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Jorge Sempr?n is a leading writer from the first generation of Spanish Civil War exiles, yet studies of his work have often focused solely on his literary testimony to the concentration camps and his...

This collection of essays looks at the most recent work of Juan Goytisolo from a variety of perspectives and critical stances. The contributors, all specialists in the work of the Spanish author,...

Julian of Norwich in Her Phenomenology engages Julian's primordial religious experience of May 1373 as was given to her initially; as Julian subsequently gave definition to its revelation within her...

This book analyses French criminal procedure. It explores issues such as the status of the juge, the changing rights of the defence, and the immunity of the French President, offering valuable...

This volume assesses the literary stature of George Mackay Brown by contextualising his prose and his poetry within twentieth-century British and European literary practices and traditions of thought...

This volume explores the writing practices and book collections of a range of individuals in early modern Kent, including the gentry and clergy and urban administrators. It brings together...

Kipling's use of superior knowledge as the basis for deception and practical jokes is discussed in this book within the wider social context of his time. His writing is examined for what it reveals...

This book examines the presentation of, and attitudes to, the Second World War in post-war West German prose fiction. The fierce public reactions which some of these works provoked at the time of...

This study is the first extensive attempt to chart the rise and fall of popular educational movements across Europe following the 1848 revolutions to their demise at the outbreak of World War Two. It...

The Korean Wave, or Hallyu phenomenon, has brought South Korean popular culture to the global population, but North Korean culture has often been overlooked. Korean Screen Cultures sets out to...

Este libro se plantea observar la transmisi?n transgeneracional de la memoria del conflicto de 1936-1939. El objetivo principal es la formulaci?n de pautas interpretativas que ayuden a parcelar la...

Right across denominational boundaries lay theology is dominated by negatives: the laity simply defined as the non-ordained, the alleged exclusion of the laity from full participation, the sole focus...

Public demand for comedy has always been high in the German-speaking countries, but the number of comic dramas that have survived is relatively small. Those which are still read or regularly...

The nine essays in this volume deal with major achievements in the German novel since 1959. They range from the very well known, such as Brussig's Helden wie wir, an extravagant treatment of life...

There is a large pool of German novelists in whose oeuvre we may look for works of landmark significance, and at certain periods of its history German fiction is particularly rich. Yet...

This book juxtaposes two countries on the margins of Europe that display many affinities: Ireland and Greece. It investigates how contemporary poetry from both countries engages with external and...

What should we do with places that were theatres of mass suffering and atrocity? Should we keep them as they were, to remind us of the past, or transform them? This volume addresses these questions...

This volume contains selected papers from the XV International Graduate Conference, highlighting the latest scholarship from a new generation of Late Antique and Byzantine scholars from around the...

This book combines studies of a broad range of minority and minoritized languages from the past and present to examine the dynamics of changes in the status of language use and language perception...

This volume presents a collection of the latest scholarly research on language, migration and identity. It includes research conducted within both established and emerging methodological frameworks...

Ecological thinking has in recent years come a long way from its origins in biology, to become a new paradigm within many disciplines. Its approach is holistic, and focuses on dynamic, interactive...

This book examines the relation between geographic and linguistic border crossings in twentieth-century world literature. Exploring the dynamic from a comparative and translingual perspective, this...

Laughter and power are here examined in a variety of contexts, ranging from the satires of Renaissance Humanism through to the polemics of contemporary journalism. How do the powerful use laughter as...

Isidore Isou ?tait ?g? d'? peine dix-sept ans quand il s'est propos? de fonder le plus radical mouvement europ?en d'avant-garde: le lettrisme. En analysant son oeuvre po?tique, nous montrons que la...

Il volume collettaneo Le poetiche del riso raccoglie cinquantuno contributi. Il tema centrale ? il modo in cui, nel periodo a cavallo tra l'Ottocento e il Novecento, il riso, in quanto espressione...

Die Studie widmet sich Lea Grundig (1906-1977) als Pr?sidentin des Verbandes der Bildenden K?nstler Deutschlands (VBKD) von 1964 bis 1970. Nach Inhaftierung und Verfolgung w?hrend der NS-Diktatur...

The first book to focus on providing Irish parents, early childhood teachers in early learning and care, primary and special school settings with practical and effective strategies for supporting the...

Leaving Islamism explores how and why some British Muslims leave Islamism, providing a compelling new perspective from which to understand the de-radicalisation process. The author draws on...

What does it take to be a legal translator? This volume offers a systematic overview of the diverse professional profiles within legal translation and the wide range of communicative situations in...

This is the first book-length study of the outstanding generation of Leningrad poets whose careers began during the Khrushchev Thaw. The text brings together memoirs, interviews, and archival...