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50 books match the query 'Case' and 3 start with m

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Making the Case

Advocacy and Judgment in Public Argument

Kathryn M. Olson

Michigan State University Press, 2012

In an era when the value of the humanities and qualitative inquiry has been questioned in academia and beyond, Making the Case is an engaging and timely collection that brings together a veritable who’s who of public address scholars to illustrate the power of case-based scholarly argument and to demonstrate how critical inquiry into a specific moment speaks to general contexts and theories. Providing both a theoretical framework and a wealth of historically situated texts, Making the Case spans from Homeric Greece to twenty-first-century America. The authors examine the dynamic interplay of texts and their concomitant rhetorical situations by drawing on a number of case studies, including controversial constitutional arguments put forward by activists and presidents in the nineteenth century, inventive economic pivots by Franklin Roosevelt and Alan Greenspan, and the rhetorical trajectory and method of Barack Obama.

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Medievalism, Popular Culture and Politics in Metal Music

The Case of Hispanic Epic Themes

Amaranta Saguar García

Intellect Books, 2026

A groundbreaking book exploring how metal music uses medieval Hispanic epic themes and how this engagement carries complex cultural and political implications.

Challenging the common view of metal music as just a form of Western pop culture, this innovative book draws attention to medievalizing epicism, a distinctive strand within metal that evokes the medieval and the epic in both aesthetics and sensibility. While often shaped by fantasy literature, cinema, and more recently, video games, this fascination with the medieval has deeper roots in nationalist ideologies. Through a rich exploration of Spain and Portugal’s transitions after their period of authoritarian rule, this book reveals how medievalizing epicism plays a key role in shaping nationalist and ethnocentric discourses, fascist narratives, and official efforts to foster patriotic sentiment, and how metal bands confront these origins.

Drawing on an impressive breadth of scholarship and a deep knowledge of metal music culture, Amaranta Saguar García skillfully weaves together diverse reference points without losing focus or clarity. This book invites both scholars and music fans to reflect more broadly on how metal music imagines and reuses medieval heritage.
 
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Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse

Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, Australia, and Britain

Mark Peel

University of Chicago Press, 2011

Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London and Melbourne, Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse is a pioneering comparative study that examines how these stories of poverty were narrated and reshaped by ethnic diversity, economic crisis, and war.

Probing the similarities and differences in the ways Americans, Australians, and Britons understood and responded to poverty, Mark Peel draws a picture of social work that is based in the sometimes fraught encounters between the poor and their interpreters. He uses dramatization to bring these encounters to life—joining Miss Cutler and that resurrected horse are Miss Lindstrom and the fried potatoes and Mr. O’Neil and the seductive client—and to give these people a voice. Adding new dimensions to the study of charity and social work, this book is essential to understanding and tackling poverty in the twenty-first century.
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