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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dunstan roberts”
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  • Literature and the Legal Imaginary

    Knowing Justice

    Edited by Subha Mukherji, Dunstan Roberts ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Tuning into the collective understanding of law as lived experience, Knowing Justice is a timely and distinctive intervention in the field of law and literature. It seeks to understand and inhabit the intersection between judicial procedure, legal thinking and imaginative practice, where epistemic processes that elude the formal discourses of law and legal history are generated and brought into ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

    Change and Exchange

    Edited by Subha Mukherji, Dunstan Roberts, Rebecca Tomlin, George Oppitz-Trotman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Placing ‘literature’ at the centre of Renaissance economic knowledge, this book offers a distinct intervention in the history of early modern epistemology. It is premised on the belief that early modern practices of change and exchange produced a range of epistemic shifts and crises, which, nonetheless, lacked a systematic vocabulary. These essays collectively tap into the imaginative kernel at ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Literature, Belief and Knowledge in Early Modern England

    Knowing Faith

    Edited by Subha Mukherji, Tim Stuart-Buttle ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The primary aim of Knowing Faith is to uncover the intervention of literary texts and approaches in a wider conversation about religious knowledge: why we need it, how to get there, where to stop, and how to recognise it once it has been attained. Its relative freedom from specialised disciplinary investments allows a literary lens to bring into focus the relatively elusive strands of thinking ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Poesy of Scientia in Early Modern England

    Edited by Subha Mukherji, Elizabeth L. Swann ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores interconnections between the modes of knowing that we now associate with the rubrics ‘literature’ and ‘science’ at a formative point in their early development. Rather than simply tracing lines of influence, it focuses on how both literary texts and natural philosophy engage with materiality, language, affect, and form. Some essays are invested in how early modern science adopts ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • The Needs of Strangers

    by Michael Ignatieff ...
    This thought provoking book uncovers a crisis in the political imagination, a wide-spread failure to provide the passionate sense of community "in which our need for belonging can be met." Seeking the answers to fundamental questions, Michael Ignatieff writes vividly both about ideas and about the people who tried to live by them-from Augustine to Bosch, from Rousseau to Simone Weil. Incisive and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Stasis

    Civil War as a Political Paradigm

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Nicholas Heron ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world's populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory, Giorgio Agamben's latest book looks at how civil war was conceived of at two crucial moments in the history of Western thought: in ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

    Edited by Larry Scanlon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology

    Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture

    by Walter J. Ong ...
    This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the past and helps explain late-twentieth-century modes of expression.Elegantly written and wide ranging, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Corporate Commonwealth

    Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516–1651

    by Henry S. Turner ...
    The history of the rise and transformation of corporations—and their political power—in Renaissance England.Winner of the Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Prize for the Best Book in Renaissance StudiesThe Corporate Commonwealth traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness

    by Sarah Beckwith ...
    Shakespeare lived at a time when England was undergoing the revolution in ritual theory and practice we know as the English Reformation. With it came an unprecedented transformation in the language of religious life. Whereas priests had once acted as mediators between God and men through sacramental rites, Reformed theology declared the priesthood of all believers. What ensued was not the tidy ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Unrepentant Renaissance

    From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton

    by Richard Strier ...
    Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? These widely articulated values were part of the inherited Christian tradition and were reinforced by key elements in the Renaissance, especially the revival of Stoicism and Platonism. This book is devoted to those who did dissent from them. ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies

    Edited by Michael J. MacDonald ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    One of the most remarkable trends in the humanities and social sciences in recent decades has been the resurgence of interest in the history, theory, and practice of rhetoric: in an age of global media networks and viral communication, rhetoric is once again "contagious" and "communicable" (Friedrich Nietzsche). Featuring sixty commissioned chapters by eminent scholars of rhetoric from twelve ... Read more

    $52.19 USD