Freedom of Expression
Freedom of expression is under assault from religious activists, political establishments, and technology. This collection explores these new challenges, asking how to weigh free expression against other rights and if free speech can survive its costs.
From Ireland to Byzantium, medievalists face constraints interpreting texts. Problems of authorship, transcription, and translation create a complex discourse. These chapters prise truths about texts, transmission, and the critical literacies needed to interpret both.
This wide-ranging collection breaks new ground in feminist film theory, offering close analyses of films from Hitchcock to 21st-century horror. Praised as a “splendid contribution,” it lends readers ‘new eyes’. “Should be required reading for students and scholars.”
Dolls & Clowns & Things
Through the lens of cognition, this work explores the symbolic relationship between self and object. It studies how objects are vehicles through which cognitive processes transform our understanding of Self as an ongoing, imaginative endeavor.
From Plato’s Cave to the Multiplex
This rich collection of articles explores the productive interaction between philosophy and film. The pieces offer philosophical analyses of specific films and the cinematic medium, revealing surprising connections and provoking philosophical reflection.
This book explores human relationships from the perspective of phenomenology. More than an abstract academic work, it is essential for those interested in ethics and political philosophy, offering new ways to articulate humanism and justice for scholars and policymakers.
Diefenbaker and Latin America
John Diefenbaker’s Latin American policy was driven by Canada’s national interest. He sought greater foreign policy autonomy from the US and expanded exports to lessen Canada’s dependency, pursuing a policy aligned with, but not subservient to, the US.
This book explores liminal bodies and their delicate transactions: the body dying, opened in surgery, or living on through organ replacement. It also analyzes the contemporary body commissioned by mass-media, as seen through film, literature, and art.
Florida without Borders
This anthology explores women’s activism across borders, highlighting global issues like human rights, poverty, and trafficking. Feminist scholars investigate the gendered body in activism, the obstacles women face, and the fight for feminist social change.
Men in Color
This collection analyzes ethnic masculinities—including African American, Asian American, Chicano, and white—in U.S. literature and cinema. It explores the intersection of gender and race, highlighting both the differences and recurring stereotypes among them.
Myths are the blueprint for creativity. This volume presents an innovative theory of the creative process, explaining how authentic art transcends time to communicate with us today. It also explores the fascinating link between madness and creativity.
Rethinking Kant
This text represents a mirror of Kantian studies in North America. It gathers papers presented at the various study groups of the North American Kant Society, along with contributions from hosts, session chairs, and keynote speakers.
This study deals with the Muslim situation in India and the state’s institutional response. It discusses the efficacy of redress mechanisms, like the National Commission for Minorities, and argues that such safeguards are not enough without a strong appreciation for pluralism.
Processability Theory (PT) explains the developmental sequences in second language learning, providing insights into what learners are ready to acquire. Taking PT as its point of departure, this book applies, tests, and extends the theory.
The Apothecary’s Chest
This collection of essays explores the intertwined notions of magic, science, and superstition in figures like the apothecary, alchemist, and shaman. Topics range from the mystical traits of mundane materials to the origins of the occult and the modern poet.
Labor’s Canvas
Labor’s Canvas argues that New Deal art reveals important tensions. Artists saw themselves as cultural workers, yet struggled to reconcile social protest and aesthetics, often depicting laborers as bodies without minds and exposing cultural contradictions.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
In Auber’s opéra-comique La Sirène, travellers are caught in an ambush after hearing the entrancing song of Zerlina, the Siren. She aids her bandit brother, but when she falls for their handsome captive, a tale of romance and revealed identities begins.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber and Scribe’s masterful opéra-comique Haydée is one of the composer’s richest scores. A Venetian admiral is haunted by guilt after cheating a friend who then killed himself. Blackmail, love, and Venetian pomp drive this psychological drama.
Scholars remain sharply divided on nationalism. This volume offers new empirical research, examining a variety of contexts within the English-speaking world, including Australia, Canada, India, the UK, and the US, through interdisciplinary studies.
Crossroads of the Southwest
In southeastern Arizona, Hohokam, Mogollon, and Anasazi cultures intersected. Crossroads of the Southwest presents new archaeological research examining culture, identity, and migration. Top scholars use new data to study this long-overlooked region.
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