The relation between logic and knowledge is an underdeveloped theme. This book’s ambition is to stimulate renewed reflection upon it by collecting essays from leading figures, each followed by a discussant’s comments to create an ongoing dialogue.
Prosodic and Rhythmic Aspects of L2 Acquisition
This is the first survey of interlanguage prosody research in L2 Italian. Prosodic competence is crucial for non-native pronunciation and message understanding. The volume covers L1 transfer, pragmatics, and technology in second language teaching.
News from the Raven
This volume offers a celebration of Medieval and Renaissance culture. Essays drawing from philosophy, literature, music, art, and history include studies of Thomas Aquinas, Shakespeare, Beowulf, and the influence of rhetoric on musical composition.
Less than Nations
After World War I redefined the map of Central-Eastern Europe, states and nations rarely coincided. The minority question emerged as a troublesome issue, affecting international relations and becoming an integral part of the League of Nations system.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
From 19th-century French composer Daniel Auber comes the forgotten opera *Le Lac des fées*. Based on the same tales that inspired Tchaikovsky’s *Swan Lake*, it tells of a student’s love for a fairy and may have influenced Richard Wagner.
The Lives of Texts
Exploring the metaphor of a text as a living organism, this book traces life-like phenomena—birth, maturation, death, and resurrection—in literature from the Middle Ages to popular culture, including works by Mary Shelley, J.K. Rowling, and Neil Gaiman.
Why does combat on film feel so real? Drawing on cognitive psychology, this groundbreaking study dissects the style of WWII films, revealing how dense audio-visual information creates a powerful sense of realism.
This interdisciplinary collection explores how the past is retold and rewritten. Scholars analyze history’s representation in fiction, media, and political discourse, from postcolonial and feminist perspectives to unorthodox visions in speculative fiction.
Once considered an archaic concept, the Sublime has returned to the critical agenda. This book asks why. Spanning philosophy, politics, popular cinema, and digital cultures, these essays explore the relevance and urgency of the Sublime for today’s world.
This book provides state-of-the-art methods in credit analysis. Written by experts, it offers insights into estimating the probability of default, evaluating loans and bonds, and managing entire portfolios, enhancing your understanding of this vital area of finance.
This collection of essays explores the role of images and objects in the ritual practices of late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. The volume focuses on symbolic communication in Northern and Central Europe, including overlooked regions like Scandinavia and Poland.
This collection of scholarly articles from an international workshop features world-class papers analysing Afro-Asiatic languages and cultures, including Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, Omotic, Chadic and Semitic.
Stories provide fictional encounters with death, giving meaning to both life and death. This volume examines narratives of mortality in literature from ancient Rome to today, exploring existential questions and literature’s role in social debates about death.
French through Corpora
This book offers studies on the French language—its forms, variation, and acquisition—through the use of corpora. It provides an up-to-date account for researchers and students, linking data, theory, and methods in French and general linguistics.
Deconstructing Reaganism
This book explores Reagan’s political legacy in American films. While many films from 1980-2000 seem to celebrate family stability and social order, they create an unsettling mythology that reveals the inherent contradictions and paradoxes of Reaganism.
Shining Humanity
This collection tells the tale of eleven ordinary Bosnian women peace builders who bore witness to horror but chose to live in hope. In the darkness of war, they showed genuine humanity and dared to imagine a life beyond violence and fear.
In 19th-century Italy, suicide transformed from a rare sin into a widespread phenomenon. This book provides the first interdisciplinary account, exploring it through literature, art, and politics, and examining major figures like Leopardi and Salgari.
True North
True North is the first book on literary translation in the Nordic countries. It explores genres from novels and children’s literature to crime fiction, analysing authors like Ibsen, Lindgren, and Laxness, and examines key translatorial challenges.
In Permanent Transit
In Permanent Transit offers interdisciplinary approaches to migrations, globalisation, and the intercultural experience. This book finds the potential for change at peripheries marked by hybridity, where the ‘excluded’ use subversion to undermine the powerful.
Exploring Space
This two-volume collection offers a comprehensive insight into how the category of space can inform original philological research. The first volume covers cultural and literary studies, while the second refers to English language studies.
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