This book explores the lexical borrowing between English and Arabic, tracing their historical contact. It describes the role Arabic played in enriching early English and shows how the hegemony of English can be seen in its modern impact on Arabic.
This history of computing from 1950 to 1970 reveals how an arithmetic machine evolved into a cornerstone of global society. Pioneers laid the platform for a social revolution, leading to the phone in your pocket and the PC on your desk. No one saw this coming.
My Kind of Sound
Music shapes our identity. This book explores music as culture, art, and industry. It examines phenomena from the global rise of Reggaeton to iconic artists like David Bowie and the crucial role of music in TV series, showing how it challenges us to rethink our view of the world.
My Life as A Forensic Sociologist
A forensic sociologist involved in criminal trials, Dr. Erickson acts as an expert witness for the defence or prosecution. This is the real-life story of her involvement with violent crime, visiting scenes in the dead of night to uncover discoveries for her testimony.
My Mother’s Table
This study explores how Lebanese immigrants construct home in diaspora. When traditional ties of kinship, village, and sect are transformed, they face a crisis of belonging. The study finds home is not a physical place but a metaphysical state, created by women.
My Utopia
This collection of creative writing demonstrates that utopian thinking is beyond any gender, race, age, color, nationality or border limitations. The short fiction, essays and poems here will be of great interest to anyone who believes in the power of literature in forcing change
These critical essays on Mirza Ghalib explore key themes in his poetry and letters, from his obsession with death to comparisons with Shakespeare. The book highlights the myriad shades of meaning in Ghalib’s vision of life—one that details life in all its horror and glory.
Mystery and the Culture of Science
Arguing that all knowledge is provisional, this book tackles the polarisation caused by false certainty. It offers shocking but liberating reflections on science and theology to loosen doctrines that trap the Church and impoverish faith.
Mysticism and Narcissism
This personal narrative of a long-serving Cenacle nun applies psychoanalytic theory to questions of theological and Marian identity and relationality, and is an historical resource for the study of women’s religious orders in the twentieth century.
Myth
Myth presents interdisciplinary research on myths in German and Scandinavian societies. These essays analyze how cultural and social practices influence each other, showcasing new inquiries and methods across fields from history to film studies.
The emotive nature of myth lays the foundation of the research proposed for this trilingual volume, which encompasses a thorough and multifaceted study that offers guidelines and models capable of interpreting mythical-emotional phenomena.
This volume examines the use of myth and fairy tales in contemporary fiction. Through innovative critical approaches, its chapters analyze modern retellings in dialogue with tradition, demonstrating their importance and suggesting new questions for future critical inquiry.
This bilingual work identifies and explains the subversive rewriting of ancient, medieval, and modern myths in contemporary novels. Analyses cover classical (Oedipus), biblical (the Golem), and modern (Faust) myths in fiction, art, and cinema.
Myth as Symbol
Reconsidering the connection between literature and psychoanalysis, this study explores the modern literary reworking of myth. From Jungian archetypes to the Freudian unconscious, it analyzes figures like Undine and Medea to explore timeless questions.
This book studies how myths construct community identity, focusing on the fiction of Chinua Achebe and Amitav Ghosh. A comparative postcolonial analysis, it delves into how these major authors from Nigeria and India use myth to represent the cultural mores of their societies.
This book focuses on four fragmentary plays by Aristophanes which present characteristics not prominent in his extant work. As mythological comedies and parodies of tragedy, they exhibit elements of Middle and New Comedy, offering new insights into his influential innovations.
Myth, Language and Tradition
“Levity of Design” voices a critique of present-day society from within. J. H. Prynne’s poetry overcomes the impasse of poststructuralism, seeking a language in which the notion of man can be restituted as a viable category in late modernity.
Myth, Music and Ritual
Divided into two, the essays here consider both myth and some of its contemporary reflections and the connection between myth, music and ritual. Subjects discussed include folklore, literature, traditional music, science-fiction, philosophy, and religion, among others.
Combining philosophy, science, and literature, Toliver examines lingering misconceptions of world history as a continuing source of international tension, showing beliefs incompatible with natural history continue to intensify nationalism and support terrorist movements.
The essays collected here explore the dynamics of myths throughout time and space, along with the mythmaking processes in various cultures, literatures and languages, bringing together not only classical myths, but also their contemporary constructions and reconstructions.
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