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King, Geoffrey. The art of Geoffrey King. Bowen Hills, Brisbane, Qld: Boolarong Publications, 1987.
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Harold, Bloom, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer's The pardoner's tale. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.
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1932-, Correale Robert M., and Hamel Mary 1936-, eds. Sources and analogues of the Canterbury tales. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2002.
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McAlpine, Monica E. Chaucer's Knight's tale: An annotated bibliography, 1900 to 1985. Toronto: Published in association with the University of Rochester by University of Toronto Press, 1991.
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Bewernick, Hanne. The storyteller's memory palace: A method of interpretation based on the function of memory systems in literature : Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Thomas Pynchon and Paul Auster. Frankfurt am Main: New York, 2010.
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Morgan, Gerald. Chaucer in context: A golden age of English poetry. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012.
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Telling images: Chaucer and the imagery of narrative II. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2009.
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American dream visions: Chaucer's surprising influence on F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: P. Lang, 1994.
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Best, Antony, ed. British Foreign Secretaries and Japan, 1850-1990. GB Folkestone: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9781898823735.
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This book reviews the role of British Foreign Secretaries in the formulation of British policy towards Japan from the re-opening of Japan in the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. It also takes a critical look at the history of British relations with Japan over these years. Beginning with Lord John Russell (Foreign Secretary 1859-1865) and concluding with Geoffrey Howe (Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs, 1983-1989), the volume also examines the critical roles of two British Prime Ministers in the latter part of the twentieth century, Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, who ensured that Britain recognized both the reality and the opportunities for Britain resulting from the Japanese economic and industrial phenomenon. Heath’s main emphasis was on opening the Japanese market to British exports. Thatcher’s was on Japanese investment. This volume is a valuable addition to the Japan Society’s series devoted to aspects of Anglo-Japanese relations which includes ten volumes of Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits as well as British Envoys in Japan.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey. Geoffrey Chaucer's the Pardoner's Tale. Chelsea House Publications, 2000.
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O'Neill, Gemma. Oh Dear, Geoffrey! Templar, 2014.
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Harold, Bloom, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer's The knight's tale. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.
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Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales (II) (Chaucer Studies) (Chaucer Studies). D.S.Brewer, 2005.
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Hamel, Mary, and Robert M. Correale. Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales: Vol. II. Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 2005.
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Hamel, Mary, and Robert M. Correale. Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales. Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 2009.
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Hamel, Mary, and Robert Correale. Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales: Volume I. Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 2003.
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Mary Hamel (Associate Editor) (Editor) and Robert M. Correale (Editor), eds. Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus (Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales (II) (Chaucer Studies). D.S. Brewer, 2004.
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Hamel, Mary, and Robert M. Correale. Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales - I and II. Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 2009.
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Stadnik, Katarzyna. Chaucer's Choices: Through the Looking-Glass of Medieval Imagery. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2015.
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Stadnik, Katarzyna. Chaucer's Choices: Through the Looking-Glass of Medieval Imagery. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2015.
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Stadnik, Katarzyna. Chaucer's Choices: Through the Looking-Glass of Medieval Imagery. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2015.
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Stadnik, Katarzyna. Chaucer's Choices: Through the Looking-Glass of Medieval Imagery. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2015.
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Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches. Penn State University Press, 2011.
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Chaucer: Visual Approaches. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016.
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Life in Words: Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory. University of Toronto Press, 2014.
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Mann, Jill, and Mark Rasmussen. Life in Words: Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory. University of Toronto Press, 2020.
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Mann, Jill, and Mark Rasmussen. Life in Words: Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory. University of Toronto Press, 2018.
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Vincent, Bridget. Moral Authority in Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198870920.001.0001.
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How do poems communicate moral ideas? Can they express concepts in ways that are unique and impossible to replicate in other forms of writing? This book explores these questions by turning to two of the late twentieth century’s most important poets: Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill. Their work shows that a poem can act as an example of a moral concept, rather than simply a description or discussion of it. Exploring these two poets via their shared preoccupation with poetry’s moral exemplarity opens up new perspectives on their work. The concept of exemplarity plays an important role in these poets’ key preoccupations, from moral complicity to the nature of lyric speech to influence to memorialization, responsibility, and aesthetic autonomy. Through this analysis of critical prose, drama, and archival materials as well as poetry, this book offers a groundbreaking study of ethics in the later writings of these two poets, including recent and underexplored posthumous works. In turn, the book also makes an important intervention in larger debates about literature and morality, and about the field of ethical criticism itself: this is the first book-length study to expand ethical criticism beyond its customary narrative focus. So far, the ethical criticism of fiction has largely been an exercise in methodological advocacy, urging the use of more literary examples in moral philosophy. As this book shows, including poetry among these examples introduces new, lyric-inflected caveats about the use of literature as a form of moral example: caveats which remain invisible in narrative-centred ethical criticism.
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Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II. Stanford University Press, 2010.
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Holland, Peter. Forgetting Performance. Edited by James C. Bulman. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199687169.013.39.
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In the age of memory studies, there has been far less thinking about forgetting than remembering. This chapter considers what we remember of performance and how much we forget. Starting with the forgetting in a series of Shakespeare versions in texting (OMG Shakespeare), the chapter moves on to think about theories of forgetting, current and early modern, as well as how Shakespeare uses the concept of forgetting, before taking the author’s own paucity of memories of a Chicago Shakespeare Theatre production of King Lear as a test case. It ends with Geoffrey Sonnabend’s theory of obliscence and Anna Smaill’s novel The Chimes (2015).
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Stevenson, Jane. Outdoor Rooms. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808770.003.0008.
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There is such a thing as modernist gardening, and in England Christopher Tunnard was its principal proponent. But interwar great gardens were mostly baroque in inspiration and design, expressing baroque principles of excess and astonishment. Philip Sassoon’s garden at Port Lympne is one of the campest. The design is by Philip Tilden, who also worked on Garsington Manor, another Italianate garden. Baroque gardening in England owes much to Sir George Sitwell’s carefully researched book on the topic, to Geoffrey Jellicoe and John Shepherd’s Italian Gardens of the Renaissance, and to Cecil Pinsent, designer of the gardens at I Tatti, who influenced both Lawrence Johnson (Hidcote) and Vita Sackville-West (Sissinghurst).
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Toles, George. Words and Music: The Magnolia Crisis. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040368.003.0001.
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This chapter describes a considered, thematic, and stylistic account of the viewing experiences of three films by Paul Thomas Anderson and their backgrounds—Punch-Drunk Love (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007), and The Master (2012). Writer Geoffrey O'Brien, in his essay on The Master, captures the feel of Anderson's recurring landscape of disconnection. He goes on to speak of the expressionist treatment of milieu in the films, as though in each narrative there is an attempt both to acknowledge the claims of material reality and at the same time to reconfigure the real. The chapter also examines the contradictory pressures at work in the avowedly autobiographical, densely verbal Magnolia, which may have necessitated a change in Anderson's method and technique in the films that followed.
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Chocano Díaz, Gema, and Noelia Hernando Real. ON LITERATURE AND GRAMMAR: A Selection of Annotated Medieval and Renaissance English Texts for (Spanish) University Students. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/9788483447475.ca.38.
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On Literature and Grammar gives students and instructors a carefully thought experience to combine their learning of Middle and Early Modern English and Medieval and Renaissance English Literature. The selection of texts, which include the most commonly taught works in university curricula, allows readers to understand and enjoy the evolution of the English language and the main writers and works of these periods, from William Langland to Geoffrey Chaucer, from Sir Philip Sidney to Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and from Christopher Marlowe to William Shakespeare. Fully annotated and written to answer the real needs of current Spanish university students, these teachable texts include word-by-word translations into Present Day English and precise introductions to their linguistic and literary contexts.
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Stevenson, Jane. Machines to Live In. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808770.003.0007.
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Modernism has a particular meaning in the context of architecture: Loos’s and Le Corbusier’s war on ornament; plain white buildings with massive windows. One enormous problem with modern-movement buildings is that they typically refuse to engage with time at all—as well as being a conscious break with the past, they tend to be strangely unable to envisage a future. Meanwhile, Geoffrey Scott’s 1914 The Architecture of Humanism was a reassessment of baroque architecture which attempted a non-moralized way of judging architectural merit, and there were also modernist architects whose work had elements of the playful, surprising, deceitful, camp, or surreal. Lutyens, Oliver Hill, and Raymond McGrath are considered in this light.
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Marshall, Colin. Criteria for Moral Realism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809685.003.0012.
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This chapter discusses the nature of moral realism, identifying desiderata that the view defended here (Compassionate Moral Realism) needs to meet. First, the general idea behind the moral realism/anti-realism distinction is described, drawing on Geoffrey Sayre-McCord’s work: the issue of whether morality lives up to its apparent importance and objectivity. Several approaches to defining the distinction are described and clarified. These approaches concern paradigmatic views, the literal truth of moral claims, stance-independent moral facts, and (drawing on Sharon Street’s work) an epistemic asymmetry between virtuous and vicious agents. It is claimed that it is sufficient for moral realism to hold if these semantic, metaphysical, and epistemic criteria are jointly satisfied. Certain robust metaphysical criteria such as metaphysical fundamentality are also considered, but are rejected as necessary conditions for moral realism.
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Martin, Geoffrey. Researching Twitter. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190882969.003.0019.
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zzIn this chapter, Geoffrey Martin discusses some of the major issues in studying the use of Internet technology—focusing on Twitter—in protest mobilization occurring in authoritarian environments. He argues that comparing qualitative interviews with activists to their online activities is a challenging effort due to the difficulties of proving empirically the activists’ claims about the impact of their use of social media. These challenges forced him construct a strict metric to achieve representative sampling and coding rigor. The content analysis he constructed can be used to validate, within the limited scope of the cases, some sampling techniques. These efforts can help a researcher in the field to compare offline and online events more effectively, especially when time constraints, ethical considerations, and a lack of data are ever-present obstacles to this type of fieldwork.
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Robinson, Peter. Shakespeare’s Loose Ends and the Contemporary Poet. Edited by Jonathan Post. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199607747.013.0026.
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‘Shakespeare’s Loose Ends and the Contemporary Poet’ contains detailed readings of individual poems with a Shakespearean theme by John Ashbery (‘Friar Laurence’s Cell’), Elizabeth Bishop (‘Twelfth Morning; or What You Will’), Roy Fisher (‘Barnardine’s Reply’), alongside passages from Geoffrey Hill’s ‘Funeral Music’ and The Triumph of Love, as well as observations about a number of other Shakespeare-inspired poems. It deploys them to sustain and illustrate an argument that contrasts with the noted attempts by earlier modernist poets such as Yeats, Eliot, Auden, and Ted Hughes to incorporate theories of Shakespeare’s organic creative unity into their oeuvres. Rather, this chapter proposes that it is the heterogeneity, the loose ends and frayed edges of the Shakespearean corpus that have inspired contemporary poets, prompting them to come at their own materials by means of the oblique angles provided by minor characters, such as Barnardine in Measure for Measure or the poet Cinna in Julius Ceasar, and less highly regarded plays, such as the early Henry VI cycle, finding thematic suggestions in implications that remain to be spelt-out in Shakespearean scenes, dialogues, and plot trajectories.
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Wootten, William. The Alvarez Generation. 2nd ed. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789627947.001.0001.
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This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as Philip Larkin, a generation who would, in the words of the introduction to A. Alvarez's classic anthology The New Poetry, take poetry ‘Beyond the Gentility Principle’. This was the generation of Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter. This book explores what these five poets shared in common, their connections, critical reception, rivalries, and differences, and locates what was new and valuable in their work. The book presents an important re-evaluation of a time when contemporary poetry and its criticism had a cultural weight it has now lost and when a ‘new seriousness’ was to become closely linked to questions of violence, psychic unbalance and, most controversially of all, suicide.
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Hickey, Helen M. Capturing Christ’s Tears. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802648.003.0005.
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This chapter investigates the historiography of the cult of the Holy Tear of Christ, La Sainte Larme, and explores the materiality and affective life of the relic. The apocryphal narrative tells that an angel caught the tears Christ shed on hearing about Lazarus’ death and gave them to Mary Magdalene for safekeeping. Around 1040, Geoffrey Martel received the relic of the Holy Tear as a reward for his military efforts. Enshrined at the Abbey of La Trinité, Vendôme, France, the Holy Tear enjoyed a robust devotion during the Middle Ages, attracting pilgrims from all over Europe. The end point for La Sainte Larme’s fame is the French Revolution, when the relic disappears. Christ’s Tear provides an exemplary case for emotion studies and material culture because it encapsulates religious piety and feeling, but, as an ephemeral bodily excretion, it presents interpretive challenges as an object.
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Malek, Alisyn. Intersection: Reimagining the Future of Mobility Across Traditional Boundaries. SAE International, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/9781468603958.
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Mobility and transportation mean different things to people, even to those who work in various aspects of the ecosystem - from the movement of people or goods to the development of the infrastructure that enables mobility. For decades these different parts of the ecosystem have been approached as entirely independent industries, but the quickened pace of technological change has driven the need to reconsider how these distinct groups create the vibrant tapestry that is our mobility ecosystem. This book seeks to capture the varied perspectives as a collection of diverse views on the future of mobility, to provide a clearer view on the broad base of possibility and opportunity across this interconnected system. Contributors: Jonathon Baugh, Geoffrey Boquot, Reilly Brennan, Tiffany Chu, Jordan Davis, Courtney Erlichman, Elaina Farnsworth, Valerie Lefler, Wolfgang Lehmacher & Mikail Lind, Shoshana Lew, Suzanne Murtha, Mary Nichols, Trevor Pawl, John Perrachio, Aishwarya Raman, Karina Ricks, Alex Roy, Avinash Ruguboor, Anthony Townsend, Marla Westervelt, and Candace Xie. "Amazing roster of thought leaders come together to paint a picture of a whole new mobility paradigm in the interest of safety, sustainability, and equity." -- Sven Beiker, PhD. Managing Director at Silicon Valley Mobility and Lecturer at Stanford University
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Wacker, Christian, ed. Sport im Museum. Ergon – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783956508448.
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Sport is omnipresent in museums. There are around 1,500 sports museums worldwide—from the lovable bicycle museum in the Palatine to the FIFA World Football Museum. Sport gets collected, sports objects are researched, sport is exhibited, and sport can be experienced and learned about in museums. In this anthology, international authors deal with 'Sport in Museums' and reflect on the fast-moving phenomenon of sport in the context of museum work, which offers opportunities for future-oriented museum work. The editor has been working in the context of sports museums for almost 30 years and compiled this volume to describe and research sport in museums and to raise awareness of it as an important component of popular culture. With contributions by Jason Beck, Prof. Dr. Louise Bielzer, Martin Ehlers, Dr. Matthias Henkel, Pekka Honkanen, Yousef Khacho, Volker Kluge, Geoffrey Z. Kohe, Prof. Dr. Michael Krüger, Barbara Kummler, Ulrich Schulze Forsthövel, Jed Smith, Prof. Dr. Junko Tahara (und Kyoko Raita), Jurryt van de Vooren, Prof. Dr. Axel Vogelsang, Kalle Voolaid, Dr. Christian Wacker, Prof. Dr. Ronald Wadsack and Helen Walpole.
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Stone, Geoffrey, and Lee Bollinger, eds. National Security, Leaks and Freedom of the Press. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197519387.001.0001.
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The United States Supreme Court made a landmark decision in the Pentagon Papers case in 1971, concerning how government should balance its legitimate need to conduct its operations—especially those related to national security—in secret, with the public’s right and responsibility to know what its government is doing. The Pentagon Papers decision, though, left many important questions still unresolved and the circumstances that undergirded the system initiated by the decision have changed fundamentally in recent decades. Difficult problems call for a range of different perspectives. In this book, Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone gather an array of remarkable, wise, and accomplished individuals to share their deep and broad expertise in the national security world, journalism, and academia. Each essay delves into important dimensions of the current system to explain how we should think about them, and to offer as many solutions as possible. A rigorous and serious analysis, this volume examines the incredibly complex and important issues that our nation must continue to address and strive to resolve as we move into the future.
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Gaston, Kara. Reading Chaucer in Time. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852865.001.0001.
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Reading for form can mean reading for formation. Understanding processes through which a text was created can help us in characterizing its form. But what is involved in bringing a diachronic process to bear upon a synchronic work? When does literary formation begin and end? When does form happen? These questions emerge with urgency in the interactions between English poet Geoffrey Chaucer and Italian Trecento authors Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Francis Petrarch. In fourteenth-century Italy, new ways were emerging of configuring the relation between author and reader. Previously, medieval reading was often oriented around the significance of the text to the individual reader. In Italy, however, reading was beginning to be understood as a way of getting back to a work’s initial formation. This book tracks how concepts of reading developed within Italian texts, including Dante’s Vita nova, Boccaccio’s Filostrato and Teseida, and Petrarch’s Seniles, impress themselves upon Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and Canterbury Tales. It argues that Chaucer’s poetry reveals the implications of reading for formation: above all, that it both depends upon and effaces the historical perspective and temporal experience of the individual reader. Problems raised within Chaucer’s poetry thus inform this book’s broader methodological argument: that there is no one moment at which the formation of Chaucer’s poetry ends; rather its form emerges in and through the process of reading within time.
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Kabat, Geoffrey C. Getting Risk Right. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231166461.001.0001.
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Do cell phones cause brain cancer? Does BPA threaten our health? How safe are certain dietary supplements, especially those containing exotic herbs or small amounts of toxic substances? Is the HPV vaccine safe? We depend on science and medicine as never before, yet there is widespread misinformation and confusion, amplified by the media, regarding what influences our health. In Getting Risk Right, Geoffrey C. Kabat shows how science works—and sometimes doesn't—and what separates these two very different outcomes. Kabat seeks to help us distinguish between claims that are supported by solid science and those that are the result of poorly designed or misinterpreted studies. By exploring different examples, he explains why certain risks are worth worrying about, while others are not. He emphasizes the variable quality of research in contested areas of health risks, as well as the professional, political, and methodological factors that can distort the research process. Drawing on recent systematic critiques of biomedical research and on insights from behavioral psychology, Getting Risk Right examines factors both internal and external to the science that can influence what results get attention and how questionable results can be used to support a particular narrative concerning an alleged public health threat. In this book, Kabat provides a much-needed antidote to what has been called “an epidemic of false claims.”
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Kirk, Jordan. Medieval Nonsense. Fordham University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823294466.001.0001.
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Five hundred years before “Jabberwocky” and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble, birdsong, and allusions to bare voice has come increasingly into view in recent years, an impression persists that these phenomena are exceptions that prove the rule of the period’s theologically motivated commitment to the kernel of meaning as over against the shell of the mere letter. This book shows that, to the contrary, the foundational object of study of medieval linguistic thought was vox non-significativa, the utterance insofar as it means nothing whatsoever, and that this fact was not lost on medieval writers of various kinds. In a series of close and unorthodox readings of works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the anonymous authors of the Cloud of Unknowing and St. Erkenwald, it inquires into the way that a number of fourteenth-century writers recognized possibilities inherent in the traditional accounts of language transmitted to them from antiquity and transformed those accounts into new ideas, forms, and practices of non-signification. Retrieving a premodern hermeneutics of obscurity in order to provide materials for an archeology of the category of the literary, Medieval Nonsense shows how these medieval linguistic textbooks, mystical treatises, and poems were engineered in such a way as to arrest the faculty of interpretation and force it to focus on the extinguishing of sense that occurs in the encounter with language itself.
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Cappuccio, Massimiliano L., ed. Handbook of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology. The MIT Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10764.001.0001.
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The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice. This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists that considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice. With twenty-six chapters by leading researchers, the book connects and integrates findings from fields that range from philosophy of mind to sociology of sports. The chapters show not only that sports can tell scientists how the human mind works but also that the scientific study of the human mind can help athletes succeed. Sports psychology research has always focused on the themes, notions, and models of embodied cognition; embodied cognition, in turn, has found striking confirmation of its theoretical claims in the psychological accounts of sports performance and athletic skill. Athletic skill is a legitimate form of intelligence, involving cognitive faculties no less sophisticated and complex than those required by mathematical problem solving. After presenting the key concepts necessary for applying embodied cognition to sports psychology, the book discusses skill disruption (the tendency to “choke” under pressure); sensorimotor skill acquisition and how training correlates to the development of cognitive faculties; the intersubjective and social dimension of sports skills, seen in team sports; sports practice in cultural and societal contexts; the notion of “affordance” and its significance for ecological psychology and embodied cognition theory; and the mind's predictive capabilities, which enable anticipation, creativity, improvisation, and imagination in sports performance. ContributorsAna Maria Abreu, Kenneth Aggerholm, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, Duarte Araújo, Jürgen Beckmann, Kath Bicknell, Geoffrey P. Bingham, Jens E. Birch, Gunnar Breivik, Noel E. Brick, Massimiliano L. Cappuccio, Thomas H. Carr, Alberto Cei, Anthony Chemero, Wayne Christensen, Lincoln J. Colling, Cassie Comley, Keith Davids, Matt Dicks, Caren Diehl, Karl Erickson, Anna Esposito, Pedro Tiago Esteves, Mirko Farina, Giolo Fele, Denis Francesconi, Shaun Gallagher, Gowrishankar Ganesh, Raúl Sánchez-García, Rob Gray, Denise M. Hill, Daniel D. Hutto, Tsuyoshi Ikegami, Geir Jordet, Adam Kiefer, Michael Kirchhoff, Kevin Krein, Kenneth Liberman, Tadhg E. MacIntyre, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, David L. Mann, Richard S. W. Masters, Patrick McGivern, Doris McIlwain, Michele Merritt, Christopher Mesagno, Vegard Fusche Moe, Barbara Gail Montero, Aidan P. Moran, David Moreau, Hiroki Nakamoto, Alberto Oliverio, David Papineau, Gert-Jan Pepping, Miriam Reiner, Ian Renshaw, Michael A. Riley, Zuzanna Rucinska, Lawrence Shapiro, Paula Silva, Shannon Spaulding, John Sutton, Phillip D. Tomporowski, John Toner, Andrew D. Wilson, Audrey Yap, Qin Zhu, Christopher Madan
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Best, Antony, and Hugh Cortazzi, eds. British Foreign Secretaries and Japan 1850-1990. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781898823742.
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This book reviews the role of British Foreign Secretaries in the formulation of British policy towards Japan from the re-opening of Japan in the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. It also takes a critical look at the history of British relations with Japan over these years. Beginning with Lord John Russell (Foreign Secretary 1859-1865) and concluding with Geoffrey Howe (Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1983-1989), the volume also examines the critical roles of two British Prime Ministers in the latter part of the twentieth century, Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, who ensured that Britain recognized both the reality and the opportunities for Britain resulting from the Japanese economic and industrial phenomenon. Heath’s main emphasis was on opening the Japanese market to British exports. Thatcher’s was on Japanese investment. <br><br>This volume is a valuable addition to the Japan Society’s series devoted to aspects of Anglo-Japanese relations which includes ten volumes of <i>Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits</i> as well as <i>British Envoys in Japan</i>.
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Strohm, Paul, ed. Middle English. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199287666.001.0001.
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This title is part of the the Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature series, edited by Paul Strohm. This book evaluates different approaches to Middle English literature, with special emphasis on the new, promising, and previously unexplored. It focuses on works of “major authors” such as Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, but also on many little-known and neglected texts. It looks at general conditions of textual production and reception, and explores how medieval processes of textual transmission have affected the reception and interpretation of medieval literature. It also discusses the relationship, both symbiotic and challenging, between medieval manuscripts and the modern canon, covering such subjects as multilinguality, the role of audience, translation, transmission, and periodization itself in considering the literature of previous eras. The book is organized into four sections: Conditions and Contexts, Vantage Points, Textual Kinds and Categories, and Writing and the World. Each essay focuses on a theme ranging through such matters as authority, form, imaginative theory, liturgy, drama, incarnational (auto)biography, vernacular theology, heresy, gossip, authorship, and humanism. Contributors tackle topics such as form, genre, the movement from script to print, the orality and aurality of medieval culture, and relationships between beauty, aesthetics, and literary genre.
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Gray, Benjamin. Extinct. CSIRO Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486313723.
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Australia is home to an incredible diversity of native animals. While Australian animals are among the most unique in the world, they are also among the most endangered, with hundreds currently on the brink of extinction. We must act quickly if we are to save these species, as once gone, they are gone forever.
Extinct is a collection of artworks from established and emerging Australian fine artists, each depicting an Australian animal that has already, for various reasons, tumbled over the edge into extinction. Extinct laments their loss, but also celebrates their former existence, diversity and significance. The stunning artworks are accompanied by stories of each animal, highlighting the importance of what we have lost, so that we appreciate what we have not lost yet.
Extinct features artworks from Sue Anderson, Brook Garru Andrew, Andrew Baines, Elizabeth Banfield, Sally Bourke, Jacob Boylan, Nadine Christensen, Simon Collins, Lottie Consalvo, Henry Curchod, Sarah Faulkner, Dianne Fogwell, David Frazer, Martin George, Bruce Goold, Eliza Gosse, Simone Griffin, Johanna Hildebrandt, Miles Howard-Wilks, Nick Howson, Brendan Huntley, Ben Jones, Alex Latham, Rosemary Lee, Amanda Marburg, Chris Mason, Terry Matassoni, Rick Matear, Eden Menta, Reg Mombassa, Tom O'Hern, Bernard Ollis, Emma Phillips, Nick Pont, Geoffrey Ricardo, Sally Robinson, Anthony Romagnano, Gwen Scott, Marina Strocchi, Jenny Watson and Allie Webb.
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Banerjee, Amitava, and Kaleab Asrress. Prevention of cardiovascular disease. Edited by Patrick Davey and David Sprigings. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199568741.003.0343.
Full textAbstract:
The global scale of the cardiovascular disease epidemic is unquestionable, with cardiovascular disease causing a greater burden of mortality and morbidity than any other disease, regardless of country or population. With demographic change and ageing populations, the prevalence of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors is set to increase. The commonest cardiovascular diseases are atherosclerotic, affecting all arterial territories. The ‘burden of disease’ approach has highlighted the fact that cardiovascular disease and non-communicable diseases are not simply diseases of affluence but affect people of all countries, with enormous costs in terms of public health, healthcare, and overall economies. Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of mortality in all regions of the world apart from sub-Saharan Africa, followed by cerebrovascular disease. It should be noted, however, that there has been a major decline in cardiovascular disease mortality in Western Europe, the US, and Japan over the past 40 years. There are multiple factors underlying these favourable trends but understanding the epidemiology and characterizing individual risk factors for cardiovascular disease has been central in formulating preventive and treatment strategies. The INTERHEART study showed that 90% of cardiovascular risk can be explained by nine easily identifiable risk factors; an awareness of these, and the discovery of novel factors, will continue to serve in the fight to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease. Geoffrey Rose first championed population-wide approaches versus strategies which target only high-risk individuals. Prevention aims to ‘catch the disease’ upstream, therefore delaying, reducing, or eliminating the risk of coronary artery disease. Surrogate markers for coronary artery disease have emerged in efforts to detect disease at earlier stages, and in order to better understand the pathophysiology. For example, coronary artery calcium scoring is emerging as a marker of future risk of coronary artery disease. Risk stratification scores are increasingly used as tools to individualize a person’s future risk of coronary artery disease in order to better target treatment and prevention strategies.