Alshammari considers the ways in which madness has been portrayed in writing by women authors, readdressing the madwoman trope from a transnational approach set in contrast to the traditional Eurocentric approach to literary madness.
Spirituality for Youth-Work
This title addresses the lack of studies discussing spirituality in human services and youth work. It offers a coherent vocabulary and narrative from which to construct a more deliberate practice of spiritual care, education and professional identity for youth workers.
Tally offers an inspiring perspective on representations of a new kind of female character who first appeared on US TV in the mid-2000s, the anti-heroine. She studies several TV women and shows, like Homeland, Weeds and Scandal, to show the dominance of the anti-heroine on US TV.
Pictorialism in Cinema
Valkola extensively explores the unique phenomenon of pictorialism and its connection with other arts in film and media studies, considering a number of theoretical and practical issues of filmic narration.
Episodes in Early Modern and Modern Christian-Jewish Relations
Bernardini documents the long history of friendship and diffidence, mutual understanding and dramatic disagreements in the encounters between Christianity and Judaism, which, even today, largely conditions the Western intellectual world.
Mazzi suggests, linguistically, that the study of reasoned argument is likely to have many potential applications in the context of Irish public discourse. He tackles the issue of the construction of argumentation in the judiciary and in the politics of the Irish Republic.
This collection demonstrates the novel’s power to represent the mind. Contributors investigate representations of consciousness and the self, analyzing narrative techniques to show how the contemporary novel reflects the mind’s urge to understand itself.
Local Governments and the Public Health Delivery System in Kerala
This monograph considers a new public health model in the Indian state Kerala, which is unique in achieving human and social development with a low level of economic development.
Tax Reform in Uganda
Kwagala-Igaga employs political economy and optimal theory to explain the weaknesses evident in the tax system in Uganda since the introduction of extensive reforms in 1997, highlighting the constraints imposed upon tax design and tax reform in the country.
Following the recent ‘turn to religion’ that has been so important to English Studies in the 21st century, this monograph builds on many of the recent biographies of Shakespeare that have explored the playwright’s religious views, with a specific focus on his King Lear.
This text highlights Robert Lepage’s preoccupation with an ongoing dialogue with worldwide audiences, and their involvement in developing an innovative practice of the Western theatre landscape. It examines the notion that intermediality is situated at the core of his approach.
This collection studies processes of creating voices of the past to analyze and to juxtapose, discussing the educational community viewed through feminist theory. It explores facets of language to focus on metaphorical grammatical constructions, specific with form and function.
This second volume introduces several elements into the University of Alabama’s narrative, like its hassle with the state government through 1877 and its strict admission of women students. Other topics explored include the history of unofficial student sports from the 1870s.
This study discusses bioethics, with a particular philosophical focus on the tensions and potential dilemmas of “the four principles approach”. It hypothesises that respectful care can be built up to be a leading notion to guide our daily actions and bioethical practices.
Children in South African Families
This book gives an overview of African children’s lives in times of transition, transformation, and change some twenty-two years after political emancipation in South Africa. It covers conceptual and theoretical questions that explore the context of children’s experiences.
This volume deliberates over the relationship between monarchy and tourism development in Southeast Asia. It explains the importance of the need to shift the tourism and monarchy focus from European to Asian royalty.
Sanctified Subversives
Sierra illustrates how both English and Spanish Renaissance-era authors latched onto the figure of the nun as a way to evaluate the social construction of womanhood.
This book explores representation, transmission and circulation of memory, and how personal and collective memory shapes meanings, values, attitudes and identities. Its focus is on memory as malleable patterns and strategies that highlight the unity of memory and its diversity.
Approaching Cyprus
The chapters within explore aspects of the relationship between the island of Cyprus as an immutable geographical entity and its surrounding sea as an essentially transactional space. They range from the Late Bronze Age to the twentieth century, and from Greece to Egypt.
Ní Chuileann investigates the ability of a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder to recognise voice. It questions the assumption that voice recognition is a simple task for the typically developing child, the child with developmental delays and the child with autism.
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