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Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama

Edited By: René Agostini, Madelena Gonzalez

£52.99

What is the value of art in an age of corporatized knowledge? This volume explores the crucial intersection of aesthetics and ideology. Through a wide range of international examples, these essays argue that the arts are fundamental to any progress in society.

Aesthetics and Innovation

Edited By: Leonid Dorfman, Colin Martindale

£44.99

This book describes new ways of approaching aesthetics and innovation. Spanning Gestalt theory to the latest brain scan research, it unites chapters by Western aestheticians and Russian scholars, offering novel perspectives on art and science.

Aesthetics and Radical Politics

Edited By: Gavin Grindon

£24.99

These essays engage with the connection between aesthetics and radical politics. Moving beyond Marxist approaches, they explore culture from other radical positions—anarchist, autonomist, and ecological—revealing an exhilarating break with earlier cultural critique.

Aesthetics of Everyday Life

East and West

Edited By: Curtis L. Carter, Liu Yuedi

£47.99

This book reconstructs the aesthetics of everyday life through cultural dialogue between the West and the East. It highlights the interaction between scholars to build a new form of aesthetics from a global perspective, bringing aesthetics to a wider sphere of human life.

Aesthetics of Presence

Philosophical and Practical Reconsiderations

By: Willmar Sauter

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This book re-centers aesthetics on the spectator, replacing the long-dominant artwork as the exclusive focus. It develops an 'Aesthetics of Presence' by exploring perceiving, playing, placing, and performing as its theoretical cornerstones.

This book re-centers aesthetics on the spectator, replacing the long-dominant artwork as the exclusive focus. It develops an ‘Aesthetics of Presence’ by exploring perceiving, playing, placing, and performing as its theoretical cornerstones.

Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language

Essays on Heidegger and Gadamer

By: Stefano Marino

£41.99

Heidegger and Gadamer are among the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. This book addresses their contributions to aesthetics, metaphysics, and language, comparing their views to those of other thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Richard Rorty.

Affect and the Performative Dimension of Fear in the Indian English Novel

Tumults of the Imagination

By: Giuseppe De Riso

£58.99

De Riso presents a critical reading of various Indian English novels to provide a literary account of three fundamental moments in India’s history: namely, the Partition of 1947, the Naxalbari movement, and Indira Gandhi’s Emergency.

Affective Labour in British and American Women’s Fiction, 1848-1915

By: Katherine Skaris

£58.99

Skaris comprehensively explores the ways in which women were portrayed as striving for self-fulfilment through emotional, mental, and creative endeavours that have not always been fully appreciated as ‘work’ in critical accounts of nineteenth-and-twentieth-century fiction.

Affinities and Parallel Texts across Two Hundred Years

By: Hugh Ridley

From £32.99

Affinities—that nagging sense of familiarity in art—offer a key to how artists work. This book shows how affinity can be a hidden influence, a route to creativity, a shared heritage, or the first step in a lawsuit when it is confused with plagiarism.

Afghan Women and Education

Edited By: S. Behnaz Hosseini

From £35.99

This book explores education and empowerment for Afghan women. It examines the significant improvements achieved since the fall of the Taliban, the challenges that still lie ahead, and the threat women will face in the event of the Taliban returning to power.

Africa and Beyond

Arts and Sustainable Development

Edited By: Patrick J. Ebewo, Mzo Sirayi, Ingrid Stevens

£54.99

This volume challenges the view that consigns the arts to the periphery of social life. It presents insightful perspectives that ascribe agency to creative products in human development and is highly recommended for specialists and the public at large.

Africa and Emerging Global Dynamics

Edited By: Jamiu A. Oluwatoki, Adaora Osondu-Oti

From £30.99

This volume provides an in-depth consideration of Africa and how it fares in today’s globalised world. Its varied, but interrelated, perspectives touch on contemporary issues in international relations, especially as they relate to Africa’s development and global impacts.

Africa and Its Diaspora Languages, Literature, and Culture

Edited By: Oluseye Adesola, Akintunde Oyetade, Laide Sheba

From £38.99

This text celebrates Professor Olasope Oyelaran, bringing together papers by international scholars influenced by his work. It presents current research on the linguistic and cultural interface of Africa and its diasporas in Brazil, Cuba, and Trinidad.

Africa and the First World War

Remembrance, Memories and Representations after 100 Years

Edited By: De-Valera NYM Botchway, Kwame Osei Kwarteng

£64.99

This anthology brings together essays written by scholars of African history, society, and military about African experiences of the war. It complements and problematises some key themes on Africa and the First World War, and offers a stimulating historiographical excursion.

Africa Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Exploring the Multi-dimensional Discourses on ‘Development’

Edited By: Nathan Andrews

£49.99

Authored by emerging African scholars, this book challenges Western notions of ‘progress’ and the view of Africa as a basket case. It rethinks predominant ideas on development, examining the challenges and possibilities of Africa’s sustainable future.

Africa, Transport and the Millennium Development Goals

Achieving an Internationally Set Agenda

Edited By: Raj Bardouille, Deborah Bryceson, Muna Ndalo

£39.99

This volume addresses heretofore ignored dimensions of transport in Africa—mobility issues of the urban poor, women and children, and issues of access to employment, education and health services, aligning transport with the MDGs for policymakers.

Africa’s Many Divides and Africa’s Future

Pursuing Nkrumah`s Vision of Pan-Africanism in an Era of Globalization

Edited By: Vincent Dodoo, Charles Quist-Adade, Wendy Royal

£57.99

"If in the past the Sahara divided us, now it unites us," Kwame Nkrumah declared. Determined to bridge Africa’s many divides, he proposed a pan-African government. This collection of papers contextualizes his vision in an era of globalization.

“If in the past the Sahara divided us, now it unites us,” Kwame Nkrumah declared. Determined to bridge Africa’s many divides, he proposed a pan-African government. This collection of papers contextualizes his vision in an era of globalization.

Africa’s Finances

The Contribution of Remittances

Edited By: Raj Bardouille, Muna Ndulo

£39.99

Remittances to developing countries exceed development aid. This volume explores their contribution to Africa’s finances and provides guidelines to expand them, examining resources from money transfers and new technologies to skills remitted by the diaspora.

African American Humor, Irony and Satire

Ishmael Reed, Satirically Speaking

Edited By: Dana A. Williams

£29.99

Essays on Ishmael Reed, George Schuyler, Dave Chappelle, and more reveal how humor, irony, and satire highlight the complexity of African American life and its connections to world cultures.

African American Male Perceptions of Police in the Era of YouTube

By: Traci Dingle

From £32.99

This book explores the relationship between African American males and the police through their own eyes. It reveals this is not a black or white issue, but a global human problem, and is essential for understanding their realities, fears, and concerns.