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This book is the result of research carried out by the partners in the Adults Learning and Participating in Education (ALPINE) Project, a project that is principally concerned with increasing the...

This book explores interaction and competition between painting and literature in France, from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, offering new readings of works by key figures...

This collection of new essays addresses a key debate in Irish studies. While it is important that new research endeavours to accommodate the new and powerful manifestations of Irishness that are...

This book traces the theoretical beginnings of Afropolitanism and then explores Afropolitan practices in London and Berlin. Afropolitan practices are here read against German and British colonial...

Freed from direct political constraints, many sociologists from former Communist countries have sought to maintain a clear distinction between research and politics through an attachment to...

Divorce is a conspicuous character trait of modernity, commonly portrayed in texts and on screen, with its moral and social rationalisation firmly rooted in Enlightenment and Romantic thought. The...

How are the churches to say anything useful about the market economy which is so dominant in everybody's life today? Too often, Christian responses have failed to take the moral arguments for markets...

This book explores the representation of masculinity as a literary concept in Decadent literature to demonstrate how the movement both appropriated and subverted patriarchal assumptions surrounding...

Using Comintern archives, oral interviews and a wide range of other sources, this collection presents a sample of some of the exciting new work currently being produced in the field of communist...

This book was shortlisted for the R.H. Gapper prize 2011. On 8 February 1937 the 23-year-old Albert Camus gave an inaugural lecture for a new Maison de la culture, or community arts centre, in...

Discussions of French 'identity' have frequently emphasised the importance of a highly centralised Republican model inherited from the Revolution. In reality, however, France also has a rich heritage...

This book is the first of its kind to explore the role of aliens in popular culture from a global and multidisciplinary perspective. Space aliens are everywhere: from cinematic franchises, such as...

This book offers original readings of twentieth-century English novels through the lens of the female intellect. In key texts by H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Dorothy L. Sayers, A. S. Byatt and more,...

This original collection of articles, derived in part from the papers presented at the twenty-sixth biennial conference of the Classical Association of South Africa held at Durban and...

This book explores the dreams, plans and hopes as well as the nightmares and fears that are an integral part of alternative thinking in the Western hemisphere. While ideological struggles of the...

This book takes as its starting point the boom femenino or the explosion in publishing by women in Mexico since the 1980s. Powerful changes in women's roles in Mexico over the last three decades have...

Investigates dystopia in twenty-first-century US fiction using a methodological framework based on sociology, and theorizes a correlation between the crisis of the Frontier myth and of American...

This book brings together nine original essays from Pynchon scholars around the world whose work furthers the debate concerning the nature of perceived shifts in the sensibility, style and...

This book explores the extraordinary life of Prince Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Khilkov, analysing the wide variety of his roles, from courageous officer and defender of the oppressed to revolutionary...

How did nineteenth-century French women imagine and represent their relationships in fiction? Situated at the intersection of feminist cultural history and Belle Epoque literary studies, this book...

Memory has always been crucial to French literature and culture as a means of mediating the relationship between perception and knowledge of the individual coming to terms with his identity in time...

This volume is devoted to a critical discussion and re-appraisal of the work of Anglo-American Idealists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Idealism was the dominant philosophy in Britain and...

What secrets were kept in the diaries of those who opposed the Nazi regime? Stuttgart-based author Anna Haag used her diaries to challenge Nazi activities both as a woman and a democrat. Tracing the...

Anna of Denmark has been castigated as frivolous, vain, stupid, and more interested in pleasure than politics. This study aims to contextualise her not as a woman of minor significance in relation to...

Retraces most of Enright's prose and it comes up with an original account of her aesthetics: Enright writes in a spiral, her works reveals a spiraling aesthetics in which the spiral is feminine and...

This volume examines selected works of German literature from Gustav Freytag to Joseph Goebbels in relation to ethical, socio-economic, and political texts from the economic take off period in the...

In this remarkable study, Katrina Heil brilliantly highlights how Buero's plays serve as a medium for the Spanish audience to process traumatic memory and come to terms with the past. The book...

This book aims to examine several religious groups holding millenarian or apocalyptic ideologies that have been involved in violent incidents over the last twenty-five years: Peoples Temple, The...

The current volume foregrounds the use of different methods for the study of migration, language and identity. It brings together studies from fields such as ethnology, linguistics, literature and...

En estas p?ginas se ofrece un an?lisis filol?gico, moral y pol?tico de este esfuerzo intelectual por fundamentar, en el legado aristot?lico, la superioridad moral del pr?ncipe, poniendo el foco en el...