Challenging the perception of collecting as a male activity, this volume shows how women from the 16th to 19th centuries built important collections. They used them to make powerful statements about their lineage, cultural heritage, and power.
Feminisms is Still Our Name
This anthology critically debates the current status of feminisms in visual art. Essays by leading scholars connect past art histories to possible feminist futures, initiating a needed debate on strategies for renewing feminisms in art history and curating.
Idiomatic expressions challenge Machine Translation (MT), as they cannot be translated literally. This book shows how MT systems can correctly process and translate idioms using simple linguistic resources, providing a practical foundation with plenty of examples.
The momentous 2004 EU enlargement brought new prospects but also old problems. A mental remnant of the Iron Curtain persists, turning new member states into a grand, full-scale experiment in rule by experts.
Literatures in the Digital Era
This book analyses the impacts of digital technology on literature. It explores how computer resources are used to preserve and study texts, the birth of a new digital literature, and the emergence of new literary theories pointing to a new humanism.
Laughter in the Trenches
This study explores humour in German WWI narratives like *All Quiet on the Western Front*. It shows how these works, regardless of ideology, shared narrative strategies using soldier laughter to justify violence and oppressive power structures.
Europe
EU policy to protect refugees has proven inadequate, failing to guarantee their rights. This study investigates how vague language in the EU’s own legal Directives contributed to this failure to harmonize procedures and protect displaced people.
This collection of studies addresses how globalization impacts culture, literature, language communication, and teaching policies within English Studies. Written by authors with diverse backgrounds, it explores how “global” and “local” entities are intertwined.
An original exploration of the radical English student movement of the 1960s. Based on new research and oral histories, this book tells the untold stories of England’s biggest student rebellion and its lessons for today.
Living History
This book analyses the memorializing of slavery as a transnational movement. It explores how reconstructing the past legitimizes demands for recognition and reparations through monuments, museums, and public apologies across the Americas, Africa, and Europe.
Intersecting Identities and Interculturality
This volume adopts a fluid approach to identity, exploring its development in intercultural contexts. With international contributions from diverse fields, it provides empirical research into identification processes for scholars, students, and all interested in diversity.
How does Europe’s economic crisis affect industry on a grassroots level? This book explores the Italian jewellery town of Valenza and its industry’s downturn through the experiences of its inhabitants to understand the challenges Italy and Europe will face.
Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time”
This collection of critical essays sheds new light on Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding and a key figure of interwar Britain. It explores her novels, journalism, and passionate support for feminism, peace, and racial equality.
Society in Focus—Change, Challenge and Resistance
This collection of sociological research from South Africa critically examines societal issues. Chapters explore themes of power and the environment, development, workplace change, and the complex interplay of race, class, and gender with empirical richness.
CLIL pedagogy is a revolution in language education but involves complex challenges. This publication provides a collection of original papers covering essential aspects of CLIL. It is a helpful handbook for teachers, student teachers, and teacher trainers.
This book investigates the Institute of Traditional Islamic Art and Architecture in Jordan, revealing how traditional Islamic philosophy creates a space for students to understand their own culture, assess others, and form new versions of Arab-Muslim culture.
Minor Mythologies as Popular Literature
This is the first single-author study of the genres and roots of popular literature in its relation to film and television, exploring the effects of academic snobbery on the teaching of popular literature. It challenges perceived notions of popular literature.
Academic writing instruction is often boring. This self-help guide addresses this by discussing essay components in terms—such as film—familiar to today’s generation, enabling students to see the subject from a new perspective and develop their skills.
Telling Stories
Trespassing disciplines to bind practice and theory, this collection addresses the contemporary preoccupation with narrative. It considers how visual and performative encounters in photography, film, and objects can contribute to thinking and ask: how might they tell theories?
Masks of Identity
This collection reveals how Otherness, a legacy of colonization, shapes Latin American society. Essays explore how the identities of indigenous peoples, women, and others are constructed, visually represented, performed, and contested.
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