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It's a grim fact that the world isn't as nice as it used to be.
People are ruder, more greedy, more selfish, and more violent. And
even though those hardback retro books with flock covers and
embossed titles look nice, they won't help turn back the clock.
Making a pin-hole camera, skimming stones, and whittling wood isn't
going to bring world peace. In fact, the world is only made more
dangerous by people making their own bunsen burners and careering
down hills in soap-box carts. Well, here's an alternative book for
boys--although it won't just mock the things that Dad did. Though
if you can build a tree house along the lines suggested by certain
authors, you're better off starting a loft extension business. The
book will also have useful suggestions for skills to acquire that
will actually help you as you grow up, namely: how to tell decent
jokes, three essential chords on the guitar, how to drill a hole
and put a rawlplug in it, how to play pool, and how to learn the
half-volley in any sport.
A complete collection of RICHARD WILSON MOSS's poetry over a span
of fourty years. Richard began writing poetry at the age of twelve.
His journey as a poet is documented in an autobiographical journal,
Northspur.
The metals industry was established in the Ural Mountains over two
centuries ago. Seventy years ago, the town of Magnitogorsk was
established, with US and Western assistance, to exploit the iron
ore there. It became a symbol of USSR industry - and is now a
symbol of air pollution. This volume describes the pollution in the
region and the steps being taken to combat it.
Richard Wilson remains best-known for his satirical science fiction
novels, including "Those Idiots from Earth" and "Girls from Planet
5." "And Then the Town Took Off" originally appeared as half of an
Ace Double novel.
Explores the network of social, political and spiritual connections
in north west England as a site for regional drama, introducing the
reader to the non-metropolitan theatre spaces which formed a vital
part of early modern dramatic activity. Uses the possibility that
Shakespeare began his theatrical career to provide a range of new
contexts for reading his plays. Examines the contexts in which the
apprentice dramatist would have worked, providing new insight into
regional performance, touring theatre & the patronage of the
Earls of Derby. Examines the experiences of Catholic families and
the way in which Lancashire's status as a Catholic stronghold led
to conflict with central government's attempts to create a united
state.. All this feeds into innovative readings of individual plays
such as Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's
Dream. -- .
New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary
theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this
book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism
and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama,
providing an important collection both for students of the genre
and of literary theory.
This collection of essays is part of a new phase in Shakespeare
studies. The traditional view of Shakespeare is that he was a man
of the theater who showed no interest in the printing of his plays,
producing works that are only fully realized in performance. This
view has recently been challenged by critics, arguing that
Shakespeare was a literary "poet-playwright," concerned with his
readers as well as his audiences. "Shakespeare's Book" offers a
vital contribution to this critical debate, and examines its wider
implications for how we conceive of Shakespeare and his works.
Bringing together an impressive group of international Shakespeare
scholars, the volume explores both Shakespeare's relationship with
actual printers, patrons, and readers, and the representation of
writing, reading, and print within his works themselves.
Christopher Marlowe has provoked some of the most radical criticism
of recent years. There is an elective affinity, it seems, between
this pre-modern dramatist and the post-modern critics whose best
work has been inspired by his plays. The reason suggested by this
collection of essays is that Marlowe shares the post-modern
preoccupation with the language of power - and the power of
language itself. As Richard Wilson shows in his introduction, it is
no accident that the founding essays of New Historicism were on
Marlowe; nor that current Queer Theorists focus so much on his
images of gender and homosexuality. Marlowe staged both the birth
of the modern author and the origin of modern sexual desire, and it
is this unique conjunction that makes his drama a key to
contemporary debates about the state and the self: from pornography
to gays in the military. Gay Studies, Cultural Materialism, New
Historicism and Reader Response Criticism are all represented in
this selection, which the introduction places in the light not only
of theorists like Althusser, Bataille and Bakhtin, but also of
artists and writers such as Jean Genet and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Many of the essays take off from Marlowe's extreme dramatisations
of arson, cruelty and aggression, suggesting why it is that the
thinker who has been most convincingly applied to his theatre is
the philosopher of punishment and pain, Michel Foucault. Others
explore the exclusiveness of this all-male universe, and reveal why
it remains so offensive and impenetrable to feminism. For what they
all make disturbingly clear is Marlowe's violent, untamed
difference from the cliches and correctness of normative society.
Shakespeare's Catholic context was the most important literary
discovery of the last century. No biography of the Bard is now
complete without chapters on the paranoia and persecution in which
he was educated, or the treason which engulfed his family. Whether
to suffer outrageous fortune or take up arms in suicidal resistance
was, as Hamlet says, 'the question' that fired Shakespeare's stage.
In 'Secret Shakespeare' Richard Wilson asks why the dramatist
remained so enigmatic about his own beliefs, and so silent on the
atrocities he survived. Shakespeare constructed a drama not of
discovery, like his rivals, but of darkness, deferral, evasion and
disguise, where, for all his hopes of a 'golden time' of future
toleration, 'What's to come' is always unsure. Whether or not 'He
died a papist', it is because we can never 'pluck out the heart' of
his mystery that Shakespeare's plays retain their unique potential
to resist. This is a fascinating work, which will be essential
reading for all scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance studies. --
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This important collection of essays focuses on the place of Roman
Catholicism in early modern England, bringing new perspectives to
bear on whether Shakespeare himself was Catholic. In the
Introduction, Richard Wilson reviews the history of the debate over
Shakespeare's religion, while Arthur Marotti and Peter Milward
offer current perspectives on the subject. Eamon Duffy offers a
historian's view of the nature of Elizabethan Catholicism,
complemented by Frank Brownlow's study of Elizabeth's most brutal
enforcer of religious policy, Richard Topcliffe. Two key Catholic
controversialists are addressed by Donna Hamilton (Richard
Vestegan) and Jean-Christophe Mayer (Robert Parsons). Robert Miola
opens up the neglected field of Jesuit drama in the period, whilst
Sonia Fielitz specifically proposes a new, Jesuit source-text for
Timon of Athens. Carol Enos (As You Like It), Margaret Jones-Davies
(Cymbeline), Gerard Kilroy (Hamlet) and Randall Martin (Henry VI 3)
read individual plays in the light of these questions, while Gary
Taylor's essay fittingly investigates the possible influence of
religious conflicts on the publication of the Shakespeare First
Folio. Theatre and religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare as a whole
represents a major intervention in this fiercely contested current
debate. -- .
At a time when the relevance of literary theory itself is
frequently being questioned, Richard Wilson makes a compelling case
for French Theory in Shakespeare Studies. Written in two parts, the
first half looks at how French theorists such as Bourdieu, Cixous,
Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault were themselves shaped by reading
Shakespeare; while the second part applies their theories to the
plays, highlighting the importance of both for current debates
about borders, terrorism, toleration and a multi-cultural Europe.
Contrasting French and Anglo-Saxon attitudes, Wilson shows how in
France, Shakespeare has been seen not as a man for the monarchy,
but a man of the mob. French Theory thus helps us understand why
Shakepeare's plays swing between violence and hope. Highlighting
the recent religious turn in theory, Wilson encourages a reading of
plays like Hamlet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream and
Twelth Night as models for a future peace. Examining both the
violent history and promising future of the plays, Shakespeare in
French Theory is a timely reminder of the relevance of Shakespeare
and the lasting value of French thinking for the democracy to come.
At a time when the relevance of literary theory itself is
frequently being questioned, Richard Wilson makes a compelling case
for French Theory in Shakespeare Studies. Written in two parts, the
first half looks at how French theorists such as Bourdieu, Cixous,
Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault were themselves shaped by reading
Shakespeare; while the second part applies their theories to the
plays, highlighting the importance of both for current debates
about borders, terrorism, toleration and a multi-cultural Europe.
Contrasting French and Anglo-Saxon attitudes, Wilson shows how in
France, Shakespeare has been seen not as a man for the monarchy,
but a man of the mob. French Theory thus helps us understand why
Shakepeare's plays swing between violence and hope. Highlighting
the recent religious turn in theory, Wilson encourages a reading of
plays like Hamlet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream and
Twelth Night as models for a future peace. Examining both the
violent history and promising future of the plays, Shakespeare in
French Theory is a timely reminder of the relevance of Shakespeare
and the lasting value of French thinking for the democracy to come.
The use of thermal and calorimetric methods has shown rapid growth
over the last two decades, in an increasingly wide range of
applications. In addition, a number of powerful new techniques have
been developed. This book supplies a concise and readable account
of the principles, experimental apparatus and practical procedures
used in thermal analysis and calorimetric methods of analysis.
Brief accounts of the basic theory are reinforced with detailed
applications of the methods and contemporary developments. Also
included is information on standard test methods and manufacturers.
Written by acknowledged experts, Principles of Thermal Analysis and
Calorimetry is up-to-date, wide-ranging and practical. It will be
an important source of information for many levels of readership in
a variety of areas, from students and lecturers through to
industrial and laboratory staff and consultants.
Christopher Marlowe has provoked some of the most radical criticism
of recent years. There is an elective affinity, it seems, between
this pre-modern dramatist and the post-modern critics whose best
work has been inspired by his plays. The reason suggested by this
collection of essays is that Marlowe shares the post-modern
preoccupation with the language of power - and the power of
language itself. As Richard Wilson shows in his introduction, it is
no accident that the founding essays of New Historicism were on
Marlowe; nor that current Queer Theorists focus so much on his
images of gender and homosexuality. Marlowe staged both the birth
of the modern author and the origin of modern sexual desire, and it
is this unique conjunction that makes his drama a key to
contemporary debates about the state and the self: from pornography
to gays in the military. Gay Studies, Cultural Materialism, New
Historicism and Reader Response Criticism are all represented in
this selection, which the introduction places in the light not only
of theorists like Althusser, Bataille and Bakhtin, but also of
artists and writers such as Jean Genet and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Many of the essays take off from Marlowe's extreme dramatisations
of arson, cruelty and aggression, suggesting why it is that the
thinker who has been most convincingly applied to his theatre is
the philosopher of punishment and pain, Michel Foucault. Others
explore the exclusiveness of this all-male universe, and reveal why
it remains so offensive and impenetrable to feminism. For what they
all make disturbingly clear is Marlowe's violent, untamed
difference from the cliches and correctness of normative society.
New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary
theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this
book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism
and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama,
providing an important collection both for students of the genre
and of literary theory.
This book is a detailed study of the United States Marine Corps
unit insignia in the Republic of Vietnam from the Marine Advisors
in the early 1960s to the Marine Security Forces evacuation of the
Embassy in 1975. A complete order of battle of all U.S. Marine Air
and Ground Forces that served "in country" during the Vietnam War
is included, in addition to United States' Allied and foreign
forces serving under the III Marine Amphibious Force, culminating
in over 350 full color individual unit insignia down to at least
battalion and squadron levels. With its comprehensive descriptions
and pricing guide for even the most highly sought after and
extremely rare unofficial "in-country" (theater) made patches, this
photographic reference is a must have for the military insignia
collector and historian.
International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Treaties, Cases,
and Analysis introduces the reader to the international legal
instruments and case law governing the substantive and procedural
dimensions of international human rights and humanitarian law,
including economic, social, and cultural rights. The book, which
was originally published in 2006, also discusses the history and
organisational structure of human rights and humanitarian law
enforcement mechanisms. A chapter is devoted a chapter to the
issues surrounding the incorporation of international law into U.S.
law, including principles of constitutional and statutory
interpretation, conflict rules, and the self-execution doctrine.
Questions and comments sections provide critical analyses of issues
raised in the materials. The last chapter addresses theoretical
issues facing contemporary international human rights and
humanitarian law and its enforcement.
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