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Displaying a talent for combining aesthetic sensibility with scientific rigor, the author has given new life to something that once excited European passions: an original, non-academic art at the forefront of the 'new technology' of the time.

This book explores for the first time the individual and collective significance of First World War facially disfigured combatants, with a special focus on France, Germany and Great Britain. It illuminates our understanding of how the combatant and the onlooker made sense of the experience and the memory of the war.

William Morris's last romances are strikingly original stories written in his final years, but they remain relatively neglected in both Morris studies and nineteenth-century literary studies. This book provides a full-length critical account of these works and their essential role in promoting the continuing importance of Morris's ideas. Approaching these romances through the concept of wonder, this book provides a new way of understanding their relevance to his writings on art and architecture, nature and the environment, and politics and Socialism. It establishes the integral connection between the romances and Morris's diverse cultural, social and political interests and activities, suggesting ways in which we might understand these tales as a culmination of Morris's thought and practice. Through a comprehensive analysis of these remarkable narratives, this book makes a significant contribution to both work on William Morris and to nineteenth-century studies more generally.

This volume maps the reception of New Portuguese Letters in Portugal and abroad, with a mainly feminist approach. The ban on the book, deemed scandalous, and trial of the authors found instant international support abroad. An invaluable contribution to the history of women, the book is still relevant today for its insights on equality and freedom.

Words in Action dedicates to the subject of film dialogue a comprehensive exploration. The book analyzes a wide series of examples, perfectly chosen in contemporary American mainstream cinema - from Gladiator to The Devil Wears Prada, from Schindler's List to A Beautiful Mind, from Collateral to The Dark Knight - and, in some cases, also in prime time TV drama - ER, The West Wing, House M.D., John Adams. In a screenplay, the secrets of well written dialogue are hidden in the construction of the scene, where every word should stem from the theme of the story. At the light of this basic assumption, the book explores how Hollywood screenwriters create verbal duels assigning characters different frames of values and making the hero win by reframing what is at stake in the scene. The author elaborates on how Oscar winner authors such as Paul Haggis, Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian create subtext. Finally, the book highlights the screenwriting techniques to cover exposition, an issue which gives the author also the opportunity to concentrate on the differences between dialogues in movies and in TV drama.

AI is one of the most disruptive technologies of our era, significantly transforming nearly every aspect of human life. This book examines the impact of AI on international affairs from interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, and interregional perspectives, focusing on both the European Union and Latin America.It explores philosophical debates on concepts such as consciousness, ethics, and human uniqueness, offering a framework for assessing the risks and benefits of AI for humanity. The evolving landscape is also giving rise to new rights, including NeuroRights, which expand upon existing human rights. Additionally, the book analyses the EU AI Act and its implications for human rights in the digital age.This publication is a collaborative effort between university scholars and international experts, developed within the research group "EU & Ethics Governance of the Artificial Intelligence" led by the Institute of European Studies and Human Rights at the Pontifical University of Salamanca.

For the student: This is what you should demand.For the institution: This is what you should provide.Disability and the University: A Disabled Students' Manifesto, 2nd edition is a guide to what students with disabilities need to know about attending university, as well as to the essential supports and rights universities should provide. Each chapter represents a benchmark for students to follow as they travel through the institution, and lays clear what they should expect in the post Covid world.Written by those who have traversed the terrain of higher education, this book is not about disabled students, but instead is a manifesto, a call for change, a call to action. It is guide book, blueprint, and tool for both students and universities.

"This book explores the margins of journalism, the peripheral journalists and media organisations who have been overlooked in our efforts to understand a changing journalistic field. Seeing local journalists as unmapped agents of the journalistic field, the book provides a comprehensive study of local journalism in the post-socialist, post-transitional Czech media system, and conceptualizes these actors as unique agents within the journalistic field. Informed by Pierre Bourdieu's field theory, it adopts an inductive approach, presenting the stories of specific journalists derived from interviews and participant observation in the places where they work, alongside surveys of local newspapers. From these studies, it systematically maps these peripheral, journalistic actors, their positions in the journalistic field, accounting for their relationships and the trends shaping Czech journalism to give voice to those who are not usually heard - journalists on the margins"--

Cet ouvrage analyse les relations entre écriture et tradition à partir d'une réflexion sur la notion de figure tutélaire conçue comme modèle d'écriture et incarnation d'un héritage littéraire. Dans le prolongement de la tradition de l'imitatio, la figure tutélaire est envisagée au sens de "maître" ou de guide qui acquiert une fonction exemplaire dans le processus de création. Les contributions étudient les diverses modélisations des "Phares" (Baudelaire) dans la poésie et la prose de langue allemande aux 20e et 21e siècles. Le point de départ de la réflexion est l'ouvrage de Harold Bloom The anxiety of influence, qui considère les rapports entre l'écrivain et ses modèles comme une impitoyable 'psychomachie'. Si le concept d'Einfluss-Angst s'applique à la quête d'originalité de la modernité classique, on constate après 1945 l'élaboration de nouvelles formes d'interauctorialité et d'intertextualité. La notion d'Einfluss-Angst fait place à celle d'Einfluss-Lust propre aux écritures postmodernes.

Since the turn of the millennium, stories about young people with mystical abilities have enjoyed tremendous popularity. This volume is the first collection of essays to posit that such stories form a distinct teen- and young-adult-oriented genre, characterized by tales in which young people use ancient magic-not modern science-to solve problems and save the world.Scholars explore the cultural implications of this phenomenon, considering how media's discourses about youthful gods, witches, fairies, and other magical beings address social change, youth, and modern identities. By examining stories whose protagonists stand at a crossroads between identities and states of being-human and not-quite-human, child and adult, mundane world and mythic world, old millennium and new-the volume invites readers to contemplate the cultural significance of the persistent mediated fantasy of magical youth.

Android, Assembled unpacks the phenomenon of social robots-not as monolithic machines but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from bodily features (like heads and sensors) and the elements we read into them (like gender and authority). Each chapter explores the philosophical, theoretical, empirical, or technical understanding of discrete robot components to offer a deeper look into how those parts contribute to what social robots are and how humans experience them. Part I (Explicit Anatomy) considers the manifest components of robots-those that make up the physical robot and its capabilities: Shapes, heads, faces, eyes, legs, feet, wings, color, clothing, gestures, postures, speech, text, screens, memory, information, sensors, actuators, organic elements, and distributed elements. Part II (Implicit Anatomy) explores the parts of social robots that humans infer or interpret: Image, interactivity, cuteness, gender, power, authority, membership, cognition, decision-making, aliveness, mindedness, obligations, and ultimately the kind of thing a robot is. Along with the state of the art and science, each author gives a provocation to highlight open questions and possible futures.