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Visual Translation and Cultural Agency

Edited By: Birgit Mersmann, Alexandra Schneider

£34.99

A challenging survey of the debate about visual culture from a global perspective. This volume proposes a truly global outlook, with scholarly perspectives from around the world, highlighting the complex cultural codification of images and their impact.

Sociolinguistic and Pedagogical Dimensions of Dialects in Education

Edited By: Andreas Papapavlou, Pavlos Pavlou

£34.99

This volume brings together findings on the disputed role of non-standard dialects in education. It offers insights on policy, classroom use, and bidialectalism to help create an environment that respects the linguistic rights of all speakers.

The Ethical Component in Experimental British Fiction since the 1960’s

Edited By: Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega

£34.99

Challenging the view that only realist texts are ethical, this volume argues that the parodic and self-conscious games of experimental fiction offer a powerful critique of received truths, practicing an ethics of alterity. It examines key British novels.

Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in French and Francophone Literature

Edited By: Aaron Emmitte, Melanie Hackney

£34.99

Uncover the provocative history of sexuality, eroticism, and gender in French & Francophone literature. From Zola’s challenge to rape to the feminism of Djebar, this book reveals a literary tradition long engaged with redefining desire.

Islam in Contemporary Africa

On Violence, Terrorism and Development

Edited By: Afis A. Oladosu

£34.99

Scholars, Christians, and Muslims analyze the impact of terrorism on Islam, harmony, and development in Africa. These essays examine the global war on terror from diverse perspectives including jurisprudence, history, gender, and international diplomacy.

“This Shipwreck of Fragments”

Historical Memory, Imaginary Identities, and Postcolonial Geography in Caribbean Culture and Literature

Edited By: Li-Chun Hsiao

£34.99

This book examines Caribbean cultural identities beyond the popular perception of hybridity. Drawing on literature and music from the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean, it reveals troubled pasts and current problems eclipsed by the "tropical getaway" myth.

Semiotics and Philosophy in Charles Sanders Peirce

Edited By: Susanna Marietti, Rossella Fabbrichesi

From £16.99

This book explores the thought of pragmatist and semiotics founder Charles Sanders Peirce. Contributions by leading scholars are divided into three areas: Semiotics and the Logic of Inquiry, Abduction and Mathematics, and Peirce and the Western Tradition.

Talking Drama

Edited By: Judith Roof

£34.99

What is the relation between drama and its critics? Drama is itself a critical genre, showing up the problems of human existence. Plays critique society and themselves, while also spurring critique from the audiences and reviewers who are intrinsic to theatre.

Shakespeare’s Double-Dealing Comedies

Deciphering the “Problem Plays”

By: Myron Stagman

From £19.99

Are Shakespeare’s pure heroines secretly obscene? Is Henry V’s barbarism a hilarious parody? This book argues that when the Bard seems inept, he’s at his most subversive. Rethink what you know and discover the hidden satire in his greatest works.

A Multicultural and Multifaceted Study of Ideologies and Conflicts related to the Complex Realities and Fictions of Nation and Identity represented in Contemporary Literature Written in English

Edited By: José María Gutiérrez Arranz

£34.99

This book is a study of ideologies and conflicts related to Nation and Identity in contemporary English literature. It explores the individual’s pursuit of identity amid nationalist conflicts, racial confrontations, and postcolonial legacies.

Narrating the Storm

Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina

Edited By: Kristen Barber, Danielle A. Hidalgo

From £24.99

This volume of sixteen narratives from Hurricane Katrina shows how “personal” experiences with disaster are not so personal. These stories reveal how inequality and injustice related to race, class, and gender are unveiled and exacerbated by disaster.

Communication Approach in English Through the Internet

By: Amazat K. Akbarov

£34.99

Prepare for university-level texts. This coursebook teaches strategies and vocabulary to build confidence and proficiency. Develop academic skills with lively exercises that weave the excitement of the Internet into your daily English communication.

Interrogating the War on Terror

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited By: Deborah Staines

£34.99

Is the so-called war on terror justified? This book presents a critique of contemporary war culture, bringing together international political, philosophical, legal, and artistic perspectives to explore the devastating effects of this global conflict.

Advances in Business in Asia

The Opportunities, Threats, and Future Trends of Businesses in China, India and the ASEAN Countries

Edited By: Victor Egan, Chris Perryer, Brian Sheehan

£34.99

Examine current trends, opportunities, and challenges for organisations in Asia, with a specific focus on China, India, and the ASEAN region. This book is a compilation of peer-reviewed papers by eminent academics in their fields of expertise.

Third Agents

Secret Protagonists of the Modern Imagination

Edited By: Ian Cooper, Ekkehard Knörer, Bernhard Malkmus

£34.99

This book explores the 'third agent'—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.

This book explores the ‘third agent’—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.

In Memoriam

Commemoration, Communal Memory and Gender Values in the Ancient Graeco-Roman World

Edited By: Helène Whittaker

£34.99

Ancient societies deliberately perpetuated the memory of individuals and events. This volume discusses the creation of memory in the Graeco-Roman world, asking how an individual’s gender and social status affected their chances of being remembered after death.

A Full-Bodied Society

Edited By: Logie Barrow

£34.99

The human body is always changing its meanings. Why did Puritans stop addressing God as Mother? How did Victorian women’s sports grow? How transgressive was the ‘dandy’? This lively volume explores the variety of body-studies and their answers.

19th Century Maharashtra

A Reassessment

Edited By: Shraddha Kumbhojkar

£34.99

A fresh look at 19th-century Maharashtra, a society at a crossroads. The book critiques its literature and social reforms, arguing elite attempts were limited. It highlights the radicality of subalterns like Mahatma Phule, whose experience spurred real change.

Ferocious Things

Jean Rhys and the Politics of Women’s Melancholia

By: Cathleen Therese Maslen

£34.99

It’s fatal making a fuss ... . In Ferocious Things, Cathleen Maslen shows how Jean Rhys’s inscription of feminine anguish is a literary transgression. Rhys defies cultural interdictions, and her work poses vital questions for feminist and post-colonial debates.

It’s fatal making a fuss … .
In Ferocious Things, Cathleen Maslen shows how Jean Rhys’s inscription of feminine anguish is a literary transgression. Rhys defies cultural interdictions, and her work poses vital questions for feminist and post-colonial debates.

Medieval Metaphysics, or is it “Just Semantics”? (Volume 7

Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)

Edited By: Gyula Klima

£34.99

Medieval thinkers, driven by metaphysical and epistemological commitments, sought to discern how concepts latch onto reality. This book follows these attempts concerning the signification of theological discourse, Trinitarian semantics, and essential definition.