This volume explores the body as the equilibrium limit between the memory of time already passed and the dynamic of unexpected happenings. It touches upon the fears and anxieties affecting contemporary European societies after terrorist attacks and refugee influxes.
This study provides a theoretical and practical framework for understanding the writing strategies used by Singapore primary school students and strategy-based writing instruction conducted in Singapore primary schools.
Trans-Pacific Encounters
This title challenges the current dearth of studies of the literary, cultural, and historical relations between Asia and the Hispanic world, despite the fact that the origin of trans-pacific contact between these regions can be traced as far back as the pre-Columbian period.
Perception of English
This book examines perceptions of English in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim community. Studying universities, it reveals English is viewed as a tool for advancement, yet creates tensions with the Indonesian language and national identity, demanding a new balance.
This collection of critical essays explores the intersection of gender and diaspora in Indian literature. Drawing on feminist and queer studies, it examines the predicament of belonging and identity, showcasing the range and depth of the Indian diaspora.
Internationalisation of Cluster Organisations
This book explores how international collaboration increases cluster competitiveness. Focusing on the Czech Republic, its findings and recommendations can enrich cluster development in other countries, serving as a guide for practitioners, policy makers, and academics.
Bridges, Borders and Bodies
This book investigates South Asian women’s fiction, where protagonists’ identity negotiations are read as transgressions. Using postcolonial and feminist criticism, it explores narratives addressing the ambivalent tensions of diaspora and patriarchy.
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.
Referencing neurological research, this book examines how experimental cinema performs traumatic experience. It argues that ‘materialist film’ perceptually performs disorientation and flashbacks, giving this practice a renewed relevance in the digital age.
Challenging Ideas
This volume focuses on how the relationship between past and present informs theory and empirical research. Divided into two parts, it looks at the memory turn in the field of history and the intersections between social science, political theory and the writing of history.
Interface between Literature and Science
This volume explores the permeable boundaries between science and literature in Latin American narrative. It uses a cross-disciplinary approach to offer new readings of authors like Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, and Ernesto Sábato.
Censorship, Indirect Translations and Non-translation
This study of Czech literature’s destiny in 20th-century Portugal investigates indirect translations, censorship evasion, and non-translation, revealing the impact of political ideology on book exchanges between two non-dominant European cultures.
Wandering through Guilt
This study examines the relationship between guilt and wandering in 20th-century literature. Using the biblical figure of Cain as an archetype, it analyzes novels where the issue is a desperate movement toward self-consciousness or self-destruction.
Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails
The first in-depth examination of Pynchon’s debut masterpiece. This collection of essays provides new insights into a too-often underestimated work that established Pynchon as one of the great masters of twentieth-century American literature.
Within Language, Beyond Theories (Volume III)
This book offers new insights into linguistics by surpassing contemporary theories. It presents new voices in discourse analysis, pragmatics, and corpus-based studies, testing theoretical models against data from English, Estonian, and Polish.
China From Where We Stand
This anthology brings together powerful, diverse voices to define the boundaries and possibilities of the new field of Comparative Sinology, and redefines the boundaries of traditional academic study when trying to understand China and its place in the world today.
A New Gaze
This book examines the work of professional women in Spanish film and television since the arrival of democracy. Focusing on well-known names while rescuing others from oblivion, it analyzes their contributions and challenges through essays and interviews.
The Disciple and Sorcery
Eidse’s original research captures Lunda-Chokwe oral history in print, tracing that tribe’s origin stories and cultural values. It will particularly appeal to the Lunda-Chokwe people, as well as to anyone who treasures respectful insight into a traditional society.
A Divided Hungary in Europe
Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary flourished culturally through intense European exchange. These volumes draw an alternative map, replacing centre-periphery models with narratives from the perspective of historical actors.
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.
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