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Wild flowers of Majorca Minorca and Ibiza

By: Elspeth Beckett

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Wild flowers of Majorca Minorca and Ibiza

By: Elspeth Beckett

Visitors to these islands in search of sun and sea are often surprised by theglorious wild flowers, abundant particularly in the spring and late autumn.Many are curious to know more about them.This book offers a means of identification on three levels.For the complete beginner there are illustrations of most of the more strikingwild plants (and of a few cultivated ones).For those who wish to go further, there is help in the form of a botanical key (abasic skill for would-be botanists, and what better place, than a sunny holidayisland to learn it in).For those who already have this skill here is a key to all the wild floweringplants ( except those waiting to be discovered - what a challenge for aninteresting holiday!).

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Routledge

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1351404237

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9781351404235

White Vanishing

Rethinking Australia’s Lost-in-the-Bush Myth

By: Elspeth Tilley

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White Vanishing

Rethinking Australia’s Lost-in-the-Bush Myth

By: Elspeth Tilley

The story of the vulnerable white person vanishing without trace into the harsh Australian landscape is a potent and compelling element in multiple genres of mainstream Australian culture. It has been sung in “Little Boy Lost,” brought to life on the big screen in Picnic at Hanging Rock, immortalized in Henry Lawson’s poems of lost tramps, and preserved in the history books’ tales of Leichhardt or Burke and Wills wandering in mad circles. A world-wide audience has also witnessed the many-layered and oddly strident nature of Australian disappearance symbolism in media coverage of contemporary disappearances, such as those of Azaria Chamberlain and Peter Falconio. White Vanishing offers a revealing and challenging re-examination of Australian disappearance mythology, exposing the political utility at its core. Drawing on wide-ranging examples of the white-vanishing myth, the book provides evidence that disappearance mythology encapsulates some of the most dominant and durable categories at the heart of white Australian culture, and that many of those ideas have their origin in colonial mechanisms of inequality and oppression. White Vanishing deliberately (and perhaps controversially) reminds readers that, while power is never absolute or irresistible, some narrative threads carry a particularly authoritative inheritance of ideas and power-relations through time.

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386

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Brill

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9401208700

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9789401208703

Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750

Studies in Social Rank and Communication

By: Elspeth Jajdelska

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Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750

Studies in Social Rank and Communication

By: Elspeth Jajdelska

Filling an important gap in the history of print and reading, Elspeth Jajdelska offers a new account of the changing relationship between speech, rank and writing from 1600 to 1750. Jajdelska draws on anthropological findings to shed light on the different ways that speech was understood to relate to writing across the period, bringing together status and speech, literary and verbal decorum, readership, the material text and performance. Jajdelska's ambitious array of sources includes letters, diaries, paratexts and genres from cookery books to philosophical discourses. She looks at authors ranging from John Donne to Jonathan Swift, alongside the writings of anonymous merchants, apothecaries and romance authors. Jajdelska argues that Renaissance readers were likely to approach written and printed documents less as utterances in their own right and more as representations of past speech or as scripts for future speech. In the latter part of the seventeenth century, however, some readers were treating books as proxies for the author's speech, rather than as representations of it. These adjustments in the way speech and print were understood had implications for changes in decorum as the inhibitions placed on lower-ranking authors in the Renaissance gave way to increasingly open social networks at the start of the eighteenth century. As a result, authors from the lower ranks could now publish on topics formerly reserved for the more privileged. While this apparently egalitarian development did not result in imagined communities that transcended class, readers of all ranks did encounter new models of reading and writing and were empowered to engage legitimately in the gentlemanly criticism that had once been the reserve of the cultural elites. Shortlisted for the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) book prize 2018

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263

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Routledge

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1317051343

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9781317051343

Silent Reading and the Birth of the Narrator

By: Elspeth Jajdelska

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Silent Reading and the Birth of the Narrator

By: Elspeth Jajdelska

Uses historical, linguistic, and literary evidence to discuss the reorientation of the text and reader towards one another. This work investigates changes in punctuation, sentence structure, and letter and diary writing in the period to illuminate the emergence of a different prose style and the birth of the narrator

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241

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University of Toronto Press

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0802093647

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9780802093646

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Wild flowers of Majorca Minorca and Ibiza

Wild flowers of Majorca Minorca and Ibiza

White Vanishing

White Vanishing

Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750

Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750

Silent Reading and the Birth of the Narrator

Silent Reading and the Birth of the Narrator

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