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Paris The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City

Paris The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City

Paris: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City considers the various forces – royal monastic and secular – that shaped the art architecture and topography of Paris between c. 1100 and c. 1500 a period in which Paris became one of the foremost metropolises in the West. The individual contributions written by an international group of scholars cover the subject from many different angles. They encompass wide-ranging case studies that address architecture manuscript illumination and stained glass as well as questions of liturgy religion and social life. Topics include the early medieval churches that preceded the current cathedral church of Notre-Dame and cultural production in the Paris area in the late 12th and early 13th centuries as well as Paris’s chapels and bridges. There is new evidence for the source of the c. 1240 design for a celebrated window in the Sainte-Chapelle an evaluation of the liturgical arrangements in the new shrine-choir of Saint-Denis built 1140–44 and a valuable assessment of the properties held by the Cistercian Order in Paris in the Middle Ages. Also the book investigates the relationships between manuscript illuminators in the 14th century and representations of Paris in manuscripts and other media up to the late 15th century. Paris: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City updates and enlarges our knowledge of this key city in the Middle Ages. | Paris The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City

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The Parlement of Paris

The Parlement of Paris

Originally published in 1968 this authoritative study analyses the Parlement as a law court and examines its political role and significance. From its beginning in the mid-13th Century until its fall during the 1789 Revolution the Paris Parlement stood at the heart of government in France. Its primary function as the crown’s judicial authority grew out of the need for a royal court to dispense justice when the king could no longer do so personally. The book describes how the Parlement evolved sophisticated procedures and a complex organization of chambers officers and personnel and examines the Parlement’s judicial and political growth against the social backdrop of the Court and the Palais de Justice. | The Parlement of Paris

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Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? Essays on Art and Modernity 1850-1900

Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? Essays on Art and Modernity 1850-1900

Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? The question that guides this volume stems from Walter Benjamin's studies of nineteenth-century Parisian culture as the apex of capitalist aesthetics. Thirteen scholars test Benjamin's ideas about the centrality of Paris formulated in the 1930s from a variety of methodological perspectives. Many investigate the underpinnings of the French capital's reputation and mythic force which was based largely upon the city's capacity to put itself on display. Some of the authors reassess the famed centrality of Paris from the vantage point of our globalized twenty-first century by acknowledging its entanglements with South Africa Turkey Japan and the United States. The volume equally studies a broader range of media than Benjamin did himself: from modernist painting and printmaking photography and illustration to urban planning. The essays conclude that Paris did in many ways function as the epicenter of modernity's international reach especially in the years from 1850 to 1900 but did so only as a consequence of the idiosyncratic force of its mythic image. Above all the essays affirm that the study of late nineteenth-century Paris still requires nimble and innovative approaches commensurate with its legend and global aura. | Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? Essays on Art and Modernity 1850-1900

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The Implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

The Implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

In December 2015 196 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement seen as a decisive landmark for global action to stop human- induced climate change. The Paris Agreement will replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2020 and it creates legally binding obligations on the parties based on their own bottom-up voluntary commitments to implement Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The codification of the climate change regime has advanced well but the implementation of it remains uncertain. This book focuses on the implementation prospects of the Agreement which is a challenge for all and will require a fully comprehensive burden- sharing framework. Parties need to meet their own NDCs but also to finance and transfer technology to others who do not have enough. How equity- based and facilitative the process will be is of crucial importance. The volume examines a broad range of issues including the lessons that can be learnt from the implementation of previous environmental legal regimes climate policies at national and sub-national levels and whether the implementation mechanisms in the Paris Agreement are likely to be sufficient. Written by leading experts and practitioners the book diagnoses the gaps and lays the ground for future exploration of implementation options. This collection will be of interest to policy-makers academics practitioners students and researchers focusing on climate change governance. | The Implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

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Between Constantinople and Rome An Illuminated Byzantine Gospel Book (Paris gr. 54) and the Union of Churches

Between Constantinople and Rome An Illuminated Byzantine Gospel Book (Paris gr. 54) and the Union of Churches

This is a study of the artistic and political context that led to the production of a truly exceptional Byzantine illustrated manuscript. Paris Bibliothèque Nationale de France codex grec 54 is one of the most ambitious and complex manuscripts produced during the Byzantine era. This thirteenth-century Greek and Latin Gospel book features full-page evangelist portraits an extensive narrative cycle and unique polychromatic texts. However it has never been the subject of a comprehensive study and the circumstances of its commission are unknown. In this book Kathleen Maxwell addresses the following questions: what circumstances led to the creation of Paris 54? Who commissioned it and for what purpose? How was a deluxe manuscript such as this produced? Why was it left unfinished? How does it relate to other Byzantine illustrated Gospel books? Paris 54's innovations are a testament to the extraordinary circumstances of its commission. Maxwell's multi-disciplinary approach includes codicological and paleographical evidence together with New Testament textual criticism artistic and historical analysis. She concludes that Paris 54 was never intended to copy any other manuscript. Rather it was designed to eclipse its contemporaries and to physically embody a new relationship between Constantinople and the Latin West as envisioned by its patron. Analysis of Paris 54's texts and miniature cycle indicates that it was created at the behest of a Byzantine emperor as a gift to a pope in conjunction with imperial efforts to unify the Latin and Orthodox churches. As such Paris 54 is a unique witness to early Palaeologan attempts to achieve church union with Rome. | Between Constantinople and Rome An Illuminated Byzantine Gospel Book (Paris gr. 54) and the Union of Churches

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Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

Studies in the history of French nineteenth-century stage music have blossomed in the last decade encouraging a revision of the view of the primacy of Austro-German music during the period and rebalancing the scholarly field away from instrumental music (key to the Austro-German hegemony) and towards music for the stage. This change of emphasis is having an impact on the world of opera production with new productions of works not heard since the nineteenth century taking their place in the modern repertory. This awakening of enthusiasm has come at something of a price. Selling French opera as little more than an important precursor to Verdi or Wagner has entailed a focus on works produced exclusively for the Paris Opéra at the expense of the vast range of other types of stage music produced in the capital: opéra comique opérette comédie-vaudeville and mélodrame for example. The first part of this book therefore seeks to reintroduce a number of norms to the study of stage music in Paris: to re-establish contexts and conventions that still remain obscure. The second and third parts acknowledge Paris as an importer and exporter of opera and its focus moves towards the music of its closest neighbours the Italian-speaking states and of its most problematic partners the German-speaking states especially the music of Weber and Wagner. Prefaced by an introduction that develops the volume’s overriding intellectual drivers of cultural exchange genre and institution this collection brings together twelve of the author’s previously published articles and essays fully updated for this volume and translated into English for the first time. | Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

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Cities and Labour Immigration Comparing Policy Responses in Amsterdam Paris Rome and Tel Aviv

Cities and Labour Immigration Comparing Policy Responses in Amsterdam Paris Rome and Tel Aviv

Using a unique analytical framework based on host-stranger relations this book explores the response of cities to the arrival and settlement of labour immigrants. Comparing the local policies of four cities - Paris Amsterdam Rome and Tel Aviv - Michael Alexander charts the development of migrant policies over time and situates them within the broader social context. Grounded in multi-city multi-domain empirical findings the work provides a fuller understanding of the interaction between cities and their migrant populations. Filling a gap in existing literature on migrant policy between national-level theorizing and local-level study the book will provide an important basis for future research in the area. | Cities and Labour Immigration Comparing Policy Responses in Amsterdam Paris Rome and Tel Aviv

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Horn Teaching at the Paris Conservatoire 1792 to 1903 The Transition from Natural Horn to Valved Horn

Horn Teaching at the Paris Conservatoire 1792 to 1903 The Transition from Natural Horn to Valved Horn

The transition from the valveless natural horn to the modern valved horn in 19th-century Paris was different from similar transitions in other countries. While valve technology was received happily by players of other members of the brass family strong support for the natural horn with its varied color palette and virtuoso performance traditions slowed the reception and application of the valve to the horn. Using primary sources including Conservatoire method books accounts of performances and technological advances and other evidence this book tells the story of the transition from natural horn to valved horn at the Conservatoire from 1792 to 1903 including close examination of horn teaching before the arrival of valved brass in Paris the initial reception and application of this technology to the horn the persistence of the natural horn and the progression of acceptance use controversies and eventual adoption of the valved instrument in the Parisian community and at the Conservatoire. Active scholars performers and students interested in the horn 19th-century brass instruments teaching methods associated with the Conservatoire and the intersection of technology and performing practice will find this book useful in its details and conclusions including ramifications on historically-informed performance today. | Horn Teaching at the Paris Conservatoire 1792 to 1903 The Transition from Natural Horn to Valved Horn

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Lost to Desire The École Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive

Lost to Desire The École Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive

This book covers the work of psychoanalysts in post WWII France with patients beset by somatic problems with little manifest fantasy life and how their concept of opératoire continues to inform the theory and practice of working with patients in crisis. The author explores what the new concept has elicited in a community of practitioners – close to the École Psychosomatique de Paris – over a period of some sixty years. As a 'skin for thought' it facilitated change while preserving coherence gradually beginning to attract further considerations. Important themes have included: the early groundwork necessary for the configuration of fantasy the importance of a shared imaginary the role of denial and obliterated memories as a bond between people emergency measures of a Me cut off from revitalisation the effects of the rhythms and atmosphere at the workplace on family life and the consequences of a crisis suppressed for lack of a holding frame. As psychoanalytic discourse adapted to the challenges the original perspective changed aspect moving from a systematic evaluation of what the patients did not produce to what the analyst had to fill in to make sense of the situation. Clashing with the terrain French psychoanalysts raised important problems about psychic anaemia that are stimulating and deserve cross-cultural discussion. This book will appeal to psychoanalysts in practice and training who wish to learn more about this ground-breaking work on memory and trauma and how to apply it to their own practice. | Lost to Desire The École Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive

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The Spiritual Rococo Decor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia

The Spiritual Rococo Decor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia

A groundbreaking approach to Rococo religious décor and spirituality in Europe and South America The Spiritual Rococo addresses three basic conundrums that impede our understanding of eighteenth-century aesthetics and culture. Why did the Rococo ostensibly the least spiritual style in the pre-Modern canon transform into one of the world’s most important modes for adorning sacred spaces? And why is Rococo still treated as a decadent nemesis of the Enlightenment when the two had fundamental characteristics in common? This book seeks to answer these questions by treating Rococo as a global phenomenon for the first time and by exploring its moral and spiritual dimensions through the lens of populist French religious literature of the day-a body of work the author calls the ’Spiritual Rococo’ and which has never been applied directly to the arts. The book traces Rococo’s development from France through Central Europe Portugal Brazil and South America by following a chain of interlocking case studies whether artistic literary or ideological and it also considers the parallel diffusion of the literature of the Spiritual Rococo in these same regions placing particular emphasis on unpublished primary sources such as inventories. One of the ultimate goals of this study is to move beyond the cliché of Rococo’s frivolity and acknowledge its essential modernity. Thoroughly interdisciplinary The Spiritual Rococo not only integrates different art historical fields in novel ways but also interacts with church and social history literary and post-colonial studies and anthropology opening up new horizons in these fields. | The Spiritual Rococo Decor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia

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Cathedrals of Urban Modernity Creation of the First Museums of Contemporary Art

Cathedrals of Urban Modernity Creation of the First Museums of Contemporary Art

First published in 1998 this volume explores the expanding wave of a new kind of museums of contemporary art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lorente examines their ‘coming of age’ and the weight of their museological legacy arguing that the establishment of great national museums of art at London and Paris radiated out carrying their influence with it. This book emerged as part of a series on towns and cities and has a focus on London and Paris as centres of artistic innovation. | Cathedrals of Urban Modernity Creation of the First Museums of Contemporary Art

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American Pop Art in France Politics of the Transatlantic Image

American Pop Art in France Politics of the Transatlantic Image

Pop art was essential to the Americanization of global art in the 1960s yet it engendered resistance and adaptation abroad in equal measure especially in Paris. From the end of the Algerian War of Independence and the opening of Ileana Sonnabend’s gallery for American Pop art in Paris in 1962 to the silkscreen poster workshops of May ’68 this book examines critical adaptations of Pop motifs and pictorial devices across French painting graphic design cinema and protest aesthetics. Liam Considine argues that the transatlantic dispersion of Pop art gave rise to a new politics of the image that challenged Americanization and prefigured the critiques and contradictions of May ’68. | American Pop Art in France Politics of the Transatlantic Image

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An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Research Theory and Clinical Practice

An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Research Theory and Clinical Practice

An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis assesses the state of psychoanalysis in the 21st century. Joel Paris examines areas where analysis needs to develop a stronger scientific and clinical base and to integrate its ideas with modern clinical psychology and psychiatry. While psychoanalysis has declined as an independent discipline it continues to play a major role in clinical thought. Paris explores the extent to which analysis has gained support from recent empirical research. He argues that it could revive its influence by establishing a stronger relationship to science whilst looking at the state of current research. For clinical applications he suggests while convincing evidence is lacking to support long-term treatment brief psychoanalytic therapy lasting for a few months has been shown to be relatively effective for common mental disorders. For theory Paris reviews changes in the psychoanalytic paradigm most particularly the shift from a theory based largely on intrapsychic mechanisms to the more interpersonal approach of attachment theory. He also reviews the interfaces between psychoanalysis and other disciplines ranging from neuropsychoanalysis to the incorporation of analytic theory into post-modern models popular in the humanities. An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis concludes by examining the legacy of psychoanalysis and making recommendations for integration into broader psychological theory and psychotherapy. It will be of great interest to psychoanalysts psychoanalytic psychotherapists and scholars and practitioners across the mental health professions interested in the future and influence of the field. | An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Research Theory and Clinical Practice

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The Path to Net Zero for the Fashion Industry Five Strategies for Decarbonisation

The Path to Net Zero for the Fashion Industry Five Strategies for Decarbonisation

This book uses a quantitative science-based approach to explain where the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions emitted by the fashion industry are generated and it explores what strategies can be deployed to achieve Net Zero by 2050. With GHG emissions currently predicted to triple by the middle of the century the fashion industry is far off course to reach Net Zero as set out in the Paris Agreement. With misinformation and greenwashing representing an ever-growing barrier to potential solutions the book aims to demystify the source of GHG emissions from the industry breaking down in detail their origin while identifying the steps that can be taken when designing and sourcing new products. Detailing the market drivers and trends in fashion consumption it argues that change should be guided by science-based quantitative principles. Accessibly written with key insights at the end of each chapter this book will enable the reader to understand the tactics to tackle decarbonisation and ultimately outline five main strategies that can be deployed by the fashion and textile industries to align with the Paris Agreement. This book serves as a practical guide for designers buyers and the fashion industry in general to develop and understand approaches and strategies to reduce energy consumption and the resulting GHG emissions to reach Net Zero. | The Path to Net Zero for the Fashion Industry Five Strategies for Decarbonisation

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The Museums of Contemporary Art Notion and Development

The Museums of Contemporary Art Notion and Development

Where how by whom and for what were the first museums of contemporary art created? These are the key questions addressed by J. Pedro Lorente in this new book. In it he explores the concept and history of museums of contemporary art and the shifting ways in which they have been imagined and presented. Following an introduction that sets out the historiography and considering questions of terminology the first part of the book then examines the paradigm of the Musée des Artistes Vivants in Paris and its equivalents in the rest of Europe during the nineteenth century. The second part takes the story forward from 1930 to the present presenting New York's Museum of Modern Art as a new universal role model that found emulators or 'contramodels' in the rest of the Western world during the twentieth century. An epilogue reviews recent museum developments in the last decades. Through its adoption of a long-term worldwide perspective the book not only provides a narrative of the development of museums of contemporary art but also sets this into its international perspective. By assessing the extent to which the great museum-capitals - Paris London and New York in particular - created their own models of museum provision as well as acknowledging the influence of such models elsewhere the book uncovers fascinating perspectives on the practice of museum provision and reveals how present cultural planning initiatives have often been shaped by historical uses. | The Museums of Contemporary Art Notion and Development

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The Colonial Agents of the British West Indies A Study in Colonial Administration Mainly in the Eighteenth Century

The Colonial Agents of the British West Indies A Study in Colonial Administration Mainly in the Eighteenth Century

First published in 1924 at the time this was the first detailed study which attempted to investigate the workings and character of the powerful West Indian interest in London in the eighteenth century. At the centre of this interest stood the Colonial Agent an office which had come into existence when the West Indian interest was born. Dr. Penson traces its growth from the Restoration era through the Peace of Paris when its importance began to decline to the nineteenth century when the office finally disappeared. It is based on exhaustive research in public and private archives. | The Colonial Agents of the British West Indies A Study in Colonial Administration Mainly in the Eighteenth Century

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James Joyce's World (Routledge Revivals)

James Joyce's World (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1957 this book explores what remained of Joyce’s background not only in Ireland but in those cities abroad where his books were written. With the co-operation of those who knew the author including his brother much new material was brought together to shed new light on Joyce’s life character and methods of writing. The author traces Joyce and his writings from his beginnings in Ireland through Zürich London and Paris to his difficult final year at Vichy in 1940. Previously unpublished letters illustrate his relationships with important figures of the period like Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot and H. G. Wells. This title will be of interest to student of literature. | James Joyce's World (Routledge Revivals)

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Topics in Latin Philosophy from the 12th–14th centuries Collected Essays of Sten Ebbesen Volume 2

Topics in Latin Philosophy from the 12th–14th centuries Collected Essays of Sten Ebbesen Volume 2

Sten Ebbesen has contributed many works in the field of ancient and medieval philosophy over decades of dedicated research. His crisp and lucid style and his philosophical penetration of often difficult concepts and issues is both clear and intellectually impressive. Ashgate is proud to present this thematically arranged three volume set of his collected essays each thoroughly revised and updated. Volume Two: Topics in Latin Philosophy from the 12th -14th Centuries explores issues in medieval philosophy from the time nominalists and other schools competed in twelfth-century Paris to the mature scholasticism of Boethius of Dacia Radulphus Brito and other 'modist' thinkers of the late thirteenth century and finally the new nominalism of John Buridan in the fourteenth century. | Topics in Latin Philosophy from the 12th–14th centuries Collected Essays of Sten Ebbesen Volume 2

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New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era Multiple Modernisms

New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era Multiple Modernisms

This book maps key moments in the history of postwar art from a global perspective. The reader is introduced to a new globally oriented approach to art artists museums and movements of the postwar era (1945–70). Specifically this book bridges the gap between historical artistic centers such as Paris and New York and peripheral loci. Through case studies previously unknown networks circulations divides and controversies are brought to light. From the development of Ethiopian modernism to the showcase of Brazilian modernity this book provides readers with a new set of coordinates and a reassessment of well-trodden art historical narratives around modernism. This book will be of interest to scholars in art historiography art history exhibition and curatorial studies modern art and globalization. | New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era Multiple Modernisms

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Heaven and Its Discontents Milton's Characters in Paradise Lost

Heaven and Its Discontents Milton's Characters in Paradise Lost

Many critics agree with C. S. Lewis that Satan is the best drawn of Milton's characters. Satan is certainly a wonderful creation but Adam and Eve are also complex and well-drawn and God may be the most complicated character of all. Paradise Lost is above all God's story; it is his discontent first with Lucifer and then with human beings that drives the action from the beginning until his anger subsides at the world's end. God and Satan have similarities not only in their pursuit of revenge but also in their craving for power and glory. The ambitious Satan wants more than he already has but what accounts for the voracity of God's appetite? Does the fact that each threatens the status of the other help to explain the intensity of their hatred and rage? Is their vindictiveness a response to being threatened an effort to repair the injury they feel they've sustained? This seems to be the case for Satan but must not God also have felt deeply hurt to have such a powerful need for vengeance? If so why is the Almighty so vulnerable? And why is he so hard on Adam and Eve and the rest of humankind? These are the kinds of questions Bernard Paris tries to answer in this book. Paris's purpose is not to focus on Milton's illustrative intentions but to try to understand God Satan Adam and Eve as psychologically motivated characters who are torn by inner conflicts. Most critics treat Milton's characters as coded messages from the author but their mimetic features interfere with the process of decoding. Instead of looking through the characters to the author Paris looks at Milton's characters as objects of interest in themselves as creations inside a creation who escape their thematic roles and are embodiments of his psychological intuitions. This book heightens our appreciation of an ignored aspect of Milton's art and offers new insights into the critical controversies that have surrounded Paradise Lost. | Heaven and Its Discontents Milton's Characters in Paradise Lost

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The Bohemian Ethos Questioning Work and Making a Scene on the Lower East Side

The Bohemian Ethos Questioning Work and Making a Scene on the Lower East Side

The iconoclastic ingenuity of bohemians from Gerard de Nerval to Allen Ginsberg continually captivates the popular imagination; the worlds of fashion advertising and even real estate all capitalize on the alternative appeal of bohemian style. Persistently overlooked however is bohemians' distinctive relationship to work. In this book sociologist Judith R. Halasz examines the fascinating junctures between bohemian labor and life. Weaving together historiography ethnography and personal experiences of having been raised amidst downtown New York's bohemian communities Halasz deciphers bohemians' unconventional behaviors and attitudes towards employment and the broader work world. From the nineteenth-century harbingers on Paris' Left Bank to the Beats Underground and more recent bohemian outcroppings on New York's Lower East Side The Bohemian Ethos traces the embodiment of a politically charged yet increasingly precarious form of cultural resistance to hegemonic social and economic imperatives. | The Bohemian Ethos Questioning Work and Making a Scene on the Lower East Side

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Psychosomatics Today A Psychoanalytic Perspective

Psychosomatics Today A Psychoanalytic Perspective

This revised edition of Psychosomatics Today presents a thorough introduction to the different international schools of psychosomatics written by leading professionals and includes three new chapters on current practice. As well as exploring key psychosomatic topics focusing primarily on the Paris School the Latin American School the American school of psychosomatic medicine and the Kleinian approach to the soma this revised edition adds a chapter about the German School of Psychosomatics expands upon allergic object relations and tackles the contemporary topic of overflow in theory and clinical practice. Spanning a variety of theoretical approaches the book is illustrated by many clinical case studies which provide an engaging holistic picture of the field including adolescent and child therapies. Psychosomatics Today will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in practice and in training students of psychiatry and psychology and paediatricians and medical practitioners seeking a fuller understanding of psychosomatics. | Psychosomatics Today A Psychoanalytic Perspective

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Roger Hilton

Roger Hilton

This title was first published in 2003. Twenty-seven years after his death Roger Hilton's reputation as a leading figure in British 'abstract expressionism' continues to rise. Following the major retrospective exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1993 and the drawings survey at the Tate St Ives in 1997 this lavishly illustrated account is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the life and work of this important artist. Hilton's extraordinary career is discussed in all its phases from the intriguing earliest explorations in paint to the inception of his first abstract pieces around 1950 and the complex and intriguing interchanges of imagery and form that mark his final works. Adrian Lewis explains the artist's mature works as both attracting the viewer and resisting easy reading and discusses in detail the artist's debt to the Ecole de Paris and his relation to the notion of the 'act of painting' that pervaded post-war culture.

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Urban Sociolinguistics The City as a Linguistic Process and Experience

Urban Sociolinguistics The City as a Linguistic Process and Experience

From Los Angeles to Tokyo Urban Sociolinguistics is a sociolinguistic study of twelve urban settings around the world. Building on William Labov’s famous New York Study the authors demonstrate how language use in these areas is changing based on belief systems behavioural norms day-to-day rituals and linguistic practices. All chapters are written by key figures in sociolinguistics and presents the personal stories of individuals using linguistic means to go about their daily communications in diverse sociolinguistic systems such as: extremely large urban conurbations like Cairo Tokyo and Mexico City smaller settings like Paris and Sydney less urbanised places such as the Western Netherlands Randstad area and Kohima in India. Providing new perspectives on crucial themes such as language choice and language contact code-switching and mixing language and identity language policy and planning and social networks this is key reading for students and researchers in the areas of multilingualism and super-diversity within sociolinguistics applied linguistics and urban studies. | Urban Sociolinguistics The City as a Linguistic Process and Experience

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The Origin of Musical Instruments An Ethnological Introduction to the History of Instrumental Music

The Origin of Musical Instruments An Ethnological Introduction to the History of Instrumental Music

The work of French musicologist ethnologist and critic Andre Schaeffner (1895– 1980) grew out of his first organological studies of the history of Western classical instruments in the late 1920s and encapsulated in his wide-ranging Origine des instruments de musique which captures his studies in Paris between 1931 and 1936. Almost 80 years after its first publication the scientific relevance and influence of Schaeffner’s primary hypothesis—that the origins of music can be traced to the human body through gesture dance and the movements in the use of musical instruments and their ancestor tools—remains pertinent in fields which have returned to informed speculative and empirical research on the origins of music. This first English edition is accompanied by editorial footnotes and introductory texts and the influence of Schaeffner’s thought on several generations of musicologists makes his work an essential piece of reading for ethnomusicologists music psychologists organologists and musicologists interested in the history of their field. | The Origin of Musical Instruments An Ethnological Introduction to the History of Instrumental Music

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