Asian English Writers of Chinese Origin
This book brings together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent to explore postcolonial impacts on race, class, and language. It takes a special look at gender politics and how Chinese women defy the Orientalist gaze and native patriarchy.
Breaking Forms
During Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” boom, a new theatre emerged to express radical social change. Rejecting literary tradition for physicality and visual performance, artists explored what words alone could not. Breaking Forms analyzes this pivotal movement.
This compendium of thought from pre-Civil War America features the “real” story of Davy Crockett, a novelist praised by Edgar Allen Poe, abolitionist singers, and a tale of a man’s return from the Moon. A concise view of the era, from oceanographers to filibusters.
Soviet repressions and a nationalist focus on Christian roots have made researching shamanism in Armenia no easy business. This study confronts this impasse, helping to set in motion the process of uncovering these ancient and suppressed practices.
These essays explore “identity and dialogue” from perspectives like art, politics, and gender. Within diverse cultural contexts, they question the relational element at work in identity formation, disclosing how it is conditioned by self and otherness.
Migrancy, Memory and Repossession
This book explores the hidden histories of women artists on the periphery of mainstream society. By analysing their representations of “marginal” groups like Travellers and Roma, it uncovers new conclusions about the relationships between different cultures.
Road Memories
This volume explores the image of the Traveller/Gypsy, the migrant, and the “Other.” In an age of mass migration, diaspora communities such as Travellers and Gypsies disrupt dominant cultural narratives and serve to hybridise the discourse.
Teaching Art History with New Technologies
New technologies offer possibilities for art history instruction. This text assists faculty with case studies from early adopters who have advanced the discipline’s pedagogy. It provides practical suggestions and summarizes lessons learned for all educators.
Discover current scholarship on the Middle and Far East. These essays offer new perspectives on the region’s languages, literatures, and cultures, from theory and gender to pedagogy.
Jacob Bryant was an eminent scholar and “the outstanding figure among mythagogues.” His work, “An Analysis of Antient Mythology,” is regarded as one of the most in-depth Classical works on Ancient Greece and the ancient world.
“Security of Archaeological Heritage” covers heritage management in archaeology from England to Bangladesh. It reflects real international exchange experience, based on the proceedings of two recent meetings that took place in Ireland and Russia.
Designed for the general reader, this book explores the larger sweep of Kant’s thought. Wenley’s penetrating yet remarkably clear style makes complex ideas accessible, while its scholarly nature makes the work as useful to the Kant specialist.
The first book on ‘engagement’ in Religious Education, this collection breaks new ground by creating a dialogue with ethics. It offers fresh insights for the 21st century, aiming to make Religious Education a more stimulating and enjoyable experience for all.
Commodore Squib
When England faced Napoleonic France, Sir William Congreve championed secret weapons, notably gunpowder rockets. His was a world of experimental warfare and espionage. Acclaimed and derided, his overlooked influence is commemorated in the American National Anthem.
Culture, Trauma, and Conflict
Using Cultural War Studies, this book analyzes the constructions that glorify killing and make us forget its trauma. It explores how media, torture, and memory shape our understanding of war, revealing the cultural durability of conflict.
What does it mean to “come home”? Spiritual teachers share their intimate and startling stories of consciousness exploration. Through their psycho-spiritual challenges, readers will gain insights for their own journey, realizing there are many paths to being wholly oneself.
Echoes from the Greek Bronze Age
This book highlights Hecataeus’s work on Herodotus’ ‘known world’, alongside the thoughts of Anaxagoras and Xenophanes. It also presents Simonides’ art of memory, ‘the Loci’, and its influence years later on the heretic Giordano Bruno.
These essays engage with the connection between aesthetics and radical politics. Moving beyond Marxist approaches, they explore culture from other radical positions—anarchist, autonomist, and ecological—revealing an exhilarating break with earlier cultural critique.
Building Cultures of Peace
In a world torn apart by conflict, from families to nations, how do we build a culture of peace? This volume of essays presents multiple perspectives from scholars and practitioners on fostering hope and creating peace in a conflict-ridden world.