University Of Wales Press imprint: 340 books
Polemical Austria
The Rhetorics of National Identity from Empire to the Second Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Austria today offers the picture of a small, neutral, and economically successful country in the heart of Europe. Yet modern Austria is the product of a complex and violent history. After the First World War, Vienna changed overnight from being the capital of a large continental and multi-ethnic Empire...
The War on Terror
Post-9/11 Television Drama, Docudrama and Documentary
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This book explores the ways in which television has engaged directly and indirectly with the new realities of the post-9/11 world. It offers detailed analysis of a number of key programmes and series that engage with, or are haunted by, the aftermath of the events of September 11 in the USA and what...
Shipowners of Cardiff
A Class by Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
From 1875 to the present day, the Cardiff and Bristol Channel Incorporated Shipowners' Association has been the representative body for shipowners in Cardiff and other Bristol Channel ports. This study looks at some of the most representative periods in its history: the reaction of the Association...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This book brings together the most current interpretations of the Wooing Group from scholars currently working on the fields of medieval spirituality, gender, and the anchoritic tradition, providing literary, theological, linguistic, and cultural context for the works associated with the Wooing Group...
Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes
On Brazil and Global Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes (1916–77) is revered in Brazil as the first ardent defender, promoter and theorist of Brazilian cinema. A film professor, critic and historian, his dedication to cinema shaped a generation of influential film critics in his home country, and set the foundations for the...
by Nicolás Fernández-Medina
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is one of Spain’s most original and renowned twentieth-century poets and thinkers. From his early poems in Soledades. Galerías. Otros poemas of 1907, to the writings of his alter-ego Juan de Mairena of the 1930s, Machado endeavoured to explain how the Other became a...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
This book engages with the relationship between religion, evolution and heredity, by bringing together two of its aspects that are frequently discussed separately: Darwinism and eugenics. It also demonstrates that religion has played a greater role in shaping modern debates on evolution and human...
Adapting Nineteenth-Century France
Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Adapting Nineteenth-Century France uses the output of six canonical novelists and their recreations in a variety of media to push for a re-conceptualisation of our approach to the study of adaptation. The works of Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant and Verne reveal themselves not as originals...
Entrancement
The consciousness of dreaming, music and the world
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This study of dreaming, death and shared consciousness develops a context that is humanistic, comparative and evidence-based in its engagement with the work of cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology and the study of the imagination. It also reaches into current research on consciousness at the interface...
French Muslims
New Voices in Contemporary France
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
This book provides a detailed analysis of the political arguments about the place of Muslims in contemporary France, and also discusses the ideas put forward by a range of Muslim thinkers. France has become the setting for one of the most important conflicts in the modern world. On the one hand, it...
Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil
Memory, Politics and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil brings updated criticism in English on the work of the prominent Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (1892–1953), a key figure in understanding the making of modern Brazil. Building on existing literature, this book innovates through chapters that consider...
Rimbaud's Impressionist Poetics
Vision and Visuality
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In the mid-nineteenth century, Arthur Rimbaud, the volatile genius of French poetry, invented a language that captured the energy and visual complexity of the modern world. This book explores some of the technical aspects of this language in relation to the new techniques brought forth by the Impressionist painters such as Monet, Morisot, and Pissarro.
by Carol Margaret Davison
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
This title offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to classic British Gothic literature and the popular sub-category of the Female Gothic designed for the student reader. Works by such classic Gothic authors as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley are...
Revisiting the Medieval North of England
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
The medieval north of England has been underexplored to date, and this volume may be seen as an invitation for further exploration. It brings together scholars with shared interests in language, literature, culture, history and manuscript studies, viewed from different disciplinary perspectives such...