Routledge Revivals Arguing With The Past 1989

Author : Gillian Beer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351267825
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Arguing With The Past (1989) written by Gillian Beer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Gillian Beer looks at the work of writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle and Philip Sydney, Samuel Richardson, and George Eliot. Three chapters on Virginia Woolf demonstrate how Woolf’s reading of past literature, philosophy, and science gave her an intellectual and emotional purchase on problems of feminism and modernism. Beer examines how writers create dialogues with past writing, how readers of the present day engage with the difference of past literature, and how we make contact with the desires and debates of past readers.

Author : Gillian Beer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138576414
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Revivals written by Gillian Beer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Gillian Beer looks at the work of writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle and Philip Sydney, Samuel Richardson, and George Eliot. Three chapters on Virginia Woolf demonstrate how Woolf's reading of past literature, philosophy, and science gave her an intellectual and emotional purchase on problems of feminism and modernism. Beer examines how writers create dialogues with past writing, how readers of the present day engage with the difference of past literature, and how we make contact with the desires and debates of past readers.

Author : Norriss S. Hetherington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317677668
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Cosmology (Routledge Revivals) written by Norriss S. Hetherington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Cosmology, first published in 1993, recounts the history, philosophical assumptions, methodological ambiguities, and human struggles that have influenced the various responses to the basic questions of cosmology through the ages, as well as referencing important scientific theories. Just as the recognition of social conventions in other cultures can lead to a more productive perspective on our own behaviour, so too a study of the cosmologies of other times and places can enable us recognise elements of our own cosmology that might otherwise pass as inevitable developments. Apart from modern natural science, therefore, this volume incorporates brief treatments of Native American, Cave-Dweller, Chinese, Egyptian, Islamic, Megalithic, Mesopotamian, Greek, Medieval and Copernican cosmology, leading to an appreciation of cosmology as an intellectual creation, not merely a collection of facts. It is a valuable reference tool for any student or academic with an interest in the history of science and cosmology specifically.

Author : Jeni Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847141854
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Nightingales written by Jeni Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek myth of Philomela, the raped girl, silenced by having her tongue cut out, and then transformed into the bird whose name means poet, poetry and nightingale simultaneously. Moving from the classical to the Christian worlds, Jeni Williams discusses nightingales and nature in the early church and sees the emergence of the figure as an emotive emblem of the aristocracy in mediaeval vernacular debate poetry. Her final chapters use the nightingale and the myth to examine Elizabeth Barrett Browning's struggle for an active female voice in Victorian poetry.

Author : Jan Winiecki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136462430
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Economy of Reform and Change (Routledge Revivals) written by Jan Winiecki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, this collection of articles and essays analyses the political economy of reform and change in Eastern Europe during the years of Gorbachev’s perestroika and the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Written by Polish economist Jan Winiecki, between 1984 and 1996, this work explores the issue of the feasibility of reform and change during the period of decline and collapse of communist economic order and, later, the emergence of the capitalist economic order in the post-communist Eastern Europe. Split into three parts, the work considers firstly the failures of Gorbachev’s political economy of reform, secondly the determining factors in the collapse of the Soviet system, and finally the feasibility of the systematic change which began in the wake of its collapse.

Author : Richard J. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131754188X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rereading German History (Routledge Revivals) written by Richard J. Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rereading German History, first published in 1997, Richard J. Evans draws together his seminal review essays on the political, economic, cultural and social history of Germany through war and reunification. This book provides a study of how and why historians – mainly German, American, British and French – have provided a series of differing and often conflicting readings of the German past. It also presents a reconsideration of German history in the light of the recent decline of the German Democratic Republic, collapse of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany. Rereading German History re-examines major controversies in modern German history, such as the debate over Germany’s ‘special path’ to modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the discussions in the 1980s on the uniqueness or otherwise of Auschwitz. Evans also analyses the arguments over the nature of German national identity. The book offers trenchant and important analytical insights into the history of Germany in the last two centuries, and is ideal reading material for students of modern history and German studies.

Author : Steven Yearley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317702999
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Green Case (Routledge Revivals) written by Steven Yearley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1991, this title provides a comprehensive and objective account of the basis of ‘green’ arguments and their social and political implications. By the beginning of the 1990s, environmental awareness had become widespread, popular, and fashionable throughout the West, adopted by politicians, manufacturers and advertising agencies. The book sets out to explain why and how the ‘green wave’ developed, and examines the forces still shaping green politics and policies at an international level. With important implications across the fields of Sociology, Development Studies and Environment and Sustainability, this reissue will be valuable to a broad student and academic readership.

Author : David Feldman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138214132
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Metropolis London (1989) written by David Feldman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989, this book seeks to demonstrate the social and political images of late-twentieth century London -- the post-big-bang city, docklands, trade union defeats, a mounting north-south divide -- do not mark as decisive break with the past as they may appear to. It argues that the most striking thing about London's history since 1800 is the continuities and recurrences which punctuate it. The essays collected in this book focus on these themes and address important questions about class, nationality, sexual difference, and radical politics. They combine the established strengths of social history with more innovative approaches such as the history of representations.

Author : Richard Clutterbuck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317829360
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrorism, Drugs & Crime in Europe after 1992 written by Richard Clutterbuck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, Richard Clutterbuck's fascinating analysis of European security confronts the problems of internal European community frontiers and technological aids in combating terrorism and international crime. He looks at what the EC countries have done in the past, describes the technology now becoming available, and makes radical proposals for airport security, fighting drugs, and overcoming the intimidation of witnesses and juries. Above all, he foresees he exciting prospect of the USSR, the USA, and a united Europe co-operating for the first time to overcome the common enemies of terrorism and international crime.

Author : Karl Maton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847065058
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Realism, Knowledge and the Sociology of Education written by Karl Maton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >