Prominent scholars explore (im)politeness in human communication. This volume reviews the state of the art, analysing politeness in media, the effects of speech acts, and implications for language teaching, offering new perspectives on social interaction.
New Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism
This collection presents new research on the history of anarchist movements and revolutionary syndicalism in Europe. It revisits national histories through transnational perspectives, exploring cross-border interactions and the fascinating itineraries of individual activists.
This book shows how Concretism and Neoconcretism adapted international constructivism to Brazil. It explores the debates between the avant-gardes of São Paulo and Rio that created early versions of participatory, performance, and installation art.
In post-socialist countries, consumer culture is a “science in the shadows,” studied commercially but neglected by academia. This book creates a counterbalance, exploring consumer behaviour, new theories, and recent criticism from leading scholars.
This collection of essays examines dystopian fiction in literature, TV, and games. Capturing the dilemmas of our precarious epoch, it offers new interpretations of classics like Orwell and Atwood and pop culture phenomena like The Hunger Games and Fallout.
Bringing together renowned scholars, this volume offers a multi-dimensional view of comparative and world literature. It connects disparate research contexts to illuminate the future of literary studies for scholars and readers interested in a cross-culturized world.
Late Antiquity (3rd–7th c.) was a first Renaissance, shaping the Western World. This volume combines diverse methodologies, with leading scholars offering a scientific update on new research in history, archaeology, philosophy, and classical studies.
Leading scholars offer a fresh, thought-provoking examination of Byzantium in Late Antiquity and beyond. This multi-disciplinary volume presents innovative research on the interaction between the Empire’s core and periphery, and relations between Romans and Barbarians.
New Perspectives on Modern Wales
This book explores Welsh literature, history, and its endangered language to shed light on the identity of a small nation. Presented from a broad perspective, it draws correlations with similar problems faced by other cultures, making it essential for anyone interested in Wales.
This book showcases new approaches to postclassical comedy. The contributions approach New Comedy as theatrical performance and a dynamic player in socio-political discourse, emphasizing its progressiveness and importance for Hellenistic and Roman culture.
Leading scholars from philosophy, psychology, and history cast new light on Sartre. This volume deliberately stresses a middle and final period of his work, exploring diverse topics and offering new insights on authenticity, freedom, and ethics.
In these thought-provoking essays, Irish Catholic writers from diverse backgrounds examine a wide range of issues: liturgy, politics, culture, and bioethics. This collection explores the Catholic tradition as lived in Ireland, offering an encouragement to fidelity.
This book reassesses the role of sacredness in medieval France and Occitania by exploring the coexistence, convergence, and opposition between the sacred and the secular in Old French and Old Provençal poetry from the ninth to the thirteenth century.
This volume presents new explorations of Tudor literature. The papers cover the mid-Tudor period, from Skelton to the young Shakespeare, with topics ranging from philosophy and social commentary to lyric and tragedy.
New Postcolonial Dialectics
This book scrutinizes how Indian and Nigerian plays reframed their cultural terrain in international terms. It offers a comparative guide for studying literatures from Asia and Africa, providing an essential framework for all intercultural literary studies.
This collection explores the intersection of cultural productions and politics in Latin America and Spain. Scholars explore class, identity, and transgression in literature, photography, and film, challenging hegemonic power from medieval times to the present.
Why has The Merchant of Venice garnered so much attention? This collection offers readers sundry answers, showcasing disparate approaches from a feminist view to a Manga version, providing students with different critical lenses to interpret the play.
This book explores new research in English Studies, rethinking its relationship with other disciplines. The collection covers topics like memory, trauma, migration, identity, and posthumanism with a critical approach to biases related to race, gender, and sexual orientation.
New Ritual Society
Consumerism has established itself as a dominant lifestyle, but the reasons for this are often unclear. This study revisits a large amount of research, arguing that consumerism is a powerful ritual “machine” that can make up for the modern lack of values with new symbols.
This volume showcases new research on a wide range of topics in Ghana, including pidgin, music, agricultural policy, and the poetics of names. It will appeal particularly to students of Africana and Ghanaian studies.
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