University Of Wales Press: 420 books
On Art and Painting
Vicente Carducho and Baroque Spain
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book is a collection of fourteen essays on the Dialogues on Painting, published by the Florentine-born Spanish painter and art theorist Vicente Carducho (1568–1638) in 1633. This was the first treatise in Spanish on the art of painting, written as part of a campaign led by Carducho in collaboration...
Women in Mexican Folk Art
Of Promises, Betrayals, Monsters and Celebrities
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
The aim of this book is to engender Mexican folk art and locate women at its centre by studying the processes of creation, distribution, and consumption, as well as examining iconographic aspects, and elements of class and ethnicity, from the perspective of gender. The author will demonstrate that...
by Julia Banwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
This book is the first and most extensive academic monograph to be published on the work of the Mexican neo-conceptual artist Teresa Margolles. A range of art works produced by Margolles throughout the length of her career, which began in the 1990s (as part of the SEMEFO collective) and continues...
by Robert McKay, John Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Wolves lope across Gothic imagination. Signs of a pure animality opposed to humanity, in the figure of the werewolf they become liminal creatures that move between the human and the animal. Werewolves function as a site for exploring complex anxieties of difference – of gender, class, race, space,...
Spirituality in Ministerial Formation
The Dynamic of Prayer in Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
This is a ground-breaking study into a crucial area of theological education. It traces the origin and evolution of the formation model of training and identifies what difference this paradigm makes to present practice. It uncovers significant and surprising functions of prayer in the formational...
Modern Argentine Poetry
Exile, Displacement, Migration
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
This book is the first to focus specifically on the exile-poetry link in the case of Argentina since the 1950s. Throughout Argentina's history, authors and important political figures have lived and written in exile. Thus exile is both a vital theme and a practical condition for Argentine letters,...
María Zambrano
A Life of Poetic Reason and Political Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
María Zambrano is widely regarded as one of the most original Spanish thinkers of the twentieth century. Her biggest contribution to intellectual history is, without doubt, her poetic reason and unique attempt to overcome the limiting coordinates of the framework of rationality established by the...
Los Invisibles
A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850-1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Research into homosexuality in Spain is in its infancy. The last ten or fifteen years have seen a proliferation of studies on gender in Spain but much of this work has concentrated on women's history, literature and femininity. In contrast to existing research which concentrates on literature and...
by Giulana Pieri
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
The present volume is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian crime fiction, weaving together a historical perspective and a thematic approach, with a particular focus on the representation of space, especially city space, gender, and the tradition of impegno, the...
The Queer Uncanny
New Perspectives on the Gothic
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic investigates the diverse roles that the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud, Helene Cixous and other theorists, plays in representing lesbian and male gay sexualities and transgender in a selection of contemporary British, American and Caribbean fiction...
by Walford Davies
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This critical study covers the whole range of Dylan Thomas’s writing, both poetry and prose, in an accessible appraisal of the work and achievement of a major and dynamic poet. It interrelates the man and his national-cultural background by defining in detail the Welshness of his poetic temperament...
by James A Davies
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Although Dylan Thomas died in 1953, his work has never been out of print and his notorious life continues to fascinate. To mark the centenary of Thomas’s birth, Dylan Thomas’s Swansea, Gower and Laugharne is being reprinted. This popular publication provides a detailed account of the relationship...
Street Urchins, Sociopaths and Degenerates
Orphans of late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
From the notable emergence of orphan figures in late eighteenth-century literature, through early- and middle-period Victorian fiction and, as this book argues, well into the fin de siècle, this potent literary type is remarkable for its consistent recurrence and its metamorphosis as a register of...
Le Bone Florence of Rome
A Critical Edition and Facing Translation of a Middle English Romance Analogous to Chaucers Man of Laws Tale
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Le Bone Florence of Rome is a Middle English tail-rhyme romance whose unique copy dates to the late fifteenth century. An analogue of Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale, it* follows the adventures of a heroine who survives multiple exiles, sexual harassments and false accusations. At the same time,...