Author: Alison E. Martin Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 135119433X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 360
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"Accounts of travel to England reached unprecedented levels of popularity in the German states in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Competition therefore increased for travel writers to produce travelogues which offered the most authentic, original and vibrant picture of England. The wider range of narrative strategies which travellers consequently deployed increasingly drew on the emotional responses of their audience - whether to serve a political purpose, show concern for the darker side to the Industrial Revolution or simply demonstrate the humanitarian interests of the travellers themselves. In this broad-ranging study, Alison E. Martin draws on a variety of travellers, men and women, canonical and forgotten, to chart the fascinating variety of styles and approaches which mark this highly interdisciplinary genre."
Author: Matthew Richardson Publisher: Kings Road Publishing ISBN: 1784181641 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 206
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Did The Inbetweeners Movie leave you wanting more!? Desperate to find out what Will, Simon, Jay and Neil are getting up to now?The Inbetweeners: Moving On will take you through all the best bits of the hit TV show and first film, catch up with what the four guys have been up to in shows like Chickens and Fresh Meat, and get you ready for the next film instalment from the gang as they embark on an epic trip Down Under.If you loved the movies and the show then you'll love this. Packed with the best quotes and comedy moments, this book is a definitive must-have for any fan, including a full guide to every character that's appeared in the funniest thing to hit our screens in years.BE WARNED: This book contains plenty of rude language!
Author: Mary A. Peterson Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780195347418 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 410
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From a barrage of photons, we readily and effortlessly recognize the faces of our friends, and the familiar objects and scenes around us. However, these tasks cannot be simple for our visual systems--faces are all extremely similar as visual patterns, and objects look quite different when viewed from different viewpoints. How do our visual systems solve these problems? The contributors to this volume seek to answer this question by exploring how analytic and holistic processes contribute to our perception of faces, objects, and scenes. The role of parts and wholes in perception has been studied for a century, beginning with the debate between Structuralists, who championed the role of elements, and Gestalt psychologists, who argued that the whole was different from the sum of its parts. This is the first volume to focus on the current state of the debate on parts versus wholes as it exists in the field of visual perception by bringing together the views of the leading researchers. Too frequently, researchers work in only one domain, so they are unaware of the ways in which holistic and analytic processing are defined in different areas. The contributors to this volume ask what analytic and holistic processes are like; whether they contribute differently to the perception of faces, objects, and scenes; whether different cognitive and neural mechanisms code holistic and analytic information; whether a single, universal system can be sufficient for visual-information processing, and whether our subjective experience of holistic perception might be nothing more than a compelling illusion. The result is a snapshot of the current thinking on how the processing of wholes and parts contributes to our remarkable ability to recognize faces, objects, and scenes, and an illustration of the diverse conceptions of analytic and holistic processing that currently coexist, and the variety of approaches that have been brought to bear on the issues.
Author: Rashmi Sadana Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520383958 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 262
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The Moving City is a rich and intimate account of urban transformation told through the story of Delhi's Metro, a massive infrastructure project that is reshaping the city's social and urban landscapes. Ethnographic vignettes introduce the feel and form of the Metro and let readers experience the city, scene by scene, stop by stop, as if they, too, have come along for the ride. Laying bare the radical possibilities and concretized inequalities of the Metro, and how people live with and through its built environment, this is a story of women and men on the move, the nature of Indian aspiration, and what it takes morally and materially to sustain urban life. Through exquisite prose, Rashmi Sadana transports the reader to a city shaped by both its Metro and those who depend on it, revealing a perspective on Delhi unlike any other.
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