From Quentin Tarantino’s films to the Bible and legal discourse, this volume addresses diverse topics. Each chapter deploys a separate theoretical framework, offering a representative sample of developments in discourse approaches for researchers and students.
The Dancer and the Dance
This collection of essays is the product of theory integrated with practice. Thirteen experts unravel the mystery of translation—”the most complex type of event yet produced”—tracing hitherto undiscovered patterns in its vast, mysterious tapestry.
Strangers in New Homelands
For immigrants, the concept of “home” evokes confusion, fear, and hope. This collection explores what this concept means for people making new lives in strange environments, examining the challenges of settlement, integration, and adaptation.
Exploring the deep connections between language, brain, and mind, this book surveys key trends in 21st-century linguistics. It unites diverse scholarly traditions on topics from broad theory to specific analysis.
Cyberspace Odyssey
This book deals with the last stage of the human odyssey: the exploration of cyberspace. As new technologies colonize our bodies and minds, the author investigates the implications for our culture and form of life. Winner of the Socrates Prize.
EFL teachers and researchers in Asia share successful teaching techniques and new methodologies. This collection offers practical suggestions for the classroom and unique insights for teaching English where students have limited informal language exposure.
This book critiques Kantian universalism, arguing that the complex human condition requires a morality beyond simple binaries. It redefines liberal-pluralism as guided by ‘reason without unification’ and ‘pluralism without relativism’.
Voyages of Body and Soul
This collection explores India’s “mad” female saint-poets and multifaceted epic women from across history. These icons resisted patriarchal norms, following their chosen paths with monumental courage, creativity, and deep devotion. Their lives are models for the 21st century.
Masculinity and the Other
Men have been defined as much by their relations to other men as to women. This collection brings together scholars from fields including literature and history to examine the forms of ‘otherness’ against which ideas of masculinity have been defined.
You are What You Eat
This collection offers tantalizing essays on the culture of food in literature. Exploring works by authors from John Milton to J.K. Rowling, it covers topics from feminist theory to film, appealing to students, food enthusiasts, and scholars alike.
Sound Musicianship
Sound Musicianship explores musicianship as a craft. It examines 21st-century trends like digital media, neurology, and cultural plurality, offering insights from leading researchers to help you advance your own music learning or that of others.
Reading the Fantastic Imagination
This volume investigates the fantastic imagination and its hybrid nature as a postmodern form. Continuing a project on popular genres, this collection of studies confronts the paradox of trendy ‘lowbrow’ fiction being studied by canonical scholars.
Reconstructing Pain and Joy
How are pain and joy constructed, represented, and socially determined? This is the first interdisciplinary collection of essays to investigate how these multi-faceted experiences are reconstructed in language, literature, art, and culture.
A Seamless Web
These essays reveal the nineteenth-century “conversation of cultures” between America and Europe was a two-way exchange. American art used motifs like the cowboy to create its own identity, while Europeans appropriated icons like the American Indian.
A collection of perspectives on the interplay between words and music, from opera librettos and Broadway to rap lyrics and video game soundtracks. Topics include translation challenges, censorship, and cultural analyses of contemporary song lyrics.
Faulkner at Fifty
This collection focuses on teaching Faulkner and shows how he used other writers to shape his craft. It brings together new ways of reading his works, transforming his fiction into new meanings for the twenty-first century. A tribute to pioneers in Faulkner studies.
This collection of essays re-evaluates the connections between music, fine art, and architecture during the flowering of modernism, c. 1849–1950. Through detailed case-studies, this book re-thinks modernism itself to advocate for a multiplicity of modernisms.
The Farmer’s Boy by Robert Bloomfield
Robert Bloomfield’s bestselling poem, The Farmer’s Boy, was a polished rewrite that erased the author’s Suffolk voice. This edition reveals his true intentions for the first time, printing his original manuscript alongside the published version.
And Man Created God presents a new theory of myth as the creative force linking history and transcendence. The myths in Genesis and Exodus are presented in a new light, compared with Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Greek mythologies to highlight the pagan contrast.
Explore Daniel Auber’s forgotten opera, *Les Chaperons blancs*, a work of political conspiracy written between two of his greatest hits. This essential volume provides the complete vocal/piano score, preceded by a rich analysis of its music, history, and dramaturgy.
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