The Future of Text and Image
This volume explores the evolving relationship between text and image in literature. Scholars examine this dynamic across diverse forms—from novels and poetry to collage books and digital poetry—reflecting the significance of the visual in today’s image culture.
Discourses That Matter
Confronting our age of deep instability, this collection asks how English and American Studies can intervene. The essays explore how discourses on gender, race, and power matter, demonstrating the field’s capacity to foster critical thought and challenge injustice.
Until recently, copying in medieval book painting was explained by the use of model drawings or sketch books. However, it is no longer sufficient to regard the art through these lenses alone. This volume considers other factors in the transmission of art.
Auber, a key 19th-century French composer, and librettist Scribe created the successful opéra-comique Le Concert à la cour. In this one-act work, a young singer’s debut is sabotaged. It showcases the elegance and finesse of the composer’s art.
These essays explore Shakespeare in performance across time and media. From 17th-century stagings to modern cinema, the circus, and global theatre, the collection asks what motivates Shakespearean performance and how we trace what is ephemeral.
Conflicts in Africa, from complex wars to community disputes, share common dynamics. This volume shows that lessons in conflict resolution are applicable across all scales, offering case studies and new ideas for peace, justice, and security in Africa.
Charitini Christodoulou argues that a “dialogic openness” permeates Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation. Antithetical forces clash in unresolved tension, revealing that subjectivity and identity are always in the process of becoming.
North and South
This collection of essays crosses historical and disciplinary boundaries to ask if “north” and “south” represent real divisions. The essays interrogate boundaries—symbolic and literal, as communication and division—and explore how identity emerges across them.
This book examines international efforts to protect children from war through the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol. It exposes major shortcomings in the UN’s monitoring process and explores how compliance can be secured more effectively.
Sustaining Competitiveness in a Liberalized Economy
This book shares research from the International Management Accounting Conference on the role of accounting in a liberalized economy. It explores challenges in sustaining competitiveness through themes of Cost Management, Performance Measurement, and Strategic Alliance.
The Impact of Vatican II on Women Religious
This book examines the impact of Vatican II on the Irish Presentation Sisters. It explores their struggle for renewal and transformation, often hampered by local Bishops but supported by Rome, which led to the creation of the Union of Presentation Sisters.
Celebrity Colonialism
Celebrity Colonialism explores the entanglements of fame and power in colonial and postcolonial settings. It demonstrates the ambivalent roles played by famous personalities, providing a powerful lens for understanding what colonialism was and what it has become.
Socrates and Dionysus
Nietzsche argued Socratic reason destroyed the tragic art of Dionysus, pitting science against art. But are they enemies? This volume challenges that division, exploring how artists and thinkers bridge the gap between the world of fact and the world of fiction.
Exploring Space
This two-volume collection offers a comprehensive insight into how the category of space can inform original philological research. The first volume covers cultural and literary studies, while the second refers to English language studies.
The American Occupation of Australia, 1941-45
During WWII, over 120,000 American troops were based in Australia. This book examines the resulting “fault lines” in the alliance: GI crime, jurisdictional disputes, and fraught race and gender relations, challenging the accepted history of this occupation.
In 19th-century France, painting asserted its independence from literature as art’s influence on authors grew. This investigation reveals their complex relationship through case studies of David, Hugo, Van Gogh, and Balzac, shedding new light on both fields.
This book addresses various aspects of tourist behaviour, from need-recognition to post-consumption. Supported by practical examples from a range of countries, it is very useful for updating your knowledge or carrying out further research in this field.
A Geography of Horse-Riding
This book explores horse-riding by disabled and non-disabled riders and their horses. It captures moments of horse-human relating, taking the embodied expressions of horses seriously as demonstrative of their individual thoughts and intentions.
The Development of Conceptual Socialization in International Students
This volume introduces “conceptual socialization,” a new framework for analyzing how L2 learners blend their native culture with a new one. It explores the untold trajectories of long-term international graduate students’ linguistic and social development.
Centres and Peripheries
These essays explore centre/periphery relationships in journalism on a wide geographical canvas. Academics and journalists discuss issues from regional news agendas to the technological and financial challenges facing journalism in the digital age.
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