The Trojan War begins with one sacrifice, Iphigenia, and ends with another, Polyxena. In Greek tragedy, did these ritual killings restore cosmic balance, or did they only unleash greater chaos?
The Heraldic World of Lawrence Durrell
This book presents unorthodox explorations of Alexandria, the city at the heart of Durrell’s writing. It offers an insight into his Sicilian Carousel and a unique reading of his Alexandria Quartet in light of the art and landscape of ancient Egypt.
Hope, Solidarity and Death at the Australian Border
This book reveals how Australia’s asylum seeker policy plays out on Christmas Island. It examines how islanders responded to strangers in need and provides insights into why humans help or turn them away, encouraging a future of hope and solidarity over border deaths.
This collection of papers explores language use and attitudes towards it from both historical and present-day perspectives. It examines language in personal letters, the impact of usage guides, and the interplay between actual language use and prescriptive attitudes.
Using a historical approach, this book traces Canada’s role in the Arab-Israel conflict. It argues that Canadian policy, operating within the Anglo-American framework, has been shaped by religio-cultural factors, economic interests, and the influence of domestic elites.
This volume explores how the interplay of “exile” and “return” in Anglo-Caribbean literature shapes identity. Against a history of colonialism, diaspora, and slavery, it raises questions about literature’s function in an increasingly hybrid and transcultural world.
Plants experience stress from environmental changes. This book is a comprehensive reference on plant responses to both biotic and abiotic stress, consolidating topics that other books cover only in isolation. It details this essential aspect of plant life and adaptation.
This volume offers insights into warfare, diplomacy, and peacemaking on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. The essays emphasize both violent conflict and the brokering of allegiances, from Muslim warlords serving Christian rulers to merchants coping with pirates.
Developmental Dyslexia and Anaphora Resolution in English L1/L2
This book investigates how people with dyslexia resolve ambiguous sentences. Using innovative methods like eye-tracking, it hypothesizes that their known working memory impairment hinders procedural memory, disrupting semantic and syntactic competence in demanding reading tasks.
This book introduces the critical issues in Shakespeare’s plays. What is the secret of a character like Falstaff? What philosophical arguments do the problem plays introduce? What is the value of Shakespeare’s perspective for thinking effectively in our world now?
This book explores the figure of the female performer in 19th-century fiction, analyzing the clashing attitudes of Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Emile Zola. It examines women’s public roles as either a commitment to the feminist project or a mere exhibitionist demeanour.
How do readers make sense of Hemingway’s stories? With reserved narrators and laconic dialogs, his texts seem to say little, yet they capture our emotions. This book proposes a cognitively informed model of reading to discover what lies beneath the surface of his iceberg.
Landscape Representations
This volume offers essential insights into emerging perspectives in landscape studies. Instead of focusing only on nature, this book places humans and physical aspects at its centre, combining ecological and geographical information, nature conservation, and the study of society.
With dementia growing much faster in Asia than in Europe and America, the region faces a crisis. Cerebrovascular disease is a leading cause of death. This book brings together 11 experts in vascular cognitive impairment to present the most urgent problems in the region.
On Personal Space, the Traversable Self, and the Happily Ever Experience
This book explores the symbolic relationship between personal space and the Cinderella fairy-tale. It characterizes personal space as a deeply individual realm of memory and self, where such nuanced associations are the essence of the happily ever after personal experience.
This book analyzes the rise of political violence and terrorism through an in-depth analysis of recent global events. It establishes crucial links between radicalism, terrorism, and international security, serving as an up-to-date resource for researchers in this critical field.
This book explores metaphor in legal discourse. Linguists and law professionals from six countries investigate metaphor as a conceptual phenomenon through actual linguistic contexts, from court proceedings to judges’ argumentation.
Texts can be a remedy for forgetting or a vivid testimony to trauma. This volume focuses on Paul Ricœur’s work on memory, history, and forgetting, with special emphasis on the dissension between individual and collective memory.
Reception Studies and Adaptation
This volume explores the Italian adaptation of English literary, multimedia, and audiovisual texts. It investigates how translation choices, by imprinting “Italianness” on the original, can alter a work’s meaning and success, directing or even undermining audience reception.
The digital age promised connection but delivered chaos, fake news, and manipulation. How must the Church respond? Drawing on timeless wisdom, these vital essays forge a path through the digital wilderness.
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