Re-Shaping Education for Citizenship
This book explores school processes in Hong Kong, where education must now manage diversity. It investigates how a liberal and democratic national identity, distinct from that of mainland China, develops under the “one country two systems” policy.
Re-theorising the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora
How do 30 million people of the Indian Subcontinental diaspora renegotiate their identities? This volume explores their historical, socio-cultural, and economic migration patterns, examining diasporic writers, films, and unique case studies ushering in a new era of identity.
This volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd by focusing on the character. Using mathematical approaches, it introduces new algebraic and geometric models to analyze dramatic relations. Useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging, or writing a play.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought challenges and innovation to English for Academic Purposes (EAP). This volume shares the experiences and reflections of EAP practitioners, teacher trainers, and leaders on how their response to the crisis has shaped our future ‘new normal’.
This cross-cultural study investigates what happens when 20th century European plays are adapted to the Indian context. Go into the minds of creators and directors through interviews that reveal the theatrical, cultural, and ideological concerns of reimagining landmark works.
What does emancipation mean in the contemporary moral and political landscape? From what can we free ourselves? This collection investigates emancipation through the eyes of the ethicist, re-examining the concept within different philosophical traditions.
This interdisciplinary collection explores how early modern texts were appropriated by individuals and groups. Case studies show how a text’s physical form impacts its readership, concluding that texts hold no fixed meaning but are interpreted by each reader.
Reading a Dynamic Canvas
Personal adornment shapes identity, but can be manipulated to conceal or exaggerate reality. The essays in this volume explore this discourse through material evidence, covering a broad span from the ancient Near East to Roman Britain.
Reading America
This collection of essays offers a refreshing perspective on classic American novels. It explores familiar texts through unfamiliar lenses, shedding light on surprising aspects of works by authors from Toni Morrison to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Reading and Writing through Auden
This book proposes a creative writing discipline founded on self-mentorship. Through close readings of W.H. Auden, imaginary correspondence with the poet, and new poems, it presents a reading and writing practice attuned to the world-making possibilities of poetry.
Reading Communities
This book represents the product of long-term collaboration between French and American scholars sharing a common preoccupation with reading canonical and contemporary works of literature and cinema in a theoretical and pedagogical context.
Despite criticism, a continuing affection for Enid Blyton’s work is apparent. This book places her work in its cultural and historical context, examining recurring themes of childhood, class, and fantasy, and asks whether she was as reactionary a writer as she appeared.
Reading Henry James in the Twenty-First Century
Leading scholars re-evaluate Henry James’s legacy. This collection explores his influence on culture, the artists who shaped his work, and radical new readings for the 21st century. A guide to tracing his ‘figure in the carpet’ and understanding his continued impact today.
Reading Hobbes Backwards
Beyond Leviathan lies Hobbes the peace theorist. Unable to speak freely as a courtier’s client, he used clandestine philosophy and satire to attack the sectarian causes of religious war and champion classical civic humanism.
Reading Old English Riddles
The riddles of the Exeter Book are designed to intrigue, baffle, and entertain. Ranging from the learned to the vulgar, the devotional to the existential, they are a powerful part of the Old English poetic tradition. This book presents them in modern English verse translations.
Reading Old English Wisdom
This book translates and comments on a selection of superb Old English wisdom poems. Composed from the ninth to eleventh centuries, they mingle Christian beliefs with pre-Christian sensibilities, exploring how the human psyche responds to life’s challenges.
This book builds upon recent analysis of Shakespeare’s Othello, in order to show how the discourse of religion might affect our understanding of this play. It specifically looks at how Catholicism, a contested topic in Shakespeare’s world, affects our understanding of Desdemona.
Reading Penguin
Penguin Books democratised reading, becoming the most important British publisher of the 20th century. In these essays, scholars examine Penguin’s significance, from breaking the Lady Chatterley ban to the iconic art of its covers.
Reading the Fantastic Imagination
This volume investigates the fantastic imagination and its hybrid nature as a postmodern form. Continuing a project on popular genres, this collection of studies confronts the paradox of trendy ‘lowbrow’ fiction being studied by canonical scholars.
Reading, Writing, and Digitizing
Based on psycholinguistics, this book contrasts expert and novice readers and writers. It reveals how experts go beyond the text to create meaning in any medium and offers powerful strategies to support literacy development in others.
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