The European Avant-Garde
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores European Avant-Garde movements (1900-1940) in text and image. Covering movements like Futurism and Surrealism, it examines themes of the body, translation, identity, and exile.
Hybridity
This volume critically assesses the notion of hybridity in literature and the visual arts from the eighteenth century to the present. It examines the concept as one held in contempt by purists, promoted by syncretists, and viewed with suspicion by its critics.
This book explores the creative imagination in Victorian England through five key figures: John Ruskin, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater and Arthur Symons. It contrasts the views of theoreticians with the experiences of practitioners.
Knowledge and learning are key to policy change. This book provides theoretical tools to analyse how ideas affect policy outcomes, offering new perspectives on welfare state reform, policy transfer, and diffusion processes in Europe.
Longing, Weakness and Temptation
This book explores the universal themes of longing, weakness, and temptation by comparing literary works influenced by biblical and classic texts. It shows how the source text speaks through the new work and how the new work forces new meanings from the source.
Classics For All
Venture beyond the toga epic. This collection explores antiquity’s surprising legacy in TV, computer games, and B-movies, revealing how Greece and Rome continue to shape even the most cutting-edge corners of modern pop culture.
This book describes new ways of approaching aesthetics and innovation. Spanning Gestalt theory to the latest brain scan research, it unites chapters by Western aestheticians and Russian scholars, offering novel perspectives on art and science.
Marronnage and Arts
Marronnage, the quest for freedom during Slavery, has infiltrated social relationships and the arts. This book explores how revolt is incarnated in bodies and voices through music and dance, from the French West Indies to Madagascar and Brazil.
Papers from the First and Second Postgraduate Forums in Byzantine Studies
This provocative, wide-ranging collection of essays sheds new light on controversial facets of Byzantine history, religion, literature, and art. Sailing to Byzantium is a must for students and academics of one of history’s most fascinating civilizations.
Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation
From different disciplinary angles, these essays explore key questions in International American Studies: What are the symbolic and material relations between the “Americas,” the “USA,” and the “World”? And how does American experience shape global practices?
Anglistics in Lithuania
This collection offers diverse accounts of English and Lithuanian studies, with a particular focus on the contrastive aspect. Presenting a wide variety of empirical data, these essays have profound implications for both translation and teaching.
The Design Collective
This collection explores the potential of the collective as a structure linking creativity, social change, and politics. Bringing together practitioners, historians, and theorists, it examines how design practices like authorship and agency are being re-evaluated.
“Papists” and Prejudice
How were Irish Catholic immigrants accepted in 19th-century North East England? This book challenges the accepted view of the region as tolerant, revealing how sectarian violence was fueled by local conditions and the proactive role of the Catholic communities.
A trilingual compendium of English, French, and Romanian technical terms for forages. It covers key topics in plant biology, physiology, and cultivation. An essential resource for agriculturists, researchers, students, and translators.
Associations and Other Groups in Science
This collection explores the historical and contemporary role of scientific associations in science and society. It combines historical approaches with contemporary analyses that highlight public engagement, using the Portuguese scientific system as its focus.
Narratives of Identity
From 1895 to 1914, the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of England developed a relationship that shaped their identities. Drawing on rare archives, this book explores their dialogue and search for recognition amid the growing instability of the Ottoman Empire.
Are all literary texts interpretable? This volume explores the borderline of sense and nonsense, where literary studies and linguistics converge. Contributors tackle anomaly and absurdity, drawing from cognitive studies, pragmatics, and philosophy.
Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11 Volume 1
This volume explores the global cultural and literary effects of 9/11. It examines the representation of Islam, political and psychological dilemmas, and asks if 9/11 was a historical disruption or a catalyst for escalating existing stereotypes.
Common Threads
Common Threads explores the artistic identity and memory of ten textile artists. Through their stories, it reveals how individuals create a cohesive sense of self and deepens our understanding of what it means to be an artist.
Imaginaries Out of Place
These bold essays engage the question of transnational cinema in the context of Turkish national identity. This collection is essential reading for those interested in migrant cultures, hybrid identities, and new forms of belonging.
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