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.
Knowledge in Action
With authorship from community partners and universities, this book highlights the challenges of university-community engagement and outlines how Australian universities defy these obstacles through innovative projects that create positive socio-economic change.
Knowledge, Differences and Identity in the Time of Globalization
The discourse of globalization in higher education reform is troubling. It fails to name a human subject—the student—and its very language antagonizes and marginalizes them. This book explores how this discourse constructs and deconstructs identities.
Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will (Volume 3
Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will traverses medieval metaphysics and logic, exploring Aquinas on scientific knowledge, Ockham on mental language, and the antinomy between free will and determination in an attempt to reconcile human freedom with God’s omniscience.
Leading international researchers present cutting-edge studies on the public understanding of science and informal education. With global case studies, this book challenges traditional notions, arguing for approaches that recognize a multiplicity of publics.
Kokborok Literature from Tripura
This study delves into the folktales and literature of the Borok tribe, revealing their struggle for cultural identity. Writers draw on myths and folklore to challenge mainstream stereotypes and reclaim a heritage shaped by cultural domination and conflict.
Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey
By delving into Kurdish documentary films as products of complex societal, political, and historical processes, the articles here highlight the intersections of media production, film text, and audience reception.
Kwame Nkrumah and Félix Houphouët-Boigny
This book discusses the divergent approaches to African independence of two great leaders, Kwame Nkrumah and Félix Houphouët-Boigny. It identifies the impact their differences had on Africa and explores why, despite vast resources, it remains the world’s poorest continent.
Kyrgyzstan and the Legacies of Collectivisation
Soviet rule in Kyrgyzstan was enabled by collectivisation and forcible population displacement. These strategies of colonisation reconfigured the population but were met with resistance. The book explores these changes and how independent Kyrgyzstan struggles with their legacy.
L’Africaine
The genesis of Meyerbeer’s last opera, L’Africaine, is legendary. A glorious posthumous tribute, it was a favourite of tenors like Caruso and Domingo. This fascinating facsimile of the manuscript uniquely gives us Meyerbeer’s original intentions.
Le biographique n’est pas épuisé : il déborde la biographie. Cet ouvrage propose un état de la réflexion sur le sujet, au croisement des sciences sociales et de la littérature, au point de rencontre entre science et fiction.
In a world of technology and efficiency, what has become of Happiness? Does it still feature in contemporary fiction? This volume explores the paradoxes and changing forms of Happiness in the novel, from the Holocaust to consumerism and postmodernism.
L’Intime épistolaire (1850-1900)
Through the private letters of authors like Flaubert, Zola, and Sand, this study casts fresh light on intimacy in Nineteenth-Century French culture. It interprets letter writing as a unique genre, distinct from diaries or memoirs, with its own rules.
L2 Figurative Language Teaching
Figurative language frustrates L2 users. Given that it is key to communicative competence, this volume brings together theory and teaching applications, shedding light on the comprehension and production of figurative language in a foreign language context.
L2 Writing Assessment
When reading and spelling problems are not detected early, they can become lifelong disabilities. Early intervention is the key. This book is a practical guide for educators to identify such problems and use active writing programmes for instruction and assessment.
This volume explores Francophone cinema’s place between Bollywood and Hollywood and examines the promotion of cultural and linguistic diversity in Francophone countries. The book brings together contributions by outstanding authors on 21st century Francophonie.
Labels and Locations
This book critically examines identity, gender, family, and class in the short narratives of South Asian diaspora writers in Australia. By focusing on this much-neglected group, it fills a crucial gap in the broader critical rubric of diaspora studies.
Labor and Writing
This book highlights the act of writing—humanity’s greatest cultural investment. It is the labor we use to record our past and construct our future. The essays within explore writing’s role at the heart of all enterprise, from identifying things to inventing new realities.
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.
Labour in the 21st Century
This compendium investigates and discusses the different aspects of the major transformations that have characterized the world of work in recent years. It claims that in order to propose solutions to cope with such changes, it is necessary to analyze their ongoing dynamics.
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