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A Crosslinguistic Study of the Language of Space
Sign and Spoken Languages
This book examines spatial language in sign and spoken languages, presenting a novel Crossmodal Spatial Language model. The model shows that features from spatial input are not necessarily mapped to spatial descriptions regardless of modality or language.
This book examines spatial language in sign and spoken languages, presenting a novel Crossmodal Spatial Language model. The model shows that features from spatial input are not necessarily mapped to spatial descriptions regardless of modality or language.
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The concept of culture industry leads a double life. This book is a contribution to a critical tradition that explores the term in relation to media, philosophy, and consumption, showing the continued relevance of an expression whose muteness corroborates its darkest content.
The concept of culture industry leads a double life. This book is a contribution to a critical tradition that explores the term in relation to media, philosophy, and consumption, showing the continued relevance of an expression whose muteness corroborates its darkest content.
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How was the perception of time in medieval Europe influenced by religious faith? This book explores the “spiritual temporalities” of the age, showing how Christian faith was malleable and how artists and writers negotiated with their spiritual tradition.
How was the perception of time in medieval Europe influenced by religious faith? This book explores the “spiritual temporalities” of the age, showing how Christian faith was malleable and how artists and writers negotiated with their spiritual tradition.
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Leading scholars from philosophy, psychology, and history cast new light on Sartre. This volume deliberately stresses a middle and final period of his work, exploring diverse topics and offering new insights on authenticity, freedom, and ethics.
Leading scholars from philosophy, psychology, and history cast new light on Sartre. This volume deliberately stresses a middle and final period of his work, exploring diverse topics and offering new insights on authenticity, freedom, and ethics.
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Social Sciences Today
Between Theory and Practice
This collection of essays will appeal to teachers and researchers of social sciences. The essays deal with three main issues in Europe and Asia: educational theory, society in the context of globalisation, and identity, alterity and multiculturalism.
This collection of essays will appeal to teachers and researchers of social sciences. The essays deal with three main issues in Europe and Asia: educational theory, society in the context of globalisation, and identity, alterity and multiculturalism.
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Museums now engage with hot topics like terrorism, climate change, and social justice. This collection explores the role of cultural institutions in a complex world, examining how they can activate conversations and action through both new theories and practical means.
Museums now engage with hot topics like terrorism, climate change, and social justice. This collection explores the role of cultural institutions in a complex world, examining how they can activate conversations and action through both new theories and practical means.
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Interiors
Interiority/Exteriority in Literary and Cultural Discourse
These essays explore the borderland between interiors and exteriors. Where do we draw dividing lines? Can we afford not to distinguish between the inside and outside, between “us” and “them”? This volume presents a plethora of answers.
These essays explore the borderland between interiors and exteriors. Where do we draw dividing lines? Can we afford not to distinguish between the inside and outside, between “us” and “them”? This volume presents a plethora of answers.
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Antiquity and Social Reform
Religious Experience in the Unification Church, Feminist Wicca and Nation of Yahweh
Why would someone join a new religion? Dawn Hutchinson argues that followers of movements in the 1960s–1980s found legitimacy in religions that offered a personal experience, a connection to ancient tradition, and agency in improving their world.
Why would someone join a new religion? Dawn Hutchinson argues that followers of movements in the 1960s–1980s found legitimacy in religions that offered a personal experience, a connection to ancient tradition, and agency in improving their world.
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One is Never Alone with a Rubber Duck
Douglas Adams’s Absurd Fictional Universe
Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker Series is not merely light-hearted comedy, but is underpinned by philosophical ideas like Existentialism and absurdity. It investigates madness as subjective reality and uses aliens to satirise the human condition.
Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker Series is not merely light-hearted comedy, but is underpinned by philosophical ideas like Existentialism and absurdity. It investigates madness as subjective reality and uses aliens to satirise the human condition.
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The Boom Femenino in Mexico
Reading Contemporary Women’s Writing
This collection of essays explores the "boom femenino," the surge of women's writing in Mexico over the last three decades. International scholars investigate the term's cultural significance and how these authors challenged a traditionally male literary arena.
This collection of essays explores the “boom femenino,” the surge of women’s writing in Mexico over the last three decades. International scholars investigate the term’s cultural significance and how these authors challenged a traditionally male literary arena.
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This volume investigates how accounts of the Arctic have shaped history. It examines the discourse of “Arcticism,” modelled on Orientalism, and intersecting narratives of imperialism, science, and indigeneity across a wide range of genres.
This volume investigates how accounts of the Arctic have shaped history. It examines the discourse of “Arcticism,” modelled on Orientalism, and intersecting narratives of imperialism, science, and indigeneity across a wide range of genres.
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Imagination in Educational Theory and Practice
A Many-sided Vision
This book connects educators and researchers to argue for the centrality of imagination in 21st-century education. They concur that imagination is essential to realizing human potential and confronting the most urgent problems facing our world.
This book connects educators and researchers to argue for the centrality of imagination in 21st-century education. They concur that imagination is essential to realizing human potential and confronting the most urgent problems facing our world.
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New Directions in Language Acquisition
Romance Languages in the Generative Perspective
This volume presents new articles on the acquisition of Romance languages. Under a generative umbrella, it investigates first, second, and bilingual acquisition, as well as attrition, to advance our understanding of how languages are acquired.
This volume presents new articles on the acquisition of Romance languages. Under a generative umbrella, it investigates first, second, and bilingual acquisition, as well as attrition, to advance our understanding of how languages are acquired.
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“Rapt in Secret Studies”
Emerging Shakespeares
Inspired by Prospero’s phrase “rapt in secret studies,” this collection of essays from emerging scholars imagines new pathways in Shakespeare Studies, exploring themes of obsession (“rapt”), spies and contagion (“secret”), and authorship (“study”).
Inspired by Prospero’s phrase “rapt in secret studies,” this collection of essays from emerging scholars imagines new pathways in Shakespeare Studies, exploring themes of obsession (“rapt”), spies and contagion (“secret”), and authorship (“study”).
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Celluloid Saviours
Angels and Reform Politics in Hollywood Film
In "film blanc," a spirit helps a hero reform. This book traces the genre from *It's a Wonderful Life* to *The Truman Show*, linking its history to the rise and fall of American liberal thought.
In “film blanc,” a spirit helps a hero reform. This book traces the genre from *It’s a Wonderful Life* to *The Truman Show*, linking its history to the rise and fall of American liberal thought.
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This collection takes the pulse of current Kantian scholarship, featuring papers from a new generation alongside established scholars. These essays rethink Kant, tackling controversial themes from moral constructivism to his alleged racism and contemporary influence.
This collection takes the pulse of current Kantian scholarship, featuring papers from a new generation alongside established scholars. These essays rethink Kant, tackling controversial themes from moral constructivism to his alleged racism and contemporary influence.
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Exploring the deep connections between language, brain, and mind, this book surveys key trends in 21st-century linguistics. It unites diverse scholarly traditions on topics from broad theory to specific analysis.
Exploring the deep connections between language, brain, and mind, this book surveys key trends in 21st-century linguistics. It unites diverse scholarly traditions on topics from broad theory to specific analysis.
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Trauma, Media, Art
New Perspectives
This collection of essays explores artistic and media representations of traumatic histories from around the world. The authors both apply and critique dominant theories of trauma, exploring their limitations while considering new methodologies.
This collection of essays explores artistic and media representations of traumatic histories from around the world. The authors both apply and critique dominant theories of trauma, exploring their limitations while considering new methodologies.
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We Won’t Make It Out Alive
Patrick McCabe and the Horrors of the Irish Mundane
A study of Patrick McCabe’s work. Beneath the grotesque and funny narratives of his characters lurk similar pasts of cruelty and abuse. This book discusses how these childhood traumas and Irish social upheaval drive McCabe's narrators crazy.
A study of Patrick McCabe’s work. Beneath the grotesque and funny narratives of his characters lurk similar pasts of cruelty and abuse. This book discusses how these childhood traumas and Irish social upheaval drive McCabe’s narrators crazy.
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Our world became engineered, yet remains human. Through the philosophy of engineering, this book explores debates on the future of humankind in an era of robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, in an attempt to redefine our engineered future.
Our world became engineered, yet remains human. Through the philosophy of engineering, this book explores debates on the future of humankind in an era of robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, in an attempt to redefine our engineered future.
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