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This Festschrift for Ronald Speirs, Professor of German at the University of Birmingham, contains twenty-four original essays by scholars from Great Britain, Germany, Austria, and Norway. Between...

This study examines the genre of tragedy through the lens of one of its most curious manifestations: the martyr play. The author examines a broad corpus of seventeeth-century French plays including...

This new critical edition collects together for the first time in one volume selected original arrangements of the world-famous Irish Melodies for solo voice and duet along with other successful...

An influential forerunner of French Existentialism, the Russian-born thinker Lev Shestov (1866-1938) elaborated a radical critique of rationalist knowledge and ethics from the point of view of...

This book describes and analyses the 2003 British Airways (BA) Customer Service Agents (CSA) 24-hour unofficial strike. It examines the lead up to the dispute, in which negotiations failed to reach...

This is the biography of Charles Henry Brown, whose obsession with aerostation took him from Great Britain to Australia and India. It highlights the problems pioneer aeronauts faced - they often were...

Since the mid-nineteenth century up to the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, the extraordinary popularity of the Valencian sainet - short plays of one to two acts - was due to the effervescent...

This history of Jewish musicians who migrated to Australia traces their difficult journey to a distant continent. Drawing on extensive primary sources - including correspondence, travel documents and...

Of all the parts of the world to interest the Victorians, Germany was among the most important. Though less well known today, partly in consequence of the events of the twentieth century, German...

Mechthild of Magdeburg's singular book Das Flie ende Licht der Gottheit ('The Flowing Light of the Godhead') must be accounted one of the most significant texts in German that we have from the...

This book aims to revise the traditional interpretation of William Golding's fiction. The author investigates Golding's complicated metaphors which fluctuate so widely as to make consistent readings...

This book contains the proceedings of a symposium that took place in Melbourne in September 2006. Its focus is on theatre at the intersection of culture and politics during and after German...

In June 2006 delegates from eight countries representing six French, US, and British-based learned societies met at St Catherine's College, Oxford, for a conference on the French long seventeenth...

This book provides a detailed examination of theoretical and empirical approaches to New Age spiritualities. The author explains how the diverse and dynamic nature of New Age spiritualities requires...

The book traces three main approaches to the sociology of post-Soviet societies: studies guided by neoliberal theory and/or practice; work which may be termed neoconservative in orientation, and...

Identifying the roots of African American Spirituals and other religious folk music has intrigued academics, hymnologists and song leaders since this genre came to the public eye in 1867. This book...

These essays by leading scholars examine the power of serendipitous encounter between artists, thinkers and artistic media as well as the importance of creative interjection in the arts and...

In the wake of the Irish potato famine, E.K. Tenison and his wife, Lady Louisa, left their estate in Ireland to reside and travel in Andalusia and, later, in Castile. The adventure on which they...

This new study provides fresh readings of Thomas Hardy's work and illuminates the social and cultural history of dress in the nineteenth century. The book argues that Hardy had a more detailed and...

After coming to the United States, Thomas Mann was appointed Consultant in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Library of Congress, which has one of the largest German collections in the world...

This collection of essays arises from the 2005 Cambridge French Graduate Conference on the theme of threat. From the baleful and ubiquitous eyes of surveillance cameras to the ever-present...

Why does the 1974 war in Cyprus remain so dominant in Greek-Cypriot cinema? This book explores the development of contemporary Greek-Cypriot cinema in response to the crisis of history, the burden of...

In Timeless Joyce, Asun L?pez-Varela offers a holistic, dense, and substantial approach to the study of Ulysses, in commemoration of its publication centenary. The author manages to tackle multiple...

This study explores the issue of gender and immigration in the national contexts of Germany and France, where the largest minority populations are from Turkey and North Africa. Works by ?zdamar,...

Tomoo Otaka (1899-1956) studied philosophy at the University of Kyoto in the mid-1920s. The Grundlegung der Lehre vom sozialen Verband [Foundation of a theory of social association] was the product...

Dieser Band untersucht die literarische und filmische Behandlung halb?ffentlicher R?ume im Verlauf des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Bahnh?fe, Hotels und Caf?s werden hier als topografische Fixpunkte...

This book examines the Eurozone crisis and the possibility of fiscal and political union in Europe with contributions from some of the most respected experts on these topics. The book will explain...

This book, based on extensive research among teachers in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, explores a new approach to teaching virtues, values and ethics. Drawing on both education studies and...

This book challenges educators to envisage an education system which sees as its goal a more socially just world. It explores the question of how education, both formal and informal, can positively...

This collection of essays reflects constructive engagement with a liberal and progressive programme of Christian theology over a number of years. The themes are diverse - from the renewal of...