Home and the World
South Asia is rising, roiling with internal contradictions. Gathering essays by scholars, writers, and artists, this volume addresses nationalism, gender, and diaspora. An accessible and essential reference for understanding the global phenomenon of South Asia.
Language Acquisition and Development
This collection presents theoretically guided studies on language acquisition and pathology by leading researchers. Using a comparative perspective with data from several languages, it offers an updated picture of current issues for students and professionals.
In dialogue with Plato, Hegel, and Marx, this book forges a 21st communism based on the dance with death—a politics of mortality, responsibility, and love.
A collection of exciting essays on “black” British aesthetics. Featuring contributions by avant-garde artists and renowned critics, this book explores today’s hottest artistic works and contextualizes them within global aesthetic traditions.
This collection of essays addresses American culture as a space of tension between conformity and resistance. It gives justice to marginalized voices that have shaped the nation’s uniqueness and proposes possible formulas for a new American identity.
This peer-reviewed volume is a selection of papers from an international symposium. Featuring contributions from the world’s leading researchers, it offers an excellent overview of the current state of research in linguistics and related disciplines.
This volume presents highlighted papers from the Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference (EQRE). The articles address methodological approaches, ESL, and action research, providing examples of both methodological rigor and important practical applications.
These critical essays explore the representation of sex, gender, and sexual orientation from the early days of cinema to the twenty-first century, investigating the complex relations between film style, sexual politics, and their social ramifications.
Postcolonial Identities
One man’s story of exile and renewal. Traumatised by the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda, artist Jean Hakizimana journeyed to Ireland. There, he rediscovered the healing power of painting, his story reflecting the multicultural experience of the “new” Irish.
From Colonialism to the Contemporary
This selection of essays highlights key shifts in ideology found in world children’s literature. It traces the transformative and intertextual nature of these texts, revealing that this genre is subject to the same ideologies as other literature.
Visualizing Rituals
The essays in this compilation examine the dynamic relationship between art and ritual. Drawing from art historical and theoretical discourses, these papers seek new ways of defining both, with topics ranging from Ancient Greek temples to the art of Kahinde Wiley.
Legitimisation in Political Discourse
How was the “war-on-terror” linguistically legitimised? This book reveals ‘proximization’: the strategy of presenting distant events as a direct, personal threat to persuade a nation to support the war in Iraq.
George Moore
George Moore was a significant, controversial figure on the literary stages of Paris, London and Dublin. This collection offers fresh insights into his innovations, pioneering short stories, avant-garde feminism, and contentious novel about the historical Jesus.
Literary Secularism
Literary Secularism shows how writers like Joyce, Rushdie, and Eliot struggled with religious orthodoxy. Their novels are not anti-religious manifestos, but reflect the continued power of religion, a force that is, in Eliot’s words, “still throbbing” in modern life.
Learning Democratic Practices
This book examines how democracy works by viewing political parties as “communities of practice.” Through interviews with partisans, it shows how they learn to function, revealing what is happening to “democracy” in the United States and how it got that way.
Through the Mirror
This broad volume on Tarkovsky spans from classical film theories to theological analyses, an approach seriously neglected until now. This inspiring collection of critical essays strikes a compelling pose between cinematic and theological scholarship.
This book explores the domestic determinants of Italian policy towards European Political Cooperation (EPC). Highlighting Italy’s Mediterranean links through parliamentary debates and case studies, it provides the first full study of this crucial relationship.
Tomorrow through the Past
This first collection of scholarly essays on Neal Stephenson examines his novels from The Big U to The Baroque Cycle and his non-fiction. The collection includes a new interview with Stephenson, making it essential for readers and scholars alike.
This book reviews the study and use of English in Africa. Distinguished teachers reflect on the language’s status in education and society, touching on debated issues like English as a dialect and the language question in literature. A unique contribution.
From Camera Lens To Critical Lens
This collection of essays represents the very best on film adaptation. Diverse international voices explore directors like Hitchcock, writers like Virginia Woolf, and international films from China, Japan, and France. Accessible, engaging, and informative for any reader.