Ertin looks into the terms “camp” and “the closet” in Alan Hollinghurst’s fiction, since all four of his novels investigate the gay male experience throughout the late-twentieth century, to see whether the author writes from the margin or from the centre to recreate the origin.
The Indigenous Voice of Poetomachia
In an era of struggling individuality, how can theatre stage individual voices? This collection of essays from scholars across the world explores different perspectives of textuality and performance, pushing beyond prevailing clichés with indigenous perspectives.
Classical Chinese Medicine
This volume details the core concepts of Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM), framing it as a post-Newtonian “ecosystem science.” It explores the paradox of how this ancient, backward-looking practice is at the cutting edge of scientific thinking today.
The Acquisition of Verbs at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
This book presents an analysis of early verbs. Using data from Italian children, it suggests the syntax-semantics interface is well-established early on. The analysis of production and comprehension delays uncovers general characteristics of language acquisition devices.
Kam Women Artisans of China
Deep in southwestern China, in a village called Dimen, live several women who are masters of many cultural arts. Lee’s study presents an opportunity to learn from the past long lost in Western tradition and experience ancient culture transforming under the pressure of technology.
Art as Adventure
This title gathers insights from artists and art historians about journeys to places and methods of practice that challenge perceived taxonomies. It offers various perspectives on how artist-travelers have embraced and contextualized the experiences encountered on their travels.
The Principle of Relations
This volume presents a new paradigm for the entirety of reality. The Principle of Relations is applied to all fields, from the universe and elementary particles to human relations, offering a platform to understand gravity, energy, cancer, poverty, and prosperity.
Narcissism and Sexuality
This book explores the narcissistic wound, differentiating it from a severe disorder by focusing on one common expression—sexuality. Using a Jungian approach, it reveals the analytic process through an in-depth client case study illuminated by 54 dream interpretations.
Recovering History through Fact and Fiction
This collection reclaims the histories of figures forgotten by time and offers fresh perspectives on those distorted by fame, including Mary Shelley, Judy Garland, and J.R.R. Tolkien. It provides a needed snapshot of new research on biography and its many variations.
This title provides leading contemporary thought and research on how to address inequalities in participation in Higher Education across the “student lifecycle”, highlighting a range of practices in widening access, including chapters on financial support and mature students.
This text focuses on an increasingly attractive, yet controversial topic of non-native accentedness in speech. The contributors here are aware of the complexity of the mechanisms and effects of pronunciation, but present research leading to useful answers to relevant questions.
Özdemir proposes a new theoretical model, Tritonet, that provides a unique approach to music theory by reintroducing the ‘Circle of Fifths’. It offers additional components that turn the circle into a musical calculator, which can be used to construct musical structures visually.
Auden, master of metre, remains a mystery. This book uses a revolutionary theory of poetic rhythm—placing rhythm before meaning—to unlock his formal art. It revives interest in Auden’s poetry and his urgent questions: What is poetry? What is its use?
Contemporary Issues in Africa’s Development
This text reports on the state of crisis in Africa in the early twenty-first century. It questions ideologically protected assumptions, presenting Africa as it is, because it is only by knowing where Africa truly stands that a proper direction can be charted for it.
Ngongkum’s innovative reading of Dennis Brutus’ poetry underlines its concern for suffering humanity in the apartheid context and beyond. She brings to the fore the different motifs, strategies and artistry with which Brutus succeeds in initiating revolt through art.
Contemporary Research and Analysis on the Children of Prisoners
The papers here cover many of the themes in the wider literature on the children of prisoners. Advocacy themes include moving towards child-friendly prison systems, using mass incarceration to influence wider social change, and the effects of pre-trial detention on families.
Mammadov covers a broad range of issues in the studies of text and discourse, combining a theoretical framework with empirical engagement. In doing so, he brings together various approaches to these two phenomena from the structural, functional and cognitive perspectives.
South African Literary Cultural Nationalism—Abalobi beSizwe eMzansi—1918-45
Creary’s intellectual history uses Amílcar Cabral’s theory of the “return to the source” to examine Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi, Vilakazi’s poetry, and Jordan’s The Wrath of the Ancestors within the broader context of African cultural nationalisms in the early twentieth century.
Language beyond the Classroom
This compendium offers detailed, how-to guides for developing, implementing, and evaluating service-learning programs for a variety of languages. Contributions here present civic-engagement programs for several languages, including French, German, Russian, and Spanish.
Russia and the Former Soviet Space
This title represents a fresh contribution to current academic debate regarding the determinants of Russian foreign policy assertiveness, addressing the ways in which perceived security threats have been used by Russia to legitimize its interventions in the former Soviet Space.
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