Ben Singer, "Melodrama and Modernity"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0231113293, 0231113285 | PDF | pages: 380 | 9.5 mb
In this groundbreaking investigation into the nature and meanings of melodrama in American culture between 1880 and 1920, Ben Singer offers a challenging new reevaluation of early American cinema and the era that spawned it. Singer looks back to the sensational or "blood and thunder" melodramas (e.g., The Perils of Pauline, The Hazards of Helen, etc.) and uncovers a fundamentally modern cultural expression, one reflecting spectacular transformations in the sensory environment of the metropolis, in the experience of capitalism, in the popular imagination of gender, and in the exploitation of the thrill in popular amusement. Written with verve and panache, and illustrated with 100 striking photos and drawings, Singer's study provides an invaluable historical and conceptual map both of melodrama as a genre on stage and screen and of modernity as a pivotal idea in social theory.

Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie Workman By Richard Utz, Tom Shippey (eds.)
1998 | 472 Pages | ISBN: 2503501664 | PDF | 23 MB
The twenty-six essays in this volume examine the process of creating the Middle Ages. In doing so, they honour Leslie Workman, who has led the revival of the study of medievalism in the past two generations, and leads this sub-discipline towards the comprehensiveness that Lord Acton as early as 1859 had promised: 'Two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery: antiquity and the Middle Ages. These are the two civilizations that have preceded us, the two elements of which ours is composed. All political as well as religious questions reduce themselves practically to this. This is the great dualism that runs through our society.' While using different approaches and discussing topics in a variety of specialised fields, the contributions clearly centre on negotiating the reception of medieval culture in the Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary periods, thus presenting a broad and representative picture of current research in medievalism.

Medieval Thought Experiments: Poetry, Hypothesis, and Experience in the European Middle Ages By Philip Knox, Jonathan Morton, Daniel Reeve (eds.)
2018 | 350 Pages | ISBN: 2503576214 | PDF | 10 MB
Throughout the Middle Ages, fictional frameworks could be used as imaginative spaces in which to test or play with ideas without asserting their truth. The aim of this volume is to consider how intellectual problems were approached - if not necessarily resolved - through the kinds of hypothetical enquiry found in poetry and in other texts that employ fictional or imaginative strategies. Scholars working across the spectrum of medieval languages and academic disciplines consider why a writer might choose a fictional or hypothetical frame to discuss theoretical questions, how a work's truth content is affected and shaped by its fictive nature, or what kinds of affective or intellectual work its reading demands. By reading literary, philosophical, and spiritual texts from England, France, and Italy alongside each other, this collection offers a new interdisciplinary approach to the history of medieval thought.

Medieval History: The Middle Ages, The Crusades, The Hundred Years War, The Inquisition, Wars of the Roses by Hourly History
English | December 11, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BPSL5SM5 | 208 pages | EPUB | 0.30 Mb
Discover the remarkable history of Medieval Europe...

Medical Symptoms
by Dorling Kindersley
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0744051657 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 45.42 MB

Medical Information Processing and Security Techniques and applications
by Amit Kumar Singh and Huiyu Zhou
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1839535253 | 457 pages | True PDF | 23.5 MB

Mediating the World in the Novels of Iain Banks: The Paradigms of Fiction By Katarzyna Pisarska
2014 | 350 Pages | ISBN: 3631626142 | PDF | 4 MB
This book offers a detailed analysis of all mainstream novels of Iain Banks. It explores the question of mediation, the process of a semiotic (re)construction of the world on the part of Banks's characters, with reference to the four directions of fictional worldmodelling, i.e. the four types of relationship between the individual and the world established by the author's first novel, The Wasp Factory. In order to give justice to the extremely eclectic novelistic production of Iain Banks, the analysis of fifteen of his novels contained in the present study employs diverse interpretative «tools», fusing elements of various methodologies: structural-semiotic analysis supplemented by a mythographic approach along with psychological and gender specific theories. Mediating the World in the Novels of Iain Banks: The Paradigms of Fiction thus develops a critical paradigm capable of uniting the extremely versatile mainstream production of this Scottish writer.

Media and Psychoanalysis
by Johanssen, Jacob;Krüger, Steffen;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1913494578 | 423 pages | True EPUB | 5.24 MB

Mechanisms for Long-Term Innovation: Technology and Business Development of Reverse Osmosis Membranes
English | 2022 | ISBN: 981194895X | 618 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 18 MB
This book explores how a long-term innovation can take place based on historical analyses of the development of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane from the early 1950s to the mid-2010s. The RO membrane is a critical material for desalination that is a key to solve water shortages becoming serious in many places of the world.

Mechanics of Hydraulic Fracturing: Experiment, Model, and Monitoring
English | 2023 | ISBN: 111974234X | 268 Pages | PDF, EPUB (True) | 93 MB
Mechanics of Hydraulic Fracturing: Experiment, Model, and Monitoring provides a summary of the research in mechanics of hydraulic fractures during the past two decades, plus new research trends to look for in the future. The book covers the contributions from theory, modeling, and experimentation, including the application of models to reservoir stimulation, mining preconditioning, and the formation of geological structures. The four expert editors emphasize the variety of diverse methods and tools in hydraulic fracturing and help the reader understand hydraulic fracture mechanics in complex geological situations.