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Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031298497
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sherlock Holmes onwards, fictional detectives use lenses: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction argues that these visual aids are metaphors for ways of seeing, and that they help us to understand not only individual detectives’ methods but also the kinds of cultural work detective fiction may do. It is sometimes regarded as a socially conservative form, and certainly the enduring popularity of ‘Golden Age’ writers such as Christie, Sayers, Allingham and Marsh implies a strong element of nostalgia in the appeal of the genre. The emphasis on visual aids, however, suggests that solving crime is not a simple matter of uncovering truth but a complex, sophisticated and inherently subjective process, and thus challenges any sense of comforting certainties. Moreover, the value of eye-witness testimony is often troubled in detective fiction by use of the phrase ‘the ocular proof’, whose origin in Shakespeare’s Othello reminds us that Othello is manipulated by Iago into misinterpreting what he sees. The act of seeing thus comes to seem ideological and provisional, and Lisa Hopkins argues that the kind of visual aid selected by each detective is an index of his particular propensities and biases.

Ocular Proof

Author : Martha Clare Ronk
Publisher : Omnidawn
ISBN 13 : 9781632430250
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Ocular Proof written by Martha Clare Ronk and published by Omnidawn. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetic investigations of the distortions and discoveries of photography and sight

Derrida's Secret

Author : Charles Barbour
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147442502X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Derrida's Secret written by Charles Barbour and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Snowden Affair, Wikileaks, the 'lone wolf' terrorist, Clinton's private email account - the secret is arguably the central element of our contemporary political experience. Now, Charles Barbour looks at the basic ontological question 'what is a secret?' Organised as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on secrecy, four chapters each look at a separate problematic: society and the oath, literature and testimony, philosophy and deception, and time and death. Barbour shows that secrecy is not a negation of our relations with others, but a necessary condition of those relations. We can only reveal ourselves to one another (and, indeed, to anything other) insofar as we conceal as well.

Impartial Investigation Into the Reasonableness of the Doctrines of Christianity

Author : Emil Schultz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Impartial Investigation Into the Reasonableness of the Doctrines of Christianity written by Emil Schultz and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

March's Thesaurus Dictionary

Author : Francis Andrew March
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1502 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book March's Thesaurus Dictionary written by Francis Andrew March and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Thesaurus Dictionary of the English Language

Author : Francis Andrew March
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book A Thesaurus Dictionary of the English Language written by Francis Andrew March and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten

Author : Daniel Albright
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441179097
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten written by Daniel Albright and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by the major composers.

Great Shakespeareans Set III

Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472578627
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Great Shakespeareans Set III written by Adrian Poole and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Shakespeareans presents a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors as well as novelists, poets, composers, and thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. An essential resource for students and scholars in Shakespeare studies.

Forensic Shakespeare

Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191056634
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Forensic Shakespeare written by Quentin Skinner and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays (Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Hamlet) and on three early Jacobean dramas, (Othello, Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well), Quentin Skinner argues that major speeches, and sometimes sequences of scenes, are crafted according to a set of rhetorical precepts about how to develop a persuasive judicial case, either in accusation or defence. Some of these works have traditionally been grouped together as 'problem plays', but here Skinner offers a different explanation for their frequent similarities of tone. There have been many studies of Shakespeare's rhetoric, but they have generally concentrated on his wordplay and use of figures and tropes. By contrast, this study concentrates on Shakespeare's use of judicial rhetoric as a method of argument. By approaching the plays from this perspective, Skinner is able to account for some distinctive features of Shakespeare's vocabulary, and also help to explain why certain scenes follow a recurrent pattern and arrangement. More broadly, he is able to illustrate the extent of Shakespeare's engagement with an entire tradition of classical and Renaissance humanist thought.

Pacific Performances

Author : C. Balme
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230599532
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Performances written by C. Balme and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study explores the history of cross-cultural performative encounters in the Pacific from the Eighteenth century to the present. It examines Western theatrical representations of Pacific cultures and investigates how Pacific Islanders used their own cultural performances to negotiate the colonial situation.

Dress, Law and Naked Truth

Author : Gary Watt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472500431
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Dress, Law and Naked Truth written by Gary Watt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Why are civil authorities in so-called liberal democracies affronted by public nudity and the Islamic full-face 'veil'? Why is law and civil order so closely associated with robes, gowns, suits, wigs and uniforms? Why is law so concerned with the 'evident' and the need for justice to be 'seen' to be done? Why do we dress and obey dress codes at all? In this, the first ever study devoted to the many deep cultural connections between dress and law, the author addresses these questions and more. His responses flow from the radical thesis that 'law is dress and dress is law'. Engaging with sources from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare, Carlyle, Dickens and Damien Hirst, Professor Watt draws a revealing history of dress and civil order and offers challenging conclusions about the nature of truth and the potential for individuals to fit within the forms of civil life.

Body Trade

Author : Barbara Creed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136713018
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Body Trade written by Barbara Creed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body Trade exposes myths surrounding the trade in heads, cannibalism, captive white women, the display of indigenous people in fairs and circuses, the stolen generations, the 'comfort' women and the making of the exotic/erotic body. This is a lively and intriguiung comtribution to the study of the postcolonial body.

Shakespeare / Sense

Author : Simon Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474273246
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare / Sense written by Simon Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare | Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare and sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell us about early modern drama and poetry, and, conversely, how Shakespeare explores the senses in his literary craft, his fictional worlds, and his stagecraft. 15 substantial new essays by leading Shakespeareans working in sensory studies and related disciplines interrogate every aspect of Shakespeare and sense, from the place of hearing, smell, sight, touch, and taste in early modern life, literature, and performance culture, through to the significance of sensation in 21st century engagements with Shakespeare on stage, screen and page. The volume explores and develops current methods for studying Shakespeare and sensation, reflecting upon the opportunities and challenges created by this emergent and influential area of scholarly enquiry. Many chapters develop fresh readings of particular plays and poems, from Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, and The Tempest to less-studied works such as The Comedy of Errors, Venus and Adonis, Troilus and Cressida, and Cymbeline.

Othello

Author : Lena Cowen Orlin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137115483
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Othello written by Lena Cowen Orlin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its focus on gender, power, race, sexuality, and violence, Othello is an important site for new critical approaches to the study of Shakespeare's works. Both criticism and culture are represented in this collection of recent essays which provides readers with examples of feminist, new-historicist, cultural materialist, deconstructive, and post-colonial perspectives on Othello. With discussions of recent stage and screen productions, and analysis of the use of the play in such contemporary events as the O.J. Simpson murder trial, this compelling critical volume presents a wide variety of ways of understanding the continuing significance of Shakespeare's play both in his own time and in ours.

Experience, Evidence, and Sense

Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199709807
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Experience, Evidence, and Sense written by Anna Wierzbicka and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on two ideas: first, that any language--English no less than any other-represents a universe of meaning, shaped by the history and experience of the men and women who have created it, and second, that in any language certain culture--specific words act as linchpins for whole networks of meanings, and that penetrating the meanings of those key words can therefore open our eyes to an entire cultural universe. In this book Anna Wierzbicka demonstrates that three uniquely English words--evidence, experience, and sense--are exactly such linchpins. Using a rigorous plain language approach to meaning analysis, she unpacks the dense cultural meanings of these key words, disentangles their multiple meanings, and traces their origins back to the tradition of British empiricism. In so doing she reveals much about cultural attitudes embedded not only in British and American English, but also English as a global language. An interdisciplinary work, Experience, Evidence, and Sense will be of interest to both scholars and students in linguistics and English, as well as historians of ideas, sociologists, anthropologists, literary scholars, and scholars of communication.

The New Englander

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The New Englander written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Englander and Yale Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Englander and Yale Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: