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January 1994Die vierzehn Schwestern des Emilio Montez O'Brien
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by Hijuelos, Oscar / Englisch Strand, Michael
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2022Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature
by Nicholas Taylor-Collins
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History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900August 2016Civilisation and nineteenth-century art
A European concept in global context
by O'Brien
Over the course of the long nineteenth century, Civilisation was the subject of some of the most prominent public mural paintings and sculptures in Europe and the United States, especially those that speculated on the direction of history. It also underpinned Western depictions of non-Western societies and evaluations of social progress and artistic excellence. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which the idea of Civilisation acted as a lens through which Europeans and Americans represented themselves and others, how this concept reshaped understandings of historical and artistic development, and also how it changed and was put to new uses as the century progressed. This collection will prove invaluable to students and academics in both history and art history.
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April 2004Irish Pubs
Ein Reisebegleiter durch Irland
by Johann-Günther König, Doris Heitkamp
Pubs und Literatur – das geht in keinem anderen Land besser zusammen als in Irland. Doch Pub ist nicht gleich Pub. In dieser kurzweiligen Rundreise durch Irland stellt Johann-Günther König rund 150 außergewöhnliche Gaststätten vor: Ob literarisches oder singing Pub, Trauer-Pub, Hotel-Bar, Laden-Pub oder viktorianischer Gin-Palace – der Varianten gibt es viele ...Zur Feier des 100. Bloomsday begibt sich König außerdem auf einen pub crawl durch Dublin, der die Spuren von Joyce, Beckett, Brendan Behan, Flann O'Brien u. v. a. aufnimmt.»Ausflüge« in die Geschichte bedeutender Brauereien und Whiskeybrennereien sowie eine Schilderung der Entwicklung irischer Trinkkultur und der public houses runden diese Reise ab.Im insel taschenbuch liegt außerdem vor: Von Pub zu Pub. Eine literarische Kneipentour durch London und Südengland (it 2888)
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2000Contemporary British poetry and the city
by Peter Barry, Kim Latham
Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic poetry, Georgian poetry, etc.) have usually stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban populati. Explores a range of contemporary poets who visit the 'mean streets' of the contemporary urban scene, seeking the often cacophonous music of what happens here. Poets discussed include: Ken Smith, Iain Sinclair, Roy Fisher, Edwin Morgan, Sean O'Brien, Ciaran Carson, Peter Reading, Matt Simpson, Douglas Houston, Deryn Rees-Jones, Denise Riley, Ken Edwards, Levi Tafari, Aidan Hun, and Robert Hampson. Approaches contemporary poetry within a broad spectrum of personal, social, literary, and cultural concerns. Includes 'loco-specific' chapters, on cities including Hull, Liverpool, London, and Birmingham, with an additional chapter on 'post-industrial' cities such as Belfast, Glasgow and Dundee. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2010Race, nation and empire
Making histories, 1750 to the present
by Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, Julian Hoppit
The essays in this collection show how histories written in the past, in different political times, dealt with, considered, or avoided and disavowed Britain's imperial role and issues of difference. Ranging from enlightenment historians to the present, these essays consider both individual historians, including such key figures as E. A. Freeman, G. M. Trevelyan and Keith Hancock, and also broader themes such as the relationship between liberalism, race and historiography and how we might re-think British history in the light of trans-national, trans-imperial and cross-cultural analysis. 'Britishness' and what 'British' history is have become major cultural and political issues in our time. But as these essays demonstrate, there is no single national story: race, empire and difference have pulsed through the writing of British history. The contributors include some of the most distinguished historians writing today: C. A. Bayly, Antoinette Burton, Saul Dubow, Geoff Eley, Theodore Koditschek, Marilyn Lake, John M. MacKenzie, Karen O'Brien, Sonya O. Rose, Bill Schwarz, Kathleen Wilson. ;
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