Postcolonial Borges: Argument and Artistry by Robin Fiddian
English | October 10, 2017 | ISBN: 0198794711 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 0.4 MB
Postcolonial Borges is the first systematic account of geo-political and postcolonial themes in a range of writings by Borges, from the poetry and essays of the 1920s, through the prose and poetry of the middle years (the 40s, 50s, and 60s), to the stories of El informe de Brodie and the poems of La cifra and other later collections. Robin Fiddian analyses the development of a postcolonial sensibility in works such as 'Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires', 'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius', 'Theme of the Traitor and the Hero', and 'Brodie's Report'. He examines Borges's treatment of national and regional identity, and of East-West relations, in several essays and poems, contained, for example, in Other Inquisitions and Seven Nights. The theoretical concepts of 'coloniality' and 'Occidentalism' shed new light on several works by Borges, who acquires a sharper political profile than previously acknowledged. Fiddian pays special attention to Oriental subjects in Borges's works of the 70s and 80s, where their treatment is bound up with a critique of Occidental values and assumptions.
Piero della Francesca: Artist and Man by James R. Banker
English | April 15, 2014 | ISBN: 0199609314 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 7.1 MB
Largely neglected for the four centuries after his death, the fifteenth century Italian artist Piero della Francesca is now seen to embody the fullest expression of the Renaissance perspective painter, raising him to an artistic stature comparable with that of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
Perspectives on Localization By Keiran J. Dunne
2006 | 362 Pages | ISBN: 9027231893 | PDF | 4 MB
Over the past two decades, international trade agreements such as GATT and NAFTA have lowered international trade barriers. At the same time, the information revolution has fueled profound shifts in the ways companies conduct business and communicate with their customers, and worldwide acceptance of the ISO 9000 standard has established the notion that quality must be defined in terms of customer satisfaction. Falling trade barriers and rising quality standards have made linguistic and cultural issues increasingly important. To successfully compete in today's global on-demand economy, companies must localize their products and services to fit the needs of the local market in terms of language, culture, functionality, work practices, as well as legal and regulatory requirements. In recognition of the growing importance of localization, this volume explores a certain number of key issues, including: * Return on investment and the localization business case * Localization cost drivers and cost-containment strategies * Localization quality and customer-focused quality management * Challenges posed by localization of games, including Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) * Using a meta-language to facilitate accurate translation of disembodied content * The case for managing source-language terminology * Terminology management in the localization process * Reconciling industry needs and academic objectives in localization education * Localization standards and the commoditization of linguistic information * The creation and application of language industry standards * Rethinking customer-focused localization through user-centered design * Moving from translation reuse to language reuse
Parenting and Couple Relationships Among LGBTQ+ People in Diverse Contexts
English | 2021 | ISBN: 303084188X | 601 Pages | PDF EPUB | 3 MB
This book analyzes how the increasing number of same-sex couples is changing the traditional concepts of family and parenthood, and how these changes affect the psychological studies of family, couple relationships and human development. The majority of chapters included in this contributed volume present results of research conducted with LGBTQ+ people in Brazil, a country where same-sex couples have been recognized by the national legislation since 2011, but is currently facing a conservative wave which threatens much of the victories gained by the LGBTQ+ movement in recent years. That's why this book aims to provide both updated theoretical and methodological contributions as well as ethically and political engaged reflections to the field of psychological studies of LGBTQ+ parenting and couple relationships.
Openhearted: Eighty Years of Love, Loss, Laughter and Letting Go by Ann Ingle
English | September 23rd, 2021 | ISBN: 1844885712 | 266 pages | True EPUB | 0.81 MB
SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021
Open Praxis, Open Access: Digital Scholarship In Action by Darren Chase and Dana Haugh
English | May 27, 2019 | ISBN: 0838918670 | 288 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Many in the world of scholarship share the conviction that open access will be the engine of transformation leading to more culture, more research, more discovery, and more solutions to small and big problems. This collection brings together librarians, scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and thinkers to take measure of the open access movement. The editors meld critical essays, research, and case studies to offer an authoritative exploration of
Daniel Tyler, "On Style in Victorian Fiction"
English | ISBN: 1108427510 | 2022 | 320 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Some writers of the Victorian period, as well as more recent critics, have argued that the prose style of Victorian fiction aims to efface itself or that an absence of style may in itself represent the nineteenth-century ideal. This collection provides a major assessment of style in Victorian fiction and demonstrates that style - the language, techniques and artistry of prose - is inseparable from meaning and that it is through the many resources of style that the full compass of meaning makes itself known. Leading scholars in the field present an engaging assessment of major Victorian novelists, illustrating how productive and illuminating close attention to literary style can be. Collectively, they build a fresh and nuanced understanding of how style functioned in the literature of the nineteenth century, and propose that the fiction of this era demands we think about what style does, as much as what style is.
Novel Politics: Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth-Century Fiction by Isobel Armstrong
English | March 5, 2017 | ISBN: 0198793723 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 0.5 MB
Novel Politics aims to change the current consensus of thinking about the nineteenth-century novel. This assumes that the novel is structured by bourgeois ideology and morality, so that its default position is conservative and hegemonic. Such critique comes alike from Marxists, readers of nineteenth-century liberalism, and critics making claims for the working-class novel, and systematically under-reads democratic imaginations and social questioning in novels of the period.
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House, UK Edition by Adrian Tinniswood
English | October 7th, 2021 | ISBN: 1787331784 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 38.15 MB
*A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2021*
New Waves in Social Psychology
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030874052 | 279 Pages | PDF EPUB | 4 MB
This book presents an update on social psychology as a disciplinary space and research field. First, it discusses the irruption of research methods from other cultural niches in the instituted academic area. Then, the second and third chapters discuss the role of Critical Psychology for community emancipation in hybrid settings and the development of Vygotsky's theory in Latin America. The fourth and fifth chapters offer some questions on contemporary legal and political culture. The sixth and seventh chapters ask how to reconceptualise the studies on Social Imaginary amd childhood. The eighth and ninth chapters present topics as performativity, cybernetic, subjectivities, and technology networks in health-related social support. In the last chapter, the author asks: are networks a cause of the human condition or a result of it? Is virtuality a condition and, at the same time, a result of the human? What could offer a psychoanalytic ethnographic approach to recover the concept of being human as the experience of intimate bonding as part of a social network?