Cultural Identity and Civil Society in Russia and Eastern Europe
In memory of Charles E. Timberlake, this volume by his colleagues and students explores liberalism, Orthodoxy, and civil society in Russia and Eastern Europe from the late imperial era to the post-Soviet period.
Cinema and Politics
This volume presents varied approaches to the relation between cinema and politics, focusing on changing narratives and identities. It highlights filmmakers with ‘hybrid identities’ whose work goes beyond old limits toward the sensitivity of the New Europe.
Peeping Through the Holes
These essays on Psycho, the novel and the film, invite you to that peculiar house on the hill. Leave all hope behind and enter at your own risk. The Bates’ terrifying rollercoaster welcomes you. Nothing is over here… at least not until it overcomes you.
Game-Based Learning
This book is an invitation to delve into Game-Based Learning, an effective tool to teach and train in the 21st century. These chapters illustrate the advancements, challenges, and opportunities in the field, with practical guidelines and suggestions.
Collecting exotic objects has long united humanity. The essays in this volume connect these collections with their forms of display—from Chinese cabinets built in the West to Western-style palaces in China—charting encounters between cultures across millennia.
Grotesque Revisited
This collection of essays explores the grotesque in modern Central and Eastern European writing, focusing on the Soviet era. Scholars analyze the relationship between the socio-political background and subversive literary representations of the grotesque.
The Future of Post-Human Martial Arts
Contrary to the popular belief that martial arts are a spiritual path, their dark sides remain unexplored. This book offers an alternative way to understand their true nature, fundamentally changing how we think about the warrior’s body and spirit.
Imaginaries Out of Place
These bold essays engage the question of transnational cinema in the context of Turkish national identity. This collection is essential reading for those interested in migrant cultures, hybrid identities, and new forms of belonging.
Common Threads
Common Threads explores the artistic identity and memory of ten textile artists. Through their stories, it reveals how individuals create a cohesive sense of self and deepens our understanding of what it means to be an artist.
Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11 Volume 1
This volume explores the global cultural and literary effects of 9/11. It examines the representation of Islam, political and psychological dilemmas, and asks if 9/11 was a historical disruption or a catalyst for escalating existing stereotypes.
Are all literary texts interpretable? This volume explores the borderline of sense and nonsense, where literary studies and linguistics converge. Contributors tackle anomaly and absurdity, drawing from cognitive studies, pragmatics, and philosophy.
Narratives of Identity
From 1895 to 1914, the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of England developed a relationship that shaped their identities. Drawing on rare archives, this book explores their dialogue and search for recognition amid the growing instability of the Ottoman Empire.
Associations and Other Groups in Science
This collection explores the historical and contemporary role of scientific associations in science and society. It combines historical approaches with contemporary analyses that highlight public engagement, using the Portuguese scientific system as its focus.
A trilingual compendium of English, French, and Romanian technical terms for forages. It covers key topics in plant biology, physiology, and cultivation. An essential resource for agriculturists, researchers, students, and translators.
“Papists” and Prejudice
How were Irish Catholic immigrants accepted in 19th-century North East England? This book challenges the accepted view of the region as tolerant, revealing how sectarian violence was fueled by local conditions and the proactive role of the Catholic communities.
The Design Collective
This collection explores the potential of the collective as a structure linking creativity, social change, and politics. Bringing together practitioners, historians, and theorists, it examines how design practices like authorship and agency are being re-evaluated.
Anglistics in Lithuania
This collection offers diverse accounts of English and Lithuanian studies, with a particular focus on the contrastive aspect. Presenting a wide variety of empirical data, these essays have profound implications for both translation and teaching.
Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation
From different disciplinary angles, these essays explore key questions in International American Studies: What are the symbolic and material relations between the “Americas,” the “USA,” and the “World”? And how does American experience shape global practices?
Papers from the First and Second Postgraduate Forums in Byzantine Studies
This provocative, wide-ranging collection of essays sheds new light on controversial facets of Byzantine history, religion, literature, and art. Sailing to Byzantium is a must for students and academics of one of history’s most fascinating civilizations.
Marronnage and Arts
Marronnage, the quest for freedom during Slavery, has infiltrated social relationships and the arts. This book explores how revolt is incarnated in bodies and voices through music and dance, from the French West Indies to Madagascar and Brazil.
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