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This book traces how religion could have originated in prehistory and antiquity, out of natural human and prehuman behaviour. Religion is defined here as beliefs, conceptions, practices and roles...

This book challenges experiential, esoteric and colloquial understandings of mysticism by bringing a fresh relevance to the term through an interdisciplinary dialogue between literature, mysticism...

In the increasingly globalised consumer culture of the twenty-first century, consumer goods have long become more than mere commodities: they are markers of identity and tools of narration...

I am deeply grateful to the author for clarifying the task of education reform in South Korea by capturing the distorted framing of 'political neutrality of education' as the core problem of Korean...

Journalists are in the daily business of making the unseen visible, of connecting us to the world beyond our direct experience. In doing this, objectivity becomes a pivotal issue, and a highly...

The republication of Ken Roemer's 1976 classic reaffirms how necessary, and non-obsolete, this book and expressions of utopia remain. Roemer's engaging introduction reviews the career of a...

George Bernard Shaw is commonly regarded as one of the most controversial intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century. Known for the ambiguity of his statements and the seeming...

This book presents itself as a new transformative-emancipatory path: it attempts to reconcile the sphere of humanity, and particularly that of dignity, with the dimensions of conscience,...

This book investigates the signs of the church in the theology of Hans K?ng as described in his The Church (1967). As K?ng does not go beyond the traditional signs of the church, the author makes a...

With the migration of cinema into the art gallery, artists have been increasingly turning to Alfred Hitchcock's classic films for inspiration. Focusing on the work of five artist-filmmakers, this...

This volume contains papers from the first major conference on the post-1789 Paris Fine Art Salon (University of Exeter, September 2013), originating from research project Painting for the Salon? The...

This book presents the first detailed analysis of the mechanism of translating the Polish past tense into French. Drawing on a selection of Polish literary texts and their translations into French,...

Deals with the clash between the free, enterprising pay schools and the controlled and systematized national schools in Ireland since 1831.Author: Tony LyonsPublisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International...

This book provides the first complete account of Patrick Pearse's educational work at St. Enda's and St. Ita's schools (Dublin). Extensive use of first-hand accounts reveals Pearse as a humane,...

Many an interested person will have put aside a work by Edith Stein due to its seeming inaccessibility, aware that there was something important there for a future occasion. This essay collection...

The Picture Postcard, a new window into Edwardian Ireland uses the material culture of the picture postcard as a lens through which to examine life on the island of Ireland during the Edwardian...

Why do we read? What exactly thrills us in the text? Drawing on the work of Roland Barthes, this collection explores the notion of readerly enjoyment, between form and content, emotion and reason,...

This volume explores the themes of degeneration and regeneration in fin-de-si?cle Italian culture. Some contributions reflect on the poetics of decadence, while others focus on significant figures of...

The Poetics of Sight analyses the role of sight in memory, dream and popular culture and demonstrates the structure of a complex sight within literary and visual metaphors. The book explores the...

This book is the first comprehensive study of Gottfried Benn's poetry to appear in English. It covers the entirety of Benn's verse, from his early Morgue cycle (1912) and Expressionist poems through...

This book outlines the principal features of the Payment by Results policy, first introduced in England in 1862. It draws attention to some of the positive aspects of the system but it also considers...

The Political Woman in Print analyses the depiction of politically active women in novels by six female authors from the margins of the democratic revolution of 1848 and the first German women's...

During the late 1920s and the 1930s, the Italian government sought various commercial and politically oriented solutions to cope with the advent of new sound technologies in cinema. The translation...

Written during the vibrant crisis years of the Weimar Republic, Alfred D?blin's Berlin Alexanderplatz is a fascinating examination of the gradual disintegration of Germany in the aftermath of the...

This book investigates the relationship between the dominant ideologies of British public life in the second half of the twentieth century and the quality of the social housing built during this...

Through detailed, elegant interpretations of utopian novels produced in the United States and the Soviet Union, Pavla Vesel? casts aside standard commonplaces about East / West cultural divergences...

Most historians and literary critics describe Spanish Golden-Age society as anti-Semitic, offering, for example, El Ni?o Inocente de La Guardia as confirmation that even great writers like Lope de...

This book explores the relationship between ancient Greek sculpture and modern Greek poetry between 1860 and 1960. It examines in some detail poems by Vasileiadis, Rangavis, Palamas, Cavafy,...

A pioneering first in the English language. This is a wonderfully subtle, multifaceted study of the image in the work of one of Portugal's greatest writers. Admirable for its depth of analysis and...

This book argues that a silent axis of the unconscious world rests largely undiscovered. It recasts foundational concepts in the psychology of Freud, Jung, Carol Gilligan and R.D. Laing, as well as...