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33 produkter
Language Universals
Av Shimon Edelman, Christopher Collins m. fl.
E-bok, 2009
944 kr
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Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object (''understand the proof''), but in Japanese, the direct object comes first. In some languages, such as Mohawk, it is not even possible to establish a basic …
Language Universals
Av Morten H. Christiansen, Christopher Collins m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1527 kr
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Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object ('understand the proof'), but in Japanese, the direct object comes first. In some languages, such as Mohawk, it is not even possible to establish a basic word …
Language Universals
Av Shimon Edelman, Christopher Collins m. fl.
E-bok, 2009
944 kr
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Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object (''understand the proof''), but in Japanese, the direct object comes first. In some languages, such as Mohawk, it is not even possible to establish a basic …
Paleopoetics
The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination
Inbunden, 2013
1175 kr
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Christopher Collins introduces an exciting new field of research traversing evolutionary biology, anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and literary study. Paleopoetics maps the selective processes that originally shaped the human genus millions of years ago …
Paleopoetics
The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination
Häftad, 2014
299 kr
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Christopher Collins introduces an exciting new field of research traversing evolutionary biology, anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and literary study. Paleopoetics maps the selective processes that originally shaped the human genus millions of years ago …
Neopoetics
The Evolution of the Literate Imagination
Inbunden, 2016
699 kr
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The quest to understand the evolution of the literary mind has become a fertile field of inquiry and speculation for scholars across literary studies and cognitive science. In Paleopoetics, Christopher Collins's acclaimed earlier title, he described how language emerged both as a communicative tool …
Mrs Thatcher's War
Inbunden, 2027
280 kr
Kommande
The Falklands War is the period of Margaret Thatcher's premiership which still attracts the greatest attention. Mrs. Thatcher's War is a new history of the conflict, not from the military perspective but centrally from hers.Chris Collins presents the fullest account to date of the Thatcher …
Reading the Written Image
Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia
Häftad, 1991
606 kr
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Reading the Written Image is a study of the imagination as it is prompted by the verbal cues of literature. Since every literary image is also a mental image, a representation of an absent entity, Collins contends that imagination is a poiesis, a making-up, an act of play for both author and …
Homeland Mythology
Biblical Narratives in American Culture
Inbunden, 2007
449 kr
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Since 9/11, America has presented itself to the world as a Christianist culture, no less antimodern and nostalgic for an idealized past than its Islamist foes. The master-narrative both sides share might sound like this: Once upon a time, the values of the righteous community coincided with those …
Homeland Mythology
Biblical Narratives in American Culture
Häftad, 2007
384 kr
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Since 9/11, America has presented itself to the world as a Christianist culture, no less antimodern and nostalgic for an idealized past than its Islamist foes. The master-narrative both sides share might sound like this: Once upon a time, the values of the righteous community coincided with those …
Poetics of the Mind's Eye
Literature and the Psychology of Imagination
Häftad, 1991
445 kr
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Because every literary image is also a mental image, and because every mental image is a representation of an absent entity, Christopher Collins argues, imagination is a poiesis, a making-up, an act of play for both author and reader. In a book that stands at the intersection of poetic theory and …
Playboy of the Western World
Häftad, 2016
242 kr
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‘I’m thinking this night wasn’t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by.’ – Christy MahonOn the first night of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907) the audience began protesting in the theatre; by the third night the protests had spilled onto the streets of …
J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World
E-bok, 2016
279 kr
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‘I’m thinking this night wasn’t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by.’ – Christy Mahon On the first night of J. M. Synge ’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907) the audience began protesting in the theatre; by the third night the protests had spilled onto the …
J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World
E-bok, 2016
279 kr
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‘I’m thinking this night wasn’t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by.’ – Christy Mahon On the first night of J. M. Synge ’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907) the audience began protesting in the theatre; by the third night the protests had spilled onto the …
Theatre and Residual Culture
J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland
Inbunden, 2016
635 kr
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This book considers the cultural residue from pre-Christian Ireland in Synge’s plays and performances. By dramatising a residual culture in front of a predominantly modern and political Irish Catholic middle class audience, the book argues that Synge attempted to offer an alternative understanding …
Theatre and Residual Culture
J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland
E-bok, 2016
896 kr
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This book considers the cultural residue from pre-Christian Ireland in Synge’s plays and performances. By dramatising a residual culture in front of a predominantly modern and political Irish Catholic middle class audience, the book argues that Synge attempted to offer an alternative understanding …
Theatre and Residual Culture
J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland
Häftad, 2018
569 kr
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This book considers the cultural residue from pre-Christian Ireland in Synge’s plays and performances. By dramatising a residual culture in front of a predominantly modern and political Irish Catholic middle class audience, the book argues that Synge attempted to offer an alternative understanding …
Playboy of the Western World
Av John Millington Synge, Christopher Collins
Häftad, 2021
153 kr
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This revised edition of the play is published alongside commentary and notes by Christopher Collins, Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK. It includes information for today's students on the play's context; themes; dramatic devices; production history; critical …
Playboy of the Western World
Av John Millington Synge, Christopher Collins
E-bok, 2020
162 kr
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This revised edition of the play is published alongside commentary and notes by Christopher Collins, Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK. It includes information for today''s students on the play''s context; themes; dramatic devices; production history; critical …
Playboy of the Western World
Av John Millington Synge, Christopher Collins
E-bok, 2020
158 kr
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This revised edition of the play is published alongside commentary and notes by Christopher Collins, Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK. It includes information for today''s students on the play''s context; themes; dramatic devices; production history; critical …
Evgenij Zamjatin
an Interpretive Study
Inbunden, 1973
1801 kr
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uses of observation
A study of correspondential vision in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman
Inbunden, 1972
1801 kr
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Evgenij Zamjatin
an Interpretive Study
E-bok, 2012
1612 kr
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uses of observation
A study of correspondential vision in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman
E-bok, 2018
1596 kr
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Mirror Loop
Av Christopher Collins, Christopher Collins
E-bok, 2025
71 kr
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Dr. Elara Myles built the NeuroMirror to save her mind.Diagnosed with early-onset dementia, the renowned neurologist designed a self-learning diagnostic system to observe her cognition in real time - to preserve her identity through language long after memory failed.It worked.Too well.Inside the …
God is in the Waiting
A Journey of Faith, Family, and God's Perfect Timing
Häftad, 2026
212 kr
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God is in the Waiting
A Journey of Faith, Family, and God's Perfect Timing
E-bok, 2026
130 kr
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God Is in the Waiting is a powerful Christian memoir about a man who spent years running from God-through trauma, doubt, military service, loss, fatherhood, and the endless pursuit of identity-only to discover that God had been pursuing him all along. Through honest storytelling and deeply …
