This volume re-thinks culture by examining those who change cultures. It re-examines integration, questioning if it is a choice or a euphemism for cultural uniformity, and explores strategies for cultural survival and shared multiculturalism.
Comics and Power
Comics and Power presents new methods for studying the complex relationship between comics and power. Its 14 chapters discuss how comics interact with and challenge existing power structures, shaping our understanding of art, identity, and community.
Connecting art, nature, and science, these essays trace the collection and display of objects from early wunderkammern to the 18th century. They reveal a world where art and nature were intrinsically linked, charting the path to their modern divisions.
Learning and Using Multiple Languages
This volume presents the latest research on multilingual language learning. Adopting a multilingual perspective, it analyzes grammatical, social, and affective factors across diverse age groups and global settings. Essential for both researchers and teachers.
The European Union’s Eastern Neighbourhood Today
As the European Union faces a crisis and Russia becomes more assertive, Eastern Europe is caught in the middle. This volume explores the region’s opportunities, vulnerabilities, and dilemmas, along with the challenges of a possible second Cold War.
The Event, the Subject, and the Artwork
This collection explores art’s power to mediate political events, creating temporal ruptures and heralding an indescribable future.
Probing the Skin
Across art, literature, and medicine, these essays read the skin—as a sensual surface, a racial marker, and a canvas for tattoos, scars, and memory.
Manfred
Byron’s famous play Manfred established him as a bold genius. This new text is created from primary manuscripts, so it can be read as it left Byron’s pen. It includes a decoded note on his demonology and essays on the play’s sources and staging.
An aristocratic lady, Halma, uses her inheritance to found a Christian society for the needy. Her family, believing she is as mad as the disgraced priest Nazarín whom she harbors, works to defeat her. A fortunate denouement comes from the priest himself.
Shifting Visions
This global, interdisciplinary collection explores how gender and language create lived experience. Studies analyze topics from religion and politics to education and sexuality, with scholarship from Britain, Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa.
The Paramilitary Hero on Turkish Television
This book explores nationalism and masculinity in Turkey through the popular television serial, Valley of the Wolves. Drawing on in-depth viewer interviews, it examines the central paramilitary hero and how audiences construct meaning and pleasure from the text.
Worlds So Strange and Diverse
This analysis of contemporary fantasy literature explores unmapped territories of the genre. Building on major previous theories, it offers a new, comprehensive taxonomy of fantastic fiction based on the notion of supragenological types.
A Land of One’s Own
This book examines women’s land rights in Indian literature and society. As discrimination over land and property continues to keep women in a subordinate position, this book deals with the gap between women’s legal rights and their actual ownership of land.
Hospitality and Translation
What is the experience of Muslim pupils in an Anglican Primary School? Not the conflict that might be imagined. This book demonstrates the positive relationships possible between Muslims and Christians in Anglican schools.
Readings in Oriental Literature
This collection of essays is a fresh, lucid, and scholarly exploration of Oriental literature. It connects topics from the Arabian Nights to Coleridge and Tagore, while avoiding jargon to remain accessible for specialists and non-specialist readers alike.
Art and Social Justice
This book explores the connections between art, social justice, and media. With chapters referencing situations in Brazil, Cyprus, Greece and South Africa, it concentrates on how art campaigns for change and mobilizes youth in a world mediated by the Internet.
This multidisciplinary collection offers new perspectives on Celtic culture, literature, and linguistics. Scholars address established themes and unexplored areas, highlighting connections between academia and popular culture to broaden the horizon of Celtic scholarship.
Fairytales—A World between the Imaginary
This book investigates Basile’s masterpiece, Lo cunto de li Cunti. It examines his use of metaphor to critique baroque society and conveys his utopia of a more just world, while also proposing a new interpretation of the tales’ female characters.
This collection explores different types of space—exile, borderlands, the open road—to unpack the intricacies of Latino/a subjectivities. At issue is the freedom to self-define and travel across physical and metaphorical barriers.
Death Representations in Literature
This volume overcomes stereotypes that trivialize death in literature. It reveals the great potential of literary studies to provide fresh ways of interrogating death as an unavoidable human reality and as an ever-continuing socio-cultural construction.