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This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of the polymathic influences that shaped Through the Looking-Glass. With contributions from the history of science, philosophy, literature,...

This book discusses three types of creative output in South Africa that are often considered as independent of each other. The first section explores traditional literary genres; the second examines...

As a small community located on the peripheries of Europe and of the Jewish world, Ireland's Jewish community is something of an outlier and is often portrayed as having a unique history or being...

Budapest in the autumn of 1944 was a city full of terror. The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg became an important part of the networks desperately trying to save the Jewish population in Hungary...

Edgar Wind (1900-1971) was a cosmopolitan scholar who made important contributions to many disciplines, including philosophy, Renaissance art history and modern art criticism. Born in Berlin, Wind...

Belfast Poet Ciaran Carson created innovative translations of Dante's Inferno and Rimbaud's poetry. This book contributes to Translation Studies by presenting an original Hybrid Gricean Theory...

Este libro parte del principio que la especulación consiste en una cuestión de inteligibilidad, lo cual se acentuaría en los ámbitos periféricos del planeta y, más aún, bajo las condiciones actuales...

La vuelta a la poesâia explora la relevancia de la escritura poâetica en el aula universitaria y escolar. En general, en la vida de quienes desean acercarse a un gâenero que, con requerimientos...

This book examines the criteria against which translated works are assessed in the year 2022. It not only provides a novel cross-cultural insight into reviewing practices, assessing how translations...

«This comprehensive, insightful and well-researched work is an essential and timely contribution to sustaining the training of healthcare interpreters. It provides an important foundation for...

The book demonstrates the prominent role the local religious leaders played in the lives of the Ismaili community and the governance strategies they adopted to portray themselves as demi-god forcing...

A critical resource that carefully examines the context, themes and techniques of contemporary British poetry published between 2000 and 2011 in the Poems of the Decade anthology. In addition, the...

This study aims to uncover the traces of the celebrated Sweeney legend in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Austin Clarke, Derek Mahon, Tom Mac...

This book offers a transdisciplinary critical and imaginative examinations of key contemporary manifestations of ecotopianism as 'fervent refusals' of the ecocidal colonial-capitalist status quo...

A unique experiment at the frontlines of the Cold War, the German Democratic Republic collapsed more than thirty years ago. But it did not simply vanish. Far from being a footnote in history, the...

In 1928, Erna Halbe leaves her hometown for Berlin, where she takes an office job. She must find her way not only in the city, but also in the difficult conditions at work. When her coworker Trude...

This biographical account situates the unfolding of the life of an educator in varied socio-economic contexts. It is not just a narrative of how an individual evolves but also analyses how a...

This book establishes an other Platonist beginning by repositioning Plato and Neoplatonism in Heidegger's history of metaphysics. The other Platonist beginning follows a revision of Heidegger's...

How do we remember the past? And what do we forget? This part-history, part-memoir examines how Hungarians and Austrians living along their common border remember, distort, and forget episodes...

Polysemous lexical items have multiple senses associated with a single form, and these senses are interrelated. Polysemy is a universal and omnipresent phenomenon, providing a robust tool to convey...

Through an analysis of a broad corpus of correspondences, novels and paintings, this book aims to re-establish the relevance of letter writing within Victorian culture. In an age of postal reforms...