Essays on Gianni Vattimo
This monograph, focused on the interrelated themes of religion, ethics and the history of ideas, offers a critically constructive approach to defending Gianni Vattimo against some of his more strident critics, but nevertheless poses some questions of its own.
For the first time, this book demonstrates the extraordinary contribution of Australian glass artist David Wright. Including the first catalogue raisonné on the artist, it examines the stunning art glass he created for Australia’s sacred and public spaces.
From Truth and truth
This book explores the complementarity between the literal and spiritual sense of what exists. Through essays on bioethics and the nature of man and woman, it reveals an incredible coherence of meaning, showing how Revelation comes to meet the trembling outreaches of reason.
Jawdat Haydar’s Poetic Legacy
This proceedings of the first Jawdat Haydar international conference comprises papers on the English-language poems of the Lebanese poet. It will appeal to both academic and non-academic readers interested in the field of 20th century English-language world literature.
Class and Gender
Tang investigates the impact of China’s “socio-economic transition period” on the nation’s social structure, showing that it resulted in an escalation in tensions between the higher and the lower social strata and between genders.
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.
This collection brings together twenty-three scholars from thirteen countries to explore the dynamic and profound ways in which polemical theology, its discourses and codes, interacted with non-theological literary genres in the early modern era.
Negotiating a Presence-Centred Christian Counselling
Kwan navigates between two counselling frameworks: one Eastern, secular, social scientific, and modern; the other Western, Christian, theological, and traditional; negotiating a revised presence-centred form of counselling that is cross-culturally sensitive.
Current Issues in Language Evaluation, Assessment and Testing
This volume provides a selection of research papers presented at the 17th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics and discussing issues related to language testing and the development of language assessment instruments around the world.
Incorporations of Chineseness
Through a repositioning of the Chinese component of Asian America in relation to modern transformations of Chinese identity, Fusco reads Asian American literature in relation to historical events and geopolitical changes that have informed the construction of “Chineseness”.
Moon highlights the crucial role played by Victorian and Edwardian novelists in changing views of domestic violence, showing how their depictions of such violence interacted with changing paradigms of masculinity and femininity at the time.
The Problem of Modern Greek Identity
Recent political events in Greece have called into question the nature of modern Greek identity. This title investigates what it means to be a Greek today, approaching the subject in a kaleidoscopic way, tracing the line from the Byzantine Empire to Modern Greek culture.
The Haunted Muse
Magee proposes a link between the fears of usurped procreation elicited by the trials and fears of misdirected or usurped creativity, through an analysis of Gothic stories in which authors imagine their literary creations as children who have been transformed by malignant forces.
Sustainable Tourism in the Global South
Given the importance of the global south in achieving sustainable tourism, this collection brings together a compilation of profound conceptual and empirical research findings from diverse socio-economic and environmental settings in the developing South.
This foundational text for an emerging field integrates the vast context of yoga with Western psychology. This inquiry combines the perennial wisdom of yoga with breakthroughs in somatic psychology, trauma research, and insights from neuroscience.
The contributions to this book assume diversity to be a fundamental feature of Nordic modernity, and offer case studies that provide important counter-narratives to prevailing local and global discourses of Nordic-ness.
Commanding Words
Encompassing subjects as varied as politics, culture, literature, history, and pedagogy, the twenty chapters of this book discuss the role authority plays in political, social, and academic organisation, postulating the interconnectedness between authority and discourse.
Words of Crisis, Crisis of Words
Authored by specialists in Irish Studies, this title provides reflections on the broad topic of crisis and Ireland, its description and representation, and the different ways in which difficulties have been discussed, imagined, or even solved within the Irish context.
Achieving Consilience
The contributions here demonstrate how theories in Translation Studies can be fruitfully and systematically applied during the translation practice, thus offering a better understanding of the translator’s decision-making process.
Trans-Pacific Encounters
This title challenges the current dearth of studies of the literary, cultural, and historical relations between Asia and the Hispanic world, despite the fact that the origin of trans-pacific contact between these regions can be traced as far back as the pre-Columbian period.
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