This book uncovers the disturbing link between snakes, Medusa’s gaze, and symbols of female fear. It traces a lineage of reptilian hybrids—from goddesses to monsters—to explore the powerful things that never happened but have always been.
Sir Jerome Horsey’s (d. 1626) animated account of his experiences in Russia and other countries is a travel-book, an adventure story and an autobiography of a controversial and significant figure. It is here given with a full introduction and extensive explanatory notes.
Heinz-Uwe Haus, a leading voice in the collapse of communism in the GDR, combined politics and theatre. In this book, he provides a unique insider’s narrative of German unification and its aftermath, widening the context to current issues through the lens of theatre.
Rethinking Gender in Popular Culture in the 21st Century
This publication details popular culture representations of gender, offering a rich and accessible discussion of masculinities and femininities in 21st-century media. It investigates the workings of gender in contemporary pop culture products in an original and rigorous way.
Signs of Identity
This volume rethinks identity from a communicational and comparative perspective, linking it to performativity. Contributions cover diverse periods and genres, from Medieval clothing to postcolonial narratives, for all those involved in the reevaluation of this central term.
One Century of Vain Missionary Work among Muslims in China
After centuries of failure in China, 20th-century Christian missionaries shifted their focus to the Muslim population. Believing a shared tradition of One God would make them more amenable, the valiant, century-long effort also ended in frustration against unexpected resistance.
This title introduces a number of different types of writing taken from various periods in history and from well-known authors. It serves as an introduction to English-language prose. The texts compiled here are relevant to current social issues and problems.
Translation, the Canon and its Discontents
This collection addresses the complex process by which translation and other forms of rewriting have contributed to canon formation and revision. It stresses the role of translation and adaptation as potentially transformative, capable of shaping and undermining identities.
The Indigenous Voice of Poetomachia
In an era of struggling individuality, how can theatre stage individual voices? This collection of essays from scholars across the world explores different perspectives of textuality and performance, pushing beyond prevailing clichés with indigenous perspectives.
Reflecting the complexity of the problems of formalization, computation and digitalization of data and resources, this collection of cutting-edge, high-quality papers is a fundamental step towards a better definition of the role the “Digital Humanities” will play in the future.
While gender issues are almost always multidimensional and complex, this text discusses them from a cultural angle and with a focus on crossing borders, in order to represent their concepts meaningfully and to illuminate their realities as sharply as possible.
Deriving from a conference on work and family, this book focuses on technology, managers, globalization, and gender, analysing the state of global affairs. It offers new approaches to how technology, globalization, managers and gender issues affect the work and family balance.
The British Attempt to Prevent the Second World War
Neville focuses on some new issues associated with British appeasement policy in the 1930s. He looks at how the artificial split between international history and military history has led to the over-simplification of the factors involved in formulating the appeasement policy.
During WWI, Jews in the Tsarist Empire experienced a unique tragedy. Targeted by violence, persecutions, and expulsions, they were branded traitors. The Great War became a chilling anticipation of the tragedy that would befall Eastern European Jewry.
In the 19th century, comparative philology was not just a science but a tool for nation-building and identity politics. This book explores how Scandinavian cultures were used to create imaginative geographies of belonging, revealing how scientific models depended on local needs.
Exchanges between Literature and Science from the 1800s to the 2000s
This collection responds to the intense interest that the relations between the discourses of literature and those of science have obtained. It focuses on the cultural significance of scientific discoveries and practices and scientific representations in literature and the arts.
When Hitler ordered a secret program to kill the handicapped, brave citizens spoke out. They claimed the disabled were not “ballast people” but humans who deserved to live. This is the story of those who risked arrest, imprisonment, and execution to protest the immoral killing.
China and the United States
Using the latest economic and business information to show how the business and economic environments of China and the United States are intertwined, this text offers a detailed account of how multinationals from the United States have been incorporated into the Chinese economy.
Rudkiewicz provides evidence to support that ‘for’ is a category by itself, characterised by a complex semantic structure comprising ‘for’-sanctioning schemas in English. Her study offers a cognitive perspective, with the aid of Langacker’s cognitive grammar methodology.
This conference proceedings emphasizes the international aspect of the field of Celtic Studies, and highlights the relatively strong position of Celtic Studies in Poland, through its inclusion of Polish scholars working on Irish and Breton.
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