Books: Recent submissions
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(2000)The current drive in Caribbean literary studies stresses similarities and points of convergence between the various islands of the archipelago and their authors, the fundamental aim of which is to move closer to an ...
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(2000)Evgenii Zamiatin's reputation rests on the pivotal role he played in the development of Russian modernism. Hitherto, however, critical engagement with the experimental nature of his fiction has been largely confined to his ...
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(2000)This book studies the emergence, in the late 1960s and 1970s, of a sophisticated body of gay fiction in Catalan, and examines the relation between the representation of homosexuality and the discourses on national identity ...
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(2000)This study aims to shed light on the relationship of writers with power in East Germany by setting their work in the context of Soviet and SED German policy after 1945. Peter Davies provides an analysis of the politics of ...
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(2000)In recent years, critical interest in francophone literature has become increasingly pronounced. In the case of the French Caribbean, the work of several writers (Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant and Patrick ...
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(1999)Physiognomy - the notion that there is a relationship between character and physical appearance - is often dismissed as a marginal pseudoscience; however, The Appearance of Character argues that it is central to many ...
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(1998)Hugo von Hofmannsthal had a lifelong fascination with the theatrum mundi topos. Judith Beniston analyses his changing responses to it against an unfamiliar backdrop - the revival of Catholic drama which, from the 1890s ...
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(1997)The book constitutes the first attempt to provide an overview of the reception of foreign drama in Spain during the Franco dictatorship. John London analyses performance, stage design, translation, censorship, and critical ...
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(1996)The premise of this book is that the theme of being and meaning in Thomas Mann’s novel tetralogy Joseph und seine Brüder unites the novel’s stylistic and thematic structure. The author demonstrates persuasively how these ...
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(1995)This long-awaited edition brings together for the first time 366 letters, cards and telegrams exchanged between Craig and his patron the cosmopolitan Count Kessler. An important primary source, illuminated by Dr Newman’s ...
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(1995)This study assesses Bergamín’s poetry in the light of two premises: first, that the notion of faith is the prime mover in Bergamín’s thought and poetry, and, second, that language, being material, militates against the ...
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(1995)This is the first study to discuss the affinity between Grass’s complete works and baroque literature. Grass’s employment of baroque literature is of particular interest because it takes up a tradition from which German ...
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(2025)Feeling Blue is the first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals. It examines colour in relation to six key themes – hygiene, emotion, humanisation, homeliness, play, and consumerism – which are tied together ...
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(2025)From an international boycott in the 1970s to the latest medical warnings against ultra-processed foods and their suspected role in the global obesity crisis, Nestlé has come under intense public scrutiny. For its critics, ...
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(2025)Unterstützte Kommunikation (UK) bietet in der Praxis und in der Wissenschaft Sozialer Arbeit Potential, um (junge) Menschen mit komplexen Beeinträchtigungen als gleichberechtigte Gesellschaftsmitglieder zu beteiligen. Dies ...
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(2025)This volume examines methodological challenges of qualitative and development-oriented classroom research from the perspective of researchers from various African countries as well as from Japan and Germany. In presenting ...
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(2025)Der Wandel von Unterricht und Schule in einer digitalen Welt ist ein gegenwärtig immer mehr beachtetes Thema. In der ethnografischen Studie wird auf Basis von Beobachtungen zu vielen kleinen Begebenheiten, Momenten und ...
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(2025)Wie verändern sich Lernen und unser Verständnis von Lernen, wenn ChatGPT eine Frage schneller beantwortet als jede Recherche im Nachschlagewerk? Was bedeutet es für die Rolle von Lehrenden, wenn Lernende ihre Überlegungen ...
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(2025)Acting the Part offers a paradigm for understanding how audiences participate in immersive theater, from physical spaces like the Globe in London to digital spaces like social virtual reality. Reading across twenty-first ...
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(2025)Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This edited collection provides new insights into refugee reception and camps by focusing on the overlap between local and global dynamics in the governance of ...
