Social Sciences

The Art of the Caveman

The Poetry of Paul Durcan

By: John Mc Donagh

£45.99

The first monograph dedicated to the poetry of Paul Durcan, this book deals thematically with the dominant concerns evident throughout his work, arguing that the poet has captured the complexities inherent in Ireland’s emergence from the early, difficult decades of independence.

An Anthology of French and Francophone Singers from A to Z

“Singin’ in French”

Edited By: Michaël Abecassis, Marcelline Block

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This richly illustrated mini-dictionary provides a collection of portraits of the greatest singers of the French language and describes how they have contributed to the musical landscape in both France and the larger francophone community and the world as a whole.

Intertextuality, Intersubjectivity, and Narrative Identity

Edited By: Péter Gaál-Szabó

£45.99

This title presents recent findings and opens new vistas for research by mapping the potential interconnections of intertextuality and intersubjectivity across a range of fields. It incorporates various research foci and topoi across time and space.

On Time

Philosophical, Theological, and Literary Accounts

Edited By: Marina Denischik

£45.99

Originally presented at a colloquium, the papers in this publication deal with a number of key presentations of time in the history of philosophy. They attend to the problems and questions of temporality as they appear in works of the Western philosophical tradition.

Spirituality and Desire in Leonard Cohen’s Songs and Poems

Visions from the Tower of Song

Edited By: Peter Billingham

£45.99

One of the first works on Leonard Cohen to be produced, this Festschrift discusses a range of his songs and poems. The essays range from unique insights offered by Cohen’s official biographer Sylvie Simmons through to considerations of major themes in his output.

Goethe’s Faust I

The Making and Impact of a Contemporary Performance

Edited By: David W. Lovell, Heinz-Uwe Haus

£45.99

This book tracks the creative process of Heinz-Uwe Haus’s adaptation of Goethe’s Faust and his question of how Goethe’s Faust is relevant today. It unites comments from stage and costume designers as they bring their own understanding of the audience to bear on the play.

The Kantian Legacy of Late Modernity

An Essay in Aesthetics and Epistemology

By: Maria-Ana Tupan

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Tupan traces the influence exerted by Immanuel Kant, through Bergson’s intuitionism, Husserl’s phenomenology, Dessoir’s aesthetics, Vaihinger’s als ob fictionalism, and Popper’s logical positivism. She draws parallels between the history of ideas and late modernity discourses.

Uniting Regions and Nations through the Looking Glass of Literature

Edited By: Karoline Szatek-Tudor

£45.99

Revealing the importance of valuing literature that has travelled over bodies of water, this volume emphasizes the common theme that water unites nations and their readers through literature. Topics examined range from South Africa’s ongoing crises to reinvented poetry.

Helen Kemp Frye’s Writings on Art

Edited By: Robert D. Denham

£45.99

Denham brings together the work of Helen Kemp Frye, an accomplished artist and musician, and the wife of literary critic Northrop Frye. The book contains her reflections on art, giving voice to a creative being whose contributions to cultural life in Ontario are often neglected.

International Friendships

The Interpersonal Basis of a Worldwide Community

Edited By: Agnaldo Garcia

£45.99

This publication considers issues concerning international interpersonal friendships and the influence of society and culture in the different friendship contexts. Efforts to foster international friendships are investigated, as are perspectives of friendship.

Text and Image in the City

Manuscript, Print and Visual Culture in Urban Space

Edited By: Catherine Armstrong, John Hinks

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The essays within discuss how the city is textualized, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They investigate how the creation, distribution and consumption of urban texts and images affect the shaping of the city itself.

Gender, Families and Transmission in the Contemporary Jewish Context

Edited By: Martine Gross, Sophie Nizard, Yann Scioldo-Zurcher

£45.99

This compendium analyses contemporary Jewishness within the constant dialectic between faithfulness to Jewish tradition and culture and adherence to modernity and democracy values. It highlights the contrasting experiences of societies in the Diaspora and in Israeli society.

Intercultural Horizons Volume IV

Identities, Relationships and Languages in Migration

Edited By: Lavinia Bracci, Nevin C. Brown, Eliza J. Nash

£45.99

Originating from the 4th and 5th Intercultural Horizons conferences, this anthology reflects an array of research, case studies and reflections on intercultural studies. It also explores civic engagement and varied perspectives on migration issues in the Mediterranean region.

Women Rewriting Boundaries

Victorian Women Travel Writers

Edited By: Precious McKenzie

£45.99

Inspired by a panel at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, this compilation offers fresh insights on how to read travel writing by women. It analyzes the connections between class, gender, physicality, and sexuality as found in 19th-century literature.

Literary Madness in British, Postcolonial, and Bedouin Women’s Writing

By: Shahd Alshammari

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Alshammari considers the ways in which madness has been portrayed in writing by women authors, readdressing the madwoman trope from a transnational approach set in contrast to the traditional Eurocentric approach to literary madness.

Abhinavagupta’s Comments on Aesthetics in Abhinavabhāratī and Locana

By: Sanjeev Kumar

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Gupta studies the Kashmiri practitioner Abhinavagupta’s two commentaries, Locana on Dhvanyāloka and Abhinavabhāratī on Nātyaśāstra. In particular, she discusses Abhinavagupta’s views on Lollata, Saankuka and Bhattanayaka, with each view followed by relevant criticism.

Paradigm War

Lessons Learned from 19th Century Piano Pedagogy

By: Lia Laor

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This book explores 19th-century Europe’s piano pedagogy, a “paradigm war” between mechanism and holism. It shows how Robert Schumann’s revolutionary music and ideas resolved this conflict, creating a foundation for artistic piano pedagogy for our time.

The Rise of the Anti-Heroine in TV’s Third Golden Age

By: Margaret Tally

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Tally offers an inspiring perspective on representations of a new kind of female character who first appeared on US TV in the mid-2000s, the anti-heroine. She studies several TV women and shows, like Homeland, Weeds and Scandal, to show the dominance of the anti-heroine on US TV.

The Arts of Memory and the Poetics of Remembering

Edited By: Abbes Maazaoui

£45.99

This book explores representation, transmission and circulation of memory, and how personal and collective memory shapes meanings, values, attitudes and identities. Its focus is on memory as malleable patterns and strategies that highlight the unity of memory and its diversity.

Traditional Medicines in Drug Discovery and Development

Edited By: Varughese George, Thadiyan Parambil Ijinu

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This book highlights the immense contribution of traditional medicine to the discovery of modern drugs. It inspires experts to explore traditional flora and younger investigators to find novel molecules, making it invaluable to scientists, researchers, and students alike.

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