The Selected Letters of Katharine Tynan
Poet, novelist, and fighter for justice, Katharine Tynan (1859–1931) wrote through the turbulent times of Irish politics, the Great War, and civil war. An early friend of W. B. Yeats, her autobiographies and letters provide valuable insight into her extraordinary life.
Current Research on Language Learning and Teaching
This first collection of essays by scholars from Bosnia and Herzegovina provides state-of-the-art overviews of current issues in the language sciences, uniting interdisciplinary perspectives on language acquisition and its applications for foreign language education.
The Dan Brown Craze
Zhang and Zhu investigate why the work of Dan Brown has attained such global appeal, from a Chinese perspective, and provide a detailed exploration of his plots, characterisation, themes, and techniques.
Doris Lessing
Majoul investigates various facets of Doris Lessing’s writing, viewing her as a historiographer and a transnational mediator between the East and the West. She also establishes an analogy between Lessing’s texts and various other works, including Salman Rushdie’s Shame.
Equestrian Rebels
This collection of essays commemorates the first centenary of Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajo, and traces its impact on twentieth-century autobiographies, memoirs and, more specifically, on the Novel of the Mexican Revolution.
Teaching Literacy across Content Areas
This book answers teachers’ questions about implementing the Common Core State Standards. It contains practical teaching strategies, examples, and illustrations to prepare diverse students for college and career by helping them analyze complex texts and solve real-life problems.
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.
Knowledge Dissemination in the Long Nineteenth Century
Offering insights into various under-explored phenomena, the studies here deal with literary, cultural and linguistic history in Europe and the US during the nineteenth century, focusing particularly on the numerous advances made during that period.
Radical Contra-Diction
This first book-length study of Coleridge’s reactions to the French Revolution examines his trajectory from ‘radical’ to ‘conservative’, and challenges the very notion that these labels can be applied to him.
This volume is centred around the idea that the aim of literature is to build bridges, and, as such, focuses on the moral purpose of literature and its tendency to overcome divisive forces, using examples from texts across various geographical and cultural borders.
Dwelling in Days Foregone
Inspired by Svetlana Boym’s seminal study The Future of Nostalgia (2001), the contributions brought together here examine American literary texts and cultural phenomena as manifestations and expressions of nostalgia.
This book reviews twenty years of research in German industrial relations. It analyzes changes in the German model and its major institutions, namely trade unions and co-determination, and discusses contributions from disciplines like HRM, economics, and labour law.
Kassis focuses on Iceland as a nineteenth-century utopian locus in the light of racial theories attached to the country’s national framework, investigating how nineteenth-century travellers defined their national identity and gender in relation to Iceland.
Ethical Aestheticism in the Early Works of Henry James
This study reveals parallels between the aestheticism of Henry James and John Ruskin. Rather than placing James in a single category, it demonstrates how he interfused Romanticism and realism, drawing on German thought and French realism to establish his own aestheticism.
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.
Mohammed presents an appraisal of George Bernard Shaw’s position on women in his plays, exploring the ways in which the playwright addresses gender inequality and his attempts to project a “new woman” who is the pursuer rather than the pursued.
Re-Entering Old Spaces
Using “old spaces” as a metaphorical tool, this book reintroduces established topics with new approaches. Contributors explore how spaces—physical, symbolic, and aesthetic—are created and recreated through writing, reflecting both their “visitors” and their “hosts.”
Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie
Ridley considers the work of Barrie from the perspective of the science of his time and the insights of modern cognitive psychology, arguing that Barrie describes the limited mental abilities of infants and animals in order to illuminate the structure of human adult cognition.
Moving beyond prescriptive guidelines, this book proposes a new theory of terminology. Based on extensive field research and literature review, it argues that fundamental principles underlie all terminological activities, manifested in context-bound variations.
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.