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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Margaret Ross
Margaret Ross's debut unearths the corporeal in the most desolate reaches of corporate speech: Futures exchange. Human resources. Personal life. Lush and visceral, A Timeshare knows that questions and crises of individual existence are inextricably bound to shared experience and its deft music carries from the closest closet to outer space, touching the concrete through the metaphysical: it syncs the bed to the ocean, memory to zero-g, voicemail to lyric, killjar, dive bar, Lascaux, Antarctica, living and waiting rooms. What time is it? What's time? Your shadow renders you a human sundial. "Countdown," the book begins.
With nearly three thousand new entries, the revised edition of Operas in German: A Dictionary is the most current encyclopedic treatment of operas written specifically to a German text from the seventeenth century through 2016. Musicologist Margaret Ross Griffel details the operas’ composers, scores, librettos, first performances, and bibliographic sources. Four appendixes then list composers, librettists, authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the opera librettos, and a chronological listing of the entries in the A–Z section. The bibliography details other dictionaries and encyclopedias, performance studies, collections of plot summaries, general studies on operas, sources on locales where opera premieres took place, works on the history of operas in German, and selective volumes on individual opera composers, librettists, producers, directors, and designers. Finally, two indexes list the main characters in each opera and the names of singers, conductors, producers, composers, directors, choreographers, and arrangers. The revised edition of Operas in German provides opera historians, musicologists, performers, and opera lovers with an invaluable resource for continued study and enjoyment.
Contemporary short poetry, including both new material (50 poems, 2011-2018) and material previously published as Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law (30 poems, 2005-2011); Susie Margaret Ross is not sure that she has a theory of writing, but if she does, it is that what the reader brings to a piece of writing is equally as important as what the writer brings.
The Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004 amends the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 for criminal cases. It creates a similar regime for civil cases, so that vulnerability of witnesses is considered, and measures are taken to support vulnerable witnesses to give evidence effectively. This book contains the Act's main provisions together with commentary to help you to understand it fully. Informed by the authors' experience of vulnerable witnesses in practice, the book provides an essential reference for lawyers, law students, those who lead or hear witness in court and other professionals dealing with young people and adults who may be vulnerable as potential witnesses.
Osiris, Volume 1 – Historical Writing on American Science
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt; Margaret Rossiter
University of Chicago Press
1991
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Osiris, Volume 1 – Historical Writing on American Science
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt; Margaret Rossiter
University of Chicago Press
2003
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The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga
Margaret Clunies Ross
Cambridge University Press
2010
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The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present time. Its multiple sub-genres - including family sagas, mythical-heroic sagas and sagas of knights - are described and discussed in detail, and the world of medieval Icelanders is powerfully evoked. The first general study of the Old Norse-Icelandic saga to be written in English for some decades, the Introduction is based on up-to-date scholarship and engages with current debates in the field. With suggestions for further reading, detailed information about the Icelandic literary canon, and a map of medieval Iceland, this book is aimed at students of medieval literature and assumes no prior knowledge of Scandinavian languages.
The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga
Margaret Clunies Ross
Cambridge University Press
2010
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The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present time. Its multiple sub-genres - including family sagas, mythical-heroic sagas and sagas of knights - are described and discussed in detail, and the world of medieval Icelanders is powerfully evoked. The first general study of the Old Norse-Icelandic saga to be written in English for some decades, the Introduction is based on up-to-date scholarship and engages with current debates in the field. With suggestions for further reading, detailed information about the Icelandic literary canon, and a map of medieval Iceland, this book is aimed at students of medieval literature and assumes no prior knowledge of Scandinavian languages.
Walker and Walker: The Law of Evidence in Scotland
Margaret L Ross; James P Chalmers; Isla Callander
Bloomsbury Professional
2020
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A comprehensive and detailed examination of the law of evidence in the broadest of civil and criminal contexts. The emphasis is upon rigorous examination of the issues affecting all who work with the law of evidence whether in court, chamber practice or legal education. The fifth edition takes account of a range of relevant new legislation, including the following statutes:· Vulnerable Witnesses (Criminal Evidence) (Scotland) Act 2019· Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018· Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016· Inquiries into Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc (Scotland) Act 2016· Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016It includes relevant case law, including significant developments in respect of opinion evidence, real evidence and corroboration.This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Scottish Law, Scots Law Student and Scottish Criminal Law online services.
Walker and Walker The Law of Evidence in Scotland
Margaret L Ross; James P Chalmers; Isla Callander
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
2025
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This leading text gives a comprehensive and detailed examination of the law of evidence in the broadest of civil and criminal contexts. The emphasis is upon rigorous examination of the issues affecting all who work with the law of evidence whether in court, chamber practice or legal education.The sixth edition has been updated to reflect recent case law and the latest developments in practice including:- The Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill, currently before the Scottish Parliament, which will reform the law on special measures in civil cases and create a new sexual offences court- Ongoing significant developments in the law of corroboration by distress, where the High Court has recently heard arguments in Lord Advocate’s Reference (No 1 of 2023) and is likely to reshape the law in its decision- Ongoing significant developments in the Moorov doctrine, including the decision in Duthie v HM Advocate 2021- Legal Professional Privilege and purported statutory overides, as in Scottish Legal Complaints Commission v Murray & McCusker 2022
Accessible guide to and description of the medieval poetic tradition in Scandinavia. This is the first book in English to deal with the twin subjects of Old Norse poetry and the various vernacular treatises on native poetry that were a conspicuous feature of medieval intellectual life in Iceland and the Orkneys from the mid-twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. Its aim is to give a clear description of the rich poetic tradition of early Scandinavia, particularly in Iceland, where it reached its zenith, and to demonstrate the social contextsthat favoured poetic composition, from the oral societies of the early Viking Age in Norway and its colonies to the devout compositions of literate Christian clerics in fourteenth-century Iceland. The author analyses the two dominant poetic modes, eddic and skaldic, giving fresh examples of their various styles and subjects; looks at the prose contexts in which most Old Norse poetry has been preserved; and discusses problems of interpretation thatarise because of the poetry's mode of transmission. She is concerned throughout to link indigenous theory with practice, beginning with the pre-Christian ideology of poets as favoured by the god ódinn and concluding with the Christian notion that a plain style best conveys the poet's message. Margaret Clunies Ross is McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney.
First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is deployed. Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving written form during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Modern readers and critics often praise their apparently realistic descriptions of the lives, loves and feuds of settler families of the first century and a half of Iceland's commonwealth period (c. AD 970-1030), but this ascription of realism fails to account for one of the most important components of these sagas, the abundance of skaldic poetry, mostly in dróttkvætt "court metre", which comes to saga heroes' lips at moments of crisis. These presumed voices from the past and their integration into the narrative present of the written sagas are the subject of this book. It investigates what motivated Icelandic writers to develop this particular mode, and what particular literary effects they achieved by it. It also looks at the various paths saga writers took within the evolving prosimetrum (a mixed verse and prose form), and explores their likely reasons for using poetry in diverse ways. Consideration is also given to the evolution of the genre in the context of the growing popularity in Iceland of romantic and legendary sagas. A final chapter is devoted to understanding why a minority of sagas of Icelanders do not use poetry at all in their narratives.
Initiation Between Two Worlds
Margaret Clunies Ross; Matthew Driscoll; Mats Malm
University Press of Southern Denmark
2008
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The purpose of this book is to apply theories and perspectives from the Study of Religion, or Comparative Religion, to the study of the pre-Christian culture in the North. The basic idea is that such an application will en-lighten our understanding of some myths and other narratives which, from other points of view, may seem obscure and thus give us a glimpse into the world view of the pagan Scandinavians, which cannot be obtained otherwise. The book deals with problems within the study of Religion as well as within Scandinavian Studies, and hopefully it can inspire scholars from both fields.
I Hedniska ekon tar Margaret Clunies Ross sin utgångspunkt i modern social-antropologisk teori. Genom sin stora kunskap om de fornnordiska texterna vidgar Clunies Ross perspektivet för vår förståelse av de gamla myterna: av förhållandet mellan gudarnas och jättarnas värld, mellan natur och kultur, manligt och kvinnligt, ordning och kaos, liv och död. Myten tolkar samhället, samhället tolkar myten. Margaret Clunies Ross bok Hedniska ekon innebär en viktig vetenskaplig nyorientering och anses redan som ett genombrottsverk inom den fornnordiska mytforskningen. Margaret Clunies Ross är litteraturprofessor i Sydney, Australien, och en av vår tids mest framstående kännare av fornnordisk litteratur.
A detailed literary study of fourteenth-century poetry composed in honour of a controversial thirteenth-century bishop. Vernacular poetry was a powerful influence in fourteenth-century Icelandic elite literary culture, even to the extent of providing the means of elevating a local bishop, Guðmundr Arason, to sainthood. Three Icelandic poets, Abbots Arngrímr Brandsson and Árni Jónsson, and Lawman Einarr Gilsson, composed impressive encomia of Guðmundr, with the intention of recording the holy bishop's sanctity in the language of contemporary religious devotion and to persuade Church authorities in both Scandinavia and the wider Christian world to canonize him. While the local campaign ultimately failed to sway the Catholic Church, it did succeed in producing a significant corpus of vernacular religious poetry, unmatched in combining the traditional diction and metres of Old Norse skaldic verse with the vernacular poetics of affective piety and Christian hermeneutics. This important group of poems is examined here for the first time as literary works. The manuscript context of the Guðmundr poetry is investigated in the first chapter. The next three chapters offer a detailed analysis of the poems themselves while the final chapters situate the Guðmundr poetry within the milieu of the vernacular learning that flourished particularly in mid-fourteenth-century Icelandic bishoprics and monasteries. They also explore the relationship between contemporary prose sagas of Guðmundr Arason and the poetry composed in his honour, which, it is argued, offers figural interpretations of the substance of the prose texts.
