Anti-Heroes in the Works of Easton Ellis, Coe, Martel and Tsiolkas
What does it mean to be “a man” today? This book delves into the shame, struggle, and precariousness inherent in modern masculinity. Through the lens of characters in contemporary novels, it illuminates the overlooked, vulnerable nature of the masculine experience.
Few studies have analyzed anti-social behaviour in Northern Ireland. This book fills that gap, considering the Troubles, the role of paramilitary groups, and the impact of the political settlement to offer insight into how to respond to the problem.
Anti-Tales
The anti-tale is the fairy tale’s evil twin. It subverts, inverts, and deconstructs familiar stories. In this collection, Red Riding Hood retaliates, Cinderella’s stepmother tells her side, and Snow White becomes a postmodern vampire.
Anticipating Veil Ban Effects
How do veiling bans truly impact Muslim women? This vital research uses critical racial feminism to analyze the consequences for their quality of life and human rights, questioning the balance between state interest and individual freedom in the West.
Explore how the movements of antillanité, créolité, and littérature-monde break from the literary center to forge authentic identities and a new genre.
Antipodean Childhoods
These essays explore childhood, otherness, and the postcolonial in Australia and New Zealand. They examine how adults configure children’s spaces through art, literature, and history, focusing on the cultural specificity of Antipodean childhoods.
Antiquity and Social Reform
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.
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.
Antiziganism
This volume explores the discrimination and persecution of Romanies, focusing on the theoretical understanding of ‘antiziganism.’ Essays analyze the historical continuity of stereotypes and the counter-discourse of Romanies, providing necessary readings.
This volume examines anguish in late 19th–early 20th century art, literature, and philosophy. It reveals the tension between anguish and art, showing how historical events and new inquiries generated an anguish that proved uniquely fertile for artists.
This collection reviews new developments in Georgian ethnomusicology and presents a tribute to Anzor Erkomaishvili, a pivotal figure in Georgian traditional music. The increasing popularity of Georgian choral singing provides an urgent need for this essential volume.
Aphorisms of Masquism
Grimes presents the monumental work of Swami R. Vaidyanathan (1913-1990), who was a research student at Cambridge under Lord Rutherford from 1934 to 1938, detailing his complete and unique philosophy, which aimed at reducing human suffering and promoting world welfare.
This source book of comparative literature explores the impact of Aphrodite and Venus. Drawing on sources from art, prose, and verse, it traces the goddess’s allure from the distant past to the present, blending myth with the contemporary.
Apocalyptic Projections
Apocalyptic Projections have been pondered since Biblical times. While the concept of apocalypse evokes images of total oblivion, threads of possibility and redemption offer a potential fabric of hope.
As we awaken to environmental crises, climate fiction (cli-fi) depicts our transformed Earth. This book analyzes apocalyptic works of literature, media, and art, shedding light on the inevitable interconnection of humankind with the nonhuman environment.
This book reveals how apocryphal stories shape collective memory. It traces an Irish myth through generations to a convict’s play in Australia and a modern novel, drawing on unpublished sources to solve the historical mystery of the playwright’s disappearance.
This book explores the complexities of academic writing in English for graduate students and researchers. It clarifies how to communicate discipline-related content and is ideal for non-native speakers studying for master’s and PhD qualifications or academic publishing.
Applications of Finite-State Language Processing
NooJ is a corpus processing tool and linguistic development environment. This volume contains papers from the 2008 International NooJ conference, presenting varied problems in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and new developments in the tool itself.
Applications of Relevance Theory
This anthology discusses various applications of Relevance Theory within several areas of pragmatics and discourse analysis. It covers an array of topics, including the treatment of figurative language, pragmatic markers and lexical pragmatics within Relevance Theory.
This book explores drama as an intervention in conflict. It maps theatre’s transformative role in contexts from South Africa to New Zealand, addressing violence in prisons, cities, and families. Includes two new play scripts on xenophobia and family violence.
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