Christine Brooke-Rose
Experimental writer Christine Brooke-Rose puzzled critics with her fractal identity. This book settles the ambiguities of her work, charting the chameleonic features of her highly experimental novels and their unifying intertextual web.
Following the Animal
Following the Animal analyses human-animal transformations in modern Nordic literature. It provides insights into the human-animal relationship and offers scholars a transferable strategy for approaching texts from a human-animal studies perspective.
Another Black Like Me
This book presents notable scenes from the long history of Blacks in Latin America. It provides a glimpse into their complex struggle to belong in societies where the definition of blackness was flexible, yet full recognition of their rights was denied.
Is There an End of Ideologies?
Is ideology just a political pejorative? Can we be free from it? To clarify misunderstandings about the key concepts of ideology and discourse, this book traces their origins, their appropriation by Marxist theorists, and examines the relationship between them.
Dante and Milton
This anthology explores synchronic and diachronic constructions of Dante Alighieri and John Milton as culturally produced icons, deeply engrained in the world’s cultural memory, offering a perspective that goes beyond merely national contexts.
Psychoanalysis
Resulting from a conference on “Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society” held in 2014, this volume offers insights into emerging psychoanalytic thought. The contributions utilise various psychoanalytic concepts to discuss a range of problems in philosophy, art and the clinic.
A New Hope
Modern physics suggests a predictable future, leaving no room for new hope or miracles. To defend God’s freedom, theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg invoked God’s absolute power over time. But does this create an arms race between God and nature?
These essays advance the philosophical understanding of causation, agency, and moral responsibility. The volume investigates important questions: Can causation be perceived? Is a causal relation a necessary condition for moral responsibility?
The Fruits of Madness
This title brings together presentations given at a seminar held in 2014 as part of the Annual International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, and offers fresh and thought-provoking perspectives on the ancient Israelite and early Jewish concern with prophecy.
Aesthetics of Everyday Life
This book reconstructs the aesthetics of everyday life through cultural dialogue between the West and the East. It highlights the interaction between scholars to build a new form of aesthetics from a global perspective, bringing aesthetics to a wider sphere of human life.
Man Up
The rise of the New Woman during the fin de siècle created a crisis for traditional Victorian masculinity. This book examines how male authors like Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker explored the upheaval of gender roles, asking what it meant to be a man in a rapidly changing world.
We Speak a Different Tongue
This collection challenges the privileging of modernism, focusing instead on modernity. It foregrounds marginalised writers—from H.G. Wells to Djuna Barnes—who responded to the era’s tensions with innovations distinct from modernist experimentation.
Ní Chuileann investigates the ability of a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder to recognise voice. It questions the assumption that voice recognition is a simple task for the typically developing child, the child with developmental delays and the child with autism.
This book provides a systematic structure for sport psychological interventions to give athletes a competitive edge. For psychologists, athletes, and coaches, it offers scientifically-proven measures for skills training, stress monitoring, and handling crises.
The United States and China
As the US and China vie to shape East Asia’s future, this book dissects their clashing worldviews, the balance of power, and the grave consequences for the region’s security.
Bodies of Speech
Aristotle was the first to conceive of poetry and oration as written texts. This book reads his Poetics and Rhetoric to reveal a systematic text theory—a profound theory able to hold a fruitful dialogue with modern thinking.
Focusing on the work of three US Cuban writers, this book shows that such writers incorporate Caribbean and Latin American archival sources and interpretive frameworks in order to develop a critical and investigative approach to the politics of Cuban exile historiography.
Constructing a System of Irregularities
Chee Lay Tan investigates the poetics of three renowned contemporary Chinese poets—Bei Dao, Yang Lian and Duoduo—exiled from China after the 1989 Tiananmen student movement. The author constructs a hermeneutical system that examines the irregularities and polysemy of these poets.
This book traces the development of music in the late 20th and 21st centuries through the work of six women composers. It integrates cultural contexts with their biographies and provides in-depth analyses of how they developed their own distinctly personal musical styles.
Female Silences, Turkey’s Crises
Güçlü focuses on the newly emergent silent female characters in Turkish cinema, and explores the relationship between this ‘new’ representational form, the ‘new’ cinema of Turkey, and the ‘new’ socio-political climate in Turkey after the September 12, 1980 military coup.
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