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.
Hilarion’s Asse
Nine authors unlock Laurence Sterne’s kaleidoscopic humour. This volume explores its many facets—the genial, bawdy, sentimental, philosophical, irreverent, and ludicrous—sending the classic text spiralling right off the page.
Historicizing Fiction/Fictionalizing History
A unique comparative study of Umberto Eco and Orhan Pamuk. This book uses their historical novels to examine fictional depictions of reality, exploring how the text confronts a world of facts and how this affects the autonomy of the fictional space.
This volume represents a meeting ground for historians, philologists, and scholars of social science, to discuss places and roles of laughter in history, in historical narratives, and in cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present.
The essays here focus on the relevance of the past to the present and future in terms of the shifting attitudes to personal and collective experiences that have shaped dominant Western critical discourses about history, memory, and nostalgia.
History, Politics, Identity
This book highlights issues of culture and identity, focusing on how cultural encounters are changing the world and its reflection in literature. Emphasizing cultural pluralism and the necessity of coexistence, this collection will appeal to scholars and the general public.
Ertin looks into the terms “camp” and “the closet” in Alan Hollinghurst’s fiction, since all four of his novels investigate the gay male experience throughout the late-twentieth century, to see whether the author writes from the margin or from the centre to recreate the origin.
Home and Away
The first contribution to literary juvenilia studies in the past decade, this volume theorises the current state of this field and exemplifies it in action, showing the importance of the familiar world of home and the territory of adulthood to the imaginations of young authors.
This book reveals Homer’s vibrant legacy in Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian, and Argentinian literature from the 19th to the 21st century. Juxtaposing Homeric motifs across genres—theatre, poetry, novel, and short story—it offers a unique cross-cultural comparison.
Homosexuality, bisexuality, transvestitism and trans-genders represented new ideas and mentalities which shattered nineteenth-century Italy. This book offers a comprehensive overview of this phenomenon and makes a major contribution to Italian studies and modern European history.
Horace’s Odes brought Greek lyric metres to Rome and have been loved for 2000 years. These elegant verse translations recreate the original metres, capturing the poetry’s unique structure and sound. Includes a full introduction, extensive notes, and facing-page Latin text.
How Adaptations Awaken the Literary Canon
This book illuminates how reimagining narratives creates empowerment. It explores adaptations—from classic literature to fairy tales—that retell and awaken the literary canon, interrogating conventions and revealing the unique power of reframing stories.
This book explores Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer’s fictional world as a lifetime battle against apartheid. A crusader for human rights, Gordimer fictionalized her activism to fight the regime’s censorship and depict the denial of basic rights to Black people.
These essays examine the influence of Christian Latin literature upon the Latin and vernacular letters of the Iberian Peninsula (1480–1630). Contrary to most studies, this volume accommodates authors writing in Portuguese, Catalan, and Latin.
Humanity at the Heart of Practice
Healthcare is humans caring for other humans. This book on ethical decision-making uses humanity as its organizing structure, exploring values and theoretical ethics to resolve complex dilemmas at the beginning and end of life, and in healthcare as a business.
How does humour work? This book tests Attardo & Raskin’s General Theory of Verbal Humor, proposing a new ‘humorist reading’. By providing the tools to ask ‘why is this humorous?’, it offers a valuable new way to understand any literary text.
Humour and Identity in Jewish American Fiction
This book explores the connection between humour and identity in contemporary Jewish American literature. It is a serious investigation into the strategic use of humour in identity formation, revealing the serious undertones in works that may first appear merely humorous.
Hungarian Perspectives on the Western Canon
In this collection, Hungarian literature is read together with canonical works of the Western literary tradition. The text scrutinises the distinction between “major” and “minor” literatures, showing that this can highlight previously unknown components of the literary tradition.
Hybridity
This volume critically assesses the notion of hybridity in literature and the visual arts from the eighteenth century to the present. It examines the concept as one held in contempt by purists, promoted by syncretists, and viewed with suspicion by its critics.
This anthology explores hybridity in Spanish culture from Imperial Spain to the twenty-first century. The literary and visual texts studied blur fixed boundaries between genres, cultures, and languages. A hybrid itself, this collection points to the future.