Ex-changes
This collection of articles explores the transfer of ideas in British and American cultures. Analyzing cultural texts from fiction to film, these essays document shifting definitions of identity, gender, and nationality across various genres, media, and disciplines.
The Making of the Modern Artist
This study brings together James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence in their common concern with the modern artist. Examining the fictional artists Stephen Dedalus and Will Brangwen, it shows how Joyce and Lawrence converge on the character and vision of the modern artist.
Weapons Upon Her Body
This study reinterprets the biblical stories of Lot’s daughters, Tamar, Ruth, and Bathsheba. It finds women who use deception, resolve, and cleverness to their own benefit, saving themselves through pluck and ingenuity. They are a new kind of hero.
Connected Minds
This volume explores social cognition from psychological and collective viewpoints. It examines how the human mind processes social information, and how social interactions influence our cognition, shaping everything from stereotypes to entire societies.
Food and Appetites
This book traces food as hunger, desire, and appetite in the arts. Examining hunger in literature and art, it explores food’s significance as a metaphor for social class, inequality, and gluttony, revealing the problems of excessive human cravings.
Ten Gods
This book uncovers the shared origins of Indo-European gods, proposing a pantheon of ten deities who reflect the social organization of their prehistoric society. Analyzing sources like the Edda and Rāmāyaṇa, it reveals Europe’s original culture.
Constitutional Cultures
This volume explores constitutions in the Atlantic World, showing their connectedness. To fully understand a constitutional order, it is necessary to analyse not just the legal text, but its implementation, legitimisation, and especially its culture.
C. S. Lewis and the Inklings
This volume offers essays on hiddenness and discovery in the works of the Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Owen Barfield, along with their influences G. K. Chesterton and George MacDonald. Explore their collaboration, linguistics, and more.
Selected Poems
Selected poems are reader-friendly, but who decides what’s included? The essays in this volume address this question, offering an overview of poetic writing from the modernists to today and new insight into how these slimmer volumes are produced.
Lesser Civil Wars
This book explores the cycle where the Memory of war, kept alive by civilians, creates the Will to fight again. It examines these “lesser civil wars”—the battles over memory in the Ohio River Valley that incubate a nation’s will to fight.
Pursuing Eudaimonia
This book recovers an ancient, ‘negative’ reason as a spiritual way of life. By investigating the Christian apophatic tradition and its philosophical heritage, it offers a path to rediscovering the wellsprings of human passion, desire and happiness.
Strangers in New Homelands
For immigrants, the concept of “home” evokes confusion, fear, and hope. This collection explores what this concept means for people making new lives in strange environments, examining the challenges of settlement, integration, and adaptation.
Cesare Pugni
Prolific 19th-century composer Cesare Pugni worked with the era’s greatest choreographers to create renowned ballets. His works include Esmeralda, based on Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris, and Le Violon du diable, a tale of a violinist given irresistible power.
French Romantic Ballets
This collection presents music from La Sylphide, Giselle, and Le Corsaire—three of the most important scores from the Golden Age of ballet in Paris. Explore tales of fatal love, supernatural spirits, and spectacular drama.
Iraq’s Kurdistan Region is massively contaminated by landmines used by the Baathist government to de-populate the area. This work investigates the landmine problem’s devastating social, health, and economic impacts and the actions taken to rebuild.
Health and Hazard
The nineteenth-century European spa was an intersection of social class and medical ideas. It offers a unique opportunity to study a key shift: the rise of the order-giving physician over the compliant patient, and the turn from liberalism toward authoritarianism.
Teaching Translation and Interpreting
With no strict regulations on who can become a translator, this volume explores a vital question: are translators taught or trained? Contributors examine what current teaching programmes are like and how they can be improved.
In post-socialist countries, consumer culture is a “science in the shadows,” studied commercially but neglected by academia. This book creates a counterbalance, exploring consumer behaviour, new theories, and recent criticism from leading scholars.
The first study of Osbern Bokenham since the discovery of his lost magnum opus. It reveals how Bokenham negotiates his marginality to claim poetic authority, countering patriarchal history by asserting an alternative, spiritual matrilineage.
Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates
Professors reflect on enhancing learning opportunities for their students. The authors take a scholarly approach to examine innovative techniques, from active learning to the effect of technology, providing inspiration for teaching excellence in Higher Education worldwide.
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