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This book focuses on a close analysis of selected speeches of
Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses
from fellow MPs from the middle of 1940 to the death of Churchill
in 1965, speeches in war and peace, during the aggression Hitler
and others in the Second World War , and concentrates on foreign
affairs. The study studies the words of Churchill and the responses
to them and to his retirement and death. The book will appeal to
those interested in Churchill, freedom, tyranny, diplomacy, war and
conflict, democracy, politics, the 1940s, the Second World War, the
Cold War, Britain, the English-speaking world, Canada, the United
States, the British Empire and Commonwealth, Europe, France, Asia,
Germany, Japan, totalitarianism, Parliament and legislative
assemblies, rhetoric, language, style, speech-writing, oral and
written communication, literature, history and other areas. The
debate between autocracy and the tyrannical totalitarian on the one
hand and democracy on the other is the debate of those times and
ours. The reader will find many parallels, some chilling, with our
own times. Churchill and his contemporaries have much to teach us.
We learn from Churchill in life and death, his words echoing in our
times.
Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: Poetry, Philosophy and
Politics is the second volume of this study and builds on the
first, which concentrated on related matters, including geography
and language. In both volumes, a key focus is close analysis of the
text and an attention to Shakespeare's use of signs, verbal and
visual, to represent the world in poetry and prose, in dramatic and
non-dramatic work as well as some of the contexts before, during
and after the Renaissance. Shakespeare's representation of
character and action in poetry and theatre, his interpretation and
subsequent interpretations of him are central to the book as seen
through these topics: German Shakespeare, a life and no life,
aesthetics and ethics, liberty and tyranny, philosophy and poetry,
theory and practice, image and text. The book also explores the
typology of then and now, local and global.
This book focuses on a close analysis of selected speeches of
Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses
from fellow MPs from 1933-1940 in peace and war, during the rise of
Hitler, and concentrates on foreign affairs. The study will appeal
to those interested in Churchill, freedom, tyranny, diplomacy, war
and conflict, democracy, politics, the 1930s, the Second World War,
Britain, the English-speaking world, Canada, the United States, the
British Empire and Commonwealth, Europe, France, Asia, Germany,
totalitarianism, Parliament and legislative assemblies, rhetoric,
language, style, speech-writing, oral and written communication,
literature, history and other areas. The debate between autocracy
and the tyrannical totalitarian on the one hand and democracy on
the other is the debate of those times and ours. The reader will
find many parallels, some chilling, with our own times. Churchill
and his contemporaries have much to teach us.Churchill was key to
our world history and is a key to understanding what is at stake in
the world now.
This study breaks new ground by looking at the words of Churchill
in his writing and speeches and by focusing on his language over
his six decades in the House of Commons, especially in his speeches
there recorded in Hansard and his crucial speeches during the
crisis of 1940. The method is to analyze or read closely the
language of Churchill, particularly in the texts of his speeches,
but also in contexts, including the responses to him by and the
exchange with his fellow Members of Parliament. Churchill, who won
the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a figure key to the history of
the world and not simply in Britain, the Commonwealth and the
United States. Churchill, like Shakespeare, is a master of
language, a controversial figure who was all too human, but someone
who stood up for freedom and democracy and against tyranny and
totalitarian regimes. His words helped to shape the world and
preserved liberty.
Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire presents Shakespeare as
both a local and global writer, investigating Shakespeare's
trans-cultural writing through the interrelations and interactions
of binaries including theory and practice, past and present,
aesthetics and ethics, freedom and tyranny, republic and empire,
empires and colonies, poetry and history, rhetoric and poetics,
England and America, and England and Asia. The book breaks away
from traditional western-centric analysis to present a universal
Shakespeare, exposing readers to the relevance and significance of
Shakespeare within their local contexts and cultures. This text
aims to present a global Shakespeare, utilizing a dual perspective
or dialectical presentation, mainly centred on questions of (1) how
Shakespeare can be viewed as both an English writer and a world
writer; (2) how language operates across genres and kinds of
discourse; and (3) how Shakespeare helps to articulate a poetics of
both texts (literature) and contexts (cultures). The book's
originality lies in its articulation of the importance and value of
Shakespeare in the emerging landscape of global culture.
Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: Poetry, Philosophy and
Politics is the second volume of this study and builds on the
first, which concentrated on related matters, including geography
and language. In both volumes, a key focus is close analysis of the
text and an attention to Shakespeare's use of signs, verbal and
visual, to represent the world in poetry and prose, in dramatic and
non-dramatic work as well as some of the contexts before, during
and after the Renaissance. Shakespeare's representation of
character and action in poetry and theatre, his interpretation and
subsequent interpretations of him are central to the book as seen
through these topics: German Shakespeare, a life and no life,
aesthetics and ethics, liberty and tyranny, philosophy and poetry,
theory and practice, image and text. The book also explores the
typology of then and now, local and global.
Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire presents Shakespeare as
both a local and global writer, investigating Shakespeare's
trans-cultural writing through the interrelations and interactions
of binaries including theory and practice, past and present,
aesthetics and ethics, freedom and tyranny, republic and empire,
empires and colonies, poetry and history, rhetoric and poetics,
England and America, and England and Asia. The book breaks away
from traditional western-centric analysis to present a universal
Shakespeare, exposing readers to the relevance and significance of
Shakespeare within their local contexts and cultures. This text
aims to present a global Shakespeare, utilizing a dual perspective
or dialectical presentation, mainly centred on questions of (1) how
Shakespeare can be viewed as both an English writer and a world
writer; (2) how language operates across genres and kinds of
discourse; and (3) how Shakespeare helps to articulate a poetics of
both texts (literature) and contexts (cultures). The book's
originality lies in its articulation of the importance and value of
Shakespeare in the emerging landscape of global culture.
Shakespeare and Asia brings together innovative scholars from Asia
or with Asian connections to explore these matters of East-West and
global contexts then and now. The collection ranges from
interpretations of Shakespeare's plays and his relations with other
authors like Marlowe and Dickens through Shakespeare and history
and ecology to studies of film, opera or scholarship in Japan,
Russia, India, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan and mainland China. The
adaptations of Kozintsev and Kurosawa; Bollywood adaptations of
Shakespeare's plays; different Shakespearean dramas and how they
are interpreted, adapted and represented for the local Pakistani
audience; the Peking-opera adaptation of Hamlet ; Feng Xiaogang's
The Banquet as an adaptation of Hamlet; the ideology of the film,
Shakespeare Wallah. Asian adaptations of Hamlet will be at the
heart of this volume. Hamlet is also analyzed in light of Oedipus
and the Sphinx. Shakespeare is also considered as a historicist and
in terms of what influence he has on Chinese writers and historical
television. Lear is Here and Cleopatra and Her Fools, two adapted
Shakespearean plays on the contemporary Taiwanese stage, are also
discussed. This collection also examines in Shakespeare the
patriarchal prerogative and notion of violence; carnival and space
in the comedies; the exotic and strange; and ecology. The book is
rich, ranging and innovative and will contribute to Shakespeare
studies, Shakespeare and media and film, Shakespeare and Asia and
global Shakespeare.
Making and Seeing Modern Texts explores the poetics of texts
through a close reading and analysis across the genres of poetry,
drama, fiction, non-fiction travel literature and theory. This
volume demonstrates that prose, as much as poetry, share the making
and seeing of language, literary practice, and theory. Genre, then,
is presented as a guide that crosses multiple boundaries. This
volume selects different ways to examine texts, discussing Michael
Ondaatje's early poetry and examining narrative in Philip Roth's
The Human Stain. The book examines images in poetry, narrative in
fiction, prefaces in non-fiction, metatheatre in drama, and
attempts to see the modern and postmodern in theory, all of which
show us the complexities of modernity or later modernity. One of
the innovations is that the author, a literary critic/theorist,
poet and historian, takes his training in practice and theory and
shows, through examples of each, how language operates across
genres.
Precipitation drives the dynamics of flows and storages in water
systems, making its monitoring essential for water management.
Conventionally, precipitation is monitored using in-situ and remote
sensors. In-situ sensors are arranged in networks, which are
usually sparse, providing continuous observations for long periods
at fixed points in space, and due to the high costs of such
networks, they are often sub-optimal. To increase the efficiency of
the monitoring networks, we explore the use of sensors that can
relocate as rainfall events develop (dynamic sensors), as well as
increasing the number of sensors involving volunteers (citizens).
This research focusses on the development of an approach for
merging heterogeneous observations in non-stationary precipitation
fields, exploring the interactions between different definitions of
optimality for the design of sensor networks, as well as
development of algorithms for the optimal scheduling of dynamic
sensors. This study was carried out in three different case
studies, including Bacchiglione River (Italy), Don River (U.K.) and
Brue Catchment (U.K.) The results of this study indicate that
optimal use of dynamic sensors may be useful for monitoring
precipitation to support water management and flow forecasting.
Shakespeare and Asia brings together innovative scholars from Asia
or with Asian connections to explore these matters of East-West and
global contexts then and now. The collection ranges from
interpretations of Shakespeare's plays and his relations with other
authors like Marlowe and Dickens through Shakespeare and history
and ecology to studies of film, opera or scholarship in Japan,
Russia, India, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan and mainland China. The
adaptations of Kozintsev and Kurosawa; Bollywood adaptations of
Shakespeare's plays; different Shakespearean dramas and how they
are interpreted, adapted and represented for the local Pakistani
audience; the Peking-opera adaptation of Hamlet ; Feng Xiaogang's
The Banquet as an adaptation of Hamlet; the ideology of the film,
Shakespeare Wallah. Asian adaptations of Hamlet will be at the
heart of this volume. Hamlet is also analyzed in light of Oedipus
and the Sphinx. Shakespeare is also considered as a historicist and
in terms of what influence he has on Chinese writers and historical
television. Lear is Here and Cleopatra and Her Fools, two adapted
Shakespearean plays on the contemporary Taiwanese stage, are also
discussed. This collection also examines in Shakespeare the
patriarchal prerogative and notion of violence; carnival and space
in the comedies; the exotic and strange; and ecology. The book is
rich, ranging and innovative and will contribute to Shakespeare
studies, Shakespeare and media and film, Shakespeare and Asia and
global Shakespeare.
Making and Seeing Modern Texts explores the poetics of texts
through a close reading and analysis across the genres of poetry,
drama, fiction, non-fiction travel literature and theory. This
volume demonstrates that prose, as much as poetry, share the making
and seeing of language, literary practice, and theory. Genre, then,
is presented as a guide that crosses multiple boundaries. This
volume selects different ways to examine texts, discussing Michael
Ondaatje's early poetry and examining narrative in Philip Roth's
The Human Stain. The book examines images in poetry, narrative in
fiction, prefaces in non-fiction, metatheatre in drama, and
attempts to see the modern and postmodern in theory, all of which
show us the complexities of modernity or later modernity. One of
the innovations is that the author, a literary critic/theorist,
poet and historian, takes his training in practice and theory and
shows, through examples of each, how language operates across
genres.
Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when
Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier's small diary in the Baldwin
Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary's first entry
was marked 28 June 1915. After some research, Hart discovered that
Charles Smith was an Anglo-Canadian, born in Kent, and that this
diary was almost all that remained of this forgotten man, who like
so many soldiers from ordinary families had lost his life in the
First World War. In reading the diary, Hart discovered a voice full
of life, and the presence of a rhythm, a cadence that urged him to
bring forth the poetry in Smith's words. Unforgetting Private
Charles Smith is the poetic setting of the words in Smith's diary,
work undertaken by Hart with the intention of remembering Smith's
life rather than commemorating his death.
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Musing (Paperback)
Jonathan Locke Hart
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Musing is a book of sonnets. Working within the framework of
aclassic poetic form, Jonathan Locke Hart embarks on an
extendedmeditation on our rootedness in landscape and in the past.
As sonnets,some of the poems are traditional, some innovative.
Throughout, Hartdeftly imparts a European poetic flavour to a
fundamentally NorthAmerican experience.
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