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  • Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles

    Powerful Times

    Edited by A. Reading, T. Katriel ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles from ten countries. The book reminds us of the enduring cultural scripts for human agency, solidarity, resilience and human kindness. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • In Defence of History

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    "A lucid, muscular, and often sly reflection" on the worth and purpose of historical scholarship by the award-winning author of The Third Reich Trilogy ( Kirkus).In this volume, the renowned historian Richard J. Evans offers a fervent and deeply insightful defense of his craft and its importance to civilization. At a time when fact and historical truth are under unprecedented assault, Evans shows ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Laura Ingalls Wilder

    American Writer on the Prairie

    by Sallie Ketcham ...
    Series series Routledge Historical Americans
    Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote stories that have defined the American frontier for generations of readers. As both author and character in her own books, she became one of the most famous figures in American children’s literature. Her famous Little House on the Prairie series, based on her childhood in Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, and South Dakota, blended memoir and fiction into a vivid depiction of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • World Cinema and Cultural Memory

    by I. Hedges ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five continents. The book's innovative approach and approachable style should transform the way that we think of film and its social effects. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Politics of War Commemoration in the UK and Russia

    by Nataliya Danilova ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book analyses contemporary war commemoration in Britain and Russia. Focusing on the political aspects of remembrance, it explores the instrumentalisation of memory for managing civil-military relations and garnering public support for conflicts. It explains the nexus between remembrance, militarisation and nationalism in modern societies. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Appropriating the Past

    Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology

    Edited by Geoffrey Scarre, Robin Coningham ...
    In this book an international team of archaeologists, philosophers, lawyers and heritage professionals addresses significant ethical questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the material remains of the past. The chapters explore competing claims to interpret and appropriate the past and the major ethical issues associated with them, including handling the sacred; contested rights ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

    Edited by Jack Zipes ...
    Series series Oxford Companions
    In over 1,000 entries, this acclaimed Companion covers all aspects of the Western fairy tale tradition, from medieval to modern, under the guidance of Professor Jack Zipes. It provides an authoritative reference source for this complex and captivating genre, exploring the tales themselves, the writers who wrote and reworked them, and the artists who illustrated them. It also covers numerous ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Memory Work

    The Second Generation

    by Nina Fischer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Memory Work studies how Jewish children of Holocaust survivors from the English-speaking diaspora explore the past in literary texts. By identifying areas where memory manifests - Objects, Names, Bodies, Food, Passover, 9/11 it shows how the Second Generation engage with the pre-Holocaust family and their parents' survival. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Empathy and its Limits

    Edited by Aleida Assmann, Ines Detmers ...
    This volume extends the theoretical scope of the important concept of empathy by analysing not only the cultural contexts that foster the generating of empathy, but in focusing also on the limits of pro-social feelings and the mechanisms that lead to its blocking. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England

    History, Poetry, and Performance

    by Sarah Elliott Novacich ...
    Series Book 97 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Sarah Elliott Novacich explores how medieval thinkers pondered the ethics and pleasures of the archive. She traces three episodes of sacred history - the loss of Eden, the loading of Noah's ark, and the Harrowing of Hell - across works of poetry, performance records, and iconography in order to demonstrate how medieval artists turned to sacred history to think through aspects of cultural ... Read more

    $80.39 USD

  • Rooting Memory, Rooting Place

    Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South

    by C. Lloyd ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a fresh and nuanced view of twenty-first-century texts. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen

    by László Strausz ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book argues that hesitation as an artistic and spectatorial strategy connects various screen media texts produced in post-war Romania. The chapters draw a historical connection between films made during the state socialist decades, televised broadcasts of the 1989 Romanian revolution, and films of the new Romanian cinema. The book explores how the critical attitude of new Romanian cinema ... Read more

    $71.99 USD