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Based on new research and translations of unpublished writings by Russian ?migr? philosopher Lev Shestov, this book analyses the thoughts of one of the most influential thinkers of the past century...

Lewis Mumford's achievements as an architectural critic, literary critic and urbanist are well known. However, his contribution to the American studies movement and to cultural studies in general has...

Diese soziolinguistische Arbeit erforscht anhand von vorwiegend s?ddeutschen Patientenbriefen des 19. und fr?hen 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem Corpus of Patient Documents, wie externe Einflussfaktoren und...

Modern scholarship often defines Roman women in terms of their difference from men, seeing them as 'other'. This work analyzes both well-known, and overlooked, passages from the writings of Pliny the...

Exploring Lillian de Lissa's career as foundation principal of the Adelaide Kindergarten Training College and Gipsy Hill Training College in London, and incorporating the lives and work of her...

Liminality, if interpreted as a concern with borders and states of in-betweenness, is a widespread theme in Irish literature and culture, which is perhaps not surprising considering the colonial and...

This book explores the multifaceted concepts of otherness, barbarism and exteriority. Is encountering the 'Other' still possible in a world in which we all have become rootless, disconnected and...

This book offers the first detailed study of the music and composers of French New Wave cinema, offering a new look at this popular film movement. The author challenges the view that these films were...

The present study examines the interrelation between literary texts, their successive retranslations and the corresponding historical, social and cultural backgrounds that inform these versions. The...

En el presente volumen se ofrece un estudio de la literatura espa?ola del siglo XX y los primeros quince a?os del XXI desde la perspectiva de la literatura pol?tica o de compromiso pol?tico y de la...

Ten original essays examine the transactions between real places and the literary imagination, including the reinvention of real places in literary form, from 1800 to the present day. They deal with...

This book analyses the relationship between literature, history and politics in post-Soviet Russia. It explores the impact of the collapse of the USSR on Russian literature and culture and the...

In 2002, Expo. 02 - the Swiss National Exhibition - celebrated the modern identity of the Swiss Confederation and the electorate approved a historic change in relations with other countries by voting...

Local colour is an undertheorized notion. Although the expression itself is nowadays used in everyday speech in both French and English, its 'domestication' only further highlights the need for a...

The study explores the de facto and de jure issues that affect the autonomy of local government Union Councils of Bangladesh in their budgeting decision-making process, leading to poor or good local...

This volume addresses how spatialized identities, belongingness and hospitality are interrogated in British and Irish contemporary art (painting, installation, video, photography, new public art) at...

Analysing loneliness and solitude in schools and exploring how to deal with them is a vital task. In recent research for the author's Spirit of the School project, a number of pupils, teachers and...

This collection of new essays focuses on key questions within the rapidly growing field of Iberian studies. From a comparative European perspective, the essays question the concept of 'Iberian'...

The book is an exploration of the relevance of Indian classical wisdom in reorienting modern management. It highlights the need for facilitating an internally-directed spiritual dimension to business...

A writer uses the same adventurous spirit that took him all over the world to look inward and embark on a journey of self-discovery. If there was one thing Dustin Grinnell craved, it was adventure...

The papers collected in this volume are selected from the proceedings of the Love and Sexuality conference held at the University of Leeds in 2002. They bring together a cross-section of new...

The Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri was one of the most significant visual artists of the late twentieth century. This volume introduces his photographic and critical work to a broader audience and...

This first book-length biography with discussions of select writings by Luise B?chner (1821-1877) draws on her commentary of events available in letters and writings. A close reading of B?chner's...

L'?mergence d'une nouvelle g?n?ration de gu?rilleros urbains en Gr?ce ? partir de 2008 soul?ve de nombreuses questions sur les origines et les objectifs de la lutte arm?e au XXIe si?cle, qui fait...

This study is the first to examine the presence of prose lyricism as a tendency in Brazilian novels. Author: Rosane Carneiro RamosPublisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic PublisPublication...

M?rio de S?-Carneiro's legacy is a rich corpus of inventive, playful, even daring texts. This first English collection dedicated to his work brings together scholars from Portugal, Brazil, and the...

This monograph is the first to identify an important theoretical overlap between Anglo-Saxon and Lusophone postcolonial theories: the systematic neglect of gender and sexual variables in the analysis...

This book is crafted based on author's long experience as HR professional and teacher, and researcher, offering insights into tools and techniques of talent acquisition and retention through in-house...

This book contains the first complete English translation, fully annotated, of the treatise Concerning Frequent Communion, commonly attributed to Sts. Makarios of Corinth and Nikodemos the Hagiorite,...

The Weimar period (1919-1933) generated an immense wealth of writings that recorded impressions of daily life in the German capital of Berlin. This book offers an original approach to literary...