Narrative Framing in Contemporary American Novels
Studniarz studies several doubly-mediated texts published 1968-2014, including John Gardner’s “The King’s Indian” and Paul Auster’s “Travels in the Scriptorium”. He sparks the revival of interest in fictions in parentheses, showing the need for research into more recent novels.
Travel and Intercultural Communication
This conference proceedings brings together texts focusing on going north from several geographical points of departure, from a wide range of genres, and explores a range of intercultural aspects such as issues of identity, othering, and cultural perceptions of the north.
In a world turned upside-down, this essay collection shows the vital role of the humanities. It explores how societies have historically coped with distressing change to address today’s crises—from climate change and racism to the worldwide crisis of democracy.
This title endeavours to create a general aesthetics to face the problem of mimesis and subordination of art, using the ancient concept of continuity. As such, it is of special interest to readers of aesthetic and critical thinking, and literary and sociocultural scholars.
Crisis, Exposure, Imagination
Unprecedented crises expose new ways of understanding. This interdisciplinary volume examines the role of imagination in our response. Lifting the veil between crisis and creativity radically undoes the past, opens us to the future, and provides vision and hope.
Mammadov covers a broad range of issues in the studies of text and discourse, combining a theoretical framework with empirical engagement. In doing so, he brings together various approaches to these two phenomena from the structural, functional and cognitive perspectives.
Europe’s Hybrid Threats
Hybrid threats from state and non-state actors pose considerable challenges to EU and NATO allies. This volume presents expert analyses on these transnational security issues and the need for effective Euro-Atlantic cooperation. An essential source for scholars and practitioners.
Since the “cultural turn” in the 1990s, increasing attention has been paid to ideological concerns and gender issues in translation studies. This volume is a further illustration of this trend, offering insights into various cross-cultural, geographical and historical contexts.
Sociothermodynamics
Why do social groups segregate in hard times and mix in affluent ones? This book uses game theory and thermodynamics to show that segregation can be beneficial for all—like sugar separating in cold water. In the long run, however, social evolution leads to a homogeneous mix.
Humanistic Philosophizing
Philosophy is the project of seeking for answers to “the big questions” regarding the condition of man, the nature of Reality, and man’s place within its scheme of things. Against this background, Rescher considers some major areas of philosophical concern.
This volume explores the social, historical and cultural dimensions of medicine. It covers medical knowledge, public health, and the experience of illness, raising ethical and philosophical questions that will open up new vistas of study for the reader.
Land Writings
Arranging itself around a number of journeys in pursuit of the early twentieth century poet and nature writer, this monograph provides a personal and moving tale of encountering literature in landscape, retreading Edward Thomas’s footprints for the last four years of his life.
Kılıç re-reads Milton’s Paradise Lost in the light of his political views as reflected in his earlier political pamphlets. He argues that, using his epic poem as a medium of expression, Milton created a political subtext which reflected the social panorama of his England.
In this dictionary, 300 Greek maxims and proverbs are given, accompanied by their counterparts in 8 European languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, and Russian. Moreover, the introduction relates the history, origin and importance of proverbs.
This book proposes a new explanation for early modern philosophy. It suggests the concept of relation, grounded in causal influence, can illuminate developments concerning causality, sense perception, and substance, showing it is closer to Aristotle than supposed.
Multicultural Narratives
Unpacking multiculturalism in literature, this interdisciplinary collection reveals how narratives subvert fixed notions of race, nation, and identity. A vital resource of theoretical and analytical essays for scholars, students, and researchers.
Outraged and Amazed
Outraged and Amazed explores how Absalom, Absalom!’s characters resist social limits and wrest control of their identities through storytelling, resulting in a tangled, plausible but unverifiable story of the South that is both fictive and true.
Paravano investigates the issue of multilingualism in the Caroline age through the lens of Richard Brome’s theatre. She analyses Brome’s multilingual representation of early modern London between 1625 and 1642, a multilingual and cosmopolitan city.
No One is an Island
Academics and officials examine Iceland’s international affairs from the perspective of a small state. The authors explore how Iceland’s domestic and international behaviour is marked by its smallness, suggesting a perspective that is more idiosyncratic than international.
The Aphorisms of Yi Deok-mu
This volume brings together excerpts from Seongyuldang nongso and Imokgusimseo by the 18th-century scholar Yi Deok-mu. The thoughtful discourse presented here offers considerable comfort and joy to contemporary readers, in an age sadly dominated by a dog-eat-dog mentality.
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