The Materiality of Res Publica
This richly illustrated volume re-examines res publica, focusing not on government, but on the res—the things and affairs that bring people together. It explores the central role of bridges in Venice and Novgorod and analyzes republican iconography.
Things That Liberate
This collection of essays explores objects that changed Australian women’s lives and shaped the feminist movement since 1970. Combining personal narrative and historical analysis, it documents the material culture of liberation, from overalls to kombis.
The Politics of Poetics
This book analyzes Italian poetry that aims not to represent the world, but to enact a change upon it. Using the metaphor of the rhizome—a subversive, unpredictable growth—it explores poetics as an agent of social transformation, a revolt from within.
From the national border to the individual home, questions of who can be where are at the heart of politics. This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how power structures inequality through space, and explores the forms of resistance that emerge.
Translation, History and Arts
This collection of papers on translation, history, and art stands at the frontier of interdisciplinary humanities research. A central theme is developing a new narrative of local histories against the backdrop of world history to advance our understanding of them.
This collection explores the cultural history of freak shows in Continental Europe, examining the spectacular display of wondrous and monstrous bodies. It uncovers forgotten stories from the circus to Nazi eugenics, revealing subjects with their own voice and agency.
Sport and the Christian Religion
This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. It offers an important response to the ‘win-at-all-costs’ philosophy of modern sport for students, academics, and coaches.
The NNEST Lens
The NNEST Lens invites you to re-examine TESOL and applied linguistics using multilingual, multicultural, and multinational perspectives. This volume’s original contributions question theory and share strategies, taking diversity as a starting point for all.
The Legacy of Antiquity
This collection of essays explores the uses of the past from a wide range of perspectives. Drawn from medieval to modern times, it presents new perspectives on the constant fascination with the antique, opening the way for future research.
Ex-centric Writing
This volume of essays examines postcolonial alienation through the anamorphic lens of madness. In fiction from Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, and Asia, the mad character’s vision is a warning against discourses that pass as the natural order of things.
Lenguaje, arte y revoluciones ayer y hoy
This book presents new paradigms in Hispanic literary, cultural, and linguistic studies. It explores artistic manifestations of social change and democracy alongside groundbreaking research on topics from Puerto Rican identity to the pragmatics of humor in film.
Winckelmann’s “Philosophy of Art”
This work examines Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s pivotal role as a judge of classical sculpture and founder of German art criticism. It explores his philosophy of beauty while revealing how his judgements were often propagandist rather than analytical.
Despite his influence, sociologist Talcott Parsons’s extensive analysis of law has been largely neglected. This first-of-its-kind volume collects his writings on the U.S. legal system, providing a roadmap for thinking about contemporary social issues.
Until now, there has not been a book which examines the syntactic and semantic mechanisms of secondary predication in East Asian languages. Shibagaki’s lucid survey is of great value to those interested in secondary predication, syntax, and semantics.
Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates
Professors reflect on enhancing learning opportunities for their students. The authors take a scholarly approach to examine innovative techniques, from active learning to the effect of technology, providing inspiration for teaching excellence in Higher Education worldwide.
Parallaxes
Despite being major Modernists, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are seldom studied together. This volume fills that void, using the concept of parallax to provide new perspectives on the connections between their respective work and their difficult encounter.
This book casts new light on adult L2 learners’ access to Universal Grammar (UG) by comparing them with child L2 learners. Focusing on the acquisition of English reflexives, the study shows that adult L2 grammar is constrained by UG, with full access possible.
Social Realism
This book presents a radical reappraisal of British social realism, arguing it is a distinctive art cinema. Through analysis of key figures from Ken Loach and Mike Leigh to Andrea Arnold, it reassesses this most British of cinematic traditions.
Applied Social Sciences
This collection of essays on social work explores topics from burnout and migration to child attachment and rehabilitation. It is an essential resource for students, social workers, and researchers who wish to improve personally and professionally.
This study examines Ovid’s use of ecphrasis in the Metamorphoses, exploring his determination to outdo his predecessors. It argues that Ovid’s preoccupation with artists makes the epic itself an extended commentary on his own artistry.
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