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Wittgenstein's Metaphysics
Wittgenstein’s Metaphysics offers an interpretation of the fundamental ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein. It takes issue with the conventional view that...
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The Apology Ritual
Christopher Bennett presents a theory of punishment grounded in the practice of apology, and in particular in reactions such as feeling sorry and...
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A History of German Theatre
Covering German-language theatre from the Middle Ages to the present day, this study demonstrates how and why theatre became so important in...
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The Construction of Reality
In this book, Michael Arbib, a researcher in artificial intelligence and brain theory, joins forces with Mary Hesse, a philosopher of science, to...
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Never Sang for Hitler
Lotte Lehmann ranks among the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. She was a favorite of Richard Strauss, and also had a famous...
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Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint
In Bach’s Germany musical counterpoint was an art involving much more than the sophisticated use of advanced compositional techniques. A range of...
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The Philosophy of F. P. Ramsey
F. P. Ramsey was a remarkably creative and subtle philosopher who in the briefest of academic careers (he died tragically in 1930 aged 26) made...
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Verdi and the French Aesthetic
Focusing on Verdi’s French operas, Giger shows how the composer acquired an ever better understanding of the various approaches to French...
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Early American Women Critics
Early American Women Critics demonstrates that performances of various kinds - religious, political and cultural - enabled women to enter the human...
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Twentieth-Century Poetry and the Visual Arts
The emergence of photography and film in the twentieth century helped to create a shift from a culture of words to a culture of images. Since then,...
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Intonational Phonology
This second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research...
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Shakespeare Survey 61
Contents: 1. Sarah Siddons, Theatre Voices and Recorded Memory Judith Pascoe; 2. Playing with Shakespeare’s Play: Branagh’s Love’s Labour’s...
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Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings - Series
Medieval Jewish intellectuals living in Muslim and Christian lands were strongly concerned to recover what they regarded as a ‘lost’ Jewish...
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Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings - Series
Medieval Jewish intellectuals living in Muslim and Christian lands were strongly concerned to recover what they regarded as a ‘lost’ Jewish...
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Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality
Quine and Davidson are among the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. Their influence on contemporary philosophy is second to none, and their...
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Imagining Equality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
The theme of inequality has often dominated academic criticism, which has been concerned with identifying, analyzing, and demystifying various...
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The Ottoman Road to War in 1914
Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war’s devastations had become clear? Were its leaders...
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Studying English Literature
Studying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing...
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Human Capital
This book examines in detail the Russian government's policy of settling foreigners in European Russia during the last third of the eighteenth...
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Realism, Photography and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
This radically new account of the relationship between photography and literary realism in Victorian Britain draws on detailed readings of...
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Journalism and the Novel
Literary journalism is a rich field of study that has played an important role in the creation of the English and American literary canons. In this...
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The Poetry of Praise
One of the chief functions of poetry in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was to praise gods, people and things. Heroes and kings were...
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London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885–1914
London and the Culture of Homosexuality explores the relationship between London and male homosexuality from the criminalization of all ‘acts of...
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The Book of Memory
Mary Carruthers’s classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has...
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