Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, a celebrated name in 19th-century French opera, collaborated with librettist Eugène Scribe on La Circassienne. This satirical opéra-comique tells of a Russian officer disguised as a woman who is wooed by his general.
Seeing in Spanish
Seeing in Spanish explores visual cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. From Don Quixote to Daddy Yankee, these essays traverse centuries and continents, addressing film, photography, art, graffiti, and digital media from Europe, the Americas, and cyberspace.
The world’s first Northern Lights observatory is the focus of this account about everyday life and the epoch-making pioneering of geophysical research on Haldde Mountain in Finnmark, Norway. The book builds on private letters and memoirs about daily life and research.
The first book on gangs in the Caribbean. Criminal gangs are increasing in number and are responsible for a rising proportion of violent crimes. This volume presents empirical data and analysis to understand the issues and examine strategies for dealing with them.
Neither Good Nor Bad
Why do individuals and even entire nations commit violent acts, convinced they are fighting for a just cause? This study explores the motivations for human behavior, revealing the extent to which we live in socially-constructed realities that can fall apart in a crisis.
This book analyzes fraud as a global process from an interdisciplinary, international perspective. It covers financial, tax, and academic fraud, presenting methods for prevention with empirical evidence from Brazil, Canada, France, and Portugal.
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.
In Permanent Transit
In Permanent Transit offers interdisciplinary approaches to migrations, globalisation, and the intercultural experience. This book finds the potential for change at peripheries marked by hybridity, where the ‘excluded’ use subversion to undermine the powerful.
True North
True North is the first book on literary translation in the Nordic countries. It explores genres from novels and children’s literature to crime fiction, analysing authors like Ibsen, Lindgren, and Laxness, and examines key translatorial challenges.
In 19th-century Italy, suicide transformed from a rare sin into a widespread phenomenon. This book provides the first interdisciplinary account, exploring it through literature, art, and politics, and examining major figures like Leopardi and Salgari.
Shining Humanity
This collection tells the tale of eleven ordinary Bosnian women peace builders who bore witness to horror but chose to live in hope. In the darkness of war, they showed genuine humanity and dared to imagine a life beyond violence and fear.
Deconstructing Reaganism
This book explores Reagan’s political legacy in American films. While many films from 1980-2000 seem to celebrate family stability and social order, they create an unsettling mythology that reveals the inherent contradictions and paradoxes of Reaganism.
French through Corpora
This book offers studies on the French language—its forms, variation, and acquisition—through the use of corpora. It provides an up-to-date account for researchers and students, linking data, theory, and methods in French and general linguistics.
Stories provide fictional encounters with death, giving meaning to both life and death. This volume examines narratives of mortality in literature from ancient Rome to today, exploring existential questions and literature’s role in social debates about death.
This collection of scholarly articles from an international workshop features world-class papers analysing Afro-Asiatic languages and cultures, including Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, Omotic, Chadic and Semitic.
This collection of essays explores the role of images and objects in the ritual practices of late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. The volume focuses on symbolic communication in Northern and Central Europe, including overlooked regions like Scandinavia and Poland.
This book provides state-of-the-art methods in credit analysis. Written by experts, it offers insights into estimating the probability of default, evaluating loans and bonds, and managing entire portfolios, enhancing your understanding of this vital area of finance.
Once considered an archaic concept, the Sublime has returned to the critical agenda. This book asks why. Spanning philosophy, politics, popular cinema, and digital cultures, these essays explore the relevance and urgency of the Sublime for today’s world.
This interdisciplinary collection explores how the past is retold and rewritten. Scholars analyze history’s representation in fiction, media, and political discourse, from postcolonial and feminist perspectives to unorthodox visions in speculative fiction.
Why does combat on film feel so real? Drawing on cognitive psychology, this groundbreaking study dissects the style of WWII films, revealing how dense audio-visual information creates a powerful sense of realism.
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