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Constructions of Conflict
This collection of essays explores the ways in which memories of social, political and military conflicts have been transmitted by twentieth- and twenty-first-century European …
Asian Fusion
The Men with Broken Faces
Facially wounded servicemen were perhaps the ultimate victims of the First World War. They became walking reminders of the conflict and their experiences reveal the impact of the …
German Literature, History and the Nation
This is the second of three volumes based on papers given at the 'Fragile Tradition' conference in Cambridge, 2002. Together they provide a conspectus of current research on the …
European Vistas
Claudio Magris is one of Italy’s – and Europe’s – most renowned thinkers and writers. He is considered an authority on central European literature and culture and is frequently …
Secret Sharers
Romanticism, Reaction and Revolution
When the Peninsular War ended in 1814, the prolonged struggle had all but exhausted both British government finances and the British public’s enthusiasm for war. The authoritarian …
Contemporary Writing and the Politics of Space
This collective volume explores questions of space in contemporary literary texts from a range of theoretical perspectives. In addition to mapping the «spatial turn» in literary …
Memory Traces
This essay collection examines the dynamics of memory organization and the way it varies among different media and modes of discourse in post-unification Germany. German …
A Culture of Discontinuity?
This volume brings together diverse contributions from an international team of scholars, asking what has sustained Russian cultural development across the centuries and how …
Alternative Worlds
In an attempt to counteract the doom and gloom of the economic crisis and the politicians’ overused dictum that ‘there is no alternative’, this interdisciplinary collection …
Cultural Transformations of the Public Sphere
The last decade has seen renewed interest in political theories of the public sphere, reacting to new challenges posed by globalization, communication technology, and intra- and …