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Moving in the Margins: Desert Travel and Power in Medieval Central Asia

By: Paul D. Wordsworth

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Moving in the Margins: Desert Travel and Power in Medieval Central Asia

By: Paul D. Wordsworth

Central Asia has been perceived as a landscape of connections, of Silk Roads; an endless plain across which waves of conquerors swiftly rode on horseback. In reality the region is highly fragmented and difficult to traverse, and overcoming these obstacles led to routes becoming associated with epic travel and high-value trade. Put simply, the inhabitants of these lands became experts in the art of travelling the margins. This volume seeks to unravel some of the myths of long-distance roads in Central Asia, using a desert case-study to put forward a new hypothesis for how medieval landscapes were controlled and manipulated.

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BRILL

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9004710280

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9789004710283

Metaromanticism

Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

By: Paul Hamilton

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Metaromanticism

Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

By: Paul Hamilton

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Through a close look at the aesthetics of Friedrich Schiller and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and key works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy and Mary Shelley, John Keats, Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and many others, Hamilton shows how the romantic movement's struggle with its own tenets was not an effort to seek an alternative way of thought, but instead a way of becoming what it already was. And yet, as he reveals, the romanticists were still not content with their own self-consciousness. Pushed to the limit, such contemplation either manifested itself as self-disgust or found aesthetic ideas regenerated in discourses outside of aesthetics altogether.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226314790

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9780226314792

Oxford Textbook of Clinical and Biochemical Disorders of the Skeleton

By: Roger Smith,Paul Wordsworth

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Oxford Textbook of Clinical and Biochemical Disorders of the Skeleton

By: Roger Smith,Paul Wordsworth

This updated and revised textbook provides comprehensive coverage of common polygenic and rare monogenic disorders, emphasising advances in bone cell biology and human skeletal disease. Accessible and well-illustrated, this concise account of metabolic bone disease is designed for postgraduates and clinicians.

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Oxford University Press

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0199607990

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9780199607990

What Is Pastoral?

By: Paul Alpers

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What Is Pastoral?

By: Paul Alpers

One of the enduring traditions of Western literary history, pastoral is often mischaracterized as a catchall for literature about rural themes and nature in general. In What Is Pastoral?, distinguished literary historian Paul Alpers argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction—that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. Ranging from Virgil's Eclogues to Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost, this work brings the story of the pastoral tradition, previously limited to classical and Renaissance literature, into the twentieth century. Pastoral reemerges in this account not as a vehicle of nostalgia for some Golden Age, nor of escape to idyllic landscapes, but as a mode bearing witness to the possibilities and problems of human community and shared experience in the real world. A rich and engrossing book, What Is Pastoral? will soon take its place as the definitive study of pastoral literature. "Alpers succeeds brilliantly. . . . [He] offers . . . a wealth of new insight into the origins, development, and flowering of the pastoral."—Ann-Maria Contarino, Renaissance Quarterly

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0226015238

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Book's by Paul D. Wordsworth

Moving in the Margins: Desert Travel and Power in Medieval Central Asia

Moving in the Margins: Desert Travel and Power in Medieval Central Asia

Metaromanticism

Metaromanticism

Oxford Textbook of Clinical and Biochemical Disorders of the Skeleton

Oxford Textbook of Clinical and Biochemical Disorders of the Skeleton

What Is Pastoral?

What Is Pastoral?

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