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Ruth: Bridges and Boundaries is a literary close reading of the text as a bridge between the anarchic period of the Judges and the monarchic age that begins with the birth of David, as reflected through Ruth's absorption process within Bethlehemite society. This bridge is constructed from three main axes: the theological perception that human actions have the power to shape and advance reality; the moral-legal perception that the spirit of the law must be privileged over the letter of the law and social conventions; and the principle that the institute of monarchy must be based upon human compassion. The commentary traces the narrative sequence through the paradigm of this three-fold cord, showing how these threads are woven throughout the book. This innovative reading is illustrated with an unprecedented psychological analysis of Ruth as a narrative of transition, using modern psychological theories. This contemporary yet textually faithful literary commentary offers new insight into the inner workings of the text of Ruth as literary masterpiece. Academic yet accessible, this work provides tools for readers of Ruth and the field of biblical narrative in general.

This volume examines representations of travel ideals in contemporary international cinema. It explores the link between filmed spaces and real locations, as well as the fantasy and exoticism that arise through an idealisation of the locations and their transformational impact on the protagonists who travel there.

Goliarda Sapienza (1924-1996) is increasingly regarded as a central figure in modern Italian literature. This study follows her autofictional journey, identifying themes in her work such as freedom, the body, gender and sexuality, political commitment and social transformation.

This book explores interconnections between high literary modernism and the revolution in dress design of the early twentieth century. New and 'liberated' lifestyles and a fascination with 'inventive clothes' united diverse writers, photographers, and art critics at the time. Studies of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Man Ray and Virginia Woolf are included.

This critical study offers a port of entry into Vollmann's fiction. The Rifles deconstructs the historical novel, and the venture of the 19th-century English explorer John Franklin, revisiting the Gothic genre. This analysis uses close-reading, ecocriticism, and comparative literature to examine a major novel of the post-postmodern canon.

This work employs an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, presenting papers first given by graduate and early-career academic researchers from around the world at the XVII International Graduate Conference of the Oxford University Byzantine Society, held on the 27th and 28th of February, 2015.

This book is a collection of papers dealing with the study of language varieties from a corpus linguistics perspective. They focus on the analysis of language in different communicative and professional settings, meeting current lines of research, such as teaching and learning, translation, domain-specific grammatical and textual phenomena, linguistic variation and gender.

In 1927, the first production of Pygmalion was staged in Brazil. At the time, over 65 per cent of the adult Brazilian population was illiterate, which makes it all the more surprising that directors and producers dared to stage such a controversial playwright - a writer who had often been rejected by the more sophisticated theatregoer in England. This book analyses the reception of almost a century of Brazilian productions of Pygmalion, My Fair Lady, Arms and the Man, Candida and Mrs Warren's Profession, setting that analysis in the context of the political, economic and cultural climate at the time of each production. What emerges is a faithful portrait of a country where theatre and theatre criticism are precariously established, and the theatregoer with no knowledge of English cannot be certain that the translation or adaptation they are watching bears anything more than a passing resemblance to the original. Nonetheless, Brazil has also witnessed a number of fine productions, presented by highly skilled actors and directors and reviewed by well-informed and articulate critics. As well as supplying fascinating detail on the wide range of Shaw productions staged in Brazil over the last ninety years, this volume also generates valuable insights into the complexities of twentieth-century Brazilian society.

Showcase Britain explores the diverse aspects of British participation in the Vienna World Exhibition of 1873. Britain's contributions to the ceramic and Fine Art collections and comparisons with the participation of China, Japan and India are considered.

Investigating Specialized Discourse is a shortened and revised textbook edition of the monograph Specialized Discourse (2003). This book analyses the various features of specialized discourse in order to assess its degree of specificity and diversification, as compared to general language. Prior to any analysis of such traits, the notion of specialized discourse and its distinctive properties are clarified. The presence of such properties is accounted for not only in linguistic but also in pragmatic terms since the approach is interpretative rather than merely descriptive. Indeed, the complexity of this discourse calls for a multidimensional analysis, covering both lexis and morpho-syntax as well as textual patterning. Some lexical aspects, morpho-syntactic features and textual genres are also examined from a diachronic perspective, thus showing how various conventions concerning specialized discourse have developed over the last centuries.

This volume provides a shared context for surfacing deeply held beliefs and providing clearer pathways for closer understanding and adaptations to support integrated learning. The studies in each of the eight chapters are built on an in-depth critical review of research which enables the reader to carefully position the challenging questions posed.

Critical analysis of the moral soundness of the "brain death" and "controlled cardiac/circulatory death" protocols used in organ transplantation. Analyzes the rationales supporting these new definitions of death, and argues against them, showing that they contradict both Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics and contemporary biophilosophy.

Subtitling films in another language becomes especially complex when the original language deviates from its standard form. Films that feature non-standard pronunciation, dialects or other varieties of language, especially when juxtaposed with more standard uses, are said to display linguistic variation As language use is central to characters' identities and to a film's plot, it is essential to retain the source language (SL) specificity as fully as possible in the target language (TL) subtitles so the target audience can experience the film as authentically as possible. Given its considerable difficulty, subtitling in this manner is often advised against, avoided or, when attempted, subjected to considerable criticism. This book focuses on a collection of British and French films selected for the range of approaches that they adopt in portraying linguistic variation. Each chapter explores the challenges posed by the subtitling of such linguistic difference in the given films and the corresponding solutions offered by their subtitlers. Drawing on these findings and referring to contemporary thinking in the field of translation studies, this book argues that with insight and skill, linguistic variation can be preserved in film subtitles.

This volume explores the themes of degeneration and regeneration in fin-de-siecle Italian culture. Some contributions reflect on the poetics of decadence, while others focus on significant figures of the period and their literary, critical and artistic work, providing analysis from both national and comparative perspectives.

This volume discusses family and migration in the Middle East, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America, and in the context of the 2015 global refugee crisis. Topics include: protections for refugees and internally displaced people, migration governance, child mobility, disability and immigration, human trafficking, media and refugees.

This book proposes "buhol-buhol" (entanglement) as a useful idiom for understanding contemporary Manila theatre.

This volume explores aspects of French and Irish society, past and present, through the prism of the voyage. The contributors focus on a wide range of topics, including cultural tourism, literature, gastronomy and sport, in order to trace the ebb and flow of the exchanges between these two countries and their continued influence on one another.

This book focuses on the development of Italian American cultural identity throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.Italy is becoming a destination, rather than a starting point for immigrants. Immigration remains a source of tension and debate both in the United States and in Europe. Analyzing the evolution of Italian American identity, from diaspora to globalization, from emblematic to latent ethnicity, can thus prove insightful.Disparate works, including novels, films and newspaper articles, both by Italian and non-Italian American authors illustrate this paradigm. The catalyst for this transformation is the Second World War, which allowed Italian Americans to take part in the struggle to liberate Italy from Fascism, establishing in this way a connection with their roots while adhering more closely to mainstream American society through participation in the conflict. Post-war expressions of Italian American culture include the development of women's writing, cinematic interactions with American Jews and African Americans, and the works of two novelists, Don DeLillo and Anthony Giardina, who embody different aspects of latent ethnicity.

Youth clubs became a trend in the UK in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the Jewish community followed suit with their own clubs. This book looks at the records left behind by the Jewish clubs and asks to what extent they were successful in providing Jewish education to Jewish youth and how this education was defined by gender.

La investigacion, que obtuvo el premio Extraordinario de Doctorado de la Universidad de Salamanca, con espiritu abarcador e interdisciplinar, propone un recorrido detallado y riguroso sobre la construccion y el desarrollo del feminismo y los estudios de genero a traves de la historia politica y social en el Peru a partir del gobierno militar del general Juan Velasco Alvarado hasta el gobierno del Presidente Ollanta Humala Tasso (2012). Ademas, desde un enfoque hibrido, se analiza, como habiendo atravesado epocas que marcaron historia como la decada de violencia politica y terror protagonizada por Sendero Luminoso y las Fuerzas Armadas, seguida de una decada de autoritarismo y corrupcion con el Presidente Alberto Fujimori y su asesor Vladimiro Montesinos, se ha visto reflejado el imaginario femenino en determinadas manifestaciones culturales peruanas contemporaneas. En lineas generales, el libro busca observar y analizar el impacto que ha tenido el feminismo y los estudios de genero en el imaginario femenino peruano a traves del analisis de determinados productos culturales peruanos contemporaneos (television, cinematografia y literatura) en un contexto historico y politico determinado.

Paru en 1885, Germinal, le roman de d¿Émile Zola, occupe toujours le devant de la scène littéraire et sociale.Entre viol de la nature et nostalgie d¿une poésie champêtre, quelle est l¿évolution artistique de la mine dans la littérature française avant Germinal ? Quel sens proposent les textes précurseurs du roman ? Sont-ils évocateurs nostalgiques d¿un monde terrible et fraternel ? Que nous révèle la construction du roman, sa genèse, les moments clés tant de l¿énonciation que de l¿énoncé ? Quel sens a eu le roman pour ses contemporains, pour ses lecteurs, la réception en France et à l¿étranger, la censure, les adaptations théâtrales et musicales ? Et quel est le sens des appropriations sociales au XXe siècle, des interprétations et réinterprétations modernes dans les arts visuels ? Telles sont quelques-unes des questions auxquelles Germinal, la mine et les arts essaie de répondre.Réunissant des études de spécialistes universitaires, ce volume contribue à une histoire littéraire en participant à une histoire culturelle.

Art history traditionally concentrates on the visual, often at the expense of sound art. This book is about recent attempts by artists trained in (West) Germany to provoke listening experiences to awaken the ear. Their work is revolutionary in artistic terms and in what it reveals about human relations, especially concerning issues of gender.

L¿espace européen de l¿enseignement supérieur a bouleversé la manière de penser, d¿envisager l¿enseignement des langues et des cultures étrangères. En Espagne et au Portugal, la tradition de l¿enseignement du français s¿en est donc trouvée reformulée. La réflexion des enseignants, constante et attentive aux nouvelles situations sociopolitiques, a entraîné de nouveaux débats et lancé d¿autres défis dans une réalité en construction qui s¿avère commune à tous les pays européens.Ce volume rassemble divers travaux portant sur les différents enjeux de l¿enseignement et l¿apprentissage du français langue étrangère, de la traduction et de l¿évolution des représentations véhiculées dans la transmission de la culture française et francophone. Ces contributions non seulement confirment l¿apport des nouvelles technologies pour l¿enseignant mais aussi, au-delà des savoirs des domaines impliqués (FLE/S, FOS, traduction, culture et littérature), soulignent le besoin d¿une compréhension de la dimension identitaire en même temps que la nécessité de l¿acquisition de la culture de l¿Autre afin de faciliter le transfert de connaissances entre les différentes langues et cultures.

Addressing a range of poets who are associated with Wales by either birth or residence and have been significantly active in the post-1997 period, it seeks to understand the various ways in which Wales's Anglophone poetic life has been intertwined both with devolutionary matters specifically and the life of contemporary Wales more generally.

Bien qu'ils n'aient pas adhere a la Societe des Nations, les Etats-Unis ont largement participe a ses activites, jouant un role determinant dans le developpement des sections techniques, ancetres des agences specialisees de l'ONU (sante, travail, questions economiques, cooperation intellectuelle). Les principaux acteurs de cette participation sont les fondations philanthropiques, notamment la Rockefeller foundation et la Carnegie endowment for international peace. Decidees a integrer coute que coute les Etats-Unis dans le systeme societaire afin de pouvoir influer sur l'elaboration de normes internationales, les fondations sont tout au long de l'histoire de la SdN des soutiens financiers et des partenaires intellectuelles majeures. Le gouvernement americain n'est pas absent du processus : comprenant l'interet de ne pas rester aux portes de l'organisation internationale, il envoie des experts dans les multiples commissions creees par la SdN et soutient discretement l'activite des fondations. La participation americaine, officieuse mais massive, contribue ainsi a remodeler des l'entre-deux-guerres le systeme international.

Die vorliegende Einfuhrung besteht aus 16 Einheiten, die alle so konzipiert sind, dass sie auch unabhangig voneinander gelesen werden konnen. Jedes Kapitel fuhrt in einen bestimmten Bereich der Linguistik ein: in Semantik, Sprachgeschichte, Spracherwerb, mentales Lexikon, Pragmatik, Dialektologie, Phonetik, usw. Als Ausgangspunkt und Kapiteluberschrift dienen dabei beispielsweise Fragen wie Konnen Worter mude machen? (Semantik), Gibt es Sprachen ohne Grammatik? (Syntax), Was ist Deutsch eigentlich fur eine Sprache? (Sprachgeschichte) oder Wo sind die Worter im Kopf und wie greift man auf sie zu?, die zugleich das Konzept dieses Buches illustrieren: Die wichtigsten linguistischen Themenkomplexe und Grundlagen sollen nicht nur in leicht zuganglicher und gut verstandlicher Form vermittelt werden, sondern es soll auch Neugier auf die Fragen geweckt werden, um die es jeweils geht. Vorkenntnisse werden dabei bewusst nicht vorausgesetzt. Da eine Einfuhrung naturgema nur jeweils einen begrenzten Einblick in ein Themengebiet geben kann, werden am Ende jeder Einheit stets auch Literaturtipps zur weitergehenden und vertieften Beschaftigung mit dem behandelten Thema gegeben.

L'ouvrage met en perspective les logiques transformatives de l'economie participative selon une approche interdisciplinaire (economie, sociologie, droit, histoire) en se fondant sur l'etude de cas issus de differents secteurs culturels et creatifs (cinema, jeu video, edition musicale/litteraire, musees) et les temoignages de professionnels.