The Lives of Texts
Exploring the metaphor of a text as a living organism, this book traces life-like phenomena—birth, maturation, death, and resurrection—in literature from the Middle Ages to popular culture, including works by Mary Shelley, J.K. Rowling, and Neil Gaiman.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
From 19th-century French composer Daniel Auber comes the forgotten opera *Le Lac des fées*. Based on the same tales that inspired Tchaikovsky’s *Swan Lake*, it tells of a student’s love for a fairy and may have influenced Richard Wagner.
Less than Nations
After World War I redefined the map of Central-Eastern Europe, states and nations rarely coincided. The minority question emerged as a troublesome issue, affecting international relations and becoming an integral part of the League of Nations system.
News from the Raven
This volume offers a celebration of Medieval and Renaissance culture. Essays drawing from philosophy, literature, music, art, and history include studies of Thomas Aquinas, Shakespeare, Beowulf, and the influence of rhetoric on musical composition.
Prosodic and Rhythmic Aspects of L2 Acquisition
This is the first survey of interlanguage prosody research in L2 Italian. Prosodic competence is crucial for non-native pronunciation and message understanding. The volume covers L1 transfer, pragmatics, and technology in second language teaching.
The relation between logic and knowledge is an underdeveloped theme. This book’s ambition is to stimulate renewed reflection upon it by collecting essays from leading figures, each followed by a discussant’s comments to create an ongoing dialogue.
Nonsense and Other Senses
This collection of essays offers a gallery of “nonsense practices” in literature across periods and countries. It reveals literary nonsense not as chaos, but as a deliberate, “regulated” attempt to snatch order from the jaws of chaos.
Under Occupation
Probing the militarisation of East Asia and the Pacific, this volume explores how communities navigate occupation, how identities are shaped and erased, and the struggle for self-determination against centralised power.
Teaching Foreign Languages
Teaching Foreign Languages: Languages for Special Purposes is a collection of essays for teachers of modern languages. The essays cover three main approaches: theoretical, descriptive, and applied linguistics, with examples from Europe, Asia, and Africa.
This collection of essays offers interdisciplinary perspectives on social sciences from researchers across three continents. It explores Human Resources Management, International Relations, and Sociology, appealing to educators, researchers, and students.
Corporate Governance and Board Performance
In Pacific Island Countries, board appointments are often based on politics and ethnicity, not merit. This book uses empirical evidence from the region to show how these factors influence board structure and ultimately damage their ability to perform.
This collection of essays combines Indo-European and Classical Studies to explore poetic language and religion in Greece and Rome. It tracks the remnants of Indo-European tradition and delves into ritual poetry, hymns, oracles, and magic.
The Future of Post-Human War and Peace
The fickle conventional wisdom on war and peace has blinded us to the dark sides of both. This book offers a new theory to transcend existing approaches, fundamentally changing the way we think about war, peace, and the future of humanity.
In 1763, The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer was the first manual exclusively for women in eighteenth-century Britain. It questioned pre-conceived ideas on women and their writing. Unedited since 1765, it is now presented with a new introduction and notes.
Explaining Financial Scandals
Recent financial crises are rooted in two main problems: a lack of effective corporate governance and the excesses of financial innovation. Drawing on scandals from Enron to Lehman Brothers, this book proposes a new paradigm, “enlightened sovereign control”.
Creative Interventions
Who are “intellectuals”? Are they an endangered species? This collection of essays examines the changing role, function, and self-perception of Italian intellectuals since World War II, with comparative essays on their place in other Western cultures.
The Three Waves of Globalization
This volume investigates how globalization changes communication genres. Combining a historical perspective with analysis of contemporary discourses, it asks: does this lead to homogenization into ‘global genres’ or the fragmentation and proliferation of new ones?
Aesopic Voices
When circumstances are hostile to truth, critical thinkers may use Aesopic language—veiling opinions in fables and myths. This collection breaks new academic ground, offering thought-provoking insights into this subversive art across five continents.
Political Violence in Latin America
Political Violence in Latin America offers an exceptional analysis of social revolutionary conflicts. In a comparison of three case studies—the Argentinean Montoneros, Colombian M-19, and Nicaraguan FSLN—the book brings new details of the conflicts to light.
Focus on English Phonetics is a collection of papers that brings together international researchers to exchange ideas. The 18 contributors from nine countries reflect the volume’s diversity through a variety of theoretical, applied and experimental topics.
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