Literature: History & Criticism

Cet ouvrage propose une étude de la question du genre dans luvre dAgota Kristof, écrivaine suisse francophone dorigine hongroise. La prépondérance ...

This book offers a comprehensive study of the role of dance in a wide range of contemporary Irish plays and argues that dance can be perceived as e...

This book offers a comprehensive study of the role of dance in a wide range of contemporary Irish plays and argues that dance can be perceived as e...

In nineteenth-century Italy, a womans place was considered to be in the domestic sphere, devoted to family life. But during the Risorgimento and th...

In nineteenth-century Italy, a womans place was considered to be in the domestic sphere, devoted to family life. But during the Risorgimento and th...

Translation scholars have for a long time been arguing in favor of a shift in paradigms to redefine the relationship between translation and the sp...

This volume of essays, which originated in the inaugural Dublin Gastronomy Symposium held in the Dublin Institute of Technology in June 2012, offer...

This book offers a concise introduction to synchronic English linguistics. Following an introduction to language and linguistics as such, it provid...

Voices of the Headland: Robinson Jeffers and the Bird of Prey explores the image of the raptor in the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Emanating from th...

Memories of the Second World War play an important role in contemporary politics and society across Eastern Europe. One of the most controversial y...

Childrens literature delights in made-up words, nonsensical terms, and creative nicknames, but how do you translate these expressions into another ...

The short story as an autonomous genre has called the attention of both writers and literary critics with theoretical concerns over the last two ce...

The central theme of landscape has long been associated with the construction and expression of Irish national identity, particularly in relation t...

Between 2010 and 2013 the European Science Foundation project «Cuius Regio» undertook a study of the reasons for cohesion of some European regions,...

The genre of crime fiction so often rooted in the details of a place, time and subculture enjoys significant international popularity and provide...

Elizabethans saw eloquent language as the mark of the civilized gentleman. At the same time, they believed language to be able to harm, analogous t...

The temporal structure of Wuthering Heights has long been regarded as opaque or even flawed. This is explained by the fact that the years 1778, 180...

This book investigates the meanings of the notion of friendship in the Renaissance from two perspectives, philological and philosophical, by observ...

Predicated upon the opposition of writing back and reading forward, the author challenges some of the established concerns or preoccupations of the...