The Syntax of Surprise
Some languages use negative sentences to assert affirmative and surprise propositions. This book sheds light on this puzzle, called expletive negation, with a theoretical analysis and experimental study, exploring its contexts and distinction from standard negation.
At the end of the 18th century, the British focus shifted from classical ideals to the rediscovery of Old Germanic culture. This book examines travel narratives from 1794 to 1845, shedding light on the representation of Germanness in relation to British national identity.
Vocabulary Strategy Training to Enhance Second Language Acquisition in English as a Foreign Language
This volume reviews studies on vocabulary learning strategies, provides new research on their effectiveness, and proposes a practical training program. With exercises and examples, it illustrates their utility in the foreign language classroom for teachers and learners.
This book argues that early British women writers created a new expressive mode for melancholy. During a time of cultural and political transitioning, they forged a melancholy aesthetic to articulate their own experiences of loss, depression, and artistic angst.
This volume explores how the interplay of “exile” and “return” in Anglo-Caribbean literature shapes identity. Against a history of colonialism, diaspora, and slavery, it raises questions about literature’s function in an increasingly hybrid and transcultural world.
Italian-Soviet Relations from 1943-1946
After Mussolini’s government collapsed and Italy surrendered to the Allies, the nation was torn. Two rival Italian governments faced each other as the Allies advanced. Amidst this chaos, relations with the Soviet Union resumed. This book reconstructs this delicate moment.
The Music of Meaning
A book about meaning in music, poetry, and language. These 24 essays explore how we communicate through signs, symbols, and metaphor, revealing the complex unfolding of the expressive human mind and the intricate relationship between expression and thought.
This text celebrates Professor Olasope Oyelaran, bringing together papers by international scholars influenced by his work. It presents current research on the linguistic and cultural interface of Africa and its diasporas in Brazil, Cuba, and Trinidad.
This book analyzes the challenges in establishing new institutions of art and culture and provides recommendations for young managers. It is a study guide for managers’ training and self-education in the creative fields.
This volume explores dance’s role in modern Greek society, from ballet to contemporary genres. It uncovers factors affecting its development over the last century and asks why dance has yet to be established as an academic discipline, inspiring future artists to advocate for it.
Opposing Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Turbo-Nationalism
This volume explores how racism and nationalism are shaped by collective amnesia. Essays connect disparate genocides, from Belgian colonialism to Bosnia, to show how nation-states are built on practices of oblivion, demanding we critically rethink the past for a new future.
As governments worldwide innovate to provide better public services, this collection of essays highlights public service theory and practice. It is an excellent, updated resource for scholars, students and practitioners in public administration.
This volume intersects the study of American literature and history with urgent environmental and global perspectives. It re-conceptualizes relationships based on an ecological ethics, exploring topics from ecofeminism and migration to animal studies and climate activism.
The relationship of mind to matter still eludes understanding. This volume shows how process philosophy can help. Twelve chapters by prominent specialists discuss the link between process thinking and scientific research on the problems of mind and experience.
This corpus-based study examines how US and UK newspapers used reporting strategies to shape public opinion on the Second Gulf War. It reveals that the choice of strategies is not only ideologically-driven, but also highly determined by country, style, and genre.
Classics and Classicists
This panoramic collection of articles explores Greek and Roman literature and philosophy, from close textual readings to the modern legacy of ancient works. A vital resource for classical scholars, students of philosophy, and intellectual historians.
How can we redesign siloed systems to support families at risk? This book offers key principles for a community and government approach to child wellbeing. It explores early intervention strategies and asks what it takes to build family-friendly communities that improve lives.
Liberal Arts Perspectives on Globalism and Transnationalism
As globalization expands, reactionary forces like nationalism and populism have exposed its blind spots. This volume gathers leading scholars to analyze the human cost of immigration, the threats of online technologies, and other pressing challenges of our interconnected world.
Ukrainian researchers in arts education present a new model of post-nonclassical knowledge for professional artistic education. This volume offers new pathways for Ukraine’s cultural development and will be useful to researchers, educationalists, and students.
Ambiguous Selves
This collection of essays on literature, film, and media contests binary thinking on gender and sexuality. Celebrating difference and deviance, these texts subvert assumed norms, revel in the fluid self, and blur the lines that separate the normal from the abnormal.
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