Myths in Crisis
This volume examines how 20th and 21st-century crises affect myth, analysing the crisis of its structure and the terminology threatening its study. Prestigious researchers explore ancient and modern literary myths and those in the material world.
Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society
This compilation of essays is a major addition to Beauvoirian studies with up-to-date research. It offers a multifaceted overview on the “state of the art” of work on the life and works of de Beauvoir, 30 years after her demise.
The Discourse of Tourism and National Heritage
Stoian studies the field of online tourism promotion, focusing on that of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, looking at two different types of websites—institutional and commercial—from three countries, Romania, Spain and the UK.
How to do Philosophy
Why take Wittgenstein seriously today? This text explores the therapeutic conception of philosophy in his later work. Drawing on his writings, including posthumous publications, it clarifies his problem-specific and person-specific philosophical project.
This conference proceedings represents papers given at the Seventh International Conference on Fantasy and Wonder, and demonstrates the continuing importance of the past in the present and, by extension, for the future.
English, Colonial, Modern and Maori
How do works enter a public art collection? Who decides what hangs on the walls? This cultural biography of Christchurch’s Robert McDougall Art Gallery explores 70 years of collection, controversy, and the influential personalities who shaped a nation’s art.
Picturing Evolution and Extinction
Fears of extinction stretch back to Darwin. This book explores the interplay of degeneration and regeneration in modern visual cultures from 1860-1930, showing how art betrayed anxieties over decline alongside latent hopes of renewal.
Definiteness Effects
This volume explores the definiteness effect in grammar from typological, diachronic, and second language acquisition perspectives. It provides an overview of syntactic, morphological, semantic, and pragmatic approaches in European and non-European languages.
Colonies in Conflict
This book traces the little-known history of the British Overseas Territories, the last remnants of the British Empire. It reveals how today’s wars, scandals, and controversies are rooted in a past of conflict, corruption, and neglect by a two-speed Empire.
This collection outlines practical approaches to theology’s most intriguing subjects: The Bible, Cultural Identity, and Mission. Contributors blend academic exactness with cultural analogies to explore the core of Christian belief and its missionary imperative.
CDA and PDA Made Simple
CDA and PDA Made Simple explores power, control, and ideology in discourse. It provides the theoretical background and analytical tools to see how these forces are linguistically realized in English and Arabic through transitivity, modality, and metadiscourse.
Reflecting 9/11
This collection challenges the view that artistic responses to 9/11 are limited. It traces the emergence of a new paradigm for discussing these narratives as self-conscious interventions that ask crucial questions about how 9/11 is being historicized.
The 1930s
This volume brings together papers presented at a conference marking the 75th anniversary of Hofstra University, and provides a wide-ranging exploration of the 1930s, discussing the role of the arts, entertainment, politics, literature, and science in that momentous decade.
Teaching and Learning English in East Asian Universities
Written by scholars in applied linguistics, these chapters showcase English language teaching and assessing in diverse East Asian contexts. Using a variety of methods, they deal with issues relevant to East Asian teachers, learners, and researchers.
This book represents the first systematic, cross-linguistic analysis of how toddlers learn adjectives. It provides valuable insights into universal and language-specific aspects of language acquisition in a field that has received relatively little attention.
Justice, Memory and Redress in Romania
This text asks if there are any lessons that Romania can teach transitional justice scholars and practitioners. It proposes that important insights emerge when analyzing a country with a moderate record of coming to terms with its communist past.
Thinking Modally
Bringing together papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Modality in English in 2010, this volume focuses on the notions of modality, evidentiality and temporality, and on the connection between modality and stance and evaluation in specific genres.
Symphony and Song
This volume explores the relation between words and music from a variety of critical and practical perspectives. Topics investigated here include opera and pop music from around the world, Australian Aboriginal oral poetry, and censorship of song lyrics.
Tracing their Tracks
Artefacts from Medieval Scandinavia show principles of visual perception used by artists a thousand years earlier than was recognised. This book considers Old Norse culture to understand the development of visual communication, an aspect lacking in literature—until now!
‘Philosophy’ – After the End of Philosophy
This work rethinks philosophy for our interconnected times, proposing a new “critical philosophy” with an emancipatory thrust. It takes aim at bullshit and offers compelling analyses to grapple with the serious challenges facing our globalizing world.
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