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This new study investigates how Spain was represented in Irish fiction, plays, poems and travelogues written in a period covering the first five decades of Irish independence as well as the Spanish...

The relationship between different media has emerged as one of the most important areas of research in contemporary cultural and literary studies. But how should we conceive of the relationship...

In German Romanticism, the imagination is the site of the encounter between the subject and its environment; this book examines that encounter. Dealing with both literary and philosophical texts, it...

This book examines new literary imaginings of the interconnected city spaces of Bombay, London and New York in South Asian diasporic texts from the 1990s to the present. It charts the transition from...

This interdisciplinary book investigates emerging ideas regarding human-animal interaction and cohabitation in Australia in the twenty-first century. Advocates, activist groups, mainstream media and...

The urban spaces we inhabit today have been moulded by a combination of historical forces - by social and economic processes, by the specific designs of urban planners, and by the regulatory and...

This book engages with the lesser known radio plays of American network radio during its golden age, which are often dismissed today as commodified nostalgia. The author explores the reasons behind...

This book investigates the public funding of opera in Britain and Germany and the nature of failures of decision making in the allocation of funds to opera companies. A description of the funding...

This book examines Duras's contribution to contemporary cinema. The 'dark room' in the collection's title refers to one of Duras's metaphors for the writing process, la chambre noire, as the solitary...

This book explores the alliance of theology and music in the Christian liturgical tradition, interrogating the challenges posed by the gendered nature of church leadership in many areas of its life...

This study explores translations of Antonio Tabucchi's writing from a global perspective. The book analyses these texts as a way of revealing key issues in translation studies as well as offering...

This edited collection explores the field of Indigenous popular culture, or IndigePop. Bringing together contributions by scholars and practitioners, it promotes a dialogue between diverse sites of...

The novels published by Isabelle de Charri?re before the French Revolution offer a perceptive account of the psychology and the social climate of the late eighteenth century. The anti-Freudian...

Bucarest, 1945-1947: un groupe surr?aliste singulier ?merge de la clandestinit? avec un encha?nement f?brile de publications et d'expositions. Ce livre r?unit et reproduit les publications...

L'opera di Primo Levi presenta un caso straordinariamente ricco e in qualche modo enigmatico di intertestualit?. Con questo volume si ? cercato di tracciare i lineamenti di una mappa immaginaria, uno...

With its meticulous documentation, this multifaceted volume brings a range of individual lives and networks to the fore, outlining their inestimable contributions to British culture. It is an...

The way the body is considered and explored in the performing arts has assumed a growing importance. In the context of live performance in Portugal, this book brings together different approaches...

This book presents the findings of a qualitative research study on the views of language students and critically analyses the speculative components of intercultural communicative competence...

This book explores the idea of 'intercultural competence', which, despite its current popularity across various discourses, has remained a vague and oscillating concept. Interculture lacks a...

This volume locates itself neatly in the growing collection of publications on intermediality by relating such practices to Roland Barthes. Barthesian motifs and writerly concerns are found within a...

This collection of essays stems from the conference 'Internationalism and the Arts: Anglo-European Cultural Exchange at the Fin de Si?cle' held at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in July 2006. The...

Written in response to a brutal ethnic conflict that shocked Europeans in the 1990s, post-Yugoslav literature addresses issues that are still pertinent today. Looking at questions of language,...

This book focuses on the themes of intimacy and identity in the contemporary novel and, in particular, in the novels of A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson. Not only do the specificity...

Intra-individual variation is an emerging research field in linguistics with a rapidly growing number of studies. In historical sociolinguistics, this trend has been slow, as it is still largely...

This book introduces the concept ordinary African readers' hermeneutics in a study of the reception of the Bible in postcolonial Africa. It looks beyond the scholarly and official church-based...

Originally published under the title Οἱ ἀναγραμματισμ? οὶ καὶ τὰ...

Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contemporary culture. Contributions trace the cultural...

This book focuses on the nineteenth century as the time when language became an important part of the cultural identity of speakers, communities and nations. It seeks to explore why and how certain...

This collection of essays discusses how the British empire resonates in a huge array of visual culture in Ireland from the late eighteenth century to the middle of the twentiethAuthor: Eamon...

Recovering and exploring some of the diverse interrelationships between Ireland on the one hand and Central and Eastern Europe on the other, this volume charts some of the alternative, lesser-known...