This study focuses on the inverse symmetry between the national and international receptions of two Brazilian writers Joao Guimaras Rosa and Jorge Amado. The Rosa case compounds that of other great writers including Machado de Assis Mario de Andrade and Carlos Drummo... Lees meer.

Focused on the appropriation of John Dewey s ideas on progressive education in revolutionary Mexico this book reconsiders the interpretation and application of Dewey s ideas in the world. Rodriguez examines the use of Dewey in Mexico s state-building projects as a vant... Lees meer.

This volume examines the determining role of context in the production and reception of news texts from the seventeenth century until the first half of the twentieth century. The context is understood as historical social political professional textual and material... Lees meer.

This study examines the determinants of current account export market share and exchange rates. The author identifies key determinants using Bayesian Model Averaging which allows evaluation of probability that each variable is in fact a determinant of the analysed com... Lees meer.

Although Kierkegaard s reception was initially more or less limited to Scandinavia it has for a long time now been a highly international affair. As his writings were translated into different languages his reputation spread and he became read more and more by people... Lees meer.

This book offers an up-to-date insight into the early philosophical debate on Einsteinian relativity. This book offers an up-to-date insight into the early philosophical debate on Einsteinian relativity. The essays explore the reception and interpretation of Einstein s... Lees meer.

Nuit et Brouillard Night and Fog 1956 by Alain Resnais carried the impact of the Holocaust to the cinema screen and to societies across the world. This volume which coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the film s release examines its representation of the Hol... Lees meer.

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This volume tackles G del s two-stage project of first using Husserl s transcendental phenomenology to reconstruct and develop Leibniz monadology and then founding classical mathematics on the metaphysics thus obtained. This volume tackles G del s two-stage project... Lees meer.

Proust voyait dans la multiplicit des interpr tations engendr e par la r ception des uvres litt raires leur seule possibilit de survie dans le temps. Loin d tre un monument fig dans le temps la Recherche ne cesse de r sonner dans la parole de nouvelles g n rations... Lees meer.

This volume maps the reception of New Portuguese Letters in Portugal and abroad with a mainly feminist approach. The ban on the book deemed scandalous and trial of the authors found instant international support abroad. An invaluable contribution to the history of wo... Lees meer.

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The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department s Diplomatic Reception Rooms one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more... Lees meer.

This book presents both a historical overview of the absorption of Heidegger s thought into English-language philosophical schools as well as a philosophical discussion of his thought provided by contemporary scholars. This book presents both a historical overview of... Lees meer.

Over the course of the nineteenth century Siberia developed a fearsome reputation as a place of exile often imagined as a vast penal colony and seen as a symbol of the iniquities of autocratic and totalitarian Tsarist rule. This book examines how Siberia s reputation c... Lees meer.