This book provides a theoretical and practical framework for researchers and practitioners focusing on the construction, interpretation and retextualisation of audiovisual texts, using a selection of humorous, English-language media.
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.
Science, Mysticism and Psychical Research
Science, mysticism, and psychical research are thought to be irreconcilable. This book reveals the revolutionary synthesis of mathematician Michael Whiteman, who fused modern physics with ancient mystical texts, informed by a lifetime of psychic experience.
Solitaires, Solidaires
Reflecting on the theme of female solidarity, the contributions to this volume focus on its representation in French and Francophone society, literature, journalism and history from the 17th-21st centuries.
Myths in Crisis
This volume examines how 20th and 21st-century crises affect myth, analysing the crisis of its structure and the terminology threatening its study. Prestigious researchers explore ancient and modern literary myths and those in the material world.
Eating the Other
In contemporary societies, migration, travel, and communication expose local food identities to global influences. What happens to food habits and meanings when they are carried from one culture to another? This book explores the logics and effects of eating the Other.
The First World War
The result of an international conference held in Rome 2014 to mark one hundred years since the beginning of the Great War, this volume uses archival documents from various countries to examine ideological debates and contemporary narratives of the war, and the use of propaganda.
‘Intimately Associated for Many Years’
Between 1938 and 1958, Bishop George Bell and Willem Visser’t Hooft exchanged hundreds of letters. Their correspondence mirrors the ecumenical effort to unite Christian churches and navigate an age of international crisis and conflict.
Teaching, Learning and Investigating Pragmatics
This collection of research investigates how to teach and assess pragmatic competence in second/foreign language education. Topics include speech acts, syllabus design, and instructional methods. For linguists, language teachers, and communication experts.
This volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to Cypriot archaeology and material culture, from the 3rd millennium B.C. to modern times. Contributions illuminate various aspects of the island’s history, with a special focus on the formative Bronze Age.
This book summarizes state-of-the-art methods in credit analysis, a vital area of finance. Written by leading experts, it provides insights for estimating default probability, evaluating individual loans and bonds, and managing entire portfolios of such assets.
These volumes explore significant questions about the use of ICT in fields like management, education, and science. Featuring research from European countries in transition, this is a major contribution to the discussion on the role of ICT in today’s world.
Alexandrian Legacy
These interdisciplinary essays explore the complex and often neglected Alexandrian patristic tradition. Combining historiography, theology, and philosophy, they reveal a vibrant Christian spirit striving for the reformation and transformation of the human being.
National Economies
After WWI, the collapse of the global economic system led to racist cleansing and mass murder. This book explores the fault-lines that deepened in European economies, asking: who decided who was to be excluded, and where did the boundaries lie?
Lolita between Adaptation and Interpretation
Presenting an analysis of three versions of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, this investigation explores how Nabokov envisioned his creation rendered in a movie, and the divergences between this and said adaptation.
Global Youth
This edited volume explores the challenges that youth experience today, such as poverty and inadequate healthcare, and provides context to better understand the factors related, and contributing, to those issues.
Looking Beyond Words
This book challenges the view of gesture as marginal in language learning. It shows that communication is multimodal and demonstrates, through research in Italian language classes in Canada, how gesture enables a richer experience for both teachers and learners.
Freedom Beyond Conditioning
We are said to be free, but are we bound by our own thoughts and emotions? This book blends Eastern theories of energy with Western science, investigating the link between emotional life and mental freedom to offer a path to balance and true wellbeing.
This volume represents the proceedings of the 4th Weber Graduate Philosophy Conference held in 2014. Contributions include research on Wittgenstein’s Proposition, self-directed irony, and an analysis of metaphors.
Medieval Urban Identity
This book adopts a new approach to medieval urban life, using health, the economy, and law as frames of reference. Scholars provide insights into housing, cures for diseases, the work of artisans, and the relationship between the town and its region.
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