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The College English Test (CET) in China, the world's largest national English test, has far-reaching effects on student's career prospects and Chinese society as a whole. This book reports on an...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, Gunter Demnig has been installing his Stolpersteine (Stumbling Stones) all over Europe to commemorate the victims of National Socialism. Today, the Stolpersteine...

This book offers a new reading of Miguel de Cervantes's play La destrucci?n de Numancia (c.1583), analysing the work in relation to theories of empire in sixteenth-century Spain, in the context of...

According to the late Edward Said, 'Why English and not Arabic is the question an Egyptian, Palestinian, Iraqi or Jordanian writer has to ask him or herself right now.' This concise study argues...

The adopted son of a Greenock shipyard worker, Alan Sharp became a bestselling novelist, a leading playwright, a record-breaking Hollywood screenwriter and the central figure of a new Scottish film...

This book reveals how a misinterpretation of the passages from Revelation heightened sectarian fervour that left a lasting legacy. Author: Thomas P. PowerPublisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International...

This collection of essays is a milestone in the establishment of translation theory within the field of Russian literature and culture, an area that has been neglected in the Anglophone world. The...

During the mid-nineteenth century, Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer pursued a fifty-year career as a playwright and theater manager in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland at a time of the transformation of...

This dictionary of French film directors from the silent era to the streaming age is a valuable reference resource for students, scholars and academics as well as film lovers. The biographical and...

How can musical meaning be conveyed without words? Starting with the landscape in which instrumental music developed traits parallel to language, this book explores a performance framework that...

Kandinsky's theory of art has usually been treated as little more than a guide to help our understanding of his paintings. In contrast, this book attends primarily to the artist's writings on art;...

In this book, the reader is invited to travel in time and space and undertake the fascinating discovery of a very ancient apostolic Church, the Church of the East, whose two-thousand year history...

This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. Exploring key film and TV productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author interrogates concepts of...

The Irish folklore of the Otherworld is rich in its many manifestations of supernatural beings and personages. This is represented in many different genres of folklore, such as folktales, legends,...

The Brahan Seer is a legendary figure known throughout Scotland and the Scottish Diaspora and indeed anywhere there is an interest in looking into the future. This book traces the legend of the Seer...

This book adds new impetus to ecumenical theology by focusing on embodied faith or the contextual interpretation of Revelation. It does so through an exploration of the insights of Lewis S. Mudge and...

The swimming pool frequently appears in film not merely as a setting but as a dynamic site where social, political, cultural and aesthetic forces converge. What is it about this space that has so...

Competitive economics produces an enormous abundance of goods and services but at an intolerable environmental and social cost. Competition has become an end in itself, which leads to detrimental...

This book explores the cultural context of Colombian political novels published between 1951 and 1987. The author provides a reading of novels which represent the label of novelas de la violencia and...

As new, artificial dyes were created in the second half of the nineteenth century, a longing for faded, ancient hues emerged in artistic circles. This collection focuses on the complex reception of...

This volume is based on the selected proceedings from an international conference 'Concept of Progression in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning' held in Dublin in February 2004. Although...

This book outlines a new literary form called post-postmodernism, which abandons the ironic approach of postmodernism while also retaining some postmodern narrative devices such as autofiction and...

Pohlmann's study offers points of departure for scholarship on authorship, authenticity, and irony in the public sphere; anyone entering debates surrounding Christian Kracht's tricky public persona,...

This is the first book-length study to examine the predicaments and achievements of mid-Victorian war poets. Confronted with news of suffering soldiers during the Crimean War (1854-6), these...

The essays in this volume explore interartistic connections in Irish literature, drama, film and the visual arts. Within modern and postmodern culture, innovation is often driven by surprising...

In 1921 the State of Iraq was established under a British-held mandate from the League of Nations. Drawing on the rich archives available, this book examines the fundamental geographical and...

Seeks to interrogate the discourses and processes that produce and reproduce "Ireland's cultural politics of in/difference", and its effects both in the material experience of Othered subjects and in...

With astuteness and feeling, Stina Barchan captures the wonderful friendship between Hannah H?ch and Kurt Schwitters and their artistic affinities. She deftly traces how each threaded together...

This collection of essays investigates the darker aspects of Diderot, writer, art critic, philosopher and encyclop?diste. The chapters focus on the schism between positive images of the Enlightenment...

What's in the Deep? This companion explores the myths and legends of merfolk and sea monsters to navigate our transcultural pasts and environmental presents and explain our endless fascination with...