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Between 1953-57, John Betjeman read a series of poems on "The Faith in the West" program airing on the BBC's West of England Home Service. This series, called "Poems in the Porch", was so popular that Betjeman received constant requests to publish the poems. This book features an important discovery in the canon of Betjeman's poems.

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Examines the triple compact made by displaced authors with language, their host country, and the homeland left behind. This title considers the entwined phenomena of expatriation and homelessness, and the artistic responses to these conditions, including reconstructions of identity and the creation of idealized new homelands.

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Provides an introduction to Deleuze in the field of politics by putting his thought directly into dialogue with contemporary debates in political theory. This book focuses on Deleuze's contribution to the debates in political theory.

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Provides an introduction to Deleuze in the field of politics by putting his thought directly into dialogue with contemporary debates in political theory. This book focuses on Deleuze's contribution to the debates in political theory.

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Organized around five key themes, this title offers a survey of the affective turn in contemporary political science. It reflects the affective turn in the analysis of political world. It intends to advance the debate on the relation between politics and the emotions.

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Organized around five key themes, this title offers a survey of the affective turn in contemporary political science. It reflects the affective turn in the analysis of political world. It intends to advance the debate on the relation between politics and the emotions.

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Discusses the lack of religious understanding in US foreign policy, examining why the US chooses to avoid the religious aspects of international affairs. This book examines why US diplomacy often misunderstands, if not ignores, the role of religion in international conflicts.

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Discusses the lack of religious understanding in US foreign policy, examining why the US chooses to avoid the religious aspects of international affairs. This title examines why US diplomacy often misunderstands, if not ignores, the role of religion in international conflicts.

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Fear and hope are two hugely influential ideas in political life; here Stefan Skrimshire examines their relationship at a time where interest has exploded in the quasi-religious themes of apocalyptic protest and utopian politics.

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A study of Japanese culture in the post-war period, focusing on filmmakers who created movies for a politically conscious audience. It provides an overview of these filmmakers and reconsiders the question of dissent in the cultural landscape of Japan in the post-war period.

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A study of Japanese culture in the post-war period, focusing on filmmakers who created movies for a politically conscious audience. It provides an overview of these filmmakers and reconsiders the question of dissent in the cultural landscape of Japan in the post-war period.

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Explores the development of a range of cults of popular music as a response to changes in attitudes to meaning, spirituality and religion in society. This book investigates the ways in which popular music and its surrounding culture have become a primary site for the location of meaning, belief and identity.

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Explores the development of a range of cults of popular music as a response to changes in attitudes to meaning, spirituality and religion in society. This book investigates the ways in which popular music and its surrounding culture have become a primary site for the location of meaning, belief and identity.

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Located in the ambivalent realm between life and death, ghosts have always inspired cultural fascination as well as theoretical consideration. Ghosts are ubiquitous in contemporary critical theory and in literary and visual culture.

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Derrida, notorious French philospher, literary critic and film star, is responsible for the fundamental change in the way that literature and philosophy are approached in the Western world.

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Unsure about where to do your placement Scared about what might await you Keen to make the most of every moment Whether thinking about teaching abroad, working in your local school or supporting learning in an art gallery, this guide takes you through the placement process and offers the information you need to make the most of your experience.

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Unsure about where to do your placement Scared about what might await you Keen to make the most of every moment This title guides students through the process of conceiving, planning, attending and learning from their educational placement.

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Illustrates how contemporary horror films explore visceral and emotional reactions to the attacks and how they underpin audiences' fears about their safety. This title examines how scary movies have changed as a result of 9/11 and, conversely, how horror films construct and give meaning to the event in a way that other genres do not.

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Illustrates how contemporary horror films explore visceral and emotional reactions to the attacks and how they underpin audiences' fears about their safety. This title examines how scary movies have changed as a result of 9/11 and, conversely, how horror films construct and give meaning to the event in a way that other genres do not.

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A monograph that analyzes a number of modern British women writers and the way in which the canon of post-war British writing has been formed. It focuses on four novelists, literary and popular, and interrogates the canon over the years. It unfolds to demonstrate that academic trends increasingly control canonicity, as do the demands of genre.

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Reveals select post-Yugoslav literary and cinema works as groundbreaking exploratory achievements of global relevance. This title presents post-Yugoslav literature and film as art that makes us aware of previously unconsidered things that bring us wars, and those that constitute part of the tapestry of peace.

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Analytic and Continental philosophy have become increasingly specialised and differentiated fields of endeavour. This collection of essays examines the strengths and weaknesses of each tradition, and ultimately encourages enhanced understanding, dialogue and even rapprochement between these sometimes antagonistic adversaries.

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An important and original collection of essays examining the relationship between Analytic and Continental philosophy.