These essays offer a multifaceted discourse on the soul. Using a multicultural approach, they explore fundamental themes of human existence, revealing universal values in cultures distant in time and space through religious, philosophical, and historical debates.
This volume explores entrepreneurship education and development in Southern Africa. Using case studies, it discusses how higher education institutions can empower youth with entrepreneurial skills to improve the economy and drive innovation.
This multidisciplinary book deconstructs misinformation and power structures to comprehend human interactions. It challenges dominant narratives by explaining the interplay between language and power, humor and laughter, media and culture, and literature and cinema.
Rural Writing
This anthology revisits rural areas and their representations in contemporary writing, in both popular and high culture, in order to draw a global landscape of current rural areas and new regionalities.
Teaching English Literature and Interdisciplinarity
This book explores teaching English and interdisciplinarity, engaging with issues that go beyond the strictly ‘literary’. Including chapters on film, feminist, and cultural studies, this collection provides a global perspective to widen horizons for academics and researchers.
This volume gathers evaluations of the soul from artistic, mystic, and theological perspectives. Explore the concept of the soul in its ethical and emotional dimensions across global cultures, from Christian and Oriental traditions to those of Ancient Egypt.
Disability in Spanish-speaking and U.S. Chicano Contexts
Covering the period from the seventeenth century to the contemporary era, diverse geographic areas, and multiple artistic genres, this eclectic collection of academic essays, creative writing, and mixed media photo-images focuses on myriad representations of disability.
Social Sciences and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Explore how Social Sciences can address Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This interdisciplinary volume analyzes local challenges and cultural nuances, weaving together empirical research, case studies, and local voices to offer actionable insights and grassroots solutions.
Baltic Postcolonial Narratives
This book explores postcolonialism’s difficult entry into the Baltic literary domain. It provides timely insights by analyzing Lithuania’s best postcolonial novels from the last decade of the Soviet period and the more recent post-Soviet era.
This volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd by focusing on the character. Using mathematical approaches, it introduces new algebraic and geometric models to analyze dramatic relations. Useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging, or writing a play.
Communication in Postmodern Urban Fiction
Exploring urban fiction from the 1980s to the early 2000s, this book reveals an anxiety about the loss of self in our digital age. From Auster and Ellis to Palahniuk and DeLillo, it highlights how distanced communication triggers an imagination of violence and destruction.
Death Representations in Literature
This volume overcomes stereotypes that trivialize death in literature. It reveals the great potential of literary studies to provide fresh ways of interrogating death as an unavoidable human reality and as an ever-continuing socio-cultural construction.
China Views Nine-Eleven
In this collection of essays, scholars, mostly from China, address how Nine-Eleven affected the United States globally and at home. They discuss foreign policy, internal politics, and cultural repercussions, viewing the events in a much broader historical context.
Social Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century
This collection uses social network analysis and digital humanities to re-imagine the 18th century as a networked community. It explores how clubs and associations formed public opinion, revealing surprising parallels to today’s digital public sphere.
Probing the Skin
Across art, literature, and medicine, these essays read the skin—as a sensual surface, a racial marker, and a canvas for tattoos, scars, and memory.
This collection of essays contributes to Potter Studies, examining Rowling’s work as a literary and cultural phenomenon. International scholars explore the books’ popularity, their effects on readers, film adaptations, and philosophical considerations of good and evil.
Balkans and Islam
This multidisciplinary volume offers a special approach to the evolution of Islam in the Balkans. Accessible to students, academics, and the general reader, it provides knowledge of the region’s past and present, with hope for an integrated future.
The Deconstructive Owl of Minerva
This book uses philosophy, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism to deconstruct schizophrenia. It challenges symptomatic treatment by seeking alternative ways to understand the plurivalent language of the condition, opening new spaces for cultural articulation.
The Good Body
This book examines how nineteenth-century American literature and culture defined “normal” and “abnormal” bodies to justify or critique concerns like slavery, national progress, and the Civil War, shaping the political and social orders of the era.
Byron’s Temperament
This edited volume is the first to draw together dominant strains in critical thinking about Byron’s temperament and behaviour, using discourses and paradigms drawn from various disciplines, including literary studies, history of medicine, behaviourism, and cultural studies.