Patriarchy in Eclipse
This book examines two types of women in post-Civil War literature and art: the femme fatale and the New Woman. It explores how they challenged patriarchal culture and why they precipitated so much intellectual and artistic angst in their educated male readers.
Photography and Cinema
Visionary filmmaker and photographer Chris Marker blurred the lines between the still and moving image. This volume explores this fusion through his masterpiece La Jetée, analyzing its profound and lasting influence on art and cinema.
Power and Communication
This book explores the relationship between power and the media in Western societies. The media exercise symbolic force, but are also subject to political and economic influence. This relationship is paradoxically as strict as it is opaque.
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.
Giving Children a Voice
This collection of papers by international experts challenges society to note the seriousness of child abuse and the impact of technology on children. It raises questions on the rights of the child, and the role of parenthood in today’s contexts.
Connections, Mobilities, Urban Prospects and Environmental Threats
This volume provides specialized insights into pressing Mediterranean issues, from climate change and urbanization to tourism and info-communication technologies, offering new perspectives on emerging threats in a region at the interface of many worlds.
This book assesses the descriptive and explanatory power of various linguistic theories. It brings together contributions addressing formal theoretical issues and studies that put these theories to the test. For linguists, advanced students, and scholars.
The Foreignness of Foreigners
This collection examines Britain’s encounters with the Other through literature, art, and politics. It explores how figures of the foreigner were imagined and fabricated, revealing the crucial role Otherness played in fashioning Britain’s national identity.
Conversations in Philosophy
This collection of thoughtful and challenging essays offers a careful examination of knowledge and freedom. It interrogates the social dimensions of knowledge, the relationship between knowledge and truth, and the nature of personal and social liberty.
Averting a Global Environmental Collapse
Averting environmental catastrophe is a socio-political, not technical, challenge. This volume presents papers from international experts exploring how anthropology and indigenous knowledge can provide solutions for sustainable environments, resource management, and justice.
This book presents achievements in industrial and applied mathematics, offering new methods and algorithms for solving real-life problems. It promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and covers topics like numerical methods, control systems, and scientific computing.
Useless Beauty
The story of Australian art is not just landscape. Useless Beauty puts flowers front and centre, exploring how major artists like Margaret Preston and Sidney Nolan used blossoms to define identity and bring a psychological dimension to the everyday.
Identity, Migration and Belonging
This book explores the development of the Jewish community of Leeds from the 1880s to WWI. It reveals a side of Jewishness not fully understood, providing a greater understanding of the relationships between majority and minority communities.
This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to music in Turkey. Chapters explore topics ranging from the cognitive responses of musicians listening to atonal chords, to Turkey’s heavy metal scene, and the historical mission to “contemporize” music.
This is the first woman’s travel narrative from late 19th-century colonial India. Krishnabhabini Das defied convention by writing about her life in England to educate fellow Indians on British culture, offering a rare female perspective on the colonial world.
Facing Challenges
This collection of essays focuses on the realities of conducting feminist work within Christian universities and churches. These honest, heartfelt essays describe the ongoing resistance feminists face while envisioning more liberating ways to integrate feminism with faith.
This volume is composed of 22 peer-reviewed contributions from the 2014 International NooJ Conference. NooJ is a linguistic development environment and corpus processor used to formalize linguistic phenomena and develop Natural Language Processing applications.
This book explores the significance of historical bibliography for historical science. Bibliographers, historians and librarians from across Europe compare different methodological and technological approaches, and discuss the future of the field.
These essays explore how conversational exchanges in Early Modern England informed cultural productions. Conversation functioned as a method for creation and interpretation, a metamorphic force that did not simply reproduce, but transformed with each interaction.
How Peripheral is the Periphery? Translating Portugal Back and Forth
This volume reflects on Portugal’s position through the literary assets imported and exported via translation. Scholars question the peripherality of the Portuguese cultural system in essays honoring prominent scholar João Ferreira Duarte.
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