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New Literary Portraits of the American West
Contemporary Nevada Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
This book focuses on contemporary Nevada fiction as one of the most probing and intense literary explorations of the American West as a whole. Recent fictional representations of Nevada possess a revelatory value in relation to the whole West because they encompass some of the most common thematic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This collection of critical essays proposes new and original readings of the relationship between French and Irish literature and culture. It seeks to re-evaluate, deconstruct and question artistic productions and cultural phenomena while pointing to the potential for comparative analysis between...
Masking the Drama
A Space for Revolution in Aphra Behns «The Rover» and «The Feignd Courtezans»
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
«Masking the Drama: A Space for Revolution in Aphra Behn’s The Rover and The Feign’d Courtezans» pursues an in-depth investigation of the process whereby female identity was performatively negotiated on the Restoration stage by women playwrights such as Aphra Behn and of how a new articulation...
«The Return of the Repressed»: Uncovering Family Secrets in Zolas Fiction
An Interpretation of Selected Novels
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
This book analyses one of the many levels of complexity not readily apparent to the reader of Zola’s fiction: the question of the author’s family secrets. The novels addressed here present a variety of sub-textual issues highlighting Zola’s sexual insecurity and anxiety. Their analysis reveals...
Between the Eye and the World
The Emergence of the Point-of-View Shot
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
The point-of-view shot is usually perceived as a «natural» device, yet its naturalness is illusory. This book provides an answer to the question: «Where does the point-of-view shot come from?» It investigates the emergence of this filmic form as the product of a culture and its history, unravelling...
The Philosophy of Edith Stein
From Phenomenology to Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Many interested reader will have put aside a work by Edith Stein due to its seeming inaccessibility, with the awareness that there was something important there for a future occasion. This collection of essays attempts to provide an idea of what this important something might be and give a key to...
«Die Welt war meine Gemeinde»- Willem A. Visser t Hooft
A Theologian for Europe between Ecumenism and Federalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Willem A. Visser ’t Hooft (1900–1985), Dutch pastor and theologian, was one of the most significant personalities in the Protestant Ecumenical movement. Deeply influenced by Karl Barth, and filled with a strong Ecumenical spirit, he was closely involved in the founding of the World Council of...
The OSCE: Soft Security for a Hard World
Competing Theories for Understanding the OSCE
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This book explores why the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) remains a largely unknown entity as far as the general public are concerned, despite its significant day-to-day activity not only on the diplomatic front, but also via its 16 field operations.
While the main achievement...
Operation Welcome
How Strasbourg Remained a Seat of European Institutions, 19491979
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
An accepted narrative within European integration history is that the issue in which city to locate European Community headquarters was decided on the intergovernmental level between the member states. In the present volume, this view is expanded with the example of Strasbourg by arguing that activity...
by Louis Caruana
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Many philosophers adopt methods that emulate those of the natural sciences. They call such an overall approach naturalism, and consider it indispensable for fruitful philosophical debate in various areas. In spite of this consensus however, little is ever said about how naturalism depends on the underlying...
by José María Mesa Villar
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This scholarly but accessible volume traces the impact of the enduring themes and key women characters from Arthurian tradition in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s artistic corpus. Combining literary and visual analysis, the author opens a double perspective upon the past to emphasize that the painter-poet’s...
Language, reason and education
Studies in honor of Eddo Rigotti
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language as reason represents the unifying theme of this multifaceted reflection on Eddo Rigotti’s scientific contribution offered by his students and colleagues on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Spanning argumentation theory, linguistics, psychology, semiotics and communication sciences,...
All Her Faculties
The Representation of the Female Mind in the Twentieth-Century English Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
All Her Faculties focuses on the perpetuation and reflection in literature of particular representations of the female mind that are entrenched in conservative notions of womanhood. The study highlights literature’s incontrovertible power to create myth - the myth of woman as body, not mind - through...
by Claudio Canaparo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Este escrito constituye el primer trabajo dedicado enteramente a la obra casi inédita del escritor Elias Ingaramo. Al mismo tiempo es un análisis, también el primero en su tipo, dedicado al hecho que una buena parte de la historia intelectual y conceptual en los ámbitos periféricos del planeta...