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Offers an original exploration of the ideas of two major contemporary thinkers. This book offers a novel interpretation of Girard's work that opens up his discourse on violence and the sacred into a fruitful engagement with both Taylor's philosophical anthropology and his philosophical history.

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In an age when religious violence and the role of practical reason in the secular sphere are continually juxtaposed, the author offers fresh possibilities of responding to the problems of global crisis through the critical lenses of two of the most original and engaging thinkers writing on religion.

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Landscapes generate meaning and impact on three major areas of scholarly interest: language and visual discourse, spatial practices and global capitalism.

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A systemic functional linguistics study that analyses how a wide range of modalities, other than language, make and communicate meaning. It analyses the meaning making potential of not only language, but modalities like laughter, music, colour, and architectural spaces.

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Provides a comparative study of how drinks and drinking, as embodied semiotic and material forms, mediate modern social life. This book examines the fundamental nature of drink through a series of modular but connected ethnographic discussions.

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Provides a comparative study of how drinks and drinking, as embodied semiotic and material forms, mediate modern social life. This book examines the fundamental nature of drink through a series of modular but connected ethnographic discussions.

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Focussing on the significance of sensation, this study develops a Deleuzian poetics of reading, through an examination of contemporary innovative poetry. It suggests that a Deleuzian way of reading offers a firm purchase on notoriously difficult texts, providing concepts and a language that aids their understanding.

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A study of the phenomenon of vibration and its history and reception through culture. It explores a range of sensory experience and makes a contribution to this field by focussing not simply on the senses as such, but on the material experience - vibration - that underpins them.

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A study of the phenomenon of vibration and its history and reception through culture. It explores a range of sensory experience and makes a contribution to this field by focusing not simply on the senses as such, but on the material experience - vibration - that underpins them.

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Explores the potential of service-learning identified as a way to integrate community service with academic study to enrich the on-going professional development of educators, especially in schools that are located in challenging contexts.

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From the misbehavior of President Clinton to Governor Mark Sanford's Argentinean tryst, sex scandals have become a prominent feature of American public life. This collection of essays explains why politicians elected for their leadership and promises of ethical behavior risk their career, and the socio-political consequences of their actions.

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From the misbehavior of President Clinton to Governor Mark Sanford's Argentinean tryst, sex scandals have become a prominent feature of American public life. This collection of essays explains why politicians elected for their leadership and promises of ethical behavior risk their career, and the socio-political consequences of their actions.

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An exploration of how the self is revealed or exposed in the experience of reading, viewing and writing about Shakespeare. It intends to inspire readers to think and write about their personal relationship with Shakespeare: about how the poems and plays - and writing about them - can reveal or transform our sense of ourselves.

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An exploration of how the self is revealed or exposed in the experience of reading, viewing and writing about Shakespeare. It intends to inspire readers to think and write about their personal relationship with Shakespeare: about how the poems and plays - and writing about them - can reveal or transform our sense of ourselves.

(Paperback, NIPPOD)

This work returns to the 19th century tradition of a moral or ethical criticism in the context of important new thinking in the field of ethics and moral philosophy.

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Exploring the interactions between Shakespeare and popular music, this book links these seeming polar opposites, showing how musicians have woven the Bard into their sounds. It shows what happens to Shakespeare when he exists in and becomes popular music, in all its diverse and glorious forms.

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Exploring the interactions between Shakespeare and popular music, this book links these seeming polar opposites, showing how musicians have woven the Bard into their sounds. It shows what happens to Shakespeare when he exists in and becomes popular music, in all its diverse and glorious forms.

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Uncovering how religious iconography influenced the language of Shakespeare's tragedies, this study locates that influence in popular culture today.

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Presents a historical analysis of Shakespeare and food that provides insights into early modern attitudes to the body and domestic life. This dictionary analyzes Shakespeare's language of food. It provides an historically accurate account of the role of food in early modern culture and the way this intersected with Shakespeare's writings.

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Offers an exploration of the ways in which Shakespearean texts engage in the social and cultural politics of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century translation practices. This book takes "Venus and Adonis" as a starting point for the collection and offers perspectives on translation and the fashioning of religious, and gendered identities.

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A monograph on Shakespeare's reception in Spain. It offers an account of Shakespeare's presence on the Spanish stage, from a production of the first Spanish rendering of Jean-Francois Ducis' "Hamlet" in 1772 to the creative and controversial work of directors like Calixto Bieito and Alex Rigola in the early 21st century.

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A dictionary that includes ailments, general medical concepts and cures and therapies in Shakespeare, but also body parts, bodily functions, and entries on 'the pathological body' taking into account recent critical work on the early modern body.

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Focuses on Shakespeare's sexual language, some of which is notoriously difficult to unravel and whose roots go back into earlier literature. This is a comprehensive but concise reference guide to sexual language and imagery in Shakespeare.

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Often set in domestic environments and built around protagonists of more modest status than traditional tragic subjects, 'domestic tragedy' was a genre that flourished on the Renaissance stage from 1580-1620. This title explores the ways in which Shakespeare exploits the conventions of the genre of domestic tragedy in "Othello".