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Literacy, Literature and Identity

Multiple Perspectives

Edited By: Rahma Al-Mahrooqi, Paul A. Scanlon

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This volume shows how literature and language shape the identities of individuals and societies. With a truly global reach, it draws on diverse contexts: from women in North America and African identity challenges to New Zealand’s Maoris.

The Cold War and Entertainment Television

Edited By: Lori Maguire

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An essential dimension of the Cold War took place in the realm of ideas and culture. As such, this volume discusses the impact of the conflict on entertainment television, offering comparative aspect by studying programs from both Eastern and Western blocs.

Perspectives on Creativity

Volume 2

Edited By: Lynn DellaPietra

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This unique interdisciplinary volume examines creativity from multiple viewpoints. Contributions from writers, therapists, artists, and scholars explore the creative process, the psychology of artists, creativity in therapy, and its link to mood and perception.

Hermeneutics of Megaliths

By: Costas Maritsas

£41.99

This book offers a provocative new interpretation of megaliths, arguing they mark humanity's transition from natural selection to civilization. It reveals their original purpose as scenes for primordial theatrical performance and explores sites from Stonehenge to Gobekli Tepe.

This book offers a provocative new interpretation of megaliths, arguing they mark humanity’s transition from natural selection to civilization. It reveals their original purpose as scenes for primordial theatrical performance and explores sites from Stonehenge to Gobekli Tepe.

Intermingled Fascinations

Migration, Displacement and Translation in World Cinema

Edited By: Jane Ramey Correia, Flannery Wilson

£34.99

This collection of essays analyzes Sinophone and Franco-Japanese transnational cinema, exploring films about migration, exile, and imprisonment. United by themes of displacement and liminality, this anthology reveals how cinema represents diasporic communities.

Visual Conflicts

On the Formation of Political Memory in the History of Art and Visual Cultures

Edited By: Paul Fox, Gil Paternak

£39.99

This collection of essays explores how visual cultures engage with armed conflict and violence. Each author considers how visual representations of conflict across various media—from painting to photography—shape the meanings of events, identity, and memory.

The PCI Artists

Antifascism and Communism in Italian Art, 1944-1951

By: Juan José Gómez Gutiérrez

£47.99

This book examines the Italian Communist Party's artistic policies (1944–1951), providing a framework for wider reflections on art and politics. At a time when the world was divided, Italian artists became protagonists of a project to synthesize antagonistic cultural blocs.

This book examines the Italian Communist Party’s artistic policies (1944–1951), providing a framework for wider reflections on art and politics. At a time when the world was divided, Italian artists became protagonists of a project to synthesize antagonistic cultural blocs.

Ophelia Through Time

Reimaginings in Art and Film

By: Carolina Sanabria

Edited By: Matthew Hilborn

£64.99

Once a marginal character, Shakespeare's tragic Ophelia has become a cultural icon. This captivating book offers a cross-media analysis of her rebirth in art, film, and television, tracing her evolving representation and her enduring impact on visual storytelling.

Once a marginal character, Shakespeare’s tragic Ophelia has become a cultural icon. This captivating book offers a cross-media analysis of her rebirth in art, film, and television, tracing her evolving representation and her enduring impact on visual storytelling.

War, Human Dignity and Nation Building

Theological Perspectives on Canada’s Role in Afghanistan

Edited By: Gary D. Badcock

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Canada’s longest conflict, the Afghan Mission, is a watershed moment with immense costs, yet it remains little scrutinized by faith communities. This volume is the first to bring together theologians, politicians, and academics to dialogue on its impact.

Roots and Routes of Maghrebean Voices in Literature and Art

Edited By: Bootheina Majoul

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This volume examines past and contemporary Maghrebean texts to explore what it means to be Maghrebean. Scholars focus on the importance of poetics in (re)making roots and (re)tracing routes, mapping the history, art, and literature of the Maghreb region.

Spirituality in Late Byzantium

Essays Presenting New Research by International Scholars

Edited By: Eugenia Russell

£34.99

This collection of essays on late Byzantine spirituality presents new research on an important but under-documented period. Through new evidence and re-appraisals of scholarly views, it is a valuable contribution for academics and students alike.

Theatres of Thought

Theatre, Performance and Philosophy

Edited By: Daniel Watt

£29.99

Theatre and philosophy both make things appear. These essays articulate the fact that they have never been truly apart, exploring theatre’s fascination with transforming thought into spectacle from wide-ranging perspectives and approaches.

New Cinema in Turkey

Filmmakers and Identities between Urban and Rural Space

By: Giovanni Ottone

£45.99

Ottone focuses on Turkish cinema that has seen the emergence and consolidation of a strong internationally-recognised authorship. He assesses the last twenty years of the “New Turkish Auteur Cinema” by comparing the so-called “3rd generation” to a 4th generation of directors.

“The Wandering Life I Led”

Essays on Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin and Early Modern Women’s Border Crossings

Edited By: Susan Shifrin

£39.99

International scholars explore the literary, visual, and theatrical representations of Hortense Mancini. Her transgressions of geographical, gendered, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries enhance our understanding of early modern women and cultural formation.

Brecht, Broadway and United States Theater

Edited By: J. Chris Westgate

£34.99

This provocative collection of essays traces the conflicted history of Bertolt Brecht's encounters with Broadway. It explores how his epic theater has been co-opted by commercialism and what this suggests for the future of political theater in the U.S.

This provocative collection of essays traces the conflicted history of Bertolt Brecht’s encounters with Broadway. It explores how his epic theater has been co-opted by commercialism and what this suggests for the future of political theater in the U.S.

Semiotics and Visual Communication II

Culture of Seduction

Edited By: Evripides Zantides

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This book explores the Culture of Seduction, defining it not as sexual enticement, but as a mechanism of attraction and appeal. In an increasingly hyper-real world, this force has powerful agency in communication, advertising, fashion, and packaging design.

Fiction and Faction in the Malay World

Edited By: Mohamad Rashidi Pakri

£44.99

Explore the Malay World through the eyes of outsiders. This collection examines the personal fiction, diaries, and letters of foreigners and traders from the 18th to 20th century, revealing fascinating insights into their encounters and personalities.

Papers from the First and Second Postgraduate Forums in Byzantine Studies

Sailing to Byzantium

Edited By: Savvas Neocleous

£44.99

This provocative, wide-ranging collection of essays sheds new light on controversial facets of Byzantine history, religion, literature, and art. Sailing to Byzantium is a must for students and academics of one of history’s most fascinating civilizations.

“Celebrating Confusion”

The Theatre of Frank McGuinness

By: Kenneth Nally

£44.99

This study explores the challenging work of Frank McGuinness. Combining cultural, political, and theatrical analysis, it charts his development and makes the case for him as the most significant Irish playwright of his generation.

Lucian’s Dialogi Marini

By: Adam N. Bartley

£34.99

Lucian, a 2nd-century satirist, composed the Dialogues of the Sea Gods: a collection of amusing dialogues between figures from Greek myth. This volume examines his work, contemporary views on myth, and the flourishing of Greek culture under Roman rule.