visible today, and what might account for its recent resurgence. This book will be of interest not only to the drama student, theatre historian and scholar of popular theatre, but also to the theatre practitioner, theatregoer and horror fan.Contents Preface Chapter 1. Establishing the Grand-Guignolesque Chapter 2. The Grand-Guignol’s Contemporary Imitators and Competitors Chapter 3: The New Wave Chapter 4: Afterword Appendix: The Molotov Manifesto, or Acting Grand Guignol, Molotov Style Thirteen Plays of Grand-Guignol and the Grand-Guignolesque Professor Verdier’s Operations (Les Opérations du Professeur Verdier, 1907) by Élie de Bassan Short Circuit (Le Court-Circuit, 1916) by Benjamin Rabier and Eugène Joullot The Little House at Auteuil (La Petite Maison D’Auteuil, 1917) by Robert Scheffer and Georges Lignereux The Unhinged (Les Détraquées, 1924) by Palau and Olaf The Eyes of the Phantom (Les Yeux du Spectre, 1924) by Jean Aragny The Lover of Death (L’Amant de Mort, 1925) by Maurice Renard Orgy in the Lighthouse (L’Orgie dans le phare, 1956) adapted by Eddie Muller from Alfred Machard’s play The Sticking Place (2008) by Lucas Maloney and Michael McMahon, with Alex Zavistovich A Room With No View (2009) by James Comtois The Ghost Hunter (2013) by Stewart Pringle We’ll Fix It! (2013) by Les Williams Leviticus: Evil Resides Within (2014) by Antonio Rimola Abel Hartmann's Grand-Guignol: A History of Violence (2015) by Dreamcatcher Horror Theatre Bibliography Webography Index

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Affiche du document Ancient Greek and Contemporary Performance — Ancient Greek and Contemporary Performance
Graham Ley
2h28min30
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This collection of published and unpublished essays connects antiquity with the present by debating the current prohibiting conceptions of performance theory and the insistence on a limited version of ‘the contemporary’. The theatre is attractive for its history and also for its lively present. These essays explore aspects of historical performance in ancient Greece, and link thoughts on its significance to wider reflections on cultural theory from around the world and performance in the contemporary postmodern era, concluding with ideas on the new theatre of the diaspora. Each section of the book includes a short introduction; the essays and shorter interventions take various forms, but all are concerned with theatre, with practical aspects of theatre and theoretical dimensions of its study. The subjects range from ancient Greece to the present day, and include speculations on the origin of ancient tragic acting, the kinds of festival performance in ancient Athens, how performance is reflected in the tragic scripts, the significance of the presence of the chorus, technology and the ancient theatre, comparative thinking on Greek, Indian and Japanese theory, a critique of the rhetoric of performance theory and of postmodernism, reflections on modernism and theatre, and on the importance of adaptation to theatre, studies of the theatre and diaspora in Britain.Introduction Section A: Greek theatre and theory Preface 1. "Hypokrinesthai in Homer and Herodotus, and the Function of the Athenian Actor", Philologus 127.1 (1983) 2. "Performance and Performatives", Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 13.1 (1998) 3. “Monody, Choral Song, and Athenian Festival Performance", Maia xlv.2 (1993) 4. “The Presence of the Chorus”, unpublished essay developed from a paper given at a conference at Northwestern University, Chicago, October 2010. Section B: Greek theatre practice Preface 5. Graham Ley and Michael Ewans, "The orchestra as Acting-area in Greek Tragedy", Ramus 14.2 (1985) 6. "Performance Studies and Greek Tragedy", Eranos 92 (1994) 7. “The Nameless and the Named: Techne and Technology in the Ancient Athenian Theatre”, Performance Research 10.4 (2005) Section C: Performance theory Preface 8. "Sacred Idiocy: the Avant-garde as Alternative Establishment", New Theatre Quarterly 28 (1991) 9. "The Rhetoric of Theory: the Role of Metaphor in Peter Brook's The Empty Space", New Theatre Quarterly 35 (1993) 10. "Richard Schechner's `The Future of Ritual': the Final Chapter", Performance Research 3.3 `On Ritual' (1998) 11. "Aristotle's Poetics, Bharatamuni's Natyasastra, and Zeami's Treatises: Theory as Discourse", Asian Theatre Journal 17.2 (2000) 12. "Theatrical Modernism: A Problematic", in A.Eysteinsson and V.Liska (eds.)A Comparative History of Literature in European Languages: Modernism. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, (2007) 13. “Discursive Embodiment: The Theatre as Adaptation”, Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance 2.3 (2009) 14. “The Critical Absence of a Postmodern Reception Theory of Live Performance”, unpublished editorial contribution to Baz Kershaw and Graham Ley (eds.),“Beyond Postmodernism”, Contemporary Theatre Review 3.18 (2008). Section D: Diaspora theatre Preface 15. “Composing a History: Problematics of the British Asian Research Project at Exeter”, Studies in Theatre and Performance 30.2 (2010) 16. “Theatre and Diversity” – unpublished English-language version of the paper delivered in Cologne and published in W.Schneider Theater und Migration: Herausforderung fur Kulturpolitik und Theaterpraxis. Bielefeld: Transcript, (2011) 17. “Diaspora Space, the Regions, and British Asian Theatre”, New Theatre Quarterly 107 (2011) Conclusion

Ancient Greek and Contemporary Performance
Graham Ley
2h28min30
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198 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h28min.
This collection of published and unpublished essays connects antiquity with the present by debating the current prohibiting conceptions of performance theory and the insistence on a limited version of ‘the contemporary’. The theatre is attractive for its history and also for its lively present. These essays explore aspects of historical performance in ancient Greece, and link thoughts on its significance to wider reflections on cultural theory from around the world and performance in the contemporary postmodern era, concluding with ideas on the new theatre of the diaspora. Each section of the book includes a short introduction; the essays and shorter interventions take various forms, but all are concerned with theatre, with practical aspects of theatre and theoretical dimensions of its study. The subjects range from ancient Greece to the present day, and include speculations on the origin of ancient tragic acting, the kinds of festival performance in ancient Athens, how performance is reflected in the tragic scripts, the significance of the presence of the chorus, technology and the ancient theatre, comparative thinking on Greek, Indian and Japanese theory, a critique of the rhetoric of performance theory and of postmodernism, reflections on modernism and theatre, and on the importance of adaptation to theatre, studies of the theatre and diaspora in Britain.Introduction Section A: Greek theatre and theory Preface 1. "Hypokrinesthai in Homer and Herodotus, and the Function of the Athenian Actor", Philologus 127.1 (1983) 2. "Performance and Performatives", Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 13.1 (1998) 3. “Monody, Choral Song, and Athenian Festival Performance", Maia xlv.2 (1993) 4. “The Presence of the Chorus”, unpublished essay developed from a paper given at a conference at Northwestern University, Chicago, October 2010. Section B: Greek theatre practice Preface 5. Graham Ley and Michael Ewans, "The orchestra as Acting-area in Greek Tragedy", Ramus 14.2 (1985) 6. "Performance Studies and Greek Tragedy", Eranos 92 (1994) 7. “The Nameless and the Named: Techne and Technology in the Ancient Athenian Theatre”, Performance Research 10.4 (2005) Section C: Performance theory Preface 8. "Sacred Idiocy: the Avant-garde as Alternative Establishment", New Theatre Quarterly 28 (1991) 9. "The Rhetoric of Theory: the Role of Metaphor in Peter Brook's The Empty Space", New Theatre Quarterly 35 (1993) 10. "Richard Schechner's `The Future of Ritual': the Final Chapter", Performance Research 3.3 `On Ritual' (1998) 11. "Aristotle's Poetics, Bharatamuni's Natyasastra, and Zeami's Treatises: Theory as Discourse", Asian Theatre Journal 17.2 (2000) 12. "Theatrical Modernism: A Problematic", in A.Eysteinsson and V.Liska (eds.)A Comparative History of Literature in European Languages: Modernism. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, (2007) 13. “Discursive Embodiment: The Theatre as Adaptation”, Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance 2.3 (2009) 14. “The Critical Absence of a Postmodern Reception Theory of Live Performance”, unpublished editorial contribution to Baz Kershaw and Graham Ley (eds.),“Beyond Postmodernism”, Contemporary Theatre Review 3.18 (2008). Section D: Diaspora theatre Preface 15. “Composing a History: Problematics of the British Asian Research Project at Exeter”, Studies in Theatre and Performance 30.2 (2010) 16. “Theatre and Diversity” – unpublished English-language version of the paper delivered in Cologne and published in W.Schneider Theater und Migration: Herausforderung fur Kulturpolitik und Theaterpraxis. Bielefeld: Transcript, (2011) 17. “Diaspora Space, the Regions, and British Asian Theatre”, New Theatre Quarterly 107 (2011) Conclusion

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Affiche du document Ramparts of Empire — Ramparts of Empire
Timothy Crick
4h03min45
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William Jervois was a military engineer who rose to prominence as a result of Lord Palmerston’s extensive programme of fortification against a feared French invasion in the middle years of the nineteenth century. Ramparts of Empire is a detailed and engaging study of his life and works. As the first comprehensive study of this influential Victorian, the bookis an important contribution to military and engineering history as well as to the history of Imperial Britain. The text is richly illustrated with photographs and plans of Jervois’ forts, while supporting appendices provide a mine of supplementary information. This includes a gazetteer of Jervois’ works and documentary evidence of his involvement in plans for a Channel Tunnel and a proposal for attacking the seaboard of the United States. In 1860, Palmerston’s parliament sanctioned the construction of the largest system of fortifications that the British Isles had ever seen, or would ever see again, to defend against a feared French invasion. For William Jervois, then a young major in the Royal Engineers, his appointment as ‘design leader’ of this programme was a major step in a career in fortress construction that would see his work in Britain, the Channel Islands, Ireland, Canada, Bermuda, India, and later, Australia and New Zealand. Timothy Crick makes extensive use of extracts from Jervois’ diaries and illustrations of his fortresses to give the reader a rounded picture of this Royal Engineer’s wide-ranging career. He also captures a real sense of the fears of invasion that prevailed in this period. Throughout the book both the political background and the technical considerations involved in constructing forts and armaments are carefully explored to flesh out the motivations in what is sometimes referred to as the ‘Golden Age’ of British fort building. CONTENTS GLOSSARY CHRONOLOGY INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: EARLY DAYS IN AFRICA CHAPTER TWO: APPOINTMENT IN ALDERNEY CHAPTER THREE: THE THREAT FROM FRANCE CHAPTER FOUR: THE 1859 ROYAL COMMISSION CHAPTER FIVE: DEFENDING THE NAVAL BASES CHAPTER SIX: MISSION TO CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES CHAPTER SEVEN: THE IRONCLAD FORTS CHAPTER EIGHT: IMPERIAL PROGRESS CHAPFER NINE: AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND THE THREAT FROM RUSSIA CHAPTER TEN: COAST DEFENCE, HONOURS AND RETIREMENT CHAPTER ELEVEN: JERVOIS IN CONTEXT CHAPTER NOTES APPENDIX A: Gazetteer: List of fortified works associated with Jervois APPENDIX B: The Relative Industrial Strength of the Major Powers in the 19th Century APPENDIX C: The 'Battle of Dorking' and its Successors APPENDIX D: The Arming of the Coaling Stations, 1884 APPENDIX E: 'A Plan for Attacking the Seaboard of the United States' APPENDIX F: Jervois and the Channel Tunnel (1883) APPENDIX G: The Relative Value of the British Pound SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF PEOPLE & PLACES

Ramparts of Empire
Timothy Crick
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William Jervois was a military engineer who rose to prominence as a result of Lord Palmerston’s extensive programme of fortification against a feared French invasion in the middle years of the nineteenth century. Ramparts of Empire is a detailed and engaging study of his life and works. As the first comprehensive study of this influential Victorian, the bookis an important contribution to military and engineering history as well as to the history of Imperial Britain. The text is richly illustrated with photographs and plans of Jervois’ forts, while supporting appendices provide a mine of supplementary information. This includes a gazetteer of Jervois’ works and documentary evidence of his involvement in plans for a Channel Tunnel and a proposal for attacking the seaboard of the United States. In 1860, Palmerston’s parliament sanctioned the construction of the largest system of fortifications that the British Isles had ever seen, or would ever see again, to defend against a feared French invasion. For William Jervois, then a young major in the Royal Engineers, his appointment as ‘design leader’ of this programme was a major step in a career in fortress construction that would see his work in Britain, the Channel Islands, Ireland, Canada, Bermuda, India, and later, Australia and New Zealand. Timothy Crick makes extensive use of extracts from Jervois’ diaries and illustrations of his fortresses to give the reader a rounded picture of this Royal Engineer’s wide-ranging career. He also captures a real sense of the fears of invasion that prevailed in this period. Throughout the book both the political background and the technical considerations involved in constructing forts and armaments are carefully explored to flesh out the motivations in what is sometimes referred to as the ‘Golden Age’ of British fort building. CONTENTS GLOSSARY CHRONOLOGY INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: EARLY DAYS IN AFRICA CHAPTER TWO: APPOINTMENT IN ALDERNEY CHAPTER THREE: THE THREAT FROM FRANCE CHAPTER FOUR: THE 1859 ROYAL COMMISSION CHAPTER FIVE: DEFENDING THE NAVAL BASES CHAPTER SIX: MISSION TO CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES CHAPTER SEVEN: THE IRONCLAD FORTS CHAPTER EIGHT: IMPERIAL PROGRESS CHAPFER NINE: AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND THE THREAT FROM RUSSIA CHAPTER TEN: COAST DEFENCE, HONOURS AND RETIREMENT CHAPTER ELEVEN: JERVOIS IN CONTEXT CHAPTER NOTES APPENDIX A: Gazetteer: List of fortified works associated with Jervois APPENDIX B: The Relative Industrial Strength of the Major Powers in the 19th Century APPENDIX C: The 'Battle of Dorking' and its Successors APPENDIX D: The Arming of the Coaling Stations, 1884 APPENDIX E: 'A Plan for Attacking the Seaboard of the United States' APPENDIX F: Jervois and the Channel Tunnel (1883) APPENDIX G: The Relative Value of the British Pound SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF PEOPLE & PLACES

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Affiche du document Mermaids — Mermaids
Axel Müller
1h21min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Women with fish tails are among the oldest and still most popular of mythological creatures, possessing a powerful allure and compelling ambiguity. They dwell right in the uncanniest valley of the sea: so similar to humans, yet profoundly other. Mermaids: Art, Symbolism and Mythology presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and beautifully illustrated study of mermaids and their influence on Western culture. The roots of mermaid mythology and its metamorphosis through the centuries are discussed with examples from visual art, literature, music and architecture—from 600 BCE right up to the present day. Our story starts in Mesopotamia, source of the earliest preserved illustrations of half-human, half-fish creatures. The myths and legends of the Mesopotamians were incorporated and adopted by ancient Greek, Etruscan and Roman cultures. Then, during the early medieval period, ancient mythological creatures such as mermaids were confused, transformed and reinterpreted by Christian tradition to begin a new strand in mermaid lore. Along the way, all manner of stunning—and sometimes bizarre or unsettling—depictions of mermaids emerged. Written in an accessible and entertaining style, this book challenges conventional views of mermaid mythology, discusses mermaids in the light of evolutionary theory and aims to inspire future studies of these most curious of imaginary creatures.Preface Memorial note 1 Introduction: Why mermaids? 2 Mermaids conceived: hybrid goddesses and beasts in antiquity 3 Christian adaptations in the Romanesque to Baroque eras 4 Mermaid passions: obsessive fixation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art 5 Mermaids everywhere: postwar commercialization and trivialization 6 Mermaids rationalized: evolutionary theory confronts the fantastic References Acknowledgements Index

Mermaids
Axel Müller
1h21min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Women with fish tails are among the oldest and still most popular of mythological creatures, possessing a powerful allure and compelling ambiguity. They dwell right in the uncanniest valley of the sea: so similar to humans, yet profoundly other. Mermaids: Art, Symbolism and Mythology presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and beautifully illustrated study of mermaids and their influence on Western culture. The roots of mermaid mythology and its metamorphosis through the centuries are discussed with examples from visual art, literature, music and architecture—from 600 BCE right up to the present day. Our story starts in Mesopotamia, source of the earliest preserved illustrations of half-human, half-fish creatures. The myths and legends of the Mesopotamians were incorporated and adopted by ancient Greek, Etruscan and Roman cultures. Then, during the early medieval period, ancient mythological creatures such as mermaids were confused, transformed and reinterpreted by Christian tradition to begin a new strand in mermaid lore. Along the way, all manner of stunning—and sometimes bizarre or unsettling—depictions of mermaids emerged. Written in an accessible and entertaining style, this book challenges conventional views of mermaid mythology, discusses mermaids in the light of evolutionary theory and aims to inspire future studies of these most curious of imaginary creatures.Preface Memorial note 1 Introduction: Why mermaids? 2 Mermaids conceived: hybrid goddesses and beasts in antiquity 3 Christian adaptations in the Romanesque to Baroque eras 4 Mermaid passions: obsessive fixation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art 5 Mermaids everywhere: postwar commercialization and trivialization 6 Mermaids rationalized: evolutionary theory confronts the fantastic References Acknowledgements Index

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Affiche du document Communication Across Cultures — Communication Across Cultures
Basil Hatim
2h05min15
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A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for upper undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in language, applied linguistics, translation and cultural studies. The book will also be of interest to language teachers and other applied linguists, as well as translators and interpreters. This revised and expanded edition includes important updates reflecting the growth over the past two decades in the theoretical study of translation and contrastive linguistics, and the wide-ranging practical applications of such studies. It offers authoritative updates on the major issues of translation and contrastive linguistics, using new practical examples and case studies that present the latest exploratory research of interest to both students and practitioners. While English and Arabic remain the language pair used for illustrative purposes, the analytic tools and theoretical overviews presented are of global applicability. The main objectives pursued remain the training of future linguists and, more broadly, an increased awareness of the subtleties of discourse on the part of language users.Preface (R R K Hartmann) A New Introduction - Textual Rhetoric: The Missing Dimension Translator decision-making informed by textual competence Deeper text processing The myth of the single register: a discourse perspective on linguistic variation Argumentation: a contrastive text-type perspective A model of argumentation from Arabic Rhetoric Globalization, academic writing, translation: a new perspective on culture Cultures within cultures: commodification discourse On purpose The status of the paragraph as a unit of text structure Signalling background information in expository texts On the interface between structure and texture: the textual progression of Themes and Rhemes A text-type solution to a problem of texture: translating Cataphora Degree of explicitness as a feature of texture Emotiveness and its linguistic realization in texts Translating direct and indirect speech and the dynamics of news reporting A text-type perspective on the pragmatics of politeness Cultures in contact and what people do with their texts: an applied- linguistic perspective The discourse of alienation and its linguistic expression in a modern Arabic novella The translation of irony: a discourse focus on Arabic The other texts: implications for liaison Interpreting References Resources Glossary of Terms in Contrastive Text Linguistics and Translation

Communication Across Cultures
Basil Hatim
2h05min15
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167 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h05min.
A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for upper undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in language, applied linguistics, translation and cultural studies. The book will also be of interest to language teachers and other applied linguists, as well as translators and interpreters. This revised and expanded edition includes important updates reflecting the growth over the past two decades in the theoretical study of translation and contrastive linguistics, and the wide-ranging practical applications of such studies. It offers authoritative updates on the major issues of translation and contrastive linguistics, using new practical examples and case studies that present the latest exploratory research of interest to both students and practitioners. While English and Arabic remain the language pair used for illustrative purposes, the analytic tools and theoretical overviews presented are of global applicability. The main objectives pursued remain the training of future linguists and, more broadly, an increased awareness of the subtleties of discourse on the part of language users.Preface (R R K Hartmann) A New Introduction - Textual Rhetoric: The Missing Dimension Translator decision-making informed by textual competence Deeper text processing The myth of the single register: a discourse perspective on linguistic variation Argumentation: a contrastive text-type perspective A model of argumentation from Arabic Rhetoric Globalization, academic writing, translation: a new perspective on culture Cultures within cultures: commodification discourse On purpose The status of the paragraph as a unit of text structure Signalling background information in expository texts On the interface between structure and texture: the textual progression of Themes and Rhemes A text-type solution to a problem of texture: translating Cataphora Degree of explicitness as a feature of texture Emotiveness and its linguistic realization in texts Translating direct and indirect speech and the dynamics of news reporting A text-type perspective on the pragmatics of politeness Cultures in contact and what people do with their texts: an applied- linguistic perspective The discourse of alienation and its linguistic expression in a modern Arabic novella The translation of irony: a discourse focus on Arabic The other texts: implications for liaison Interpreting References Resources Glossary of Terms in Contrastive Text Linguistics and Translation

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