Search Results - "Magnum opus"
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Reading orientalism Said and the unsaid /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Orienting Orientalism -- "One that cannot now be rewritten" -- Defin[ess]ing Orientalism -- Verbalizing an orient -- The growth (benign, cancerous, or otherwise) of Orientalism -- The said and the unsaid in Said's magnum opus orientale -- Dissing orientalism: all that Said has done -- Drawing the fault lines -- Self-critique more than mere image -- A novel argument out of blurred genres -- The seductive charms of and against orientalism -- Presenting and representing orientalism -- The essential[ism] problem -- What is said (but true?) …”
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Time restored the Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Childhood 1890-1905 -- Navy training 1906-1913 -- The war, a breakdown, and marriage 1914-1920 -- John Harrison and the marine chronometer -- Research and the first restorations 1920-1922 -- The magnum opus 1921-1923 -- Horology : the obsession -- H2 is restored 1923-1925 -- The sette of odd volumes -- Separation 1925-1927 -- Oddities and enigmas 1928-1929 -- The case for the sea serpent 1930 -- The RAS regulator 1927-1929 -- H3 is completed 1929-1931 -- H1 the full restoration 1931-1933 -- The Loch Ness monster 1933-1934 -- The Harrison timekeepers and the NMM 1934-1935 -- Professor Stewart, the BBC, and tennis 1936 -- Many projects 1936-1937 -- Leaving downside, leaving London 1937-1939 -- Upper Hurdcott and the brains trust 1940-1945 -- Canterbury and a gold medal 1945-1948.…”
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The Afterlife of Genre: Remnants of the Trauerspiel in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Published 2020Full text available:
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