Voicing the Text
By using both drama and film, and by exploring the translation between the two, this study shows that voice can be placed in a grid where the subject, body, language and power interconnect in ways that question established ideas concerning voice – what it is and what it can do.
Voters or Consumers
This collection asks whether the consumer, not the voter, is now central to politics. It explores political consumerism, party branding, and how consumer behaviour models can explain voting and political communication.
Voting in Context
Candidates campaign on economic miracles, but it’s hard to distinguish good ideas from bad. This concise, non-partisan guide deciphers their proposals by explaining how the US economy functions, placing theories in historical context to help you make an informed vote.
This volume of essays dissects critical issues in postcolonial African theatre. It moves beyond conventional theory to focus on the concrete realities practitioners face, exploring diverse topics from censorship and cultural policy to text, performance, and production.
Voyages of Body and Soul
This collection explores India’s “mad” female saint-poets and multifaceted epic women from across history. These icons resisted patriarchal norms, following their chosen paths with monumental courage, creativity, and deep devotion. Their lives are models for the 21st century.
Experts on vulnerable workers and precarious work from all over the world examine different aspects of these topics, showing the need for developing further research in these areas.
This book explores W. B. Yeats’s mystical experience and how it is exemplified in his poetry. It covers his engagement with the occult, Celtic mysticism, and Rosicrucianism, and discusses his automatic writing experience with his wife and his apocalyptic vision.
W. K. Clifford’s essay “The Ethics of Belief” argued it is wrong to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. This book examines the essay’s context, its clash with critics like William James, its influence on thinkers like Bertrand Russell, and its relevance today.
W.B. Yeats and Indian Thought
Dabić investigates the impact of Indian philosophy and religion on Yeats’s poetic and dramatic work, exploring its development from his early impressionistic work to his more mature incorporation of such ideas into his writing.
This ground-breaking work, featuring contributions from W.E.B. Du Bois’s great-grandson, Arthur McFarlane III, among others, is the first devoted exclusively to Du Bois’s rhetoric and motives, and serves as a blueprint for today’s continuing struggle for a post-racial society.
Auden, master of metre, remains a mystery. This book uses a revolutionary theory of poetic rhythm—placing rhythm before meaning—to unlock his formal art. It revives interest in Auden’s poetry and his urgent questions: What is poetry? What is its use?
Waiting Territories in the Americas
Given the prominence of population displacement today, this title assesses the forms that waiting territories take, in order to better understand their juridical statuses, their relationships with the spatial environment, and the economic and social relationships they foster.
This book analyses four Welsh communities in the US to test the assumption they were a prime illustration of the American Dream. It assesses their socio-economic success and tracks the cultural changes that transformed the Welsh into Welsh-Americans and, ultimately, Americans.
Informed by Indigenous researchers and daily walks, this volume links scientific findings on deep time evolution to embodied interactions with rocks, trees, and weather. It explores ancient Gondwana, the first songbirds, and brings hope to young people facing climate change.
Walter Benjamin and the Actuality of Critique
This book explores the striking actuality of Walter Benjamin’s work. It focuses on his critique of violence, a central topic in contemporary political debate, and his critique of experience, the bedrock upon which his whole philosophy rests.
Wandering through Guilt
This study examines the relationship between guilt and wandering in 20th-century literature. Using the biblical figure of Cain as an archetype, it analyzes novels where the issue is a desperate movement toward self-consciousness or self-destruction.
War and Words
This edited volume examines the methods, conventions and pitfalls of constructing verbal accounts of military conflict in literature and the media, bringing together such diverse material as canonical literature, war veterans’ testimonies, computer games, and propaganda.
This collection shows how war functions as a subject, theme, and backdrop in travel writing, enabling readers to rethink both categories. From cookbooks to military magazines, these chapters reveal how war’s reach extends far beyond the battlefield.
War on the Human
The essays here explore the question of the human, both as a contested concept and as it relates to the wider global conjuncture. They explore the theoretical underpinnings of the term “human,” inviting the reader to reflect upon the contemporary human condition.
Gajevic explores how journalists interpret justice in their coverage of wars. His deep analysis of war reporting offers a new understanding of societies in times of conflict, focusing on the Yugoslav conflicts of the 1990s and the notion of the transnational community.
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