This jargon-free book on Spanish classical theatre is the first monograph to examine this rich dramatic tradition in terms of modern-day performance.
In this volume of essays, specialists explore the relations between modern literary text and visual image across a range of media - from novel, poetry and film to painting, fabric and print culture.
This volume explores the changing nature of the settlement archaeology in north-west Wales over a period of almost two millennia, setting the region within wider discourses on the nature of the societies occupying Britain between 1150 BC and AD 1050.
The Glossa Ordinaria, the medieval glossed Bible first printed in 1480/81, has been a rich source of biblical commentary for centuries.... Læs mere
In R. S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biography, Daniel Westover traces Thomas's poetic development over six decades, demonstrating how the complex interior of the poet manifests itself in the continually shifting style of his poems.
Explores the problematic, contested and changing relationship between nationality, ethnicity and the state in the United Kingdom. This... Læs mere
'To Hell with Culture': Anarchism in Twentieth-Century British Literature explores the ways in which anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism made an impact in British twentieth-century literature.
A critical examination of novels by Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Michel Houellebecq and J. M. Coetzee to explore aesthetically our understanding of... Læs mere
The book is the fifth and last volume of the series telling the story of Gwent/Monmouthshire to the end of the twentieth century - a century that saw the region's transformation by world war, social change, economic realignment, political reconfiguration and religious scepticism.
Presents the development of crime fiction in French cultures from the mid-nineteenth century onwards and explores the distinctive features of a French-language tradition.
Examines from a variety of perspectives, and offers a range of interpretations, of the type of rhetoric associated with the anchoritic experience during the Middle Ages and draws conclusions on the many purposes of that rhetoric.
An analysis of a hundred prominent, commercially successful works by women, both Muslim and non-Muslim, concerning Muslim living in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, the UK and the USA.