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Transglobal Sounds
Music, Youth and Migration
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Through a transnational, comparative and multi-level approach to the relationship between youth, migration, and music, the aesthetic intersections between the local and the global, and between agency and identity, are presented through case studies in this book. Transglobal Sounds contemplates migrant...
Researching Education for Social Justice in Multilingual Settings
Ethnographic Principles in Qualitative Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Researching Education for Social Justice in Multilingual Settings provides innovative guidance on carrying out qualitative research in education by offering a wide range of examples of research projects with a focus on the methodologies and data collection strategies used. Rather than decontextualised...
by Professor Janet Holland, Rosalind Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
What is Qualitative Interviewing? is an accessible and comprehensive 'what is' and 'how to' methods book. It is distinctive in emphasising the importance of good practice in understanding and undertaking qualitative interviews within the framework of a clear philosophical position. Rosalind Edwards...
Educational Research
Contemporary Issues and Practical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
What is educational research? What are its current approaches, methods and methodologies? How should existing literature be reviewed and evaluated critically? What are the key philosophical debates in and on educational research? How should research in education be conducted and how should it be presented?...
3D
History, Theory and Aesthetics of the Transplane Image
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
There is a blind spot in recent accounts of the history, theory and aesthetics of optical media: namely, the field of the three-dimensional, or trans-plane, image. It has been widely used in the 20th century for very different practices - military, scientific and medical visualization - precisely...
Gameworlds
Virtual Media and Children's Everyday Play
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Game studies is a rapidly developing field across the world, with a growing number of dedicated courses addressing video games and digital play as significant phenomena in contemporary everyday life and media cultures. Seth Giddings looks to fill a gap by focusing on the relationship between the actual...
Between Air and Electricity
Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Composers and sound artists have explored for decades how to transform microphones and loudspeakers from "inaudible†? technology into genuinely new musical instruments. While the sound reproduction industry had claimed perfect high fidelity already at the beginning of the twentieth century,...
by Professor Samuel Schuman
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Nabokov's Shakespeare is a comprehensive study of an important and interesting literary relationship. It explores the many and deep ways in which the works of Shakespeare, the greatest writer of the English language, penetrate the novels of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the finest English prose stylists...
Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist
A Philosophical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Against skeptics, Männiste argues that Miller does indeed have a philosophy of his own, which underpins most of his texts. It is demonstrated that this philosophy, as a metaphysical sense of life, forms a system the understanding of which is necessary to adequately explain even some of the most basic...
by Dr Simon Marsden
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Readers of Emily Brontë's poetry and of Wuthering Heights have seen in their author, variously, a devout if somewhat unorthodox Christian, a heretic, or a visionary "mystic of the moors". Rather than seeking to resolve this matter, Emily Brontë and the Religious Imagination suggests that...
by Associate Professor Jennifer Green-Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Invented during a period of anxiety about the ability of human memory to cope with the demands of expanding knowledge, photography not only changed the way the Victorians saw the world, but also provided them with a new sense of connection with the past and a developing language with which to describe...
by Sara Pennell, Professor Brian Cowan, Beat Kümin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and strife. Drawing upon texts, images, surviving structures and objects, The Birth of the English Kitchen,...
Revisioning Beckett
Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Revisioning Beckett reassesses Beckett's career and literary output, particularly his engagement with what might be called decadent modernism.
Gontarski approaches Beckett from multiple viewpoints: from his running afoul of the Irish Censorship of Publications Acts in the 1930s through the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
In this landmark book, leading international scholars from North America, Europe and the UK offer a sustained critical attention to the concept of silence in Joyce's writing. Examining Joyce's major works, including Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake, the critics present...