A Portrait of the Lady in Modern American Literature
This collection of fifteen original essays and a reprint of a classic essay reconsiders the figure of the woman in distress in canonical American texts. In taking up the question “What does a woman want?” it finds answers in artistic endeavour, political agency, and independence.
How do we comprehend language? This book provides a comprehensive overview of experimental and theoretical studies on language processing, emphasizing the fruitful interaction among theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics and neuroscience.
This text represents a mirror of Kantian studies in North America. It gathers papers presented at the various study groups of the North American Kant Society, along with contributions from hosts, session chairs, and keynote speakers.
Beck brings to life the meaning of the stories of the seven goddesses of Greek mythology. Her retellings will allow readers to recognize themselves in these stories, giving them the chance to use the wisdom represented in Greek mythology to create meaningful and complete lives.
This book applies Hegel’s Absolute Idealism to Christian orthodox confession, showing his system is grounded in the Trinity and Incarnation. Tracing philosophy from Aristotle to Hegel, it addresses revelation, creation, sacraments, and ecumenism, revealing philosophy as worship.
New Trends in Foreign Language Teaching
Language teaching approaches, methods and procedures are constantly undergoing reassessment. This publication discusses the latest developments in the field and emerging patterns in the foreign language classroom.
When Italians speak Russian, do they think in Italian or Russian? This research demonstrates that a native speaker’s way of structuring language is much more resistant to change than grammar, revealing how deeply our mother tongue influences the way we think.
The contributions here are the product of papers presented at a conference, and cover a broad spectrum of subjects such as indigeneity, music, song and identity, politics, national reconciliation, education, product development and national development.
Göbbels, Himmler and Göring
In this study of Hitler’s three henchmen, Göbbels, Himmler and Göring, Sangster utilises both older biographies, because of their insights, and more recent scholarly publications, as well as diaries. He also examines their mental stability in the light of psychopathic studies.
This book presents studies on emerging educational trends, including the use of technology, robotics, and learning motivation. It offers innovative solutions to practical challenges for scientists and teachers who want to implement the newest scientific findings.
This conference proceedings emphasizes the international aspect of the field of Celtic Studies, and highlights the relatively strong position of Celtic Studies in Poland, through its inclusion of Polish scholars working on Irish and Breton.
Brazilians Abroad
This book explores Brazil’s experience with emigrant voting. It investigates what external voting rights represent to the Brazilian emigrant community and how emigrants engage politically with their country of origin, based on original data from Brazilians abroad.
This monograph will help stakeholders in higher education appreciate service-learning as an innovative and active approach with the potential to enrich students’ learning experiences, while adding value to the service mission of higher education.
Katman provides a theoretical background of the ongoing transformation of the Eurasian region, discussing recent opportunities and challenges, such as the new Silk Road. She analyses the desecuritization and integration of the region, as well as NATO involvement in the area.
The Divided Korean Peninsula
Seu details his personal experiences of both North and South Korea, having spent time in the latter state three times over a period of 17 years. Here, he notes the characteristics, the contradictions, merits and defects of this halved and impenetrable country.
This monograph brings forth the voice of Bambui, one of the smallest kingdoms in the western Grassfields of Cameroon, through the presentation of its historical arts and culture, and the changes that have taken, and continue to take place, in its society.
Little is known about Mesopotamian houses. This book addresses this gap by analysing houses in the third millennium, a critical period for early urbanization, relating their characteristics to the socio-economical history of the period.
Ciambella provides an absolutely original analysis of the relatively The Statue of John Brute by Swinburne, acknowledging its paramount importance as Oscar Wilde’s source for his well-known The Picture of Dorian Gray.
This volume explores the ‘living’ usage of language in building and performing the law across academic and professional contexts. These contributions offer multiperspectival approaches to legal discourse, providing an invaluable resource for academics and students.
Dao Entrepreneurship
Thornquist presents an artistic and aesthetic perspective on auteur-driven entrepreneurial management that is overlooked in traditional organizational analysis. He builds on this through an exploration of Bergsonian ontology and Daoism methodology.
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