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This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence
contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical,
epistemological and narratological means. International critics
examine a range of contemporary writers including Eavan Boland,
Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, Frank
McGuinness, Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon, and explore Shakespeare's
tragedies, histories and comedies, as well as his sonnets.
Together, the chapters demonstrate that Shakespeare continues to
exert a pressure on Irish writing into the twenty-first century,
sometimes because of and sometimes in spite of the fact that his
writing is inextricably tied to the Elizabethan and Jacobean
colonization of Ireland. Contemporary Irish writers appropriate,
adopt, adapt and strategize through their engagements with
Shakespeare, and indeed through his own engagement with the world
around him four hundred years ago.
This original and innovative book proposes 'dismemory' as a new
form of intertextual engagement with Shakespeare by modern and
contemporary Irish writers. Through reflection on these canonical
writers and ranging across thirteen Shakespeare plays,
Taylor-Collins demonstrates how Irish writers who helped to fashion
and critique the Irish nation state carry an indelible, if often
subdued, mark of Shakespeare's early modern English influence. The
volume overall renews and revitalises the Shakespeare-modern
Ireland connection: Taylor-Collins reveals Hamlet's hauntological
legacy in Playboy of the Western World, Ulysses, and Ghosts; how
the corporal economies that exert pressure from Coriolanus and Ben
Jonson flicker through to the antiheroes in Beckett's Three Novels;
and how the landed legacies of territorial contests in Shakespeare
are engaged with in Yeats's poetry, and similarly how the diseased
muddiness in Hamlet is addressed by Heaney. -- .
Judge for Yourself guides interested and advanced-level readers
through the challenge of judging the quality of hyper-contemporary
literature. Whether reading the latest bestseller or the book that
everyone is recommending, Judge for Yourself guides you through the
challenge of the text. Reading the longlist of the 2019
International Dylan Thomas Prize through five chapters, Judge for
Yourself introduces readers to current critical debates that inform
engagement and the reading experience of hyper-contemporary
writing. Topics covered include feminism, postcolonialism, critical
race theory, queer theory, class, and book reviews. Each chapter
includes introductory questions for the reader, and Judge for
Yourself is accompanied by an exploration of book prize culture and
the challenge posed by hyper-contemporary literature. Judge for
Yourself puts judging firmly in the hands of the reader, and not
the academic or professional reviewers.
Judge for Yourself guides interested and advanced-level readers
through the challenge of judging the quality of hyper-contemporary
literature. Whether reading the latest bestseller or the book that
everyone is recommending, Judge for Yourself guides you through the
challenge of the text. Reading the longlist of the 2019
International Dylan Thomas Prize through five chapters, Judge for
Yourself introduces readers to current critical debates that inform
engagement and the reading experience of hyper-contemporary
writing. Topics covered include feminism, postcolonialism, critical
race theory, queer theory, class, and book reviews. Each chapter
includes introductory questions for the reader, and Judge for
Yourself is accompanied by an exploration of book prize culture and
the challenge posed by hyper-contemporary literature. Judge for
Yourself puts judging firmly in the hands of the reader, and not
the academic or professional reviewers.
LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media provides a multi-faceted
exploration of LEGO fandom, addressing a blindspot in current
accounts of LEGO and an emerging area of interest to media
scholars: namely, the role of hobbyist enthusiasts and content
producers in LEGO's emergence as a ubiquitous transmedia franchise.
This book examines a range of LEGO hobbyism and their attendant
forms of mediated self-expression and identity (their
"technicities"): artists, aspiring Master Builders, collectors, and
entrepreneurs who refashion LEGO bricks into new commodities (sets,
tchotchkes, and minifigures). The practices and perspectives that
constitute this diverse scene lie at the intersection of multiple
transformations in contemporary culture, including the shifting
relationships between culture industries and the audiences that
form their most ardent consumer base, but also the emerging forms
of entrepreneurialism, professionalization, and globalization that
characterize the burgeoning DIY movement. What makes this a
compelling project for media scholars is its mutli-dimensional
articulation of how LEGO functions not just as a toy, cultural
icon, or as transmedia franchise, but as a media platform. LEGOfied
is centered around their shared experiences, qualitative
observations, and semi-structured interviews at a number of LEGO
hobbyist conventions. Working outwards from these conventions, each
chapter engages additional modes of inquiry-media archaeology,
aesthetics, posthumanist philosophy, feminist media studies, and
science and technology studies-to explore the origins, permutations
and implications of different aspects of the contemporary LEGO
fandom scene.
This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence
contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical,
epistemological and narratological means. International critics
examine a range of contemporary writers including Eavan Boland,
Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, Frank
McGuinness, Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon, and explore Shakespeare's
tragedies, histories and comedies, as well as his sonnets.
Together, the chapters demonstrate that Shakespeare continues to
exert a pressure on Irish writing into the twenty-first century,
sometimes because of and sometimes in spite of the fact that his
writing is inextricably tied to the Elizabethan and Jacobean
colonization of Ireland. Contemporary Irish writers appropriate,
adopt, adapt and strategize through their engagements with
Shakespeare, and indeed through his own engagement with the world
around him four hundred years ago.
The Cambridge International AS & A Level Chemistry Exam Success
Guide brings clarity and focus to exam preparation, with detailed
and practical guidance on raising attainment. The guide helps
students to recap content through easy-to-digest chunks, apply
knowledge with targeted revision activities, review and reflect on
work done, and raise their grades with sample answers, examiner
commentary and exam-style practice. The Cambridge International AS
& A Level Chemistry Exam Success Guide is written by Philippa
Gardom Hulme, an experienced author and former Chemistry teacher.
Students can benefit from her vast experience and her commitment to
doing all she can to support them in achieving their potential in
exams. Other resources available include a Student Book which
offers a rigorous yet accessible approach for covering the whole
syllabus and an Enhanced Online Student Book which provides extra
digital hotspots including downloadable questions and additional
activities. These are also available in a great-value Print &
Enhanced Online Student Book Pack.
Ensure students achieve top exam marks, and can confidently
progress to further study, with an academically rigorous yet
accessible approach from Cambridge examiners. With full syllabus
match, extensive practice and exam guidance this new edition embeds
a comprehensive understanding of scientific concepts and develops
advanced skills for strong assessment potential. Be confident of
full syllabus support with a comprehensive syllabus matching grid
and learning objectives drawn directly from the latest syllabus
(9701), for first examination from 2022. Written by Cambridge
examiners, this new edition if packed with focused and explicit
assessment guidance, support and practice to ensure your students
are fully equipped for their exams. With a stretching yet
accessible approach Cambridge International AS & A Level
Complete Chemistry develops advanced problem solving and scientific
skills and contextualizes scientific concepts to ensure your
students are ready to progress to further study. All answers are
available on the accompanying answer support site. Take your
students exam preparation further and ensure they get the grades
they deserve with additional exam-focused support available in the
Enhanced Online Student Book and the Exam Success Guide.
Ensure students achieve top exam marks, and can confidently
progress to further study, with an academically rigorous yet
accessible approach from Cambridge examiners. With full syllabus
match, extensive practice and exam guidance this new edition embeds
a comprehensive understanding of scientific concepts and develops
advanced skills for strong assessment potential. Be confident of
full syllabus support with a comprehensive syllabus matching grid
and learning objectives drawn directly from the latest syllabus
(9701), for first examination from 2022. Written by Cambridge
examiners, this new edition if packed with focused and explicit
assessment guidance, support and practice to ensure your students
are fully equipped for their exams. With a stretching yet
accessible approach Cambridge International AS & A Level
Complete Chemistry develops advanced problem solving and scientific
skills and contextualizes scientific concepts to ensure your
students are ready to progress to further study. All answers are
available on the accompanying answer support site. Additional
activities, worksheets and exam-focused practice are also available
in the Enhanced Online Student Book to extend students' learning
and build exam confidence. The Online Student Book will be
available on the Oxford Education Bookshelf until 2030. Access is
facilitated via a unique code, which is sent in the mail. The code
must be linked to an email address, creating a user account. Take
your students exam preparation further and ensure they get the
grades they deserve with unique exam-focused guidance and practice
in accompanying Exam Success Guide.
This volume addresses the persistent and frequently toxic
associations between masculinity and games. It explores many of the
critical issues in contemporary studies of masculinity-including
issues of fatherhood, homoeroticism, eSports, fan cultures, and
militarism-and their intersections with digital games, the contexts
of their play, and the social futures associated with sustained
involvement in gaming cultures. Unlike much of the research and
public discourse that put the onus of "fixing" games and gaming
cultures on those at its margins-women, LGBTQ, and people of
color-this volume turns attention to men and masculinities,
offering vital and productive avenues for both practical and
theoretical intervention.
Queerness in Play examines the many ways queerness of all
kinds-from queer as 'LGBT' to other, less well-covered aspects of
the queer spectrum-intersects with games and the social contexts of
play. The current unprecedented visibility of queer creators and
content comes at a high tide of resistance to the inclusion of
those outside a long-imagined cisgender, heterosexual, white male
norm. By critically engaging the ways games-as a culture, an
industry, and a medium-help reproduce limiting binary formations of
gender and sexuality, Queerness in Play contributes to the growing
body of scholarship promoting more inclusive understandings of
identity, sexuality, and games.
Ensure students achieve top exam marks, and can confidently
progress to further study, with an academically rigorous yet
accessible approach from Cambridge examiners. With full syllabus
match, extensive practice and exam guidance this new edition embeds
a comprehensive understanding of scientific concepts and develops
advanced skills for strong assessment potential. Be confident of
full syllabus support with a comprehensive syllabus matching grid
and learning objectives drawn directly from the latest syllabus
(9701), for first examination from 2022. Written by Cambridge
examiners, this new edition if packed with focused and explicit
assessment guidance, support and practice to ensure your students
are fully equipped for their exams. With a stretching yet
accessible approach Cambridge International AS & A Level
Complete Chemistry develops advanced problem solving and scientific
skills and contextualizes scientific concepts to ensure your
students are ready to progress to further study. All answers are
available on the accompanying answer support site. Additional
activities, worksheets and exam-focused practice are also available
in the Enhanced Online Student Book to extend students' learning
and build exam confidence. The Online Student Book will be
available on the Oxford Education Bookshelf until 2030. Access is
facilitated via a unique code, which is sent in the mail. The code
must be linked to an email address, creating a user account. Take
your students exam preparation further and ensure they get the
grades they deserve with unique exam-focused guidance and practice
in accompanying Exam Success Guide.
Following their raid of a Denver train yard, Seeker and Mage, Faith
Penn finds herself in over her head. Her brother and the Denver
Police Department are depending on her to find the leaders of a
criminal organization, all the time while trying to keep her family
and friends safe. Things are more dangerous than ever as she learns
that finding the enemy is only the beginning. Contractor Series
Book Order: 1. Pactum 2. Seeker
Set in a world that is not our own, Legon Awakening takes you
through an epic journey into a land full of wonderment, illusion,
and innovation. Legon is a simple young man in the small town of
Salmont, a town in the center of the Empire that few know about and
even fewer care about. All he wishes to do is to start his own
butcher shop and take care of his adopted sister and family. Legon
is not from Salmont and echoes from his parents past are coming up
to haunt him. Legon finds himself being caught in the war that
claimed his biological parents lives and now threatens everything
he has. He must flee from everything he knows and journey to land
of his ancestors to keep all that he loves safe.
Two thousand years have passed since the War of Generations came to
a standstill. Since then, tension has risen, kingdoms have fallen
and the land is at a crossroad. House Evindass, along with the rest
of the Pawdin Empire, is in a life-and-death struggle to free the
land and themselves from the Iumenta. Now, in the last book of the
Legon series, everything will come to a head. Who will stand
triumphant? The Elves or the Iumenta...
Society still finds itself reeling from magic coming out into the
open. As the world comes to grips with the fact that old legends
are true, Homicide Detective Alison Kaur still has a job to do.
After the corpse of William Lanner is found, Alison must delve into
the ugly world of prostitution, gangsters and murder. All while she
and her partner deal with the dangers of Mages, Werewolves, Succubi
and others. Will Alison be able to track down the killer of William
Lanner? Or will she become a victim herself?
Join Legon and Sasha in the second book in the Legon series. Mere
weeks after the battle at the Precipice, Legon and Sasha find
themselves thrown into the world of being the heads of a great
house. Join them as they delve into a new world, completely
different from the one they grew up in, and as they unravel an
Iumenta plot that will shake everyone in the land. Come along with
Keither and Sara as they set out to makes lives for themselves.
This story spans land, sea and air as our heroes fight to conquer
evil and fulfill their destinies.
Nicholas Taylor provides an Anglican theological approach to the
controversial questions surrounding the demand for allowing lay
ministers to preside at the Eucharist. This is a pressing issue
thoroughly reviewed and addressed.The demand for allowing lay
ministers to preside at the Eucharist has become a pressing issue
in many churches, not only in Anglicanism. Within the Anglican
Communion, this issue seems to be potentially divisive as most
provinces refuse to accept lay presidency, but some - as the
Archdiocese of Sydney - are discussing schemes to introduce it.In
"Lay Presidency at the Eucharist" an Anglican theological approach
to controversial questions is articulated. Taylor investigates in
particular what allegiance to Scripture entails, and how its
authority is to be applied in the Church today. The evidence of the
New Testament and early Church on the Eucharist and ministry, and
how critical scholarship relates to the authority of Scripture in
the life of the Church, are explored, whilst the Reformation and
subsequent developments in Anglican theology and Eucharistic
practice are considered. Pressure to authorize lay presidency is
largely a response to a shortage of clergy to meet demand for
Eucharistic worship, and alternative provision for this need is
discussed, before going on to consider specific schemes. The
theological issues, to do with the Church, the Eucharist, and the
ministry, are reviewed, and outstanding questions
identified."Affirming Catholicism" is a progressive movement in the
Anglican Church, drawing inspiration and hope from the Catholic
tradition, confident that it will bear the gifts of the past into
the future. The books in this series aim to make the Catholic
element within Anglicanism once more a positive force for the
Gospel, and a model for effective mission today.
This investigation into Paul's relationship with the church of
Jerusalem draws on the insights of sociology to complement the
historical-critical method. Taylor argues that the church of
Antioch was, for a significant part of Paul's career, not merely
the base of his missionary activities but also the community from
which he derived his identity. His relationship with the church of
Jerusalem must be understood accordingly. Paul's alienation from
the Antiochene church in the aftermath of his confrontation with
Peter meant loss of apostolic commission and social identity.
Galatians reflects the reconstruction of Paul's personal and
apostolic identity to compensate for this loss.
LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media provides a multi-faceted
exploration of LEGO fandom, addressing a blindspot in current
accounts of LEGO and an emerging area of interest to media
scholars: namely, the role of hobbyist enthusiasts and content
producers in LEGO's emergence as a ubiquitous transmedia franchise.
This book examines a range of LEGO hobbyism and their attendant
forms of mediated self-expression and identity (their
"technicities"): artists, aspiring Master Builders, collectors, and
entrepreneurs who refashion LEGO bricks into new commodities (sets,
tchotchkes, and minifigures). The practices and perspectives that
constitute this diverse scene lie at the intersection of multiple
transformations in contemporary culture, including the shifting
relationships between culture industries and the audiences that
form their most ardent consumer base, but also the emerging forms
of entrepreneurialism, professionalization, and globalization that
characterize the burgeoning DIY movement. What makes this a
compelling project for media scholars is its mutli-dimensional
articulation of how LEGO functions not just as a toy, cultural
icon, or as transmedia franchise, but as a media platform. LEGOfied
is centered around their shared experiences, qualitative
observations, and semi-structured interviews at a number of LEGO
hobbyist conventions. Working outwards from these conventions, each
chapter engages additional modes of inquiry-media archaeology,
aesthetics, posthumanist philosophy, feminist media studies, and
science and technology studies-to explore the origins, permutations
and implications of different aspects of the contemporary LEGO
fandom scene.
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