The Fictional North
The North is not one place but an imaginative frontier defined by storytelling. The Fictional North examines stereotypes and iconic images of “Northerness,” offering interdisciplinary insights into the circumpolar world’s past and present.
The Future of Text and Image
This volume explores the evolving relationship between text and image in literature. Scholars examine this dynamic across diverse forms—from novels and poetry to collage books and digital poetry—reflecting the significance of the visual in today’s image culture.
Inference, Consequence, and Meaning
Inferentialism holds that an expression’s meaning depends on the inferential rules governing its use. This collection of essays explores various case studies to discuss to what extent the central tenets of this theory are tenable.
The Atlantic World in the Antipodes
This collection of essays investigates the transformations of ideas, peoples, and institutions from the Atlantic World when carried into the Antipodes. The chapters underscore how both oceanic worlds were co-produced through intellectual and practical interactions.
Language, from a Biological Point of View
This collection of essays explores biolinguistics, the synthesis of linguistics and biology. Chapters offer an overview of forefront research into language structure, development, the brain, and evolution, highlighting both exciting prospects and obstacles.
Prepare for university-level texts. This coursebook teaches strategies and vocabulary to build confidence and proficiency. Develop academic skills with lively exercises that weave the excitement of the Internet into your daily English communication.
Cesare Pugni
Cesare Pugni (1802–70) worked with choreographers Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa in Paris, London, and St Petersburg, creating renowned 19th-century ballets. Extremely prolific, he composed over 300 works, delighting audiences with his attractive melodies.
Reimagining the War Memorial, Reinterpreting the Great War
This analysis of British war memorials in literature and film shows how they create diverse interpretations of the Great War, from the futility myth to the imperial sublime. At its heart is a core conflict: condemning a war while honouring the men who fought in it.
Against and Beyond
How do film, music, and media subvert the status quo? This essay collection applies critical theory to explore transgression in popular culture, offering essential reading for all who dare to go against and beyond.
New Trends in Early Foreign Language Learning
This volume bridges the gap between research and classroom practice in Early Foreign Language Learning. Drawing on contributions from teachers and researchers, it explores the Age Factor, CLIL, and intercultural competence as a means to mediate between cultures.
This long-overdue study illuminates the work of Jōji Yuasa, a great Japanese composer. His captivating music is an encounter between a Western avant-garde aesthetic and the productive thought of Japanese Zen, linked to deep, native roots often opaque to Western ears.
In a postmodern world where grand narratives have collapsed, Michel Tournier’s mission is to create a new mythology. He reworks established myths and legends, allowing the reader to take the place of the author and create their own individual mythology.
Religion After Kant
After Kant, idealist thinkers like Hegel and Schelling transformed the conceptual framework for considering religion. This volume explores their reconsideration of religion’s place within human self-fashioning, which shaped later thinkers like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
Civic Duty
This study offers a new view on public services in the early modern Low Countries. It explores who provided services between 1500 and 1800, how they were rewarded, and how these responsibilities were shaped by conceptions of citizenship and collective interest.
Peter Cochran explores Byron’s relationship with Italy as a whole—its literature, women, and politics. He argues the poet’s sojourn was an attempt to forge a new identity, showing how Italian culture gave him a new sense of self and his poetry.
Citizenship is being reassessed and redefined. In a world of globalisation, migration, and social change, this book’s contributions analyze the evolution of our understanding of citizenship and the individual’s relationship to the state.
Re-reading / La relecture
What happens when we re-read a familiar book? This volume of essays by eminent scholars explores how re-reading can affirm our identity or reveal our changing selves, and how this core literary practice shapes and reshapes the canon.
Gothic Legacies
Gothic art and architecture were reinterpreted in diverse ways from the sixteenth century onwards. These essays explore what “Gothic” meant across different periods and cultures, and how it was used to shape personal, national, and international identities.
Romance
This book proposes a fascinating journey into the history and geography of the popular and controversial romance genre. From its origins to its latest developments, from print to film and Facebook, explore its many shapes from North America to India.
The Politics of Translation and Transmission
This book studies the beginnings of Hungarian political thought through two 17th-century texts derived from an unlikely source: King James I’s Basilikon Doron. It reveals how Scottish ideas were re-articulated in a Central European context.