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This book presents the findings of a qualitative research study on the views of language students and critically analyses the speculative components of intercultural communicative competence regarding their feasibility in the study abroad context.

In this musical collection, Lorraine Byrne Bodley reflects upon composer Seoirse Bodley's musical settings of Goethe's poetry by examining the cultual and poetic contexts key to their construction.

Sedirse Bodley is one of the best-known senior figures of contemporary music in Ireland. This book seeks to examine his engagement with the poetry of Micheal O'Siadhail and the making of these song cycles. It assesses the joint contribution to Irish art song and seeks to understand its roots in and departure from European tradition.This apograph is the first publication of Bodley's O'Siadhail song cycles and is the first book to explore the composer's lyrical modernity from a number of perspectives. Lorraine Byrne Bodley's insightful introduction describes in detail the development and essence of Bodley's musical thinking, the European influences he absorbed which linger in these cycles, and the importance of his work as a composer of Irish art song. She asks an array of questions: Does song play a new role in twentieth-century music or was this the age, as many have insisted, that bears witness to the «death of song»? How does contemporary Irish art song inscribe individual concerns and mirror the influence of dominant social trends through its music and its texts? She demonstrates that the answers to such questions illuminate the context in which these cycles were created, and how they were valued and viewed. Through a blend of close analysis of Bodley's songs and wide-ranging engagement with both poetry and music, this book sheds new light on Bodley's integral part in fashioning Irish art song. It analyses the way Bodley's song has been harnessed both to legitimate and to challenge national art song. And it identifies elements of Bodley's musical style which are shaped by European tradition.Beyond such musico-poetic analysis, Lorraine Byrne Bodley's reading of the threefold roles of continuity, gradual change, and revolution opens up a «braided history» of Irish art song, where song is not an aesthetic given but a means to understanding the changing patterns of life. She argues convincingly that an understanding of the way in which Irish society has perceived song in recent centuries is available through a consideration of song as social document, and in her appraisal of Bodley's O'Siadhail settings she considers the importance of these song cycles as a reflection of Ireland's rich cultural history.

This is the first book-length study to examine the predicaments and achievements of mid-Victorian war poets. Confronted with news of suffering soldiers during the Crimean War (1854-6), these 'armchair poets' engaged with the politics of war by composing lines of verse at home, reworking established traditions of war poetry.

In a modern Christian conception of God, however, God is no longer seen as a lawgiver outside the cosmos but as dynamic fundamental love, whose dynamism is manifested in cosmic evolution. Precisely this drive forms the root of the ethical imperative.

In The Worlds of Mia Couto a diverse group of literary experts sets out to explore Mia Couto's oeuvre in relation not only to the imaginary worlds created by the author but also to the complex geographical, cultural and literary contexts that are woven into the texture of his work.

This book interrogates the notion of belonging through musicing rituals in the South African context. The authors raise questions such as "What can we learn from musicing rituals?", "What does it mean to belong through musicing?" and "In what ways could musicing address marginalization and transform a broken society?"

This book is the first translation into the English language of a comprehensive study of opera and its constituent parts by an accomplished writer of the Eighteenth Century. Francesco Algarotti was concerned with developing opera as drama and a move away from the elaborate formality of the Baroque to a more naturalistic style.

These essays by leading scholars examine the power of serendipitous encounter between artists, thinkers and artistic media as well as the importance of creative interjection in the arts and humanities. They bring texts and artworks into relation in order to amply demonstrate that relation itself is a form of thinking

This book explores the historical and artistic value of three bande dessinee (BD), French-language comics, that depict the lives of Existentialist thinkers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus. The work is the first to analyse biographical BD through the lens of Existentialism, offering a new theory of reading biographical comics.

With a global view and a vision of our digital future, we should move forward with an understanding of data rights legislation at pace. The earlier we set the value norms around data in this digital long distance race, the more likely we will grasp the opportunities therein and embrace a future of commonly understood values. With a view to the future, the branch of Chinese law that is most likely to lead the world is that related to the digital economy. At the same time, if China wants to be amongst the world¿s leading digital economies, the basics to be understood and promoted most are higher quality, fairer and more sustainable institutional protection for data rights and subject-relevant interests, and the ability to offer systematic and accurate legal rules within the various digital disciplines.

Irish Lesbian Writing Across Time is an attestation of a historical presence of lesbians in Irish literature, as it analyses the progression of Irish lesbian narrative over the past two centuries, whilst verifying key characteristics of time periods that correspond with the model of development.

This book offers a 360 Degrees look at breast cancer from individuals who have intimate understanding of and experience with it: patients, healthcare providers, and researchers and scholars. This book is meant to be a single go-to source for people who want to understand more fully and clearly the lived experience of breast cancer.

Bullying is a social phenomenon that defines the contemporary workplace with much of the emphasis on psychosocial rather than physical suffering. In France, workplace bullying has emerged as a subject of intense interest and controversy among scholars, policy makers and cultural producers ¿ notably novelists, playwrights and film directors. It has a high public profile as reflected in specific legislation, a wealth of critical literature on workplace suffering, and an extensive range of novels, plays and films. This study contextualises and analyses this wave of fictional storytelling that has emerged in France since the year 2000. It critically analyses more than a dozen such stories with a view to determining how they reflect the lived experiences of workers. Each story is considered from the perspectives of critical commentaries and research from France and elsewhere, focusing on the disciplines of philosophy, psychology, medicine, anthropology, sociology, literary analysis, economics, law and business management. This study also examines how fiction reflects changes in the nature of the French economy, organisations and work itself since the advent of neoliberalism in the 1980s.

Based on new research and translations of unpublished writings by Russian emigre philosopher Lev Shestov, this book analyses the thoughts of one of the most influential thinkers of the past century in an interdisciplinary context. His work is read in the light of pivotal figures such as Dostoevsky, Husserl, Jaspers, Buber and Freud.

This volume details the results of an excavation carried out prior to development at Swan's Nest in Swaffham, Norfolk, which recorded prehistoric activity spanning the Mesolithic to Iron Age. The evidence has granted a significant insight into the prehistoric communities that once occupied the environs of Swaffham and the wider Breckland region.

Provides a comprehensive roadmap to successful PhD completion, offering a useful guide for aspiring and existing doctoral students in business and management disciplines and the social sciences.

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.