Routledge Revivals
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Drawing from over 100 years of innovative, cutting-edge publishing, Routledge Revivals is an exciting programme whereby key titles from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many acclaimed imprints associated with Routledge will be re-issued.
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Routledge Revivals spans the whole of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and includes works by some of the world’s greatest thinkers including Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Simone Weil, Martin Buber, Karl Jaspers and Max Beloff.
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Terrors of Uncertainty (Routledge Revivals): The Cultural Contexts of Horror Fiction
1st Edition
By Joseph Grixti
December 07, 2015
From Frankenstein and Dracula to Psycho and The Chainsaw Massacre, horror fiction has provided our culture with some of its most enduring themes and narratives. Considering horror fiction both as a genre and as a social phenomenon, Joseph Grixti provides a theoretical and historical framework for ...
The Critical Twilight (Routledge Revivals): Explorations in the Idoelogy of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan
1st Edition
By John Fekete
December 07, 2015
First published in 1977, this book was the first to map extensively the ideological typography of the Anglo-American tradition of literary theory. It interrogates, comprehensively and in detail, the assumptions and categorical development within critical ideas from I. A. Richards and T. S. Eliot, ...
The Manipulation of Literature (Routledge Revivals): Studies in Literary Translation
1st Edition
Edited
By Theo Hermans
December 07, 2015
First published in 1985, the essays in this edited collection offer a representative sample of the descriptive and systematic approach to the study of literary translation. The book is a reflection of the theoretical thinking and practical research carried out by an international group of scholars ...
The Observing Self (Routledge Revivals): Rediscovering the Essay
1st Edition
By Graham Good
December 07, 2015
First published in 1988, this title is a study of the essay as a literary genre, not just in terms of its general intellectual and literary history, but as an exploration of the creative possibilities of the form. The rise of the essay is discussed in relation to the rise of the novel and the ...
The Structure of Modernist Poetry (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Theo Hermans
December 07, 2015
First published in 1982, this book provides a descriptive and comparative study of some of the fundamental structural aspects of modernist poetic writing in English, French and German in the first decades of the twentieth century. The work concerns itself primarily with basic structural elements ...
Theories of Imperialism (Routledge Revivals): War, Conquest and Capital
1st Edition
By Norman Etherington
December 07, 2015
@text: First published in 1984, this study examines closely the shifting attitudes towards, and theories concerning, imperialism, from the colonial wars of the late nineteenth century to America’s involvement in Vietnam. This lucid investigation encompasses the World Wars, the disintegration of the...
Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows (Routledge Revivals): Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art and Thought
1st Edition
By George P. Landow
December 07, 2015
The importance of typology in the study of early modern literature has long been accepted, yet students of Victorian culture have paid little attention to it. First published in 1980, this study demonstrates how biblical typology, an apparently arcane interpretative mode, had profound effects on ...
A Hieroglyphic Vocabulary to the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By E. A. Wallis Budge
November 04, 2015
Containing a comprehensive dictionary of hieroglyphs to all the texts of the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead, and also to most of the supplementary Chapters of the Saïte and Graeco-Roman period that are usually appended to it, this volume will prove to be a staple part of a rounded ...
A History of Ethiopia: Volume I (Routledge Revivals): Nubia and Abyssinia
1st Edition
By E. A. Wallis Budge
November 04, 2015
This, the first volume of Sir E. A. Wallis Budge’s The History of Ethiopia: Abyssinia and Nubia, first published in 1928, presents an account of Ethiopian history from the earliest legendary and mythic records up until the death of King Lebna Dengel in 1540. Using a vast range of sources – Greek ...
A History of Ethiopia: Volume II (Routledge Revivals): Nubia and Abyssinia
1st Edition
By E. A. Wallis Budge
November 04, 2015
This is the second volume of Sir E. A. Wallis Budge’s narrative account of Ethiopian history, and continues the chronicle of the Kings of Abyssinia where the first volume ended: the death of Lebna Dengel in 1540. The list of kings ends with the Regent Rās Tafari, who still reigned at the time of ...
Incentives and Agriculture in East Africa (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Mats Lundahl
November 04, 2015
Agriculture is at the centre of the economies of many developing countries, and its stagnation and poor performance across large parts of Africa is a major cause for concern. First published in 1990, this book focuses on the nature and role of incentives in agricultural organization and production ...
Religion in Public and Private Life (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Clarke E. Cochran
November 04, 2015
Religious crosses the spheres of both the private life and the public institution. In a liberal democracy, public and private interests and goals prove to be inseparable. Clarke Cochran’s interdisciplinary study brings political theory and the sociology of religion together in a fresh ...