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J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is one of the most popular works of fiction of the twentieth century and beyond. It has been sold over 100 million times in different countries around the w...

"The Same, but Different". A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Variantivity

This book is concerned with the presence of familiar objects in unfamiliar places. It examines the literary practice of inserting imaginary photographs of art, architecture, and people into novels ...

The present volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held on April 19-22, 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. The conference, "Empowerment through Language...

This book provides a critical survey of the literature on the Vietnam War and is intended both for academic and general readers. Earlier works of this kind constantly recycled criticism of a half-d...

This book presents a portrait of actively engaged young people representing four linguistic minorities in Europe: the Kashubs (in Poland), the Upper Sorbs (in Germany), the Bretons (in France), and...

This edition brings together some lesser known grammaticalization paths travelled by 'come' and 'go' in familiar and less familiar languages. No single book volume has been dedicated to the topic o...

If asked about which writer they associate with Anglophone literature, most students might come up with William Shakespeare, who has also become an integral part of British cultural identity. As a ...

'An Epistle of Noble Poetrye' is a late-fifteenth-century English translation of Christine de Pizan's 'L'Epistre d'Othéa' (ca. 1400). The 'Epistle' survives in London, British Library, MS Harley 83...

Andrea Hammel is a Research Fellow at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies and Tutorial Fellow in German history and culture at the University of Sussex. Godela Weiss-Sussex is Senior Lecturer in M...

This book offers a comprehensive study of the role of dance in a wide range of contemporary Irish plays and argues that dance can be perceived as exemplifying the re-embracement of bodily expressio...

The Editors: The editors are associate professors at the Department of English, University of Vigo (Spain).

This volume of essays, which originated in the inaugural Dublin Gastronomy Symposium held in the Dublin Institute of Technology in June 2012, offers fascinating insights into the significant role p...

Paul Muldoon's Poetics of Place

Irish women flourished in the publishing world at the turn of the twentieth century, and a number of the most popular and prolific of these authors chose to live and work in Britain. As expatriates...