Displaced Women
These interdisciplinary essays explore women’s narratives of displacement, transcending the idea of ‘national identity’. The contributors compel us to rethink ‘mother tongue’ and linguistic ownership, and ask how women express their ‘permanent strangeness’.
This groundbreaking collection explores how personal and public lives inter-relate during rapid social and political change. It aims to understand the effects of these overlapping spheres on everyday life, relationships, and inequalities.
Royalists, Radicals, and les Misérables
In 1832, a royalist uprising, a cholera epidemic, and the June Revolution immortalized in Les Misérables rocked France. This collection is the first to examine these pivotal events together, revealing an overlooked year in the transition to a republic.
This book discusses cross-curricularity in language teaching from pre-school to university. It explores integrating media, art, and culture into language classes, offering practical solutions grounded in theory for teachers and scholars.
Languaging Experiences
This book explores languaging—the concept that language is a way of knowing, making personal sense of the world, and creating one’s identity. It offers new insights and unique interpretations on its implications for second language teaching and pedagogy.
On Intangible Heritage Safeguarding Governance
What is governance for intangible cultural heritage (ICH)? This book explores ICH safeguarding through the 2003 Convention, analyzing major issues and the interaction between global and local governance. Case studies provide tools to enhance safeguarding.
Class, Culture and Community
The death of British Labour History as an academic discipline has been greatly exaggerated. This collection represents its revival, bringing together community, culture, class, and politics to explore the breadth and depth of working-class identity.
The Failed Text
The history of literature is not merely a succession of successful works, but also a concatenation of failed projects and unappreciated innovations. These essays explore exemplary failures, arguing that they are as crucial as successes in literary history.
Collaborative Intelligence
This book describes the steps to transform a company into a social organization. It covers the strategic transformation, how HRM must adapt for collaborative work, and the new leadership skills needed, all supplemented with case studies from managers.
Cinematic Narration and its Psychological Impact
Using cognitive psychology, this book explores how cinematic narration impacts the spectator’s mind. It considers storytelling, conflict, suspense, and genre to outline a model for analysing how cinematic devices influence a viewer’s cognition, imagination, and emotion.
Food and Appetites
This book traces food as hunger, desire, and appetite in the arts. Examining hunger in literature and art, it explores food’s significance as a metaphor for social class, inequality, and gluttony, revealing the problems of excessive human cravings.
This book explores diverse approaches to collaborative writing as critical arts-based inquiry. Not a handbook, but a scrapbook of methods, fragments, and excursions into practices like poetic writing—a gesture against the market-driven academy.
Merchants, Barons, Sellers and Suits
This collection of essays investigates the changing image of the businessman throughout literature in America and Europe. From pop culture icons to Willy Loman, the essays are arranged in a timeline, allowing the image to evolve with each chapter.
Rendezvous with the Sensuous
In Rendezvous with the Sensuous, explore the aesthetic experience where human sensuousness combines with that of nature. Where artistic expression coalesces with the natural world, you are invited on a synesthetic journey to appreciate the role of aesthetics.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber’s grand opera La Muette de Portici is a key work in operatic history. Set against the 1647 revolt in Naples, its revolutionary tale was so potent that a performance in Brussels on 25 August 1830 sparked the uprising for Belgian independence.
International scholars explore the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts. Essays highlight cinema’s impact on writers like T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, and on directors from Charlie Chaplin to Alfred Hitchcock.
This collection of essays places women writers in the center of the 19th-century literary marketplace. It showcases how authors like Stowe, Alcott, and Southworth met consumer desires and mastered a burgeoning and anything but genteel industry.
This collection brings together essays from a broad variety of disciplines to advance our understanding of race and ethnicity in Latin America. These studies examine how voices from the margins, based on gender and class, shape and reshape the Americas.
Imagination in Educational Theory and Practice
This book connects educators and researchers to argue for the centrality of imagination in 21st-century education. They concur that imagination is essential to realizing human potential and confronting the most urgent problems facing our world.
Learning Citizenship by Practicing Democracy
This volume brings together international perspectives on learning citizenship by practicing democracy. It explores learning democracy in educational institutions, communities, and participatory budgeting, sharing a commitment to deepen democracy worldwide.
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