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First published in 1992, Theater and World is a detailed
exploration of Shakespeare’s representation of history and how it
affects the relation between theatre and world. The book focuses
primarily on the Second Tetralogy (Richard II, Henry IV Part I,
Henry IV Part II, and Henry V) and includes a wealth of analysis
and interpretation of the plays. In doing so, it explores a wide
range of topics, including the relation between literary and
theatrical representations and the world; the nature of illusion
and reality; genre; the connection between history and fiction
(especially plays); historiography and literary criticism or
theory; poetry and philosophy; and irony, both rhetorical and
philosophical. Theater and World continues to have lasting
relevance for anyone with an interest in Shakespeare’s words and
his representation of history in particular.
Imagining Culture, first published in 1996, discusses literature as
a whole rather than a partisan interest in those who are in or out
of favour, and how that literature relates to other arts as well as
to philosophical, historical, and cultural contexts. This title
will be of interest to students of literature and cultural studies.
First published in 1996, Explorations in Difference explores how
contemporary debates over identity and difference come into play
within the workings of cultural, legal, and political institutions.
The book brings together a variety of perspectives on the meanings
and implications of difference in the context of postmodern theory.
It is divided into two parts: ‘Theoretical Accounts’, which
establishes a context for postmodern inquiries into difference, and
‘Instances’, which provides application to particular issues.
Highly interdisciplinary, Explorations in Difference continues to
have lasting relevance and will appeal to those with an interest in
postmodern difference and its implications.
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1992, Theater and World is a detailed
exploration of Shakespeare's representation of history and how it
affects the relation between theatre and world. The book focuses
primarily on the Second Tetralogy (Richard II, Henry IV Part I,
Henry IV Part II, and Henry V) and includes a wealth of analysis
and interpretation of the plays. In doing so, it explores a wide
range of topics, including the relation between literary and
theatrical representations and the world; the nature of illusion
and reality; genre; the connection between history and fiction
(especially plays); historiography and literary criticism or
theory; poetry and philosophy; and irony, both rhetorical and
philosophical. Theater and World continues to have lasting
relevance for anyone with an interest in Shakespeare's words and
his representation of history in particular.
First published in 1996, Explorations in Difference explores how
contemporary debates over identity and difference come into play
within the workings of cultural, legal, and political institutions.
The book brings together a variety of perspectives on the meanings
and implications of difference in the context of postmodern theory.
It is divided into two parts: 'Theoretical Accounts', which
establishes a context for postmodern inquiries into difference, and
'Instances', which provides application to particular issues.
Highly interdisciplinary, Explorations in Difference continues to
have lasting relevance and will appeal to those with an interest in
postmodern difference and its implications.
This book of original essays explores three important areas in
comparative literature and history and in cultural studies: the
boundaries between history and fiction;women as writers and
subjects; and the connection between the early modern, modern and
postmodern. New history and new literary studies look at innovative
ways to see past cultures in a new light. Traditional methods are
used to new ends and writers who are familiar within their cultures
are translated to other cultures. This study promotes an expanded
understanding of our cultural artifacts in a rapidly changing
present. It discusses English-speaking culture in the early modern
period in the context of other European cultures and relates Europe
to other parts of the world, most notably America. After grounding
the discussion of culture in history, identity, dialogue as a genre
that crosses the boundaries between philosophy and fiction, the
rhetoric of prefaces to historical collections, cosmographies and
histories that share something with the techniques of literary and
forensic rhetoric, the book proceeds to discuss two central issues
in cultural studies today: gender and postmodernity. The final
section of the book provides a general assessment through early
modern texts of modernity and postmodernity.
Reading the Renaissance, first published in 1996, is a collection
of essays discussing the literature, drama, poetics and culture of
the Renaissance period. The Renaissance, which extends from about
1300 to 1700 depending on the country, was originally a rebirth of
the arts but has also come to apply to the wider cultural change in
the face of modernization. The essays represent a plural
Renaissance and explore the boundaries between genre and gender,
languages and literatures, reading and criticism, the Renaissance
and the medieval, the early modern and the postmodern, world and
theatre. There is also a plurality of methods that is fitting for
the variety of topics and the richness of the Renaissance. This
book is ideal for students of literature and theatre studies.
This book of original essays explores three important areas in
comparative literature and history and in cultural studies: the
boundaries between history and fiction; women as writers and
subjects; and the connection between the early modern, modern and
postmodern.
New history and new literary studies look at innovative ways to see
past cultures in a new light. Traditional methods are used to new
ends and writers who are familiar within their cultures are
translated to other cultures. This study promotes an expanded
understanding of our cultural artifacts in a rapidly changing
present. It discusses English-speaking culture in the early modern
period in the context of other European cultures and relates Europe
to other parts of the world, most notably America.
After grounding the discussion of culture in history, identity,
dialogue as a genre that crosses the boundaries between philosophy
and fiction, the rhetoric of prefaces to historical collections,
cosmographies and histories that share something with the
techniques of literary and forensic rhetoric, the book proceeds to
discuss two central issues in cultural studies today: gender and
postmodernity. The final section of the book provides a general
assessment through early modern texts of modernity and
postmodernity.
Northrop Frye is acknowledged as a prominent 20th-century critic.
"The Anatomy of Criticism" (1957) is said to have transformed
literary theory, and his contributions to studies of Blake,
theories of aesthetics, theology and social criticism, have ensured
his place in the field of cultural studies. His belief that
ideology is everywhere, and that mythology is part of ideology, has
given rise to one of the most important contemporary theoretical
debates: the relation between myth and ideology, between narrative
and imagination. This work surveys Frye's career, incoporating
archival material as well as his published work.
Reading the Renaissance, first published in 1996, is a collection
of essays discussing the literature, drama, poetics and culture of
the Renaissance period. The Renaissance, which extends from about
1300 to 1700 depending on the country, was originally a rebirth of
the arts but has also come to apply to the wider cultural change in
the face of modernization. The essays represent a plural
Renaissance and explore the boundaries between genre and gender,
languages and literatures, reading and criticism, the Renaissance
and the medieval, the early modern and the postmodern, world and
theatre. There is also a plurality of methods that is fitting for
the variety of topics and the richness of the Renaissance. This
book is ideal for students of literature and theatre studies.
Imagining Culture, first published in 1996, discusses literature as
a whole rather than a partisan interest in those who are in or out
of favour, and how that literature relates to other arts as well as
to philosophical, historical, and cultural contexts. This title
will be of interest to students of literature and cultural studies.
The construction of a natural gas pipeline across southern Wales
and into Herefordshire and Gloucestershire between 2005 and 2007
resulted in numerous archaeological discoveries, including sites of
national significance. The project not only produced a wealth of
new archaeological sites, it also generated important radiocarbon
and environmental datasets for the region. The earliest activity is
indicated by worked flint of Mesolithic (or earlier) date, with the
earliest Neolithic communities represented by pits, evidence for
occasional timber houses, and the discovery of a previously unknown
henge. Beaker and Bronze Age settlement and burial remains were
found too, including a rare copper halberd. The excavations also
produced evidence for Early Bronze Age houses and numerous examples
of burnt mounds. Other discoveries comprised much new evidence for
Iron Age settlement (including some in areas of upland), Roman
roads, crop-processing ovens, and ironworking. Rare evidence for
the early medieval period was also found, along with the remains of
later farmsteads and field systems. Moves towards industrialisation
were reflected in the discovery of a brick kiln and
charcoal-burning platforms.
Approaching the Renaissance from many perspectives-historicism,
genre studies, close reading, anthropology, feminism, new
historicism, cultural materialism and postmodernism-these original
essays explore the boundaries between genre and gender, languages
and literatures, reading and criticism, the Renaissance and the
Middle Ages, the early modern and the post-modern, world and
theater. They offer a new way of looking at the Renaissance and at
literature and history generally-through the lens of cultural
pluralism, which reflects the changing nature of Western society.
The collection reveals that the study of literature should take
into account its cultural context and that it is enriched by an
examination of other literatures.
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Archaeological surveys and excavations were carried out between
2006 and 2010 in advance of the construction of a gas pipeline in
the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. They resulted in the discovery of
many new sites and the investigation of eighteen of them dating
from the prehistoric to medieval periods. Early Neolithic and
Beaker/Early Bronze Age pits in the southern part of the route near
Winstone, suggest transitory occupation in early prehistoric times.
Early Bronze Age cremation graves on lower ground near Stanway were
associated with two slightly later ring-ditches, and another Bronze
Age ring-ditch was excavated at Foxcote Hill. A segmented boundary
ditch near Winstone was also the location of Iron Age and Roman
activity. An Iron Age settlement on Salter's Hill, Winchcombe,
included an Early Iron Age roundhouse, while Middle Iron Age
grain-storage pits here and elsewhere indicated other farming
settlements. Late Iron Age and Roman occupations in the high Wolds
showed a range of remains, including unusual deposits of artefacts,
animal bones and burials. A fragmentary sequence of Anglo-Saxon
boundary burials was found at the southern end of the route near
Sapperton. In the same area, two 12th- to 13th-century buildings
near Overley Wood may have been part of the medieval settlement of
Pinbury. Trackways revealed near Coberley, Foxcote and Hailes
linked rural settlements in historical times. The range of sites
and finds from these investigations provide important new
information on the human past across parts of a landscape in many
respects considered to be marginal.
"Natives and Settlers provides a beginning to what should be (and
should have been) a continuing, respectful discussion." --Blanca
Schorcht, Associate Professor, University of Northern British
Columbia Is Canada truly postcolonial? Burdened by a past that
remains 'refracted' in its understanding and treatment of Native
peoples, this collection reinterprets treaty making and land claims
from Aboriginal perspectives. These five essays not only provide
fresh insights to the interpretations of treaties and treaty-making
processes, but also examine land claims still under negotiation.
Natives and Settlers reclaims the vitality of Aboriginal laws and
paradigms in Canada, a country new to decolonization.
When civilizations first encounter each other a cascade of change
is triggered that both challenges and reinforces the identities of
all parties. Making Contact revisits key encounters between
cultures in the medieval and early modern world-Europe and Africa,
the multiple ethnicities of greater Poland, Christians and Jews,
Jesuits and Japanese, Elizabethans vs. aboriginals and vagrants,
English and Algonquians, Pierre Radisson and the Iroquois, and the
Spaniards in America.
This book presents a unique new method to improve business focus,
capacity, capability, performance, profitability and information,
reduce stress and attract the right sort of customers, suppliers,
personnel and publicity. In other words, how to get your ducks in a
row. You'll discover how Purpose and Intention act as the Magnetic
North of a business, and how aligning everything to P&I will
transform the capability of the business. One thing's for sure, if
you follow this method, you'll never look at your business in the
same light again.
Empires and Colonies provides a thoroughgoing and lively
exploration of the expansion of the seaborne empires of western
Europe from the fifteenth century and how that process of expansion
affected the world,
including its successor, the United States.
Whilst providing special attention to Europe, the book is careful
to highlight the ambivalence and contradiction of that expansion.
The book also illuminates connections between empires and colonies
as a theme in history, concentrating on culture while also
discussing the rich social, economic and political dimensions of
the story.
Furthermore, Empires and Colonies recognizes that whilst a study
of the expansion of Europe is an important part of world history,
it is not a history of the world per se. The focus on culture is
used to assert that areas and peoples
that lack great economic power at any given time also deserve
attention. These alternative voices of slaves, indigenous peoples
and critics of empire and colonization are an important and
compelling element of the book.
Empires and Colonies will be essential reading not only for
students of imperial history, but also for anyone interested in the
makings of our modern world.
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