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The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley: Code Name 'Grin' (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing on extensive interviews and archival research, this biography uncovers the motivations and ideals that informed Smiley’s commitment to covert action and intelligence during the Second World War and early part of the Cold War, often among tribally based societies.
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Cross-Channel Modernisms (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores modernist aesthetics and cultural exchange between Britain, France and beyond
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A Deleuzian Critique of Queer Thought: Overcoming Sexuality (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers a forceful encounter between Deleuze’s work and contemporary queer thought to provide both critical and practical means to re-evaluate and rework key concepts and methods, especially sexuality.
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Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare's Stage (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Chaste Value reassesses chastity’s significance in early modern drama, arguing that presentations of chastity inform the stage’s production of early capitalist subjectivity and social difference.
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The Filmmaker’s Philosopher: Merab Mamardashvili and Russian Cinema (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Exploring Mamardashvili’s extensive philosophical output, as well as a range of recent Russian films, Alyssa DeBlasio reveals the intellectual affinities amongst directors of the Mamardashvili generation – including Alexander Sokurov, Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexei Balabanov.
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Classical Caledonia: Roman History and Myth in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Focuses on early modern attitudes towards Scotland’s ancient past and looks in particular at the ways in which this past was not only misunderstood, but also manipulated in attempts to create a patriotic history for the nation.
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Modelling World Englishes: A Joint Approach to Postcolonial and Non-Postcolonial Varieties (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book brings together two types of varieties of English that have so far been treated separately: postcolonial and non-postcolonial Englishes. It examines these... Læs mere
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The Stillness of Solitude: Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Michelle Devereaux explores the underlying philosophical and aesthetic Romantic connections between a selection of seven films from four popular filmmakers: Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman.
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Ben-Hur: The Original Blockbuster (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Jon Solomon’s new book offers an exciting and detailed study of the Ben-Hur brand, tracking its spectacular journey from Wallace’s original novel through to twenty-first century adaptations, and encompassing a wealth of previously unexplored material along the way
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Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran: Volume I: The Nasihat al-muluk of Pseudo-Mawardi: Contexts and Themes (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book studies the Counsel for Kings as an illuminating commentary on... Læs mere
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Anti-Colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements 1929–1983: Anti-Colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements 1929-1983 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Bridging a half-century of student protest from 1929 to 1983, this source reader contains more than sixty texts from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica, including editorials, speeches, manifestos, letters, and pamphlets.
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Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book will help you to understand Badiou's central concepts, the philosophical relation between Badiou and Plato and will rethink the importance of Badiou's 'Platonic' claim that 'the only education is an education by truths'.
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