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Sensory aesthetics of the more-than-human in crisis
This book urges readers to recognize that the more-than-human is in crisis and offers a framework for sensory environmental sustainability, bringing new perspectives from related disciplines. It also searches for ways to evoke pro-environmental behaviors via the senses, foregrounding the intercon...
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Sensing and resisting environmental crises through visual culture
This book explicates the role of the senses in perceiving and dealing with urgent environmental concerns. Chapters thoroughly investigate the aesthetics of the ongoing crises through different vectors, emphasizing the role of the senses in recognizing environmental harm and in the work to reduce it.
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Onward with stanley cavell
International scholars explore the enduring legacy of philosopher Stanley Cavell by engaging with his posthumous volume, Here and There: Sites of Philosophy (2022). The contributors chart connections to the rest of Cavell’s work, offering an essential guide to his impact on the arts and humanitie...
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Waste and the hygienic imagination
This book considers how twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature uses a hygienic imagination, centering on waste and bathroom spaces, to address cultural, national, and ethical concerns. It argues that literary texts help to develop and to dismantle an idea of hygiene tied to moral...
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Tourism and the first world war in britain
This book explores how state attempts to regulate holiday travel in Britain during the Great War worked only to a limited extent. Based on extensive data sources, it highlights the resilience of society and the tourism economy during the First World War, challenging the notion that stability and ...
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The phantom hitchhiker
A cultural history of the phantom hitchhiker motif across oral tradition, literature, and modern media. Centred on twentieth-century Italy and shaped by a distinctive dialogue with Japanese ghostlore, the book explores how this enduring tale reflects shifting cultural imaginaries.
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The geology of cornwall
The geology of Cornwall has been the subject of continuing investigation since the end of the seventeenth century. A literature of great historical interest exists, and this is analysed in this book alongside a wide-ranging review of the current position and assessments of the environmental conse...
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Parallel tracks
This highly original work reveals the profound impact that the railroad and the cinema have had on Western society and modern urban industrial culture.
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Theatre workshop
Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain’s most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company’s aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the el...
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La vie de saint alexis
This is the first critical edition of a neglected version of the Life of Saint Alexis found in a late twelfth century manuscript written in England containing several other saints’ lives, and now, after many adventures, in the Bibliothèque nationale.
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West britons
West Britons provides a fresh interpretation of the bloodiest, most devastating years in Cornwall's history and a wholly new perspective on the history of the far South West of Britain. The book also includes transcriptions of a number of previously unpublished documents, and a list of some 300 C...
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'film europe' and 'film america'
A volume of specially-commissioned essays dealing with the attempts to create a pan-European film production movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and the reactions of the American film industry to these plans to rival its hegemony.
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William morris and john ruskin
Includes articles first published in The Journal of William Morris Studies and new pieces written for this book. Subjects include promotion of craft skills and meaningful work, division of labour, education, environment, art and architecture and the contrasts between Ruskin’s (1819-1900) Tory pat...
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God's exiles and english verse
This is the first integrative, historically grounded book to be written about the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. By approaching the Exeter codex as a whole, the book seeks to establish a sound footing for the understanding of any and all of its parts, seen as devout yet cosmopolitan expressio...
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Loyalty and locality
This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War, in particular the way in which regions and cities allied themselves with either side and the social and cultural roots of this choice.
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The beginnings of the cinema in england,1894-1901: volume 3
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
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The folklore of devon
Devon has a long and rich folkloric heritage which has been extensively collected over many years, but never before drawn together into one serious study. This book consolidates more than a century of research by eminent Devon folklorists into one valuable volume.
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Green screen
This book combines film studies with environmental history and politics, aiming to establish a cultural criticism informed by 'green' thought. David Ingram argues that Hollywood cinema has largely perpetuated romantic attitudes to nature and has played an important ideological role in the 'green...
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Exeter's university
Tracing the development of the University of Exeter over the six decades since it was granted its royal charter in 1955, this book tells the history of the institution and its community. Includes interviews with leading university figures, contributions from former students, and a postscript look...
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Streetology
Streetology overturns traditional studies on working-class neighbourhoods. Based on ethnographic research guided by the author's experience as an activist, the book offers a new approach to street culture that highlights its political aspirations. It analyses phenomena such as riots, political pa...
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World war two simulated
This book examines how World War Two is simulated through serious computer games. It argues that a particular dynamic emerges in such ‘simgames’, especially when curious players begin to look beyond gameplay for how to understand the past.
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Nonhuman cinema
This book proposes a radical new nonhuman cinema: it examines how cinema challenges human superiority and the anthropocentric gaze while opening up new sensory, ethical, and material encounters between human and nonhuman, including the cinematic apparatus itself. It raises key ethical questions a...
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Reactions to social and economic change 1750-1939
The middle of the eighteenth century up to the Second World War was a period of dramatic and rapid social and economic change in Britain. This volume collects five papers.
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Screening europe in australasia
This book’s treatment of the extensive circulation of European silent features and stars in Australasia reveals the vibrant transnationalism of silent film before the rise of Hollywood, and frames the emergence of art house cinema in the 1920s.
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Paganism persisting
Paganism Persisting is a history of revivals of pagan religion in Europe from late antiquity to the 20th century. It explores the motives, beliefs and circumstances behind a series of attempted revivals in antiquity, the Byzantine empire, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Victorian era, and...
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Reading the cinematograph
The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films.
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Picturing cornwall
This book explores the history of Cornwall‘s portrayal on screen, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s Poldark books. Innovative new research looking at amateur film and newsreels, avant-garde and documentary works alongside mainstream popula...
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The screen censorship companion
This companion gives an exhaustive overview of how screen censorship touches our lives, from historical studies to today’s intrusions into how screen content is controlled, made available, or taken away. The cases studies range from the forbidden over politically ‘subversive’ materials, to plain ...
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Beunans meriasek - the life of st meriasek
Beunans Meriasek—the Life of St Meriasek—is one of only two surviving early saints plays in Britain. Written in Cornish, about a Breton saint, and found in Welsh library, it offers unique insights in drama, language, and religious and cultural history. This new critical edition has a full introdu...
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Celluloid war memorials
British Instructional Films was at the centre of a number of issues important to Britain and the Empire in the 1920s: the memory and history of the Great War, national and imperial identities, the role of cinema as a shaper of attitudes, power relations between Britain and the USA and the nature...
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Eating disorders in public discourse
Eating disorders remain little understood by the public, and sensationalist stories in the media have done little to dispel simplistic and reductionist perspectives. This book uncovers compelling insights on the intersection of language, discourse and mental health.
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Eighteenth-century brechtians
Eighteenth-Century Brechtians is a collection of essays by a well-known author on comic and radical political theatre. It looks at stage satires by John Gay, Henry Fielding, George Farquhar, Charlotte Charke, David Garrick and their contemporaries through the lens of Brecht’s theory and practic...
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The exeter companion to changeling lore
The Exeter Companion to Changeling Lore is the first multi-author study of changelings and the first to centre on West Eurasia and the Mediterranean. Challenging orthodoxy, it shows that changelings are largely restricted to this area and that our changeling records are older than has been apprec...
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The university of exeter
This 1982 book by Brian Clapp records the development of the University from its beginnings in the School of Art founded in 1855, through the Royal Albert Memorial College and the University College of the South West. He draws lively portraits of two Principals of the University College - Hector...
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Book of devotions/libro de devociones y oficios
The first edition of the devotionary composed by Constanza de Castilla. Comprising a variety of prayers and liturgical offices in Spanish and Latin, the book provides evidence of the beliefs, experience, and expression of religious women in Spain of the later Middle Ages.
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An american in victorian cambridge
A richly detailed account of student life in the Cambridge of the 1840s. The rationale for the book, which is as appealing today as it was then, is that this is pre-eminently a book about an American student at an English university. In this new edition, some substantial additions have been made.
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Child and adolescent migration, mental health, and language
This timely book focuses on migration and the socio-affective significance of language. It examines how this influences children’s and adolescents’ development, subjectivity, identifications, and identity formations.
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Film, cinema, genre
This Reader brings together for the first time key works by Steve Neale, one of the founding figures of UK film studies. It includes selections of his influential writing on genre, together with other critical work encompassing film analysis, representation, cinema history, technology, and the fi...
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Faction and faith
In this book, Anne Duffin draws upon new source material, combining national documents and local family collections with an analysis of churchwardens' accounts, borough records and over 350 wills. She challenges the view that Cornwall was naturally royalist and presents a picture of a politically...
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Bill douglas
This book uses new source material to reappraise the work of Bill Douglas – one of Britain’s most significant and singular filmmakers. Douglas’s poetic and moving films continue to inspire filmmakers today but his struggles within the film industry raise questions as to whether it is possible to...
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William morris’s socialism and politics
A selection of key articles published over 40 years by the Journal of William Morris Studies on Morris’s politics and socialism. It makes available fine scholarship from the US, Canada, Australia and the UK, showing both the breadth and depth of William Morris’s achievements as a creative and pio...
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Music and musicians in early nineteenth-century cornwall
Taken from Africa into slavery by the Portuguese, kidnapped by the British Navy and held captive aboard ship during the French wars of the 1790s before being abandoned in Falmouth, the story of Joseph Emidy deserves telling in its own right. Emidy became a prominent figure in the musical scene in...
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The big show
The Big Show looks at the role played by cinema in British cultural life during World War One. Hammond shows how the British film industry and British audiences responded to the traumatic effects of the War, and contends that the War’s significant effect was to expedite the cultural acceptance of...
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Mining in a medieval landscape
This book explores an industry that was of profound importance both in terms of the local economy and the history of mining nationally, but is long forgotten: the late medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferrers in the Tamar Valley.
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Theatre censorship in contemporary europe
With contributions from an international range of scholars, this ground-breaking study explores the forms, contexts, and impacts of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe.
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Making theatre in northern ireland
This book examines the relationships between theatre and the turbulent political and social context of Northern Ireland since 1969. It explores key theatrical performances which deal directly with this context. The book is aimed at a student readership: it is largely play-text-based, and it conta...
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The appreciation of film
This book offers the first full account of the film society movement in Britain and its contribution to post-World War Two film culture. It brings to life a lost history of alternative film exhibition and challenges the general assumption that the study of film began with university courses on ‘...
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Vaccination wars
This is the history of the grassroots anti-vaccination movement in nineteenth-century Cornwall. The book examines the lives of those who publicly opposed the procedure, the earliest phases of vaccine objection, the rise of middle class resistance and opposition societies, and the influence of pro...
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Piers plowman
The earliest version of William Langland’s Piers Plowman shows this elusive and centrally important fourteenth-century poet inventing the forms that his life’s work will take. This is the first critically considered edition of the A -text supported by an introduction, side glosses, and on-page ex...
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Poetics of the pretext
Poetics of the Pretext is an original study of the French poet Lautréamont (1846-1870). It analyses closely the texts, pretexts and intertexts of this innovative poet.
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John betjeman and cornwall
Quintessentially English, Betjeman was an 'outsider' in England - and doubly so in Cornwall where he was a ‘foreigner’. And yet, as this book describes, Betjeman also strove to acquire a veneer of ‘Cornishness', cultivating an alternative Celtic identity, and finding inspiration in Cornwall's Ang...
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Teaching religion (new updated edition)
TEACHING RELIGION is the first book to trace the developments in religious education in England and Wales in the half century to 1994. It starts with the 1944 Butler Act and ends with the DFE Circular of 1994 which was issued to take further the RE provision in the 1988 Education Reform Act.
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The exeter companion to fairies, nereids, trolls and other social supernatural beings
For centuries, Europeans believed in a parallel world of the ‘social supernatural’. The social supernatural realm mirrored and interacted with our own, causing disasters and providing fertility. Bringing together eighteen experts, this book explores how diverse cultures across Europe envisioned t...
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Soledades
This edition of Antonio Machado’s work offers a complete revision of the interpretations advanced by critics on the first version of Soledades (1903). Based on Machado’s original edition it will be the only reliable text on the market of this work, the very embodiment of Spanish modernism.
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Introducing roman declamation
A new overview of Roman declamation, one of the least studied but most important genres of ancient literature. Letano presents an original way of looking at aspects of major relevance to Roman culture of the imperial period.
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Cornish mines
This is the seventh volume in a series of The Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom 1845-1913 and completes coverage of the South West of England. Cornwall was the greatest mining district in the country during this period, and this book shows the industry at its peak and through the first yea...
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Going to the movies
This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern suburban megaplex, and from provincial, small-town or rural America to the shanty towns of South ...
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Forms of conflict
This is a full-length study of the representation of contemporary warfare on the British stage and investigates the strategies deployed by theatre practitioners in Britain as they meet the representational challenges posed by the ‘new wars’ of the global era.
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Les mains jointes et autres poèmes (1905-1923)
Les Mains Jointes (1909) was the collection of poetry that launched the long career of Nobel Prize-winning author François Mauriac (1885-1970). This critical edition provides the first ever overview of the volume’s complex textual history (spanning four decades).
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Population and marketing
This volume brings together the proceedings of two seminars that took place at Dartington Hall in the early 1970s. The first half concerns population, and the second considers marketing.
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The cornish overseas
The story of the migration of the Cornish people throughout the world is an epic, told here by one of the world's leading scholars of the movement of Cornish people. Accessible narrative includes the US, Canada, Australia, and S Africa. Fully revised and updated with almost two decades of additio...
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A new life of dante
This is the first new biography in English for nearly eighty years of Italy's foremost writer and thinker, and weaves into a single thread the whole of Dante's life and works. The aim is to make an account of Dante's life accessible to students and to the curious and intelligent but non-specialis...
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Ontographies
Traditional models of representation are in crisis, unable to account for the flat, participatory, and event-driven nature of contemporary media-driven existence. This book proposes a radical shift, moving beyond this crisis by embracing a philosophy of immanence, and offering a vital new perspec...
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Capital formation in south-west england
The formation of capital has long been a key element underpinning British economic history.
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Revisiting the first cold war
A detailed exploration of how the greatest ever unfought conflict—the Soviet–American Cold War—as well as other preceding struggles, might expand our understanding and foster resilience in adapting to the evolving Sino–American rivalry.
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From mimesis to interculturalism
From Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and American theatrical and performance theory. It answers the need for a detailed critique of theatrical theory from its origins in Greek antiquity to the present day.
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The voice of a giant
The Voice of a Giant looks at seven masterpieces of Russian nineteenth-century prose fiction. Each chapter concentrates primarily on a detailed analysis of one of these works but reference is also made to historical background, the seven author’s general attitudes and the distinguishing character...
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Translating apollinaire
Besides providing a new appraisal of Guillaume Apollinaire, the foremost French poet of early Modernism and WWI, Translating Apollinaire aims to put the ordinary reader at the centre of the translational project.
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Translating rimbaud's illuminations
Translating Rimbaud’s Illuminations is a critique of the assumptions which currently underlie our thinking on literary translation. It offers an alternative vision; extending the parameters of literary translation by showing that such translation is itself a form of experimental creative writing.
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Mermaids
Women with fish tails are among the oldest and most popular of mythological creatures. This book presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and beautifully illustrated study of mermaids and their influence on Western culture. The roots of mermaid mythology and its metamorphosis through the centu...
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Chuck, appearance and reality
How can we know the minds of others? How can we make our own mind known? This book explores the philosophical problem of other minds as it shapes Chuck, a TV spy comedy, a show about keeping—and sharing—secrets.
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Freedom's pioneer
This is the first full-length study of John McGrath's work, and illuminates the importance of his role in the development of theatre, film and television in the last four decades of the twentieth century.
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The blood-red arab flag
In a scholarly but accessible account founded on contemporary sources, illustrated with testimonies of eye-witnesses and participants, this book sets out to decide the controversial question of whether the Qawasim were in fact pirates after acquiring an enduring reputation as such during the year...
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The new germany
The New Germany provides a picture of contemporary Germany from a variety of perspectives, establishing relationships between recent political events and society and cultural life.
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Legitimate cinema
This is the first new book-length study of British cinema of the 1910s to be published for over fifty years, and it focuses on the close relationship between the British film industry and the Edwardian theatre.
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The south-west and the sea
This volume collects the papers given at a seminar concerning the maritime history of the South-West of England, which took place at Dartington Hall in October 1967
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Narratives and spaces
This book examines how photography, the railroad, electricity, space flight and the computer became central, yet often contradictory, parts of the way Americans construct and narrate their culture. This is a significant contribution to American cultural history, and like David Nye's previous book...
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Acting greek tragedy
With a strong interest in the performance of ancient Greek tragedy, Graham Ley’s short text explores the dynamics of physical interaction between performers and of the dramaturgical construction of scenes.
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The folklore of cornwall
Piskies, mermaids, giants, and a revenant bridegroom: the stuff of legend. In the hands of skilled storytellers – the famed droll tellers of Cornwall – the result was magical. Considered in the context of narratives throughout Northern Europe, enchantment can be understood as well as enjoyed in t...
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Exeter excavations: the guildhall site
Redevelopment of this open space in the middle of Exeter gave archaeologists an opportunity to explore the earliest settlement. Did it have its origin as a major Roman fort? There is little evidence of occupation before the Roman conquest but substantial evidence from the first century AD.
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Landscape and townscape in the south west
This book examines recent views on the emerging settlement patterns of early medieval Britain and their relation to land use, drawing on both archaeological and documentary sources.
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Army, empire and film
Leading military historians analyse the changing depiction of the British army and its role in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century colonial conflict in the cinema of empire from the silent era through classic imperial adventures to contemporary post-imperial cinematic critiques in Afrikaner, ...
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Theatres of the troubles
The first book to document grass roots popular theatres which developed from within the working class Republican and Loyalist communities of Belfast and Derry during the latest phase of the four hundred year conflict between Ireland and Britain.
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Church and state
The Prideaux Lectures were given in 1990 by Adrian Hastings, published here in volume form. He surveys the range of interactions between the Christian church and the English state.
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Italian cityscapes
This book examines the transformation of the Italian city from the 1950s to the present with particular attention to questions of identity, migration and changes in urban culture. It shows how major demographic movements and cultural shifts threw into relief new conceptions of the city in which ...
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Caesarism in the 21st century
The profound turbulence in global politics is the result of digital information technologies changing the structure and makeup of world order. As these changes unfold, authoritarian leaders have taken advantage of the lack of legitimacy in global governance and exploited electronic media capabili...
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Dancing in utopia
In 1925 Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst bought the Dartington Hall Estate, planning for a community where arts and education would underpin a fulfilling life. There was an emphasis on the art of dance, with artists from Europe, America and Asia gracing its studios and gardens. This is the story of u...
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The beginnings of the cinema in england,1894-1901: volume 2
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
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