Stage Migrants
This volume investigates how recent migration is reflected in Irish culture, focusing on the representation of outsiders in theatre. It explores debates on national identity, multiculturalism, and racism in plays whose topics are central to any global community.
Staging and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century France
In nineteenth-century France, staging was more than theatre. It was a process of appearing and disappearing that shaped how individuals were seen in the visual arts and culture. This book explores staging’s mechanisms, repercussions, and what it chose not to show.
Staging Ben
This edited volume offers a rebuttal of the mischaracterization of Ben Jonson’s plays as anti-theatrical. Featuring contributions from both Renaissance literature scholars and theatre practitioners, it demonstrates the playwright’s prodigious theatrical imagination.
Classical drama on the modern stage is a major cultural and political phenomenon. Intertwined with the politics of locale, language, and culture, its performance is a feature in all types of theatre. These essays provide case studies for everyone in the field.
Staircase to Heaven
In a Tel Aviv old-age home, Holocaust survivors face death not with denial, but with a rich “death culture.” This ethnography reveals how they transform anxiety into acts of comfort, respect, and unity, holding up an existential mirror to us all.
Challenging the official record, this book reveals the gruesome history of communism under Stalin and Mao and their confrontations with the West. A stark warning against totalitarianism and a powerful argument for freedom.
This collection of essays questions the traditional supremacy of Chaucer while reaffirming his lasting impact. Scholars explore his influence on writers like Shakespeare, offer a modern assessment of the Wife of Bath, and discuss making Chaucer relevant today.
This book considers the history of stardom through its connections to three media. The first phase, shaped by cinema, created contemporary stardom. The second, linked to television, made the star more intimate, while the third sees outsiders achieve visibility through the web.
State Capitalism Reforms and the Path for Belarus
An insightful study of Belarus, a country “trapped in transition” for decades. This book explores its unique model of state capitalism and outlines the economic pitfalls that lead to long-term recession.
State of Exception
In the state of exception, the law is suspended to preserve order, justifying any abuse of power. This book examines the implications of this juridical no-man’s land, focusing on Italy’s history and its cultural and cinematic representations.
Statements of Truth
This book proposes to make explicit the information that enables us to assert a declarative sentence. Those interested in the philosophy of language will find a fresh and unorthodox perspective on meaning and a non-metaphysical approach to various semantic issues and puzzles.
States of Decadence
This two-part anthology focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence, with particular attention given to literature from the end of the 1800s. It goes beyond literary studies too, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence in the arts and culture.
States of Decadence
This two-part anthology focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence, with particular attention given to literature from the end of the 1800s. It goes beyond literary studies too, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence in the arts and culture.
Statistics for Linguists
An accessible introduction to statistics for linguists. Concepts are explained in non-technical terms, with step-by-step SPSS instructions for the most widely used statistics, including t-tests, ANOVA, non-parametric, and mixed-effects procedures.
Statistics can be unappealing. This book brings statistical issues closer to the reader using a science-fiction world, heroes, and everyday language to present an easy-to-follow account of formulas, numbers, and symbols.
Steady Air
Must Irish Catholics condemn modern society, or can they help shape it? Leading professionals explore the case for active, faith-informed engagement in civil life.
Stephen King in the New Millennium
This exciting exploration of Stephen King’s digital writing maneuvers and electronic ventures on online platforms unravels the author’s latest writing techniques and justifies his unprecedented success in the new millennium, tracing his shifts from print to the digital.
Stepney
A vivid history of Stepney, an iconic East End borough. From the murders of Jack the Ripper and the Blitz to the Battle of Cable Street, this ground-breaking book charts the rise and fall of the docks, waves of immigration, and the struggles of its people.
Steps towards Sustainable Tourism
This handbook offers detailed insights into the field of sustainable tourism. It will cater to the needs of those within this industry, who wish to widen their perspective by gaining further understanding of its problems and the opportunities and prospects it provides.
This book interrogates how stigma ‘others’ individuals and groups. Focusing on mental health, disability, and transgender politics, it reveals the progressive and regressive aspects of campaigns to challenge stigma, and warns how they can threaten our political freedom.
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