On Shakespeare in Sonnets
This text discusses the history and practice of Reader Response criticism and comprises a collection of thirty-eight sonnets responding both critically and creatively to Shakespeare’s works, showing that the creative and the critical need not be separate, exclusive acts.
On Taste
This innovative collection offers fresh, never-before published approaches to the idea of taste. Scholars explore how aesthetics interpenetrates discussions of food, political conflict, art, and education, representing a key contribution to the latest research in the field.
On the Apocalyptic and Human Agency
Scholars explore the fundamental importance of Augustine and Luther for questions of human identity and destiny. This volume examines Luther’s apocalyptic worldview and how he adapted Augustine’s understanding of the self for a new era.
International scholars offer a varied picture of our changing world, discussing the shifting borders of convention in literature, culture, film, music, and art. These complex essays offer fresh views that will stimulate intellectual debate.
On the Edge of the Panel
This collection of essays explores comics as a bridge between pictorial and literary expression. The book reflects on the medium’s cultural and historical dimensions, focusing on its unique formal tools, its origins, and its most influential authors.
With so much preventable suffering in the world, what does it mean to live ethically today? This collection explores our obligations to humans and other animals, the search for a meaningful life, and the relevance and vitality of ethics today.
On the Move
Fleeing their land, the refugee’s journey is fraught with danger and despair. They are the “untouchables” of the 21st century, testing our moral duty of hospitality. This collection of essays explores their journey as represented in literature since WWII.
On the Outlook
This volume explores how messianic thinking, from its Judeo-Christian origins to thinkers like Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben, has been used to confront injustice. These essays analyze its influence on contemporary politics, philosophy, and law.
Helena Peričić’s brave, open-hearted testimony of surviving the Homeland War in Croatia during the ’90s.
This bilingual edition includes the English translation and the original Croatian text.
On the Translation of Swearing into Spanish
This book analyzes how insults in Quentin Tarantino’s films are dubbed from English into Spanish. His films offer an interesting opportunity because of the exceptional number of insults they contain—1526 have been recorded, classified and analysed.
On the Turn
This diverse, challenging collection of essays explores the ‘ethical turn’ in literary studies. Scholars analyze the connections between ethics and fiction, tackling complex topics like race, gender, and the politics of representation. Essential reading.
On the Ugly
This original collection offers fresh approaches to the concept of ugliness in aesthetics, art, and in contrast with the beautiful. Featuring new papers from diverse scholars, it collects the latest research, making it a key contribution to the growing interest in the field.
On the Verge of Tears
Why do stories bring us to tears? This multi-vocal collection of essays offers personal, cultural, and political ruminations on why art, music, and film make us weep, inviting us to imagine tears as a language we can all, in some manner, understand.
On the Wings of Eagles
Gaius Marius was an innovative commander whose reforms changed the Roman military from a short-term militia into a professional standing army. This allowed Rome to expand but came at a cost to the state’s stability. This book charts the military implications of his reforms.
On Theory
This book demystifies theory—the ubiquitous, flawed thing that undergirds humanity’s greatest successes and failures. For anyone studying, writing, critiquing, or applying theory, it unifies the sciences in terms of goals and duties and explains the responsibilities it entails.
On Time
Originally presented at a colloquium, the papers in this publication deal with a number of key presentations of time in the history of philosophy. They attend to the problems and questions of temporality as they appear in works of the Western philosophical tradition.
On Translating Arabic and English Media Texts
A must-read coursebook for students of media translation between English and Arabic. Adopting a practical approach, it introduces the linguistic features of news stories and media texts. Packed with extensive vocabulary, exercises, and seven types of media texts.
This anthology focuses on the role of writing to preserve memories, to excavate traumas and to heal the ever-present scars of the past. It gathers together research papers from different universities around the world, including India, Italy, Tunisia and the USA.
An accessible and comprehensive analysis of J.H. Prynne, a leading figure in contemporary poetry. This study analyses the nexus between Prynne’s political thought and linguistic innovation, providing a crucial pathway into his most challenging and complex volumes.
On Wolves and Sheep
On Wolves and Sheep explores the methods used in the Spanish Golden Age to voice political opinions. Studying works by Cervantes, Lope de Vega, and others, these original essays reveal critical thoughts concerning Spain’s monarchs and imperial policies.
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