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    I was born in the year 18-- to a large fortune‚ endowed besides with excellent parts‚ inclined by nature to industry‚ fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellowmen‚ and thus‚ as might have been supposed‚ with every guarantee of an honorurable and distinguished future. And indeed the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition‚ such as has made the happiness of many‚ but such as I found it hard to reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high‚

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    Cultural Materialism^ Othello‚ aed the Politics of Plausibility Alan Sinfield Alan Sinfield’s Faultlines (1992) is one of the best examples of Cultural Materialism at work. This chapter on Shakespeare’s Othello is an especially forceful rendering of the Cultural Materialist argument that texts are not simple registers of social power. Rather‚ they must necessarily harbor dissident‚ fractious energies that undermine the sense of cohesive certainty that ruling elites seek to impose on a culture

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    PART ONE: Following our usual custom of facing squarely the most difficult and delicate questions related to the Philippines‚ without weighing the consequences that our frankness may bring upon us‚ we shall in the present article treat of their future. In order to read the destiny of a people‚ it is necessary to open the book of its past‚ and this‚ for the Philippines may be reduced in general terms to what follows. Scarcely had they been attached to the Spanish crown than they had sustained with

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    Notes on Birdsong

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    CATEGORIES WITHIN NATURE | LIFE/DEATH | | BIRDS | | LIGHT/DARKNESS (TUNNELS) | | NATURE | | RELIGION | | * pg.121 ‘’ Jack Firebrace lay forty five feet underground with several hundred thousands tons of France above his face’’ – fragility of a human being. * Pg. 123 ‘’THEY HAD DUG TO THE END OF THE WORLD’’ – THE SENSE OF WAR BEING APOCALYPTIC‚ THE END OF EVERYTHING BUT DOES NOT END NATURE * Pg.124 ‘’There was an arm with a corporal’s stripe on it near his feet‚ but

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    Litsa Mouka 1 I know very well‚ but all the same… A study of fetishism I know very well‚ but all the same... A study of fetishism in relation to cinema This dissertation is an exploration into the different ways cinema utilises processes of fetishisation to evoke desire and disavow lack. In all cases it will show how the basic notion of fetishism functions as a symbolic substitution for the lack and as such‚ how it imposes itself onto the structure of film and the experience of watching/looking

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    Dedicated to PAOK FC supporters all over the world. Abstract This essay aims to unveil the opinions‚ thoughts and perceptions of Greek fans as far as the causes of violent incidents in the Greek football league are concerned. In the first part of this research project some theoretical considerations about determinants of violence‚ crime and delinquency in general and in sports are being analysed. For the purposes of this study I contacted a small-scale case study

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    1 CHAPTER 12 Changing land tenure‚ defining subjects: Neoliberalism and property regimes on native reserves Jessica Dempsey‚ Kevin Gould and Juanita Sundberg Note: This may not be the final version of the chapter‚ as it is currently in process of publication. These are contradictory times in Canada. The United Nations (UN) Development Index consistently ranks Canada among the top 10 states‚ yet First Nations in Canada would rank sixtyeighth (Assembly of First Nations n.d.). One out of four

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    second sex

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    SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR (1908-1986) THE SECOND SEX (Le Deuxieme Sexe) First published in 1949 English translation in 1953 by H.M. Parshley (New York: Knopf) Vintage Books paperback edition 1989 Introduction and Conclusion C.S. 204 AMERICAN UNIERSITY OF BEIRUT 1 THE SECOND SEX (Introduction and Conclusion) INTRODUCTION BOOK ONE: Part I Part II Part III FACTS AND MYTHS DESTINY HISTORY MYTHS BOOK TWO: Part IV Part V Part VI Part VI WOMAN’S LIFE TODAY THE

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    This page intentionally left blank A HISTORY OF FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature‚ fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist literary criticism‚ leading scholars chart the development of the practice from the Middle Ages to the present. The first section of the book explores protofeminist thought from the Middle Ages onwards‚ and analyses the

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    . A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory Fifth edition RAMAN SELDEN PETER WIDDOWSON PETER BROOKER . A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory . . A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory FIFTH EDITION Raman Selden Peter Widdowson Peter Brooker . PEARSON EDUCATION LIMITED Edinburgh Gate Harlow CM20 2JE United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1279 623623 Fax: +44 (0)1279 431059 Website: www.pearsoned.co.uk Fifth edition published in Great Britain in

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