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The World of the Irish Wonder Tale
An Introduction to the Study of Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1985
Fairy tales are a rich element of childhood in many cultures around the world. But in Ireland, where they are known as wonder tales, these stories of magic and enchantment are not restricted to young audiences; Irish wonder tales are told to adults.
So that the modern reader can fully appreciate...
Industrial Ruination, Community and Place
Landscapes and Legacies of Urban Decline
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Abandoned factories, shipyards, warehouses, and refineries are features of many industrialized cities around the world. But despite their state of decline, these derelict sites remain vitally connected with the urban landscapes that surround them. In this enlightening new book, Alice Mah explores...
by Lowell Cross
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
This exhaustive bibliography, reflecting current interest in electronic music, includes all available citations of books, articles, and monographs pertaining to "musique concrète," "Elektronische Musik," "tape music," and "computer music" from publications...
The Natural History of Canadian Mammals
Opossums and Carnivores
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
This section features the entries on opossums and carnivores. The species described include cats, dogs, opossums, bears, and seals, among others.
The Natural History of Canadian Mammals is a beautifully illustrated, up-to-date guide to all 215 known species of mammals in Canada. It features...
Observing the Outports
Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The years after Newfoundland’s confederation with Canada were ones of rapid social and economic change, as provincial resettlement and industrialization initiatives attempted to transform the lives of rural Newfoundlanders. At Memorial University in St. John’s, a new generation of faculty saw...
The Voice of Newfoundland
A Social History of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland,1939-1949
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2008
Similar to the CBC and BBC, the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland was a public broadcaster that was at the centre of a cultural and political change from 1939 to 1949, during which Newfoundland faced wartime challenges and engaged in a constitutional debate about whether to become integrated...
Of Apes and Ancestors
Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Tell me, sir, is it on your grandmother's or your grandfather's side that you are descended from an ape?
In June of 1860, some of Britain's most influential scientific and religious authorities gathered in Oxford to hear a heated debate on the merits of Charles Darwin's recently published Origin...
by William W. E. Slights
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Secrets accomplish their cultural work by distinguishing the knowable from the (at least temporarily) unknowable, those who know from those who don't. Within these distinctions resides an enormous power that Ben Jonson (1572-1637) both deplored and exploited in his art of making plays.
Conspiracies...
Moors Dressed as Moors
Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In early modern Iberia, Moorish clothing was not merely a cultural remnant from the Islamic period, but an artefact that conditioned discourses of nobility and social preeminence.
In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources: archival, legal, literary,...
The Laughter of the Saints
Parodies of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain, a large number of parodic works were produced that featured depictions of humourous, satirical, and comical saints. The Laughter of the Saints examines this rich carnivalesque tradition of parodied holy men and women and traces their influence...
by Susan Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes’ seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era – those of law and history...
Narratology
Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become an international classic and the comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts, both literary and non-literary. Providing insights into how readers interpret narrative text, the fourth edition of Narratology...
Female Suicide Bombings
A Critical Gender Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
As media coverage of terrorism and terroristic acts has increased so too has the discussion about the identities, motives, and gender of the perpetrators. Over the past fifteen years, there have been over 150 reported suicide bombings committed by women around the world. Because of its prominence...
by Albert Kirk Grayson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Early Assyriologists were lured to Babylonian studies by the light which cuneiform text shed on ancient history and the Bible, and for later scholars this is still the attraction. The Age of Discovery is not past, and one can still read literature that has been unseen by the eyes of man for millennia....