הוצאת University of Wales Press
הספרים של הוצאת University of Wales Press
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Emyr Humphreys: A Postcolonial Novelist (University of Wales Press - Writing Wales in English)
מאת Diane Green Emyr Humphreys is perhaps best known for his works of fiction, such as A Toy Epic and Outside the House of Baal, which are important in part because of Humphrey’s ideas about Wales, Welsh history and culture, and the importance of a separate Welsh ... |
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An organized women’s suffrage movement operated continuously in Britain for more than sixty years, from the mid-1860s until the achievement of equal voting rights in 1928. This volume represents the first comprehensive investigation into this movement in Wa... |
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Media French: A Vocabulary of Contemporary Usage (University of Wales Press - Media Languages)
מאת Adrian Ritchie Media French aims to provide an up-to-date guide to the current French vocabulary found in contemporary media culture. Drawing on a range of examples from newspapers, the internet, journals, and television, this handy and accessible guide includes words related to such specialized a...
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The Gothic and Catholicism: Religion, Cultural Exchange and the Popular Novel, 1785 - 1829 (University of Wales Press - Gothic Literary Studies)
מאת Maria Purves This unique volume offers up a groundbreaking analysis: proof that a revision is required of the critical commonplace idea in gothic scholarship that the roots of the gothic novel belong within the popular anti-Catholicism of late eighteenth-century Britain. Argui... |
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These days, more and more citizens dream of escaping the rat race and moving to pastoral provinces—such as can be found in the Welsh countryside. This accessible and captivating volume offers practical, straightforward advice to those actively pursuing that... |
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The Welsh in Iowa is a history of the little-known Welsh immigrant communities that dot the Iowa countryside. Identifying the qualities that made the Welsh unique as immigrants, migrants, and settlers to North America, Cherilyn Walley analyzes documentary e... |
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For a small nation, Wales has produced a unique roster of acting talent. Few, however, could equal the level of film stardom experienced by Stanley Baker. His remarkable rise to fame took him from an impoverished childhood in the Rhondda Valley of South Wales t... |
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Deleuze and Guattari: Aesthetics and Politics (University of Wales Press - Political Philosophy Now)
מאת Robert Porter This volume examines the relationship between aesthetics and politics at the forefront of the philosophies espoused by Gilles Deleuze (1925–95) and Pierre-Félix Guattari (1930–92), especially in their famous collaborative works Anti-Oedipus (1972) and ... |
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As any student of Welsh history is keenly aware, the societal upheaval of the 1960s is inextricably intertwined with to the activities of the Movement for the Defence of Wales (Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru, or MAC) and its two main protagonists, Owen Williams and John J... |
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The Stereophonics are surely one of the Welsh nation’s most best-known contributions to the contemporary music scene, and at the heart of their story is the rise and fall and re-emergence of Stuart Cable, the band’s original drummer, who was kicked out of the ... |
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Rhys Davies (1901–78) was a highly prolific writer and one of the first novelists to depict industrial Wales, making his sixty-year career a seminal influence of Welsh literary culture. Davies was a complicated figure hi... |
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Eighteenth-Century Writing from Wales: Bards and Britons (University of Wales Press - Writing Wales in English)
מאת Sarah Prescott Eighteenth-Century Writing from Wales examines Welsh writing in English in the context of recent critical debates concerning the rise of cultural nationalism and the “invention” of Great Britain as a nation in the eighteenth century. This volume represe... |
