Britain and Italy in the Long Eighteenth Century
These essays explore the literature, aesthetics, music, and art of the long eighteenth century, with a focus on cultural transfers between Britain and Italy. Collectively, they pave the way for new interpretations of the era’s cultural history.
How have migration and globalisation impacted belonging and identity? This book provides empirical accounts of citizenship, race, and asylum, with case studies from Australia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka that inform key government policies.
Norm-struggles
Norm-Struggles challenges normativity and heteronormativity. Focusing on contradictions and disruptions, the authors explore how norms are produced, subverted, and changed across diverse international settings, from schools to popular culture.
Poetry Translation through Reception and Cognition
This book treats poetry translation as an interdisciplinary field, combining linguistics with reader response and cognitive science. It outlines a cognitive approach to translation and presents a new model for poetry translation criticism.
Translation and Cultural Identity
Seven varied essays from leading experts tackle the complexities of translation, cultural identity, and cross-cultural communication. These major readings will give readers food for thought and will promote research on communication across cultures.
Between Myth and Reality
Ghibellino’s provocative thesis claimed Goethe’s beloved was not Charlotte von Stein but Duchess Anna Amalia. Dan Farrelly meticulously re-reads Goethe’s letters, refuting this thesis and proving that Charlotte was the true addressee.
The Lost Gospel
Religion was a key factor for US Blacks integrating into 19th-century Canada. Protestant churches were crucial in their transition to freedom, fostering education, developing Black leadership, and guiding assimilation into their new host society.
James Joyce and After
This volume of essays examines time in literature, from the modernist revolution initiated by Joyce to the present. It offers new readings of Joyce’s work and explores subjective time in writers like Coetzee and collective experience in post-9/11 fiction.
Negotiating Solidarity
This book explores the linguistics of job interviews, showing how candidates use language to construct professional identities and build rapport. Using authentic interviews, it highlights the communicative choices that succeed or fail to influence the hiring decision.
Has technology’s ease of manipulation created distrust in photography? Or have we always desired to manipulate the image to satisfy the demand for the “idealised”? This book explores how artists stage reality to help us look more closely at the world.
Reel Politics
This volume explores reality television’s potential as a platform for political engagement. It cautions readers against both quickly dismissing reality TV’s potential for political discourse and subscribing to celebratory rhetoric about its democratic potential.
This book examines how syndromes, disorders, and diseases appear in modern literature and film. Rather than being portrayed as a handicap, limitation becomes the hero, allowing previous outcasts into the mainstream to affirm their moral worth, skill and intelligence.
This collection analyses research in the sciences, humanities, and high technology. The authors explore the contexts of scientific research, the links between information technology and everyday life, and the relations between innovation and business culture.
Learning Citizenship by Practicing Democracy
This volume brings together international perspectives on learning citizenship by practicing democracy. It explores learning democracy in educational institutions, communities, and participatory budgeting, sharing a commitment to deepen democracy worldwide.
This multidisciplinary collection of essays offers a comprehensive understanding of women and depression. Experts from psychology, public health, and other fields integrate research, personal experiences, and self-help strategies in an accessible guide for all.
The first book on ‘engagement’ in Religious Education, this collection breaks new ground by creating a dialogue with ethics. It offers fresh insights for the 21st century, aiming to make Religious Education a more stimulating and enjoyable experience for all.
A Spiritual Portrait of a Believer
This study seeks to identify the ‘I’ of Romans 7. It finds that the closer a Christian gets to God, the more aware they are of their sinfulness. The ‘I’ is a mature believer, growing closer to God while in ‘pain’ over the remaining effects of sin.
Conflict Prevention and Management in Northeast Asia
Leading scholars offer a comparative analysis of two of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints: the Korean Peninsula and the Taiwan Strait. This volume examines new strategies for conflict prevention, identifying lessons that could be transferred between cases.
This collection of studies addresses how globalization impacts culture, literature, language communication, and teaching policies within English Studies. Written by authors with diverse backgrounds, it explores how “global” and “local” entities are intertwined.
Locating Agency
“Politics” is more than government—it is power and agency in the lives of ordinary people. These collected essays explore this popular politics in religion, culture, and everyday life, suggesting political activity was embedded in almost every aspect of life.