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Contemporary Stylistics introduces the theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and cognitive poetics, supplying the practical skills to analyse your own responses to literary texts.

An anthology that collects texts and papers from the Paul de Man archive, including essays on art, translations, critical fragments, research plans, interviews, and reports on the state of comparative literature. It also engages with Paul de Man's institutional life.

This book explores the rise and establishment of the Mongol Empire under Chinggis Khan, as well as its expansion and evolution under his successors. It also examines the successor states (Ilkhanate, Chaghatayid Khanate, the Jochid Ulus (Golden Horde), and the Yuan Empire) from the dissolution of the empire in 1260 to the end of each state.

Designed as a quick yet thorough introduction to one of the most vibrant areas of research in modern linguistics today this volume reveals the beauty and elegance of the mathematical study of meaning. It introduces the essential principles and techniques of formal semantics.

Offers an exploration of the impact of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' on American cinema. This book charts the evolution of the impact of 9/11 on Hollywood film: draws on a range of contemporary films including Black Hawk Down (2001), Batman Begins (2005), United 93 (2006) and Olympus Has Fallen (2013).

Luca Ratti examines the effect of German reunification and the ending of the Quadripartite Agreement in 1990 on the Anglo-American special relationship. And he shows how UK and U.S. attitudes, reactions and developments interfaced with the views and initiatives of the West German government.

This book provides an introduction not only to the works of Sun'Allah Ibrahim, but also, more generally, to the modern literature of Egypt (and elsewhere in the Arab world) over a 40-year period, in its social, historical and political setting.

Unlike the rigidly chronological approach of many introductions to children's literature, this title presents a genre-based approach which ensures that all the principal genres are covered in detail such as: fables, fantasy, adventure stories, moral tales, family stories, school stories and children's poetry.

Joseph Gafaranga argues that the notion of bilingualism itself must be redefined so that bilingualism can be seen as consisting of diverse interactional practices and investigated as such. This book details the rehabilitation effort which has been undertaken to get us where we are today.

Journey to Poland' addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the territories of the Second Polish Republic.

From the 10th century to the end of the 12th century, the Fatimid Empire played a central, yet controversial, role in the history of Islam. By relating it to the wider history of Islam, the Crusades and its theocratic counterparts in Byzantium and Western Europe, this book shows the full historical significance of the empire.

Explores Scotland's transformation from the largely devout Presbyterian country of 1900, with the church as a major social force, to the diverse, more secular society of today, when less than 10 per cent of Scots attend church. This book looks at the decline in the Protestant-Catholic divide.

Explore how history was brought to life on the silver screen and how the Hollywood's epic movies dictated our vision of the past. This lively study analyses how Hollywood producers, directors, designers, costumiers, publicity agents, movie stars, and, inevitably, 'a cast of thousands' literally designed the ancient world from scratch.

This pathfinding textbook concentrates the regulation of pollution in Scotland, including the common law controls and the impact of European environmental law. With sections on nuisance (incl. statutory nuisance), noise, air pollution (including climate change), waste, contaminated land, water pollution, planning and nature conservation.

Greater Iranian arts from the 10th to the 16th century are technically some of the finest produced anywhere. Focusing on objects found in the main media at the time, the author shows how artisans played with form, material and decoration to engage their audiences.

Illustrates the history of iconic element of Islamic architecture. This title reveals that the Minaret, long understood to have been invented in the early years of Islam as the place from which the muezzin gives the call to prayer, was actually invented some two centuries later to be a visible symbol of Islam.

Gilbert Markus brings a stimulating approach to studying this elusive period, analysing both its litter of physical evidence and literary sources, as a method of shedding light on the reality of the period. In doing so, he reforms our historical perceptions of what has often been dismissed as a `dark age .

Shows how Astronomy contributed to the educational enlightenment of Glasgow, to its society and to its commerce. This scientific history includes the story of Glasgow's 'Big Bang' of 1863, the controversy over 'Astronomer Royal for Scotland' and a historical survey of the eight observatories that once populated Glasgow.

This book examines the ethical problems with using donated sperm, eggs and embryos, known collectively as "donor conception".

The first book to use a discursive psychological perspective to examine teacher cognitions. Informed by conversation analysis (CA), the book offers a close examination of cognition-in-interaction in three distinctive aspects: learning to teach, novice and expert teachers' cognition, and interactive decision making.

Through a sustained engagement with the work of Giorgio Agamben and Catherine Malabou, and against the background of contemporary political phenomena, Arne De Boever explores what positive political possibilities the notion of sovereignty might still hold.

A study of audiences for historical representation in film. By exploring the attitudes and habits of this audience, it breaks new ground both in scholarship of contemporary period films and in film-audience studies. It contrasts two opposite sections of late-1990s UK audiences, which has illuminating and unpredicted results.

Elizabeth Bishop was Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, winner of the Pulitzer prize for poetry in 1956 and the author of numerous poetry collections. This book explores her poetic work, from early days at Vassar College to her last great poems in Geography III and the later uncollected poems.