Coleridge’s Chrysopoetics
This book assesses alchemy in Coleridge’s conception of authorship. It argues that for Coleridge, the author must become other to become himself. This alchemical view demonstrates a unique link between plagiarism and creativity, redefining originality itself.
Resounding Pasts
Music and literature shape cultural memories. In an age where artistic commemorations overlap and cross borders, they create a network of representations that challenges how we remember, share, and interpret the past.
This book explores how Kuwait can convert its oil “resource curse” into a blessing. It considers the strategic points surrounding oil governance and its implication for growth, arguing that a planned investment in innovation is critical for development.
New Trends in Early Foreign Language Learning
This volume bridges the gap between research and classroom practice in Early Foreign Language Learning. Drawing on contributions from teachers and researchers, it explores the Age Factor, CLIL, and intercultural competence as a means to mediate between cultures.
This book explores how the study of culture as the realm of meaning and identity can inform debates on globalization. It marries theoretical abstraction with the everyday, using examples from music, film, migration, and education to illustrate daily life in a globalized world.
Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable
Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable is a milestone of French grand opéra. This book traces the opera’s history and music, and examines the fascinating iconography generated by its famous scenes, including the legendary Ballet of the Nuns, a touchstone of dark Romanticism.
Forces of Nature
Forces of Nature investigates the relationship between the natural world and gender and sexuality. This collection explores how nature has shaped our understandings of femininity, masculinity, and homosexuality, revealing an intimate, inseparable human connection to nature.
Jovial Bigotry
The late 19th-century debate over manners and morals in France, Britain, and the US was truly about gender and sexuality. Commentators used stereotypes of women to discuss their roles, but this analysis reveals a common outlook: an agreement on patriarchy.
T. S. Eliot greatly enhanced Dante’s profound influence on European literature. The essays in this volume explore what Eliot made of Dante, assessing modernism’s legacy by engaging its roots and covering topics from Eliot’s poetics to European unity.
Fabricating the Body
Fabricating the Body draws on disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies to situate the body as a site of identity, obligation, and exchange. It stimulates conversation on “indebted” bodies, marginalization, and the ethical costs of societal progress.
Studies in Irreversibility
This collection argues that the difference between irreversible and reversible phenomena is underappreciated. Contributors from literature, art, history, and ethics use irreversibility as a key to interpreting culture, outlining a new paradigm for cultural studies.
Lambert looks at developing future leaders of further education colleges through a different lens, advocating for leadership development to be located within a sustainable leadership framework which encompasses a range of existing leadership theories.
Hilarion’s Asse
Nine authors unlock Laurence Sterne’s kaleidoscopic humour. This volume explores its many facets—the genial, bawdy, sentimental, philosophical, irreverent, and ludicrous—sending the classic text spiralling right off the page.
This book explores transgression as a literary theme in twentieth-century novels. Analyzing fictional acts from murder to adultery, it reveals how narrative strategies like “unreliable narrators” challenge readers to question social norms and moral values.
Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity
This book explores solidarity as a social function, highlighting its critical value in understanding contemporary societies. It presents new theoretical approaches alongside diverse global case studies to explore how solidarity is made and remade.
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.
The Surplus of Culture
This volume presents the surplus of culture: the added value of irony, irrationality, and absurdity that subverts mainstream culture. It dwells at the risky intersection of untamed interpretation and tradition, where entrenched notions reveal their shattering nature.
This book challenges the foundations of US and UK trademark systems, arguing for the “co-authorship” of trademarks by the public and owners. It shows how current laws threaten freedom of expression and proposes a new model to foster a just culture.
This volume considers the European contexts framing cultural contact. Essays explore encounters far afield and ‘contact within’ Europe, as the arrival of other peoples displaced interaction from distant beaches to European towns and cities.
An exploration of the multiple meanings of “Spanishness” in 20th-21st century fiction. This book calls for a re-evaluation of what being Spanish means, analyzing themes like immigration, nationalism, and memory to dispel stereotypical notions of Spain.
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