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This is the autobiography of a significant figure in post-Soviet Eastern Europe - Vytautas Lansbergis - the first President of independent, post-Soviet Lithuania. He traces the process which led to the end of the Soviet Union and discusses influences upon himself.

This book takes the form of a gazeteer of the temporary camps which the Romans constructed in South Wales when on the march. Whilst the permanent Roman forts are an ever popular field of study this book, examining what are often barely discernable earthworks fills a major gap.

This volume, based on the research of W. Gareth Evans, explores state secondary schools in Wales from 1896-2000. By the time of his death, Evans had covered the period from 1896 to 1970 and the volume's coeditors continue his original, comprehensive study of the history of external examinations in Welsh schools during the twentieth century. Using never before analyzed documents, this volume demonstrates how the present system of external exami...

Groups in Conflict" addresses the conflict and tensions that exist between impartiality and partiality in political philosophy, ordinary thought, and practice by setting theoretical arguments in the context of contemporary issues such as immigration and public policy. Donald Franklin asserts that two camps of ethicists--those concerned with political philosophy and those concerned with personal morality--have been ignoring the implications of ...

This illuminating volume sheds light on the religious women of medieval Wales, drawing on a wide range of sources from saints' lives and native poetry to holy wells and visual imagery. "Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales" explores the meanings, manifestations, and related iconography of feminine sanctity in a specifically Welsh context, including Welsh sources on the Virgin Mary, valuable insights into the history of Welsh nu...

The Poetry and Poetics of Nestor Perlongher "is the first full-length study in English of the highly regarded and influential Argentine poet and anthropologist and his pioneering body of work. Taking on some of the most dynamic and conflictive themes of modern-day Latin America, Perlongher's (1949-92) poetry explores dictatorship, national identity, exile, issues of gender and marginal sexualities, and modern-day esoteric religious ritual--all...

Though the Eisteddfod continues to gain popularity with the help of the recent Bardic revival inside and outside of Wales, the radical activist who shared its patriotism, Iolo Morganwg, has been all but forgotten. In "The Literary and Historical Legacy of Iolo Morganwg (1826-1926), " the writings of this influential antiquarian, poet, literary forger, and collector are presented in extended selections that give the reader the opportunity to st...

Ancrene Wisse and Vernacular Spirituality in the Middle Ages" is an introduction to the "Ancrene Wisse"--an important thirteenth-century guide for recluses who, for religious reasons, withdrew from secularity in order to lead an ascetic and prayer-oriented life. This volume considers the broad religious context in which the "Ancrene Wisse" was written and broadens that context by addressing issues of readership, drawing comparisons between lay...

Contains T H Jones' poetic output. This edition includes early poems and drafts, the verse drama "The Weasel at the Heart" as well as poetry from "The Black Book", Jones' manuscript notebook. It also contains an outline of Jones' career, a bibliography and review of critical materials and a discussion of Jones' poetic techniques.

Centres on the bombing of Getafe, a town south of Madrid shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. This book establishes the importance of the Getafe incident and goes on to analyse "collateral damage" inflicted by air-forces on both sides during the war.

In this frank account Nicholas Crickhowell relates the full and controversial inside story of the rise and fall of the Cardiff Opera House, a tale of intrigue, double-dealing and back-stabbing, and waste of lottery money.

Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing Am...

Rhys Davies (1901-78) was a highly prolific writer and one of the first novelists to depict industrial Wales, making his sixty-year career a seminal influence of Welsh literary culture. Davies was a complicated figure himself: a gay man who grew up as a shopkeeper's son in the Rhondda, he ultimately left Wales to write about his homeland in England. This volume unravels his national experience and its deep ties to complex issues of class, sexu...

This volume examines the relationship between aesthetics and politics at the forefront of the philosophies espoused by Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) and Pierre-Felix Guattari (1930-92), especially in their famous collaborative works "Anti-Oedipus "(1972) and "A Thousand Plateaus" (1980). Robert Porter analyzes the relationship between art and socio-political life, considering the ways the aesthetic and political draw from each other. Particular att...

Republicanism and the American Gothic" offers a comparative study of British and American literature and culture in the 1790s and 1950s, as it recontextualizes American gothic fiction from the perspective of the cold war. Exploring the republican tradition of the British Enlightenment and the effect of its translation and migration to the American colonies, Marilyn Michaud pays particular attention to the transatlantic influence of seventeenth...

As evidenced by the vampires, werewolves, and other frights overrunning the best-seller lists, the Gothic remains immensely popular. This collection of essays traces the roots of the Gothic to an unexpected source: eighteenth-century interpretations of Shakespeare. Through close attention to literary, cultural, and historical detail, the contributors demonstrate that even as Shakespeare was being established as the supreme British writer, he w...

Throughout his career, Wilkie Collins made changes to the prototypical gothic scenario, reworking and adapting aristocratic villains, victimized maidens, and medieval castles in order to thrill his Victorian readership. Drawing upon contemporary anxieties introduced by advances in neuroscience and the development of criminology, Collins transformed Moorish castles into modern medical institutions and ghost-fearing heroines into nineteenth-cent...

The Welsh in Iowa" is a history of the little-known Welsh immigrant communities that dot the Iowa countryside. Identifying the qualities that made the Welsh unique as immigrants, migrants, and settlers to North America, Cherilyn Walley analyzes documentary evidence, as well as community and oral histories, in order to examine Welsh culture as it was expressed in middle America by the farmers and coal miners who passed through the prairie state...