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Routledge Revivals: Traditions, Forms, Poetic Structure (Routledge Revivals)
by Karl ReichlOriginally published in 1992, Turkic Oral Poetry provides an expert introduction to the oral epic traditions of the Turkic peoples of central Asia. The book seeks to remedy the problem of non-specialists’ lack of access to information on the Turkic traditions, and in the process, it provides scholars in various disciplines with material for comparative investigation. The book focuses on "central traditions" of this region, specifically those of the Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Karakalpak’s, and Kirghiz and looks at the historical and linguistic background to a survey of the earliest documents, portraits of the singers and of performance considerations of genre, story-patterns, and formulaic diction, and discussions of "composition in performance", memory, rhetoric and diffusion.
Routledge Revivals: Urban Land and Property Markets in Italy (Routledge Revivals)
by Gastone AveOriginally published in 1996, Urban Land and Property Markets describes the intricacies of the Italian urban planning system, and the interconnections between the property sector, the national economy, and recent historical developments, including the new challenges facing Italy after the early 1990s collapse of the party system. The book’s underlying thesis is that property values are ultimately created by urban planning and investment in infrastructure. Negotiations between local government and developers focus on three basic issues: the ultimate use of urban land, the quantitative control of development via planning permissions relating to city master plans, and the nature of public investment to support growth and property values.
Routledge Revivals: Values and Traditions (Routledge Revivals)
by B. Ifor EvansFirst published in 1962, this book is a reflection on Sir Ifor Evans’s well-known A Short History of English Literature. In this reflective study, Evans wonders if it is possible to trace permanent elements in such a huge and varied mass of writings? As he moves from the Anglo-Saxon Caedmon to T.S Eliot, or from Milton to James Joyce, he finds out how, in unexpected ways, the English spirit of compromise extends into its literature, along with its love of nature and interest in the individual. In poetic imagery above all the British genius seems, typically, to have found a way of making ‘empiricism transcendental’. This book, which had its origin during the war under the aegis of the British Council, provides the reader with a stimulating passport to a very rich kingdom.
Routledge Revivals: Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque (Routledge Revivals)
by David Amigoni Colin Trodd Paul BarlowOriginally published in 1999, Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque is the first fully interdisciplinary study of the subject and examines a wide range of sources and materials to provide new readings between ‘style’ and ‘concept’. The book provides an original analysis of key articulations of the Grotesque in the literary culture of Ruskin, Browning and Dickens, where represents the eruptions, intensities, confusions and disturbed vitality of modern cultural experience such as the scientific revolution associated with Darwin and the nature of industrial society.
Routledge Revivals: Workers' Theatre Movements in Britain and America (Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series #5)
by Raphael Samuel Stuart Cosgrove Ewan MaccollFirst published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre movements intended their performances to be activist — perceiving art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment — and an emancipatory act. An introductory study relates left-wing theatre groupings to the cultural narratives of contemporary British socialism. The progress of the Workers’ Theatre Movement (1928-1935) is traced from simple realism to the most brilliant phase of its Russian and German development alongside which the parallel movements in the United States are also examined. A number of crucial texts are reprints as well as stage notes and glimpses of the dramaturgical controversies which accompanied them.
Routledge Spanish Dictionary of Business, Commerce and Finance Diccionario Ingles de Negocios, Comercio y Finanzas: Spanish-English/English-Spanish (Routledge Bilingual Specialist Dictionaries)
by Emilio G. CastroThis Dictionary consists of some 100,000 terms in both Spanish and English, drawn from the whole range of business, finance and banking terminology. Over 45 subject areas are covered, compiled by a team of international terminologists
Routledge Spanish Dictionary of Telecommunications Diccionario Ingles de Telecomunicaciones: Spanish-English/English-Spanish (Routledge Bilingual Specialist Dictionaries)
by Emilio G. CastroThis dictionary consists of some 25,000 terms and references in both Spanish and English, drawn from all the major areas in the field of Telecommunications. It includes comprehensive labelling of subject areas, detailed abbreviation entries including cross-reference links to full forms, full British and American English coverage of lexical and spelling variants presented in clear layout and typography. Este diccionario consta de unos 25.000 términos y referencias tanto en español como en inglés, procedentes de las principales áreas del campo de las Telecomunicaciones. Incluye etiquetado completo de áreas temáticas, entradas de abreviaturas detalladas que incluyen enlaces de referencia cruzada a formularios completos, cobertura completa en inglés británico y americano de variantes léxicas y ortográficas presentadas en un diseño y tipografía claros.
Routledge Spanish Technical Dictionary Diccionario tecnico inges: Volume 2: English-Spanish/ingles-Espanol (Routledge Bilingual Specialist Dictionaries)
by 0 Routledge,These 2 volumes consist of some 100,000 headwords in both Spanish and English, including 3,000 abbreviations. Terms are drawn from the whole range of modern applied science and technical terminology. These volumes can be purchased either separately or together in print. Each volume is compiled by an international team of subject terminologists, native English and Spanish speakers. Special attention is given to differences between UK and US terminology, and to Spanish and Latin-American variants. Over 70 subject areas are covered. Estos 2 volúmenes constan de unos 100.000 lemas tanto en español como en inglés, incluidas 3.000 abreviaturas. Los términos se extraen de toda la gama de terminología técnica y científica aplicada moderna. Estos volúmenes se pueden comprar por separado o juntos en forma impresa. Cada volumen es compilado por un equipo internacional de terminólogos temáticos, hablantes nativos de inglés y español. Se presta especial atención a las diferencias entre la terminología del Reino Unido y Estados Unidos, y a las variantes española y latinoamericana. Se cubren más de 70 áreas temáticas.
Routledge Spanish Technical Dictionary Diccionario tecnico ingles: Volume 1: Spanish-English/ingles-espanol (Routledge Bilingual Specialist Dictionaries)
by Sinda LópezThese 2 volumes consist of some 100,000 headwords in both Spanish and English, including 3,000 abbreviations. Terms are drawn from the whole range of modern applied science and technical terminology. These volumes can be purchased either separately or together in print. Each volume is compiled by an international team of subject terminologists, native English and Spanish speakers. Special attention is given to differences between UK and US terminology, and to Spanish and Latin-American variants. Over 70 subject areas are covered. Estos 2 volúmenes constan de unos 100.000 lemas tanto en español como en inglés, incluidas 3.000 abreviaturas. Los términos se extraen de toda la gama de terminología técnica y científica aplicada moderna. Estos volúmenes se pueden comprar por separado o juntos en forma impresa. Cada volumen es compilado por un equipo internacional de terminólogos temáticos, hablantes nativos de inglés y español. Se presta especial atención a las diferencias entre la terminología del Reino Unido y Estados Unidos, y a las variantes española y latinoamericana. Se cubren más de 70 áreas temáticas.
Rowinataworu Luhchi Yoroni / Tunica Language Textbook
by Kuhpani Yoyani Luhchi Yoroni / The Tunica Language Working GroupThe essential guide for learning the Tunica language.For many years, the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana collaborated with students and faculty at Tulane University on a project to revitalize the Tunica language. Tunica had not been spoken or used regularly in the community since the last known speaker, Sesostrie Youchigant, passed away in 1948. The center of the revitalization of the Tunica language is this first-of-its-kind, beginning Tunica language textbook.The Tunica Language Textbook (Rowinataworu Luhchi Yoroni) contains everything needed to become conversationally fluent in Tunica. Like other language textbooks, it contains vocabulary and grammatical information, as well as practice exercises that develop both comprehension and production of Tunica, and acquisition of the patterns, not just the forms. The textbook contains links to an online pronunciation guide and includes a wealth of information on cultural topics, from stickball to basketry to naming to cosmology, and uses the language to do so. Wherever possible, excerpts from the original documentation of Tunica stories and myths have been included, so that students can become acquainted with native-like language use.Each chapter is structured to lead the student through the stages of learning, from presentation of new information, to recognition, to identification, to application. While there is explanation of the topics in English, the lessons are designed to be used in an immersion classroom setting as well as for individual use.
Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson
by Martha Nell SmithEmily Dickinson wrote a "letter to the world" and left it lying in her drawer more than a century ago. This widely admired epistle was her poems, which were never conventionally published in book form during her lifetime. Since the posthumous discovery of her work, general readers and literary scholars alike have puzzled over this paradox of wanting to communicate widely and yet apparently refusing to publish. In this pathbreaking study, Martha Nell Smith unravels the paradox by boldly recasting two of the oldest and still most frequently asked questions about Emily Dickinson: Why didn't she publish more poems while she was alive? and Who was her most important contemporary audience? Regarding the question of publication, Smith urges a reconception of the act of publication itself. She argues that Dickinson did publish her work in letters and in forty manuscript books that circulated among a cultured network of correspondents, most important of whom was her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson. Rather than considering this material unpublished because unprinted, Smith views its alternative publication as a conscious strategy on the poet's part, a daring poetic experiment that also included Dickinson's unusual punctuation, line breaks, stanza divisions, calligraphic orthography, and bookmaking - all the characteristics that later editors tried to standardize or eliminate in preparing the poems for printing. Dickinson's relationship with her most important reader, Sue Dickinson, has also been lost or distorted by multiple levels of censorship, Smith finds. Emphasizing the poet-sustaining aspects of the passionate bonds between the two women, Smith shows that theirrelationship was both textual and sexual. Based on study of the actual holograph poems, Smith reveals the extent of Sue Dickinson's collaboration in the production of poems, most notably "Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers". This finding will surely challenge the popular conception of the isolated, withdrawn Emily Dickinson. Well-versed in poststructuralist, feminist, and new textual criticism, Rowing in Eden uncovers the process by which the conventional portrait of Emily Dickinson was drawn and offers readers a chance to go back to original letters and poems and look at the poet and her work through new eyes. It will be of great interest to a wide audience in literary and feminist studies.
Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture
by Galina I. YermolenkoThis collection is the first book-length scholarly study of the pervasiveness and significance of Roxolana in the European imagination. Roxolana, or "Hurrem Sultan," was a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who made an unprecedented career from harem slave and concubine to legal wife and advisor of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566). Her influence on Ottoman affairs generated legends in many a European country. The essays gathered here represent an interdisciplinary survey of her legacy; the contributors view Roxolana as a transnational figure that reflected the shifting European attitudes towards "the Other," and they investigate her image in a wide variety of sources, ranging from early modern historical chronicles, dramas and travel writings, to twentieth-century historical novels and plays. Also included are six European source texts featuring Roxolana, here translated into modern English for the first time. Importantly, this collection examines Roxolana from both Western and Eastern European perspectives; source material is taken from England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Poland, and Ukraine. The volume is an important contribution to the study of early modern transnationalism, cross-cultural exchange, and notions of identity, the Self, and the Other.
Royal Childhoods (Routledge Revivals)
by Charles CarltonFirst published in 1986, Royal Childhoods shows how the early years of Britain’s kings and queen have coloured their later lives. Combining skills of a professional historian with a knowledge of psychology, the author links the study of childhood to known pattern of events. His book makes the distant figures of royalty more comprehensible as individuals. With great insight into the influence of childhood experience, he covers the whole span of British monarchy from William the Conqueror to the Prince of Wales. This book will be of interest to students of history, literature and psychology.
Royal Court: International
by Elaine Aston Mark O’thomasRoyal Court: International is the first full-length study of the Royal Court Theatre's International Department. It charts the engagement of the UK's premiere theatre for new writing with an internationalist agenda and takes readers inside the process developed by the Court for the workshop projects it has undertaken in different parts of the world since the late 1990s. Covering the theatre's unique programming of international plays and seasons, it highlights new writing from different parts of the globe, including France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Eastern Europe, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Columbia, Iran, the Near East, North Africa, Nigeria and India. First-hand accounts of the work appear in contributions from Stephen Daldry, Elyse Dodgson and Vicky Featherstone, and in interviews with Marcos Barbosa (Brazil), Anupama Chandrasekhar (India), Dominic Cooke, Sasha Dugdale, Marius von Mayenburg (Germany), Mark Ravenhill and Indhu Rubasingham.
Royal Court: International (Studies In International Performance)
by Elaine Aston Mark O’ThomasThe first ever full-length study of the Royal Court Theatre's International Department, covering the theatre's unique programming of international plays and seasons, its London-based residences for writers from overseas, and the legacies of workshops conducted in more than 30 countries.
Royal Mistresses (Routledge Revivals)
by Charles CarltonFirst published in 1990, Royal Mistresses provides an innovative way of looking at the development of British monarchy, and at the same time investigates the relationship between sex and power. Charles Carlton focuses not so much on the amorous activities of the mistresses of British monarchs as on their influences on those monarchs and on society at large. Ranging from the early medieval period to the late 1990s, he shows that a monarch’s illicit sexual life sheds light on his character and reign. It is no coincidence that Henry I, Charles II, and Edward VII, who were successful with their mistresses were also successful in their reigns, while the divorced John and the lovelorn Edward VIII failed Not surprisingly, the affairs of the sovereign’s heart have very often become the affairs of state. This book will be of interest to students of history and literature.
Royal Romances: Sex, Scandal , and Monarchy in Print, 1780–1821
by Kristin Flieger SamuelianThis text explores the reception of the royal family during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and its representation in fiction, poetry, and the popular press. Samuelian finds that popular response to the royal family has reflected the public's belief in their right of access to the private life of royalty.
Royal Voices: Language and Power in Tudor England
by Mel EvansThe Tudors are one of the best known royal families in English history. Over three generations, they constructed and maintained their status and authority during a period of social, political and religious unrest. This book examines the textual basis of Tudor royal power. Through analyses of correspondence alongside genres including proclamations and historical chronicles, the book explores the visual and verbal practices that came to symbolise monarchic authority in the Tudor era. Mel Evans combines concepts from sociolinguistics and pragmatics with corpus linguistic methods to explore the characteristics of authentic English language Tudor texts, alongside materials reporting and appropriating royal language. The book reveals a pervasive sixteenth-century royal voice - one which is central to the articulation and perpetuation of Tudor monarchic power.
Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature: Exploring Abraham Cowley (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
by Philip MajorAuthor of plays, love-lyrics, essays and, among other works, The Civil War, the Davideis and the Pindarique Odes, Abraham Cowley made a deep impression on seventeenth-century letters, attested by his extravagant funeral and his burial next to Chaucer and Spenser in Westminster Abbey. Ejected from Cambridge for his politics, he found refuge in royalist Oxford before seeing long service as secretary to Queen Henrietta Maria, and as a Crown agent, on the continent. In the mid-1650s he returned to England, was imprisoned and made an accommodation with the Cromwellian regime. This volume of essays provides the modern critical attention Cowley’s life and writings merit.
Rubyfruit Jungle (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)
by SparkNotesRubyfruit Jungle (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Rita Mae Brown Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis *Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols *A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers
Ruchira Dviteeyo Bhag class 7 - NCERT - 23: रुचिरा द्वितीयो भागः ७वीं कक्षा - एनसीईआरटी - २३
by Rashtriy Shaikshik Anusandhan Aur Prashikshan Parishadरुचिरा पुस्तक शृङ्खला अपने नाम के अनुसार रुचिवर्धक सामग्री से विद्यालय स्तर पर छात्र-छात्राओं में संस्कृत भाषा के प्रयोग में कुशलता तो प्रदान करेगी ही, साथ ही संस्कृत साहित्य के प्रति उत्सुकता एवं सम्मान भी पैदा करेगी। इसी शृङ्खला का द्वितीय पुष्प रुचिरा द्वितीयो भाग: (पुनरीक्षित संस्करण 2018) छात्र-छात्राओं के लिए प्रस्तुत है। इस पुस्तक के निर्माण में इस बात का ध्यान रखा गया है कि कक्षा में शिक्षक और विद्यार्थियों की अन्तःक्रिया प्रश्नोत्तर माध्यम से संस्कृत में ही हो, जिससे विद्यार्थी संस्कृत के सरल वाक्यों को समझने, बोलने, पढ़ने और लिखने की कुशलता विकसित कर सकें। संस्कृत भाषा की छन्दः सम्पदा की लय एवं गेयता का आनन्द छात्रों को प्राप्त हो, एतदर्थ कुछ नवीन गीत भी इस पुस्तक में दिये गए हैं। पाठ्य सामग्री को रोचक बनाने के लिए कुछ पाठों की रचना संवाद अथवा नाट्य-शैली में की गई है। वर्णनात्मक-पाठों में 'पण्डिता रमाबाई', 'विश्वबन्धुत्वम्' और 'अमृतं संस्कृतम्' एवं कथा पाठों में 'दुर्बुद्धिः विनश्यति' (पञ्चतन्त्र की संपादित कथा), ‘स्वावलम्बनम्’, ‘समवायो हि दुर्जयः' आदि में प्रेरणास्पद विषयवस्तु को प्रस्तुत किया गया है। राष्ट्रध्वज के महत्त्व को बताने के लिए संवादात्मक शैली में 'त्रिवर्णः ध्वज:' पाठ को इस पुस्तक में समाहित किया गया है।
Ruchira Prathamo Bhag class 6 - NCERT - 23: रुचिरा प्रथमो भागः ६वीं कक्षा - एनसीईआरटी - २३
by Rashtriy Shaikshik Anusandhan Aur Prashikshan Parishadसंस्कृत की रुचिरा शृंखला की तीनों पुस्तकें उपरोक्त वैचारिक आधार पर विकसित की गई हैं। इस शृंखला की पहली पुस्तक रुचिरा प्रथमो भागः (पुनरीक्षित संस्करण 2018) आपके सामने प्रस्तुत है। अपने नाम के अनुरूप इसे रुचिकर बनाने का यथासंभव प्रयास किया गया है। पुस्तक-निर्माण का मुख्य उद्देश्य यह रहा है कि संस्कृत के सरल वाक्यों को समझने, बोलने, पढ़ने और लिखने की विद्यार्थियों की क्षमता के विकास में यह सहायक हो। यहाँ संस्कृत भाषा-शिक्षण पर बल है। इस पुस्तक के प्रारंभिक तीन पाठों में ऐसे शब्दों को समेटने का प्रयास किया गया है जो विद्यार्थियों के दैनंदिन जीवन से जुड़े हैं। कुछ रूढ़िबद्ध धारणाओं से अलग हटकर नयी भूमिकाओं में लोगों को दिखाया गया है। यथा चालिका शब्द। इसके साथ दिया गया चित्र अर्थ का विस्तार करते हुए टैक्सी चलाती स्त्रियों को दर्शाता है। यद्यपि सामाजिक रूढ़ियों के कारण उनकी संख्या कम है। कठिन शब्दों का अर्थ-बोध कराने हेतु छात्रों की सुविधा के लिए प्रत्येक पाठ के अन्त में दिया गया शब्दार्थ (संस्कृत-हिन्दी-अंग्रेज़ी) इस पुस्तक की विशेषता है।
Rude Britannia
by Mina GorjiMedia commentators have noted a rising public tolerance to the use of rude or offensive words in modern English. John Lydon’s obscene outburst on 'I’m a Celebrity…' only provoked a handful of complaints – a muted reaction compared to the furore following his use of the f-word on television twenty-eight years earlier. This timely and authoritative exploration of rudeness in modern English draws together experts from the academic world and the media – journalists, linguists, lexicographers and literary critics – and argues that rudeness is an important cultural phenomenon. Tightly edited with clear accessibly written pieces, the essays look at rudeness in: the media literature football chants street culture seaside postcards. With contributions from media figures including Tom Paulin and leading media-friendly linguists Deborah Cameron and Lynda Mugglestone, Rude Britannia raises concerns about linguistic and social codes, standards of decency, what is considered taboo in the public realm, constructions of bawdy, class, race, power and British identity.
Rude Hand Gestures of the World: A Guide To Offending Without Words
by Romana LefevreWith this illustrated guide, discover what hand gestures can offend others around the world—and whether you avoid making them or not is up to you.A hand gesture is arguably the most effective form of expression, whether you’re defaming a friend’s mother or telling a perfect stranger to get lost. Learn how to go beyond just flipping the bird with this illustrated guide to rude hand gestures all around the world, from asking for sex in the Middle East to calling someone crazy in Italy. Detailed photographs of hand models and subtle tips for proper usage make Rude Hand Gestures of the World the perfect companion for globe-trotters looking to offend.“If you’ve resolved to make the most of your travels, a copy of Rude Hand Gestures of the World to know what gestures you should avoid while abroad. Better safe than sorry!” —Buzzfeed
Rudyard Kipling (Collected Critical Heritage Ser. #Series 2)
by Roger Lancelyn GreenThis set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.