University Of Wales Press: 420 books
Capitalism and its Discontents
Power and Accumulation in Latin-American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Capitalism and its Discontents presents a series of interpretative essays on a number of key modern and contemporary Latin American novels and films. The overarching theme in the essays is the relation between such textual materials and their regional contexts.
by Cherilyn A Walley
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The Welsh in Iowa is the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. Dr. Walley’s book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups. With research rooted in...
Performing Wales
People, Memory and Place
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Beginning from the premise that culture can be analysed as performance, this study approaches Welsh culture as performative practice and explores four distinct cultural areas – the Museum, Heritage, Festival and Theatre – concentrating on how they contribute to a shared sense of identity among...
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Borges, Fiction and Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Best known as Jorge Luis Borges’s right-hand man, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914−1999) was, in his own right, an inventive writer of considerable skill. His works, often dismissed summarily as fantastic fiction, are now ripe for reassessment. This volume looks at Bioy’s extensive oeuvre which offers...
The Gothic Condition
Terror, History and the Psyche
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book brings together fourteen of the most ambitious and thought-provoking recent essays by David Punter, who has been writing on the Gothic to academic and general acclaim for over thirty years. Punter addresses developments in Gothic writing and Gothic criticism since the mid-eighteenth century,...
Queer Others in Victorian Gothic
Transgressing Monstrosity
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race. From mid-century authors like Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of several Kantian theories. Both the critical reaction to consequentialism inspired by Rawlsian constructivism and the universalism of more recent theories informed by Habermasian discourse ethics trace their main sources of inspiration back to Kant’s writings.
The Holy Grail
History and Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
The Holy Grail is one of the most fascinating themes in medieval literature. It was described as the vessel used by Jesus to celebrate the first Eucharist and it became the object of the greatest quest undertaken by King Arthur’s knight. This book examines the traditions attached to the Holy Grail...
Barcelona
Visual Culture, Space and Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This fully illustrated, edited volume brings together fresh insights into the changing urban space of Barcelona from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. The volume will contribute to the excavation of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period,...
by Linden Peach
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
This book introduces the contribution of modern Welsh literature to our understanding of peace and pacifism – an important and much overlooked subject in Welsh studies. Taking a literary-historical approach to the subject, it reveals how modern Welsh writing opens up history in ways in which historical...
Gothic Machine
Textualities, Pre-cinematic Media and Film in Popular Visual Culture, 1670-1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Gothic Machine is a ground-breaking exploration of relations between Gothic literature, pre-cinematic media such as magic lanterns, phantasmagoria and dioramas and the first films 1670-1910. Starting with the earliest projections of horror images, continuing through the development of Gothic fiction...
Cinema and the Republic
Filming on the Margins in Contemporary France
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
This book analyses contemporary French films by focussing closely on cinematic representations of immigrants and residents of suburban housing estates known as banlieues. It begins by examining how these groups are conceived of within France’s Republican political model before analysing films that...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The figure of the monster in medieval culture functions as a vehicle for a range of intellectual and spiritual inquiries, from questions of language and representation to issues of moral, theological and cultural value. Monsters embody cultural tensions that go far beyond the idea of the monster as...
Western Sahara
The Refugee Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
The Western Sahara is the last colony in Africa and the only Spanish-speaking territory in the Arab World. When in 1975 the agonising Francoist Spain abandoned hastily its colony, Morocco and Mauritania occupied the territory, despite the protest of the UN and the resistance of a nascent Saharawi...