Against and Beyond
How do film, music, and media subvert the status quo? This essay collection applies critical theory to explore transgression in popular culture, offering essential reading for all who dare to go against and beyond.
Rethinking the Humanities
Rethinking the Humanities reflects on the challenges facing the humanities in an era of globalization. Drawing on diverse perspectives, this volume surpasses the dominant rhetoric of crisis to open new fields of debate and offer innovative perspectives.
The Next Buddha may be a Community
What does internationalization in education really look like? This book investigates what intercultural competence means to staff and students in a university case study, exploring how it can be achieved and where more support is needed.
Before Shakespeare, prefigurement and echo were not unknown. But the vast echoism—continuing forward and backward references—utilized in his tragedies was rare. Through metaphoric resonance, he revealed meanings lost without it. Who, even now, does this?
Margaret Storm Jameson
Storm Jameson’s writing mirrored the 20th century. This first collection of essays devoted to her work reassesses her pivotal role, analysing her engagement with war, fascism, and socialism, and reveals a sequence of unpublished letters.
Media Space and Gender Construction
This innovative book explores the relationship between geography and gender from an Indian perspective. It examines how Media Space—a virtual place for ideas and images—is used to construct gender stereotypes through visual media like soap operas.
This book explores the cultural notion of “Shakespeare.” His collaborators are not only his contemporaries but all who give his works new life as plays, films, and novels, collaborating in both a literal and figurative sense.
International scholars uncover the history of English words and dictionaries. From Chaucer’s creativity to OED crises and modern slang, this essential volume offers new discoveries and groundbreaking analysis for this developing field.
ZONA NORTE
What began as an ethnographic study of sex workers on the U.S./Mexican border turned inward. The author studies himself within the culture, examining his feelings and reactions as he observes dancers and hookers on both sides of the border.
Syllable Structure of Bangla
This study analyzes the structure of Bangla syllables in terms of phonology and morphology. It examines consonant clusters and verbal inflections using the frameworks of Optimality Theory and Distributed Morphology to understand the language’s unique structure.
Sources of Desire
Though Aristotle’s theoretical works are often thought to be of interest only to historians, the contributions in this book show they are still profound resources for philosophical inquiry, expressing insights that challenge our understanding.
Situating Racism
This book uncovers the complex causes and manifestations of contemporary racism in a globalized world. It analyzes how its boundaries shift, the impact of factors like nationalism and politics, and the challenges of building an anti-racist future.
Evolutionary Analogies
This book presents a serious challenge to the analogy between biological and scientific change. It argues that such theories are sketchy or unpersuasive, shedding new light on one of the dominant theories of scientific progress.
Calvin
This study examines John Calvin’s influence, exploring the vital connection he saw between ethics, eschatology, and education. For Calvin, education was a means to prepare people for their divine calling and for life on earth and the after life.
Making the Stage
In an increasingly technological and isolated culture, theatre seems a primitive art form. Yet these essays reveal that theatre not only survives but defines the vital political discussions prohibited by a manipulated media.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the persistence of African cultural traditions in the Americas. Scholars explore how people of the African diaspora used literature, music, dance, and religion to survive and resist colonialism and racism.
These essays reinterpret the Gothic inheritance from a 21st-century perspective, a mode uniquely applicable to the frightening instability of our world. This collection explores Gothic’s contemporaneity through horror novels, cinema, poetry, music, and fan cultures.
These essays explore ‘translation’ as a key term for language, literature, and culture. The volume connects translation studies with postcolonial studies and World Englishes, revealing the profound interrelationship between language and culture.
Titus out of Joint
Critics often see Titus Andronicus as a way station to better plays. This collection—the first in a decade—argues it deserves more, approaching the play as inherently dissonant through a wide variety of modern theoretical and critical perspectives.
To mark the 50th anniversary of 1956, academics and activists presented new historical research on the Hungarian revolt and Suez. This collection examines their wider significance, the crisis of Stalinism, and the rise of a New Left as a result.
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