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Using a corpus-based Discourse-Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Analysis, the author analyses the representation of the 2008 Olympic torch relay in the British and Chinese media, shedding...

This volume investigates the process of learning how to live with individual and group differences in the twenty-first century and examines the ambivalences of contemporary cosmopolitanism. Engaging...

This volume offers an important examination of the ways in which artistic manipulations of time can lead to a different perception of time as non-synchronous and anti-chronological. The range of...

This edition is the fruit of Professor Matsumoto's lifelong devotion to the study of the story of Troy in the Middle Ages, beginning with his edition of the major alliterative poem The Destruction...

Exposition organis?e par l'?tat jusqu'en 1881, grande f?te annuelle ou bisannuelle de l'art, le Salon de peinture et de sculpture domine la vie artistique ? Paris tout au long du dix-neuvi?me si?cle...

This collection offers a sustained and up-to-date analysis of the cultural connections between Ireland and Scotland. It focuses on writers, from Charles Robert Maturin to Liam McIlvanney, whose work...

In celebrating the academic career and practice of a distinguished scholar of French literature, this volume concentrates on one of Peter Broome's major preoccupations and attainments: translation...

Karl Barth never paid particular attention to the religions of the world. In fact he has often been stereotyped as the prime exponent of an exclusivist attitude toward other religions because of his...

Drawing on his decades of experience working with young people with challenging behaviours, his PhD research and interviews, the author shares a very different methodology to that used in mainstream...

This timely and important book provides a critical look at borders and belonging. It illuminates the tensions and contradictions that often exist within the logic of legal and political mechanisms...

This reassessment of Chateaubriand centres on the concept of change and his emotional suspicion of change, arising both from mistrust of his own inconstancy and from the suffering of the French...

The author links Chaucer's writings with the medieval optical tradition in its various forms (scholastic texts, encyclopedias, exempla, vernacular poetry) both in general cultural terms and through...

Addresses the silence in current literature on the perspective of African asylum-seeking families in Ireland. The book allows the voices of those on society's margins to be heard and the author...

This book examines the depiction of childhood and the Nazi German past in post-1989 German literature. Focusing on the work of W.G. Sebald, Marcel Beyer, Martin Walser and Dieter Forte, the study...

Throughout the modern era, the figure of the child has consistently reflected adult concerns about industrialisation, consumerism and technology. Drawing on case studies of Wallace and Gromit,...

China als Motiv in der deutschsprachigen Literatur kann auf eine lange Tradition zur?ckblicken. Die Darstellung Chinas in verschiedenen Epochen h?ngt jedoch nicht selten eng mit dem Zeitgeist und den...

This book seeks to investigate gender differences in final year undergraduates' employment expectations at a university in central China, including salary expectations, occupational expectations and...

From the late seventeenth century into the eighteenth, critics and authors in Germany defended the novel: indeed it depicted vice and immorality, but only with the intention of exhorting the reader...

This book sets out to interpret Henri de Lubac's theology of creation from a christological perspective. The challenge of this research has been the absence of a systematic christology in the...

In this study the author explores the understanding and practice underpinning the Jesus Prayer. He does this by means of an investigation of the importance of psalmody in desert monasticism, an...

This is the account of a qualitative research project investigating the experiences of teachers in English church schools implementing the new pedagogical approach What If Learning. The findings of...

From Brigitte Bardot in her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival, to Fran?ois Ozon's intimate portrayals of grief and loss, some of the most iconic and challenging moments in French cinema are...

Cities of the Lusophone World addresses diverse literary and cultural representations of urban settings produced in the period from the 1960s to the present day and originating from the Island of...

Most of the chapters in this volume were delivered as papers at a conference on the same theme held at the University of Kent in April 2002. The essays collected here, by scholars from the UK,...

This volume has a double purpose. First of all, it follows an Italian tradition of thought that began in the 15th and 16th centuries as Civic Humanism and continued up until the golden period of...

Current theories of leadership, spirituality and ethics are inadequate for the global, changing and complex environment in which leaders work today. From the book's critical analysis comes a new...

There are many detailed accounts of nineteenth-century emigrants, of their journeys and settlements abroad - but what of those they left behind? This book delves into the heart of Georgian Britain to...

This book examines the law and policy governing school acts of collective worship in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, and their equivalent in Scotland, which is known as religious observance. The...

The most recent member-state of the European Union, Croatia, has been shaped by a culture of war commemoration since the Homeland War of the 1990s that secured independence. These commemorative...

This book examines the secret role of British and German Christians in the Cold War, both as non-governmental envoys and as members of covert intelligence operations. Based on archival sources,...