This collection of studies on languages for specific purposes (LSP) analyses discourse across academic and professional areas. It offers valuable insights into communicative strategies and methodological approaches for teaching specialised communication skills.
Eastwards / Westwards
This collection of essays on gender in Asian countries offers a critical transnational perspective. It explores the interplay between local and global forces in the (re)invention of male and female identities across politics, literature, and popular culture.
Through Other Eyes
This volume investigates how English literary works have been translated and disseminated in Europe since the Renaissance. It explores translators’ intentions, faithfulness to the source text, and why translations are often portrayed in a different light to the original.
Writing Imagined Diasporas
This study argues that diasporic South Asian women writers are not merely assimilating to North American culture but actively reshaping it. Their writings of imagined diasporas create new, hybrid identities that challenge “national” discourses.
Romanticism and Parenting
How do parents encode and decode our world? Romantic writers explored what it meant to “parent” in the domestic and political sphere. This collection reveals how the Romantic period has come to profoundly influence our own current constructions of the politics of parenting.
As terms like race and ethnicity become problematic in our “post-multicultural” world, this volume offers new approaches to difference in theatre history. Essays examine topics from race, gender, and sexuality to nationalism and class with new theories.
Shifting Borders explores borders in visual culture. While globalization advocates for fewer national barriers, veiled borders rise to maintain cultural exclusion. These essays re-examine inherited knowledge to open up new understandings of cultural difference.
In the 1970s, Romanian tourism was blooming. This book analyzes the evolution of its tourism and hotel industry since 1990. Has Romanian tourism returned to its golden age? Has it built a country brand to differentiate itself from competing nations?
Film scholars, drawing upon psychology, analyze the connections between stylistic patterns and aesthetic effects. This selection of essays focuses on elements of filmic narration to gain tangible insight into the ancient mystery of the link between art and experience.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Beyond his famous operas, Giacomo Meyerbeer wrote extensively for the voice in other genres. This volume presents the texts for his non-operatic stage works, occasional public pieces, sacred music, and songs, in the original and in English translation.
Out of the Stream
This book reveals the vitality of Medieval & Renaissance murals from Europe’s periphery, focusing on the link between image, audience, and daily life. From Denmark to Portugal, these studies offer new perspectives on art from Giotto to anonymous painters.
The Mirror of Antiquity
This book exposes how 20th-century travel writers’ responses to Greece were conditioned by classical scholarship and history. David Wills shows how, in their hands, Greece became less a modern country and more a mirror of its ancient past.
Catalogues of Proper Names in Latin Epic Poetry
This book explores the poetic catalogue from Homer to Ovid. It examines how internal structural patterns and external framing devices evolved, contrasting Virgil’s supportive function with Lucretius’s subversion and Ovid’s sophisticated innovations.
Body Politic
For millennia, society has been imagined as a body. This engrossing book is more than a history of a metaphor: it is a history of how the idea is converted into action, taking us from ancient India to computer hackers, from assassination to aerial warfare.
With Poetry and Philosophy
This book explores the dialogue between poetry and philosophy, from Kant and Wordsworth to Adorno and Hardy. Outlining a new ‘dialogic’ approach, it produces considerations on language and thought that are unexpected, yet strangely fitting.
How do mind and culture shape language? This multidisciplinary volume offers novel insights into intercultural, cognitive, and social pragmatics, revealing the interplay of cognitive processes and socio-cultural beliefs in communication.
Reverence for Life Revisited
This book’s essays re-examine Albert Schweitzer’s life and his “Reverence for Life” philosophy, assessing its relevance for the twenty-first century. Featuring diverse perspectives, including from Jane Goodall, they explore applications to today’s global issues.
Mapping Appetite
This collection of case studies explores the representation of food in cultural texts, from post-colonial fiction to magazines and cookbooks. The essays show how food narratives reveal crucial issues of gender, nation, race, and power in contemporary culture.
Material Worlds
This volume examines how the intangible is made real, how culture mediates our experience of the world, and what about the real resists transcription. Analyses include attempts to inscribe the soul and the material manifestations of capitalism and empire.
A century later, the Marx Brothers are cultural icons who have permeated our culture. Most scholarly work on them is biographical; this collection of eleven essays suggests other approaches, examining their work from a number of critical perspectives.
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