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Territórios de cuidado : protagonismo e pluralidade na velhice
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ISBN: 9892617983 9892617975 Year: 2020 Publisher: Coimbra University Press

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To what extent do territories exert influence on the management of old age? How can one qualify old-age experiences from territories? These are central questions in the discussions pointed out in this book. Based on the ethnography developed in four different territories of the municipality of Coimbra, the author, in a human and social interdisciplinary dialogue, presents the territories through a historical and geographical contextualization, while elaborating and deepening the debate on the relations established between elderly people and the territories.


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Mountains and the German mind : translations from Gessner to Messner, 1541-2009
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ISBN: 1787448738 1640140476 Year: 2020 Publisher: Rochester, New York : Camden House,

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Mountains have occupied a central place in German, Swiss, and Austrian intellectual culture for centuries. This volume offers the first scholarly English translations of thirteen key texts from the Germanophone tradition of engagement with mountains. The selected texts span over 450 years, ranging from the early modern period to the postmodern era, and encompass several discursive modes of the mountain experience including geographical descriptions, philosophical meditations, aesthetic deliberations, and autobiographical climbing narratives. Well-known figures covered in this translational sourcebook include Conrad Gessner, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, G.W.F. Hegel, Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Simmel, Leni Riefenstahl, and Reinhold Messner. Each text is accompanied by a critical introduction that places the translated text within a broader cultural context. The dual translational-interpretational approach offered in this volume is intended to stimulate new international and interdisciplinary dialogue on the cultural history of mountains and mountaineering.


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The writer in the academy : creative interfrictions
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ISBN: 128325686X 9786613256867 1846157943 1843842785 Year: 2011 Publisher: Suffolk : D. S. Brewer,

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For many years now the professional "creative writer" within universities and other institutions has encompassed a range of roles, embracing a plurality of scholarly and creative identities. The often complex relation between those identities forms the broad focus of this book, which also examines various, and variously fraught, dialogues between creative writers, "hybrid" writers and academic colleagues from other subjects within single institutions, and with the public and the media. At the heart of the book is the principle of "creative writing" as a fully-fledged discipline, an important subject for debate at a time when the future of the humanities is in crisis; the contributors, all writers and teachers themselves, provide first-hand views on crucial questions: What are the most fruitful intersections between creative writing and scholarship? What methodological overlaps exist between creative writing and literary studies, and what can each side of the "divide" learn from its counterpart? Equally, from a pedagogical perspective, what kind of writing should be taught to students to ensure that the discipline remains relevant? And is the writing workshop still the best way of teaching creative writing? The essays here tackle these points from a range of perspectives, including close readings, historical contextualisation and theoretical exploration.

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