This gripping biographical study, published here for the first time in paperback, explores the immensely complicated relationship that existed between A.L. Rowse and his native Cornwall.
The book provides a richly illustrated history of Exeter's famous underground passages—and of the city's sophisticated system of public... Læs mere
Poems to Lisi is presented here as an undergraduate student text with parallel-text English verse translations. This edition is a successor to the same editor’s original text in Exeter Hispanic Texts, which only contained the Spanish text of the poems (published in 1988).
A richly detailed account of student life in the Cambridge of the 1840s. The rationale for the book, which... Læs mere
This book charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city – Cardiff. In a series of five... Læs mere
Besides providing a new appraisal of Guillaume Apollinaire, the foremost French poet of early Modernism and WWI, Translating Apollinaire aims to put the ordinary reader at the centre of the translational project.
Besides providing a new appraisal of Guillaume Apollinaire, the foremost French poet of early Modernism and WWI, Translating Apollinaire aims to put the ordinary reader at the centre of the translational project.
This book provides a panoramic survey of the responses of over one hundred leading Jewish and Christian Holocaust thinkers. Beginning with the religious challenge of the... Læs mere
The eighth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
Quintessentially English, Betjeman was an 'outsider' in England - and doubly so in Cornwall where he was a ‘foreigner’. And yet, as this book describes, Betjeman also strove to... Læs mere
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already... Læs mere
The World According to Hollywood examines the world-wide influence of the American film industry during its golden age — the 1920s and 1930s — and investigates the business policies that shaped the fictional universe of Hollywood movies.