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Northern Windows/ Southern Stars is a valuable, accessible and thought-provoking gathering of essays by the distinguished Irish poet and Professor Emeritus, Gerald Dawe. Author: Gerald DawePublisher:...

Mit diesem Band erscheint die erste umfassende und kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem ver?ffentlichten Werk von Eva Strittmatter (1930-2011), popul?re Dichterin und Briefautorin in der ehemaligen...

This collection offers a range of interdisciplinary viewpoints on the occupation of space and theories of place in Britain and Ireland in the medieval and early modern periods. The contributions...

This book explores the cinematic representation of the city in British film 1895-1914, from London to Delhi. The author argues that the films are not only an invaluable record of these cities but...

This is a critical introduction to the poetry of Irish language writer Nuala N? Dhomhnaill, exploring issues of translating and contextualising her work, her revisions of Irish myth, folklore and...

This book presents four thematic studies revolving around the issues of imprisonment, surveillance, traumatic recall and myth-making in Northern Ireland. These studies examine the ways in which...

This book proposes an innovative analysis of Olympic urban planning in general, and of Olympic Villages in particular, which will both consolidate the field of study that Olympic urban planning...

This book examines the unstable boundary between theology and secularity. Rather than locating these in a constant state of opposition, it charts a path toward their reconciliation. It moves from a...

Much as Nietzsche has gained in popularity during the last century, his poetry still has not received the scholarly attention it deserves. On closer scrutiny, his aposiopetic style, along with the...

This comparative study of the history of the Catholic Church in China and Vietnam from the seventeenth to the twentieth century opens up new perspectives for the understanding of the presence of...

This first academic study of double gender nouns (DGNs) in the Dutch language investigates why certain nouns have more than one gender. DGNs are shown to be part of a generalized restructuring of...

May '68 has inspired cultural, social and political movements across the world but has been used also to criticise them. This book interrogates the consideration of the revolts in France as the...

Otto Dix (1891-1969) was a leading figure of the Neue Sachlichkeit, or New Objectivity, movement in painting in 1920s Germany. This groundbreaking study analyses for the first time the relationship...

The French literary collective OuLiPo was founded in 1960 with the goal of applying mathematics to literary creation. This book retraces the historical foundations of the group's unprecedented...

This book contends that the success of Doctor Who lies in its ability, over more than fifty years, to develop its senses of alienation, scientific rationalism and moral idealism. Out of Time explores...

Este libro estudia la situaci?n que guarda actualmente la literatura, el arte y la cultura hisp?nica en relaci?n con otras tradiciones culturales y literarias extranjeras. No es s?lo una puesta al...

The period from the 1850s to the 1890s in Paris marked a key turning point for poets and composers, as they grappled with the new ways in which poetry and music could intersect. Under the particular...

The imaginative literature that emerged out of American, French and German feminisms of the 1970s countered the idea of utopia as a pre-set goal with the idea of the utopian as a process of dreaming...

This book reclaims Bangladesh's institutional historiography by retrieving the eclipsed political parties and the inheritances from its earlier configuration as East Pakistan from 1947 to 1971. This...

Questo libro esplora sistematicamente le strategie discorsive e le metodologie antropologiche adottate da Pasolini, e attraverso l'analisi delle intersezioni tra discorso antropologico, documentario...

Temporal and spiritual journeys were a shared characteristic of life for mendicant friars and the laity in medieval and early modern times. This book reflects the objective approach of trained...

This book is based on a symposium which took place in April 2009 and was part of a year-long celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies...

With national industrial relations systems struggling to keep apace with the global and mobile nature of capital, the emergence of the European works council has caught the imagination of both...

This book is Volume I of the first full-length study of the life and works of Francesco Sperulo of Camerino (1463-1531). It reconstructs the poet's life and circle of contacts by placing his works in...

This book is Volume II of the first full-length study of the life and works of Francesco Sperulo of Camerino (1463-1531). It presents a complete critical edition of all Sperulo's surviving Latin...

Paul-Louis Courier (1772-1825), after being a comparatively discreet critic of Napoleon in his letters, became a scourge of the Restoration Establishment, both secular and clerical, in pamphlets...

Paulo Freire's work is always animated by a strong and fundamental affirmative spirit which calls on people to join together to make change, as opposed to simply waiting around for it to happen. This...

Given the increasing use of English worldwide, attitudes towards non-native speaker accents in English is a growing research area. This author argues that certain types of variation in the...

This book is an analysis and study of postmodernism, political theatre, and the politics of representation. Traversing a wide span of twentieth-century political theatre and performance practices in...

This book responds to the increase in live art programmed in many galleries and museums. The essays challenge the exclusion of live art from the the art history canon and explore participation,...