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Resurrection Songs The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Resurrection Songs The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

This title was first published in 2001. Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-49) was a powerful poet of the English Romantic period who has been and is still strangely neglected by critics. His macabre blank verse dramatic writings and his delicately balanced lyrics have both won ardent admirers such as Browning Gosse Pound and Christopher Ricks. Yet there are formal and generic problems in Beddoes's writings which continue to marginalize him as merely an eccentric and the canon of Romanticism seems to have found no place for him. | Resurrection Songs The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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Thomas Hardy's Short Stories New Perspectives

Thomas Hardy's Short Stories New Perspectives

Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories but in spite of this impressive number his contributions to the genre have been relatively understudied. Bringing together an international group of scholars this is the first edited collection devoted solely to Hardy's works of short fiction. The contributors take up topics related to their publication in periodicals gender and community relationships and narrative techniques. Taken together the essays show that Hardy's short stories are important not only for what they tell us about Hardy as a writer who straddles the divide between the traditionalist and the modernist but also for how they reflect and inform the period in which he wrote. | Thomas Hardy's Short Stories New Perspectives

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The Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas The Genesis of a Wisdom Tradition

The Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas The Genesis of a Wisdom Tradition

This book offers a detailed analysis of the Gospel of Thomas in its historic and literary context providing a new understanding of the genesis of the Jesus tradition. Discovered in the twentieth century the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas is an important early text whose origins and place in the history of Christianity continue to be subjects of debate. Aiming to relocate the Thomasine community in the wider context of early Christianity this study considers the Gospel of Thomas as a bridge between the oral and literary phases of the Christian movement. It will therefore be useful for Religion scholars working on Biblical studies Coptic codices gnosticism and early Christianity. | The Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas The Genesis of a Wisdom Tradition

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Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin

Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin

Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) is today a largely unknown figure sometimes considered to be a forerunner of Karl Marx. Yet a closer look at Hodgskin’s works reveals that he was actually a committed advocate of laissez-faire economics and enthusiastic about labor-saving machinery and the Industrial Revolution with a genuine interest in the well-being of the working classes. This book places him in the tradition of classical liberalism where he belongs—as a disciple of Adam Smith but even less tolerant of government power than Smith was. Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class: The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in the history of economic thought economic history and the history of political thought. | Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin

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Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer’s place in English history is firmly established yet the complexities of his character have remained obscure and he continues to be one of the most problematic figures of the Tudor period. Susan Wabuda’s biography sheds fresh light not only on the private Cranmer but also on the qualities that enabled him to master a shifting political landscape and to build a new English Church. Athletic by nature Cranmer enjoyed hunting and he was a keen collector of books. He was blessed with several lifelong friendships and twice risked his career by marrying the women he loved. A skilled debater and a deft politician Cranmer sought to balance his long-term plans for the Church against the immediate demands of survival at court. Obedient at all times yet never entirely trustworthy he had to reconcile the will of his God with the will of the monarch he served. For too long Cranmer’s legacy has overshadowed the life of the man himself but this new biography enriches and extends our understanding of both. Accessible and informative it will be essential reading for students and scholars of the English Reformation and the Tudor age.

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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be compared in its complexity linguistic playfulness and experimentation and wealth of allusion to the work of James Joyce. Aspects of history psychology technology and science cultural and political movements problems of identity and society and the status and function of fiction and narrative in the modern world are all dramatized with extraordinary wit and power. Tony Tanner provides a brief comprehensive introduction to his work. Against the background of Pynchon the man this book originally published in 1982 examines in detail his early short stories (some of which are not easily accessible) and offers a guide to the reading of his novels V. The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity’s Rainbow. Many of Pynchon’s recurrent themes from entropy and information theory to his interest in the operations and divisions of power in the world since the Second World War are considered. Finally Tony Tanner places Pynchon and his work in a broader cultural and literary context.

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Thomas Tallis

Thomas Tallis

John Harley’s Thomas Tallis is the first full-length book to deal comprehensively with the composer’s life and works. Tallis entered the Chapel Royal in the middle of a long life and remained there for over 40 years. During a colourful period of English history he famously served King Henry VIII and the three of Henry’s children who followed him to the throne. His importance for English music during the second half of the sixteenth century is equalled only by that of his pupil colleague and friend William Byrd. In a series of chronological chapters Harley describes Tallis’s career before and after he entered the Chapel. The fully considered biography is placed in the context of larger political and cultural changes of the period. Each monarch’s reign is treated with an examination of the ways in which Tallis met its particular musical needs. Consideration is given to all of Tallis’s surviving compositions including those probably intended for patrons and amateurs beyond the court and attention is paid to the context within which they were written. Tallis emerges as a composer whose music displays his special ability in setting words and creating ingenious musical patterns. A table places most of Tallis’s compositions in a broad chronological order.

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Thomas Aquinas and the Civil Economy Tradition The Mediterranean Spirit of Capitalism

Thomas Aquinas and the Civil Economy Tradition The Mediterranean Spirit of Capitalism

Delving into the history of economic thought this book presents a picture of the Mediterranean spirit of capitalism a tradition that has its protagonists in Thomas Aquinas and the eighteenth-century civil economy and seeks to understand its presence and relevance for contemporary societies. The book argues that it is reductive to attribute to the ‘Protestant ethic’ the different formations of capitalism in the Western world. Instead it is vital to acknowledge the differences in the ways in which the market is lived enterprises are created and conducted and civic life in general is understood in different regions. This thought-provoking study demonstrates that in Southern Europe the legacy of Aquinas and the civil economy adds different terms to those recurring in classical and neo-classical economy: common good reciprocity virtue public trust mutual assistance and public happiness. It is these ideas of a market as a place for mutual assistance which can be said to characterize the Mediterranean spirit of capitalism. Thomas Aquinas and the Civil Economy Tradition will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in the history of economic thought economic philosophy Christian ethics and moral theology. | Thomas Aquinas and the Civil Economy Tradition The Mediterranean Spirit of Capitalism

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Thomas Hardy Remembered

Thomas Hardy Remembered

Thomas Hardy Remembered assembles some 150 annotated interviews and recollections of Hardy most of which are being reprinted for the first time. They range from close personal reflections by old friends such as Sir George Douglas J. M. Barrie and Edmund Gosse to fleeting glimpses by strangers who saw Hardy at a London party or at his club. Martin Ray has selected items having the greatest literary or biographical significance and annotated them with meticulous accuracy and a keen eye for the telling detail. As a result the volume will be an invaluable resource to scholars who are interested not only in what concerned Hardy personally and professionally but also in how he was perceived by others. Having these items collected in one volume reveals Hardy's contemporaneous opinions about his own writings and also makes it possible to trace the marked recurrence over time of certain preoccupations: ancient families Hardy's hostility to reviewers architecture Roman relics Wessex folklore and dialect animal welfare Napoleon and hangings. With regard to his literary career a portrait emerges of Hardy as the scrupulous professional properly aware of his commercial rights while at the same time appearing to some who met him unconscious of his own genius.

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Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time

Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time

A systematic exploration of Thomas Hardy's imaginative assimilation of particular Victorian sciences this study draws on and swells the widening current of scholarly attention now being paid to the cultural meanings compacted and released by the nascent 'sciences of man' in the nineteenth century. Andrew Radford here situates Hardy's fiction and poetry in a context of the new sciences of humankind that evolved during the Victorian age to accommodate an immense range of literal and figurative 'excavations' then taking place. Combining literary close readings with broad historical analyses he explores Hardy's artistic response to geological archaeological and anthropological findings. In particular he analyzes Hardy's lifelong fascination with the doctrine of 'survivals ' a term coined by E. B. Tylor in Primitive Culture (1871) to denote customs beliefs and practices persisting in isolation from their original cultural context. Radford reveals how Hardy's subtle reworking of Tylor's doctrine offers a valuable insight into the inter-penetration of science and literature during this period. An important aspect of Radford's research focuses on lesser known periodical literature that grew out of a British amateur antiquarian tradition of the nineteenth century. His readings of Hardy's literary notebooks disclose the degree to which Hardy's own considerable scientific knowledge was shaped by the middlebrow periodical press. Thus Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time raises questions not only about the reception of scientific ideas but also the creation of nonspecialist forms of scientific discourse. This book represents a genuinely new perspective for Hardy studies.

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Jungian Analysis Depth Psychology and Soul The Selected Works of Thomas B. Kirsch

Jungian Analysis Depth Psychology and Soul The Selected Works of Thomas B. Kirsch

Thomas Kirsch is one of the foremost architects of the contemporary Jungian scene and has influenced the evolution and organization of analytical psychology worldwide. His works on the history of Jungian analysis and his memoir of a Jungian life have been widely appreciated and this book contains important examples of these interests. Gathered together in The Selected Works are Kirsch’s original and humane contributions to diverse areas such as: training and the dynamics of analytical institutions; clinical themes in Jungian analysis and how these differ from what typically happens in psychoanalytic treatment; as well as a continuation of his remarkable work into the personalities and prejudices that characterize the profession of Jungian analysis. As Andrew Samuels observes in his foreword In these chapters we see Tom’s humanity generosity and flexibility. Given the multifarious dynamics of the training community Kirsch accepts that things can sometimes go wrong and he is open about his experiences in this regard. For Kirsch rather than a simple question of psychologically damaged people becoming analysts the figure of the Wounded Healer is always present in depth psychology. Kirsch is an exceptionally gifted communicator and several of these chapters stem from lectures and conference presentations. However behind the appearance of informality emerges not only a formidable intellect at work but a warm and compassionate perspective on the human condition. The Selected Works will be of vital interest to analysts therapists trainees academics and students working in the areas of Jungian analysis and Jungian studies around the world. | Jungian Analysis Depth Psychology and Soul The Selected Works of Thomas B. Kirsch

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Hardy Deconstructing Hardy A Derridean Reading of Thomas Hardy s Poetry

Hardy Deconstructing Hardy A Derridean Reading of Thomas Hardy s Poetry

Hardy Deconstructing Hardy aims to add a new dimension of research which has been partly overlooked—a Derridean Deconstructive reading of Hardy‘s poetry. Analyzing thirty-four popular and less popular poems by Hardy this volume challenges current references to Derridean Deconstructionism. While Hardy is not conventionally considered a Modernist poet he shares with Modernists an element that can be referred to as the linguistic crisis by which they try to get over the sense of anxiety against the backdrop of a chaotic world and problematized language. The forerunner of Deconstructionism Derrida exposes a long established history of logocentric thinking which has continually been moving between binary oppositions and Platonic dualities. Derrida simply puts forward the idea that there is no logos no origin and no centre of truth. The centre is always somewhere else; he identifies this as a ―free play of signifiers. ‖ Consequently the anxiety of the poet with modern sensibility to find a point of reference inevitably results in a ―crisis of representation ‖ or in a problematic relation between language and truth the signifier and the signified. This crisis can be observed in Hardy‘s poetry too. For this purpose this research focuses on four key concepts in Hardy‘s poetry that expose this problematic relationship between language and truth: his agnosticism his concept of the self his language and concept of structure and his concept of time and temporality. These aspects are explored in the light of Derrida‘s Deconstructionism with reference to poems by Hardy which heralded the Modernist crisis of representation. This text will fulfill the function of reconciling theory with practice and become the manifestation of the importance of Poststructuralist criticism. | Hardy Deconstructing Hardy A Derridean Reading of Thomas Hardy�s Poetry

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Politics Participation And Poverty Development Through Selfhelp In Kenya

Politics Participation And Poverty Development Through Selfhelp In Kenya

Focusing on the distribution of benefits in relation to class ethnicity and gender this book explores the methods to which the rural poor can organize themselves to participate in economic and social development and examines the roles that self-help organizations play in the political economy of Kenya. Dr. Thomas looks at the competition for pow | Politics Participation And Poverty Development Through Selfhelp In Kenya

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England Under the Tudors

England Under the Tudors

‘Anyone who writes about the Tudor century puts his head into a number of untamed lions’ mouths. ’ G. R. Elton Preface Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994) was one of the great historians of the Tudor period. England Under the Tudors is his major work and an outstanding history of a crucial and turbulent period in British and European history. Revised several times since its first publication in 1955 England Under the Tudors charts a historical period that witnessed monumental changes in religion monarchy and government – and one that continued to shape British history long after. Spanning the commencement of Henry VII's reign to the death of Elizabeth I Elton’s magisterial account is populated by many colourful and influential characters from Cardinal Wolsey Thomas Cranmer and Thomas Cromwell to Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scots. Elton also examines aspects of the Tudor period that had been previously overlooked such as empire and commonwealth agriculture and industry seapower and the role of the arts and literature. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Diarmaid MacCulloch.

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Medieval Logic and Metaphysics A Modern Introduction

Medieval Logic and Metaphysics A Modern Introduction

Originally published in 1972 Medieval Logic and Metaphysics shows how formal logic can be used in the clarification of philosophical problems. An elementary exposition of Leśniewski’s Onotology an important system of contemporary logic is followed by studies of central philosophical themes such as Negation and Non-being Essence and Existence Meaning and Reference Part and Whole. Philosophers and theologians discussed include St Anselm St Thomas Aquinas Abelard Ockham Scotus Hume and Russell. | Medieval Logic and Metaphysics A Modern Introduction

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The Elements of Law Natural and Politic

The Elements of Law Natural and Politic

Originally published in 1889 Ferdinand Tonnies published versions of two works by Thomas Hobbes. His editions of The Elements of Law: Natural and Politic and of Behemoth: or The Long Parliament were the first modern critical editions based on manuscripts of works by Hobbes. Completed in 1640 The Elements of Law was Hobbes's first systematic political work. The book helps us see Hobbes's mind at work for it is the first version of his later political works. | The Elements of Law Natural and Politic

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The Anatomy of Tudor Literature Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998)

The Anatomy of Tudor Literature Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998)

This title was first published in 2001. Is there such a thing as Tudor literature? The question is the theme that binds the essays in this collection. Scholars from around the world address the question of whether there is a sense of continuity in the literature of the Tudor century. The volume begins by looking at early Tudor writers such as Thomas More and then moves on to look at Elizabethan poetry and prose ending by covering the late Tudor dramas and Shakespeare. | The Anatomy of Tudor Literature Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998)

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St. Francis in Italian Painting

St. Francis in Italian Painting

Originally published in 1950 this book shows that the religious and ethical values that St. Francis was striving after are as essential today as they were in his time. The book presents St. Francis as a complex personality and corrects the rather mawkish interpretation of certain legends. It deals with the environment and development of the saint’s personality and chapters from his biographies by Thomas of Celano or St. Bonaventure and many black and white plates illustrating them which are reproductions of paintings by Italian masters from the XIIIth to the late XVth century. | St. Francis in Italian Painting

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John Wallis: Writings on Music

John Wallis: Writings on Music

John Wallis (1616-1703) was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy Porphyry and Bryennius - and involved him in discussions with Henry Oldenburg the Secretary of the Royal Society Thomas Salmon and other individuals as his ideas developed. The texts presented in this volume cover the relationship of ancient and modern tuning theory the building of organs the phenomena of resonance and other musical topics. | John Wallis: Writings on Music

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The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor An Environmental and Economic Critique

The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor An Environmental and Economic Critique

In this book Thomas B. Cochran takes a critical look at the economic and environmental arguments which have been made in favour of an early introduction of the liquid metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR) as a central component of the United States electrical energy system. First published in 1974 Cochran presents LMFBR as having no environmental advantage over light water reactors and the high temperature gas reactor and seriously questions the economic advantages. This title should be a useful for students interested in environment and sustainability studies and it is a valuable resource for discussions of future energy strategy. | The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor An Environmental and Economic Critique

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The Peasant War in Germany

The Peasant War in Germany

Originally published in 1926 this translation of Engels’ account of the Peasant War in fourteenth Century Germany explores the social and economic forces that led to peasant rebellion with a particular focus on how closely this related to the Reformation. Engels gives examples of key figures involved with the war such as rebel leader Thomas Muenzer and Martin Luther who initially fought hard for peasant rights only to turn against them later. This text provides a fascinating analysis of the origins of the peasant war which also provides further insight into peasant uprisings occurring across the rest of Europe at a similar time. This title will be of interest to History students. | The Peasant War in Germany

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The Place of Hooker in the History of Thought

The Place of Hooker in the History of Thought

First Published in 1952 The Place of Hooker in the History of Thought unravels the historical background to some of Richard Hooker’s leading ideas. The volume throws light on his ideas by a clear appreciation of the philosophical issues he raised and the difficulties he had to face when he embraced the cause of Thomism in Elizabethan England. Peter Munz discusses themes like Hooker’s debt to St. Thomas Hooker and Marsilius of Padua Hooker’s historical sense Hooker and Aristotle and Plato Hooker and Locke to determine his place in the history of thought. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of Philosophy Religion Theology Political Thought and Political Philosophy.

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Cultural Complexes in China Japan Korea and Taiwan Spokes of the Wheel

Cultural Complexes in China Japan Korea and Taiwan Spokes of the Wheel

Thomas Singer presents a unique collection which examines cultural complexes in four parts of East Asia: China Japan Korea and Taiwan. From ancestor worship in China to the kimchi bitch meme of South Korea the wounded feminine in Taiwan and hikikomori in Japan the contributors take a Jungian lens to aspects of culture and shine a light on themes including gender archetypes consciousness social roles and political relations. This insightful and timely book will be essential reading for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas politics sociology and Asian studies. It will also be of great interest to Jungian analysts in practice and in training. | Cultural Complexes in China Japan Korea and Taiwan Spokes of the Wheel

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Capitalism and its Critics Capitalism in Social and Political Theory

Capitalism and its Critics Capitalism in Social and Political Theory

Capitalism and its Critics offers an accessible account of major theories of capitalism from the industrial revolution to the present day. The book provides a comprehensive account of the economic and social thought of key theorists from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to David Harvey and Thomas Piketty. Capitalism has long been the subject of passionate debate and today such contestations are perhaps more timely than ever. For its advocates capitalism brings democracy and freedom and is the cornerstone of modernity and of progress. For its critics capitalism is based on the exploitation of labour and is responsible for the destruction of the environment as well as colonialism. Whether capitalism survives the century or whether an alternative social system emerges may very well determine the fate of humanity. Capitalism and its Critics gives a comprehensive critical analysis of the most important theorists of capitalism including Adam Smith Karl Marx Max Weber Joseph Schumpeter Karl Polanyi F. A. Hayek J. M. Keynes David Harvey and Thomas Piketty. The book discusses some of the main debates about capitalism and considers alternatives in the twenty-first century. The 12 chapters are loosely chronologically organised around the main approaches and historical phases in the history of capitalism. Central themes of the book are the ideas of capitalist crisis and of tensions between democracy and capitalism in the making of modernity. A highly readable informative and engaging text Capitalism and its Critics is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding capitalism and its alternatives. | Capitalism and its Critics Capitalism in Social and Political Theory

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The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances beginning with Nell Gwyn in a 1668 staging of Secret Love and moving chronologically towards the final performance of John Philip Kemble's controversial adaptation of Thomas Otway's Venice Presever'd in October 1795. This volume contains a wealth of contextual materials including contemporary reviews portraits advertisements and cast lists. By privileging event over publication this collection aims to encourage an understanding of performance that emphasizes the immediacy - and changeability - of the theatrical repertoire during the long eighteenth century. Offering an invaluable insight into the performance culture of the time The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance is a unique much-needed resource for students of theatre.

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