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This edited volume investigates the role of digital communication in relation to linguistic diversity and language education in today's digitally networked world. The collection explores diverse digital venues in which language has different roles and functions, including education, politics, technology, media, and popular culture.

An original work, drawn from archival sources from across the Iberian peninsula. It examines the history of a dynamic and enterprising group of Irish women who migrated to Spain at the end of the fifteenth century, and throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in three distinct waves of migration.

This edited collection of essays brings together discussions on the role,representation and perception of women from the early 1900s to the present day.

How do we remember? And how can we do commemoration better? These questions are movingly explored by leading writers, artists, musicians, religious leaders, military veterans and scholars, illuminating a subject that is sensitive and sobering but which also speaks to our common humanity.

Pastoral Theology is taught in secondary schools through the Christian Religious Studies (CRS) syllabus. The primary focus of this book is to present the theological content in the curriculum of CRS. It presents the actual content designed by educationists using the Nigerian model. It proposes an African Theology of Education.

Data Rights Law 1.0 proposes a new concept -'data person'. It defines 'data rights' as rights derived from the 'data person' and 'data rights system' as the order based on 'data rights'. 'Data rights law' is the formed out of the 'data rights system'. The book constructs a framework of 'data rights-data rights system-data rights law'.

Sebastiano Vassalli (1941-2015) engaged in an ambitious project to narrate Italy, the nation, its people and its pathologies. For Vassalli, chimeras are the myths that have repeatedly ensnared the nation, resulting in the social and political dysfunctions he denounces. This book represents the first study of Vassalli's works as a whole.

Cosmos and Camus explores the intersection of science fiction film with Albert Camus' philosophy of the absurd. Analyses of the films Contact, Arrival, A.I. and Her show that imaginative collisions with nonhumans help to illuminate the nature of the absurd in the human condition.

This book offers a model for social justice documentary and transmedia arts activism called third digital documentary. Drawing on the author's own transmedia project on indigenous and minority language endangerment and revival, the author explores the potential of this critical art practice.

Terence FitzSimons is an Honorary Research Fellow at Federation University Australia and an honorary historian with Sovereign Hill Museums Association, an affiliated institute of the university. His research interests are centred on Victorian social history.

When Europe fell prey to totalitarian regimes in the twentieth century, the Slovene artist Tone Kralj expressed resistance through his paintings in Catholic churches on the Slovene-Italian ethnic border, which show Hitler and Mussolini as villainous Biblical characters. This highly illustrated volume traces the anti-fascist messages in his work.

As well as providing a very readable and comprehensive study of the life and music of John Buckley,¿Constellations also offers an up-to-date and informative catalogue of compositions, a complete discography, translations of set texts and the full libretto of his chamber opera, making this book an essential guide for both students and professional scholars alike.

Lecture proceedings including the essence of theatre; Ireland's contribution to the art of theatre; the potential of drama in the classroom; the relationship between drama and film; and on opera and its history.

Poems 2000-2005 is a transitional collection written while the author - also known to be W. J. Me Cormack, literary historian - was in the process of moving back from London to settle in rural Ireland. It is also a vigorous contribution to the age-old dialogue between Sacred and Profane themes, questioning beliefs and pleasures, guilts and landscapes, poetic methods and prosaic realities.

Since the late 1970s there has been a marked internationalization of Irish drama, with individual plays, playwrights, and theatrical companies establishing newly global reputations. This book reflects upon these developments, drawing together leading scholars and playwrights to consider the consequences that arise when Irish theatre travels abroad. Essays discuss some of Ireland¿s major theatre companies ¿ Druid, the Abbey Theatre, Rough Magic, Blue Raincoat, Field Day and others ¿ while also exploring the presence of Irish drama in the UK, the USA, Germany, and throughout Ireland. The volume also presents the views of key playwrights, featuring essays by Elizabeth Kuti and Ursula Rani Sarma, and including a new interview with Enda Walsh.

In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th - early 20th century, Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland and other countries where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics at once contemporary and comfortably remote.

This book examines approaches and responses to working with the asylum-seeking, refugee and migrant communities in Ireland.

What are Monsters? Monsters serve as a warning about something amiss in our surroundings. This collection of original and accessible essays looks at a variety of contemporary monsters from literature, film, television, music and the internet in their respective cultural contexts. Texts range from District 9 to Cleverman to Lady Gaga.

Ireland on Stage: Beckett and After, a collection of ten essays on contemporary Irish theatre, focuses primarily on Irish playwrights and their works, both in text and on the stage, in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Die Beitrage des Bandes konzentrieren sich auf die unterschiedlichen Formen und Medien einer oeffentlichen Erinnerungskultur im deutsch-franzoesischen Kontext. Der Band leistet somit einen wichtigen Beitrag zur interdisziplinaren Vernetzung sowie zur Erweiterung der theoretischen Ansatze im Rahmen der Lion-Feuchtwanger-Forschung.

Ana Duffy holds a PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of Queensland, Australia. She has worked in various Australian universities as a lecturer and tutor in the fields of Latin American studies and literature, Spanish and, being a writer herself, in creative writing and literary studies.

L'auteur montre comment, sous la plume de Jean Lorrain, de Marie Corelli, de Henry Rider-Haggard ou de Renee Vivien, des silhouettes mythologiques, bibliques et historiques invitent a nuancer l'omnipresence de la femme fatale dans le second dix-neuvieme siecle et a interroger la notion meme de fatalite.

This collection of essays and papers written over the span of fifteen years explore the dialogic element in selected works from late Romanticism to early Modernism. Essays discuss Byron, Ruskin, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Hopkins, Ouida, Joyce and T. S. Eliot.

This book is based on a study of Australian documentary films produced by and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders since the early twentieth century. The book aims to expose the course of race relations in Australia in documentary film by Aboriginal filmmakers, tracing their struggle to achieve social justice and self-representation.

Documentary in Wales has emerged only recently, with a new Welsh-language broadcaster launching in 1982. It has been modulated by the enriching, but sometimes uneasy, relationship between both national languages (Cymraeg and English). This book explores the unique Welsh context and its effect on the development of documentary.