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General Consent in Jane Austen: A Study of Dialogism
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General Consent in Jane Austen: A Study of Dialogism

Readings of Jane Austen tend to be polarised: she is seen either as conformist - the prevalent view - or quietly subversive. In "General Consent in Jane Austen", Barbara Seeber overcomes this critical stalemate, arguing that general consent does not exist as a given in Austen's texts.
 
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Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court
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Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court

Arguing with Tradition is the first book to explore language and interaction within a contemporary Native American legal system. Grounded in Justin Richland’s extensive field research on the Hopi Indian Nation of northeastern Arizona—on whose appellate court he now serves as Justice Pro Tempore—this innovative work explains how Hopi notions of tradition and culture shape and are shaped by the processes of Hopi jurisprudence.

 
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On Literature
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On Literature

Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature? Why should we read literature? How do we read literature? These are some of the important questions J. Hillis Miller answers in this beautifully written and passionate book. He begins by asking what literature is, arguing that the answer lies in literature's ability to create an imaginary world simply with words.
 
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British Spy Fiction and the End of Empire
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British Spy Fiction and the End of EmpireThe position of spy fiction is largely synonymous in popular culture with ideas of patriotism and national security, with the spy himself indicative of the defence of British interests and the preservation of British power around the globe. This book reveals a more complicated side to these assumptions than typically perceived, arguing that the representation of space and power within spy fiction is more complex than commonly assumed.
 
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Semantics for Descriptions
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Semantics for Descriptions

In our multimedia age, text description presents many conceptual problems: texts, as cultural objects, cannot be interpreted without descriptions of genre, communicative conditions, and language, which positivist approaches have proved unable to provide. Semantics for Descriptions addresses itself as much to linguists as to computer scientists, arguing that rational hermeneutics can offer better descriptive methods by allowing the theoretical and practical conditions of text interpretation to be defined.
 
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