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The articles compiled in this book discuss different aspects of the cultures and literatures of the Amazon, focusing not on its natural resources o...

This exhaustive reading of the review Lignes provides the first in depth study of a French intellectual periodical publication form the 1980s to th...

This book provides new insights into the evolution of the global sporting spectacle over the last thirty years through an analysis of star athletes...

DescriptionThis is a study of the relations between Britain and Chile during the Spanish American independence era (1806-1831). These relations wer...

Sex, Sea, and Self reassesses the place of the French Antilles and French Caribbean literature within current postcolonial thought and visions of t...

Bringing together an international group of established and emerging scholars, this volume considers the emerging field of the history of emotion a...

Life as Creative Constraint is the first book to focus on the extraordinary life-writing of the French experimental writing group, the Oulipo. The ...

Drawing on literary, historical and cultural studies perspectives, this book examines the phenomenon of the "Returned Yank" in the cultural imagina...

This book gives the fullest account so far of the origins, success and public impact of Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole in all three of its ver...

In the aftermath of the efflorescence of experimental literature and theory that characterized the Trente Glorieuses (1945-75), 'contemporary' Fren...

Over the past 25 years, Rwanda has undergone remarkable shifts and transitions: culturally, economically, and educationally the country has gone fr...

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This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the history of the future and in particular how Irish people in the nineteenth century thought about t...

DescriptionWhat kinds of pleasure do we take from writing and reading? What authority has the writer over a text? What are the limits of language's...

Our Civilizing Mission is both an exploration of colonial education and a response to current anxieties about the foundations of the 'humanities'. ...

This book examines contemporary recollection of Spain's transition to democracy in the late 1970s and its connection to the country's current polit...

Argentine Cinema and National Identity covers the development of Argentine cinema since the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, concentrating on the histo...

Socialism and the Diasporic 'Other' examines the relationship between the London-based Left and Irish and Jewish communities in the East End betwee...

A cultural study of an array of popular North American science fiction film and television texts, Excavating the Future explores the popular archae...

An important part of eighteenth-century maritime conflict involved the destruction of enemy commerce and the protection of home trade. Privateering...

Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction examines fantastic representations of sport in science fiction, both cataloguing this almost entirely unex...

DescriptionThe look and feel of metropolitan France has been a notable preoccupation of French literary and visual culture since the 1980s. Numerou...

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Informed by Critical Race Theory and based on a wide range of sources, including official sources, memoirs, and anthropological studies, this book ...

Traces of War examines how the trauma of the Second World War influenced the work of the brilliant generation of writers and intellectuals who live...

Moving Histories explores the story of Irish female emigrants in Britain, from their working lives to their personal relationships. Using a wide ra...

The rapidity of postwar globalization and the structural changes it has brought to both social and spatial aspects of everyday life has meant, in F...

Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies, affect studies, and narratology, Affective Disorders explores the significance of emotion in ...

This book reconsiders authorship by the descendants of North African immigrants to France by consulting how these authors' novels have been discuss...

The riots that broke out in various British port cities in 1919 were a dramatic manifestation of a wave of global unrest that affected Britain, par...

Publisher: Liverpool University PressNumber of pages: 296Collection: Aris & Phillips Classical TextsPublication date: 2019Dimensions: 154 x 217 x 2...

Through a close reading of eight Venezuelan novels published between 2004 and 2012, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in co...

This book is conceived as a handbook for graduates interested in texts and their manuscript presentation, not solely in editing them. As such, it i...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Dread Trident focuses on tabletop role-playing games as vital mechanisms in the increasing creation of 'realized worlds' in modern culture. We ofte...

Demonstrates the ways post colonial studies has adapted Bourdieu's sociology of literature to examine the institutions that structure the creation,...

The history of the women who travelled through Liverpool in search of work and adventure, and the women who tried to stop them. Save the Womanhood ...

Publisher: Liverpool University PressNumber of pages: 475Collection: Polin: Studies in Polish JewryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 240 x 31...

Articulating Bodies shows how Victorian fiction's narrative form as well as narrative theme to negotiate how to categorize bodies, both constructin...

A pioneering study of the neglected transnational activities and influences of two important, connected socialists, British-born Tom Mann (1856-194...

Revisionary Narratives examines the historical and formal evolutions of Moroccan women's auto/biography in the last four decades, particularly its ...

Rank and file soldiers were not 'the scum of the earth' but included a cross section of working-class men, who retained their former civilian cultu...

Alternate history is a genre of fiction that, although connected to science fiction, has its own rich history and lineage. With its roots in the wr...

In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britain's most lionized living novelists. Today he is comparatively unknown. Bringing together lit...

Revisioning French Culture brings together a striking group of leading intellectuals and scholars to explore new avenues of research in French and ...

William Klein's Mr. Freedom (1969) is one of the most important American satirical films ever produced, the tale of an American superhero with disa...

Providing a systematic analysis of electoral coverage in newspapers since 1918, this book demonstrates that for women to be effectively represented...

An 'Irish Cuba' - on Britain's doorstep? This book studies perceptions of the Soviets' influence over Irish revolutionaries during the Cold War. Th...

Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies demonstrates how women have used photographic practices to find places for themselves to belong as cit...

This timely analysis sets out the full impacts of policy reform, austerity and marketisation on our country's mental health services. Rooted in the...

Through studies of the literature of Antoine Francois Prevost, Claude Crebillon, Pierre de Marivaux, and Francoise de Graffigny among others, Rutle...

DescriptionIris Murdoch was both a popular and intellectually serious novelist, whose writing life spanned the latter half of the twentieth century...

This accessible critical introduction, written by a leading expert, highlights W.G. Sebald's double role as writer and academic.

Pioneering study offering a 'new comparatism' - a new world-systems' approach to the 'world' in 'world literature'.Publisher: Liverpool University ...

Publisher: Liverpool University PressIllustration(s): 12 Tables, black and white; 19 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 328Collection: ...

The first comprehensive, illustrated survey of public sculpture in Sussex, incorporating extensive research on individual works and their creators.

Contesting the Classroom explores how Algerian and Moroccan novels depict the postcolonial classroom, and how postcolonial literature has been taug...

This book analyses how the idea - or the problem - of belonging is articulated in a range of contemporary francophone Mauritian novels. Waters expl...

From its long coastline, with cliffs and islands that bustle with breeding seabirds in the summer, to its open moorland that hold some of the most ...

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Publisher: Liverpool University PressNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 155 x 229 x 9Cover type: UndefinedEditor(s): Alan VardyR...

The origins of Judaism's regional 'subcultures' are poorly understood, as are Jewish identities other than 'Ashkenaz' and 'Sepharad'. Through case ...

In this collection of 65 short poems, Roberta Quance exemplifies the range, vitality and inner mysticism of work by one of Spain's foremost, if con...

Reducere. Oedipus Tyrannus by the great tragedian Sophocles is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek literature. The play has always been admired for...

The Acts of the Council of Ephesus of 431 consist of a wide variety of documents, including proceedings and letters, that provide a unique insight ...

Reducere. Expanding upon the 2017 Radio 4 series 'Britain's Black Past', this book presents those stories and analyses through the lens of a recovered past. ...

This book aims to provide an original perspective on the changes that Greece has undergone in recent decades, by examining questions related to bor...

Publisher: Liverpool University PressNumber of pages: 339Collection: Oxford University Studies in the EnlightenmentPublication date: 1988Dimensions...

Wendy Cope is one of Britain's most popular poets: her first two collections have together sold almost half a million copies, and in 1998, when Ted...