Author: Tom McArthur
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Keywords: lexicography, revolution, linguistics, knowledge, living, language, words
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 085989620X
ISBN-13: 9780859896207

In this collection of articles, the author reflects on the nature of language, the art of lexicography and the developments in communication, the media and information technology in the late 20th century. The three main subjects looked at are: language at large, and particulary English, the most widely used language in the history of the world; the art and study of dictionaries and reference science, embracing all past, present and potential reference materials - from the "OED" to the "Yellow Pages"; and the processes through which communication, information and knowledge has evoloved - from c

Author: David Ingram
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Keywords: cinema, hollywood, environmentalism, screen
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-11
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0859896099
ISBN-13: 9780859896092

’Green Screen’ combines film studies with environmental history and politics, aiming to establish a cultural criticism informed by ’green’ thought. David Ingram argues that Hollywood cinema has largely perpetuated romantic attitudes to nature and has played an important ideological role in the ’greenwashing’ of ecological discourses. The book accounts for the rise of environmental concerns in Hollywood cinema, and explores the ways in which attitudes to nature and the environment are constructed in a number of movies. It is divided into three sections: Wilde

Author: Ray Davison
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Keywords: literature, european, dostoevsky, challenge, camus
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $31.50
ISBN-10: 0859895327
ISBN-13: 9780859895323

This is the first full-length study in English of Camus’s life-long fascination with the works of the Russian writer Feodor Dostoevsky. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate the ways in which Dostoevsky’s thought and fiction served to stimulate and crystallize Camus’s own thinking. Davison lucidly identifies the lines of divergence and counter-arguments which Camus produced as answers to the challenge of Dostoevsky’s Christian/Tzarist vision of life. The traditional methods of comparative literary criticism are jettisoned in favour of the more exciting claim that C

Authors:Alan G. Jamieson, David Starkey,
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Keywords: exeter, maritime, sea, press, studies, university, economy, britain, exploiting, aspects
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0859895335
ISBN-13: 9780859895330

Exploiting the Sea offers new perspectives on Britain’s vital but changing relationship with the sea since the late nineteenth century. It assesses the significance to the British economy of sea-reliant industries such as shipping, shipbuilding, fishing, coastal trading and seaside tourism. It also seeks to explain why the clear pre-eminence that Britain established in the maritime world during the Victorian era has not been sustained in the twentieth century. Exploiting the Sea is a new volume in the highly successful EXETER MARITIME STUDIES series, and brings together contributions fr

Author: Peter Stanfield
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Keywords: exeter, studies, film, history, uep, trail, westerns, 1930s, lost, hollywood
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0859896943
ISBN-13: 9780859896948

For the first time, this book tells the ‘lost’ story of the 1930s Western. Written from a concern to understand Western films primarily as products of Hollywood’s studio system, it recovers the context in which Westerns were produced, exhibited and viewed in the 1930s. Peter Stanfield highlights the hitherto marginalised ‘B’ or ‘series’ Western, the significance of female audiences, the role of independent exhibitors and of censorship in shaping film production. Includes illustrations from the following films: Arizona, The Big Trail, Billy the Kid, Cimarron, Destry Rides Agai

Authors:David Braund, Christopher Gill,
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Keywords: studies, history, wiseman, ancient, honour, classical, rome, culture, republican, myth
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0859896625
ISBN-13: 9780859896627

In this collection of essays, an international team of outstanding scholars engage with the ideas and methods of Professor Peter  Wiseman’s past and present work.  They provide a sustained response to the work of one of the most widely respected Roman historians of this generation. The contributions range over myth (Corialanus and Remus), the interplay between historiography, literature and myth-making (on Cleopatra, for instance), and art and story-telling at Boscoreale.  They explore Roman drama (Pacuvius) and links between drama and Virgil’s Aeneid; they discuss Catullus in

Author: J. Simons
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Keywords: industrial, pre, england, medieval, studies, literature, popular, chapbook, warwick, romances, six, tales, guy
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0859894452
ISBN-13: 9780859894456

Chapbooks formed the staple reading matter of ordinary people during the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth centuries; they were also read by children of the gentry. They included fiction, almanacs, religious guidance and radical political tracts, and were available throughout the British Isles and in colonial America.  The six chapbook romances in this volume all derive from tales of chivalric adventure and courtly love which were current in the Middle Ages or the Renaissance.  They provide a fascinating window on the mental world of rural England and America before the advent of mass