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Nurses are motivated by compassion, but how does this 'soft' value fit into modern, evidence-based healthcare? This book answers that question, showing that compassion is not old-fashioned but an indispensable necessity for high-quality, evidence-based nursing care.
Nurses are motivated by compassion, but how does this ‘soft’ value fit into modern, evidence-based healthcare? This book answers that question, showing that compassion is not old-fashioned but an indispensable necessity for high-quality, evidence-based nursing care.
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This book offers a biopolitical analysis of the Harry Potter series. Applying the theories of Foucault, Hardt, and Negri, it reveals how the fantasy world both perpetuates power inequalities and provides a dissident perspective on power relations.
This book offers a biopolitical analysis of the Harry Potter series. Applying the theories of Foucault, Hardt, and Negri, it reveals how the fantasy world both perpetuates power inequalities and provides a dissident perspective on power relations.
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Repeating Words, Retelling Stories
Repetition, Variation, and Serial Significance in Literature
In literature, repetition does more than re-enforce a concept; it creates new meaning. This book explores examples from Homer, Virgil, and Ovid, and draws on neuro-cognitive science to show why repetition is an unavoidable staple of any text.
In literature, repetition does more than re-enforce a concept; it creates new meaning. This book explores examples from Homer, Virgil, and Ovid, and draws on neuro-cognitive science to show why repetition is an unavoidable staple of any text.
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Communication in Postmodern Urban Fiction
The Shadow of Imagination
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.
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.
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Neuroscience is the new paradigm, prefixing everything from economics to ethics. But what does this really mean? This work examines the ethics of neuroscientific investigations and their associated technologies, including the moral problems of cognitive enhancement.
Neuroscience is the new paradigm, prefixing everything from economics to ethics. But what does this really mean? This work examines the ethics of neuroscientific investigations and their associated technologies, including the moral problems of cognitive enhancement.
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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.
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.
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New Thoughts on Old Books
Why Read Homer, Milton, or a Medieval Nun at a Time like This?
Why continue reading “classic” texts today? This book is not a defense of the literary canon. Instead, professors of English offer thoughtful, engaging, personal responses, inviting readers to revisit “old assignments” in new terms.
Why continue reading “classic” texts today? This book is not a defense of the literary canon. Instead, professors of English offer thoughtful, engaging, personal responses, inviting readers to revisit “old assignments” in new terms.
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Seeking a Home for Poetry in a Nomadic World
Joseph Brodsky and Ágnes Lehóczky
This study explores the trespassing of linguistic borders through poets Joseph Brodsky and Ágnes Lehóczky. In their search for identity, these “nomadic” authors adopt English, confronting the fluid nature of language itself and forging new expressions for our future.
This study explores the trespassing of linguistic borders through poets Joseph Brodsky and Ágnes Lehóczky. In their search for identity, these “nomadic” authors adopt English, confronting the fluid nature of language itself and forging new expressions for our future.
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Mythology offers cultural codes essential to the construction of culture and identity. This volume compares mythological elements in contemporary narratives with the motifs of classical narratives, and investigates their functions through semiotics and narratology.
Mythology offers cultural codes essential to the construction of culture and identity. This volume compares mythological elements in contemporary narratives with the motifs of classical narratives, and investigates their functions through semiotics and narratology.
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Jamesian Cultural Anxiety in the East and West
The Co-Constitutive Nature of the Cosmopolite Spirit
This volume explores the world that shaped Henry James’s work through themes of cultural anxiety. Each chapter offers a new way of reading his work to generate insights, establish intercultural understandings, and define the Jamesian worldview as universal.
This volume explores the world that shaped Henry James’s work through themes of cultural anxiety. Each chapter offers a new way of reading his work to generate insights, establish intercultural understandings, and define the Jamesian worldview as universal.
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Understanding Institutionalized Education
Towards a Different Philosophy of the School
This book opposes defining schools solely by their effectivity. It defends the school as a place that enables young people to become sociable and as a place of self-education, stressing the importance of teachers and curricula for creating social cohesion.
This book opposes defining schools solely by their effectivity. It defends the school as a place that enables young people to become sociable and as a place of self-education, stressing the importance of teachers and curricula for creating social cohesion.
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Law, Literature and Political Philosophy in the Spanish Golden Age
A Reflection on Power
This analysis of 16th and 17th century Spain discusses the Catholic reason of state, anti-Machiavellianism, and royal power from the view of Golden Age authors. Literature, law, and political philosophy combine to offer an unusual portrait of power in a time of deep change.
This analysis of 16th and 17th century Spain discusses the Catholic reason of state, anti-Machiavellianism, and royal power from the view of Golden Age authors. Literature, law, and political philosophy combine to offer an unusual portrait of power in a time of deep change.
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This book investigates truth in Anne Sexton’s poetry. The author argues that Sexton's heightened transparency and detailed accounts of her private stories establish a close relationship with the reader, demonstrating a unique inscription of truth in her work.
This book investigates truth in Anne Sexton’s poetry. The author argues that Sexton’s heightened transparency and detailed accounts of her private stories establish a close relationship with the reader, demonstrating a unique inscription of truth in her work.
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This chronological survey of Ancient Greece's major writers explores genres from epic and drama to philosophy. It also features essays on Greek culture, including mythology, theater, government, and science. The book serves as a launchpad for our enduring Hellenic heritage.
This chronological survey of Ancient Greece’s major writers explores genres from epic and drama to philosophy. It also features essays on Greek culture, including mythology, theater, government, and science. The book serves as a launchpad for our enduring Hellenic heritage.
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This book explores the cultural field of poiesis—creativity in art, science, and philosophy. It connects the creative act to metaphysical spirituality and the sacred, revealing it as a synthesis of opposites like intuition and reason that is fundamental to human existence.
This book explores the cultural field of poiesis—creativity in art, science, and philosophy. It connects the creative act to metaphysical spirituality and the sacred, revealing it as a synthesis of opposites like intuition and reason that is fundamental to human existence.
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For students and professionals of textual analysis, this book offers a new way to understand fiction. It replaces traditional linear models with flexible, circular methods that prevent errors of interpretation while providing the keys for testing a reading's validity.
For students and professionals of textual analysis, this book offers a new way to understand fiction. It replaces traditional linear models with flexible, circular methods that prevent errors of interpretation while providing the keys for testing a reading’s validity.
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Shakespeare’s Theory of International Relations
Diplomacy, Romance, and Aesthetics
In Shakespeare’s romances, art becomes statecraft. The Bard’s plays explore paths to peace, showing how rival nations can resolve diplomatic crises, restore frayed alliances, and achieve universal well-being.
In Shakespeare’s romances, art becomes statecraft. The Bard’s plays explore paths to peace, showing how rival nations can resolve diplomatic crises, restore frayed alliances, and achieve universal well-being.
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This collection of papers is divided into two categories: poetry and prose. The poetry section covers the Pre-Romantic, Romantic, modern, and contemporary eras, while the prose section concerns the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
This collection of papers is divided into two categories: poetry and prose. The poetry section covers the Pre-Romantic, Romantic, modern, and contemporary eras, while the prose section concerns the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Journalism Standards of Work Today
Using History to Create a New Code of Journalism Ethics
In an age of new technology, are journalism ethics still relevant? This book examines the first national code of ethics from 1923, finding timeless values that can be applied to media today to equip citizens for representative governance without abandoning essential principles.
In an age of new technology, are journalism ethics still relevant? This book examines the first national code of ethics from 1923, finding timeless values that can be applied to media today to equip citizens for representative governance without abandoning essential principles.
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This book examines literary and cultural representations of old age in Africa. Using ageism as its central theme, it explores the ambiguity associated with the elderly, who are often highly venerated for their wisdom but also stereotyped because of their advanced age.
This book examines literary and cultural representations of old age in Africa. Using ageism as its central theme, it explores the ambiguity associated with the elderly, who are often highly venerated for their wisdom but also stereotyped because of their advanced age.
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