On Personal Space, the Traversable Self, and the Happily Ever Experience
This book explores the symbolic relationship between personal space and the Cinderella fairy-tale. It characterizes personal space as a deeply individual realm of memory and self, where such nuanced associations are the essence of the happily ever after personal experience.
With dementia growing much faster in Asia than in Europe and America, the region faces a crisis. Cerebrovascular disease is a leading cause of death. This book brings together 11 experts in vascular cognitive impairment to present the most urgent problems in the region.
Landscape Representations
This volume offers essential insights into emerging perspectives in landscape studies. Instead of focusing only on nature, this book places humans and physical aspects at its centre, combining ecological and geographical information, nature conservation, and the study of society.
How do readers make sense of Hemingway’s stories? With reserved narrators and laconic dialogs, his texts seem to say little, yet they capture our emotions. This book proposes a cognitively informed model of reading to discover what lies beneath the surface of his iceberg.
This book explores the figure of the female performer in 19th-century fiction, analyzing the clashing attitudes of Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Emile Zola. It examines women’s public roles as either a commitment to the feminist project or a mere exhibitionist demeanour.
Developmental Dyslexia and Anaphora Resolution in English L1/L2
This book investigates how people with dyslexia resolve ambiguous sentences. Using innovative methods like eye-tracking, it hypothesizes that their known working memory impairment hinders procedural memory, disrupting semantic and syntactic competence in demanding reading tasks.
This volume offers insights into warfare, diplomacy, and peacemaking on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. The essays emphasize both violent conflict and the brokering of allegiances, from Muslim warlords serving Christian rulers to merchants coping with pirates.
This volume explores how the interplay of “exile” and “return” in Anglo-Caribbean literature shapes identity. Against a history of colonialism, diaspora, and slavery, it raises questions about literature’s function in an increasingly hybrid and transcultural world.
Using a historical approach, this book traces Canada’s role in the Arab-Israel conflict. It argues that Canadian policy, operating within the Anglo-American framework, has been shaped by religio-cultural factors, economic interests, and the influence of domestic elites.
This collection of papers explores language use and attitudes towards it from both historical and present-day perspectives. It examines language in personal letters, the impact of usage guides, and the interplay between actual language use and prescriptive attitudes.
The Heraldic World of Lawrence Durrell
This book presents unorthodox explorations of Alexandria, the city at the heart of Durrell’s writing. It offers an insight into his Sicilian Carousel and a unique reading of his Alexandria Quartet in light of the art and landscape of ancient Egypt.
The Trojan War begins with one sacrifice, Iphigenia, and ends with another, Polyxena. In Greek tragedy, did these ritual killings restore cosmic balance, or did they only unleash greater chaos?
This book brings together local voices from Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America to offer a comparative analysis of democracy and development. Contributors explore a shared disenchantment with politics, democratic backsliding, and the trials of the postcolonial era.
What is a ‘first letter’? Is it a child’s first writing, a first love letter, or the first to a new correspondent? This volume examines the first letters of authors, philosophers, and artists—including Voltaire, Diderot, and Coleridge—and their connection to what follows.
The Life and Work of Rudolf Bruči
This first collection of essays in English on composer Rudolf Bruči explores his multivalent work from many angles. It emphasizes his relevance in Balkan musicology, his considerable international reputation, and his role as a cultural worker in post-war socialist Yugoslavia.
Why do bilinguals code-switch? This book proposes a model where one language builds the grammatical frame while the other is activated at a lexical level. This view is tested by analyzing natural speech and second language acquisition data, treating both as predictable outcomes.
Spanish Women Authors of Serial Crime Fiction
This collection analyzes detective series with female investigators, exploring their treatment of current social, political, and gender issues. Authors break with convention by blending crime fiction with sci-fi and the supernatural in varied settings to reinvigorate the genre.
Art and Anatomy in Nineteenth Century Britain
In early 19th-century Britain, art and science collided. Artists studied dissection to capture life, while anatomists learned to draw for accuracy. This book uncovers their mutual dependence and how anatomical truth became a measure of beauty, through three pioneering figures.
Homecoming Trails in Mexican American Cultural History
Critical essays by specialists from Mexico, Germany, and the US reexamine Mexican American cultural history from a 21st-century global perspective. The jargon-free essays explore biography, nationhood, and globalism, from Imperial Spain to modern US influence in Latin America.
A tool for teachers in the multicultural classroom, this book focuses on cross-cultural communicative competency. It provides a foundation for teaching English as a lingua franca in the age of globalization, bringing pluralism and multiculturalism center stage.
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