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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Author Approved BlurbThe first guide to Gaelic fiction - covering the full expanse of the canonTracing the history of Gaelic fiction over the last century, Moray Watson looks at the work of well-known authors such as Iain Moireach, Tormod Caimbeul and Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn, as well as lesser-known authors, and focuses on the major developments that have led to the recent flourishing in Gaelic fiction publishing. Watson examines novels and novellas from Dùn-Aluinn to Dìleas Donn and Shrapnel, alongside short story collections, uncollected fiction and short fiction from magazines such as Gairm. The final chapters focus on the current state of criticism of Gaelic fiction and discuss the most recent initiatives that have sustained the viability of fiction in the Gaelic language.Dr Moray Watson lectures in Gaelic language and literature at the University of Aberdeen. He has published many articles and chapters on Gaelic literature and is the joint editor of The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language (2010). His edition of Iain Crichton Smith's Gaelic poems is due to be published by Acair.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Edinburgh Critical Guides to LiteratureSeries Editors: Martin Halliwell & Andy MousleyThis series provides accessible yet provocative introductions to a wide range of literatures. The volumes will initiate and deepen the reader's understanding of key literary movements, periods and genres, and consider debates that inform the past, present and future of literary study. Resources such as glossaries of key terms and details of archives and internet sites are also provided, making each volume a comprehensive critical guide.Victorian LiteratureDavid AmigoniHow were the genres of literature changed by new methods of serialization and publishing How did a widespread culture of performance emerge in the period to shape as well as to be shaped by the novel and poetry David Amigoni draws on the most recent critical approaches to the novel, Victorian melodrama and poetry to answer these and other questions. The work of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Carlyle and Mathew Arnold are explored in relation to ideas about fiction, journalism, drama, poetry, the New Woman, gothic, horror and the Victorian sage.Key Features\* Detailed readings of key texts provide models of how to read critically\* Demonstrates the interaction between genres to help think through modes of artistic experimentation and innovation in the period\* Examines Neo-Victorian fiction, a popular genre today\* Student resources include electronic and reference sources, further reading and an extensive glossary of key critical terms and historical issuesDavid Amigoni is Professor of Victorian Literature at Keele University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Edinburgh Critical Guides to LiteratureSeries Editors: Martin Halliwell & Andy MousleyThis series provides accessible yet provocative introductions to a wide range of literatures. The volumes will initiate and deepen the reader's understanding of key literary movements, periods and genres, and consider debates that inform the past, present and future of literary study. Resources such as glossaries of key terms and details of archives and internet sites are also provided, making each volume a comprehensive critical guide.Medieval Literature 1300-1500Pamela KingMedieval literature can be daunting. This critical guide is designed to help readers to relax in the company of diverting and entertaining voices from that 'other country' that is the past.Medieval Literature 1300-1500 offers close readings of Middle English texts placed within the culture with which they interact. Famous works, like The Canterbury Tales, are discussed alongside lesser-known poems, prose, and plays, in five thematically-organised chapters, accompanied by helpful critical apparatus. Reflecting the proliferation of user-friendly editions, many available on-line, this book extends the range of Middle English writing for which there is accessible up-to-date critical support, enabling the student, the general reader, the course designer, and the aspirant specialist, to read widely and with enjoyment in the medieval period.Key Features\* Offers succinct close-readings of well-known texts of the period\* Provides cultural-historical background to England in the Middle Ages\* Reflects on the construction of an English literary 'tradition'\* Cross-references literary texts against historical events and other art formsPamela King is Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol. Her monograph on the The York Mystery Cycle and the Worship of the City won the David Bevington and Beatrice White prizes.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How can one negotiate and integrate the claims of feminism and multiculturalism through a discourse of rights This is a timely question: the apparent opposition between feminist and multicultural justice is a central problem in contemporary political theory. It also responds to a deep suspicion about invoking a political discourse that is accused of being either eurocentric, androcentric or both. In this book Monica Mookherjee draws on Iris Young's idea of 'gender as seriality' in order to reconfigure feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity. She contends that a discourse of rights can be formulated and that this task is crucial to negotiating a balance between women's interests and multicultural claims. The argument is worked through in the context of a set of difficult dilemmas in modern liberal democracies: \*the resurgence of the feminist controversy over the Hindu practice of widow-immolation (sati) \*gender-discriminatory Muslim divorce laws in the famous Shah Bano controversy in India \*forced marriage in South Asian communities in the UK \*the rights of evangelical Christian parents to exempt their children from secular education \*the recent controversy about the rights of Muslim girls to wear the hijab in state schools in France This valuable and innovative perspective on an important contemporary issue aims to stimulate debate about a set of important concepts central to discourses of feminism and multiculturalism in contemporary political philosophy, including human rights and capabilities, toleration, citizenship practices, cultural rights, the ethic of care, communitarianism and the politics of recognition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Wittgenstein and Political Theory Christopher C. Robinson 'This thoughtful and engaging book stages a series of conversations between Wittgenstein and a broad range of contemporary political theorists. Robinson offers us a refreshingly down-to-earth account of a Wittgensteinian 'path of politics' - a path through the land of everyday gestures, words, protests, and affirmations, a path that calls us to trust the uncanny ordinariness of language.' Jane Bennett, Johns Hopkins University, author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (2009) Ludwig Wittgenstein was arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century. Although his writings have influenced a range of philosophical and cultural movements, this effect was not felt strongly in political theory. Indeed, the most comprehensive study of Wittgenstein and political theory was published over thirty five years ago. Wittgenstein and Political Theory sets out to reconnect Wittgenstein with a range of problems and trends within contemporary political theory. The central argument of the book is that Wittgenstein offers scholars doing the difficult work of theorizing political life today an orientation and array of useful conceptual and critical tools. In particular, Wittgenstein's remarks on perception are brought to bear on theory's historical and etymological roots in clear seeing. The effect of these remarks is to free the theorist to explore the city of language and shed fresh light on political concepts such as liberty, dignity, dissent, and ideology. This book is designed to be read by graduate students and advanced undergraduates who are interested in both Wittgenstein's philosophy and strategies for achieving political vision in this age where politics has been replaced by bureaucracy as the predominant form of public order, and now takes the form of dissent. Christopher C. Robinson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clarkson University, New York.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Lyotard Dictionary provides an exceptionally clear presentation of his complex and challenging ideas. The entries are written with precision, detail and clarity, offering helpful introductions to unfamiliar concepts as well as fascinating insights for those who already know Lyotard's work. It will be an indispensable guide for students of Lyotard at all levels.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - AUTHOR APPROVEDENDORSEMENT TO FOLLOW - JENDoes humanitarian intervention 'work' Could it work better if approached differently Or should we just, in the words of one critic, 'give war a chance' Since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent surge in civil and international conflicts, the UN has been faced by an ever-increasing set of demands on its military capacity. This book traces the evolution of its armed humanitarian intervention from the grand ambitions for forceful collective security through the 'brushfire' peacekeeping of the cold war years to its engagement with the present globalised yet fractured world order.Key FeaturesPresents a concise analytical overview of the theoretical, moral and practical issuesExplores the general setting of contemporary humanitarian interventionAssesses the actual record of post-Cold War humanitarian intervention on a region-by-region basis, from the Balkans to Africa and Southeast AsiaCompiles a balance sheet of success and failure in the UN's efforts and confronts hard questions about their short and long-term valueNorrie MacQueen is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Dundee. He is author of The Decolonization of Portuguese Africa (1997), The United Nations since 1945 (1999), United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa since 1960 (2002), Peacekeeping and the International System (2006), Colonialism (2007) and The United Nations: A Beginner's Guide (2010).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - AUTHOR APPROVEDAn analysis of the phenomenon of political violence and its implications for democratic politics.The use of violence as a political weapon poses problems for democratic ideals and for the workings of democratic societies in practice. Democratic societies aspire to solve political conflict through non-violent means, yet the events of 11 September 2001 and other terrorist actions show that political movements world-wide resort to violence as a means of political action. In turn contemporary politics has witnessed the 'war on terror' and the use of state violence to secure the safety of citizens.This book examines the challenge which violence represents both to established democracies as well as to societies seeking to move towards democracy. It uses current examples, such as East Timor, Kenya, Chechnya, and cases of nationalist violence in Europe, to illustrate these issues. It argues for the realisation of an ideal of inclusive democratic community as the way in which the challenge of political violence could be met.Key Features\*Applies democratic theory to issues of great topical importance such as terrorism and state violence\*Combines theoretical arguments with case studies and 'real world' empirical examples from East Timor, Kenya, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq and France\*Presents a broad overview of the crucial issues facing liberal democracies in contemporary politics\*Advances the debate with proposals for the future conduct of liberal-democratic politics to meet new violent challengesJohn Schwarzmantel is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Director of the Centre for Democratisation Studies at the University of Leeds. His most recent publications include Ideology and Politics (Sage 2008) and (jointly edited with Mark McNally) Gramsci and Global Politics, Hegemony and Resistance (Routledge 2009).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - (AUTHOR APPROVED, ENDORSEMENTS added Jan 2010)'Gives the reader a fresh and authoritative view of wartime Sweden, from the nation's dealings with Nazi Germany to everyday life and social change. More controversially, Gilmour assesses key decisions by the Swedish leadership and tackles post-war questions about Swedish actions in the era of the Holocaust.' Professor Krister Wahlbäck, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.'It is so rare to have a scholar so competent in the source material of Sweden during the Second World War .no book in English has managed to give such a comprehensive picture.' Jonas Frykman, Professor of European Ethnology, Lund University.'Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin (2010) is the first modern book in English to cover just about all major aspects of Sweden during WWII. It should become required reading for all students of 20th century Scandinavian history.' Lars Gyllenhaal, member of the Swedish Military History Commission.'Gilmour has the ability of bringing together various aspects of history, in particular its political, military and diplomatic dimensions, which makes his book useful also for Swedish-speaking readers. Remarkably, there is at the moment no equivalent introduction available in Swedish.' Johan Östling, Department of History, Lund University.'Unlike Boëthius, Gilmour has built an argument from the sources rather than an emotional approach towards Swedish conduct.' Major Claes Henrikson, Militär Historia.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - AUTHOR APPROVEDAn analysis of the phenomenon of political violence and its implications for democratic politics.The use of violence as a political weapon poses problems for democratic ideals and for the workings of democratic societies in practice. Democratic societies aspire to solve political conflict through non-violent means, yet the events of 11 September 2001 and other terrorist actions show that political movements world-wide resort to violence as a means of political action. In turn contemporary politics has witnessed the 'war on terror' and the use of state violence to secure the safety of citizens.This book examines the challenge which violence represents both to established democracies as well as to societies seeking to move towards democracy. It uses current examples, such as East Timor, Kenya, Chechnya, and cases of nationalist violence in Europe, to illustrate these issues. It argues for the realisation of an ideal of inclusive democratic community as the way in which the challenge of political violence could be met.Key Features\*Applies democratic theory to issues of great topical importance such as terrorism and state violence\*Combines theoretical arguments with case studies and 'real world' empirical examples from East Timor, Kenya, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq and France\*Presents a broad overview of the crucial issues facing liberal democracies in contemporary politics\*Advances the debate with proposals for the future conduct of liberal-democratic politics to meet new violent challengesJohn Schwarzmantel is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Director of the Centre for Democratisation Studies at the University of Leeds. His most recent publications include Ideology and Politics (Sage 2008) and (jointly edited with Mark McNally) Gramsci and Global Politics, Hegemony and Resistance (Routledge 2009).