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The essays in this volume explore the borderland between ecology and the arts. Nature is here read by a number of contributors as 'cultural', by others as an 'independent domain', or even as a...

This book explores the interplay between global and local influences in theatre festivals in the German-speaking border region around Lake Constance. Whilst opening up a fascinating yet...

Foolishness has long occupied a prominent place in Russian culture, touching on key questions of national, spiritual, and intellectual identity. Combining close readings with a contextual framework,...

From the first stirrings of modernism to contemporary poetics, the modernist aesthetic project could be described as a form of phenomenological reduction that attempts to return to the invisible and...

Much work has been done in recent years on Quinault's librettos, but no major study of his spoken plays has appeared since the monumental thesis by Etienne Gros, published in 1926. Moreover, he has...

This book examines the role of Samuel Beckett in contemporary philosophical aesthetics, primarily through analysis of both his own essays and the various interpretations that philosophers (especially...

Grounded within an edusemiotics framework and also exploring recent developments in biosemiotics, this is the first book-length study of Charles Peirce's philosophy of education. It is commonly...

This book is the first major examination of the history of physical education in Irish primary and second-level schools throughout the twentieth century. Set within the context of major international...

This book is the first integrated study of Surrealist photography and film, assessing the impact of early experimental practice and theoretical discourse on post-war trends in art house cinema...

This book explores how the Chilean transition to democracy has been narrated in film, focusing on the imaginative afterlives of anticapitalist and antidictatorship resistance. Documentary and fiction...

The long nineteenth century saw a prolific increase in the number of books being produced and read. This collection takes an interdisciplinary approach to readership studies, exploring not only...

This book examines the many facets of the work of Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001). Admired as a writer, theorist and painter, Klossowski's oeuvre is here explored in its entirety, focusing on the gaze...

Pierre Michon is one of France's most significant contemporary writers. Since the publication in 1984 of his first book, Vies minuscules, Michon's work has never ceased to evade generic...

Mount Athos, for over a thousand years a centre for monasticism, has attracted pilgrims for nearly as long. This fascinating collection of essays discusses pilgrimage, the pilgrims, and the monks...

I saggi raccolti in Iconografie pirandelliane esplorano una fitta serie di domande relative alle molteplici sfaccettature della cultura visiva nell'opera e nell'immagine pubblica di Luigi Pirandello...

Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore ? l'opera pi? celebre di Pirandello. Questo dramma metateatrale mette a confronto due livelli di realt?, la vita dei personaggi e il gioco degli attori, mostrando la...

In this volume prominent scholars from across the United States and Europe examine the central significance of place within Native American history and life. They shed new light on this foundational...

This book traces the development, and subsequent implementation, of the policy of plantation from the mid-sixteenth through to the early seventeenth century focusing specifically on the North Channel...

Poems 2000-2005 is a transitional collection written while the author - also known to be W. J. Me Cormack, literary historian - was in the process of moving back from London to settle in rural...

The collapse of the Soviet Union forced Russia to engage in a process of nation building. This involved a reassessment of the past, both historical and cultural, and how it should be remembered. The...

Poetics of the Antilles explores the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Perse, C?saire, Fanon and Glissant. The book portrays the complex history of the negritude...

This book analyses the concept of patriotism and the contest over its meaning in key public debates in Poland over the last twenty-five years. It focuses on the strategies used to appropriate,...

This book covers the history of Polish cinema from 1989 up to the present in a broad political and cultural context, looking at both the film industry and film artistry. It considers the main ideas...

Politic Words is an invigorating mix of the personal, the political and the poetic. Gerry Dawe flings his net wide. From Eavan Boland's 'secret history' of women to war memoirist Christabel...

This book addresses the concept and forms of dissemination in political communication and news media. It studies the new age of dissemination in global communication manifested in a new relationship...

Taking conflict as its collective theme, this book brings together the work of early modern specialists to offer a range of insights into the political, social and religious climate in Savoy between...

With particular attention to the ambivalent position of English as a roadblock to international visibility and as a necessary intermediary for other literary languages, this book underlines the...

The decade of the 1860s was a turbulent period in Irish politics, both at home and abroad, and saw the rise and apparent failure of the separatist Fenian movement. In England, this period also...

This book explores the political and poetic paradigms of reconciliation represented in Australian writing from the 1990s to the present, as Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians entered a new...

This book examines the provision of poor relief in Ireland from the immediate aftermath of the Famine in the mid-nineteenth century to the onset of the Great War in 1914, by which time the Poor Law...