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The Persian Whitman
Beyond a Literary Reception
2019 || Paperback || Behnam M. Fomeshi || Leiden University Press
Walt Whitman, a world poet and the father of American free verse, has been read by diverse audiences from around the world. Literary and cultural scholars have studied Whitman’s interaction with social, political and literary movements of different countries. Despite his continuing presence in Iran, Whitman’s reception in this country has remained unexplored. Additionally, Iranian reception of Western literature is a field still in its infancy and under-researched, particularly due to con...
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Big Books in Times of Big Data
2019 || Paperback || Inge van de Ven || Leiden University Press
This book explores the aesthetics, medial affordances, and cultural economics of monumental literary works of the present. Using a wide-ranging international archive of hefty tomes by authors such as Mark Z. Danielewski, Roberto Bolaño, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgård, George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, and William T. Vollmann, van de Ven recuperates multiple strands of bigness that speak to the tenuous position of print literature in the present but also to the robust stature of ...
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Staging China
The Politics of Mass Spectacle
2019 || Paperback || Florian Schneider || Leiden University Press
The People’s Republic of China began the 21st century with a new-and-improved public relations approach that was meant to counter anxieties about China’s role in the world while simultaneously showcasing the leadership’s policies to a domestic audience. Crucial to this communication strategy have been networked spectacles: elaborate mass event, designed to reconfigure organisations, ideas, and the relations between people.
In "Staging China", Florian Schneider analyses large-scale projec...
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Weneya'a - "quien habla con los cerros"
Memoria, mántica y paisaje sagrado en la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca
2019 || Paperback || Caroll Davila || Leiden University Press
Este trabajo documenta e interpreta el patrimonio cultural saa (zapoteco) de los Bene Ya’a/En’ne I’ya, los habitantes zapotecos de la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca. Dicho patrimonio es estudiado a partir de los símbolos transmitidos por las personas encargadas de los rituales, weneya’a— las personas « que hablan con los cerros ».
Los individuos weneya’a transmiten valores culturales fundamentales de sus comunidades y son indispensables para la identidad y la cultura de los Bene Ya’a...
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Cape Conflict
Protest and Political Alliances in a Dutch Settlement
2019 || Paperback || Teun Baartman || Leiden University Press
In the historiography of the period of Dutch rule in the Cape of Good Hope, from 1652 until 1795, Cape burghers are represented as the perpetual underdogs bristling against the rule of a restrictive Dutch East India Company (VOC). But was this relationship really so antagonistic?
The author places Cape colonial society in the wider context of the Dutch Republic and, in doing so, compares the political structures, institutions and dynamics of the Republic and its overseas settlement. He shows ...
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Stijl, taal en tekst
Stilistiek op taalkundige basis
2019 || Paperback || Ninke Stukker e.a. || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
Hoe kun je op wetenschappelijke wijze iets zeggen over de stijl van een literaire tekst? Hoe beoordeel je de effecten van stijlmiddelen in toespraken of in ander zakelijk taalgebruik? Iedereen heeft een globaal idee wat ‘stijl’ betekent, en dat stijl een tekst kan maken of breken. In de tekst- en communicatiewetenschappen en in de klassieke disciplines van de neerlandistiek (letterkunde, taalkunde, taalbeheersing) speelt de vraag hoe formuleringskeuzes samenhangen met de inhoud en de effe...
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The E-Primer / Druk 2
An Introduction to Creating Psychological Experiments in E-Prime®
2019 || Paperback || Michiel Spapé e.a. || Leiden University Press
E-Prime® is the leading software suite by Psychology Software Tools for designing and running Psychology lab experiments. 'The E-Primer' is the perfect accompanying guide: It provides all the necessary knowledge to make E-Prime accessible to everyone. You can learn the tools of Psychological science by following the E-Primer through a series of entertaining, step-by-step recipes that recreate classic experiments. The updated 'E-Primer' expands its proven combination of simple explanations, i...
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Monitoring Children's Rights in the Netherlands
30 Years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
2019 || Paperback || Ton Liefaard e.a. || Leiden University Press
This first volume in the Monitoring Children’s Rights in the Netherlands series pays tribute to the 30th anniversary of the CRC and includes a report on the rights of children in the Netherlands, presenting key facts and figures relating to the rights of children. The report shows that there are significant concerns relating to discrimination, exclusion and disparities in the implementation of children’s rights in the Netherlands. It also demonstrates that there are reasons for concern wi...
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The Colonization of Freed African Americans in Suriname
Archival Sources relating to the U.S.-Dutch Negotiations, 1860-1866
2019 || Paperback || Michael J. Douma || Leiden University Press
During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln’s administration engaged in protracted negotiations with representatives of the Netherlands to aid in the voluntarily colonization of free African Americans to Suriname. Scores of diplomatic letters in Dutch, English, and French, dating to the period 1862 to 1866 attest to the very real possibility that such a migration stream could have become a reality. They also indicate reasons why this scheme failed: it was bogged down by differe...