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Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy

Challenging the Personal Voice

By: Dr Britta Martens

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Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy

Challenging the Personal Voice

By: Dr Britta Martens

Taking an original approach to Robert Browning's poetics, Britta Martens focuses on a corpus of relatively neglected poems in Browning's own voice in which he reflects on his poetry, his self-conceptualization and his place in the poetic tradition. She analyzes his work in relation to Romanticism, Victorian reactions to the Romantic legacy, and wider nineteenth-century changes in poetic taste, to argue that in these poems, as in his more frequently studied dramatic monologues, Browning deploys varied dramatic methods of self-representation, often critically and ironically exposing the biases and limitations of the seemingly authoritative speaker 'Browning'. The poems thus become devices for Browning's detached evaluation of his own and of others' poetics, an evaluation never fully explicit but presented with elusive economy for the astute reader to interpret. The confrontation between the personal authorial voice and the dramatic voice in these poems provides revealing insights into the poet's highly self-conscious, conflicted and sustained engagement with the Romantic tradition and the diversely challenging reader expectations that he faces in a post-Romantic age. As the Victorian most rigorous in his rejection of Romantic self-expression, Browning is a key transitional figure between the sharply antagonistic periods of Romanticism and Modernism. He is also, as Martens persuasively demonstrates, a poet of complex contradictions and an illuminating case study for addressing the perennial issues of voice, authorial authority and self-reference.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409478874

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The Poetry of Robert Browning

By: Britta Martens

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The Poetry of Robert Browning

By: Britta Martens

Robert Browning's pre-eminent status amongst Victorian poets has endured despite the recent broadening of the literary canon. He is the main practitioner of the period's most important poetic genre, the dramatic monologue, while his engagement with many aspects of nineteenth-century culture makes him a key figure in the wider field of Victorian studies. This stimulating introduction to Browning criticism provides an overview of the major responses to the poet's work over the last two hundred years. It offers an insightful guide to criticism from various theoretical perspectives, elucidating Browning's participation in Victorian debates about aesthetics, history, politics, religion, gender and psychology.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349928747

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The Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

A Reconciliatory Approach to Environmental Protection in Armed Conflict

By: Britta Sjostedt

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The Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

A Reconciliatory Approach to Environmental Protection in Armed Conflict

By: Britta Sjostedt

The environment suffers enormously during armed conflicts and, despite the increasing awareness of the pressing need to protect the planet, devastating environmental damage can occur legally at times of war. This book suggests that – apart from the protection offered under law of armed conflict – environmental treaties or multilateral agreements (MEAs) can complement and strengthen environmental protection when war occurs. Previous research has focused on the protection offered under the law of armed conflict (in particular international humanitarian law) and customary international environmental law concerning wartime environmental damage, or whether environmental treaties remain applicable at times of armed conflict. This book, however, is the first in-depth scholarly examination of how environmental treaties can apply in wartime and how they can contribute to the protection of the environment in relation to armed conflict. It also offers an updated study of environmental protection under the law of armed conflict, including the latest developments in the International Law Commission's work on this underexplored topic.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509922547

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Design Thinking: The Handbook

By: Falk Uebernickel,Li Jiang,Walter Brenner,Britta Pukall,Therese Naef,Bernhard Schindlholzer

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Design Thinking: The Handbook

By: Falk Uebernickel,Li Jiang,Walter Brenner,Britta Pukall,Therese Naef,Bernhard Schindlholzer

It both provides tools and techniques for design thinking and illustrates the principles of usability advocated within through its own layout and organization, and so serves as its own best recommendation.'Technical CommunicationDesign thinking is more than just a new, one-off method of innovation. Its focus is on establishing an innovation-friendly climate in companies and organizations for the long-term. To achieve this, an interdisciplinary team of authors has composed this 'recipe book' that can be practically applied to your everyday business life. This book is for all who intend to understand and practice the design thinking method in the most rapid and uncomplicated way.The first part describes in depth what this method is all about. The second part of this comprehensive book offers you a step-by-step guide to practically apply design thinking. The subsequent sample cases show how to put theory into practice.The authors have gained their expertise in design thinking from both academic and scientific theory, and from countless long-term implementations at companies in various industries.So, benefit from this rich knowledge and start becoming innovative today. This book will show you how it's done.

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World Scientific

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9811202168

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The Poetry of Robert Browning

By: Britta Martens

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By: Britta Martens

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Book's by Britta Martens

Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy

Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy

The Poetry of Robert Browning

The Poetry of Robert Browning

The Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

The Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Design Thinking: The Handbook

Design Thinking: The Handbook

The Poetry of Robert Browning

The Poetry of Robert Browning

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