Social Sciences

“Divining Thoughts”

Future Directions in Shakespeare Studies

Edited By: Peter Orford, Lizz Ketterer, Joshua McEvilia

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The next generation of Shakespeare scholars offers a glimpse into the future of Renaissance Studies. These essays explore new territory and redefine previous work, demonstrating, as Professor Stanley Wells states, that "the future of... scholarship... is in good hands.”

The next generation of Shakespeare scholars offers a glimpse into the future of Renaissance Studies. These essays explore new territory and redefine previous work, demonstrating, as Professor Stanley Wells states, that “the future of… scholarship… is in good hands.”

Whose Story? Translating the Verbal and the Visual in Literature for Young Readers

Edited By: Riitta Oittinen

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This book tackles the challenges of translating children’s literature, from picturebooks to classics like Beatrix Potter and Tolkien. It examines the active role of translators and publishers, linking theory with practice through diverse examples.

Fiction Unbound

Bernardine Evaristo

By: Sebnem Toplu

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This book shows how Bernardine Evaristo is not simply a “multicultural” writer. It reveals an author who questions concepts like “Englishness,” race, and gender, giving marginalized characters the chance to tell their own stories.

A Life of Ethics and Performance

Edited By: John Matthews, David Torevell

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Ethics is not just ‘being good’, but living a ‘good life’. This book highlights that being good is a matter of acting good—of performing certain roles and duties. It explores this relationship between ethics and performance from natality to fatality.

Learning Abroad

A History of the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (Second Edition)

By: Hilary Perraton

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Since 1959, Commonwealth scholarships have moved over 30,000 people across borders. This book sets out the narrative of the scholarship plan, looking at both the scholars and those who selected them, and examines the policies of countries offering scholarships and the recipients.

NeoLiberal Scotland

Class and Society in a Stateless Nation

Edited By: Neil Davidson, Patricia McCafferty

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Contrary to popular belief, neoliberalism has become institutionalised in Scotland. This book details for the first time its negative effects on society and democracy, and serves as a case study of neoliberalism in a “stateless nation” of the West.

Between Myth and Reality

Goethe, Anna Amalia, Charlotte von Stein

By: Dan Farrelly

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Ghibellino's provocative thesis claimed Goethe’s beloved was not Charlotte von Stein but Duchess Anna Amalia. Dan Farrelly meticulously re-reads Goethe’s letters, refuting this thesis and proving that Charlotte was the true addressee.

Ghibellino’s provocative thesis claimed Goethe’s beloved was not Charlotte von Stein but Duchess Anna Amalia. Dan Farrelly meticulously re-reads Goethe’s letters, refuting this thesis and proving that Charlotte was the true addressee.

Daughters of the Nile

Egyptian Women Changing Their World

Edited By: Samia Spencer

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Highlighting pioneering and ground-breaking Egyptian women that the media have overlooked and ignored, this collection shatters the monolithic and unflattering stereotype of contemporary Egyptian women as victims, uneducated and uncivilized, dominated by men.

The Shamanic Themes in Georgian Folktales

By: Elliot D. Cohen

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Soviet repressions against shamanism, a recent surge of interest in the Orthodox church, and a nationalist preoccupation with Christian roots makes research into Georgia's pagan practices no easy business. This study helps to set the process in motion.

Soviet repressions against shamanism, a recent surge of interest in the Orthodox church, and a nationalist preoccupation with Christian roots makes research into Georgia’s pagan practices no easy business. This study helps to set the process in motion.

Translation or Transcreation? Discourses, Texts and Visuals

Edited By: Cinzia Spinzi, Alessandra Rizzo, Marianna Lya Zummo

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This wide-ranging collection brings together essays on a recent approach to translation known as transcreation, which has challenged the traditional structure of the translation market and the agency and ethics of the discipline, and encouraged new research in translation studies

Sonic Mediations

Body, Sound, Technology

Edited By: Carolyn Birdsall, Anthony Enns

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Sonic Mediations is a collection of essays that invites readers to rethink mediation by examining the relationships between the body, sound, and technology. It addresses key questions about performance, perception, and the role of the listener.

Social Movements

Contemporary Perspectives

Edited By: Dianne Dentice

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This reader explores ongoing debates about social movements, from nineteenth-century utopias to the white supremacist movement. Using a multidisciplinary approach, authors tackle fundamental questions: Why do people join? How do movements evolve? Was Jonestown a cult?

Of Mice and Men

Animals in Human Culture

Edited By: Nandita Batra, Vartan P. Messier

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This collection of essays by international scholars examines human views of animals. Addressing topics from animal rights and ecology to feminism and domestication, the book considers global issues from ancient to contemporary times.

In the Jaws of the Leviathan

Genocide Fiction and Film

By: Joya Uraizee

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How do we witness the unspeakable? This book analyzes portrayals of genocide in film and fiction from Africa, Asia, and South America. It contrasts the indirect metaphors of commercial media with the direct, personal gazes found in experimental works.

Asian English Writers of Chinese Origin

Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong

By: Amy Tak-yee Lai

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This book brings together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent to explore postcolonial impacts on race, class, and language. It takes a special look at gender politics and how Chinese women defy the Orientalist gaze and native patriarchy.

Breaking Forms

The Shift to Performance in Late Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

By: Christie Fox

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During Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" boom, a new theatre emerged to express radical social change. Rejecting literary tradition for physicality and visual performance, artists explored what words alone could not. Breaking Forms analyzes this pivotal movement.

During Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” boom, a new theatre emerged to express radical social change. Rejecting literary tradition for physicality and visual performance, artists explored what words alone could not. Breaking Forms analyzes this pivotal movement.

Lost in the Antebellum

By: Robert D. Morritt

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This compendium of thought from pre-Civil War America features the “real” story of Davy Crockett, a novelist praised by Edgar Allen Poe, abolitionist singers, and a tale of a man’s return from the Moon. A concise view of the era, from oceanographers to filibusters.

The Shamanic Themes in Armenian Folktales

By: Michael Berman

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Soviet repressions and a nationalist focus on Christian roots have made researching shamanism in Armenia no easy business. This study confronts this impasse, helping to set in motion the process of uncovering these ancient and suppressed practices.

Culture and Dialogue Vol.3, No. 2 (2013) Issue on “Identity and Dialogue”

Edited By: Gerald Cipriani

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These essays explore “identity and dialogue” from perspectives like art, politics, and gender. Within diverse cultural contexts, they question the relational element at work in identity formation, disclosing how it is conditioned by self and otherness.

Migrancy, Memory and Repossession

Women on the Historical Margins

Edited By: Susan Tebbutt

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This book explores the hidden histories of women artists on the periphery of mainstream society. By analysing their representations of “marginal” groups like Travellers and Roma, it uncovers new conclusions about the relationships between different cultures.

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