This collection of essays combines Indo-European and Classical Studies to explore poetic language and religion in Greece and Rome. It tracks the remnants of Indo-European tradition and delves into ritual poetry, hymns, oracles, and magic.
The Selected Letters of Alice Meynell
Catholic convert Alice Meynell was a sophisticated essayist and poet of the late Victorian era. With her husband, she was central to the literary world, editing journals and famously publishing Francis Thompson’s “The Hound of Heaven.”
Giacomo Meyerbeer
ARSC Awards for Excellence, 2014. This discography of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s works (1889-1955) testifies to the composer’s once-universal fame. It lists nearly 2000 artists, including legends from the Golden Age of Song, who recorded his music.
Paolo Casalegno was a brilliant and probing philosopher and one of the best minds in a generation. His essays in the philosophy of logic and language are remarkable for their rigour, originality, and fundamental insights.
Less than Nations
After WWI redefined the map of Central-Eastern Europe, states and nations rarely coincided. This book analyses the conditions of national minorities, from the massacres of Armenians and Jews to the role of Kin States that conditioned the stability of Europe.
Translation and the paratext surrounding it are not innocent. Publishers manipulate a text’s presentation, while writers use prefaces and notes to push their own interpretations. These articles reveal how these elements impact a text’s production and reception.
India in Canada
This collection of articles offers an interdisciplinary, Indo-Canadian perspective on the Humanities. It covers literature, film, and history, exploring themes of diaspora and gender, and features creative writing by renowned Indo-Canadian authors.
Imagining the Mexican Revolution
In this original collection of essays, leading Mexicanists evaluate the cultural legacy of Mexico’s 1910 Revolution. These cutting-edge essays examine the literary and visual representations of this landmark event and the complexity of its aftermath.
Left and Right
The “great dichotomy” between left and right has gained renewed visibility in the current economic crisis. Should we think with the dichotomy, or beyond its strictures? This volume provides theoretically sound and empirically informed answers.
A scholarly resource bringing together current knowledge and contemporary debate in social marketing. This book explores numerous hot topics and controversial issues, such as ethics, climate change, energy consumption, and healthy eating habits.
Thinking and Practicing Reconciliation
This collection asserts that literary representations of conflict offer insights into reconciliation. It charts a course from theory to practice, offering perspectives on storytelling as a way to address human-rights injustices and move from the classroom to the world.
‘Christ’s Sinful Flesh’
This book shows that 19th-century preacher Edward Irving’s theological views formed a coherent system focused on his doctrine of Christ. Irving believed Christ took on a fully human nature, including the propensity to sin, to become the true reconciler of God and humanity.
Challenging most historians, this book suggests the struggle to establish a Jewish state was less a response to international challenges and more a struggle for power within the future state, providing new insights into pivotal historic events.
Beyond the Book
This collection explores aspects of children’s literature ‘Beyond the Book’.
From woodcuts to e-books, children’s literature is reinterpreted through illustration, pop-ups, film, and stage adaptations, celebrating the creativity that engages young readers.
Few subjects are more controversial or important to today’s world than the British Empire. Using case studies, this book examines how the Empire ended, how independence was won and resisted, and what its collapse tells us about its legacy.
Less than Nations
After World War I redefined the map of Central-Eastern Europe, states and nations rarely coincided. The minority question emerged as a troublesome issue, affecting international relations and becoming an integral part of the League of Nations system.
This collection addresses key issues in lexical categories, categorization, and category change. It explores defining categories, the problem of fuzziness, and nominalizations using data from numerous languages. For researchers and advanced students in linguistics.
Diasporic Identities and Empire
This volume explores diasporic identities and empire on a global scale. By moving beyond the search for an imperial ‘centre,’ contributions from scholars across four continents show how writing from the peripheries develops a new worldview.
Popular Appeal
In a world of urgent social change, young people are devouring fiction about identity and transition. This book examines how popular genres are being redefined to explore today’s key questions about the environment, identity, and our place in a fragile world.
Russian Émigré Culture
This volume offers a collection of critical articles reflecting current perspectives on Russian émigré culture. Scholars shed new light on cultural diplomacy, literature, art, and music, documenting the diversity and impact of this movement on European life.