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Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age

Edited By: Anna Maria Guasch Ferrer, Nasheli Jimenez Val

£52.99

Leading scholars pose fundamental questions about contemporary art in the global age. This volume maps current debates on archives, politics, labor, and the post-natural condition, providing a cartography of the conceptual intersections in global art studies today.

Keyboard Warriors

The Production of Islamophobic Identity and an Extreme Worldview within an Online Political Community

By: Graham Edward Geddes

£52.99

Geddes explores the kind of Islamophobic identity that is produced by supporters of the far-right English Defence League within networking sites, and discusses on how this identity is constructed around insecurities that are central to the lives of this population.

Equestrian Rebels

Critical Perspectives on Mariano Azuela and the Novel of the Mexican Revolution

Edited By: Roberto Cantú

£52.99

This collection of essays commemorates the first centenary of Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajo, and traces its impact on twentieth-century autobiographies, memoirs and, more specifically, on the Novel of the Mexican Revolution.

Studies in Philology

Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies in Modern Languages

Edited By: Maria del Mar Jiménez-Cervantes Arnao, Gema Alcaraz Mármol

£52.99

This volume offers a holistic view of Philology, showing the thin line that separates Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies. It is a miscellanea of studies on Modern Language research, focusing on Spanish, English and French.

Histories of Laughter and Laughter in History

HistoRisus

Edited By: Rafał Borysławski, Justyna Jajszczok, Jakub Wolff

£52.99

This volume represents a meeting ground for historians, philologists, and scholars of social science, to discuss places and roles of laughter in history, in historical narratives, and in cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present.

Imagining the Self, Constructing the Past

Selected Proceedings from the 36th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum

Edited By: Meriem Pagès, Robert G. Sullivan

£52.99

This volume celebrates the ways the Middle Ages and Renaissance are represented in our own age. The contributions bear witness to the importance of representation to our understanding of ourselves, each other, and our shared past.

Languaging Diversity

Identities, Genres, Discourses

Edited By: Giuseppe Balirano

£52.99

This volume explores the relationship between Language and Diversity, assuming identities are dynamically negotiated as discourse unfolds. It examines how people use linguistic resources to achieve, maintain, or challenge their cultural, social, and gender identities.

Depicting Dante in Anglo-Italian Literary and Visual Arts

Allegory, Authority and Authenticity

By: Christoph Lehner

£52.99

This title examines key stages of Dante’s appropriation in Western cultural history. It focuses on his representation, including how his image was fixed in the first 200 years of his appropriation in Florence and how Dantean images and his text have been used in Britain.

Using Technology in Foreign Language Teaching

Edited By: Rahma Al-Mahrooqi, Salah Troudi

£52.99

This book explores how to best utilize technology in language teaching, debating the advantages and disadvantages of IT integration. It examines IT use in countries like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia, providing a useful resource for professionals and researchers.

Representations of the North in Victorian Travel Literature

By: Dimitrios Kassis

£52.99

This book deals with travel narratives on the North from 1784 to 1897, exploring how writers used the idea of a Nordic utopia to address Britishness, gender, and the racial discourse on nationhood.

In the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond

A History of Jews and Muslims (15th-17th Centuries) Vol. 1

Edited By: Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros, Lúcia Liba Mucznik, José Alberto R. Silva Tavim

£52.99

Beginning with the forced conversion of Iberian Jews and Muslims, this volume examines the effects on their respective diasporas, focusing on a variety of approaches, from language and culture to identity discourses and interchanges between those communities.

Kissinger and the Invasion of Cyprus

Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean

By: William Mallinson

From £34.99

Using the story of Kissinger’s behaviour regarding Cyprus, backed up by recently revealed government documents, Mallinson provides an incisive analysis of Kissinger’s approach, revealing a man who appears to have considered political strategy more important than law and ethics.

Ain’thology

The History and Life of a Taboo Word

Edited By: Seth Katz, Patricia Donaher

£52.99

Language critics call ain’t “lazy” or “stupid,” yet it’s used by speakers of all dialects. Why? This first book-length collection dedicated to the shibboleth analyzes the history and life of this taboo word in English speech, writing, and media.

Essays on Roberto Gerhard

Edited By: Monty Adkins, Michael Russ

£52.99

This volume explores Roberto Gerhard’s work from the early Wind Quintet through to the late period Metamorphoses. It suggests evidence that situates his idiosyncratic experiments alongside, rather than after, the total serialist works of his European counterparts.

A World Beyond Global Disorder

The Courage to Hope

Edited By: Fred Dallmayr, Edward Demenchonok

£52.99

This collection is a summons to responsible care-taking, and it approaches the subject from an intercultural perspective. The topics covered range from accounts of major global calamities today to explorations of possible political, economic and societal reforms.

Social Media in Asia

Changing Paradigms of Communication

Edited By: Azman Azwan Azmawati, Rachel E. Khan

£52.99

Written by Asian academics and practitioners, this book explores social media in Southeast Asia. Discover how it has changed the paradigm of communication: as an avenue for free expression, a tool for news distribution, an aid in crime prevention, and a means to find a partner.

C. S. Lewis and the Inklings

Reflections on Faith, Imagination, and Modern Technology

Edited By: Jason Fisher, Mark Hall, Salwa Khoddam

£52.99

The Inklings’ views on the negative impacts of technology and their resolution through fellowship and faith. Essays demonstrate how their literary craft can enchant readers, empowering them with a keener spiritual vision to tackle present concerns.

Gender and Sexual Dissidence on Catalan and Spanish Television Series

An Intercultural Analysis

By: Silvia Grassi

£52.99

This book examines how gender roles and non-heteronormative sexualities are constructed in Spanish and Catalan television series. It challenges the rhetoric of “normalisation” and represents a major contribution to these fields in the Spanish and Catalan contexts.

The Theory of Musical Communication

By: Alexander N. Yakoupov

£52.99

Yakupov summarises the communicative processes encompassing the creation, interpretation, perception, and evaluation of the various phenomena of musical art. He considers the numerous communicative links in the spheres of the composer, performer, listener and musicologist-critic.

Growing Democracy in Africa

Elections, Accountable Governance, and Political Economy

Edited By: Mamoudou Gazibo, J. Oloka-Onyango

£52.99

This edited collection critically examines the record on democratization in Africa thus far, questioning the state of governance in sub-Saharan Africa, and seeks a new, integrated, focused approach to the study of governance.

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