The Metaphysics of Personal Identity
What makes a person distinct, and how does identity persist over time? This volume explores medieval debates on the metaphysics of personhood, from Aristotle and Muslim philosophers to Aquinas and Locke, covering the soul’s fate after death and persistence through non-existence.
Language – Nation – Identity
How does language define one’s national identity? This volume explores the relationship between language, nation, and identity from a 21st-century perspective, analyzing its changing role across different historical, social, and linguistic contexts.
Explore the powerful relationship between American art and conflict. This anthology discusses visual works in relation to national identity and politics, revealing how conflict—armed and rhetorical—inspires new identities to emerge.
Computer-Assisted Language Learning
This book examines contemporary issues in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), exploring the interrelationship of learners, teachers, and tools. Presenting recent findings, it is a valuable resource for researchers and language teachers.
The Industrial Novels
Providing an historical and theoretical framework for reading three important novels by Charlotte Brontë, Dickens and Gaskell, Balkaya analyses these authors’ strategies for radical reform through improvements in the living and working conditions of the working class.
Many thought riots were an outdated form of protest. They were wrong. This book probes various historical riots—from 18th-century Scotland to a 1930s US police riot—to understand the issues that motivate them and why they still take place today.
More Than Mere Playthings
Spanning ancient Etruria to 20th-century Italy, this book explores the minor arts—from cameos to reliquaries. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, it reveals the unique importance of these objects, showing that the division between major and minor arts is no longer valid.
(Re)writing and Remembering
The contributions to this volume discuss the extent to which fictional acts of remembering are also acts of rewriting the past to suit the needs of the present. They focus on a range of narratives, from poetry to biopics—from the ostensibly fictional to the implicitly real.
This volume explores regional history from around the globe, showing how time and space are connected. Through case studies ranging from romantic operas in Europe and gold-mining in South Africa to urban planning in New Zealand, it examines the most personal level of belonging.
Composed of a series of studies about various trends in stylistics, this compendium serves to bring stylistic analyses closer together, thus demonstrating the potential of stylistics as a research area that can benefit from other disciplines.
This book offers a provocative new interpretation of megaliths, arguing they mark humanity’s transition from natural selection to civilization. It reveals their original purpose as scenes for primordial theatrical performance and explores sites from Stonehenge to Gobekli Tepe.
This book is one of the first extensive cross-linguistic investigations on epithets (like “the bastard”). It analyses them from the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface, arguing they are a type of pronoun subject to restrictions in attitude reports.
Noting the trend of postmodern revisions of fairy tales to subvert their stereotypical structures, this monograph examines gender discourse in two postmodern re-writings of Bluebeard, namely Margaret Atwood’s “Bluebeard’s Egg” and Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus.
Diversity and Homogeneity
This edited volume explores issues related to the nation, ethnicity and gender in literature, film, media and theatrical performance in both the UK and the USA, investigating the problematics of migration, citizenship, terrorism, and equality in modern multicultural societies.
British Pop Art was a central part of social change in the Sixties. Drawing from postmodern thought, this book critically examines the movement’s mass-produced aesthetics, confirming its relevance to current debates on art and culture.
This title offers a comprehensive examination of the events surrounding the shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer on August 9, 2014, and their aftermath, and will serve to generate an on-going dialogue about the role race and class play in the criminal justice system.
Metaphysics and ontology are fundamental philosophical concerns, yet history has revealed flawed conclusions built on dogma. The essays in this volume tackle this secular debate in fresh and original ways, providing tools for clearing the field of unpalatable items.
Learning and Personality
How does an introverted student succeed in a classroom built for extroverts? This book documents how socially active methods can harm students who learn best through reflection, revealing a glaring conflict within education and a mass misunderstanding of introversion.
Arthur Schopenhauer
See Schopenhauer the man through 24 letters to his dedicated apostle, David Asher. They reveal the philosopher’s 30-year struggle for recognition in a Germany dominated by Hegelian thought, and the ultimate triumph of a thinker who had long been ignored.
This book uses geometry as the cornerstone for visualization. Through linguistic deduction, discover innovative solutions for aesthetic design that can be transformed into mathematical equations. Each chapter is written independently and may be read in any order.
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