University Of Wales Press: 420 books
William Robert Grove
Victorian Gentleman of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
This book provides an accessible and authoritative biography of the Welsh man of science, William Robert Grove. Grove was an important and highly influential figure in Victorian science. His career as both man of science and leading barrister and judge spanned the Victorian age, and he also played...
Comparative Stylistics of Welsh and English
Arddulleg y Gymraeg
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
The comparative analysis of Welsh and English found in this book is based on a translation corpus consisting of just over thirty novels and autobiographies from the late nineteenth century up to the early twenty-first century. Many of the original Welsh texts contain stylistic features which, in a...
The Fiction of Emyr Humphreys
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
For over half a century, Emyr Humphreys’s work as a novelist, short story writer, poet, dramatist and television producer has been extraordinarily impressive. This pioneering and stimulating book considers Humphreys’s fiction from a range of contemporary critical perspectives and stresses its...
Polemical Austria
The Rhetorics of National Identity from Empire to the Second Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Austria today offers the picture of a small, neutral, and economically successful country in the heart of Europe. Yet modern Austria is the product of a complex and violent history. After the First World War, Vienna changed overnight from being the capital of a large continental and multi-ethnic Empire...
The War on Terror
Post-9/11 Television Drama, Docudrama and Documentary
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This book explores the ways in which television has engaged directly and indirectly with the new realities of the post-9/11 world. It offers detailed analysis of a number of key programmes and series that engage with, or are haunted by, the aftermath of the events of September 11 in the USA and what...
Shipowners of Cardiff
A Class by Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
From 1875 to the present day, the Cardiff and Bristol Channel Incorporated Shipowners' Association has been the representative body for shipowners in Cardiff and other Bristol Channel ports. This study looks at some of the most representative periods in its history: the reaction of the Association...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This book brings together the most current interpretations of the Wooing Group from scholars currently working on the fields of medieval spirituality, gender, and the anchoritic tradition, providing literary, theological, linguistic, and cultural context for the works associated with the Wooing Group...
Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes
On Brazil and Global Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes (1916–77) is revered in Brazil as the first ardent defender, promoter and theorist of Brazilian cinema. A film professor, critic and historian, his dedication to cinema shaped a generation of influential film critics in his home country, and set the foundations for the...
by Nicolás Fernández-Medina
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is one of Spain’s most original and renowned twentieth-century poets and thinkers. From his early poems in Soledades. Galerías. Otros poemas of 1907, to the writings of his alter-ego Juan de Mairena of the 1930s, Machado endeavoured to explain how the Other became a...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
This book engages with the relationship between religion, evolution and heredity, by bringing together two of its aspects that are frequently discussed separately: Darwinism and eugenics. It also demonstrates that religion has played a greater role in shaping modern debates on evolution and human...
Adapting Nineteenth-Century France
Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Adapting Nineteenth-Century France uses the output of six canonical novelists and their recreations in a variety of media to push for a re-conceptualisation of our approach to the study of adaptation. The works of Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant and Verne reveal themselves not as originals...
Entrancement
The consciousness of dreaming, music and the world
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This study of dreaming, death and shared consciousness develops a context that is humanistic, comparative and evidence-based in its engagement with the work of cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology and the study of the imagination. It also reaches into current research on consciousness at the interface...
French Muslims
New Voices in Contemporary France
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
This book provides a detailed analysis of the political arguments about the place of Muslims in contemporary France, and also discusses the ideas put forward by a range of Muslim thinkers. France has become the setting for one of the most important conflicts in the modern world. On the one hand, it...
Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil
Memory, Politics and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil brings updated criticism in English on the work of the prominent Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (1892–1953), a key figure in understanding the making of modern Brazil. Building on existing literature, this book innovates through chapters that consider...