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What happens when a small group of educators get together? What could they do, what could they make, what could they become? Not necessarily what you might think.Author: Guy MerchantPublisher: Peter...

This book brings together twelve specially commissioned essays that showcase current research on Spanish Republican exile theatre and performance, including work by some of the foremost scholars in...

Provides a clearer understanding and interpretation of characters who suffer from mental and emotional extremities in Shakespearean drama.Author: Andrew J. PowerPublisher: Peter Lang Ltd,...

The body of the Other - exotic, unfamiliar, fascinating - is the topic of this collection of essays on nineteenth-century British theatre. An informed, updated insight into the multifaceted presence...

Stalin's Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. The volume shows how Soviet authors drew on the traditional archetypes of the genre, such as...

Mike Neary was a renowned critical educator, Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln, and a founding member of the Social Science Centre, Lincoln. He died in January 2023, and in the...

Anorexia, bulimia and binge eating are the topics explored by contemporary writers in this volume on French, German and Italian women's writing. Eating disorders are presented as both a rebellion...

This collection of essays stems from the conference 'Nineteenth-Century Literature and Aesthetics', which was held at the University of Milan in 2006 and organised by the editors of this volume. The...

This book proposes an alternative modernist tradition, a line of writers captured by the archaeological project and the poetic possibilities it created. This tradition spans from Th?ophile Gautier's...

This book offers a more complex understanding of Indian writing in English by focusing its analysis on Indo-Pakistani Partition fiction and novels written by women. Featured authors include Salmon...

Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, this book offers a new and comprehensive examination of Kant's argument that aesthetic judgements are combined with a claim to subjective universality. The...

Subjectivity, the speaker's expression of self in discourse, is a relatively under-researched area in the field of applied linguistics: this book examines the role of subjectivity in the context of...

Like Mookie in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, translators are at the nexus between cultures, making difficult decisions with sometimes dramatic consequences. Drawing on the fields of translation...

La pr?pond?rance des narrateurs masculins dans la prose de Kristof sugg?re une sup?riorit?; les personnages f?minins sont plut?t marginalis?s ou rel?gu?s ? la sph?re domestique. Mais les th?mes de la...

Sullied Magnificence: The Theatre of Mark O'Rowe is a collection of essays that combines the voices of Mark O'Rowe's collaborators and critics with analysis by leading academics. It examines the role...

This book traces a hundred years of the development of Chinese nursery rhymes, children's rhymes and children's poems from the early twentieth to the early twenty-first century. It draws on...

'Internationalisation' is a key issue within Higher Education, but what exactly is meant by this term and how can universities meet the challenges involved? This book explores how language teaching...

This collection of essays, inspired by Andr? Breton's concept of the limites non-fronti?res of Surrealism, focuses on the crossings, intersections and margins of the surrealist movement rather than...

The book showcases some of the papers presented at the 9th Annual ESPAnet Conference Sustainability and Transformation in European Social Policy, held in Valencia (8th to 10th of September 2011). It...

This book investigates allegorical meaning in the ballets Giselle, Copp?lia, The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, principally by examining their original librettos and costume designs, as well as...

Symphonie der Worte zeigt auf, mit welchen rhetorischen, narrativen und strukturellen Mitteln es Ir?ne N?mirovsky gelingt, die jeweilige musikalische Vorlage in den literarischen Text Suite fran?aise...

Fr Pierre Johanns is a key figure in the history of Christian intellectual engagement with Hindu philosophy. He was the most articulate figure in a group of Belgian Jesuits in Calcutta who sought to...

Systems theory emerged in the mid-20th century along with related theories such as Cybernetics and Information Theory. Recently it has included Complexity Theory, Chaos Theory and Social Systems...

Popular newspapers played a vital role in shaping British politics, society and culture in the twentieth century. This book provides an overview of the rise of the tabloid format and examines how the...

This book unravels Taiwan's anomalous place in the international community. While it is for all intents and purposes treated as a sovereign state by most members of the international community, it is...

In recent decades critics in several countries have complained that education in agriculture, engineering and medicine has drifted away from an earlier practical orientation, becoming increasingly...

Telling Truths: Evelyn Conlon and the Task of Writing is the first book to provide a critical assessment of her work. Evelyn Conlon is one of Ireland's most important writers. She has published four...

This book is an annotated translation into English of Zehn Lebensl?ufe [Ten Life Histories] by Dr. Wilhelm Hammer, relating to prostitution in the German Empire in the early twentieth century. It...

This book is a journey into the thought and poetry of Giacomo Leopardi. It sheds new light on his compound of poetic imagination and philosophical complexity using different disciplines and...

Raymond Williams was an enormously influential figure in late twentieth-century intellectual life as a novelist, playwright and critic, the British Sartre, as The Times put it. He was a central...