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"Pilar Villar-Argáiz's sustained, meticulous, and exacting study of Eavan Boland opens up and articulates in a fresh way the key dimensions of her poetry. It succeeds not only in tracking the far-reaching ramifications of Eavan Boland's politicized aesthetic as a postcolonial writer but in urging us to revisit the crystalline and precisely etched poems of one of the most significant artists in contemporary Irish culture."Professor Anne Fogarty, University College, Dublin (from the Introduction)This monograph is an original and important contribution to the growing body of critical studies devoted to one of Ireland's major living poets: Eavan Boland (see Haberstroh 1996; Hagen & Zelman 2005). It details the controversies that were prompted by the inclusion of Ireland in a postcolonial framework and then tests the application of an array of cogent theories and concepts to Boland's work. In an attempt to explore the richness and complexity of her poetry, Villar- Argáiz discusses the contradictory pulls in her desire to surpass, and yet at the same time epitomize, Irish nationality. Boland's remarkable achievement as a poet lies in her ability to stretch, by constant negotiations and re-appropriations, the borderlines of inherited definitions of nationality and femininity.Chapters include: Re-examining the postcolonial: Gender and Irish studies, Towards an understanding of Boland's poetry as minority/ postcolonial discourse, A post-nationalist or a post-colonial writer?: Boland's revisionary stance on Mother Ireland, To a "third" space: Boland's imposed exile as a young child, The subaltern in Boland's poetry, Boland's mature exile in the US: An 'Orientalist' writer? and Conclusion.Review: "This rigorous and informative exploration of the poetry of Eavan Boland by Pilar Villar-Argáiz proves the validity of drawing upon the resources of postcolonial theory to illuminate her work. Through the lens of postcolonialism, the deep-seated preoccupations and complex imaginative foundations of Boland's writing are carefully excavated and interpreted. Villar-Argáiz, moreover, in her observant close readings of poems from different phases of the author's oeuvre reveals how recurrent issues such as the problem of national and cultural identity, the ethical responsibility of engaging with the past, and the quest for fluidity and openness are variously engaged with, both aesthetically and philosophically. Villar-Argáiz's sustained, meticulous, and exacting study of Eavan Boland opens up and articulates in a fresh way key dimensions of her poetry. It succeeds not only in tracking the far-reaching ramifications of Eavan Boland's politicized aesthetic as a postcolonial writer but in urging us to revisit the crystalline and precisely etched poems of one of the most significant artists in contemporary Irish culture." - Professor Anne Fogarty, Department of English, University College Dublin, IrelandAbout the Author: Dr. Pilar Villar-Argáiz lectures in the Department of English Philology at the University of Granada, Spain, where she obtained a European Doctorate in English Studies (Irish Literature). She is the author of Eavan Boland's Evolution As an Irish Woman Poet: An Outsider within an Outsider's Culture (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007). She has also published extensively on the representation of femininity in contemporary Irish women's poetry, on cinematic representations of Ireland, and on the theoretical background and application of feminism and postcolonialism to the study of Irish literature. In addition, Dr. Villar Argáiz has co-edited two books on English literature.Irish Research Series, No.51

Higher education is undergoing profound change at an unprecedented pace in today's academic marketplace. Administrators and academics nowadays must be able to make balanced decisions based on a methodology that is comprehensive, unambiguous, and credible. The authors of this title provide a methodology based on their collective experiences in perhaps the toughest sector of the marketplace - the HBCU sector.

A soldier before becoming one of the great scientists of the 19th century, Roderick Murchison's journals and letters of his wartime experiences have never been properly edited and published before as a single collection. They will add our knowledge of the British Army and Royal Navy attempts to keep Napoleon at bay in Spain and in Italy and to the final victory at Waterloo as ell as providing a fascinating social history of the times."...this material is of great importance to scholars and students of the Napoleonic Era. Highly recommended for research libraries and personal collections." Professor Michael Collie, late University of TorontoSir Roderick Impey Murchison (19th February, 1792 - 22nd, October, 1871), K. C. B., D. C. L., LL. D., F. R. S, F. G. L., etc., was one of the founders of modern geology. Using discernible fossil communities he established the Silurian, Permian, and, with Adam Sedgwick, the Devonian stratigraphic systems of geology. He extended his fieldwork to Europe and the Russian Empire and thus demonstrated the universality of the fossil-based stratigraphic systems that he had delineated in Britain. He gained fame by predicting gold in Australia, based on his findings in Russia where his coal discoveries ( made at the behest of the Czar) helped spur Russian railway development. Roderick Impey Murchison was twice president of the Geological Society of London (1832 - 1833 and 1841 - 1843), and was President of the Royal Geographical Society four times (1843 - 1845, 1851 - 1853, 1856 -1859 and 1862 - 1871). He also served one term as President of the British Association (1846) and became the Director General of the British Geological Survey (1855). He was awarded the Wollaston Medal of the London Geological Society (1864), the Copley Medal from the Royal Society (1849) and the Brisbane Medal from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Sir Roderick established the Murchison Medal and fund, which is awarded each year by the Geological Society of London and the position of Chair of Geology and Mineralogy at the University of Edinburgh. Sir Roderick was also a member of the scientific academies of France, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and Belgium among others. His leadership in geography was honoured by having numerous geographical places on earth named 'Murchison.' There is even a crater on the moon named Murchison to acknowledge his pioneering accomplishments in geology. However, before he was a famous geologist, geographer and 19th century British and European scientific leader, Roderick Murchison had a very different dream; he grew up wanting to be a career army officer, and desired to eventually attain the rank of General of the British Army. He spent the 10 years between ages 13 and 23 in uniformed pursuit of that goal.The Murchison Diaries covering the Napoleonic Wars have been edited by his descendant Dr. Arthur Murchison . The diaries begin with Ensign Murchison carrying his regiment's (36th Regiment of Foot) Colours into the bloody gun smoked chaos of a Spanish battlefield, French cannon and musket balls striking soldiers near him. Lieutenant Murchison survived the horrible retreat to Corunna and a frightening stormy sea voyage back to Britain. He served as a general's aide de camp in politically corrupt Bourbon Sicily during months of a booming artillery battle across the Messina Straits while he copied dispatches, studied opera music, watched a double hanging and made love. After a narrow escape from 'Algerine' pirates he returned to Britain and Northern Ireland were he was again his general's aide-de-camp. After Emperor Napoleon's first abdication in 1814 Captain Murchison visited France and found himself fleeing from Napoleon and his gathering army. Wanting to get back on the promotion generating battlefield, he became a cavalry officer but was disappointed because he did not see the final battle at Waterloo.

This study goes beyond the dichotomies of globalisation. It notes that certain dualities recur in the literature on this subject. In one widely influential distinction, there are two primary forces at work in the rise of globalisation: globalisation from above, a process that primarily affects the elites within and across national contexts, and globalisation from below, a popular process that primarily draws from the rank-and-file in civil society.

Dr Nall's monograph uses a title that may seem familiar since it is a tribute to Val Plumwood's classic ecofeminist work, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. Nall, like Plumwood, explores the dominant Western discourse around gender and childbirth. The research examines the connections between the understanding of women and nature and the construction of pervasive conceptualisations and practices of childbirth.

"It is very heartening to see Gulnara Karimova's scholarly work on the application of Bakhtinian theory in understanding the marketing communication process being put to intriguing practical use in this new handbook of creative strategies. "Chris Miles, PhDLecturer in Marketing and CommunicationSchool of Business and ManagementQueen Mary, University of London----------------------------------------------------------------In this book, Dr.Gulnara Z. Karimova concentrates on current pressing issues within the theory of interactive advertising. Such problems as defining interactivity and measuring levels of interactivity have recently attracted great interest among researchers. In spite of previous research attempts to address these issues, the field of interactive advertising has not progressed much beyond its preliminary phase. This book is an attempt to further the literature in the filed by applying Bakhtinian concepts of 'dialogic relationships,' 'polyphony,' 'carnival,' and the idea of the 'chronotope' to advertising research and analysis. This research translates into English, for the first time, many of Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical and philosophical insights. As such this book provides insights into Bakhtinian philosophy and reveals new perspectives and contradictions within well-known Bakhtinian concepts. The book contains original material from the correspondence between Bakhtin and his follower Vladimir Turbin, a popular professor of Russian literature at Moscow, that has never previously been translated to English. Using an innovative approach, this study shows how Bakhtinian concepts can be applied to fields other than literary theory. The Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication notes that Karimova's book Bakhtin and Interactive Advertising: "makes a valuable contribution to the study of interactivity by executing a rigorous and thought-provoking conceptual analysis that problematizes the way in which interactivity, as practice, has been stripped of its dialogical and communicative features by key theoreticians in the field." Dr.Karimova discusses two problems related to the theory of interactive advertising: how interactivity can be defined and how it can be measured. For this purpose, the book uses Bakhtinian concepts as well as other theories and ideas, such as Gérard Genette's typology, Kristeva's notion of intertextuality, Chris Miles' model for advertising communication, and cybernetics. The work will be of immense interest to communications, marketing, and advertising researchers, and specialists involved in interactive advertising, the theory of interactivity, and Bakhtinian philosophy and practice.

The Nietzschean revolution governed the twentieth century, preaching the revaluation of all values, the privileging of interpretations over facts, the dominance of art. The 'crisis of consciousness' is our normality. Nihilism is both good and bad. It opposes all the conventional thinking and moralistic repressions of periods before the telescreen age. But not so many people can believe in nothing, and Nietzsche wasn't one of them. The book asserts that while Nietzsche's insights were necessary, in 2012 we have to revalue his value.

This new collection covers poems by Rudi Holzapfel from his earliest published attempt at Trinity College, Dublin, when he was just 21, through his years in Leeds and Bonn, and finally the years of his Tipperary sonnets to his death in 2006.

Provides researchers in various disciplines with the full picture of the range of memory studies and demonstrates the critical value of having a memory culture that is an essential construct of civilization and literary and historical culture.

Investigates the representation of Jewish characters in 70 of the prolific and wildly popular Mrs Braddon's novels from the mid-19th century to the eve of World War One. It considers how Braddon changes her descriptions across this timeframe and argues that these changes are reflective of the changing social and economic status of the Anglo-Jewish population.

This research monograph is an important contribution to the study of the author, Kurt Vonnegut and the great evolutionary scientist Charles Darwin. The book examines Darwin's influence on the American culture that were Vonnegut's major focus and interest and the source of his importance as a major American writer of the later half of the 20th century.This book is relevant in its attempt to understand, in Vonnegut's novels, how Darwin's theory of evolution functions as a cosmogonic myth that is widely accepted in order to explain why the world is as it is and why things happen as they do, to provide a rationale for social customs and observances, and to establish the sanctions for the rules by which Vonnegut's characters conduct their lives. Moreover, this book deals with how and why Kurt Vonnegut's fiction represents the changing human image resulting from Darwinism. The author discovered and developed his literary theory of "Evolution as a Mythology" from the novel Galápagos (Kurt Vonnegut,1985). McInnis persuasively developed theory suggests changes to the American (and English) literary landscape with a new and dynamic way to interpret literature, something the literary field has not seen since since Jean-Francois Lyotard described his ideas on narrative in his essay, the "Postmodern Condition," published in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction in the early 1980's.

Examines the relationship between suburbia and gender in the cinema of the 1970s. Divided in to three parts it examines suburbanization and the effects of gender construction in the US in the early '70s; provides in-depth critical readings and discussions of films of the period; and provides an overview of the American revival of the theme of the suburban woman in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Demonstrates how a major Christian thinker's work can be shown to express the benefits of metaphorical theology indicated by Sallie McFague, without the necessity of abandoning the core of Christian theology, because metaphor is intrinsically tied to the Church's Chalcedonian understanding of the Incarnation of the eternal Logos.

Richard Wright died 50 years ago and in that time there has been little research on the role of women in his powerful novels of African-American life in America. This research monograph fulfills that informational and interpretative need. It is an analysis of Wright's seemingly thin and shadowy use of female characters and a reinterpretation of those characters as symbolical instruments in the development of Wright's chief male characters as they struggle as "boy-men" in the profoundly racist America of the early and mid 20th century America. Both white and black women are examined and their effect on the black male protagonists is subjected to intense critical scrutiny. Wright's own personal life is also discussed as a means of interpreting his own relations with both his (white) wives and the effect this may have had on some specific narrative elements in his work."Both Wright and his great contemporary Ralph Ellison struggled with their literary as well as their personal relations with women of all backgrounds. Dr Brewton has succeeded in giving us the research needed to understand the moral,cultural and political underpinnings of that struggle and its great cry of protest in Wright's mature work." Dean Joseph

Argues that the electoral process in the US should be considered as a public good. It traces the connections between the US system of private funding of electoral campaigns and specific difficulties that the country has encountered with regard to the environment, health care, and the financial crisis. It draws the conclusion that greater political equality can best be achieved by funding political campaigns with public funds.

Interprets the Supreme Court cases that have played a unique role in changing American law, politics and history. This title includes twenty-five cases that are preceded by a treatment of the historical, political and economic context during which they are decided.

Covers general application of action research for responsive proactive intervention in classroom instruction and improvement of higher education outcomes for students, graduate students and returning seekers of higher education as well as faculty needing mentoring and focus in their career development.

Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908) wrote from 1890 onwards under the pseudonym of Lanoe Falconer. This title features novellas "Mademoiselle Ixe", "Cecilia de Noel" and "Shoulder to Shoulder", five short stories and a volume of reminiscences entitled "Old Hampshire Vignettes" of Mary Hawker.

Discusses and analyzes the rise and fall of the last of the old western vigilance committees - and the rise of the first modern American committee devoted to ferreting out 'Un- American activities' among the laboring poor, union leaders, progressive politicians and social activists.

The late Ted Hughes felt that healing was the most fundamental characteristic of all poetry. This study discuss and interprets the healing quality in Hughes' poetic works and evaluates the poet's notion of its significance for human civilization.

A literary analysis that focuses on the changes in attitude and expectation that the British writers demonstrate in navigating the issues of race, class, gender, religion, education and age in both Indian and European characters and settings. It discusses, compares and contrasts Indian nationalism in three seminal novels.

A study that focuses on the dynamic potentialities of language, whether via the reanimation of moribund ideas or by coinages from scratch. It analyzes such topics as: imitation, rumor, political correctness, jargon, euphemism, plagiarism, stereotyping (racial or otherwise), repetition, and caricature.

Consist of a set of essays on a variety of legal issues facing professional basketball. This title discusses the international dimension of the sport. It focuses on the restrictions on the free flow of labour and capital.

Since 1947, the founding Six nations have polled much more in favor of European union than have their neighbors. And Europeanism is so integral a part of their nationalisms, so sacralized and unassailable, that EU membership is overwhelmingly beyond reproach. This book tells why and how this came to be.

Applies the lens of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's philosophy to the critical writings of Walter Benjamin, the latter devised amid and atmosphere of emergent fascism in Europe between two World Wars. This book discusses Walter Benjamin's critic and contemporary Martin Heidegger.

Examines nascent movements, genre shifts, developing authors/playwrights and controversial themes as they emerged in both drama and theatre. It focuses on the creative nexus of London from the end of the nineteenth century up to the beginning of the Great War (1914), discussing, among others Wilde, Shaw, Pinero, Strindberg, Harley Granville Barker, Ford Madox Ford, D.H. Lawrence, Galsworthy, Sims, women playwrights, and popular theatre.

A research monograph that discusses the understudied and often misunderstood aspects of West African culture and religion especially that of the Yoruba people and their ""Book of Enlightenment"" together with its metaphysical importance to the Yoruba as a source of philosophy, religion and literature.

Lanoe Falconer (nom de plume of Mary Elizabeth Hawker) was one of England's most accomplished young writers in the 1890s. This title includes several of her short stories that introduce researchers and other readers to the literary quality, power and scope of 'the unobtrusive Miss Hawker'.