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View book details for Out in Africa
Same-Sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures & Cultures
Homophobia is still rife and it remains dangerous and even life-threatening to be out in Africa, but Chantal Zabus here traces the range of representations of same-sex desire in Africa through historic and contemporary sources.Homosexuality was and still is thought …
View book details for Gregory Haimovsky
A Pianist's Odyssey to Freedom
In the bleak cage of the Soviet Union, a brilliant pianist, inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen, survived and triumphed. This is his story, told partly in his own words.Interlacing material from previously unknown Russian archives, original recordings, photographs, …
View book details for Logic and Humour in the Fabliaux
An Essay in Applied Narratology
A theoretically defensible inventory of the fabliaux based on a new structural definition.Joseph Bedier's 1893 definition of the fabliaux as 'funny stories in verse' is still widely accepted as the best brief and general description for a heterogeneous collection of …
This is the first book to describe Arturo Toscanini's activities - the life he led, his concerts and recording sessions - during his visits to London and elsewhere in Britain in the years 1900-1952.During the 1930s Arturo Toscanini conducted many …
Exploring the ideas of consensus, resistance and rupture, this book contributes an important and nuanced reflection to the current debate on modernism in music.Music and Ultra-Modernism in France examines the priorities of three generational groupings: the pre-war Societe Musicale Independente …
View book details for Religion and the Demographic Revolution
Women and Secularisation in Canada, Ireland, UK and USA since the 1960s
A much-awaited new book by the foremost scholar of secularisation and religion in the modern world.In the 1960s, two great social and cultural changes of the western world began. The first was the rapid decline of Christian religious practice and …
View book details for Sea Power and the Control of Trade:
Belligerent Rights from the Russian War to the Beira Patrol, 1854-1970
Charts the British government's changing perception of the utility of naval control of trade between 1854 and the late 1960sThis collection of departmental files and treaties reviews the changing perceptions in the British government of the utility of naval control …
View book details for In the Shadow of the Holocaust
Jewish-Communist Writers in East Germany
This study investigates six German Jewish writers' negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust East Germany.This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduction to the political-historical context, it highlights the conflicted writings …
The first large-scale study of the music of Herbert Howells, prodigiously gifted musician and favourite student of the notoriously hard-to-please Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.Herbert Howells (1892-1983) was a prodigiously gifted musician and the favourite student of the notoriously hard-to-please Sir …
View book details for The Chronicles of Fernao Lopes
Volume 5. General Bibliography and Index
Volume V of the first complete English translation of the chronicles of Fernao Lopes, containing the general bibliography and a comprehensive index containing all people and place names mentioned in the chroniclesUntil now, the chronicles of Fernao Lopes (c.1380-c.1460) have …
View book details for The Loss of the Wager
The Narratives of John Bulkeley and the Hon. John Byron
The Loss of the Wager is an eighteenth century melodrama set in a ferociously inhospitable climate on one of the world's most remote and dangerous coastlines.The Loss of the Wager is an eighteenth century melodrama set in a ferociously inhospitable …
View book details for That Jealous Demon, My Wretched Health
Disease, Death and Composers
Despite much triumph in adversity, illness fuelling composition is a misconception.The health - and especially deaths - of composers excite controversy. Was Mozart really poisoned? Did Tchaikovsky commit suicide? How did Beethoven lose his hearing? Much good previous scholarship has …
View book details for Music Criticism in France, 1918-1939
Authority, Advocacy, Legacy
This collection uncovers how music criticism contributed to national and transnational preoccupations and agendas.Music Criticism in France examines the aesthetic battles that animated and informed French musical criticism during the interwar period (1918-1939). Drawing upon a rich corpus of critical …
Essays lay the groundwork for a theory of humour in Old English literature.Humour is rarely seen to raise its indecorous head in the surviving corpus of Old English literature, yet the value of reading that literature with an eye to …
Worthington George Smith and other case studiesBedfordshire chapelries: an essay in rural settlement history, by Dorothy Owen [The existence of chapels, in addition to churches, in many parishes in pre-Reformation England is explained. A list of rural parochial chapels in …
A journey through texts on, about, or reflecting our experience of the natural world.What might it mean to study ideas of nature within our English literary heritage? In posing this question this volume invites us both to discover a diversity …
Annual volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, this year with an emphasis on English drama and the cultural anxieties it expresses.Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. …
View book details for Anatomy of a Duel in Jacobean England
Gentry Honour, Violence and the Law
Throws much new light on questions of gentry honour, the nature and prevalence of early modern elite violence, and the process of judicial investigation in Shakespeare's EnglandThis book offers an analysis of Jacobean duelling and gentry honour culture through the …
View book details for Lionel Tertis
The First Great Virtuoso of the Viola
This new biography examines the life and work of Lionel Tertis, almost solely responsible for the rise of the viola in the twentieth century.Lionel Tertis [1876-1975] stands in the company of Ysaye, Kreisler, Casals, Thibaud and Rubinstein as one of …
View book details for The Great War, Memory and Ritual
Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939
This detailed case study of a part of London seeks to show how both the survivors and the bereaved sought to come to terms with the losses and implications of the Great War.The modern idea that the Great War was …
View book details for The Crisis of Democratization in the Greater Horn of Africa
An Alternative Approach to Institutional Order in Transitional Societies
Analyses the structural and institutional obstacles to democratization in transitional societies - fractured societies, fragmented economies and institutions of governance, weak or deformed state structures - and how to overcome these.In the early 1990s, a wave of democratization swept through …
Shows how Adler, Wander, Hilsenrath, and Kluger intertwine transgressive political criticism with the shadow of trauma, revealing new perspectives on canon formation and exclusion in postwar German literature.How did German-speaking Holocaust survivors pursue literary careers in an often-indifferent postwar society? …
View book details for The Haskins Society Journal 23
2011. Studies in Medieval History
The most up-to-date research in the period from the Anglo-Saxons to Angevins.This volume of the Haskins Society Journal furthers the Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research on the early and central Middle Ages, especially in the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and …
Pioneering examination of the Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and its reception in the middle ages, from a theoretically informed, multi-disciplinary perspective.The first full-length study of the Old English version of Bede's masterwork, dealing with one of the …
View book details for Germany's Asia-Pacific Empire
Colonialism and Naval Policy, 1885-1914
An overview of Germany's naval and imperial activities in East Asia and the Pacific in the years leading up to the First World War.This book examines German attempts to acquire colonial territories in East Asia and the Pacific, and discusses …
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