Pearce delivers sensible emergent aesthetics, explaining the processes that happen in human minds when we share ideas as works of art. He considers how this skews the orthodoxies of contemporary art with pragmatic wisdom about why representational art thrives in the 21st-century.
13th Conference on British and American Studies
Deriving from a conference on language diversity, this book includes studies for the examination of language-related phenomena. Topics covered include the external and internal catalysts for language change and language as an instrument of power and (self-)communication.
This anthology studies the subject of islands, their essence and identity, their isolation and their relationships in the Ancient world. It researches Greek and Roman concepts of insularity, and their consequences for the political, economic and social life of the Empire.
Giffin explores how Patrick White and his post-war contemporaries all commented on the consequences of God’s death. He shows how they worked with a shared pattern of tropes to search for the light and dark aspects of western consciousness and the civilization it has produced.
Encompassing papers from the 2014 Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film, this compilation discusses new aspects and approaches of how philosophy relates to film. It explores film’s nature philosophically and provides new insights for the film philosopher and the filmmaker.
Advertising Culture and Translation
A cross-cultural approach to translational issues and translatability of advertising cohesively is adopted here, exploring ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ conflict. The book introduces advertising English as lingua franca, marking new trends in varieties of English around the world.
The Theory of War and Peace
Using the results of empirical and theoretical research in the field of geophilosophy, as well as neuroscience, psychology, social philosophy and military history, Bazaluk defines the axiomatics of the theory of war and peace and formulates its consequences.
Exchanges between Literature and Science from the 1800s to the 2000s
This collection responds to the intense interest that the relations between the discourses of literature and those of science have obtained. It focuses on the cultural significance of scientific discoveries and practices and scientific representations in literature and the arts.
The Recovery of Palestine, 1917
Weintraub illustrates how General Edmund Allenby, having been raised on the Bible, exploited Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s request for help to capture Jerusalem in 1917. He explains how, despite a hard-fought desert war Jerusalem finally fell, with its sacred sites intact.
Kobylarek portrays an institution, the Polish university, resistant to change and defying all attempts at reform. He proposes a redefinition of the function of the university, based on a thorough analysis of the needs of all its various groups of stakeholders.
A Malaysian Study of Mixed Methods
Roosli and O’Keefe focus on how to combine quantitative with qualitative methods in a research project. This approach, which is detailed here, is called ‘Triangulation’; a plan, structure and investigation strategy used to obtain answers to problems from an earlier stage.
The Poetics of Uncontrollability in Keats’s Endymion
Anselmo reconstructs the linguistic context of the 18th and early-19th centuries to explain the reviewers’ unease regarding Endymion. She shows that 18th-century prescriptivism arose from an anxiety of language and the desire to control language informed Romantic criticism.
Late Nineteenth-Century Italy in Africa
Bruner looks at an 1891 affair concerning a claim that officials in Italy’s Red Sea colony ordered the secret and brutal killing of certain indigenous notables. He studies how this affair re-shaped the Italian outlook on colonialism, opening the door to conflicts and battles.
Science Research and Education in Africa
This conference proceedings discusses how Africa may be about to undergo a profound change in scientific and medical development. Its themes include health research improvement and disease surveillance education, and deadly epidemic diseases.
Holocaust Resistance in Europe and America
Eleven essays are brought together here to investigate different aspects of resistance to the Holocaust, which took many forms, including armed and passive resistance. They analyse resistance to the Nazi regime and motivations to fight against Nazi Germany during World War II.
Texts and Textiles
This study illustrates how fiction that makes use of textiles as an essential element utilizes synaesthetic writing and metaphor to create an affective link to, and response in, the reader. These links and responses are assessed using affect theory and work on synaesthesia.
Ritchie examines what remains an under-studied aspect of Samuel Johnson’s profile—his attitude to social improvement. The cross-disciplinary framework provided applies perspectives from social and cultural history, legal history, architectural history and English literature.
Retrofitting the Built Environment
By 2050, emissions from buildings could double. This book presents a powerful decision support system for evaluating environmentally and economically optimal retrofit options for non-domestic buildings, providing essential insights for engineers, architects, and policy makers.
Language for Specific Purposes
This volume aligns three aspects of Language for Specific Purposes: translation, linguistic research, and domain-specific web communication. It presents work in various LSP areas, like legal discourse, highlighting issues of specialised communication and its social implications.
American Multiculturalism in Context
This text brings together the reflections of a group of experts who met with the leading African American writer Ishmael Reed in 2015. It reports on Reed’s thoughts from the meeting, and looks at the concept “multiculturalism” in the United States, Europe and elsewhere.
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