Fairytales—A World between the Imaginary
This book investigates Basile’s masterpiece, Lo cunto de li Cunti. It examines his use of metaphor to critique baroque society and conveys his utopia of a more just world, while also proposing a new interpretation of the tales’ female characters.
This collection explores different types of space—exile, borderlands, the open road—to unpack the intricacies of Latino/a subjectivities. At issue is the freedom to self-define and travel across physical and metaphorical barriers.
Death Representations in Literature
This volume overcomes stereotypes that trivialize death in literature. It reveals the great potential of literary studies to provide fresh ways of interrogating death as an unavoidable human reality and as an ever-continuing socio-cultural construction.
Translation has played a major role in the evolution of societies, affecting the relationships between peoples and power. This volume examines the role of translators in different historical contexts, from 16th-century Mexico to 21st-century Japan.
Studies in Philology
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.
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.
Written in response to extremists, this book argues that the present state of violence and injustice has nothing to do with Islam, but with man-made laws. It challenges Muslims to explore the purity of the faith to end hatred, bigotry, and intolerance.
Perspectives
Essays on Romantic, Victorian, and Modern literature, from Blake and Keats to Yeats. Marked by originality and simplicity, the discussion is as lucid and expository as it is deep and scholarly, making it accessible to non-specialist and academic readers.
Citizenship, the Self and the Other
This book analyzes citizenship in diverse societies by talking to educators in multi-ethnic Britain. It uses unique interdisciplinary research to uncover the surprising common ground educators share on values, beliefs, and aims, offering key lessons for navigating difference.
This book describes the different forms of aid over the last 65 years and analyses why they changed. As old concepts reappear with new donors, professionals and students will benefit from studying this history. Is the pendulum swinging back?
Cold War Perceptions
This book investigates Romania’s early 1960s policy change towards the Soviet Union. Drawing on declassified archives, it argues the change was triggered by leaders’ perceptions of Soviet threats, focusing on CMEA reform and the Sino-Soviet dispute.
Following an investigation that exposed municipal corporations as bastions of privilege, the 1835 Municipal Reform Act fundamentally altered local government, ending the urban Ancient Regime in England and Wales.
Language Contact
This volume discusses theoretical and methodological models of language contact, focusing on mobility and borders. It explores the social effects of migration on multilingualism, and the relation between language, culture, and identity from different perspectives.
China in the Frame
This ethnographic study of Chinese art displays in Italy highlights how representing the cultural Other becomes a process of self-expression. It shows how in representing China, Italy is induced to question and represent its own cultural identity.
Passion and Precision
These essays bring passionate and precise attention to ten major poets from the fourteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection explores English and Irish writers from Chaucer and the Pearl-poet to T. S. Eliot, Yeats, and Seamus Heaney.
This volume explores the “multisensory” nature of moving images. Pairing the keywords “cinema” and “sensation,” contributors examine the palpable presence of bodies, haptic images, and the link between audiovisual perception and cognitive knowledge.
Income Justice in Ukraine
This book presents an empirical study of distributive justice attitudes in post-Soviet Ukraine. Bringing together fundamental theory and unique data, this study contributes to inequality studies and post-communist transformation research.
Humankind and Nature
This publication gathers Western and Asian experts from fields like ecology, religion, and ethics to address the ecological dilemma. This collection of essays will renew awareness and stimulate reflection on the spiritual and social dimensions of climate change.
Spike Lee’s Bamboozled
This analysis of the film *Bamboozled* compares the original screenplay with the Italian dub. Focusing on compliments and insults, it reveals how cultural references and the linguistic traits of African American English are weakened or omitted in translation.
I Am
I Am: Remix Your Web Identity shows how to regain control of your digital identity. Design a personal website that aggregates your blog and social network posts in one location using RSS, WordPress, PHP, HTML5, and CSS3 to become a true “web author.”
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