This is a first-time edition of an autograph letter-writing manual by William Gilpin, a theoretician of the picturesque. Devised for boys and men, it provides models of letters and fictional short stories about soldiers, reformed rakes, and fathers.
Slaves were not passive victims. They used religion with ingenuity to create new cultures, identities, and even resistance. This volume juxtaposes slave religious strategies in Graeco-Roman antiquity and modern Brazil, shedding new light on ancient slaves.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
In Marco Spada, an opéra-comique from the famed partnership of Auber and Scribe, a bandit chief’s daughter is torn between loyalty to her father and love for her beloved. The music features a celebrated overture, gracious melodies, and noble pathos.
Metropolis and Experience
Reading Defoe, Dickens, and Joyce through Benjamin’s concepts of experience (Erlebnis and Erfahrung), this book traces the novel’s critique of urban modernity from Defoe’s narration of lived experience to Joyce’s exuberant, joyous excess.
This phonetic investigation of the vowel system of Civili, an indigenous language of Gabon, analyzes articulation and perception. It contributes to establishing a credible orthography, with findings significant for linguistics and human language technologies.
Beyond Superlatives
A new generation of scholars applies Whitehead’s philosophy to “superlatives”—valued concepts like truth, novelty, care, and love. By deconstructing these ideas, the essays release an invitation of possibility, extending Whitehead’s thought in novel directions.
Gender plays a significant role in accessing resources, rights, and power. Through case studies, research, and theory, interdisciplinary scholars shed light on the intricate links between gender, policy, and social change in Africa and worldwide.
Globalization and Transnational Migrations
While globalization promised an interconnected world, for Africa it has meant marginalization, poverty, and instability. This book investigates the challenges of migration, brain drain, and identity to help readers make sense of Africa’s position today.
A new approach to culture relates personality to the genesis of myths and religions. Cultures, like man, pass through phases from childhood to old age. From sacred tales to modern myths like Superman, these stories provide meaning and motivation for human behavior.
The Supervisory Assemblage
A nomadic inquiry into the doctoral process, this book uses Deleuzian and feminist poststructuralist thought to raise questions, not answer them. It reveals academic production as a complex process, offering a powerful statement on learning’s capacity to transform a life.
Virtual Theology, Faith and Adult Education
Online theological education challenges established academic practices. Does it disrupt tradition or sustain it? This book examines the opportunities and risks, presenting an ‘interruptive pedagogy’ as a model to appraise the quality of ‘doing theology’ online.
Hume’s Labyrinth
Hume’s Labyrinth explores his famous “bundle theory of the self” and his own critical reservations about it. It argues the theory was not a failed account, but a pragmatic tool intended to help further philosophical investigations into the mind.
Edward Thomas
Killed in WWI, Edward Thomas wrote his essential poems in just two years. This timely reappraisal surveys his entire achievement in verse and prose, challenging common views and revealing a complex poet for a new generation.
“Else-where”
A survey of art and architecture, these essays critique what is suppressed and what is disclosed. They track a passage out of post-structuralism toward the Real, or “Else-where”—a return of the universal as utopian thought “here-and-now.”
A Foucault for the 21st Century
How relevant is Foucault’s social thought today? This collection of essays offers novel interpretations of his key concepts—biopower, governmentality, and subjectivation—applying them to contemporary issues like neoliberalism, genetics, and surveillance.
African Film
This interdisciplinary book interrogates Africa’s filmic past, analyses current productions, and projects into the future. Traversing politics, economics, and history, it explores production, marketing, gender, race, and legal issues.
Merseyside
This interdisciplinary volume explores Liverpool and Merseyside’s rich and controversial cultural history. From J. M. W. Turner’s sketches of the Mersey to the fan culture on Liverpool FC’s Kop, this book reveals the area’s distinctive character.
From a Heuristic Point of View
How do we get new knowledge? Carlo Cellucci argues that traditional logic is inadequate. We need a new, heuristic logic for generating knowledge. This book is a collection of essays from leading figures who discuss, criticize, and expand on Cellucci’s work.
Inhabited by Stories
This book offers an alternative to intertextuality as influence and appropriation. Grounded in the lived experience of reading, it focuses on the expansion of experience created by telling and retelling stories, which inhabit us and enrich our responses.
Explore Daniel Auber’s forgotten opera, *Les Chaperons blancs*, a work of political conspiracy written between two of his greatest hits. This essential volume provides the complete vocal/piano score, preceded by a rich analysis of its music, history, and dramaturgy.
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