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Adds a new dimension to Hopkins Studies through its exploration of the complex and sometimes confounding friendship between the Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Hopkins and the editor of his first...

Many minority languages like Irish have tended to survive best in isolated areas while their use has been restricted primarily to domestic, educational and social domains. This has had a negative...

Lecture proceedings including the essence of theatre; Ireland's contribution to the art of theatre; the potential of drama in the classroom; the relationship between drama and film; and on opera and...

This book gives a voice to a small group of students who are required to spend time in a school withdrawal-unit away from the mainstream classroom setting, most commonly following a period of...

How can we best use mobile technology to promote learning? How can we personalise our assessment of learning remotely? This book explores these questions and more, considering strategies for using...

In this book modality and its learner variety in Japanese are investigated from the perspective of grammaticalization in the functional framework. It describes the grammatical system of modality in...

Modern Death is written in the form of a symposium, in which a government agency brings together a group of experts to discuss a strategy for dealing with an ageing population.Author: Carl-Henning...

Modernism on Sea brings together writing by some of today's most exciting seaside critics, curators, filmmakers and scholars, and takes the reader on a journey around the coast of Britain to explore...

This book explores the work of two major twentieth-century artists by placing them in critical proximity. Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu and Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cin?ma...

Modernitalia provides a map of the Italian twentieth century in the form of twelve essays by the celebrated cultural historian Jeffrey T. Schnapp. Shuttling back and forth between literature,...

Of all the playwrights in the age of Louis XIV, Moli?re is the only one whose work is still regularly performed. This book analyzes his longevity by examining how he made comic plays more meaningful...

Education, religion, scepticism, politics, friendship, sex, and style - Montaigne's major themes are revealed here in the making of a text that practises freedom of thought by putting it to the test...

The contentious relationship between modernism and totalitarianism is a key element in the architectural history of the twentieth century. This fully illustrated book argues that the architectural...

This original and engaging study explores the way in which Colm T?ib?n repeatedly identifies and disrupts the boundaries between personal and political or social histories in his fiction. Through...

From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and motherhood appear on television today. Drawing on questionnaires completed by mothers...

Mothers and mothering are significant features of contemporary women's writing in France, but in Marie NDiaye's writing, mothers often appear inadequate, abusive or even murderous. This book seeks to...

Mount Athos is the spiritual heart of the Orthodox world. From its beginnings in the ninth century it attracted monks from all corners of the Byzantine empire and beyond to experience its seclusion,...

This volume brings together sixteen essays on British, Irish and American poets from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It offers a series of entertaining and compelling readings of the...

The goal of this book is to present a foundation for understanding the disciplines that contribute to the field of pilgrimage studies and to bridge the gulf between scholarship and 'popular'...

This book explores the everyday reading and writing experiences of children from Chinese families living in Britain. Using an ethnographic approach and following the New Literacy Studies theoretical...

This book explores German-language Medea adaptations from the late twentieth century and their relationship to feminist theory and politics, with readings of Haas, Wolf, Nick, Loher and Jelinek...

Ulster's marching bands form perhaps the most vibrant participatory folk music tradition in contemporary Europe, and are one of the most significant and visible elements of working-class loyalist...

Offering new perspectives on the role of broadcasting in the construction of cultural memory, this book analyses selected instances in relation to questions of French identity at the BBC during the...

The wars of Napoleon are among the best-known and most exciting episodes in world history. Less well known is the uproar the armies stirred up in their path and the chaos they left in their wake. In...

This book looks at the way that Mozambican and Angolan literary works seek to narrate, re-create and make sense of the postcolonial nation, via three broad themes: the role of history; the recurring...

What does it mean to narrate the self? Is there a 'self' to be narrated? What form should such narratives or writings take? The authors of the sixteen essays collected in this volume use a variety of...

This book explores interconnections between high literary modernism and the revolution in dress design of the early twentieth century. New and 'liberated' lifestyles and a fascination with 'inventive...

This innovative volume examines First World War commemoration in an international, multidisciplinary and comparative context, combining new studies of Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the...

Scholars of Italian colonialism have been reluctant to acknowledge the influence that local populations and their culture had on Italians and on the ways in which they settled and administered the...

No century in modern European history has built monuments with more enthusiasm than the 19th. Of the hundreds of monuments erected, those which sprang from a nation-wide initiative and addressed...