In our digital world, it can be easy to forget public spaces. This book interrogates cultural programs, from festivals to museums, to discover how these bodily experiences affect us. It argues that both events and institutions are caught in political webs.
The Gift of Logos
The Continental tradition emphasizes the Logos, which these essays celebrate as a gift that overcomes existential alienation. To give a gift is to befriend. This collection argues that true transformation is our greatest gift, and giving it voice is the gift of Logos.
Christ of the Coal Yards
No one heard the shot. No one ever found the gun. This critical examination of Vincent van Gogh offers insights into his life and art, dispelling the myths that have no foundation and exploring his enigmatic and enticing personality.
Conspiracy Dwellings
Nine illustrated essays by theorists and art practitioners explore surveillance in contemporary art. They consider its impact on ethics, citizenship, and resistance, and ask: where do we draw the line? At what point is the citizen a threat to the state?
The Good Body
This book examines how nineteenth-century American literature and culture defined “normal” and “abnormal” bodies to justify or critique concerns like slavery, national progress, and the Civil War, shaping the political and social orders of the era.
Transitivity Alternations in Diachrony
This book offers a new approach to change in argument structure and voice morphology. It investigates the diachrony of transitivity in Greek and English, providing new answers to burning questions in Historical and Theoretical Linguistics.
Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time”
This collection of critical essays sheds new light on Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding and a key figure of interwar Britain. It explores her novels, journalism, and passionate support for feminism, peace, and racial equality.
Experiments in Freedom
Experiments in Freedom examines identity in recent South African plays. It explores how drama can represent and transform identity through gender, nationalism, ethnicity, and race in a society grappling with the politics of its past.
Confessions
This collection explores the central place of narrative in social inquiry and the ethical life. Through examples from art to politics, it illuminates the link between telling stories to create meaning and the ethical engagement critical for a good life.
British Culture and Society in the 1970s
This collection of essays explores the revolutionary culture of the 1970s, a period of extraordinary social, sexual and political change. This interdisciplinary account offers an exciting interpretation of a momentous and colourful period in cultural history.
The NNEST Lens
The NNEST Lens invites you to re-examine TESOL and applied linguistics using multilingual, multicultural, and multinational perspectives. This volume’s original contributions question theory and share strategies, taking diversity as a starting point for all.
A philosopher and artist analyzes the clash between government funding and censorship. Combining philosophical analysis with interviews with censored artists, this book reveals why freedom of expression is vital for a society to be both stimulating and safe.
NP-Anaphora in Modern Greek
This study offers a new perspective on NP-anaphora in modern Greek, proposing a pragmatic analysis based on neo-Gricean principles. It argues that preference, regulated by principles of communication, governs how anaphoric expressions are chosen and interpreted.
CLIL in Spain
A significant contribution to CLIL, this book links classroom initiatives with teacher education. It provides practical suggestions and raises issues for reflection, noting that without proper teacher education, the full potential of CLIL cannot be realised.
This book tackles cultural transformations across the English-speaking world in literature, painting, architecture, photography and film. It provides readers with tools to decipher these dynamic phenomena and understand the new life they infuse into cultures.
Between Fear and Freedom
The Cold War was not just a political and military competition, but a cultural one. This collection of essays by international scholars explores the conflict’s strategies and legacies in film, propaganda, music, architecture, fiction, and theatre.
Intonational Meaning in Cameroon English Discourse
This phonetic description of intonation in Cameroon English reveals how speakers make new information prominent and extensively use the falling tone. These findings challenge sociolinguistic theories from native English, which do not always apply in postcolonial settings.
From the Global Ecological Integrity Group, this collection examines governance from the standpoint of integrity: from democracy and Native governance to globalization and human rights to food, water and climate.
Conceiving God
Where does belief in God come from? This book uncovers its roots in childhood magical thinking and our capacity to dream, drawing on the latest findings from anthropology, neurology, and psychology.
This volume explores translation’s role in political communication and news reporting, bringing to light the invisible link between politics, media, and translation. It offers a new disciplinary view from Translation Studies on political discourse.