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It is commonly held that medieval Christians viewed medieval Jews in exclusively negative terms. This is certainly the dominant opinion in much twentieth-century scholarship, and it is not wholly...

Intertextuality in reading - the way in which written texts refer to other texts - has recently attracted attention in the field of linguistics and related disciplines. This book offers a unique look...

Today's European universities are confronted by profound changes. This book constitutes an accessibly written, polemical and bold exploration of how current crises facing higher education...

Respectable Professionals contains contributions about the birth of new professions and the modernization of working practices in old trades in nineteenth-century Spain. The authors consider that...

The focus of this tri-authored scholarly work is on marketing communication and consumer behaviour of the selected generations X, Y, and Z in terms of the size of purchases and the types of retail...

This volume sets out to re-imagine the theoretical and epistemological presuppositions of existing scholarship on identities. Despite a well-established body of scholarly texts that examine the...

This volume assesses the current field of Black German Studies by exploring how periods of recent German history inform the present and future of the interdisciplinary field. The experiences of...

The contributions contained in this book examine the concept of 'intercultural competence' from the perspective of analysing theoretical challenges and practical issues.Author: Arnd WittePublisher:...

Faced with today's complex policy challenges, various forms of 'joining-up' - networking, collaborating, partnering - have been key institutional responses, yet practice often falls short of...

This stimulating new book challenges Freud's definition of the uncanny, prevalent in the study of Gothic and Romantic fiction, by reviving the importance of uncertainty in the uncanny. Literary...

The book is a collection of articles written by the author on utopianism - especially on utopian literature, utopian practice, and utopian social theoryAuthor: Raffaella BaccoliniPublisher: Peter...

This book is proposed as a contribution to postcolonial critiques of the colonial and postcolonial exotic. It investigates the exotic as a representation of colonial cultural difference in colonial...

The two volumes of Reviewing Dante's Theology bring together work by a range of internationally prominent Dante scholars to assess current research on Dante's theology and to suggest future...

The two volumes of Reviewing Dante's Theology bring together work by a range of internationally prominent Dante scholars to assess current research on Dante's theology and to suggest future...

Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia is unquestionably the best-known Orthodox theologian in the Western world today. This work is designed to demonstrate the spread of his own interests and concerns...

William Carlos Williams is widely acknowledged to be among the most important American poets of the twentieth century. This collection includes sixteen new essays from many of the world's leading...

French film design throughout the 1930s was a period of 'ripping open' film sets to make them not just descriptive, but also expressive. This book details the elaborate paraphrasing tendencies of...

This book was awarded a Special Mention Citation in the 2010 competition for the 'de la Torre Bueno Prize' by The Society of Dance History Scholars. In the region of Salento in Southern Italy, the...

This book interrogates the notion of belonging through musicing rituals in the South African context. The authors raise questions such as "What can we learn from musicing rituals?", "What does it...

Using a wealth of previously unavailable archival material, this biography charts the political career of Robert Briscoe (1894-1969), revealing his significant influence within a developing and...

Ce n'est pas la po?sie qui doit ?tre libre, c'est le po?te. A legendary figure within the Surrealist movement, Robert Desnos (1900-1945) has left a unique legacy as a poet of distinction, as a...

This is the first book to provide comprehensive treatment of Robert Lowell's engagements with Irish poetry. It includes original contributions by leading and emerging scholars from both sides of the...

This new study traces the development and evolution of the writings of Roger Fry (1866-1934), a highly influential art critic who introduced modern French painting to Britain in the early twentieth...

Focusing on the ideological contradictions inherent in the German alliance with Japan during World War II, this book analyses German discourse about Japan from the distinct yet intricately connected...

Jos? Saramago won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, the first Portuguese-language writer to do so. This volume is the first to focus on Saramago's late works, which continued to express his...

Published on the eve of the philosopher-playwright's centenary, this study offers a wide-ranging re-appraisal of Sartre's complete dramatic opus, from the inaugural 'nativity' play, Bariona (1940),...

This volume provides a description and analysis of findings from a European Commission research and development project: The Fifth Dimension - Local Learning Communities in a Global World, funded...

East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country's most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the...

This is the third and final volume of papers given at the 'Fragile Tradition' conference in Cambridge, 2002. Together these volumes provide a conspectus of current research on the cultural,...

Scotland's islands are diverse, resourceful and singularly iconic in national and global imaginations of places 'apart' yet readily reached. This collection of essays offers a fascinating commentary...