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        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2011

        Shakespeare and Spenser

        by J. B. Lethbridge, J. B. Lethbridge

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        The Arts
        May 2009

        Auto/biography and identity

        by Kate Dorney, Maggie B. Gale, Viv Gardner, Maggie B. Gale

        This groundbreaking book shows how female performers - one of the first groups of professional women - used and still use autobiography and performance as both a means of expression and control of their private and public selves, the 'face and the mask'. It looks at how a range of women in the theatre - actors, managers, writers and live artists - have done this on the page and on the stage from the late eighteenth-century to the present day, testing the boundaries between gender, theatre and autobiographical form. This paperback edition facilitates connections - between texts and performances, past and present practitioners, professional and private selves, individuals and communities, all of which have in some way renegotiated identity through autobiography and the creative act. 'Auto/biography and identity' is a landmark in theatre history and performance analysis, in gender and cultural theory, and autobiographical studies. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2015

        A Supplement of the Faery Queene

        By Ralph Knevet

        by J. B. Lethbridge

        Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles - a chivalric romp in Spenser's cod medieval style. The poem shadows recent English history, and the major military and political events of the Thirty Years War. But the Supplement is also an ambitiously intertextual poem, weaving together materials from mythic, literary, historical, scientific, theological, and many other kinds of written sources. Its encyclopaedic ambitions combine with Knevet's historical focus to produce an allegorical epic poem of considerable interest and power. This new edition of Knevet's Supplement, the first scholarly text of the poem ever published, situates it in its literary, historical, biographical, and intellectual contexts. An extensive introduction and copious critical commentary, positioned at the back of the book, will enable students and scholars alike to access Knevet's complicated and enigmatic meanings, structures, and allusions. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2013

        Literary and visual Ralegh

        by J. B. Lethbridge

        This collection of essays by scholars from Great Britain, the United States, Canada and Taiwan covers a wide range of topics about Ralegh's diversified career and achievements. Some of the essays shed light on less familiar facets such as Ralegh as a father and as he is represented in paintings, statues, and in movies; others re-examine him as poet, historian, as a controversial figure in Ireland during Elizabeth's reign, and look at his complex relationship with and patronage of Edmund Spenser. A recurrent topic is the Hatfield Manuscript in Ralegh's handwriting, which contains his long, unfinished poem 'The Ocean to Cynthia', usually considered a lament about his rejection by Queen Elizabeth after she learned of his secret marriage to one of her ladies-in-waiting. The book is appropriate for students of Elizabethan-Jacobean history and literature. Among the contributors are well-known scholars of Ralegh and his era, including James Nohrenberg, Anna Beer, Thomas Herron, Alden Vaughan and Andrew Hiscock. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2019

        The art of The Faerie Queene

        by J. B. Lethbridge, Richard Brown

        The Art of The Faerie Queene is the first book centrally focused on the forms and poetic techniques employed by Spenser. It offers a sharp new perspective on Spenser by rereading The Faerie Queene as poetry which is at once absorbing, demanding and experimental. Instead of the traditional conservative model of Spenser as poet, this book presents the poem as radical, edgy and unconventional, thus proposing new ways of understanding the Elizabethan poetic Renaissance. The book moves from the individual words of the poem to metre, rhyme and stanza form onto its larger structures of canto and book. It will be of particular relevance to undergraduates studying Elizabethan poetry, graduate students and scholars of Renaissance poetry, for whom the formal aspect of the poetry has been a topic of growing relevance in recent years.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        September 2020

        God's only daughter

        Spenser's Una as the invisible Church

        by J. B. Lethbridge, Kathryn Walls

        In this study, Kathryn Walls challenges the standard identification of Una with the post-Reformation English Church, arguing that she is, rather, Augustine's City of God - the invisible Church, whose membership is known only to God. Una's story (its Tudor resonances notwithstanding) therefore embraces that of the Synagogue before the Incarnation as well as that of the Church in the time of Christ and thereafter. It also allegorises the redemptive process that sustains the true Church. Una is fallible in canto I. Subsequently, however, she comes to embody divine perfection. Her transformation depends upon the intervention of the lion as Christ. Convinced of the consistency and coherence of Spenser's allegory, Walls offers fresh interpretations of Abessa (as Synagoga), of the fauns and satyrs (the Gentiles), and of Una's dwarf (adiaphoric forms of worship). She also reinterprets Spenser's marriage metaphor, clarifying the significance of Red Cross as Una's spouse in the final canto.

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        September 2018

        The Promise of the Trinity

        The Covenant of Redemption in the Theologies of Witsius, Owen, Dickson, Goodwin, and Cocceius

        by B. Hoon Woo

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        The Arts
        November 2017

        Vivien Leigh

        Actress and icon

        by Kate Dorney, Maggie B. Gale

        This edited volume provides new readings of the life and career of iconic actress Vivien Leigh (1913-67), written by experts from theatre and film studies and curators from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The collection uses newly accessible family archives to explore the intensely complex relationship between Vivien Leigh's approach to the craft of acting for stage and screen, and how she shaped, developed and projected her public persona as one of the most talked about and photographed actresses of her era. With key contributors from the UK, France and the US, chapters range from analyses of her work on stage and screen to her collaborations with designers and photographers, an analysis of her fan base, her interior designs and the 'public ownership' of Leigh's celebrity status during her lifetime and beyond.

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        September 2013

        Spanische Barmherzigkeit

        Roman

        by Abraham B. Jehoschua, Markus Lemke

        Abraham B. Jehoschua erzählt in seinem meisterhaft komponierten Roman von einem erfolgreichen Leben und von dem Preis, der dafür gezahlt werden muss. Als der Regisseur Jair Moses zu einer Retrospektive seiner Filme nach Santiago de Compostela eingeladen wird, will er die Reise nach Spanien in Begleitung von Ruth, seiner langjährigen Weggefährtin, genießen. Aber dann ruft ein verstörendes Bild in seinem Hotelzimmer vergessen geglaubte Erinnerungen wach: Eine Filmszene, in der Ruth als junge Frau einem Bettler am Straßenrand die Brust geben sollte, führte zum Zerwürfnis mit dem Drehbuchautor, seinem engsten Freund. Wie konnte es so weit kommen? Die Konfrontation mit seinen alten Filmen, noch dazu in der fremden Sprache, lässt Moses tief in seine Vergangenheit eintauchen und ihn die Ereignisse von damals in einem neuen Licht sehen. Der überwältigende Wunsch nach Versöhnung wird für ihn zum Auslöser für die Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen Geschichte.

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        April 2008

        Das Verbrechen der Vernunft

        Betrug an der Wissensgesellschaft

        by Robert B. Laughlin, Michael Bischoff

        Wir leben in einer Wissensgesellschaft, die freien Zugang zu Informationen ermöglicht. Doch ist längst eine paradoxe Situation entstanden: Wissen ist gefährlich. Die Möglichkeiten, Wissen zu erwerben, können zu erheblichen Konflikten führen. »Was darf ich wissen?« Diese Frage könnte in unserem Informationszeitalter zu einer Schlüsselfrage werden. Wer Wissen erwirbt, noch dazu technisches Wissen, kann schnell an den Rand der Legalität geraten. Je mehr Technologien vermögen, desto weniger wird das Wissen über diese Technologien frei verfügbar. Wir müssen uns daher mehr und mehr mit dem bizarren Konzept des »Verbrechens der Vernunft« auseinandersetzen, damit, daß frei erworbene Erkenntnisse aus wirtschaftlichen, politischen oder militärischen Gründen als illegal erklärt werden. So gehört es zu den Absurditäten des Patentrechts, daß Konzerne in großem Umfang neue und auch zu erwartende Entwicklungen schützen lassen und damit andere Erfindungen blockieren; ein Geistesblitz kann dann schnell eine Verletzung des Patentrechts bedeuten. Ob es um Atomphysik geht, um Gentechnik oder Computerprogramme – der Physiknobelpreisträger Robert B. Laughlin enthüllt in seinem Essay die Mechanismen der Geheimhaltung von Wissen und zeigt anhand von vielen Beispielen, daß bald ein neues ›Dunkles Zeitalter‹ beginnen könnte, dessen Kennzeichen nicht Information und Wissen sind, sondern Desinformation und Ignoranz.

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        November 2012

        Kunst als Philosophie

        Hegel und die moderne Bildkunst

        by Robert B. Pippin, Wiebke Meier

        Robert B. Pippin, einer der weltweit renommiertesten Forscher auf dem Gebiet des Deutschen Idealismus, unternimmt in seinem Buch eine Zeitreise mit einem Philosophen, der auf den ersten Blick dafür denkbar ungeeignet erscheint: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Ausgangspunkt der Reise sind Hegels 1820 in Berlin gehaltene »Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik«, in denen er bekanntlich der Kunst ihren Platz in seinem philosophischen System zuweist: als das unmittelbare sinnliche Wissen des absoluten Geistes. Mit Hegels Theorie im Gepäck erkundet Pippin die Bildkunst der klassischen Moderne, wie sie sich erst nach Hegels Tod ab der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts entwickelt hat. Insbesondere in den Werken Édouard Manets und Paul Cézannes findet er Kronzeugen für seine zentralen Thesen, dass die moderne Kunst philosophische Errungenschaften eigener Art hervorbringt, dass sie einen bestimmten Modus der Intelligibilität des »Absoluten« verkörpert und dass Hegel »der« Theoretiker der Moderne in der bildenden Kunst war, wenn auch »avant la lettre«. Pippin verteidigt diese Thesen so eindrucksvoll wie elegant in direkter Auseinandersetzung mit maßgeblichen Werken moderner Malerei und im Spiegel der berühmten kunsthistorischen Debatte zwischen Timothy J. Clark und Michael Fried – und liefert ganz nebenbei eine konzise Geschichte der philosophischen Ästhetik von Kant bis Adorno und Heidegger. - Mit zahlreichen, zum Teil farbigen Abbildungen

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        Mycology, fungi (non-medical)
        January 1993

        Mitosporic Fungi from Malawi

        by B C Sutton

        Mycological paper of Mitosporic Fungi from Malawi

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        Microbiology (non-medical)
        January 1973

        Hyphomycetes from Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Canada

        by B C Sutton

        Mycological paper discussing Hyphomycetes from the regions of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

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        Agricultural science
        May 1998

        Seed Biology and the Yield of Grain Crops

        by Dennis B Egli

        The food supply to an expanding world population is based on grain crops, i.e. crops harvested for their seeds. Therefore, understanding the process of seed growth and its regulation is crucial in our efforts to increase production, in order to meet the needs of that population. Yield is determined by the ability of crop plants to use their assimilatory processes such as photosynthesis and also the biosynthetic processes in the seed, which are partly regulated within the seed itself. This book examines the determination of grain crop yield from a new and unique perspective, by concentrating on the influence of the seed. All aspects of seed growth and development are described, including environmental and genetic effects on growth rate and length of filling period. The effect of the seed on the two main yield components, individual seed weight and number of seeds per unit area, is then discussed. Finally, the concepts and models developed are evaluated in terms of crop management. The book is essential reading for those concerned with seed science and crop yield, including agronomists, crop physiologists, plant breeders, and extension workers. It will also be a valuable source of information for lecturers and graduate students of agronomy and plant physiology.

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