Samuel Beckett and Europe
This conference proceedings presents an international response to the question of what ‘Europe’ might mean for understandings of Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre. It examines this issue to reflect the ways in which Beckett’s work challenges and enlivens his status as a ‘European writer’.
What does it mean to “come home”? Spiritual teachers share their intimate and startling stories of consciousness exploration. Through their psycho-spiritual challenges, readers will gain insights for their own journey, realizing there are many paths to being wholly oneself.
This work offers a cross-analysis of the development of tourism in Bali, combining international and intercultural and inter-generational research. It questions the capacity of tourism, to be a vector of sustainable development.
Calling on philosophers as the custodians of rationality to reconsider their responsibility toward their communities and the state of civilization at large, Amir considers philosophy to be a practical discipline.
The emotive nature of myth lays the foundation of the research proposed for this trilingual volume, which encompasses a thorough and multifaceted study that offers guidelines and models capable of interpreting mythical-emotional phenomena.
The Viennese operetta masterpiece *Der Seekadett* delighted audiences for 80 years. This book restores the lost work, presenting the complete libretto in English, German, French, and Italian. The story features humour, romance, a deadly duel, and a chess game with live figures.
The Literary Representation of World War II Childhood
Focusing on twenty one primary texts about childhood under Nazism, Honan examines how childhood in literature has changed over the years, from the Romantic writers to child slave labour in the Victorian era, the child-soldier and the impact of deportation.
This compendium is a clear reflection of the realities and dynamics of language teaching in Iranian classrooms and the new trends within the Iranian EFL community over the last decade. It covers a variety of recent topics within the context of English language teaching in Iran.
Rhetorical Criticism in Communication Studies
Gabor focuses on seven entries in Carl R. Burgchardt’s Readings in Rhetorical Criticism, to which she adds a complementary effort. She also offers personal narrative about guidance by specific critics such as Edwin Black, Forbes Hill, and Kenneth Burke.
Spanish and Latin American Women’s Crime Fiction in the New Millennium
This volume highlights the shift in focus in crime fiction written by women in Spain and Latin America since the late 1980s to transgressions often overlooked by their male counterparts, such as rape and sexual battery, and domestic violence.
The chapters here fill the gap in research on the role of the Italian media with regards to the country’s colonies, providing a review of images and themes that have surfaced and resurfaced over time.
Friendship and its Paradoxes
In this collection, leading Jungian analysts from Latin America explore friendship and its paradoxes. The essays share psychological reflections on fraternity, conflict, empathy, and psychotherapy, showing how Jungian psychology meets the challenges of a changing world.
Transnational Landscapes and Postmodern Poetics
How the spatial imagination has informed our postmodern mapping of literature, culture, history, geography and politics, is explored here. The text invites a reappraisal of the value of space in our social, political and historical realities.
This title addresses several issues on contrasts between English and other languages. It gives valuable insights into cross-linguistic differences between English and other languages, which might otherwise go unnoticed, and will be useful to experts on language studies.
Gloria Naylor’s Fiction
This text offers innovative ways of analyzing economics in Gloria Naylor’s fiction, using interpretive strategies which are applicable to the entire tradition of African American literature. The writers gathered here embody years of insightful and vigorous Naylor scholarship.
Conflict, Trauma and the Media
These essays study the complicated relationship between the messengers bringing news of catastrophic upheaval and the recipients of that message. They consider not only the motivations behind such work, but also the psychological consequences of witnessing extreme suffering.
Patents and Climate Change
Since the year 1989, hundreds of global-warming related patents have been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Dochniak provides an easy-to-read summary of such patents, in addition to presenting inventor profiles and news articles that are thought-provoking.
By focusing on language learners’ self-concept, this publication foregrounds the role of the learner in the process of language learning. It presents a number of empirical studies that bring into focus various aspects of the self in the learning of languages.
This book explores the servant-leadership needed to transform EU Institutions to better serve its citizens. Through real-life interviews with EU civil servants, including Herman van Rompuy, it illustrates how this philosophy empowers professionals to face 21st-century challenges.
The essays here represent a selection of the papers presented at a conference on “The Future of Human Rights in the UK” held in Brighton in 2016. They are designed to make the reader ask themselves: what does the future of human rights in the UK look like?
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