Local Governments and the Public Health Delivery System in Kerala
This monograph considers a new public health model in the Indian state Kerala, which is unique in achieving human and social development with a low level of economic development.
This monograph is devoted to contemporary Albanian poetry, given the important role it has continuously played in Albanian literature as a whole. It analyses particular literary periods and their representative poets from a comparative perspective.
Following the recent ‘turn to religion’ that has been so important to English Studies in the 21st century, this monograph builds on many of the recent biographies of Shakespeare that have explored the playwright’s religious views, with a specific focus on his King Lear.
The Imagery of Writing in the Early Works of Paul Auster
Sarmento delves into the early works of Paul Auster, to show how they convey the loneliness of the individual fully committed to writing. She studies the symbolism of the genetic substance of the world (re)built through the work of writing, open to an unlimited mental expansion.
This title presents recent findings and opens new vistas for research by mapping the potential interconnections of intertextuality and intersubjectivity across a range of fields. It incorporates various research foci and topoi across time and space.
Alshammari considers the ways in which madness has been portrayed in writing by women authors, readdressing the madwoman trope from a transnational approach set in contrast to the traditional Eurocentric approach to literary madness.
This book explores representation, transmission and circulation of memory, and how personal and collective memory shapes meanings, values, attitudes and identities. Its focus is on memory as malleable patterns and strategies that highlight the unity of memory and its diversity.
Thomas brings together the oral histories of those who have lived in the Mexican State of Sonora and the corresponding territory in the US, using these voices to paint the revolution in economics, culture, and drug trade that the area has witnessed in gripping, personal terms.
Culture-blind Shakespeare
This collection of essays offers a plethora of responses to Shakespeare by both Western and Eastern critics, indicating that the Bard crosses all nationalities and deserves to be defined as a global writer.
Women in Exile and Alienation
After World War II exile and alienation became two of the most prominent themes in world literature. Singh shows how this is reflected in the portrayal of the tortured psyche of sensitive women, unable to share their feelings, in the work of Margaret Laurence and Anita Desai.
The Trinidad Dougla
Through detailed case studies, Regis investigates the search for personal identity of Trinidad’s Douglas, the offspring of Indo-African unions, as they find themselves in a complex social, cultural and linguistic situation.
T. S. Eliot’s year in Paris was a decisive turning point. This volume reconsiders the deep impact of French and European art and thought on his development, moving beyond accepted narratives to open up new and unexpected veins of inquiry.
This edited volume offers an overview of the complexity of the visual rhetoric of violence, discussing both fictional works, including films and novels, and non-fictional genres, such as news media, showing how such expressions of violence have assumed diverse narrative forms.
Contextual Identities
This interdisciplinary, intercultural book brings the concepts of “identity,” “comparativism,” and “communication” together to reinterpret postmodernism. It investigates multiple identities in discursive contexts and will interest those in image and literary studies.
An accessible and comprehensive analysis of J.H. Prynne, a leading figure in contemporary poetry. This study analyses the nexus between Prynne’s political thought and linguistic innovation, providing a crucial pathway into his most challenging and complex volumes.
Coordination and Subordination
Recent studies challenge the traditional boundaries between coordination and subordination. This collection of papers delves into these challenges, using data from different languages to develop innovative perspectives and advance thought-provoking ideas.
Sanctified Subversives
Sierra illustrates how both English and Spanish Renaissance-era authors latched onto the figure of the nun as a way to evaluate the social construction of womanhood.
Roidis and the Borrowed Muse
Using diverse sources ranging from hagiographies and historiographies to historical novels and satirical poems, this is the first full-length examination of Emmanouil Roidis’ Pope Joan (1866).
W.B. Yeats and Indian Thought
Dabić investigates the impact of Indian philosophy and religion on Yeats’s poetic and dramatic work, exploring its development from his early impressionistic work to his more mature incorporation of such ideas into his writing.
Davis Wood explores James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy as engaged in a complex legal and ethical dialogue regarding the disappearance of the nineteenth century frontier despite the centuries that separate their lives and their work.