Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
by G. Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
By comparing and contrasting the pre-conversion and the post-conversion poetics and poetic practices of T.S. Eliot, this book elucidates the responsibilities and opportunities for a poet who is also Christian. This book is the second in a trilogy which includes T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word.
T.S. Eliot’s Christmas Poems
An Essay in Writing-as-Reading and Other “Impossible Unions”
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This is the first full-scale analysis of T.S. Eliot's six "Ariel Poems" as Christmas poems. Through close readings, Atkins argues that these poems considered together emerge as clearly related representations of the "impossible union" that occurred in the Incarnation.
Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home
Quests of Transcendence and the Sin of Separation
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
In a fresh reading of Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Atkins draws parallels between the protagonists: both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the burdens of life, seeking a transcendent existence. The study sheds important new light on both novels as essential critiques of modern misunderstandings.
Technology of Oppression
Preserving Freedom and Dignity in an Age of Mass, Warrantless Surveillance
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
In the aftermath of the Edward Snowden leaks, the Obama administration has been hard pressed to yield to greater transparency and openness to constructive change. This book provides a catalyst toward greater transparency, increased public awareness of the urgent need for constructive change, and the insight into what such change would require.
Edwardian England and the Idea of Racial Decline
An Empire’s Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Emerging from a long and exhausting conflict against the Boers in South Africa, Edwardians are often perceived as rocked by a profound set of doubts about the future of the British Empire. Drawing upon a wide range of popular sources, this study considers the level of middle-class engagement with such strains of pessimistic thought.
by N. Birns
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different from that of the classical world in analogous writers.
by N. Pireddu
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris's corpus for an English-speaking audience and addresses the crucial question of the return to humanism that is moving literature and theory forward.
by Giuseppe Ragnetti, Francesco Fattorello
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
In this book, Fattorello addresses the differences between contingent and non-contingent information. The theory is translated into English for the first time and is contextualized and put into a historical framework by Prof. Ragnetti's additional text.
A Rumor of Empathy
Rewriting Empathy in the Context of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
A rumor of empathy in vicarious receptivity, understanding, interpretation, narrative, and empathic intersubjectivity becomes the scandal of empathy in Lipps and Strachey. Yet when all the philosophical arguments and categories are complete and all the hermeneutic circles spun out, we are quite simply in the presence of another human being.
by A. Withey
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
The second half of the eighteenth century brought important changes in attitudes towards shaping the body. New expectations of polite conduct, deportment and demeanour were projected onto the body, with emphasis laid upon neatness, elegance and a 'natural' body shape. Deformities were to be concealed,...
Olympic Ceremonialism and The Performance of National Character
From London 2012 to Rio 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover to Rio 2016 as articulations of national and cosmopolitan belonging. The ceremonial performances supported imaginative travel and created a tornadóros: an ideal form of 'human' that manipulates audiovisual narratives of culture and identity for global audiences.
The International Migration of German Great War Veterans
Emotion, Transnational Identity, and Loyalty to the Nation, 1914-1942
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This book uses story-telling to recreate the history of German veteran migration after the First World War. German veterans of the Great War were among Europe’s most volatile population when they returned to a defeated nation in 1918, after great expectations of victory and personal heroism. Some...
by D. Tröhler
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi transformed education theory and practice worldwide. Daniel Tröhler connects Pestalozzi's work to its context in Europe's late 18th- and early 19th-century republican movement, offering readers a way to understand the sociopolitical significance of education and its central role in the development of modern societies.
The Changing Nature of the Graduate Labour Market
Media, Policy and Political Discourses in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
The assumptions made in the media regarding graduate skills and occupations are no longer valid within the changing educational context. This book traces seven key trends that shape the graduate labour market and reveals that their effects contradict the conceptualisation of the graduate labour market which dominates media and policy discourses.