This article examines the way Michael Roes redefines friendship in his novel Geschichte der Freundschaft (The History of Friendship) by usig texts by other writers and philosophers. After placing Roes’ novel in its historical and cultural context, the article compares Geschichte der Freundschaft with Tahar Ben Jelloun's novel Partir / Leaving Tangier (2006). The final section of the article then interprets Roes’ use of intertexts on the subject of male-male friendships. The focus is on Roes’ appropriation of texts by Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault, which throws light on his treatment of the novel’s central theme, friendships between men, and homosexual relationships.

Trafodaeth gan yr athronydd Cymreig, J. R. Jones, ar hunaniaeth y Cymry a pherthynas hynny gyda'r iaith Gymraeg, ei dirywiad a'r pwysau i gymhathu â'r diwylliant Prydeinig. Cyhoeddwyd hefyd fel rhan o gyfrol

Casgliad o ysgrifau gan yr athronydd J. R. Jones yn trafod parhad yr iaith Gymraeg a hunaniaeth Gymreig yn wyneb Prydeiniad y gymdeithas, yr Arwisgiad a dadfeiliad crefydd.

Cyhoeddwyd y llyfr hwn yn wreiddiol yn 1964 pan oedd y ras i'r lleuad yn ei anterth. Ceir ynddo hanes yr ras fawr rhwng Unol Daleithiau America a Rwsia ac amlinelliad hefyd o'r gweithgareddau eraill yn y gofod. Fe'i ysgrifennwyd er mwyn esbonio egwyddorion y maes i'r Cymro cyffredin heb gefndir gwyddonol.

The geographical distribution of Ophelia bicornis is restricted to the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and the western coast of Europe as far as Brittany and southern parts of Great Britain. Within this wide reach, the worm is restricted to very narrow areas (in the context of the rise and fall of the tide) of sand which are generally unsuitable for sustaining populations of animals and plants. Despite this, Ophelia is shown to succeed and flourish there, depending, to a large extent, on physical and physiological adaptation.

After a brief summary of the recent theoretical context of masculinity studies and the notion of identity, this article will analyze the construction of masculinity in a novel by one of Morocco’s most notable authors, Tahar Ben Jelloun’s L'Homme rompu. It will refer to this theoretical context in order to highlight the full weight of discursive pressures that are exerted on the individual. It will offer an in-depth analysis of masculinity and identity in the novel and, with reference to its unofficial sister-novel, Simone de Beauvoir’s La Femme rompue, will question to what extent the existentialist concepts of individual choice and subjectivity are still valid in the current theoretical climate.

This article examines a Welsh choir’s visit to Franco’s Spain at the invitation of the Francoist organisation Educación y Descans (Education and Leisure). At first the invitation sparked a debate in the local press on the principles of travelling to a country that was at the time shunned by the international community. The choir itself came from an area which had provided volunteers for the international brigades, but which was also co-incidentally involved with the establishment of an international music festival in the name of peace and understanding. The article examines the account of the choir’s journey to Spain, and discusses how the image of the Franco regime is portrayed in that account. The article also analyses to what extent the choir’s visit was used as propaganda by Franco as his foreign policy shifted with the advent of the Cold War.

This article aims to draw critical attention to interesting features in the work of the Sardinian author, Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), an author who has not received sufficient critical attention. The article examines the relationship between identity, language and narrative in two of Deledda’s key novels, namely La madre (The Woman and the Priest / The Mother) and Il segreto dell'uomo solitario (The Secret of the Solitary Man). It analyses the way in which the two protagonists undergo a journey of self-understanding by facing their hopes and troubles in life. We see that while linguistic interaction is necessary for some, language itself serves as a weapon for others to control their own identity and even the identity of others.

Tephrochronology studies in the North Atlantic typically focus on large scale silicic volcanic eruptions such as the Askja 1875, Hekla 1104 and Öræfajokull 1362. However, smaller-scale Icelandic eruptions are becoming more important as regional time marker horizons and have the potential for application across widerdistances e.g. the Eyjafjallajökull eruption of 2010. The Grákolla tephra is one such layer, sourced within the Torfajökull volcanic system. On the basis of major element chemistry, the tephra layer exhibits an identical geochemical fingerprint to the Landnám tephra, which is also sourced from the Torfajökull system. However, distinct differences are discernible on the basis of trace element chemistry, although some data overlap remains. This realisation highlights the potential for introducing significant age discrepancies to a dating framework based on recent silicic Torfajökull tephra deposits in the Faroe Islands if tephra identification is based solely on major element chemistry. Six hundred years separate the eruptions, which although a relatively short time frame for geological events, represents a significant time frame for the dating of human events.

Araith o'r 1960au gan yr athronydd Cymreig J. R. Jones, am yr hollt rhwng y rhai sy'n siarad Cymraeg a'r di-Gymraeg yng Nghymru a sut mae cau'r bwlch heb danseilio'r iaith Gymraeg ei hun. Cyhoeddwyd hefyd fel rhan o gyfrol

Cyfweliadau gyda chyfarwyddwyr theatr blaenllaw a ffilmiwyd yn ystod Penwythnos Cyfarwyddo Theatr 2013 a 2014. Dyma brosiect cydweithredol a drefnir gan Brifysgol De Cymru.

Cyfres o gyfweliadau gyda chynhyrchwyr a chyfarwyddwyr allweddol ym maes y cyfryngau yng Nghymru: Aron Evans Endaf Emlyn John Hefin Naomi Jones Paul Jones Peter Edwards Sue Jeffries Gwawr Lloyd Rhodri Talfan Davies Sara Ogwen Williams Ed Thomas