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Of Empire and the City
Remapping Early British Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
This book explores the cinematic representation of the city in British film from 1895 to 1914, featuring depictions of London, Glasgow, Dublin, Delhi and other British colonial cities. The author argues that the films are not only an invaluable record of the economic, social and cultural life of these...
Inde des mille et une pages
Petite somme et bibliographie
Language: French
Release Date: July 27, 2017
L’Inde illumine et hante l’imaginaire occidental. Exotique et merveilleuse, diverse à l’infini, multiple par excellence, elle cristallise à profusion l’altérité, dans toutes ses dimensions : images et représentations, croyances et cultes, savoirs ésotériques du corps, santé et sexualité,...
Viajeros, diplomáticos y exiliados
Escritores hispanoamericanos en España (19141939) Vol. III
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Tras un largo desencuentro con los países hispanoamericanos desde las luchas independentistas, hubo en España un período de intensa actividad americanista en el que se fortalecieron los lazos culturales entre ambas orillas: fue el comprendido entre fines del siglo XIX – unos años marcados por...
La narrativa española de hoy (2000-2013)
Le imagen en el texto (3)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Este volumen constituye el tercer y último eslabón de una serie de libros colectivos que, como lo indica el título que los une y engloba, pretenden brindar una visión de la narrativa española actual desde el ángulo original de las diferentes formas de manifestación de la imagen en el texto....
A Poetics of Dissensus
Confronting Violence in Contemporary Prose Writing from the North of Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Twenty years after the peace process began in the North of Ireland, many thorny political issues remain unresolved. One of the most significant questions involves the means by which acts of violence and the ideologies that subtended them can be dealt with, interrogated and questioned without rekindling...
From «Pax Ottomanica» to «Pax Europaea»
The growth and decline of a Greek villages micro-economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The macroeconomic development of south-eastern Europe has been profoundly affected not only by the region’s major historical events – for example, liberation from the Ottoman Empire, the outbreak of civil wars, and the birth of new nations – but also by global events, such as the world-wide...
Strange Adventures
Womens Individuation in the Works of Pierrette Fleutiaux
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Strange Adventures examines portrayals of womanhood in the works of prize-winning French author Pierrette Fleutiaux. Fleutiaux’s refreshing pictures of womanhood offer insights into how women can become more whole, substantial and free in themselves and in their relationships, as well as how they...
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Language: French
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Veinte profesores de siete universidades suizas proponen su propia lectura del principio horaciano de enseñar deleitando a través de un mosaico de textos que difieren en la lengua, en el género y hasta en el alfabeto. Los artículos versan sobre las curiosas y amenas enseñanzas de los eximios...
by Eduard Moyà
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The Mediterranean and the Balearic Islands have always enticed the minds of British travellers. In the first years of the twentieth century, the tourist industry made the islands accessible for a wide number of visitors, who depicted them in pictures and words. In the following decades, however, the...
The MS Digby 133 «Mary Magdalene»
Beyond scribal practices: language, discourse, values and attitudes
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The MS 133 Digby Mary Magdalene has commonly been investigated by paying attention to literary features, while linguistic aspects have seldom been taken into consideration, with the result that any deviation from the norm has been classified as scribal inconsistency. However, what has been regarded...
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Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Este conjunto de artículos se centra en los textos de la autora española Clara Janés. Es fruto de un encuentro entre investigadores europeos y norte-americanos, especialistas de su extensa obra. El eje escogido es el de la dialéctica entre verdades y secretos que impregna más o menos abiertamente...
Demand the Impossible
Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970s. Reading works by Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Samuel R. Delany as indicative texts in the intertext of utopian science fiction, Tom Moylan originated the...
Queering Paradigms IV
South-North Dialogues on Queer Epistemologies, Embodiments and Activisms
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
South-North Dialogues on Queer Epistemologies, Embodiments and Activisms is composed of research presented at the fourth international Queering Paradigms Conference (QP4), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In line with the QP project ethos of bringing together diverse epistemological and geographical...
Language Use in the Public Sphere
Methodological Perspectives and Empirical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book comprises a range of general discussions on tradition and innovation in the methodology used in discourse studies (Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Argumentation Theory, Rhetoric, Philosophy) and a number of empirical applications of such methodologies in the analysis of actual instances...