Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel
This is the first book to combine scholarship on the picaresque novel with microhistory. This innovative volume brings together expert scholars to reveal how microhistory can shed new light on classic novels and their marginal protagonists.
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.
This work reclassifies the history of ideas through a new organon for the cultural sciences. Radically revising standard theories, it extracts principles from philosophy, arts, and sciences, and reshapes them as symbolic forms grounded in imagination.
This book reveals Shakespeare as an early modern materialist inspired by Lucretius. In chapters on six important plays, it demonstrates how he writes an “atomic” poetry of joining and splitting language to explore the art of nature and the nature of art.
This line-by-line commentary on Kant’s B-Transcendental Deduction reveals its argument as the progressive unfolding of the Principle of Apperception. Focusing on this structure settles controversial questions, making it helpful to students and specialists.
As Mirrors Are Lonely
This new study investigates how Irish writers since the sixties have responded to a changing world, re-examining their work through the theory of Jacques Lacan. It focuses on John McGahern, Brian Moore and John Broderick, exploring gender and family.
Behind the Words
Standard English is not a question of class, but of education. This book tears up that falsehood, demonstrating through original texts how the attack on clear English has infected the Foreign Office, leading to a serious loss in Britain’s independence.
Choral Singing
What role does choral activity play in the construction of social and musical meaning? This anthology addresses questions like these from a wide range of disciplines, contributing to a transdisciplinary discussion about the origins, functions, and meanings of choral singing.
In the first collection devoted to Deleuze and Asia, Asian and Western scholars explore Deleuzian concepts in philosophy, religion, film, art, and literature, mapping new directions in East-West research that reveal new dimensions of Deleuze’s thought.
This volume treats travel writing as “foreign correspondence,” a concept oscillating between the private and the public. The essays offer readings of accounts by early modern and more recent travellers, revealing the complex cultural negotiations between them.
Democracy in the Workplace and at Home
This book explores how democratic concepts like freedom and justice impact our work and home environments. It reveals how a lack of these concepts harms health and well-being, and shows how to create more democratic, healthy, and productive lives.
This collection of essays focuses on the relevance of Henry James’s work for understanding current problems. Studies explore his influence on modernist and postmodern writers and his connections to visual and new media, revealing continuities between his era and our own.
Eleven scholars challenge the popular vision of the American South as an ill region. They interpret its “sickly” culture not as a problem, but as an opportunity and a springboard to cultural revitalization and a new kind of “health”.
William Gilpin and Letter Writing
This first-time edition of William Gilpin’s letter-writing manual offers moral models for young men. Its counterpart is his personal correspondence with his grandson, revealing intimate details of his daily life, domestic concerns, and the art of being a grand-father.
Evolution is the mesh that connects every biological phenomenon. This book highlights how evolutionary science provides practical applications and tools to deal with current problems concerning humanity, such as disease, food production, and environmental destruction.
Information Visualisation
This volume reviews information visualisation, the art of transforming complex data into clear visuals. It explores techniques from medieval origins to modern 2D/3D rendering and evaluation methods, with examples from history, art, and science.
This unique collection challenges readers to reconsider the nature of ethics. With a panoramic view of ethical themes, it revisits age-old positions and investigates fresh fields to elicit new debates. An invaluable resource for students and scholars.
Emerson Goes to the Movies
This book traces Emersonian individualism in Disney’s post-1989 animated films, proving self-reliance is still alive in popular culture. It explores what influences Disney and how individualism intersects with race, gender, class, and imperialism.
Coming Home?
The wars of the twentieth century created the refugee. Forced displacement, in turn, created its own conflicts. This series explores the complex relationship between conflict, return migration, and the compelling, often elusive, search for a sense of home.
Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature
A human-centric worldview must be dismantled. But what takes its place? This volume brings Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy into conversation with science, religion, indigenous traditions, and art to ignite new experiments in thought and action.
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