The Waldere fragments reveal the world of migration-era heroes. At its heart, a climactic duel between Walter and Guðhere forces an ethical crisis for Hagen. This new critical edition resolves key textual cruces, unlocking the epic’s power.
Inference, Consequence, and Meaning
Inferentialism holds that an expression’s meaning depends on the inferential rules governing its use. This collection of essays explores various case studies to discuss to what extent the central tenets of this theory are tenable.
Travelling In and Out of Italy
This study considers late 19th and 20th-century Italian writers like D’Annunzio, Pirandello, and Svevo through their notebooks and travel diaries, focusing on the journey to America—an Eden viewed with ambivalence as a land of freedom and oppression.
Bulgarian is a pro-drop language, but German is not. This book explores how this cross-linguistic difference affects near-native learners. Because null subject contexts can superficially overlap, L1-Bulgarian speakers of German may face interlanguage deficits.
Universalisation of Elementary Education
This study evaluates the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) in South India, questioning its success in achieving access, retention, quality, and equality. The DPEP enhanced access and gender equality but saw only moderate success in retention and quality.
For readers certain there were diverse, socially relevant voices in early Canadian women’s writing—and for sceptics—this collection offers proof. These essays explore the literary voices women created to work for diversity and social change in Canada.
The short story is undergoing a renaissance. This collection celebrates its unique appeal, as scholars and writers explore its forms, genres, and international authors from James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges. Integrating theory and practice, it appeals to writers and students.
Holocaust Film
Why is Holocaust film scholarship marginalized when the films themselves are so crucial to public awareness? This book explores the political and economic motivations for this paradox, connecting public debates over representation to the cinematic structures of key films.
Music, Meaning and Transformation
This book examines meaningful music making, reframing music education to focus on the student’s personal, social, and cultural experience. It provides a guide for teachers to facilitate lifelong music making for health, wellbeing, and a sense of belonging.
Failed and Failing States
State collapse is a major threat to peace, stability, and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. A collapsed state can no longer perform its basic security and development functions. This volume brings together key essays on these critical issues.
Truth to Power
How can scholars penetrate the corporate media? This collection of articles explores the role of the intellectual in a society where privately owned media dominates public discourse. Never have their opinions been more crucial to the public good.
Beyond Nature And Nurture
Why are some individuals and countries more successful than others? The nature-nurture debate is misleading. Dr. Baofu shows how the two are intertwined and reveals a tremendous future: a “post-human” world where human genes will no longer exist.
Laws of Nature, Laws of God?
How should we view scientific laws? In this book, scientists, historians, and philosophers tackle this topic, sparked by Nancy Cartwright’s provocative question: “How could laws make things happen?” Her answer was “They couldn’t!”
An insight into composer Daniel Auber through a close examination of one of his most popular operas, La Part du Diable. This volume provides the complete vocal/piano score, preceded by an introduction to Auber’s life and an analysis of the opera.
Self-Esteem and Foreign Language Learning addresses a surprisingly neglected topic. This volume explores self-esteem in the language classroom through theory, research, and practical activities, making it an essential resource for researchers and practitioners.
Crossing Places
A new generation of scholars offers fresh approaches to African history and culture. This collection explores themes of crossing through time and space, encounters across generations, and the renegotiation of identity, with a geographical range from Algeria to Zimbabwe.
Engaged Romanticism
Exploring “engaged romanticism” as a practice rather than a historical period, these essays examine how writers deployed their talents to transform the public sphere. This collection sounds the depths of what engaged practice can accomplish, both in its own age and ours.
How Writing Touches
Five scholars began an experiment in autoethnography, exploring intimacy and connection through collaborative writing. This book offers stories of how writing touches and writes bodies into being—an affecting, radical work on love as a messy, complex methodology.
Marine Monitoring Platforms
This book presents a comprehensive study of the challenges and technologies for observing the ocean environment. It describes state-of-the-art marine platforms and provides a vision for the future, with recommendations for ocean monitoring in the Irish context.
Research Communication in the Social and Human Sciences
Social and human science research addresses society’s most pressing problems, yet it remains largely invisible to the public. This book brings together researchers developing solutions to communicate across boundaries, from media dissemination to stakeholder engagement.