Inhabited by Stories
This book offers an alternative to intertextuality as influence and appropriation. Grounded in the lived experience of reading, it focuses on the expansion of experience created by telling and retelling stories, which inhabit us and enrich our responses.
From a Heuristic Point of View
How do we get new knowledge? Carlo Cellucci argues that traditional logic is inadequate. We need a new, heuristic logic for generating knowledge. This book is a collection of essays from leading figures who discuss, criticize, and expand on Cellucci’s work.
Merseyside
This interdisciplinary volume explores Liverpool and Merseyside’s rich and controversial cultural history. From J. M. W. Turner’s sketches of the Mersey to the fan culture on Liverpool FC’s Kop, this book reveals the area’s distinctive character.
African Film
This interdisciplinary book interrogates Africa’s filmic past, analyses current productions, and projects into the future. Traversing politics, economics, and history, it explores production, marketing, gender, race, and legal issues.
“Else-where”
A survey of art and architecture, these essays critique what is suppressed and what is disclosed. They track a passage out of post-structuralism toward the Real, or “Else-where”—a return of the universal as utopian thought “here-and-now.”
Edward Thomas
Killed in WWI, Edward Thomas wrote his essential poems in just two years. This timely reappraisal surveys his entire achievement in verse and prose, challenging common views and revealing a complex poet for a new generation.
Virtual Theology, Faith and Adult Education
Online theological education challenges established academic practices. Does it disrupt tradition or sustain it? This book examines the opportunities and risks, presenting an ‘interruptive pedagogy’ as a model to appraise the quality of ‘doing theology’ online.
The Supervisory Assemblage
A nomadic inquiry into the doctoral process, this book uses Deleuzian and feminist poststructuralist thought to raise questions, not answer them. It reveals academic production as a complex process, offering a powerful statement on learning’s capacity to transform a life.
A new approach to culture relates personality to the genesis of myths and religions. Cultures, like man, pass through phases from childhood to old age. From sacred tales to modern myths like Superman, these stories provide meaning and motivation for human behavior.
Globalization and Transnational Migrations
While globalization promised an interconnected world, for Africa it has meant marginalization, poverty, and instability. This book investigates the challenges of migration, brain drain, and identity to help readers make sense of Africa’s position today.
Gender plays a significant role in accessing resources, rights, and power. Through case studies, research, and theory, interdisciplinary scholars shed light on the intricate links between gender, policy, and social change in Africa and worldwide.
Beyond Superlatives
A new generation of scholars applies Whitehead’s philosophy to “superlatives”—valued concepts like truth, novelty, care, and love. By deconstructing these ideas, the essays release an invitation of possibility, extending Whitehead’s thought in novel directions.
This phonetic investigation of the vowel system of Civili, an indigenous language of Gabon, analyzes articulation and perception. It contributes to establishing a credible orthography, with findings significant for linguistics and human language technologies.
Metropolis and Experience
Reading Defoe, Dickens, and Joyce through Benjamin’s concepts of experience (Erlebnis and Erfahrung), this book traces the novel’s critique of urban modernity from Defoe’s narration of lived experience to Joyce’s exuberant, joyous excess.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
In Marco Spada, an opéra-comique from the famed partnership of Auber and Scribe, a bandit chief’s daughter is torn between loyalty to her father and love for her beloved. The music features a celebrated overture, gracious melodies, and noble pathos.
Slaves were not passive victims. They used religion with ingenuity to create new cultures, identities, and even resistance. This volume juxtaposes slave religious strategies in Graeco-Roman antiquity and modern Brazil, shedding new light on ancient slaves.
This is a first-time edition of an autograph letter-writing manual by William Gilpin, a theoretician of the picturesque. Devised for boys and men, it provides models of letters and fictional short stories about soldiers, reformed rakes, and fathers.
Philosophy for Children has spawned diverse practices and theories, leading to different conceptions of its purpose. This collection explores the field’s many directions, revealing the tensions and synergies between competing agendas.
This book consolidates state-of-the-art knowledge on distance learning methods, best practices, and research findings in online business education. It will help faculty, administrators, and course designers optimize distance courses for the best results.
Other Combatants, Other Fronts
Much discussion of the First World War remains confined to the Western Front. This volume pushes the focus away to examine forgotten theatres and neglected experiences, exploring what ‘total war’ meant for people around the world implicated in this event.
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