Forgotten British Film
Gillett exhumes some of the films released in Britain over the last 70 years, including Daybreak (1948), and he probes the reasons for their neglect. He considers the contributions of those involved in the films and examines such issues as the response of critics and audiences.
This title addresses a diverse range of important topics concerning the notion of knowledge, connecting them in a unifying way, and providing answers to a number of key questions concerning this concept.
Bianaca discusses topics like monist dualism, nomiotic theory of the mind, differences between brain processes and configurations and mind processes and configurations, and the architecture of the mind. He formulates a nomiotic-wave theory of the mind grounded in 6 key aspects.
Eurasian Politics and Society
The authors of this compilation probe the outcomes of regional transformation, the ideology of Turkish Eurasianism, and the Eurasian Economic Union. Issues they look at include the South Caucasus power struggle, Kazakhstan-Russia relations and Russia’s sense of Eurasianism.
A Study on Existence
Bacigalupo develops a deflationist account of existence, suggesting that there is no such thing as a nature of existence awaiting discovery. The authors discussed include Hume, Kant, Frege, the Neo-Meinongians Routley and Parsons, and the free logicians Leonard and Bencivenga.
This collection of essays discusses works of art whose formal qualities, content and spatial interactions expand our idea of creation and commemoration, and brings to light new aspects concerning twentieth and twenty-first century monuments and site-specific sculpture.
By exploring the nature of book production and changing images of peasants in Livonia and Courland in the 18th and 19th centuries, Daija investigates the complex historical relationship between Latvians and Baltic Germans and the regional specifics of the Baltic Enlightenment.
The papers here provide global and local teaching scenarios, addressing such matters as the need for diagnostic tests and re-examining language policies in Asian countries. They offer valuable information for researchers working in the field of English Language Teaching.
This volume addresses fundamental questions about the interplay between ethics and spirituality. How can love, compassion, and tolerance encounter mistrust, enmity, and violence? And how can spirituality contribute to the newly emerging global ethics?
Celebrating the centenary of Anthony Burgess’s birth, this volume reveals the true relation that the British author had with France. It explores, among other topics, the sizeable French literary and musical heritage that inspired Burgess in his creations and adaptations.
Studying the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent, this collection questions various linguistic, literary and artistic appropriations of the past. It does this to address the conflicting comprehensions of the present and the figuring/imagining of a possible future.
This title presents an analysis of core issues such as the role of the media in educating, protecting and promoting human rights, and the challenges facing the media and human rights. It also contains suggestions and measures to increase awareness on human rights.
The Witches of Selwood Forest
Pickering presents the first comprehensive study of Selwood forest’s rich history of demonological beliefs and witchcraft persecution in the early modern period. He investigates connections between important theological texts written in the region and notable witchcraft episodes.
Text and Image in the City
The essays within discuss how the city is textualized, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They investigate how the creation, distribution and consumption of urban texts and images affect the shaping of the city itself.
Ever since the courtroom doors closed in 1919, the tragic Charlotte Streetcar Strike has haunted the collective memory of the Carolina Piedmont region. This monograph represents the result of over ten years’ worth of primary research about the strike.
In this volume, 13 under-threat languages tell their own stories through their consummate battles with languages dominating their ways of thinking. The value of these languages is told through linkages with the past and present and where values with wider audiences may be shared.
This volume examines how self-presentation can facilitate our understanding of how individuals present their identities. Topics covered include identities shaped through the self-presentation of authors in Latin literature, and explorations on epigraphy and historical analyses.
Medieval Urban Planning
This collection examines whether multifaceted urban planning took place in the Middle Ages, and its manifestation itself outside of the monastic realm. It expands our grasp of how authoritative figures saw the planning process and applied plans to structure a particular outcome.
Animal Narratives and Culture
Barcz’s monograph explains how realism is a narration that tests nonhuman vulnerable experience. The first part gives examples of realism’s redefinition in trauma studies, the second probes what is added to the narrative by literature, and the third analyses cultural texts.
Stemming from a corpus linguistics and language variation workshop, this text brings together studies on specialist knowledge dissemination in English. It describes how knowledge dissemination’s essential aspect is the analysis of the language that builds trust in interactions.
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