1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457329803321

Titolo

Has devolution delivered? [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Catherine Bromley ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-7486-7202-8

1-280-50162-6

9786610501625

0-7486-2701-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BromleyCatherine

Disciplina

320.941109051

Soggetti

Decentralization in government - Scotland

Public administration - Scotland

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Tables; Notes on the Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part 1 - Devolution and Independence; Part 2 - Devolved Elections; Part 3 - National Identity; Technical Appendix; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the successes and failures of devolution in Scotland. One of the aims of devolution in Scotland was to change the way people felt about their country and the way they were governed. This book draws on a range of Scottish Election Studies and Scottish Social Attitudes surveys to explore the success of devolution in meeting this objective.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953686803321

Titolo

Modern European criticism and theory : a critical guide / / edited by Julian Wolfreys

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-280-50157-X

9786610501571

0-7486-2679-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WolfreysJulian <1958->

Disciplina

801.95094

Soggetti

Criticism - Europe

Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published as part of The Edinburgh encyclopaedia of modern criticism and theory in 2002"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1. ReneÂDescartes (1596±1650) and Baruch Spinoza (1632±1677): Beginnings; 2. Immanuel Kant (1724±1804) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770±1831); 3. Johann Christian Friedrich HoÈlderlin (1770±1843); 4. Karl Marx (1818±1883); 5. Charles Baudelaire (1821±1867) and SteÂphane MallarmeÂ(1842±1898); 6. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844±1900); 7. Sigmund Freud (1856±1939); 8. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857±1913) and Structural Linguistics; 9. Edmund Husserl (1859±1938); 10. Phenomenology; 11. Gaston Bachelard (1884±1962) and Georges Canguilhem (1904±1995): Epistemology in France

12. Jean Paulhan (1884±1969) and/versus Francis Ponge (1899±1988)13. GyoÈrgy LukaÂcs (1885±1971); 14. Russian Formalism, the Moscow Linguistics Circle, and Prague Structuralism: Boris Eichenbaum (1886± 1959), Jan Mukarovsky (1891±1975), Victor Shklovsky (1893±1984), Yuri Tynyanov (1894±1943), Roma; 15. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889±1951); 16. Martin Heidegger (1889±1976); 17. Antonio Gramsci (1891±1937); 18. Walter Benjamin

Sommario/riassunto

Providing an overview of literary theory in Europe, this guide presents the ideas within European 'theory', focusing on the thought of major voices in poetics, philosophy, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, as well as



in literary and cultural studies. The essays examine how conceptions of subjectivity, identity, and gender have been questioned.