This book balances theories with interactive learning activities. Believing that one learns research by conducting it, the activities provide opportunities for students to develop and sharpen the research skills useful for conducting their own research.
Last Tape on Stage in Translation
This study examines translated theatre texts as blueprints for production, focusing on Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. By looking into the Turkish translations and productions of the play, this book brings a new dimension to approaching theatre through translation.
Academic Mobility and Migration are a reality for most in higher education. This unique volume explores their impact on institutions and people, considering underexplored aspects like virtual mobility, North-South mobility, and questions of identity.
Fortune and Fatality
Tragedy, from Corneille to Racine, has grounded the French literary canon. This book challenges conventional interpretations, exploring the philosophical, theatrical, and performative aspects of the tragic in sixteenth and seventeenth-century France.
Do we have the free will necessary for moral responsibility, or does determinism make it impossible? This volume offers new perspectives from leading philosophers on these questions, exploring fairness, obligation, and meaningfulness in a deterministic universe.
The Subversive Storyteller
The Subversive Storyteller examines how American authors adapted the short story cycle to convey subversive ideas. Authors from Hawthorne to Kingston exploited the genre’s fragmented nature to reflect the changing realities of life and identity in America.
Gender and Sexual Identity
This collection of essays examines the complexity of gender and sexuality through popular culture. Topics include the construction of masculinity, transsexuality, polyamory, and film, offering challenging ideas that push the boundaries of how we know gender.
The Ravenclaw Chronicles
What if there is much more to the Harry Potter saga than a simple tale? The Ravenclaw Chronicles collects select articles from academic conferences discussing the story’s intellectual and ethical issues from diverse perspectives like philosophy and history.
Migrations
This collection of essays by international experts and New Zealand curators opens up the little-known medieval manuscripts of New Zealand to a wider audience, placing them within the international discourse of postcolonial heritage and manuscript studies.
Migrants and Cultural Memory
This volume explores representations of the Traveller, Roma, and migrant “Other”. It shows how the migrant experience is echoed in the hybrid and diverse discourses of Western countries, pointing to the ongoing reconfiguration of dominant cultural narratives.
Ritual and Remembrance
This study explores local memorial construction after the Great War, revealing the tension between private tragedy and public remembrance. It uncovers how authorities transformed personal grief into a public narrative through the complex process of commemoration.
Lines of Thought
In this innovative book, philosopher Claudio Costa argues that old philosophical ideas should be reworked, not dismissed. He challenges contemporary analytical philosophy’s views on language, knowledge, and free will, aiming to restore a broader, more comprehensive perspective.
Before Windrush
This anthology testifies to a British nation that has been multiracial for centuries. Through essays on Asian and Black writers living in Britain before the post-WWII wave of immigration, Before Windrush reveals a hidden literary history.
Iran and the World
In an era of profound global change, Iran has maintained stability in its blend of religion and politics. This book examines recent developments in Iran and its interaction with the world, attracting experts in international relations and political science.
The Representation of Working People in Britain and France
History is about “representation,” but what does that mean? International authors explore this elusive notion, covering working people in Britain and France from the Middle Ages to the present, revealing the diverse points of view and the bridges that link them.
Food Politics
This ethnographic work discusses the politics inherent in food among the Garos of Assam and Bangladesh. Living as a minority on the peripheries of a dominant culture, the Garos conceptualize themselves and the ‘other’ world through the microcosm of food.
Selling James Bond
Selling James Bond offers an in-depth “behind the scenes” look at the series’ history of product placement. It charts the practice’s progression, drawing correlations to cultural events and showing how brands became embedded in the film narrative.
Religion raises hard questions. This volume challenges the easy answers about the separation of church and state, the science-versus-religion dichotomy, and attacks on God, inviting us to review our presuppositions as we reflect on the future of religion.
This collection of generative work on Modern Greek morpho-syntax shows how the study of Greek feeds generative theory. The analyses contribute to comparative syntax and cross-linguistic variation, making it essential for scholars of Greek and theoretical linguistics.
Essays by international scholars explore how detective fiction mirrors personal, sexual, ethnic, and spiritual identity. This collection examines the genre’s evolution and its interface with diverse national literatures and histories.
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