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Télécharger le livre :  Narratives of the Occluded Irish Diaspora
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Narratives of the Occluded Irish Diaspora


Eamon Maher


The recent past has witnessed the development of new and diverse notions of Irish identity, alongside changes in the way we articulate the long-established links between Ireland and the Irish, both at home and abroad. This volume focuses on the intersection between...

Parution : 2012-02-20
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Télécharger le livre :  From Revolution to Migration
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From Revolution to Migration


Helen Oakley


This book focuses on Cuban and Cuban-American crime fiction of the 1990s and early twenty-first century. Contemporary authors, writing in both English and Spanish, have created new hybrid forms of the crime fiction genre that explore the problematic cultural interaction...

Parution : 2012-02-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Griqua Past and the Limits of South African History, 1902-1994
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The Griqua Past and the Limits of South African History, 1902-1994


Edward Cavanagh


The Griqua people are commonly misunderstood. Today, they do not figure in the South African imagination as other peoples do, nor have they for over a century. This book argues that their comparative invisibility is a result of their place in the national narrative. In...

Parution : 2012-02-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Translation and Philosophy
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Translation and Philosophy


Theo Harden , Arnd Witte


To what extent is philosophy reliant on translation and how does this practice impact on philosophy itself? How should philosophical texts be translated? Is translation inherently philosophical? Can philosophy be described as a ‘type of translation’? The essays in this...

Parution : 2012-02-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Chaos and Coincidence in Contemporary Spanish Fiction
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Chaos and Coincidence in Contemporary Spanish Fiction


Anne L. Walsh


This book is an investigation of contemporary Spanish fiction, specifically a group of fictional texts (written and film) that appeared in Spain in the first decade of this century (2001- 2010). The author focuses on textual analysis and studies how chaos and...

Parution : 2012-02-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Spaces for Happiness in the Twentieth-Century German Novel
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Spaces for Happiness in the Twentieth-Century German Novel


Alan Corkhill


This book offers an in-depth study of the rich tapestry of happiness discourses in well-known philosophical novels by Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse and Ernst Jünger, published between 1922 and 1949. The study is prompted, in part, by an awareness that despite...

Parution : 2012-01-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Translating Dialects and Languages of Minorities
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Translating Dialects and Languages of Minorities


Federico Federici


This book offers a range of analyses of the multiplicity of opinions and ideologies attached to rendering, in familiar or unfamiliar voices, languages known as non-standard varieties. The contributions include theoretical reflections, case studies and comparative...

Parution : 2011-10-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Poetic Becomings
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Poetic Becomings


Jérôme Game


What does contemporary French poetry do to the subject? This book examines the means and effects of the subject’s transmutation into various processes of (de-)subjectivation by looking at the works of four contemporary writers: Christian Prigent, Dominique Fourcade,...

Parution : 2011-10-18
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Télécharger le livre :  «The Romance of the Three Kingdoms» and Mao’s Global Order of Tripolarity
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«The Romance of the Three Kingdoms» and Mao’s Global Order of Tripolarity


N.C. , N.C.


This book examines the impact of classical Chinese literature on Mao Zedong’s political rhetoric and his vision of a tripolar geopolitical landscape at the peak of the Cold War. The historical novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which two weaker sovereign powers...

Parution : 2011-08-18
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Télécharger le livre :  «In the Interest of Democracy»
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«In the Interest of Democracy»


Quenby Hughes


Until recently, there has been little concrete evidence linking the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to the U.S. government’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In this book, based upon recently opened archival collections, the author...

Parution : 2011-08-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Representation in Ahdaf Soueif’s «The Map of Love»
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The Politics of Representation in Ahdaf Soueif’s «The Map of Love»


Sabina D'alessandro


This book examines the themes and narrative features in Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love. It deals with unresolved questions regarding asymmetrical intercultural relationships and the historical reasons for the present cultural conflicts. It also looks at the role played...

Parution : 2011-08-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Shape-Shifting Tales
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Shape-Shifting Tales


Valentina Castagna


This book provides an analysis of the representation of women’s bodies and their monstrous metamorphoses in selected short stories by contemporary English writer Michèle Roberts. The author explores the relationship between traditional fairy tales such as the Grimm...

Parution : 2011-01-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Concept of Utopia
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The Concept of Utopia


Ruth Levitas


The meaning of the term utopia is rarely questioned, although it is used in widely differing ways. This classic text, first published in 1990, analyses the contested concept of utopia and examines how it has been used by commentators and social theorists. It is the only...

Parution : 2011-01-14
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