Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0859895408 ISBN 13: 9780859895408
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 1. Leisure studies have become an increasingly important area of research within social history. In six original essays and an Introduction by established historians, RECREATION AND THE SEA focuses on the theme of the sea and leisure activities in England and Continental Europe.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0853230374 ISBN 13: 9780853230373
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: New. Towards the end of the sixteenth century, King Philip, ruler of the conjoint global empires of Spain and Portugal, received advice from many quarters, not least with regard to the attacks on the empires by other west European nations. Manoel de Andrada Castel Blanco, an obscure cleric who had worked in Brazil and Africa and who lamented the marine disasters and enemy incursions of the previous half-century, wrote c.1590 a tract of advice which has remained unpublished until the present annotated edition. His proposals for the defense of the imperial sea routes, which include references to localities as far apart as Bahia, Aden, Siam and Magellan Strait, make him one of the earliest global strategists. The tract, despite its patent defects of thought and presentation, gives the reader something of the "feel" of the period as it was experienced by those Iberians who, although outside the imperial administration, were capable of grasping the intense excitement of novel global venture and the inevitable accompanying anxieties and alarms.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 0853238987 ISBN 13: 9780853238980
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. The debate on varieties of modernity is central to current social theory and research, and this book explores the theme in relation to the culture and society of Turkey. The book focuses on the Kemalist project to create a modern Turkish nation-state, analyzing its historical background, the role of concepts of ethnicity and nation, and the configurations of state, society and economy in the new Turkish republic. The author then moves on to examine the relations between Islam and modernity, arguing that both must be understood as open to multiple interpretations rather than seen as monolithic and as diametrically opposed. He considers the rise of Islamism in Turkey and looks in particular at the paradoxical role of women activists within the Islamist movement. Ultimately, Kaya argues that Islamism must be understood as a modern movement, albeit a paradoxical one, rather than simply as a return to "tradition".
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 184631206X ISBN 13: 9781846312069
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: New. 1. In the years leading up to the First World War a small though significant network of Anarchist (specifically Anarcho-syndicalist) activists made their presence felt in downtown Liverpool. An element within the group concentrated their efforts on developing new and distinct programmes of education and an annual conference-come-discussion group under the title Por Convención Ferrer was one outcome. From 1910, on October 13 each year and named in honour of the Spanish educationalist Francisco Ferrer y Guardia, who had been tried and executed on October 13 1909 for his alleged involvement with a violent uprising in Barcelona. Por Convencion Ferrer provided a platform for anyone to propose '.for free and open discussion' any subject of their choosing. The contributions generally came from anonymous sources or from within the group itself, were broad ranging in their subject matter and had often been realised by undertaking some form of time travel. The event ran until 1918 and was also staged along the way by sympathetic parties in Birkenhead, Bala, Salford and Manchester. In this book, using text and images the artist David Jacques explores the Por Convencion Ferrer conferences and relates them to the present. The book begins with a concocted archive. A series of mementoes in the form of pennants, inscribed with the titles presented at each conference. On close inspection, the painted-embroidered silks are fairly rough in their construction, with off-centred pattern registrations, colour bleeds and barely decipherable texts stained into a palimpsest-like surface. They figure more as a series of templates, remnants from a studio or 'works in progress' The text has been gathered together from a broad spectrum of sources and presented by a researcher / narrator, who gives way to a variety of voices; being the subjects themselves, commentaries contemporaneous to the subject or present day research studies. Each story presents a change of step in register, ranging from the everyday to the catastrophic. No linkage is offered and the seemingly haphazard juxtaposition of events render a fractured, disconnected voyage through time, space and place. The nine gatherings staged between 1910 and 1918 each entail three presentations. Each presentation references a point in time; one takes on an approximate point concurrent with each conference (1910-18), a second sees a point fifty years or more into the past and a third undertakes a point fifty years or more into the future.
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Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0859895173 ISBN 13: 9780859895170
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 1. Juvenal is a central author on courses in Classical Studies and has an important place on courses in comparative literature, both in the UK and USA. This new book by John Henderson shows how the eighth Satire, a brilliant piece of writing, makes fun of traditional Roman family values, and in the process displays the core of ideas and practices with which aristocratic culture at Rome enshrined itself - the display of geneologies, ancestral busts, proliferating names, the cult of exemplary legends - in all seriousness. Virgil and Horace are Juvenal's prize scalps in his spoof of the Roman fame-machine. The book is aimed at undergraduate students of Roman Satire, and advanced school students of Classical Civilisation; but the notes and Appendices also address scholars and advanced readers of Latin poetry and Roman cultural politics, supporting a new close-reading and engaging with literary theory. All Latin is translated.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0853238715 ISBN 13: 9780853238713
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. This is the first full-length study to cover the complete texts of Hervé Guibert (1955-1991), offering a thorough documentation of his literary output. The book is guided by Guiberts relation to the novel, a major line of enquiry throughout, as well as his experimentation with voices in particular. One of Boulés main contentions is that Guibert arrives at the creation of a new literary genre, the roman faux, with the publication of his best-known work To the Friend who did not save my life. The book ends by considering the works Guibert produced after he was diagnosed as HIV positive, within the parameter of the voices of the self.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0859894150 ISBN 13: 9780859894159
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 1. From the hovels of peasants to the palaces of monarchs, this book provides an architectural picture of Roman society through a study of domestic buildings.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0853237956 ISBN 13: 9780853237952
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. The aim of this book is to introduce the modern student to readings of French Renaissance literature, drawing on the perspectives of contemporary literary theories. The volume is organized by paired readings of five major sixteenth-century French writers, with interpretations covering, among others, structuralism, semiotics, feminism and psychoanalysis. Linking these interpretations is a constant interest in problems such as the role of the reader, the nature of the text and the question of gender. The Introduction contextualizes the encounter between literary theory and Renaissance texts by using the contributions as pivotal points in the development of critical thinking about this period in early modern literature. All foreign language quotations are translated into English, and the book is intended to be of practical interest to a wide range of readers, from modern linguists to those studying critical theory, comparative literature or cultural history.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 1846310814 ISBN 13: 9781846310812
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. While New York or London might seem like the obvious candidate for the center of the creative universe, since the 1960s a surprisingly large number of artists and other original thinkers have gravitated to Liverpool. As the birthplace of many visual artists-not to mention the Beatles, who, musical accomplishments aside, were massively important to the rest of the arts-the citys impact on avant-garde culture is immeasurable. Of even greater magnitude, however, has been the citys role as creative muse to outsiders, and it is this external perspective that forms the focus of Centre of the Creative Universe.Concentrating on the citys life after World War II, the essays collected here both reveal and challenge the myths of Liverpools creative scene. Simon Warner takes a look at Allen Ginsbergs interactions with the city, Jackie Florek tells the story of legendary postpunk club Erics, and acclaimed music writer and erstwhile mogul Paul Morley addresses the idea of the North. Published to accompany a major exhibition at Tate Liverpool, at which the Turner Prize will be awarded, this gorgeously illustrated book will stand as the definitive statement on Liverpools unrivaled place in the artistic firmament.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0853239010 ISBN 13: 9780853239017
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. One of the most important figures in the history of twentieth-century architecture in Britain, Professor [Sir] Charles Reilly dominated architectural education and had profound influences on architectural practice. This book, produced as the catalogue of an exhibition on Reillys life and work, also stands as an illustrated history in its own right; it includes discussion of the work of some of Reillys outstanding and well-known students.
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Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0859894207 ISBN 13: 9780859894203
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 2nd. Edition with glossary: Informed by a combination of luminous spiritual insight and the integrity of common sense, this account of Julians visionary experience is one of the most remarkable texts of the Middle Ages.
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Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0853236089 ISBN 13: 9780853236085
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. No Heavenly Delusion? analyses three movements of communal living, the Kibbutz, the Bruderhof and the Integrierte Gemeinde, all of which can trace their origins to the German Youth Movement of the first part of the twentieth century. The book looks at the alternative societies and economies the movements have created, their interactions with the wider world, and their redrawing of the boundaries of the public and private spheres of their members. The comparative approach taken allows a picture of dissimilarities and similarities to emerge that goes beyond merely obvious points of difference. Tyldesley places these movements in the context of intellectual trends in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and especially Germany, and enables the reader to evaluate their wider significance.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0859892980 ISBN 13: 9780859892988
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. In November 1792, an iron wall-safe, or armoire de fer, was discovered hidden within a wall in the Tulieries palace. It contained secret correspondence which Louis XVI had kept from the outbreak of the Revolution until he overthrew on 10 August. The discovery of the armoire de fer gravely compromised the cause of the King, who was awaiting trial, and who would be executed on 21 January 1793. Much cited by historians of every viewpoint writing on the Revolution, the actual contents of the armoire are often misrepresented and remain surprisingly little-known.In this fresh and innovatory study, Andrew Freeman provides a cool and dispassionate survey of the contents of the armoire de fer, and finds contents which throw new light on the mentality of Louis XVI. The King emerges as a more thoughtful and perspective critic of the discovery of the armoire in the political context of 1792, and shows that the secrecy which the existence of such a cache of documents represented was perhaps more damaging than their actual content. The volume contains a representative sample of documents culled directly from the contents of the armoire. Many of these have never been published before and all are available in English translation for the first time.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0853230277 ISBN 13: 9780853230274
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. In 1889, Liverpool's first Professor of Physics, Oliver Lodge, was invited to form a society for the cultivation of physics in the city. Lodge is commonly regarded as a conservative in comparison with many of the physicists of his time, a time when the most fundamental theories and discoveries about the nature of space, matter and time were being made. However, this book argues that this view needs to be modified. It advances the idea that Lodge's theory of "ether", his attempt to provide a unified explanation for the nuclear physics, has been somewhat revived by recent work in quantum electro-dynamics. However, the book stresses that no assessment of Lodge's can be complete without considering his influence as an educator and expounder of comlex ideas of which he had a remarkable grasp which he could communicate with great lucidity.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0853235074 ISBN 13: 9780853235071
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 2nd. John O'Neill reads Montaigne's Essays from their central principle of friendship as a communicative and pedagogical practice operative in society, literature and politics. The friendship between Montaigne and La Boétie was ruled neither by plenitude nor lack but by a capacity for recognition and transitivity. As an essayist Montaigne is an exemplary practitioner of a technique of difference and recognition that puts all certainties of history, philosophy and culture in the balance of weighted comparison. The essayist reveals how every absolute subjectivity or authority is shaken by its internal weakness once we move inside the contrastive structure of domination in politics, gender and race. O'Neill's reading of the Essays strives to be faithful to the phenomenology of their embodied practices of reading-to-write-to re-read and re-write. From this standpoint he engages the principal critical readings of the Essays over the last century that have examined with great brilliance their history, structure is evolutionary, structuralist, Marxist or psychoanalytical, O'Neill provides close readings of Montaigne's literary critics. By bringing to bear the ethico-critical practice of 'essaying' to resist the subjection of the Essays to dominant criticism, O'Neill reminds readers that Montaigne's appeal is in how he survived bloody cultural war with a balance of modesty and tolerance, invoking compromise where others practice violence.
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Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0853239576 ISBN 13: 9780853239574
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Product Description Matt Simpson's poetry has among its principal themes one of coming to terms with the past as a way of understanding the present. In the present collection Simpson continues his journey into his family history. He has also been on other travels: there are poems about Japan, Tasmania, Irelandand the Greek islands of Aegina and Leros. Simpson is not shy of big themes. Here are poems about identity, love, death, illness, friendship. Simpson can be tenderly elegiac as well as celebratory, meditative and also humorous. Review " delightful. full of vigour and humour and a good deal of romantic restraint that gives a fine effect of deep feeling intelligently reined in."-- Anne Stevenson on the poetry of Matt Simpson (Anne Stevenson).
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0853235988 ISBN 13: 9780853235989
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. This book offers a new account of what makes science special among other human pursuits, critically engaging with a variety of approaches, especially constructivist and relativist studies of science and technology. It focuses on the studied lack of haste of science, its relative stress-freeness and its socially sanctioned withdrawal from the swift pace of ordinary life. Unhastening Science offers a balanced and thoughtful argument which emphasises the dangers of cosseting science from the scourge of internal competition while at the same time highlighting the need for distance between the process of scientific thought and the faster machinery of politics, business, sports, and the media.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0853238677 ISBN 13: 9780853238676
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Product DescriptionThis collection of essays celebrates the work of the French Nobel prize-winning novelist Claude Simon. Scholars from France, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom reconsider the fifty years of Simons fiction in the light of his large-scale autobiographical novel Le Jardin des Plantes (1997). From a variety of perspectives - postmodernist, psychoanalytic, aesthetic - contributors reflect on the central paradox of Simons work: his writing and rewriting of an experience of war so disruptive and traumatic that words can never be adequate to communicate it. The layers of artifice in Le Jardin des Plantes and the nature of Simons aesthetic are analyzed in essays which explore intertextual resonances between Simon and Proust, Flaubert, Borges and Poussin. A complementary view of Simons Photographies 1937-1970 shows that it too can be seen as form of indirect autobiography.About the AuthorJean H. Duffy is professor of French at the University of Edinburgh, the general editor of French Studies, and the author of Signs and Designs: Art and Architecture in the Work of Michel Butor.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0853238138 ISBN 13: 9780853238133
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 1. This gracefully written and well thought-out study deals with a neglected collection of poems by Spenser, which was issued in 1591 at the height of his career. While there has been a good deal written in recent years on two of the poems in the collection, Mother Hubberds Tale and Muiopotmos, Brown innovatively addresses the collection in its entirety. He urges us to see it as a planned whole with a consistent design on the reader: he fully acknowledges, and even brings out further, the heterogeneity of the collection, but he examines it nevertheless as a sustained reflection on the nature of poetry and the auspices for writing in a modern world, distancing itself from the traditions of the immediate past. The strength of this work lies both in the originality of its project and in the precision and enterprise of the close reading that informs its argument. Interest in the concern of Spensers poetry with the nature of poetry is in the current critical mainstream, but here the attentiveness is both unusually focused and unusually sustained. Brown garners more than would be expected from the translations in the Complaints, while at the same time including striking and individual chapters on the better known Mother Hubberds Tale and Muiopotmos; he advances understanding of these extremely subtle texts and fully justifies his wider approach to the collection as a whole. Arguing that Spensers relationship to literary tradition is more complex than is often thought, Brown suggests that Spenser was a self-conscious innovator whose gradual move away from traditional poetics is exhibited by the different texts in the Complaints. He further suggests that the Complaints are a poetics in practice, which progress from traditional ideas of poetry to a new poetry that emerges through Spensers transformation of traditional complaint.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0853239533 ISBN 13: 9780853239536
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. This fascinating memoir is a unique contribution to the history of film and cinema. At its center is the story of the making of the British film classic Western Approaches, the first story documentary in Technicolor, totally enacted by amateurs. It was nominated for an Oscar in the category "Best Film from any Source" and has influenced and inspired film-making to this day. It was acclaimed a masterpiece when it was released in December 1944 and fifty years later Philip French wrote in The Observer: "It remains a milestone in our cinema and an exciting, vibrant cinematic experience.""Liverpool University Press deserves huge credit for publishing this book. The book has been handsomely produced with some fine stills and ought to find its way into the library of any institution that teaches about British cinema."-Viewfinder.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0853236224 ISBN 13: 9780853236221
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. In 1916, at an unpropitious time, Thomas Wallis founded a new practice, Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, primarily to collaborate with an American company in the design of factories to be constructed of reinforced concrete. Up to this time, the designing of factories was not popular among architects and many manufacturers regarded the employment of an architect as a wanton extravagance. Wallis's move could in this light be seen as a reckless gamble, but the subsequent achievements of him and his partners suggest that his choice had been well considered. They became prolific designers of factories and some of the best known inter-war industrial buildings - Firestone, Hoover, The Gramophone Company, Glaxo Laboratories to name only a few - were their work.Skinner looks first at the biographical background of Wallis, at the history and organization of the partnership he founded, and at the many factors that contributed to its reputation in the inter-war years. She then offers a perspective on architectural thought and activity in that period, and of the attitudes and influences on factory design. Designs by the partnership for over one hundred factories and factory buildings have been discovered and, at the core of the book is a third chapter which analyses and assesses them under four headings: the early "daylight/masonry" style; the "fancy" factories of the mid-term years of 1927-35; the more sculptural and geometrical "British modern" later works up to 1939; and designs, including overseas commissions, that do not easily fit within the three style groups. Skinner concludes with an evaluation of the philosophy of Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, which was to contribute through the architectural design of factories to the successful pursuit of business by the companies that commissioned them.Although factories have played an influential role in society for more than two centuries, their design has rarely caught the imagination of architectural historians. Their neglect of the field is now being rectified to some extent and this book will contribute to the further stimulation of interest in the architectural history of factories.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0853236119 ISBN 13: 9780853236115
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Product Description These essays investigate the challenge of language planning in modern society. Initially, the impact of legislation on a vernacular and the subsequent empowerment of specific speech communities are analyzed. Contributors explore the value of employing a marketing approach for the development and enhancement of an indigenous tongue. Aspects of the status of language in the context of education are then examined, followed by an assessment of the impact of culture contact on social and linguistic intercourse. The concluding chapter considers a theory of endangeredness and seeks to establish the threshold beyond which a language is doomed to extinction. This volume is one of two, edited by Dr. Nic Craith, dealing with language planning in contemporary Europe. About the Author Mairead Nic Craith is Director of the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages at the University of Ulster, UK, where she holds the Chair in Irish Culture and Language. She has previously been attached to the University of Liverpool and University Colleges, Dublin and Cork. She is author and editor of several books including Europe and the Politics of Language (2006) and Culture and Identity Politics in Northern Ireland (2004). Her research interests include culture and identity politics, European integration and regional cultures, and European ethnology. She was joint winner of the 2004 Ruth Michaelis Jena Ratcliff research prize for folklife.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0859895653 ISBN 13: 9780859895651
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 1. Rutilius Gallicus was chief of police, poet and courtier of the Roman Emperor Domitian. He is a unique figure in that he can be studied in detail through both text and inscription, thereby fusing literature with history, and linking poetry with epigraphy. His recovery from a critical illness was celebrated in a sparkling poem by Statius, the poet laureate whose work is currently being read with new interest. As well as taking the reader on a tour across the city of Rome and the provinces, and through Flavian history and culture, Gallicus is by turns a sternly formal public servant, a delicate amateur poet and speaker, a workaholic chasing an early grave, the darling of his people, the strong-man of his tyrant Emperor, the miraculously resurrected patient of Apollo and a soldier-hero of the empire. How long could his luck last?.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0853233268 ISBN 13: 9780853233268
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 1. The Pythagorean Life is the most extensive surviving source on Pythagoreanism, and has wider interest as an account of the religious aspirations of late antiquity.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0853239355 ISBN 13: 9780853239352
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Illustrated. W. E. Gladstone towers over the politics of the nineteenth century. He is known for his policies of financial rectitude, his campaigns to settle the Irish question and his championship of the rights of small nations. He remains the only British Prime Minister to have served for four separate terms. In 1998 an international conference at Chester College brought together Gladstone scholars to mark the centenary of his death, and many of the papers presented on that occasion are published in this volume. Covering the whole of the statesmans long political life from the first Reform Act to the last decade of the nineteenth century, they range over topics as diverse as parliamentary reform and free trade, Gladstones English Nonconformist supporters and his Irish Unionist opponents. A select bibliography, arranged by subject, supplies guidance for further research. The collection forms a tribute, appreciative but critical, to the Grand Old Man of British politics.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0853239231 ISBN 13: 9780853239239
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 1. This book examines a number of important contemporary environmental issues in an informative and easy-to-read style. The topics covered include sewage treatment, eutrophication, air pollution, acid rain, global warming and pollution from farming. A particularly valuable section of the book describes a range of tests that can be carried out on various environmental parameters. The procedures require relatively simple equipment and they have been pre-tested in a school laboratory. Environmental Pollution Studies will be of value to senior school pupils and students at college or university embarking on courses in environmental science.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0853237662 ISBN 13: 9780853237662
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Architect, teacher, journalist, town planner and cultural entrepreneur, Sir Charles Reilly (1874 1948) was a leading figure of the early twentieth-century British architectural scene. Marketing Modernisms is the first book to take an in-depth look at Reilly's career, tracing his evolving architectural ethos via a series of case studies of his built work. Among other issues, the author considers Reilly's involvement in cultural enterprises such as the establishment of the Liverpool Repertory Theatre, his journalism, transatlantic links and town-planning theories. Reilly has been largely overlooked by writers of Modernist histories, but this book restores him to deserved prominence.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0853238464 ISBN 13: 9780853238461
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Juan Goytisolo is arguably Spains foremost contemporary novelist. This book is one of the few major studies in English to examine all of his mature works, from Seas de identidad in 1966 to Las semanas del jardín, published in 1997. It focuses on the interface between the thematic content of the novels and its formal expression, viewing this as the crucial nexus of their meaning. Goytisolos writing is, in his own words, a "commitment of myself . for a transformation of the world" The Poetics of Contagion dissects the nature of the relationship between writer and reader to show how Goytisolos political commitment is reflected in his work.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0853233764 ISBN 13: 9780853233763
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 2. This collection makes available in English for the first time the panegyric of Claudius Mamertinus (Panegyrici Latini XI/3), a substantial part of the treatise of John Chrysostom on St Babylas and against Julian (de S. Babyla c. Julianum et gentiles XIV-XIX), and Emphrem Syrus' Hymns Against Julian.
Publicado por Brand: Liverpool University Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0859894177 ISBN 13: 9780859894173
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 2nd. Review "Into Another Mould' is fascinating because of the breadth it brings to the study of the Interregnum, encompassing as it does several elements of the period not often considered. Since it has been updated with recent bibliographical material, it may be considered essential reading for those who wishto gain a more thorough understanding of the Interregnum period. With just over 150 pages, it would also be the perfect length for use in college courses . 'Into Another Mould' has done just what its contributing writers set out to do - proved that the history of the Interregnum period is rivetingand definitely worthy of close examination in its own right."Albion Product Description The first edition of this volume, published in 1981 under the title Into Another Mould, contemplated three aspects of the interregnum 1642-60: the suggested or even attempted reforms of local government; the politics of the New Model Army; the strains, new and old, between and within theconstituent kingdoms. In this new edition, the original essays have been revised and joined by three new essays: 'Wales and the British Dimension'; 'Oliver Cromwell and his Protectorate Parliaments'; and a commentary by the editor, Ivan Roots, on procedure, legislation and constitutional change inthe second of these parliaments. About the Author Ivan Roots is Emeritus Professor in History at the University of Exeter.