Revolutionary Leaves
Hailed as the most exciting author in contemporary American literature, Mark Z. Danielewski’s fiction is explored in Revolutionary Leaves. This collection of essays discusses his major works, House of Leaves and Only Revolutions, from a variety of perspectives.
The English of Tourism offers a linguistic analysis of the language specific to tourism and related fields like hospitality, transportation, and advertising. It will appeal to professionals, researchers, students, and translators in these industries.
The Fragmenting Force of Memory
This study is about cultural production that works through personal experiences of the civil war in Lebanon. It explores how writers and filmmakers reposition their sense of self from agent to casualty of history, unraveling self and circumstance through memory.
The Future of Post-Human Culinary Art
Is cooking an exact art or just a means to a meal? This book challenges such opposing views, offering a new theory to understand the future of culinary art and fundamentally change how we think about it in relation to the mind, nature, society, and culture.
In an era of volatile and integrated markets, regulators worry about economic growth and financial crisis. This book analyzes key issues from risk assessment, corporate governance, and debt’s role in crises to international investments and innovative solutions.
Arbitration Awards
Is international arbitration being contaminated by litigation, compromising its core principles? This book investigates this hypothesis by analyzing the language of international arbitration awards to identify elements that may provide evidence for this trend.
This volume is the first to address the position of Cognitive Linguistics between universality and variability. The state-of-the-art contributions point to innovative avenues for future research, making this volume particularly valuable.
– Günter Radden
The House of Fiction as the House of Life
Houses, the silent background to our lives, could many a tale unfold. This collection offers a transdisciplinary look at the paper houses of 18th and 19th century English literature, investigating haunted edifices, gendered spaces, and Gothic fiction.
Bridge traditional and student-centered Chinese teaching with a research-based Task-Based PBL approach. This guide offers proven classroom strategies, teacher insights, and 20 ready-to-use tasks.
Irish Music Abroad
This musical ethnography of Birmingham, 1950–2010, traces how Irish music moved from private arenas to the city’s public heart. It shows how the community conquered challenges, like the IRA bombings, to create its massive St Patrick’s Parade.
Building Bridges
This book envisions a new, democratic direction for English Studies. By integrating language, literature, and translation, it presents a method that questions norms, equalizes roles between teachers and learners, and empowers both students and translators.
This new approach to G. Eliot’s thought focuses on her profound religious and spiritual quest in Silas Marner. The author shows how Eliot distinguishes religion from superstition and offers a new definition of faith, stressing the qualities of her art.
Archaeological Encounters
This book examines the relationship between British and Spanish archaeology from the 1920s to the 1970s. Based on the letters of archaeologist Luis Pericot, it explores the personal networks that shaped how knowledge was produced, transmitted, and received.
“Don’t Disturb my Masterpiece!”
This book explores a humanistic philosophy of learning where rational inquiry, emotions, and morality form a continuum. It proposes a holistic model that values learners’ genuine struggle to realize their humane masterpieces.
Barrie, Hook, and Peter Pan
He is the boy who will never grow up, yet he is over a century old. A powerful icon, he seems to have been floating in our culture forever. This book is a tribute to this dear, mysterious, and seductive character who is now more alive than ever.
This book investigates Anna Banti’s contribution to a female literary canon and the renewal of the Italian historical novel. Focusing on her novel La camicia bruciata, it shows how Banti’s personal experience of marriage and motherhood influenced her narrative.
The Wounds of Possibility
This timely volume offers an in-depth study of George Steiner, one of our most provocative thinkers. Leading scholars reflect on the relation between ethics and literature, philosophy and art, providing the most comprehensive engagement with Steiner’s work to date.
American Literary-Political Engagements
From Poe to James, 19th-century authors confronted their era’s most urgent political questions. This book reveals how they transformed debates on democracy, social justice, and law into powerful and enduring works of literary art.
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.
Graphic History
This collection of essays explores the unique ways graphic novels shed new light on history. Analyzing writers from Art Spiegelman (Maus) to Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), these essays cover subjects from Jack the Ripper to the Iranian Revolution.