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Romance's Rival - Talia Schaffer - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Romance's Rival - Talia Schaffer - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Romance''s Rival argues that the central plot of the most important genre of the nineteenth century, the marriage plot novel, means something quite different from what we thought. In Victorian novels, women may marry for erotic desire--but they might, instead, insist on "familiar marriage," marrying trustworthy companions who can offer them socially rich lives and futures of meaningful work. Romance''s Rival shows how familiar marriage expresses ideas of female subjectivity dating back through the seventeenth century, while romantic marriage felt like a new, risky idea. Undertaking a major rereading of the rise-of-the-novel tradition, from Richardson through the twentieth century, Talia Schaffer rethinks what the novel meant if one tracks familiar-marriage virtues. This alternative perspective offers new readings of major texts (Austen, the Brontës, Eliot, Trollope) but it also foregrounds women''s popular fiction (Yonge, Oliphant, Craik, Broughton). Offering a feminist perspective that reads the marriage plot from the woman''s point of view, Schaffer inquires why a female character might legitimately wish to marry for something other than passion. For the past half-century, scholars have valorized desire, individuality, and autonomy in the way we read novels; Romance''s Rival asks us to look at the other side, to validate the yearning for work, family, company, or social power as legitimate reasons for women''s marital choices in Victorian fiction. Comprehensive in its knowledge of several generations of scholarship on the novel, Romance''s Rival convinces us to re-examine assumptions about the nature and function of marriage and the role of the novel in helping us not simply imagine marriage but also process changing ideas about what it might look like and how it might serve people.

DKK 879.00
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Romance's Rival - Talia Schaffer - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Romance's Rival - Talia Schaffer - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Romance''s Rival argues that the central plot of the most important genre of the nineteenth century, the marriage plot novel, means something quite different from what we thought. In Victorian novels, women may marry for erotic desire--but they might, instead, insist on "familiar marriage," marrying trustworthy companions who can offer them socially rich lives and futures of meaningful work. Romance''s Rival shows how familiar marriage expresses ideas of female subjectivity dating back through the seventeenth century, while romantic marriage felt like a new, risky idea. Undertaking a major rereading of the rise-of-the-novel tradition, from Richardson through the twentieth century, Talia Schaffer rethinks what the novel meant if one tracks familiar-marriage virtues. This alternative perspective offers new readings of major texts (Austen, the Brontës, Eliot, Trollope) but it also foregrounds women''s popular fiction (Yonge, Oliphant, Craik, Broughton). Offering a feminist perspective that reads the marriage plot from the woman''s point of view, Schaffer inquires why a female character might legitimately wish to marry for something other than passion. For the past half-century, scholars have valorized desire, individuality, and autonomy in the way we read novels; Romance''s Rival asks us to look at the other side, to validate the yearning for work, family, company, or social power as legitimate reasons for women''s marital choices in Victorian fiction. Comprehensive in its knowledge of several generations of scholarship on the novel, Romance''s Rival convinces us to re-examine assumptions about the nature and function of marriage and the role of the novel in helping us not simply imagine marriage but also process changing ideas about what it might look like and how it might serve people.

DKK 385.00
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Shared Stories, Rival Tellings - Robert C. Gregg - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Shared Stories, Rival Tellings - Robert C. Gregg - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

While existing scholarship informs us about early contact between Christians, Muslims, and Jews, the nature of that interaction, and how it developed over time, is still often misunderstood. Robert Gregg emphasizes that there was both mutual curiosity, since all three religions had ancestral traditions and a commanding God in common, and also wary competitiveness, as each group was compelled to sharpen its identity against the other two. Faced with the overlap of many scriptural stories, they were eager to defend the claim that they alone were God''s preferred people. In Shared Stories, Rival Tellings, Gregg performs a comparative investigation of how Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpreters--both writers and artists--developed their distinctive and exclusionary understandings of narratives common to their three Holy Books: Cain and Abel, Sara and Hagar, Joseph and Potiphar''s Wife, Jonah and the Whale, and Mary the Mother of Jesus. Exposed in the process are the major issues under contention and the social-intellectual forces that contributed to spirited, creative, and sometimes combative exchanges between Muslims, Christians and Jews.In illuminating these historical moments, and their implications for contemporary relations between these three religions, Gregg argues that scripture interpreters played an often underappreciated role in each religion''s individual development of thought, spirituality, and worship, and in the three religions'' debates with one another-and the cultural results of those debates.

DKK 454.00
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American Political Cultures - Richard J. Ellis - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Reliabilism and Contemporary Epistemology - Alvin I. Goldman - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Reliabilism and Contemporary Epistemology - Alvin I. Goldman - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

A Middle Way to God - Garth L. Hallett - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Cyber Strategy - Benjamin (associate Professor Jensen - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Cyber Strategy - Benjamin (associate Professor Jensen - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Some pundits claim cyber weaponry is the most important military innovation in decades, a transformative new technology that promises a paralyzing first-strike advantage difficult for opponents to deter. Yet, what is cyber strategy? How do actors use cyber capabilities to achieve a position of advantage against rival states? This book examines the emerging art of cyber strategy and its integration as part of a larger approach to coercion by states in the international system between 2000 and 2014. To this end, the book establishes a theoretical framework in the coercion literature for evaluating the efficacy of cyber operations. Cyber coercion represents the use of manipulation, denial, and punishment strategies in the digital frontier to achieve some strategic end. As a contemporary form of covert action and political warfare, cyber operations rarely produce concessions and tend to achieve only limited, signaling objectives. When cyber operations do produce concessions between rival states, they tend to be part of a larger integrated coercive strategy that combines network intrusions with other traditional forms of statecraft such as military threats, economic sanctions, and diplomacy. The books finds that cyber operations rarely produce concessions in isolation. They are additive instruments that complement traditional statecraft and coercive diplomacy.The book combines an analysis of cyber exchanges between rival states and broader event data on political, military, and economic interactions with case studies on the leading cyber powers: Russia, China, and the United States. The authors investigate cyber strategies in their integrated and isolated contexts, demonstrating that they are useful for maximizing informational asymmetries and disruptions, and thus are important, but limited coercive tools. This empirical foundation allows the authors to explore how leading actors employ cyber strategy and the implications for international relations in the 21st century. While most military plans involving cyber attributes remain highly classified, the authors piece together strategies based on observations of attacks over time and through the policy discussion in unclassified space. The result will be the first broad evaluation of the efficacy of various strategic options in a digital world.

DKK 439.00
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From Sovereign to Symbol - Thomas Donald Conlan - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

From Sovereign to Symbol - Thomas Donald Conlan - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Fourteenth-century Japan witnessed a fundamental political and intellectual conflict about the nature of power and society, a conflict that was expressed through the rituals and institutions of two rival courts. Rather than understanding the collapse of Japan''s first warrior government (the Kamakura bakufu) and the onset of a chaotic period of civil war as the manipulation of rival courts by powerful warrior factions, this study argues that the crucial ideological and intellectual conflict of the fourteenth century was between the conservative forces of ritual precedent and the ritual determinists steeped in Shingon Buddhism. Members of the monastic nobility who came to dominate the court used the language of Buddhist ritual, including incantations (mantras), gestures (mudras), and "cosmograms" (mandalas projected onto the geography of Japan) to uphold their bids for power. Sacred places that were ritual centers became the targets of military capture precisely because they were ritual centers. Ritual was not simply symbolic; rather, ritual became the orchestration, or actual dynamic, of power in itself. This study undermines the conventional wisdom that Zen ideals linked to the samurai were responsible for the manner in which power was conceptualized in medieval Japan, and instead argues that Shingon ritual specialists prolonged the conflict and enforced the new notion that loyal service trumped the merit of those who simply requested compensation for their acts. Ultimately, Shingon mimetic ideals enhanced warrior power and enabled Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, rather than the reigning emperor, to assert sovereign authority in Japan.

DKK 1030.00
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Vorticism - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain - Hans Rudolph Vaget - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Invisible Weapon - Daniel R. Headrick - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture - Sarah Gleeson White - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Measuring Health - Ian Mcdowell - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Uncovering Lives - Alan C. Elms - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Monkey Wars - Deborah Blum - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Functional Heads, Volume 7 - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Consequentialism - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Questions of Possibility - David Caplan - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Functional Heads, Volume 7 - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Cabals and Satires - Dr. Ian Woodfield - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk