Subtitling Today
Subtitling now serves many purposes, and comes in various forms. The contributions to this volume discuss these different manifestations, and offer a snapshot of this dynamic field of study, considering various languages, such as Chinese, Finnish, French, Japanese and Polish.
In Search of the Classical World
An introduction to the ancient Aegean, from the Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Trojans to the Classical Greeks. Explore their history, the wars against Persia, the strife between Athens and Sparta, and how Homeric heroes shaped their literature and drama.
Ekphrasis in American Poetry
Providing a sample of the chronological range and stylistic variety of poetry that engages with visual art, this volume shows how ekphrasis has been a part of American poetry from its inception, and will be of interest to scholars of both literature and art.
Social Inequality and Leading Principles in Welfare States
Since the 1990s, European welfare states have undergone a paradigmatic shift. This book analyzes these fundamental reforms, showing how marketization and fragmentation have redefined society and changed the mechanisms and visibility of social inequality.
Reading Communities
This book represents the product of long-term collaboration between French and American scholars sharing a common preoccupation with reading canonical and contemporary works of literature and cinema in a theoretical and pedagogical context.
Words of Crisis, Crisis of Words
Authored by specialists in Irish Studies, this title provides reflections on the broad topic of crisis and Ireland, its description and representation, and the different ways in which difficulties have been discussed, imagined, or even solved within the Irish context.
Ingressive and Egressive Verbs in English
The first study to consider the language-external factors responsible for the configurations of English aspectual verbs, this title explores the semantic-pragmatic and cognitive causes of the various structural representations of ingressive and egressive verbs.
Glimpsing Modernity
Glimpsing Modernity captures the metamorphosis of military medicine during the First World War in a series of vignettes. These stories provide new interpretations of known themes and examine less well-known, but truly important medical topics.
Creative Learning and MOOCs
This publication showcases papers presented at the 11th Learning and Technology Conference held in Saudi Arabia in 2014, reflecting upon the recent implementation of Massive Open Online Courses, which provide opportunities for learning to large numbers of students at little cost.
Jews in Eastern Europe
This volume presents a detailed analysis of Jewish self-perceptions and attitudes towards other societies and communities living in the same lands, showing that the “methods of assimilation” of eastern European Jews were often rather complicated and multifaceted.
Ornia uses medical brochures in the United Kingdom and Spain to determine the features that these texts present in each country and to check if medical brochures published in Spain and translated into English include all relevant features typical of original English texts.
Ex-sistere
These essays address literary discourses on the mobility of women writers in Europe. The literary systems of Ireland, Galicia, and Wales experienced a rebirth in the late twentieth century, and the present century has seen new research exploring emergent literatures in Europe.
These essays explore the pivotal role of the book trade—printers, publishers, and booksellers—in distributing religious works. Covering the 16th to 20th centuries in Europe, they demonstrate how the trade was crucial for spreading both religion and literacy.
“Untitled”
This memoir of Tomás Bairéad, an active member of the Irish Volunteers and regarded as one of the finest short-story writers in Irish of the twentieth-century, makes for fascinating reading, offering insights into life in rural Ireland during this period.
Showcasing a major breakthrough in interpreting studies from work on community interpreting and participant interaction, this book argues that those engaged in interpreting research should be viewed as particularly influential, reframing interpreting approaches in the process.
Flowers and Towers
This title explores the meaning and symbolism of the flower motif in the art of women artists, from the nineteenth century to the present day, discussing the changes, and the meaning thereof, in its representation during this period.
Dwelling in Days Foregone
Inspired by Svetlana Boym’s seminal study The Future of Nostalgia (2001), the contributions brought together here examine American literary texts and cultural phenomena as manifestations and expressions of nostalgia.
Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters
Bringing together the perspectives of the people on small, remote islands in the South Pacific, the aid organisations who help after a disaster, and the governments, Johnston investigates how the appropriate responses to natural disasters for small communities.
The Event, the Subject, and the Artwork
This collection explores art’s power to mediate political events, creating temporal ruptures and heralding an indescribable future.
Serge Bokobza focuses on the distinguishing elements of Jewish characterisation in post-Shoah French films. Rejecting the practice of labelling a film “Jewish” due to the ethnicity of a director or writer, he explores the essential question of “Jewish identity” in French cinema.
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