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Now maintained as a museum and memorial site, the former camp of Fossoli was a Nazi concentration and transit camp for political opponents, Jews and forced labourers. The essays in this volume analyse, from different disciplinary perspectives, the material and immaterial heritage that constitutes a rich and articulated memorial system today.

Harmony Notes Book 1 offers a fresh engaging approach to the study of four-part vocal harmony. The presentation of material follows a carefully graded sequence. Each topic is supported by worked examples incorporating detailed explanations of good practice and is is underpinned by recordings of the material.

This biography delves into Fitzmaurice's creative identity by reconstructing the regional roots of his themes, characters and dialect.

This book explores Hollywood's concern with unresolved racial tensions from the antebellum era to the Civil Rights movement. All major films about the Civil War are discussed, including The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind, as well as considering the film industry's depiction of African Americans on screen.

This book uses the Russian notion of perezhivanie, a kind of a teachers' response to the digital transformation push, which is shaping teaching and learning nowadays, to describe why and how teachers make decisions and act the way they do, and grow professionally.

This work is Volume 2 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. It comprises a series of some twenty biographies raisonnees of literary figures from across the French, German, English, Italian, Spanish and Russian contexts.

This work is Volume 1 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. It comprises a series of some twenty biographies raisonnees of literary figures from across the French, German, English, Italian, Spanish and Russian contexts.

The author explores the challenges and obstacles faced by children who were removed from their families by the state in the nineteenth century. The children in this study were rescued from neglected, abusive or dangerous situations and committed to care. They were criminalized and incarcerated in industrial schools until they turned sixteen.

Alma Moodie's letters trace her experiences as a violinist on tour against the backdrop of the instability of the Weimar Republic, the Great Depression, the Third Reich, and the perils of war. Available for the first time in English translation, the letters, accompanied by essays by scholars in the field, offer a unique insight into this period.

This volume focuses on the ways in which mutual musical engagement might play a role in creating healthful, life-giving experiences. Scholarly chapters and reflective interludes illustrate how people use music to forge authentic spiritual and emotional connections with others, including in times of physical isolation and political unrest.

Although Anselm Kiefer's work is routinely compared with the Gesamtkunstwerk, the 'total work of art' pioneered by Richard Wagner, this book investigates the highly ambivalent relationship between these two artists. Their views on art and society, individualism and counter-Americanism are all explored.

This new and expanded edition of William Kingston's Interrogating Irish Policies looks at the Irish political system with an emphasis on innovation and history.

This volume consists of various approaches to the spirituality of the singing experience, and how these have changed or even been heightened during the current pandemic. It offers a number of very wide-ranging perspectives from across the world. The chapters are drawn from several cultures and include a number referring to the various lockdowns.

How does modern writing in French grapple with the present absence and absent presence of lost loved ones? This book explores the question from the Revolution to the COVID pandemic, showing how mourning blurs the boundaries between the personal and the historical, the aesthetic and the ethical.

In Great Britain, discussions of the Coronavirus pandemic have frequently been intertwined with references to the Second World War. Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, this comprehensive volume seeks to evaluate the uses (and abuses) of this rhetoric. The result is a multifaceted meditation on the response to the pandemic.

This essay collection begins the vast project that is the global history of Ralph Ellison's life and work. It examines how and why this avowedly 'American' author read literature and scholarship from across the world and has in turn been widely read outside the borders of the USA, including South Africa, the USSR/Russia, Germany and Japan.

The Edwardian era is often romanticised as a tranquil period of garden parties and golden afternoons, but the reality was quite different. The years between 1901 and 1914 were a highly turbulent period of intense social conflict, and this volume draws attention to the writing of the marginalised, including women, minorities and the poor.

These letters give a personal and intimate insight into the lives of two sisters living in Madras (now Chennai) in the time of Jane Austen. Both describe day-to-day life, occupations and relationships in the earliest days of British settlement, providing a rare glimpse into the social history of a place in India, far from home.

This book aims to make an important contribution to the emerging field of German Pop Music Studies. The volume explores how pop music interacts transnationally with literature, politics, film, video and fine art. Artists examined include Kraftwerk, Einsturzende Neubauten, Tocotronic, Ja, Panik, Gerhard Richter, R. W. Fassbinder, amongst others.

Reimagining the Family is the first book-length study of representations of lesbian mothering in French literature. Focusing on female-authored texts published between 1970 and 2013, the book explores how literature reflects, engages with and even anticipates the recent, highly charged debates on the rights of same-sex couples in France.

This book is the first major examination of the history of physical education in Irish primary and second-level schools in the twentieth century. Set within the context of major international developments in the subject, it examines its state in Irish schools prior to the partition of the country in 1921.

This book explores the political and poetic paradigms of reconciliation represented in Australian writing from the 1990s to the present, as Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians entered a new conversation on race relations. Writing served as an outlet for understanding sovereignty, colonial history and the future of society.

Immigrants, migrants, displaced and diasporic persons: all have been constrained or enabled by borders of some sort.This bookexplores international cases of how and why such boundaries come to be, how they affect individuals and nation-states, and what can be done to the solve the inequities they cause.

This book is a cultural history and interpretation of Brazilian modernism in the arts and letters. In the first three decades of the twentieth century, artists, writers, musicians, and architects from both sides of the Atlantic interacted to create a modern style for Brazil, helping to define Brazilian national expression into the present.

Adds a new dimension to Hopkins Studies through its exploration of the complex and sometimes confounding friendship between the Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Hopkins and the editor of his first collected works, the poet and critic Robert Bridges