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Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic 1621-1982

Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic 1621-1982

Epic has long been regarded as the exclusive domain of the male literary genius and as an incarnation of patriarchal values. This provocative collection of essays challenges such a hegemonic stereotype by demonstrating the ways in which women writers have successfully adapted the masculine epic tradition to suit their own aesthetic needs and to express their own heroic literary social and historical visions. Bringing the female epic out of the shadows the contributors rethink generic boundaries to illuminate this heretofore hidden literary practice. The essays range from Mary Tighe to Rebecca West from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Gwendolyn Brooks and from Frances Burney to Virginia Woolf. Bernard Schweizer's introduction titled 'Muses with Pens ' connects the trajectory of ideas and influences in the individual essays to demonstrate how each participates in reclaiming for women writers a place in the development of a female epic tradition. The volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars working on issues related to genre canon formation and the evolution of female literary authority. | Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic 1621-1982

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The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1-11 Peering into the Deep

The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1-11 Peering into the Deep

This book provides a substantive reliable and accessible comparison of the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1–11 investigating their presentation of humanistic themes such as wisdom power and the ‘good life. ’ While the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1–11 are characterized by historical and cultural features that may seem unusual or challenging to modern readers such as the intervention of gods and goddesses and talking animals these ancient literary masterpieces are nonetheless familiar and relatable stories through their humanistic composition. This volume explores the presentation of humanistic themes and motifs throughout both stories. Significant passages and narratives such as stories from the Garden of Eden and the Flood are translated into English and accompanied by comprehensive discussions that compare and contrast shared ideas in both compositions. Written in a lucid and concise fashion this book offers new insights into the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1–11 in an accessible way. The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1–11: Peering into the Deep is suitable for students and scholars of ancient Near Eastern literature with broad appeal across religious studies ancient history and world literature. | The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1-11 Peering into the Deep

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Theuerdank The Illustrated Epic of a Renaissance Knight

Theuerdank The Illustrated Epic of a Renaissance Knight

Now appearing in its first English translation Theuerdank introduces readers to the fascinating world of the Renaissance. A forerunner of the graphic novel Theuerdank first published in 1517 includes more than 100 woodcuts executed by leading artists of Central Europe. Long hailed by scholars as a masterpiece of German literature Theuerdank is a fictional account of Habsburg Emperor Maximilian I (1508– 19) and his journey to wed one of the most influential princesses of Europe the wealthy heiress Mary of Burgundy. Through word and image this epic poem which casts Maximilian as Knight Theuerdank recounts his adventures overcoming a series of challenges to reach his goal: avalanches lightning strikes shipwrecks murder plots duels and pitched battles. From politics and propaganda to the environment and the natural world from intimate glimpses of daily life to revolutionary innovations in warfare Theuerdank sheds light on those critical changes transforming European society and culture in this period. With the inclusion of an introductory essay chronology genealogical tables maps translator’s note and discussion questions this volume is a useful tool for students of history art history German and Renaissance studies. | Theuerdank The Illustrated Epic of a Renaissance Knight

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The Kashmir Conflict From Empire to the Cold War 1945-66

The Kashmir Conflict From Empire to the Cold War 1945-66

This book presents a study of the international dimensions of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan from before its outbreak in October 1947 until the Tashkent Summit in January 1966. By focusing on Kashmir’s under-researched transnational dimensions it represents a different approach to this intractable territorial conflict. Concentrating on the global context(s) in which the dispute unfolded it argues that the dispute’s evolution was determined by international concerns that existed from before and went beyond the Indian subcontinent. Based on new and diverse official and personal papers across four countries the book foregrounds the Kashmir dispute in a twin setting of Decolonisation and the Cold War and investigates the international understanding around it within the imperatives of these two processes. In doing so it traces Kashmir’s journey from being a residual irritant of the British Indian Empire to becoming a Commonwealth embarrassment and its eventual metamorphosis into a security concern in the Cold War climate(s). A princely state of exceptional geo-strategic location complex religious composition and unique significance in the context of Indian and Pakistani notions of nation and statehood Kashmir also complicated their relations with Britain the United States Soviet Union China the Commonwealth countries and the Afro-Arab-Asian world. This book is of interest to scholars in the field of Asian History Cold War History Decolonisation and South Asian Studies. | The Kashmir Conflict From Empire to the Cold War 1945-66

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Ovid's Metamorphoses A Reader for Students in Elementary College Latin

Ovid's Metamorphoses A Reader for Students in Elementary College Latin

Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a Latin reader designed to partner existing elementary Latin textbooks. The book features thirty compelling stories graduated in difficulty and adapted from Ovid’s epic Metamorphoses into prose. The original poem contains many different stories united thematically by the transformation which occurs in all of them; the epic features romance seduction humour violence monsters and misbehaving gods. Each chapter contains: a Latin passage adapted from the epic an accompanying vocabulary list a short commentary to help with translation a concise review of the specific grammar covered a brief comment on a literary aspect of the poem or featured myth. Suitable for college students studying Latin at the elementary level Ovid’s Metamorphoses is designed to be used alongside elementary Latin textbooks. Preserving Ovid’s language and highly vivid descriptions this reader introduces students to the epic masterpiece allows them to consolidate their understanding of Latin prose and offers opportunities for literary discussion. Christine Albright is the 2020 recipient of the CAMWS Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award. | Ovid's Metamorphoses A Reader for Students in Elementary College Latin

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Milton's Creation A Guide through Paradise Lost

Milton's Creation A Guide through Paradise Lost

First published in 1971. The intention of Milton’s Creation is to provide the student with a simple and direct entry into Paradise Lost. The author is not concerned with taking sides in critical controversy. His aim is to elucidate Milton’s primary meanings; this is a work of exegesis not of interpretation. In this new book on arguably the greatest epic in the English language the central substance of Milton’s ‘great Argument’ is articulated with great clarity. By keeping in mind the epic status and universality common to Paradise Lost and Ulysses the author introduces a post-Joycean perspective into his vision of Milton’s Creation. | Milton's Creation A Guide through Paradise Lost

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Citizen Artists A Guide to Helping Young People Make Plays That Change the World

Citizen Artists A Guide to Helping Young People Make Plays That Change the World

Citizen Artists takes the reader on a journey through the process of producing funding researching creating rehearsing directing performing and touring student-driven plays about social justice. The process at the heart of this book was developed from 2015–2021 at New York City’s award-winning Epic Theatre Ensemble with and for their youth ensemble: Epic NEXT. Author and Epic Co-Founder James Wallert shares his company’s unique internationally recognized methodology for training young arts leaders in playwriting inquiry-based research verbatim theatre devising applied theatre and performance. Readers will find four original plays seven complete timed-to-the-minute lesson plans 36 theatre arts exercises and pages of practical advice from more than two dozen professional teaching artists to use for their own theatre making arts instruction or youth organizing. Citizen Artists is a one-of-a-kind resource for students interested in learning about theatre and social justice; educators interested in fostering learning environments that are more rigorous democratic and culturally-responsive; and artists interested in creating work for new audiences that is more inclusive courageous and anti-racist. | Citizen Artists A Guide to Helping Young People Make Plays That Change the World

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Greek Myth and the Bible

Greek Myth and the Bible

Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture refiguring them for its own audience. Only more recently however has come the realization that Greek culture is also a prominent source of biblical narratives. Greek Myth and the Bible argues that classical mythological literature and the biblical texts were composed in a dialogic relationship. Louden examines a variety of Greek myths from a range of sources analyzing parallels between biblical episodes and Hesiod Euripides Argonautic myth selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Homeric epic. This fascinating volume offers a starting point for debate and discussion of these cultural and literary exchanges and adaptations in the wider Mediterranean world and will be an invaluable resource to students of the Hebrew Bible and the influence of Greek myth.

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Pathologies of Body Self and Space A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Pathologies of Body Self and Space A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

What happens when the physical body and the subjective sense of self part company? How do we explain phantom limbs and alien abduction? What are the cognitive neurobiological mechanisms that support such phenomena? In this special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Spence and Halligan explore all these issues and more with contributions drawn from an internationally renowned panel of authors most of whom contributed to a symposium held in Sheffield England in June 2001 ('The Neuropsychiatry of the Body in Space'). That meeting was primarily concerned with those bizarre and disturbing syndromes that arise when 'body' and 'self' soma and psyche are dissociated from each other within or beyond the body's surface. Some disorders constrain the space of the body (as in neglect and dissociation syndromes) others seem to extend the boundaries (as with phantom limbs and autoscopy). Still others suggest a permeability of those boundaries (as in alien control and thought insertion each occurring in schizophrenia). Finally the body may itself be perceived as having passed into space the most extreme exemplar being 'alien abduction'. Each paper contains a description of disturbed phenomenology and an account and critique of current cognitive neuropsychiatric findings. | Pathologies of Body Self and Space A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

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English Radicalism (1935-1961) Volume 4

English Radicalism (1935-1961) Volume 4

Reissuing the epic undertaking of Dr S. Maccoby these volumes cover the story of English Radicalism from its origins right through to its questionable end. By combining new sources with the old and often long forgotten the volumes provide an impressive history of radicalism and shed light on the course of English political development. The six volumes are arranged chronologically from 1762 through to the perceived end of British Radicalism in the mid-twentieth century. | English Radicalism (1935-1961) Volume 4

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Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet Exploration Encounter and the French New World

Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet Exploration Encounter and the French New World

In this succinct dual biography Laura Chmielewski demonstrates how the lives of two French explorers – Jacques Marquette a Jesuit missionary and Louis Jolliet a fur trapper – reveal the diverse world of early America. Following the explorers' epic journey through the center of the American continent Marquette and Jolliet combines a story of discovery and encounter with the insights derived from recent historical scholarship. The story provides perspective on the different methods and goals of colonization and the role of Native Americans as active participants in this complex and uneven process. | Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet Exploration Encounter and the French New World

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Quality Management Systems A Practical Guide to Standards Implementation

Quality Management Systems A Practical Guide to Standards Implementation

This book provides a clear easy to digest overview of Quality Management Systems (QMS). Critically it offers the reader an explanation of the International Standards Organization’s (ISO) requirement that in future all new and existing Management Systems Standards will need to have the same high-level structure commonly referred to as Annex SL with identical core text as well as common terms and definitions. In addition to explaining what Annex SL entails this book provides the reader with a guide to the principles requirements and interoperability of Quality Management System standards how to complete internal and external management reviews third-party audits and evaluations as well as how to become an ISO Certified Organisation once your QMS is fully established. As a simple and straightforward explanation of QMS Standards and their current requirements this is a perfect guide for practitioners who need a comprehensive overview to put theory into practice as well as for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying quality management as part of broader Operations and Management courses. | Quality Management Systems A Practical Guide to Standards Implementation

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Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome Representations and Reactions

Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome Representations and Reactions

This volume examines emotional trauma in the ancient world focusing on literary texts from different genres (epic theatre lyric poetry philosophy historiography) and archaeological evidence. The material covered spans geographically from Greece and Rome to Judaea with a chronological range from about 8th c. bce to 1st c. ce. The collection is organized according to broad themes to showcase the wide range of possibilities that trauma theory offers as a theoretical framework for a new analysis of ancient sources. It also demonstrates the various ways in which ancient texts illuminate contemporary problems and debates in trauma studies. | Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome Representations and Reactions

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Virtue and Knowledge An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics

Virtue and Knowledge An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics

Originally published in 1991 this book focuses on the concept of virtue and in particular on the virtue of wisdom or knowledge as it is found in the epic poems of Homer some tragedies of Sophocles selected writings of Plato Aristotle and the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers. The key questions discussed are the nature of the virtues their relation to each other and the relation between the virtues and happiness or well-being. This book provides the background and interpretative framework to make classical works on Ethics such as Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics accessible to readers with no training in the classics. | Virtue and Knowledge An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics

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Silius Italicus' Punica Rome’s War with Hannibal

Silius Italicus' Punica Rome’s War with Hannibal

This book offers in one volume a modern English translation of all 17 books of Silius Italicus’ Punica. Composed in the first century CE this epic tells the story of the Second Punic War between Rome and Hannibal’s Carthage (218-202 BCE). It is not only a crucial text for students of Flavian literature but also an important source for anyone studying early Imperial perspectives on the Roman Republic. The translation is clear and comprehensible while also offering an accurate representation of the Latin text. Augmented by a scholarly introduction extensive notes glossary and a comprehensive bibliography (included in the introduction) this volume makes the text accessible and relevant for students and scholars alike. | Silius Italicus' Punica Rome’s War with Hannibal

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The Republic of the Ushakovka Admiral Kolchak and the Allied Intervention in Siberia 1918-1920

The Republic of the Ushakovka Admiral Kolchak and the Allied Intervention in Siberia 1918-1920

This volume originally published in 1990 and now with an updated Preface gives an account of the Allies' last concerted attempt to destroy Russia's nascent Bolshevik regime. At the start it looked like a threat that should be taken seriously as the Reds' enemies both native and foreign combined with trained mercenaries under the leadership of a Tsarist admiral. But it finished with a firing squad on the ice and a grisly end for the ill-fated Admiral Kolchak. With him died the last hope for the old order in Russia and the future of the new Soviet state was secure. The skill of the author's narrative lies in his mastery both of the detail and of the wider implications of these epic events. | The Republic of the Ushakovka Admiral Kolchak and the Allied Intervention in Siberia 1918-1920

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Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh focuses on the eponymous hero of the world’s oldest epic and his legendary adventures. However it also goes further and examines the significance of the story’s Ancient Near Eastern context and what it tells us about notions of kingship animality and the natures of mortality and immortality. In this volume Louise M. Pryke provides a unique perspective to consider many foundational aspects of Mesopotamian life such as the significance of love and family the conceptualisation of life and death and the role of religious observance. The final chapter assesses the powerful influence of Gilgamesh on later works of ancient literature from the Hebrew Bible to the Odyssey to The Tales of the Arabian Nights and his reception through to the modern era. Gilgamesh is an invaluable tool for anyone seeking to understand this fascinating figure and more broadly the relevance of Near Eastern myth in the classical world and beyond.

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Thinking the Greeks A Volume in Honor of James M. Redfield

Thinking the Greeks A Volume in Honor of James M. Redfield

This volume from an international and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars offers independent-minded essays about central Greek texts and about the relation of social theory and comparative method to the study of archaic and classical Greek literature. It is in honour of James M. Redfield whose innovative and theoretically-informed work has been a touchstone for the contributors; it includes an Introduction that discusses Redfield’s work as well as a complete Bibliography of Redfield’s scholarship. The volume is divided into three parts: on Homer; Plato in conversation with epic tragedy and comedy; and finally reception and transmission. An exploration of the dialectical relationship between literary genre and social form animates many of the essays. Drawing on work in anthropology linguistics sociology art history and philosophy this volume offers ground-breaking perspectives on the study of Greek literature. It will be an invaluable resource to students and researchers alike. | Thinking the Greeks A Volume in Honor of James M. Redfield

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The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost Reading against the Grain

The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost Reading against the Grain

The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a discussion of the role that seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers like Dryden Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton Shears devotes a chapter to each of the major Romantic poets contextualizing their 'misreadings' of Milton within a range of historical aesthetic and theoretical contexts and discourses. By tackling the vexed issue of whether Paradise Lost by its nature makes available and encourages alternate readings or whether misreadings are imposed on the poem from without Shears argues that the Romantic inclination towards fragmentation and a polysemous aesthetic leads to disrupted readings of Paradise Lost that obscure the theme or warp the 'grain' of the poem. Shears concludes by examining the ways in which the legacy of Romantic misreading continues to shape critical responses to Milton's epic. | The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost Reading against the Grain

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Systemic Diagnosis The Application of Family Systems Theory

Systemic Diagnosis The Application of Family Systems Theory

Systemic Diagnosis: An Application of Family Systems Theory helps marriage and family therapists incorporate theory-driven assessment and diagnosis into their practice demonstrating how they can diagnose systems not just individuals. This introductory textbook argues that theory and diagnosis are key to providing excellent care in family therapy. Rooted in family systems theory Jacob B. Priest offers readers a model to diagnosis the history structure and boundaries of family systems. Chapters begin by looking at traditional and relational models of diagnosis before diving into systemic diagnosis. Readers are introduced to the EPIC assessment and guided on how to use it in their practice. Filled with case studies throughout the book also includes digital content so students can practice a diagnosis process rooted in family systems theory. Designed to be used on COAMFTE accredited programs this book is essential for couple and family therapy students who are taking courses in assessment and mental health diagnosis and treatment. | Systemic Diagnosis The Application of Family Systems Theory

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Racism and Racial Surveillance Modernity Matters

Racism and Racial Surveillance Modernity Matters

Based on the premise that the project of Western Modernity is a structuring element of our societies Racism and Racial Surveillance explores in detail its legacies of coloniality and racialization that interfere in a subtle and perverse way in the current social cultural and political systems. Guided by an interdisciplinary methodology the various contributions privilege historical contexts of colonial formation and offer a thorough and intersectional analysis on the specters of coloniality in the upsurge of racism surveillance and criminalization as well as the presence of the phantom of the race in spaces of knowledge production such as that of artistic field forensic genetics and criminal identification. Drawing on multi case studies the book then proffers key concepts and historical background that will be of interest to researchers students and professionals in a broad range of areas of social sciences and humanities research including fields such as criminology and policing science and technology studies arts studies literary studies race and ethnic studies and finally memory studies. Chapters 8 9 and 10 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Racism and Racial Surveillance Modernity Matters

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Genre Fiction of New India Post-millennial receptions of weird narratives

Genre Fiction of New India Post-millennial receptions of weird narratives

This book investigates fiction in English written within and published from India since 2000 in the genre of mythology-inspired fiction in doing so it introduces the term ‘Bharati Fantasy’. This volume is anchored in notions of the ‘weird’ and thus some time is spent understanding this term linguistically historically (‘wyrd’) as well as philosophically and most significantly socio-culturally because ‘reception’ is a key theme to this book’s thesis. The book studies the interface of science Hinduism and itihasa (a term often translated as ‘history’) within mythology-inspired fiction in English from India and these are specifically examined through the lens of two overarching interests: reader reception and the genre of weird fiction. The book considers Indian and non-Indian receptions to the body of mythology-inspired fiction highlighting how English fiction from India has moved away from being identified as the traditional Indian postcolonial text. Furthermore the book reveals broader findings in relation to identity and Indianness and India’s post-millennial society’s interest in portraying and projecting ideas of India through its ancient cultures epic narratives and cultural (Hindu) figures. | Genre Fiction of New India Post-millennial receptions of weird narratives

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The Urban Fix Resilient Cities in the War Against Climate Change Heat Islands and Overpopulation

The Urban Fix Resilient Cities in the War Against Climate Change Heat Islands and Overpopulation

Cities are one of the most significant contributors to global climate change. The rapid speed at which urban centers use large amounts of resources adds to the global crisis and can lead to extreme local heat. The Urban Fix addresses how urban design planning and policies can counter the threats of climate change urban heat islands and overpopulation helping cities take full advantage of their inherent advantages and new technologies to catalyze social cultural and physical solutions to combat the epic unprecedented challenges humanity faces. The book fills a conspicuous void in the international dialogue on climate change and heat islands by examining both the environmental benefits in developed countries and the population benefit in developing countries. Urban heat islands can be addressed in incremental manageable steps such as planting trees and painting roofs white which provide a more concrete and proactive sense of progress for policymakers and practitioners. This book is invaluable to anyone searching for a better understanding of the impact of resilient cities in the monumental and urgent fight against climate change and provides the tools to do so. | The Urban Fix Resilient Cities in the War Against Climate Change Heat Islands and Overpopulation

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