Conceptualizing our Interpersonal Impressions
Psychoanalysis is rich in theory but poor in evidence. This book breaks the mold, clarifying a 70-year-old problem with the first scientific evidence of psychoanalytic phenomena in everyday life—not from the analyst’s couch.
An Early Hautboy Solo Matrix
Using Pez’s Symphonia, the earliest hautboy solo, as a template, this book reveals a lost seventeenth-century practice of adapting other works for the instrument, offering new repertoire for performers and insights for scholars.
Reconsidering Shakespeare’s ‘Lateness’
This book reconsiders Shakespeare’s “lateness” by analyzing his last plays. It reveals a pattern of steady artistic development, arguing that his final works show a continuation of his sustained professional energy and ongoing self-challenge.
The Recognition Principle
This book explores recognition across psychology, sociology, and politics. It argues that no philosophy of recognition can be built without deep psychological and anthropological foundations, ultimately exploring recognition as a general ‘recognition principle’.
Labels and Locations
This book critically examines identity, gender, family, and class in the short narratives of South Asian diaspora writers in Australia. By focusing on this much-neglected group, it fills a crucial gap in the broader critical rubric of diaspora studies.
Back and Forth
This book examines the dramatic implications of the grotesque in Romantic aesthetics. It explores how writers from Schlegel to Baudelaire used Shakespeare’s transgressive drama to re-evaluate beauty and create the ideas of post-Revolutionary modernity.
Travelling Europe
As Europe’s borders shift, this collection offers interdisciplinary perspectives on travel and space. Researchers explore Europeanisation, travel writing, migration, memory sites, and tourist destinations, promoting a discussion on travel past, present, and future.
Myths and Memories
This book examines European travellers’ perceptions of southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Shaped by power and privilege, their narrow narratives created a mythical “pioneer” community, ignoring the inequalities of colonial life.
Beyond the Skin
“We are our bodies, we have our bodies, we make our bodies.” In a world of multiplying screens that transforms us into spectators, how do we find our identity? This book explores the boundary between bodies and technology to reclaim the social.
The field of peace and conflict studies is rich in tradition and ripe with innovation. This volume captures both, demonstrating how scholars and activists use the knowledge of their forebears to address new issues and create a more just and humane world.
A World of Innovation
Gerhard Mercator was the 16th century’s most important cartographer, famed for his Atlas and the map projection still used today. This book presents the latest research on his sources, his relationships, and his role in Renaissance cartography and Humanism.
Old Stories, New Readings
This volume explores how stories are told on the American stage and how neglected realities gain attention through a playwright’s telling. Focusing on “small stories” that have received less critical attention, it fills a void in the study of American drama.
Go beyond the canvas of NZ’s premier artist, Colin McCahon. This book decodes his esoteric religious symbols, reveals why his spiritual message was missed, and charts his work’s profound journey from optimism to despair.
PERCEPTION in Architecture
Definitions of space are often simplified, denying access to ‘new spaces’. This volume brings together contributions by academics, artists, and architects to reflect upon new spatial concepts and access ‘new spaces’ of perception in architecture.
This multifaceted study explores the vocal iso(n) repertory in the multipart singing of the Southwest Balkans and in Byzantine chanting. Moving beyond national bias, it argues this tradition is bound to the region, not a single ethnic group.
“Perplext in Faith”
This interdisciplinary collection explores the centrality of religious belief and doubt to Victorian culture. Essays investigate diverse topics, from the relationship between science and faith to the novels of Dickens, Eliot, and the Brontës.
Women in the Arts
Is there a need for books about women in the arts? The word “woman” still precedes titles like composer or artist, suggesting men’s creativity is the norm. These essays challenge the status quo, highlighting women’s accomplishments to enrich our culture.
Mental Condition Defences and the Criminal Justice System
This collection brings together medical and legal conceptions of mental disorder to appraise mental condition defences. It provides invaluable, original insights into a sensitive area of criminal law that has struggled to keep pace with psychiatry.
Who is What and What is Who
This book offers an in-depth, micro-parametric analysis of wh-question formation in modern Arabic dialects. The approach is based on the morphology-syntax and syntax-phonology interfaces, placing findings in the context of Universal Grammar.
This book presents cutting-edge research in translation studies, offering fresh perspectives on theory and practice. Written by researchers from around the world, it suggests ways of dealing with translation problems in areas like machine translation and training.
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