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This book examines Italian descriptions of Ireland in the context of the Renaissance discovery of ancient culture and reshaping of geography, historiography, travel writing and the fashioning of the...

This volume presents the new critical research originated from a long history of poverty, marginalisation, discrimination, colonialism and struggle for social justice in Brazil. It proposes original...

The nature of religion on the domestic front in Britain during the Second World War has, hitherto, been relatively unexplored. This study focuses on Birmingham and describes wartime popular religion,...

Contemporary artists have embraced gravity as an immaterial readymade. Focusing on material practices - sculpture, installation, performance, and film - this book takes account of how and why artists...

This book explores the intersection of folklore and new media storytelling in feminist adaptations of traditional fairy tales, with a focus on the Germanic folktale and its reinterpretation within...

In her final year of primary school in 1971, Brenda Downing was raped on two separate occasions. In this book, through a pioneering embodied methodology, she examines her long-term somatic response...

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of women's life-writing in the Luso-Hispanic world. The authors analyse women who have expressed their sense of identity through diaries,...

A prolific and acclaimed writer, Feridun Zaimoglu made a spectacular entrance onto the German cultural scene in 1995 with Kanak Sprak. This edited volume features an unpublished first chapter of...

This volume contains a selection of the proceedings of a conference organised by the International Feuchtwanger Society entitled 'Feuchtwanger and Film'. The conference took place in September 2007...

This volume, stemming from International Feuchtwanger Society conference To Stay or not to Stay? German-speaking Exiles in Southern California after 1945, focuses on the decision facing Lion...

Dieser Band vereint Forschungsbeitr?ge der 6. Konferenz der Internationalen Feuchtwanger Gesellschaft. Die Konferenz hatte zum Ziel, die Bedeutung des Berliner Zwischenspiels im Leben Feuchtwangers...

When Lion Feuchtwanger later took stock of his childhood and youth in Munich, he had little positive to say. But this city shaped him into the thinker and writer he became. This volume explores the...

With reference to Paul Ricoeur's conception of the interconnectedness of history and fiction, this comparative literary study examines narrative strategies that three contemporary writers of fiction...

The end of the British Raj, and the creation of the two states of India and Pakistan in August 1947, is a recognizable narrative within British Anglophone culture and colonial history. In contrast,...

Fictions of African Dictatorship examines the fictional representation of the African dictator and the performance of dictatorship across genres. The volume untangles some of the intricate workings...

Investigates the recurrence and aesthetic significance of images of food, appetite and consumption in works by F.T. Marinetti, Aldo Palazzeschi, Massimo Bontempelli, Paola Masino and Luigi...

This volume explores canonical novels of the Irish land war, as well as looking at the material conditions of reading and writing in late nineteenth-century Ireland. It includes a reprinted letter by...

The fifteen essays in this volume reflect the diversity of German studies in Britain and Ireland today. The German language itself is the focus of four studies, covering historical aspects of German...

This edited collection focuses on the negotiation of national, geographic and cultural identities during the Second World War among the constituent countries of the United Kingdom. Adopting a four...

In the age of the refugee, this volume sheds new light on the work of canonical and less-studied figures of the Spanish exile of 1939, which ranges from first to second generation exiles, from...

Jenkins' meticulously researched essay will change how you think about UFOs. The interesting question is not whether flying saucers are real or fake, but rather, in what sociotechnical world were...

This volume is the first of its kind to focus entirely on food in the context of pilgrimage and faith-based tourism. It presents key studies that are relevant to academics, pilgrimage stakeholders,...

This book is a case study of an African-Caribbean founded football club, the Meadebrook Cavaliers. The book examines the club's growth from 1970 to 2010 and shows how studies of minority ethnic and...

Modern developments in both science and history challenge us to a far greater degree of empiricism than has been traditionally considered necessary in the study of theology. Any attempt to move in...

Whatever happened to realism? What form is adequate to representing our moment, situated as we are after the end of 'the end of History'? In the face of youth revolts and workers' insurgencies from...

Learning a foreign language in its cultural context has an effect on the subjective mind, ranging from the unsettling to the inspirational. This volume explores the subjective dimension of...

The papers in this volume challenge the concept of form and aim to set out, explore and develop different theories and examples of 'the formless'. In so doing, they raise questions of form, and...

Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity is an interdisciplinary study of commemorative sites related to human rights violations committed during dictatorial rule in Argentina (1976-1983) and Uruguay...

Los estudios aqu? reunidos tratan acerca de la presencia, poder y productividad de las voces prehisp?nicas en las literaturas latinoamericanas a partir de los a?os 80. En este libro se demuestra la...

The aim of the book is to make the water sector professionals working on the legal and regulatory aspects of water-related services such as drinking water supply familiarized with the nuances of...