Télécharger le livre :  Adventure in France and Ireland through Literature and Culture
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Adventure in France and Ireland through Literature and Culture


Brigitte Bastiat , Frank Healy


This collection examines the role that adventure has played and continues to play in French and Irish society and culture in areas as diverse as literature, theatre, war journalism, painting, photography, sport and diplomatic dining. The three types of adventure as...

Parution : 2025-06-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Journey to the Moon
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Journey to the Moon


Jules Verne


'How many things dismissed out of hand yesterday turn out to be true tomorrow?' Written in the first half of the career of Jules Verne, the twin volumes of From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon tell the daring story of the Journey to the Moon aboard an...

Parution : 2025-06-14
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Journey to the Moon
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Journey to the Moon


Jules Verne


'How many things dismissed out of hand yesterday turn out to be true tomorrow?' Written in the first half of the career of Jules Verne, the twin volumes of From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon tell the daring story of the Journey to the Moon aboard an...

Parution : 2025-06-11
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Atlantic Bound
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Atlantic Bound


Charlotte G. Mackay


«In this first comparative study of novels by Léonora Miano and Fatou Diome, Charlotte Mackay provides a convincing mapping of the evolution of the two authors’ thinking from a somewhat polarized, ‘colonial’ notion of ‘Afropean’ identity towards a more engaged...

Parution : 2025-02-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Dis-orienting the Maghreb
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Dis-orienting the Maghreb


Sadik Rddad


From the Foreword: «Dis-orienting the Maghreb offers a valuable contribution to both scholarship on travel literature and postcolonial studies. Rddad’s emphasis on geographical specificity and his focus on the often-neglected travel narratives of Morocco provide a...

Parution : 2025-02-04
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Télécharger le livre :  I, Daniel
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I, Daniel


Jeremy Stewart


«How to become Jacques Derrida’s reader? By letting his texts engender you. Such a birth is taken literally by Jeremy Stewart, who proves by algebra that he is the author’s bastard son. In this wonderful, intense, witty, and gripping exercise in autotheory,...

Parution : 2024-12-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The intercultural dimension in language learning: some cases studies
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The intercultural dimension in language learning: some cases studies


Patrick Chardenet


This volume brings together studies which represent current perspectives on second language learning and teaching in relation to language and culture in intercultural contexts. The authors reflect on and analyse a variety of topics such as the significance of...

Parution : 2024-12-03
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Télécharger le livre :  ‘Lost, Unhappy and at Home': The Impact of Violence on Irish Culture
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‘Lost, Unhappy and at Home': The Impact of Violence on Irish Culture


Eamon Maher


In light of the fact that the thirty-year struggle known as the ‘Troubles’ is still the longest civil conflict in modern European history, it is perhaps inevitable that violence looms large in in contemporary Irish culture and society. This volume delves into the...

Parution : 2024-11-25
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Télécharger le livre :  In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom
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In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom


Charlotte Mandell , Marcel Proust


'I was at one of those periods in youth--vacant, without any particular love object--when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.' In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, the second volume of Proust's In Search of Lost...

Parution : 2024-11-25
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  ‘Lost, Unhappy and at Home': The Impact of Violence on Irish Culture
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‘Lost, Unhappy and at Home': The Impact of Violence on Irish Culture


Eamon Maher


Violence, in its myriad forms, is a central theme in contemporary Irish history and culture and has long been a preoccupation for writers of Irish narrative fiction. This volume investigates representations of and resistance to violence in the Irish novel, offering...

Parution : 2024-11-19
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Télécharger le livre :  In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom
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In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom


Charlotte Mandell , Marcel Proust


'I was at one of those periods in youth--vacant, without any particular love object--when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.' In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, the second volume of Proust's In Search of Lost...

Parution : 2024-11-19
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Waste and Discard in Italy and the Mediterranean
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Waste and Discard in Italy and the Mediterranean


Pierpaolo Antonello , Robert Gordon


«From the violence of growth and the mountains of garbage to migrant lives brutally cast away in the Mediterranean, what constitutes waste? Who defines and arranges its semantics? This collection of thoughtful essays takes us into the unsuspected depths of the...

Parution : 2024-10-28
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Télécharger le livre :  When A Theological Shift Changed a Nation
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When A Theological Shift Changed a Nation


Mark R. Kreitzer


The Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (DRC) played a key role in developing apartheid theology, syncretizing Reformed theology with race-based ideology. This paradigm changed rapidly between 1986 and 1990 with the General Synod decision, Church and Society.The...

Parution : 2024-10-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Somatopoetics - Affects - Imaginations
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Somatopoetics - Affects - Imaginations


Anna Lebkowska


The book stems from the belief that scholars should actively engage with the areas of humanities significantly captured in the literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. Lebkowska applies literary-studies, anthropological, and cultural-studies methods to focus on three...

Parution : 2024-09-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Timeline and Personification in <I>The Merchant of Venice"
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Timeline and Personification in The Merchant of Venice"


Peter D. Usher


This book presents an innovative, scientifically grounded interpretation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. It offers solutions to problems inherent in the text which have hitherto been ignored or inadequately addressed: problems relating to the flow of time, the...

Parution : 2024-09-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Normativity and Resilience in Translation and Culture
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Normativity and Resilience in Translation and Culture


Agnieszka Pantuchowicz


This book addresses the dynamics of normativity and resilience through the lens of translation. Engaging with both domestic and foreign cultural, social, economic, and ethical frameworks, the act of translation emerges as a dual force: it uncovers subtle and implicit...

Parution : 2024-08-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Sweeney's Revival
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Sweeney's Revival


Hiroko Ikeda


This study aims to uncover the traces of the celebrated Sweeney legend in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Austin Clarke, Derek Mahon, Tom Mac Intyre, Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, Dermot Bolger, Paula Meehan, and Nuala Ní...

Parution : 2024-06-19
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Télécharger le livre :  'Getting the Words Right'
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'Getting the Words Right'


Eamon Maher


This book is a collection of essays written in honour of Eamon Maher. The essays all speak to issues which Eamon has worked on, so there are pieces focusing largely on the connections between Ireland and France across a range of political, cultural, historical,...

Parution : 2024-06-17
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Télécharger le livre :  H. P. Lovecraft
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H. P. Lovecraft


Jan B. W. Pedersen


«This is not the H. P. Lovecraft we thought we knew. Lovecraft is a great writer and a famously difficult thinker, and Pedersen’s provocative and highly original argument is that he is fundamentally a figure in the European Romantic tradition, with close affiliations to...

Parution : 2024-06-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Judicial Activism in Comparative Perspective
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Judicial Activism in Comparative Perspective


Lori Hausegger , Raul Urribarri


What is understood by judicial activism in different jurisdictions? Beyond a superficial agreement, are we talking about the same phenomenon across countries and systems (or over time), and to what extent? This book seeks to articulate a comparative perspective on...

Parution : 2024-06-10
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