Aarhus University Press imprint: 13 books

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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014

The present volume is the second publication generated by the Project "Text, Action and Space". The first volume, Exploring Textual Action (Aarhus University Press, Acta Jutlandica, Humanistic Series, 2010), focused on textual action and performativity and their spatial implications. This...
by Gert Tinggaard Svendsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014

Do you know the author of this book? Maybe not. But you probably trust him anyway. Most Danes do: as many as 78%. Even people who do not know him at all trust him. He is in fact not just anyone; he has solved the riddle of Denmark's success - until now an inexplicable mystery. The answer is simple....
by Hans Henrik Knoop
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014

We have evolved to enjoy sleep, sex and sweets - and so we do. But negativity permeates our lives too: we are drawn to murder and violence on the news; we remember the schoolyard bully as if it was yesterday, and we are taught to accept boring education. It is in our genes, but it is also deeply ingrained...

Rome and the Black Sea Region

Domination, Romanisation, Resistance

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006

In 89 BC, Roman legionaries intervened in the Black Sea region to curb the ambitions of Mithridates VI of Pontos. Over the next two centuries, the Roman presence on the Black Sea coast was slowly, but steadily increased. This volume deals with the Roman impact on the indigenous population in the Black...

When Culture Becomes Politics

European Identity in Perspective

by Thomas Pedersen
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008

Taking the problem of European identity as his point of departure Thomas Pedersen's book offers a new theoretical perspective upon culture, identity and nationality. His main argument is that politics are more culturalized than we assume, and that culture is more personalized than we recognize. Nationality...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008

In a global age where people, goods and cultural products transcend the boundaries of geography and temporality as never before, it is only natural that literary and cultural studies turn their attention to Goethe's nineteenth-century notion of a Weltliteratur. Offering their own Twenty-First Century...

Literature and Chemistry

Elective Affinities

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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014

Literature and Chemistry: Elective Affinities investigates literary and chemical encounters, from medieval alchemy to contemporary science fiction, in works of the likes of Dante, Goethe, Baudelaire and Dag Solstad as well as in literary writing of scientists such as Humphry Davy, Ludwig Boltzmann...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008

Is the body a mere container of learning processes? Or can we, in a productive way, develop an approach to learning that includes learning as a bodily phenomenon? The authors all work with the development or refinement of theories of 'learning bodies,' and in this anthology they present the state...

Pathways

A Study of Six Post-Communist Countries

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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009

Political and economic developments after the implosion of the Soviet Union have not been easy, nor have outcomes been similar. The different trajectories of political development in post-communist countries are traced through cases from within the post-communist region that exhibit maximum variation...

Urban Life and Local Politics in Roman Bithynia

The Small World of Dion Chrysostomos

by Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008

Most studies of Roman local administration focus on the formal structures of power: imperial laws, urban institutions and magistracies. This book explores the interplay of formal power with informal factors such as social prejudice, parochialism and personal rivalries in the cities of northwestern...

Usable History?

Representations of Yugoslavia's Difficult Past from 1945 to 2002

by Tia Sindbaek
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012

When Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany and its allies in April 1941, what followed was as much a Yugoslav civil war as a war of occupation and liberation. Several hundred-thousand Yugoslav civilians were killed by other Yugoslavs in large-scale massacres or concentration camps, and the horrific...

Post-War Identification

Everyday Muslim Counterdiscourse in Bosnia Herzegovina

by Torsten Kolind
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008

Stolac, the town of departure for this book and the site where the author conducted fieldwork, is located in the south-western corner of Bosnia Herzegovina. The war in Bosnia Herzegovina (1992-95) was initially an act of aggression and territorial conquest instigated by Serbian political leaders....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006

Classical and modern foreign language studies no longer have a well-defined subject area, and language and culture can no longer be defined according to nations and national identities. New approaches are being developed with theoretical and methodological points of departure in new areas of research:...
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