Literature, Geography, Translation
This volume connects world literature, postcolonial, and translation studies. It approaches translation as a distinct practice that connects literatures, challenging global theory by insisting on the specificity of place and the resistance to translatibility.
A Theory of Literary Explication
This book forges a middle way between the postmodern view of infinite interpretations and the intentionalist view of one. Drawing on multidisciplinary research, it provides a foundation for judging some explications of a literary work to be better than others.
Brazil is more than samba and football. This book journeys through novels, poetry, music, art, and film from 1865 to the present day to uncover the surprising and vital cultural relationship the nation has had with its railways.
This interdisciplinary collection examines the fight to abolish the British slave trade. It explores the struggles of enslaved peoples and activists, the contested line between slavery and freedom, and abolition’s enduring legacy of inequality.
Globally, young people’s access to the labour market is a complex issue. In advanced economies, the educated face unemployment, while in developing countries, young workers are exploited. This book offers a comparative approach to understanding these challenges.
Psychology is the scientific study of all human thought and behavior. This book showcases a variety of applications of psychological science in health, law, sports, business, religion, and money, motivating you to explore its potential to impact our daily lives.
Living in Liverpool
This collection penetrates the lost world of working-class Liverpool. It reprints a selection of writings from social commentators, chief amongst them journalist Hugh Shimmin, who recorded the habits, housing, and wages of the city’s toiling masses.
Visual Conflicts
This collection of essays explores how visual cultures engage with armed conflict and violence. Each author considers how visual representations of conflict across various media—from painting to photography—shape the meanings of events, identity, and memory.
The Grammatical Nature of Minimal Structures
This monograph presents a linguistic examination of an aphasic speaker, viewing grammar as elementary computations. It supports the hypothesis that linguistic deficit is an impoverishment of procedural capacities, manifesting in reduced syntactic structures.
In FATA, “the most dangerous place in the world,” a heroic tribal resistance against the Taliban and Al-Qaida has been widely ignored. Based on extensive ground research, this book reveals the indigenous people’s blood-soaked struggle for the first time.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer was the most successful composer of grand operas in nineteenth-century Paris, yet today his operas have become stage rarities. This is the first broad evaluation of Meyerbeer in English, a study of his reputation’s vicissitudes.
On Meaning
This work explores individuation and the definition of identity through the semiotic process of cognition. It examines how symbolic forms define our world and how languages like English and European Portuguese develop unique strategies for naming and referring.
Dylan at Play offers new ways to meet the singularity of Bob Dylan’s work. With a goal of play, not definition, this collection features fresh voices offering reverent scrutiny and mischief, inspiring readers to invent their own experiences of the artist.
Merry Murderers
This book explores the femme fatale in American culture through Maurine Dallas Watkins’s story, Chicago. It argues that Chicago’s revivals produce a unique figure: the farcical femme fatale, who combines tragedy with comedy to get away with her crimes.
The Next Buddha may be a Community
What does internationalization in education really look like? This book investigates what intercultural competence means to staff and students in a university case study, exploring how it can be achieved and where more support is needed.
Christian Pragmatism
Edward Ames called theology a search for a black cat in a dark room that is not there. A student of John Dewey, he forged a pragmatic view of religion, seeing God as a natural process. This volume presents his thought historically through his major writings.
This book investigates the syntax and semantics of Hindi verbs and their argument structure alternations within the minimalist framework. It examines unaccusativity, causative alternations, and passives. For linguists and Hindi syntax specialists.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Once a star of 19th-century French opera, Auber collaborated with librettist Scribe on *Jenny Bell*. Set in London, a diva loves a nobleman whose father objects. Featuring English motifs, this rich score is a charming work to be rediscovered.
Daniel François-Esprit Auber
Auber’s music is lively and tender in this tale of social intrigue and artistic integrity. Opera singer Henriette is wooed by an ambassador, but after a rival betrays her, she tears up their marriage contract, choosing the stage over aristocratic pretense.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
From one of musical history’s most successful partnerships, composer Auber and librettist Scribe, came their final work: La Fiancée du Roi de Garbe. Based on Boccaccio, this opéra-comique follows a princess on a picaresque journey with pirates.