Childrens Literature Collections: Approaches to Research
Author: Keith O'Sullivan File Type: pdf This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in childrens literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances causes in collecting, librarianship, education, and childrens literature studies more generally.It facilitates processes of discovery and recovery that present various pathways for researchers with diverse interests in childrens books to engage with collections. From book histories, through bookselling, information on collectors, and histories of education to close text analyses, it is evident that there are various approaches to researching collections. In this volume, three dominant approaches emerge history and canonicity, author and text, ideals and institutions. Through its focus on varied materials, from fiction to textbooks, this volume illuminates how cities can articulate a vision of childrens literature through particular collections and institutional practices.**About the AuthorKeith OSullivan is Lecturer in English at the Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin, Ireland. He recently co-edited Childrens Literature and New York City (2014) and Irish Childrens Literature and Culture New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing (2011). In 2013, he was co-recipient of a major Government of IrelandIrish Research Council award to establish a National Collection of Childrens Books. Padraic Whyte is Assistant Professor of English and a director of the masters programme in Childrens Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is author of Irish Childhoods (2011) and co-editor of Childrens Literature and New York City (2014). He was co-recipient of a major Irish Research CouncilGovernment of Ireland award to establish a National Collection of Childrens Book.
Author: Alastair McKinnon
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Recently, a conference of scholars considered resources and results in Kierkegaard research. In part one, Resources, J.C. McLelland gives a short account of the acquisition of the Malantschuk collection by McGill University, H.P. Rohde discusses the collection as a basis for research, and H. Moller comments on its accessibility to scholars. N.J. Cappelrn examines the importance of the Papireras a resource. In part two, Results, H.V. Hong analyzes Kierkegaards concept of Thought-Experiment, relating it to Kierkegaard translation. J. Walker elucidates four of Kierkegaards assumptions concerning communication and notes the difficulties these pose for creating real human community. M. Cargignans paper presents the concept of the eternal as a synthesizing force acting upon body, soul, and spirit. H.A. Nielsen distinguishes between two levels of indirect communication in Mark 645-52 and calls attention to the significance of this distinction for understanding Kierkegaard. The last two essays present the results of computer research at McGill A.H. Khan explores the concept of passion in Concluding Unscientific Postscript,and A. McKinnon offers a spatial representation of the relations among Kierkegaards thirty-four works. The volume, containing responses by R.L. Perkins, R. Archer, P. Carpenter, D. Lochhead, D. Goicoechea, and R. Johnson, will be of interest to Kierkegaard, Philosophy, and religion scholars, and those engaged in computer research in the humanities. **
Author: Omer Taspinar
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This text is an attempt to study Turkeys national and secular identity in light of the challenges posed by Kurdish nationalism and political Islam.**About the Author omer Taspinar is a professor of national security studies at the National War College as well as the director of the Turkey Project and a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Kurdish Nationalism and Political Islam in Turkey (Routledge, 2005).
Author: Joshua Gert
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Joshua Gert presents an original account of color properties, and of our perception of them. He employs a general philosophical strategy--neo-pragmatism--which challenges an assumption made by virtually all other theories of color. Neo-pragmatism rejects the standard representationalist strategy for solving placement problems in philosophy, which relies on the existence of a substantive notion of reference and truth. Instead, it makes use of deflationary accounts of such semantic notions. Applied to the domain of color, the result is a view according to which colors are primitive properties of objects, irreducible to physical or dispositional properties. In this way they are more like numbers, and less like natural kinds such as water or gold. Objective colors are also--contrary to current dogma--insufficiently determinate in their nature to allow them to be associated with precise points in standard color spaces. A given color can present different veridical appearances in different viewing circumstances, and to different normal viewers. It is these appearances, which are to be understood in an adverbial way, that can be located in standard color spaces. In explaining the distinction between objective color and color appearance, a central analogy to which Gert appeals is that between the perceptible three-dimensional shape of an object, and the various ways in which that shape appears from various perspectives. Primitive Colors also offers an account of color constancy, a moderated version of representationalism about visual experience, and a criticism of the thesis of the transparency of experience. **
Author: Slavoj Žižek
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No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence of The Communist Manifesto. Translated into over 100 languages, this clarion call to the workers of the world radically shaped the events of the twentieth century. But what relevance does it have for us today? In this slim book Slavoj Zizek argues that, while exploitation no longer occurs the way Marx described it, it has by no means disappeared on the contrary, the profit once generated through the exploitation of workers has been transformed into rent appropriated through the privatization of the general intellect. Entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have become extremely wealthy not because they are exploiting their workers but because they are appropriating the rent for allowing millions of people to participate in the new form of the general intellect that they own and control. But, even if Marxs analysis can no longer be applied to our contemporary world of global capitalism without significant revision, the fundamental problem with which he was concerned, the problem of the commons in all its dimensions the commons of nature, the cultural commons, and the commons as the universal space of humanity from which no one should be excluded remains as relevant as ever. This timely reflection on the enduring relevance of The Communist Manifesto will be of great value to everyone interested in the key questions of radical politics today.
Author: Mats Andrén
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The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal democratic traditions whether treated as abstractions or concrete realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of legitimacy and political representation as well as the legal bases for citizenship. Thus, an understanding of such borders and their consequences is of utmost importance for promoting the evolution of democracy. Cultural Borders of Europe provides a wide-ranging exploration of these lines of demarcation in a variety of regions and historical eras, providing essential insights into the state of European intercultural relations today.
Author: Margaret Cavendish Duchess Of Newcastle
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Margaret Cavendishs Observations upon Experimental Philosophy holds a unique position in early modern philosophy. Cavendish rejects the picture of nature as a grand machine that was propounded by Hobbes and Descartes she also rejects the alternative views of nature that make reference to immaterial spirits. Instead she develops an original system of organicist materialism, and draws on the doctrines of ancient Stoicism to attack the tenets of seventeenth-century mechanical philosophy. Her treatise is a document of major importance in the history of womens contributions to philosophy and science.