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Die Ausführungen zerfallen in zwei Teile, die nicht gleichartig angelegt sind. Im ersten Teil wird der Versuch unternommen, das schweizerische Geschichts- und Nationalbewusstsein und seine bernische Ausprägung der Jahrhunderte der alten Eidgenossenschaft nach Entstehung und Wandel vornehmlich mit Blick auf die Geschichtsschreibung zu skizzieren. Im zweiten Teil wird diese Skizze für das 19. Jahrhundert weitergeführt, nun jedoch mit der Entwicklung des bernischen Staatslebens enger verbunden oder jedenfalls nach Möglichkeit mit ihr ins Verhältnis gesetzt.

This is an eight scene ethnodrama portraying Black women reliving their journey of Higher Education and Work-based learning in the NHS. Black women's voices are centralised reflecting on the complexities and dynamics of institutional power, professional exploitation, silencing, subordination and non-transformative education.

The study of Czechoslovak women refugees in Britain is noticeably missing from current research and Anglo-Czechoslovak historiography. Oral interviews from former refugees and archival research offer insights into women's diverse experiences, dilemmas and contributions.

Clementine Kramer, who is relatively unknown today, was a prolific German Jewish writer and leader of the women's movement who experienced at first hand the First World War and the rise to power of the National Socialists. This book makes an important contribution to the scholarship by revealing a fresh perspective on this tumultuous time.

In the age of the selfie, this book traces self-portraiture in film and video from the Western tradition in painting and literature into present-day digital media. The essays assess the significance of the self-portrait in the moving image and new media by exploring a varied and international body of works.

Gardens provoke thought and engagement in ways that are often overlooked. This book explores the philosophical issues raised by art gardens, such as the meaningful encounters of humans, animals and plants in the context of the garden. Tupare, a garden in New Zealand, is used as source material.

The concept of the public sphere has long been limited by its division into the twin approaches of normative argumentation in democratic theory and empirical-theoretical application in the social sciences. This book goes beyond this divide, showing how democratic theory can become empirically applicable and the social sciences normatively relevant.

This book is the first full-length critical account of the life and work of Constance Naden, a unique visionary within Victorian literature and science. Her poetry, philosophy and scientific studies are examined in this thought-provoking contribution to the study of nineteenth-century intellectual culture.

The work of Peter von Matt, Switzerland's finest living literary critic, offers a model of humanisticscholarship par excellence. This interdisciplinary collection of essays supplies a criticalbut appreciative engagement with von Matt's writing, the first volume devoted specifically to probing the legacy of his thought.

Can a book change the world? Fighting Words looks at how the book has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth century. What emerges is a complex portrait of the vital and multifaceted role played by the book in both the formation and the form of anticolonial resistance, and the development of the postcolonial world.

Before Nowhere in Africa won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003, the fate of German Jewish exiles in Africa was not widely discussed. This book provides a detailed historical look at German Jewish emigration to Kenya with a focus on child exile, taking Stephanie Zweig's autobiographical works as a point of departure.

This book examines the poetry of Bernard Vargaftig (1934-2012) with a focus on his emphasis on the sacredness of words. His spiritual yearnings, as well as a need to heal due to lingering trauma from wartime hiding, are shown to underlie his poetry, which reflect a continual process of renewal and self-discovery.

The fifteen essays gathered in this book probe the multi-facetted role of death in Scottish history and culture. They explore personal fears of death, anxieties about Predestination, prayers for the dead and the appeal of Spiritualism

Bruno Munari was one of the most important and eclectic twentieth-century European artists, pioneering what would later be labelled kinetic art. Through original archival research and illuminating comparisons with other artists and movements, both within and outside Italy, this volume offers a unique analysis of Munari's seven-decade-long career.

This work connects productions of plays by Ibsen and Chekhov with adaptations made by contemporary Irish playwrights, demonstrating the significance of international influence for the national canon.

This ambitious and exciting study analyses the use of colour language in the work of Stefan George, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wassily Kandinsky and Else Lasker-Schuler to open up an understanding of how poetic language works and to ask how we read poetry.

This book explores the ways in which Australian Indigenous filmmakers, performers and writers work within their Indigenous communities to tell the stories of early Indigenous resistance leaders who fought against British invaders and settlers, thus keeping their legacies alive and connected to community in the present.

Since World War I, communities of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, characterised by collaborative effort and a robust sense of communal identity, have been transformed. This book will help scholars and general readers grasp the magnitude of change as it has transformed an important aspect of Scottish Gaelic culture.

The on-going debate on the legacies of European Orientalism has yet to fully consider its Italian context. This book is a literary and intellectual history both of the reception of European Orientalism in Risorgimento Italy, and of the birth and development of an Italian Orientalist expression in the post-unification and fascist periods.

From the Metaphysicals to the Romantics.

A useful and provocative book that collects the diverse and related practices of theatre makers and theatre professionals deserving of greater attention from artists, teachers and scholars. (Willie White, Director of Dublin Theatre Festival and President of IETM)Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland is an important contribution to the fields of Irish theatre and performance studies, and gender and performance in Ireland. The essays and interviews explore the work of women directors, designers, and playwrights on both sides of the Irish Border, who are currently shaping theatre practice on the island. By gathering such an impressive range of material, Mária Kurdi and Miriam Haughton have produced a collection that offers a snapshot of radical practice on the Irish stage in the early 21st century. (Lisa Fitzpatrick, Senior Lecturer in Theatre, University of Ulster)

Marie Jones is one of the most prolific and popular writers working in Northern Irish theatre today. Her work has achieved local relevance and international recognition. In the course of a remarkable career now spanning five decades, Jones has been an actor, playwright, and screenwriter; she also helped to establish two major Irish theatre companies (Charabanc and DubbelJoint) as well as playing a major role in theatre-in-education through her plays for Replay Productions. From her earliest work with Charabanc in the early 1980s to the present day, Jones's work has engaged with Irish (and, more often than not, specifically Northern Irish) experience in ways that reveal the extent to which the personal is political in a distinctive form of popular theatre. This volume of essays engages critically with Jones's oeuvre, her reception in Ireland and beyond, and her position in the canon of contemporary drama.

Sullied Magnificence: The Theatre of Mark O'Rowe is a collection of essays that combines the voices of Mark O'Rowe's collaborators and critics with analysis by leading academics. It examines the role of the actor and director in monologue theatre. It questions the use of violence in O'Rowe's films and plays. It explores influences and inspirations, and provides a thorough introduction to the work of one of Ireland's most unique theatrical voices. It also takes a brief look at O'Rowe's work for film, as both writer and director, and the crossover effect this work has had on his plays.

Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary Practice is the first collection to focus exclusively on devised theatre throughout the island of Ireland by bringing together a range of perspectives from both academics and practitioners. It situates the histories and contemporary practice of devised performance in the Irish theatre, responding to a decisive shift in the working approach of several prominent emerging companies including ANU Productions, Brokentalkers, THEATREclub, and THISISPOPBABY. This collection takes a historical approach that demonstrates how this contemporary surge of work builds on a physical and dance theatre movement in Irish theatre that began to coalesce in the 1990s through the work of companies like Barabbas, Macnas, Blue Raincoat, and Pan Pan which was in turn influenced by earlier community arts practice on the island of Ireland beginning in the late 1970s. Devised Performance in Irish Theatre makes visible a uniquely Irish body of work that will also further international understandings of devised performance as collaborative process and working methodology.

This edited volume focuses on a key notion in Queer Theory and activism: challenging, resisting and subverting contestations to the identitarian expression and performance of LGBTIQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, intersex, queer/querying etc.) subjects.

Depuis la fin des années 1990 et la signature de l¿Accord du Vendredi-Saint à Belfast en 1998, un nombre croissant de témoignages de survivants du conflit nord-irlandais ont été recueillis et publiés et occupent une place importante dans l¿espace public, tant dans la presse que le monde de l¿édition. Le sentiment de n¿être pas véritablement reconnu par la société et par ses institutions, d¿être exclu du récit historique dominant, et le manque de consensus sur le statut de « victime » contribuent au besoin de raconter sa propre histoire, donnant ainsi l¿impression d¿une polyphonie de points de vue.Alors que la plupart des études ont analysé la fonction et la portée politique et sociale des témoignages en Irlande du Nord, cet ouvrage montre dans quelle mesure ces récits permettent aux affects et aux émotions de s¿exprimer et de s¿élaborer, tant du côté du narrateur que de celui du lecteur. En adoptant une approche pluridisciplinaire et en soulignant le rôle de l¿intersubjectivité, ces récits, adressés à un Autre, sont ici analysés par le prisme d¿un lecteur bien particulier : celui du chercheur, qui accepte sa subjectivité et se situe délibérément dans l¿interaction entre le narrateur et lui-même.

The book examines the renderings into poetry of the life and works of Georgia O'Keeffe. It intends to show how these poems have interpreted, de-codified and translated O'Keeffe's subjects into words by making room for new meaningful images, expanding what O'Keeffe meant to do with her art and nourishing her artistic legacy.

This volume brings together three key and contested areas facing educationalists within schools, colleges and universities: values education, religious education and human rights education. Challenges and opportunities within each of these three areas may be illuminated and explored by bringing them into creative dialogue.

This book examines a selection of prison memoirs by five renowned African writers - Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ruth First, Wole Soyinka, Nawal El Saadawi and Jack Mapanje - who were detained from the 1960s onward due to their political engagement.