This courageous, thought-provoking book takes the reader on an intimate journey into the misunderstood world of body marking. It develops an embodied, feminist critique of dominant research, searching for new ways of producing knowledge and telling stories from the body.
Undescribed and Endangered Languages
This book offers a linguistic and phonetic analysis of undescribed and endangered languages. A contribution to the debate on linguistic diversity, it is an ideal overview for linguists, phoneticians, students, and researchers.
The Dialectics of Globalization
Harris challenges the view that nation-states define international relations. He argues a transnational capitalist class now heads a unified world system, creating new conflicts as we transition from national to global capitalism.
International scholars uncover the history of English words and dictionaries. From Chaucer’s creativity to OED crises and modern slang, this essential volume offers new discoveries and groundbreaking analysis for this developing field.
This volume explores the relation between the Irish people and the printed word. It highlights the role of private presses, periodicals, and propaganda in circulating ideas and building a national identity. ‘A bold, wide-ranging introduction.’ – Declan Kiberd
New Voices in Linguistics presents diversified work from a new generation of researchers who question traditional assumptions. This unique book offers a rare glimpse of ongoing projects, an excellent opportunity to be ‘ahead of the curve’ in linguistics.
Wilkie Collins
This collection of critical essays explores the life and works of Wilkie Collins. It reveals his connections to key figures in art, theatre, medicine, and law, offering new perspectives on his most canonical works and readings of neglected material.
Empowerment versus Oppression
Are women readers oppressed by patriarchal romance narratives, or empowered by them? Building on early critics, these selections add new perspectives, examining diverse subtypes and featuring unique voices from international readers, novelists, and critics.
Legacies of Slavery
Moving beyond the Atlantic world, this volume reconsiders slavery as a global institution. Scholars from diverse fields examine its indelible mark on societies everywhere, telling a tale of survival, resistance, and the resilience of the human spirit.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
The result of years of research, this guide is an essential bibliographical aid for Giacomo Meyerbeer. It presents his papers, music, and correspondence alongside resources on his life, contemporaries, and historical context, from scores to modern recordings.
Tools versus Cores
Is a stone artifact a tool or a core? This volume tackles this question by examining difficult cases from across the globe, challenging long-held assumptions and leading to a richer understanding of the past, less encumbered by modern categories.
Battleground States
This volume collects work from emerging scholars examining cultural scholarship in a global world. Bringing together diverse thoughts on politics, film, history, and literature, these voices explore the threads that bind us and the forces that seek to separate us.
City Visions
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This collection of fourteen pathbreaking essays treats the panoramic work of Iain Sinclair, one of Britain’s most significant contemporary writers. These multifaceted essays explore his poetry, prose, and filmmaking, and his complex vision of London.END$
Teaching C. S. Lewis
This practical guide for C.S. Lewis study groups eliminates weeks of research. Covering his novels, Mere Christianity, and The Screwtape Letters, each chapter includes biographical sketches, chapter summaries, discussion themes, and study questions.
“A Noble Unrest”
“A Noble Unrest” is an international collection of essays on George MacDonald, the 19th-century fantasy writer whose work critiqued the Victorian era. Scholars explore his fiction, his influence, and his relevance for the contemporary reader.
What represents Melanesian art today? Who are the artists? Art and Life in Melanesia is a timely exploration of Melanesian artists and their voices, taking stock of what is happening in the region’s art through themes like Kastom, Christianity, and Globalisation.
Images of Thought
Read Indian, Persian, and European paintings through their composition, colour symbolism, and myth. This book provides the Islamic cultural contexts that inform the visual language, offering new ways of seeing and fostering transcultural understanding.
From Self to Shelf
From Self to Shelf is a rich exploration of the interplay between biographical and aesthetic selves, from the Romantic poets to leading contemporaries. This absorbing volume is as engaging and thought-provoking as the masterpieces it illuminates.
This book enhances the reader’s knowledge of globalization’s role in the evolving world of new technologies from a multidisciplinary perspective. It overviews the process from historical, geographical, social, and political-economic contexts.
New technologies and emerging human roles have become key resources in language learning. This book offers research from different authors assessing the potential of these resources for an optimum learning experience.
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