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How French is 'French' sport?
(Edinburgh University Press, 2015-12)
This article explores how sports in France have responded to the challenges of globalization, and also to the opportunities of an increasingly multicultural society. Two case studies are offered in which a distinctive ...
Tackling homophobic bullying through poetry from the foreign language class: A didactic proposal
(Revistas Científicas Complutenses, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2016-10-07)
Otherness, of which the homosexual other is a component, is rarely included in syllabi. This
paper will explore the negative implications of its omission, and the benefits of its inclusion in academic
curricula, with ...
“I am coming!” Returning to the Womb in Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Klavierspielerin and Michael Haneke’s Film La Pianiste
(German Studies Association of Ireland, 2010)
Elfriede Jelinek‟s Die Klavierspielerin (1983),
1
a novel about a piano teacher (Erika
Kohut) at the Vienna conservatory in her late thirties who still lives with her mother
in a small flat, deconstructs and anatomises ...
The Discovery of Phocaean Red Slip Ware (PRSW) Form 3 and Bii ware (LR1 amphorae) on sites in Ireland - an analysis within a broader framework
(Royal Irish Academy, 2010-04-29)
Phocaean Red Slip Ware and Bii amphorae sherds have been identified, by
the present author, at the site of Collierstown 1, County Meath. One of the
advantages of discovering Phocaean Red Slip Ware Form 3 on sites in ...
Trembling Drums. The Permeable Membranes of Rilke’s “Weltinnenraum”
(German Studies Association of Ireland, 2014)
At first sight, looking at Rilke’s Duineser Elegien and Sonette an Orpheus when thinking of utopian, dystopian or heterotopian spaces represented in literature seems an unlikely choice. It is Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte ...
‘Harry Potter is funny’. The tricky task of translating humour and character voices into Spanish
(Association for Language Learming, 2012-05-04)
In 2003 the highlight of the International Federation of Translators conference was their UNESCO Literary Translators Committee Round Table devoted to the translators of J.K. Rowling’s work as contributors to her popularity. ...
New speakers of Irish: shifting boundaries across time and space
(De Gruyter Open, 2014-12-18)
While traditional Irish-speaking communities continue to decline, the number of second-language speakers outside of the Gaeltacht has increased. Of the more than one and half million speakers of Irish just over 66,000 now ...
"L'anglais tel qu'on le court": Antoine Blondin's "clichéd view of Englishness" in Tours de France: Chroniques intégrales de L'Équipe 1954-1982
(Liverpool University Press, 2014)
From 1954 to 1982, the right-wing French novelist Antoine Blondin wrote adaily chronicle for the three weeks of the Tour de France cycle race in thepages of the newspaper L’Équipe in which he was given the freedom tocover ...
Kontinuum der Ausnahmezustände. Hans-Henny Jahnn 1930-1950
(De Gruyter, 2016-12-31)
Hans Henny Jahnn (1894‒1959) gilt heute als einer der „großen produktiven
Außenseiter des [20.] Jahrhunderts“ und zugleich als „Verneiner der Zivilisation“1 Die
meisten Standardwerke der deutschen Literaturgeschichte ...
Historicized fiction or fictionalized history?: Lia Levi's Cecilia va alla guerra and the legacy of the First World War in contemporary Italian children's literature
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017-04)
Historical fiction has always been a popular genre in international children's literature, and recent decades have seen a notable increase in the number of novels for children set during the First World War. Providing ...