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This book provides a detailed analysis of the lyrics of the German rock musician Udo Lindenberg and of the singer-songwriter Konstantin Wecker. The investigation starts from the assumption that...

E. Marlitt was a bestselling author of the late nineteenth century whose romance novels dominated the German literary market between 1865 and 1888. Her novels appeared in thirty languages, with as...

This books traces the myth of August the Strong (1670-1733), a figure of great wealth, power and sexual prowess, from the late seventeenth to the twenty-first century in German historiography,...

Possessions emerges from the fifth Cambridge French Graduate Conference, which took place in 2001. The theme has provoked a broad scope of investigation, covering French literature, film and theory,...

Compared with other human and social sciences, communication theory appears to be of recent origin. Appearances deceive, however, for the antecedents of this growing field of work can be found in the...

The Second World War marked an ethical turn in British fiction. The author of this study demonstrates this by closely examining John Fowles's and Iris Murdoch's works as post-war meta-textual...

Kilpel?inen's engaging journey through Baldwin's postcategorical utopian thought shows how this writer's under-appreciated later works foresee today's heated ideological and philosophical debates...

This book investigates the space between the two languages of modern-day Brittany through a series of close readings of literary texts that represent Brittany or Bretonness in the French language...

This book challenges widespread and largely negative assumptions about Italian postmodernism and postmodernism in general. It considers contemporary Italian culture as a particularly interesting...

Contrary to widespread rhetoric of deregulation, the media are objects of increased global policy. Generators of cultural spheres, within which social consensus is formed, the media are shaped by...

This is the first edited collection of essays entirely devoted to the women of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The Pre-Raphaelite women discussed include artists, models, writers, poets and designers,...

This book includes two previously unpublished works that offer insights into the Pre-Raphaelites and the cult of spiritualism. William Michael Rossetti's s?ance diary, a recording of twenty s?ances...

This book provides guidance for teaching staff in Modern Languages in preparing students for using their language skills in and out of the classroom. Drawing on pedagogical, psychological and...

This book examines the present-day distribution and diachronic evolution of a set of infinitival structures in Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian, making use of extensive corpus data and investigating...

To date, translation theory offers no satisfactory response to the multidimensional challenge of re-rendering postmodern texts. Focusing on the postmodern writings of Claude Sarraute, this book seeks...

Though famed for his vivid depictions of nineteenth-century Paris, Honor? de Balzac devoted as much of his creative energy to the provinces. This book examines the way in which he combined a...

Primo Levi has been identified in the public mind as the supreme witness to the barbarism that was the Nazi Holocaust but he was ambivalent about having that role thrust upon him. He also wished to...

This book argues that postnational and postsovereign multi-level governance regimes, including the EU, are mechanisms of global capitalism aimed at privatizing democracy. Through detailed analysis of...

For a long time, the concentration has been on attitudes to vaccination by those who are in opposition (the 'anti-vax'), neglecting the majority who are supportive. This book aims to reconsider...

Variations in speech melody (intonation) can be used to express different meanings (e.g. question vs. statement, friendliness). Yet, intonational information is hardly used in present-day linguistic...

How did German visual artists relate to the broader society around them between the invention of the artist as genius and visionary, in the Romantic era of the nineteenth century, and the struggle to...

What do we mean by 'the gay community'? What is the state of 'gay and lesbian politics' in contemporary Britain? Have 'communitarian' ideas provided a framework for change? And what is the view from...

The English humour magazine Punch, or the London Charivari, which first appeared in 1841, quickly became something of a national institution with a large and multi-layered readership. Though comic in...

Ensuring quality in and through teaching and learning has become a fundamental global concern. Emanating from a colloquium on Quality Assurance and Teacher Education hosted by University College...

This book attempts to explore the nature of quality assurance policies and practices in three universities in the Southern African region. It looks at how they were developed, the parties that were...

QUEER(ING) GENDER IN ITALIAN WOMEN'S WRITINGS is the first study of its kind to systematically use queer theory as a theoretical framework of analysis in Italian literature in general, and in Italian...

Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture questions how a wide selection of restrictive norms come to bear on the body, through a close analysis of a range of texts, media and genres...

This book is intended to challenge the status quo of music learning and experience by intersecting various musical topics with discussions of spirituality and queer studies. The book reaches an...

Queer Impact and Practices brings together selected papers arising from the third annual Queering Paradigms conference. The chapters address contemporary theorizing about gay citizenship and...

This book brings together perspectives on embodied queerness within the complicated parameters of hegemonic normativities, biopolitics and social-religious governmentalities. It offers queer...