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Examines the notion of 'the homely' which rests at the foundation of Gaston Bachelard's concrete metaphysics. In order to trace the development of this effaced notion through the history of contemporary Continental philosophy and literature, this title progresses along two distinct arcs.

Educating the Young

Dante in the Nineteenth Century

Advertisements are often viewed as indices of cultural change, just as advertising industry is often imagined as innovative and transformative. This book highlights routinisation of practices and representations in advertising.

Sport annually mobilizes millions of people across Europe: as practitioners in a variety of competitive, educational, or recreational contexts, and as spectators, who are physically present or following events through mass media. This book presents research into modern sport funded by Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences.

Drawing upon the arguments and insights of an array of scholars, many based in Zimbabwe, this book offers an analysis of the grotesque character of Zimbabwean nationalism, a nationalism that has provoked ambivalent responses locally, regionally and internationally.

The Kashubs, a regional autochthonous group inhabiting northern Poland, represent one of the most dynamic ethnic groups in Europe. This scholarly monograph focuses on the history, culture and language of the Kashubs to be published in English since 1935.

Blanchot Romantique

Since its inception cinema has served as a powerful medium that both articulates and intervenes in visions of identity. This book offers a critical approach to study of Ireland's colonial and postcolonial heritage through a comparative exploration of such filmic visions, yielding insights into operations of colonial, and postcolonial discourse.

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw an explosion in Europe of interest in foreign languages and literatures. This book explores how early generations of women writers formed connections with each other across national boundaries.

Bloody Living

Uncovers an ancient Irish perspective of learning and reconfigures it to offer a vitality-restoring vision for education in our digital age. This book aims to help re-engage learners of the Net generation meaningfully and with enjoyment in the learning process.

This book follows the work of a group of right-wing nationalist writers from 1890 to 1960, whose writings both paved the way for the rise of Nazism and continued to stimulate debate about German cultural and political identity after 1945. The volume features studies of Hans Grimm, Kolbenheyer, Schafer, Strauss, von Munchhausen and Binding.

Examining literary production from eleventh century until present, this title argues that the body in North Africa and Latin America serves as a physical and symbolic terrain upon which textual, national, racial and linguistic identities are vectored and through which postcolonial and hegemonic antagonisms of power and identity are resolved.

Focuses on how development-oriented non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) are suited to the dual development process of improving the wellbeing and empowerment of the poor and other marginalized people (especially women) in Africa and other developing countries, focusing on Uganda.

What is Horace's real motive for lecturing on miserly greed in his first satire? Who is the modern Hollywood star whom Horace most closely resembled? What is Horace doing while Damasippus rattles on, recounting the words of his guru Stertinius, in Satires 2.3? This title deals with these questions.

Crossing the Wall

Recent years have seen a great debate and much progress in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Headway has been made in the development of the CSR agenda and dissemination of management models. This title offers a re-reading of fundamental issues for business management such as the stakeholder relationship, and meaning of success in business.

Cities are both real and imaginary places whose identity is dependent on their distinctive heritage: a network of historically transmitted cultural resources. In this title, the essays explore the complex and multi-layered identities of European cities.

In the twenty-first century it is now possible to detect a new sacred 'turn' in thought and writing. For some writers, this post-secular identity plays itself out in both a recuperation of religious traditions (Catholicism, Puritanism, Judaism). This title presents a collection of essays that considers return of religious in literary studies.

Constructions of Conflict

George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis gave Modern Greek language a substantial corpus of translations from poets working in French, Italian, Russian, English and Ancient Greek. This title offers study of translation that is shown to be a powerful tool for study of Modern Greek literature and its relation to other literatures and movements of time.