Capitalism and its Discontents presents a series of interpretative essays on a number of key modern and contemporary Latin American novels and films. The overarching theme in the essays is the relation between such textual materials and their regional contexts.
This book examines a neglected aspect of the Enlightenment to demonstrate how it influenced the future shape of Spain, Portugal and their American territories.
The first in-depth study of the Communist Party’s attitude to devolution in Wales, to Welsh nationhood and Welsh... Læs mere
The infamously popular London publisher William Lane made a name for himself and his Press, ‘Minerva’, by courting debuting... Læs mere
This text examines the relationship between literature and history in Lazamon's "Brut", a 12th-century verse history of Britain, while demonstrating Lazamon's use of prophecy as a strategy to unite political and religious ideologies.
This volume reproduced, with commentary and full contextual discussion, all the miniatures from unpublished illuminated manuscripts of "Le Roman de la Rose", in the National Library of Wales.
A collection of academic essays by literary critics and writers of crime fiction - including a reflective essay by Ian Rankin on his own work - that explores the relationship between crime fiction and the urban spaces of the capital city.
The proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Celtic Studies held at Swansea in 1987.
A comprehensive and scholary history of prehistoric and early Cardiganshire. This volume is illustrated with maps, line-drawings and photographic plates. It begins with the geography of the county, its flora and fauna, and traces the slow emergence of Man in prehistoric times.
This book studies the spread of Arthurian legends throughout the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds in Iberia and overseas, and the influence of those legends in literature and society there from the twelfth to the twenty-first century.
This book deals with significant televisual responses to the events of 9/11 and the subsequent ‘war on terror’, with a focus on programmes from the UK and USA.
A study of the early modern period, from the creation of Monmouthshire by the Act of Union in 1536 to the beginnings of... Læs mere