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The linguistic constructs involved in ethnic borders are the primary focus of this volume. Ethnic borders have proven themselves to be surprisingly long-lived: in nearly all European countries and beyond, border demarcation, exclusion of foreigners, and minority conflicts are some of the most persistent challenges for nations and societies.

The book addresses symbolic and practical aspects of location and the international in the little magazines, highlighting modernist networks, finances and genealogies. It links editorial activities, strategies and negotiations with the creation of modernism. In this rendition, modernism is intrinsically linked with its agents and practices.

The book examines metaphilosophical issues and contemporary philosophy, in particular such movements as hermeneutics, pragmatism, structuralism and deconstructionism. The author calls the new project of philosophical and metaphilosophical investigations which his work aims to present "philosophical heuristics".

The study attempts to theorize philosophical influence as a research focus on the dependence and inter-dependence between ideas and concepts by the examples of Schopenhauer, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche and Cioran. As a methodological tool, philosophical influence helps to figure out the particularity of the philosopher's contribution to the tradition.

The book focuses on the traumatic dimension of the Holocaust and how it is expressed (or left unexpressed) in children's diaries. Children have a specific perception of the Holocaust: it did not destroy their earlier world view, becoming instead the field of first experiences.

This collection of essays attempts a critical reassessment of a wide range of often competing forms of internationalizing the discipline of American Studies - including trans- and post-national, international, (trans-)Atlantic, (trans-)Pacific, as well as hemispheric, trans-border, in-ter-American and comparative American Studies.

This study presents the complex phenomenon of Afro-Caribbean poetry in English, ranging from Jamaican classic dub poetry of the 1970s to (Black) British post-dub verse of the 2000s. To do so, the monograph has endeavoured to showcase the literary continuum, as represented by Jamaican, Jamaican-British, and ultimately (Black) British writers.

In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. This book fills this gap by explaining how the post-war institutionalization of veterans' and victims' movements took place in the People's Republic of Poland.

A comparative study of the anti-Semitic excesses carried out by the local populations of Warsaw, Paris, The Hague, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Kaunas in the early months of German occupation. The work looks into the incidents, the perpetrators, the German authorities, and the role these incidents played in the early stage of the "final solution".

The book presents a synthetic outline constitution of the Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth from 16th to 18th century, the realities of political life, organization of the judiciary, economy and defense, coexistence of different ethnic groups and religions, conditions of life, high and popular culture and achievements of art, science and literature.

The questions the writer Samuel Beckett posed in his dramas, his prose and his poetry are the central questions asked by the most outstanding thinkers of modernity. This study is not only a precise literary analysis, but it also traces transformations in terms of subjectivity and tries to conceptualize them.

This book analyses and compares the language use of Spanish speaking migrants in Lima and Madrid through corpora and uses a feature pool approach to language contact that is based on principles of linguistic ecology. It defines the interrelations of language and identity constitution and discusses the question of migrants' cultural integration.

This collection of original papers in the merging field of Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education (ICLHE) investigates applications of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to university contexts. The book highlights educational theory, policy, programme design, academic literacies, integration, and linguistic competences.

In this study the relationship between philosophy and literature is explored by means of an examination of ideas about language, the subject and ethics in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert Musil and Oguz Atay.

Content and Language Integrated Learning is an approach to support multilingualism by teaching school subjects in an additional language. Its practices are considered by looking at various scenarios. CLIL by Interaction is understood as negotiation of meaning, form, and discourse to empower learners to participate in social interaction.

This volume explores the representation of female deviance from literary, sociolinguistic and historical-cultural perspectives in a wide range of texts across time, cultures and genres. In this way, it elucidates a contemporary cultural concern about narratives of femininity as well as diverse sites of negotiations of female resistance.

This book examines Scotland from a great variety of international and disciplinary perspectives, offering viewpoints from ordinary citizens as well as experts in culture, history, literature, sociology, politics, the law, and the media. It deals with ethnic and sociological views of the Scottish independence in the past, present, and future.

This book contains the transcription of 40 authentic job interviews conducted in English. It may be used for linguistic analyses of spoken discourse and as material for language learning in the classroom. It includes an introduction to corpus linguistics and a discussion of the discourse genre job interview.

Teaching large groups of children required the systematization of interactions. Models of organizing teaching attempted to systematize interactions and to control activities. The contributions explore diverse paths of transition towards modern classroom organization in different countries allowing transnational perspectives and comparisons.

This book explores the topic of artistic creativity beyond the myth of genius. Based on interviews to 22 outstanding artists, it sheds light on how artists learn, how their creativity comes about and how they organise their work. This book invites the reader behind the scenes of artistic creativity, narrating the story in the artists' own words.

This book is the result of a shared conviction of the necessity to advance the international discourse on criticism. It positions itself within contemporary considerations of the theory and practice of criticism and presents texts by Polish scholars (e.g. literary critical theory, feminism, genre studies, and comparative literature).

Photographs taken in today's Poland by professional Jewish photographers tend not to be documentary; they are dominated by historical trauma and post-war politics. Poland is construed as synonymous with Auschwitz and the Shoah, and the Poles with hitlerite Nazi Germans. Long-term photographic projects, though, yield more actualized representations.

The volume explores the ways in which the Great War has been remembered and imaged in various local accounts. It offers critical analyses and original interpretations of forgotten historical records, letters, literary works and cultural artifacts.

The book analyses how students and teachers encounter history, how they describe and define knowledge about history and what history means to them. The project also includes analyses of how this knowledge has been expressed and communicated in curricula and history textbooks for the last 100 years.

In many regions of the world, professionalisation in adult and continuing education is brought into the focus of educational policy. The twelve articles of this book focus on current developments from both national and international and comparative perspectives thus revealing common factors as well as differences.

The author undertakes an intellectual journey into the hidden past of the Polish history after 1939. He deals with Holocaust, collaboration, totalitarian rule, crisis of communism in Eastern Europe as well as Polish-Jewish relations during the war. The author is a founding father of a new approach in Holocaust research in Poland.

The essays deal with various aspects of Harold Pinter's literary, cultural and political heritage in the former region of Eastern Europe like Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia, where his ideas and activism seem fully applicable. They are balanced by selected Western perspectives, including Italian, British and American ones.