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Author | : Michael Gardiner |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2013-09-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1780930364 |
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Michael Gardiner examines the ideology of the discipline of English Literature, arguing that it is intimately linked with the emergence of the English State.
Author | : Lee Morrissey |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780804757867 |
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The Constitution of Literature examines Restoration and eighteenth-century literary criticism as a debate over theories of reading and argues that literary criticism emerged as a reaction against the role associated with print in the English Civil Wars of the 1640s.
Author | : Stephanie Elsky |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-09-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192605844 |
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Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature argues that, ironically, custom was a supremely generative literary force for a range of Renaissance writers. Custom took on so much power because of its virtual synonymity with English common law, the increasingly dominant legal system that was also foundational to England's constitutionalist politics. The strange temporality assigned to legal custom, that is, its purported existence since 'time immemorial', furnished it with a unique and paradoxical capacity—to make new and foreign forms familiar. This volume shows that during a time when novelty was suspect, even insurrectionary, appeals to the widespread understanding of custom as a legal concept justified a startling array of fictive experiments. This is the first book to reveal fully the relationship between Renaissance literature and legal custom. It shows how writers were able to reimagine moments of historical and cultural rupture as continuity by appealing to the powerful belief that English legal custom persisted in the face of conquests by foreign powers. Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature thus challenges scholarly narratives in which Renaissance art breaks with a past it looks back upon longingly and instead argues that the period viewed its literature as imbued with the aura of the past. In this way, through experiments in rhetoric and form, literature unfolds the processes whereby custom gains its formidable and flexible political power. Custom, a key concept of legal and constitutionalist thought, shaped sixteenth-century literature, while this literature, in turn, transformed custom into an evocative mythopoetic.
Author | : Walter Bagehot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
ISBN | : |
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A classic study of the British constitution, paying special attention to how Parliament and the monarchy work. The author frequently draws comparisons with the American Constitution, being generally critical of the American system of government.
Author | : Anthony King |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199232326 |
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In the latter part of the nineteenth century Walter Bagehot wrote a classic account of the British constitution as it had developed during Queen Victoria's reign. He argued that the late Victorian constitution was not at all what people thought it was. Anthony King argues that the same is true at the beginning of this century. Most people are aware that a series of major constitutional changes has taken place, but few recognize that their cumulative effect has been to change entirely the nature of Britain's constitutional structure. The old constitution has gone. The author insists that the new constitution is a mess, but one that we should probably try to make the best of. The British Constitution is neither a reference book nor a textbook. Like Bagehot's classic, it is written with wit and mordant humour - by someone who is a journalist and political commentator as well as a distinguished academic. The author maintains that, although the new British constitution is a mess, there is no going back now. 'As always', he says, 'nostalgia is a good companion but a bad guide.' Highly charged issues that remain to be settled concern the relations between Scotland and England and the future of the House of Lords. A reformed House of Lords, the author fears, could wind up comprising 'a miscellaneous assemblage of party hacks, political careerists, clapped-out retired or defeated MPs, has-beens, never-were's and never-could-possibly-be's'. The book is a Bagehot for the twenty-first century - the product of a lifetime's reflection on British politics and essential reading for anyone interested in how the British system has changed and how it is likely to change in future
Author | : Jean Fritz |
Publisher | : Nám |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789991801353 |
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Author | : Peter Leyland |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2016-06-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1849469083 |
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This acclaimed book provides a topical and contextual outline of the principles,doctrines and institutions that underpin the United Kingdom constitution. The third edition of The Constitution of the United Kingdom has been comprehensively revised and updated to take account of recent constitutional developments and debates. This includes: the revised framework for devolution following the 2014 referendum in Scotland, the constitutional ramifications of the realignment of UK politics reflected in the result of the 2015 general election and the debate over the possible replacement of the Human Rights Act 1998 with a British Bill of Rights. The chapters are written in sufficient detail for anyone coming to the subject for the first time to develop a clear and informed view of how the constitution is arranged and how it operates. The main themes include: discussion of the history, sources and conventions of the constitution; later chapters deal with: constitutional principles, the role of the Crown, Parliament and the electoral system, government and the executive, the constitutional role of courts including the protection of human rights, the territorial distribution of power between central, devolved and local government, and the European Union dimension. In addition, the book offers analysis of the evolution of the uncodified UK constitution, its strengths and perceived weaknesses, and of reforms aimed at its modernisation.
Author | : Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2016-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317397029 |
Download Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children’s Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume focuses on the (de)canonization processes in children’s literature, considering the construction and cultural-historical changes of canons in different children’s literatures. Chapters by international experts in the field explore a wide range of different children’s literatures from Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Eastern and Central Europe, as well as from Non-European countries such as Australia, Israel, and the United States. Situating the inquiry within larger literary and cultural studies conversations about canonicity, the contributors assess representative authors and works that have encountered changing fates in the course of canon history. Particular emphasis is given to sociological canon theories, which have so far been under-represented in canon research in children’s literature. The volume therefore relates historical changes in the canon of children’s literature not only to historical changes in concepts of childhood but to more encompassing political, social, economic, cultural, and ideological shifts. This volume’s comparative approach takes cognizance of the fact that, if canon formation is an important cultural factor in nation-building processes, a comparative study is essential to assessing transnational processes in canon formation. This book thus renders evident the structural similarities between patterns and strategies of canon formation emerging in different children’s literatures.
Author | : Lori Mortensen |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 2009-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1404855408 |
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The men argued all summer in the hot room. The United States needed a new government. But would the Founding Fathers be able to agree on a plan? Here's the story.
Author | : Walter Bagehot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
ISBN | : |
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