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This book explores how writers have shaped social revolutions and their connection to radicals. A blend of political theory, literary theory, and political action, it is a call for writers to work towards Socialism.
My Kind of Sound
Music shapes our identity. This book explores music as culture, art, and industry. It examines phenomena from the global rise of Reggaeton to iconic artists like David Bowie and the crucial role of music in TV series, showing how it challenges us to rethink our view of the world.
This text explores how ideology steers terrorist groups. It argues they are not monolithic, as guiding views influence their tactics, targets, and recruitment. By examining ideological group types with detailed examples, crucial differences among them become clear.
This book discusses the development of Hebrew poetry in Andalusia and the Arab influence on its motifs. It shatters existing myths about the region during the period of Muslim rule.
Black British Women’s Writing in the 1970s and Beyond
This collection of essays examines Black British women writers published from the 1970s to the 2000s. Connected to the UK through migration yet attached to their cultural origins, their work explores a crucial question: how were they able to conceptualise ‘home’ in their fiction?
The Creative Process
This book uses psychoanalysis, Marxism, and other theories to analyze creativity. It argues that everyone is creative, relating the concept to humor and everyday life—from TikTok to bagels. Includes the author’s drawings and journal notes that show his thinking process.
The Art of Allusion in Chinese Poetry
This book explores the rhetorical function of allusion in Li Shangyin’s poems, formulating an English taxonomy for the practice in Chinese poetry. It challenges conventional gendered allegory, revealing how Li’s manipulation of history produces metaphorical and ambiguous effects.
Kokborok Literature from Tripura
This study delves into the folktales and literature of the Borok tribe, revealing their struggle for cultural identity. Writers draw on myths and folklore to challenge mainstream stereotypes and reclaim a heritage shaped by cultural domination and conflict.
Elements of Peacemaking Revolutions
Intractable conflict traps generation after generation in a chain of destruction. This book introduces the study of peacemaking revolutions, a process required to turn opposing parties into a community and build a peaceful society.
Media Rhetoric
This volume considers how media alters persuasive communication—how we think, argue, and feel. Focusing on advertising and digital media, scholars from around the world demonstrate how persuasive speech is exerted in, through, and by the media in the 21st century.
This ground-breaking work explains the power of literary fiction. It expands the field of pragmatics to give due to the three fictional actors—author, character and reader—by bringing together Anglo-American pragmatics and European philosophy.
While Thomas Merton wrote extensively on racial justice, few books are devoted to summarizing and applying his ideas to current racial tensions. This book reviews his most important writings on race and uses Merton as a model for easing present-day tensions.
Animals and Humans in German Literature, 1800-2000
These 10 essays explore the relationship between animality and poetics in German-language literature since the 19th century. Revising cultural dichotomies, they consider animals not as objects, but as active agents that have left forgotten traces in texts.
The Politics of Culture
This volume examines the impact of popular culture on politics and social issues. Contributions explore diverse topics including ecofeminism, queer identity, socio-political satire, and conservatism, showcasing the interplay between the personal and the political.
This book is an intensive case study of an Indian state representative of the country’s Muslim minorities. It investigates the problems of promoting inclusive higher education and presents findings useful for reshaping minority education plans and policies in India.
Disruptions in Economic and Social Polity
Capitalism is in crisis and the neoliberal model has failed, causing major economic and social disruptions. This book analyzes these global issues, with particular reference to India, to find a direction for change and detail plans for future actions.
Polish and Irish Struggles for Self-Determination
This book explores the little-known links between the Polish and the Irish. Subject to foreign rule, both nations fought for independence and were among the first to grant women voting rights, revealing a shared struggle for autonomy, mutual assistance, and self-organization.
Moving Pictures
This book argues that the most illuminating perspective for studying movies is ‘play’. Moving pictures were a major ludenic innovation, becoming a source of human knowledge and an important medium of not only popular entertainment, but also popular enlightenment.
Understanding Anne Enright is an introduction to one of the most original contemporary Irish writers. It analyses the evolution of themes and forms in her work, particularly her treatment of the corporeality of women’s experiences and the embodied language of her fiction.
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