How do mind and culture shape language? This multidisciplinary volume offers novel insights into intercultural, cognitive, and social pragmatics, revealing the interplay of cognitive processes and socio-cultural beliefs in communication.
With Poetry and Philosophy
This book explores the dialogue between poetry and philosophy, from Kant and Wordsworth to Adorno and Hardy. Outlining a new ‘dialogic’ approach, it produces considerations on language and thought that are unexpected, yet strangely fitting.
Body Politic
For millennia, society has been imagined as a body. This engrossing book is more than a history of a metaphor: it is a history of how the idea is converted into action, taking us from ancient India to computer hackers, from assassination to aerial warfare.
Catalogues of Proper Names in Latin Epic Poetry
This book explores the poetic catalogue from Homer to Ovid. It examines how internal structural patterns and external framing devices evolved, contrasting Virgil’s supportive function with Lucretius’s subversion and Ovid’s sophisticated innovations.
The Mirror of Antiquity
This book exposes how 20th-century travel writers’ responses to Greece were conditioned by classical scholarship and history. David Wills shows how, in their hands, Greece became less a modern country and more a mirror of its ancient past.
Out of the Stream
This book reveals the vitality of Medieval & Renaissance murals from Europe’s periphery, focusing on the link between image, audience, and daily life. From Denmark to Portugal, these studies offer new perspectives on art from Giotto to anonymous painters.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Beyond his famous operas, Giacomo Meyerbeer wrote extensively for the voice in other genres. This volume presents the texts for his non-operatic stage works, occasional public pieces, sacred music, and songs, in the original and in English translation.
Film scholars, drawing upon psychology, analyze the connections between stylistic patterns and aesthetic effects. This selection of essays focuses on elements of filmic narration to gain tangible insight into the ancient mystery of the link between art and experience.
In the 1970s, Romanian tourism was blooming. This book analyzes the evolution of its tourism and hotel industry since 1990. Has Romanian tourism returned to its golden age? Has it built a country brand to differentiate itself from competing nations?
Shifting Borders explores borders in visual culture. While globalization advocates for fewer national barriers, veiled borders rise to maintain cultural exclusion. These essays re-examine inherited knowledge to open up new understandings of cultural difference.
As terms like race and ethnicity become problematic in our “post-multicultural” world, this volume offers new approaches to difference in theatre history. Essays examine topics from race, gender, and sexuality to nationalism and class with new theories.
Romanticism and Parenting
How do parents encode and decode our world? Romantic writers explored what it meant to “parent” in the domestic and political sphere. This collection reveals how the Romantic period has come to profoundly influence our own current constructions of the politics of parenting.
Writing Imagined Diasporas
This study argues that diasporic South Asian women writers are not merely assimilating to North American culture but actively reshaping it. Their writings of imagined diasporas create new, hybrid identities that challenge “national” discourses.
Through Other Eyes
This volume investigates how English literary works have been translated and disseminated in Europe since the Renaissance. It explores translators’ intentions, faithfulness to the source text, and why translations are often portrayed in a different light to the original.
Eastwards / Westwards
This collection of essays on gender in Asian countries offers a critical transnational perspective. It explores the interplay between local and global forces in the (re)invention of male and female identities across politics, literature, and popular culture.
This collection of studies on languages for specific purposes (LSP) analyses discourse across academic and professional areas. It offers valuable insights into communicative strategies and methodological approaches for teaching specialised communication skills.
Francophone Women Coming of Age
These essays explore growing up female in male-dominated Francophone cultures. Spanning Africa, Europe, and North America, the works analyze conflicts of culture and family, sharing a common search for identity and liberation through writing.
Movie Time studies temporal mythmaking in American movies. It explores how films make sense of our world by reconstructing pasts like the 1950s, defining the present through the rise of conservatism, and foreseeing alternative futures.
English in Southeast Asia
This is the first single volume to publish such diverse work on English in Southeast Asia. Sections cover Varieties, Literacies, and Literatures, from code-switching to new writings. An excellent resource for university students and academics.
Researching the Self
Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and computer science unite to explore the self. What are its neural correlates? Can individuals have multiple selves? How do selves depend on others? Will engineers ever construct artificial selves?