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This work employs an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, presenting papers first given by graduate and early-career academic researchers from around the world at the XVII International...

This book argues that the borders between traditional studies of genre definitions depend on complex issues of epistemology, literary traditions, and social and political constraints. It analyses how...

Franz Beckenbauer once observed that, in England, war correspondents get their say whenever their team plays us. In Crossing the Line?, Christoph Wagner surveys German football rivalry in the...

The massive disruptions caused by climate change, the Covid-19 Pandemic, war, and ever-rising inequalities have presented the world with challenges across social and economic life, health and...

Idioms are universal to all languages, and figurative language is pervasive in everyday discourse. However, idiom studies rarely touch on the problems figurative language can present to non-native...

This is the first of three volumes based on papers given at the conference 'The Fragile Tradition: The German Cultural Imagination Since 1500' in Cambridge, 2002. Together they provide a conspectus...

Memory and culture are terms which are now fashionable, if not over-used, but they need careful handling. This book explores their use in a variety of contexts: in European creative writing, in the...

The challenges currently faced by people with albinism in many African countries are becoming a focus for writers, artists, filmmakers, advocates and activists. This volume focuses on the power of...

The last decade has seen renewed interest in political theories of the public sphere, reacting to new challenges posed by globalization, communication technology, and intra- and international...

Few full-length studies exist in English on French-speaking authors from Belgium. What, if any, are the particular features of francophone Belgian writing? This book explores questions of cultural...

This book examines the effects of a study abroad experience on students' culture and identity and the impact of these effects on their readjustment to their home culture. It explores issues of...

Bringing together boxing writers from different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, the book offers a vital and original contribution to the understanding of this enduringly fascinating and...

Why did medicine fascinate writers and filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s? This book traces the prevalent medical themes in interwar Russian and Czech literature and cinema: syphilis, nervous illness,...

The thirteen essays in this volume, based on selected papers given at the Second Annual Conference of the Society of Dix-Neuvi?mistes (2003), explore the relationships between symbolic, monetary and...

The Biblical narrative portrays the patriarchs and the matriarchs as fallible human beings. Were the patriarchs real people? Or were many details in the Book of Genesis fictions projecting later...

This is the first anthology to explore the fertile intersection of dance and political studies. It offers new perspectives on the connections of dance to governmental, state and party politics, war,...

Dante's unfinished work Il Convivio is often overlooked. In this volume, it is reconsidered in a different light, as Dante's first attempt to reassemble and reshape the remains of his Florentine past...

In discussions of American poetry since World War II, the work of John Berryman has become increasingly neglected and marginalized. Critics have overwhelmingly chosen to favour the notion that he is...

Der Historiker Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886) spielt f?r die Geschichtswissenschaft eine kaum zu untersch?tzende Rolle. In dem Buch stellt der Autor das Leben und Werk Rankes vor, um eine...

This book discusses that to be among the world's leading digital economies, China needs to promote higher quality, fairer and more sustainable institutional protection for data rights and...

Data Rights Law 1.0 proposes a new concept -data person. It defines data rights as rights derived from the data person and data rights system as the order based on data rights. Data rights law is the...

Entwicklung und Vertiefung von Datenrechtsgesetz 1.0 und Datenrechtsgesetz 2.0, Datenrechtsgesetz 3.0: Der gesetzgeberische Ausblick des Datenrechts legt den Schwerpunkt auf prospektive Studien zur...

Subtitling films in another language becomes especially complex when the original language deviates from its standard form. Films that feature non-standard pronunciation, dialects or other varieties...

This interdisciplinary collection draws from the fields of art, literature, social history, demography and legal history, and both architectural and landscape history. Essays employ a range of...

The book is an intellectual and political response to Thomas Sankara's challenge to the African people to dare to invent their own future, an echo of Patrice Lumumba's challenge to them to write...

How can businesses and business leaders contribute to solutions of the big ethical, social, and ecological challenges of today? It uses diverse, often multidimensional frames of reference and...

This volume incorporates Darko Suvin's thinking on utopian horizons in fiction and on eutopian and dystopian readings of historical reality since the 1970s. While the focus is on the United States...

This volume aims to fill a historical gap in the recent coverage of musical life in Scotland. The seventeenth century in Scotland, as in Europe, was one of religious controversy and civil strife. The...

This detailed study explores the significance of the 'Library of Ireland', a book series originated in the 1840s by the Young Irelanders Thomas Davis and Charles Gavan Duffy. Focusing on the literary...

Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1960s and 1970s. The Ralahine Classics edition of this groundbreaking work reissues the original text along...