Carver Across the Curriculum
Carver Across the Curriculum presents innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to teaching Raymond Carver’s work. Drawing on international scholars, this collection is a guide and inspiration for instructors, offering new insights into his fiction and poetry.
Truth to Power
How can scholars penetrate the corporate media? This collection of articles explores the role of the intellectual in a society where privately owned media dominates public discourse. Never have their opinions been more crucial to the public good.
(Dis)Entangling Darwin
Driven by a childlike curiosity and an appetite for discovery, Charles Darwin dedicated his life to “disentangling confusions.” His legacy remains as controversial and exhilarating today as it was then, challenging scholars and inspiring new research.
Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel
This is the first book to combine scholarship on the picaresque novel with microhistory. This innovative volume brings together expert scholars to reveal how microhistory can shed new light on classic novels and their marginal protagonists.
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.
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.
Eleven scholars challenge the popular vision of the American South as an ill region. They interpret its “sickly” culture not as a problem, but as an opportunity and a springboard to cultural revitalization and a new kind of “health”.
The Threat and Allure of the Magical
This collection of essays explores intersections between the occult and the political, and the entanglement of magic, modernity, media, and aesthetics. Topics range from the witch in print media and the Third Reich’s occult to 19th-century novellas and film.
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.
This collection of essays explores the intersections of public and private life in eighteenth-century Britain, an era of major change. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on canonical works, cultural exchange, fashion, gossip, and gender issues.
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.
Rhetoric in the Twenty-First Century
The result of a symposium held in Oxford to consider the most fruitful trajectories of rhetoric in the 21st century, this collection assesses the various possible futures of the ancient discipline of rhetoric as it responds vitally to the evolving contexts of the new millennium.
Florida Studies
This volume includes essays on Florida literature and history. Of special interest are studies of 19th and 21st-century literature, the contributions of African-American figures like Zora Neale Hurston, and suggestions for teaching Florida Studies.
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.
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.