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Through application of modern historiographical analysis and scriptural exegesis, the book explores the space between factual history and interpretive history, or histoire. Muhammad al-Tabari's History, written about 300 years after the establishment of Islam, is one of the religion's most important commentaries.

This collection explores the concept of patrimoine, a French word used to denote cultural heritage, traditional customs and practices, and the extent to which it impacts France and Ireland. The contributors unearth manifestations of how patrimoine resonates across cultural divides and bestows uniqueness on countries/societies.

This book represents an extensive examination of human hands and feet and their functions as media of nonverbal communication in the transmission of the mission and message of Jesus by the early church

In this edition, the first in which all Beethoven's Irish folksong settings are published together, the late baritone, broadcaster and musicologist, Tomas O Suilleabhain, selected texts, mostly by Burns and Moore, which he felt were more appropriate to the airs and to Beethoven's settings.

L'ecriture a l'ere de l'indetermination considere l'experience de la litterature comme une maniere de traiter les questions les plus complexes du monde contemporain. L'auteur souligne l'importance de la critique genetique et de la psychanalyse lacanienne pour les etudes litteraires de Flaubert, Proust, Bauchau, Murakami, Poe et Joyce.

This volume is an edited collection of original essays on spiritual travel in medieval and early modern Europe. Pilgrimage was a central feature of medieval and early modern Christianity. But holy travel was not only a physical act, it was also an interior disposition and a spiritual process.

"And yet I remember" explores representations of ageing and old age in English drama from 1660 to the 1750s. Within these approximately ninety years, England witnessed significant developments in medicine and the advent of sentimental philosophy, which began to transform attitudes toward old age and ageing.

This collection of essays is devoted to the Jewish themes that ran through Lion Feuchtwanger's life, works and worlds. The author's approaches to Jewish history, Zionism, religion and Jewish identity are all explored. The book also more broadly considers the condition of exile and the communities of emigres in North America and beyond.

This book is about unifying in one theory the human being, Homo psychicus, both as an affective/internal present being and an operative, cognitive being. The author's empirical research is directed towards development of the Percept-genetic Object-Relation Test (PORT) to show how Homo psychicus may become a person.

This anthology brings together texts of significance for the conceptualisation of human dignity as a constitutional principle in Europe from the earliest evidence until 1965. It presents the ancient, medieval, early modern and modern sources. It will provide a comprehensive collection of texts documenting the concept of human dignity.

Jules Romains est connu comme un ecrivain rationaliste, mais il est fascine par tout ce qui releve du parapsychique et de l'extraordinaire. C'est en replacant sa production dans le contexte d'une epoque meurtrie par deux Guerres mondiales qu'on peut expliquer le fait qu'il glisse d'un unanimisme optimiste a un fantastique desespere.

C¿est la qualité transculturelle, atemporelle et transgénérique des textes de Colum McCann qui intéresse cet ouvrage. L¿auteur n¿ancre complètement son oeuvre dans aucune tradition, aucun courant ou mode défini, et propose des textes récalcitrants à toute tentative de classification. En invitant régulièrement le symbole dans un univers vraisemblable, McCann ébranle parfois le réalisme de ses textes. De plus, en logeant dans son oeuvre celles et ceux qui ne trouvent pas leur place au centre du tourbillon de l¿ère qui est la nôtre, il prend le contrepied du discours historiographique dominant. Ainsi, la notion de rupture apparaît comme une clé de lecture, et son étude permet de comprendre qüau plan métatextuel, elle inclut plus aisément les lecteurs au sein même des textes, lesquels représentent des espaces d¿accueil, de véritables forces centripètes qui les ramènent au coeur de l¿expérience littéraire. Cet ouvrage ne s¿intéresse donc pas seulement à la création et à la constitution des textes, mais également à leur réception. Ils pourraient être perçus comme autant de synapses assurant la transmission de l¿expérience, qui constituent des outils permettant aux lecteurs de repenser leur être-au-monde, notamment à travers l¿expérience de l¿empathie.

The text of this book, preceded by an introduction, is presented in seven chapters and covers a period of approximately five thousand years. In an aural culture what was the role of gesture and what is its role now? There are many doors to open in pursuing these and other questions. This book opens some of them.

En todas las áreas, las personas con voluntad de cambio y desarrollo social utilizan las formas artísticas y la creatividad para conmover la esfera pública, atraer la atención, tomar poder sobre los espacios urbanos y generar nuevos lenguajes y voces sociales. El activismo artístico involucra a personalidades creadoras de todas las culturas, se enraíza en ideas políticas esenciales, moviliza ideas de cambio e igualdad social e interesa a las generaciones más jóvenes, en un espíritu que rompe las barreras académicas y las distinciones profesionales. La creatividad activista con frecuencia ha sido percibida como próxima a la categoría del outsider art que engloba el arte producido por no artistas donde el contexto específico sería la protesta política y/o la experimentación social. El artivismo tiene sus raíces en las vanguardias artísticas (dada, futurismo, surrealismo, etc.) y el posterior desarrollo y auge en la década de los años sesenta y setenta del pasado siglo (performance, happening, body art, land art, video art o arte conceptual), que, muchas veces, nace de una especie de desmaterialización del objeto artístico. Este libro se centra en prácticas de creatividad activista de España, Chile, Perú, Reino Unido, Colombia, etc. que tienen que ver con los actuales fenómenos de crisis discursiva, ideológica, política, económica, financiera. Entender el artivismo, un concepto que, nada más pronunciarlo, despierta un amplio abanico de sensaciones.

This book questions the extent to which knowledge and experience can be reasonably, if at all, separated in consideration of the divine. Gregory Palamas's dynamic patterning of unions and distinctions provides the context for a response to this question in which the breadth and depth of human functioning is explored.

The pursuit of women's pleasures, often expected to be constrained under patriarchy, is potentially transgressive and linked to women's emancipation in other realms. This book explores a wide range of examples of women and pleasure in French and francophone culture, from novels to stand-up comedy.

A manifesto for the systems-thinking-informed approach to incident and accident investigation, this accessible text is aimed at experts and generalists alike. A Glossary of Terms explains key concepts.

Through the voices of stakeholders in the field of teaching English to speakers of other languages (ESOL), this volume critically examines models of language provision and integration, the relationship between language and identity, and developing ESOL practices and policy.

Este libro forma parte de un proyecto de refundación conceptual del pensamiento en América latina y que ha sido realizado en cuatro partes. La cuestión periférica. Heidegger, Derrida, Europa (en prensa) es la primera parte en donde se establecen las cuestiones y problemáticas básicas. El fin de la naturaleza. Fallo y propósito en la especulación. Antropología de la naturaleza en la periferia (en prensa) es la segunda parte en donde dichas problemáticas básicas son reformuladas en términos de porvenir. El presente volumen, tercera parte del conjunto, es el desarrollo y expansión argumentativa en términos de mundo de dicha base conceptual y problemática. Y, por último, El pensamiento basura. Transitoriedad, materia, viaje y mundo periférico (2017) constituye la cuarta entrega que explora, basándose en un leading case, los alcances de los precedentes planteos a partir de los significados que el concepto de especulación posee en los colectivos humanos contemporáneos de la periferia. El propósito de este proyecto, del cual además este libro es su ilustración más extensa y variada, es establecer las bases de la noción de ámbito periférico como ecología/ambiente epistémico indispensable a la reflexión intelectual. Y por lo mismo como forma de entendimiento de lo especulativo con lo biosférico.

What is Sci-Fi? Science fiction is a non-realist genre that revels in discovery and revelation, whether through human ingenuity or world-altering paradigm shifts. With accessible chapters on key texts appealing to both general readers and researchers, this volume offers a useful survey of the genre, from Octavia Butler to Westworld.

The general aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of metonymy, using the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics. The book argues for a conceptual rather than purely linguistic basis for metonymy and explores distinctions between metonymy and other figurative language.

This book presents a seven-stage model of spiritual awaking amongst women living with chronic "invisible" or contested illnesses which bears relevance for people faced with any kind of life-altering condition. The illnesses featured include ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Electromagnetic Sensitivity, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Lyme disease.

Ireland and the North is engaged with the relationship between Ireland and the Nordic countries. Chapters include a wide-range of areas including art history, literary history and theory, archaeology, antiquarianism, media studies and political analysis. The book moves beyond the predominant literary paradigm in Irish Studies, expanding the field.

In seguito al 150 Degrees della nascita di Luigi Pirandello, questo volume del Centro Europeo di Studi Pirandelliani si propone di rendere conto di alcuni degli molteplici studi recenti sulla sua opera. I contributi si inspirano alle piu attuali teorie per confrontarsi con temi come le narrazioni contrastanti e i ricordi conflittuali.

This book offers a comparative theological exploration of the challenges and opportunities presented by the Qur'anic representation of Christianity as the People of the Book, ahl al-kitab, in the Qur'anic commentary tradition. It explores the use of the term in the context of our increasingly interconnected and pluralist societies.

This anthology is a collection of four contemporary Chinese plays by the playwright Wan Fang, presented in the original Chinese and in English translation. An introduction by the volume editor offers a survey of the development of modern Chinese drama.

This volume provides readers with a timely study of intergenerational conflicts seen through the eyes of British and Irish playwrights from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. The heart of the discord lies in crises between age and youth, old and new, which play out in clashes of cultures, artistic visions and aesthetic ideals.