Lessons in Mythology
This volume offers eight approaches to myth from viewing personal narrative as a form of healing myth to observing the atrocities committed daily arising from destructive myth. It notes that myths have existed from the beginning of the human race, serving a myriad of functions.
The Imagery of Writing in the Early Works of Paul Auster
Sarmento delves into the early works of Paul Auster, to show how they convey the loneliness of the individual fully committed to writing. She studies the symbolism of the genetic substance of the world (re)built through the work of writing, open to an unlimited mental expansion.
The Politics of Coexistence in the Atlantic World
Parrotta studies the ways that spiritual pluralism, cultural activism, and resilience have been born and nurtured on the islands and coastlines of the Greater Caribbean. She conveys a wide array of stories and perspectives, from land politics to imperial art and women’s rights.
The Art of the Caveman
The first monograph dedicated to the poetry of Paul Durcan, this book deals thematically with the dominant concerns evident throughout his work, arguing that the poet has captured the complexities inherent in Ireland’s emergence from the early, difficult decades of independence.
An Anthology of French and Francophone Singers from A to Z
This richly illustrated mini-dictionary provides a collection of portraits of the greatest singers of the French language and describes how they have contributed to the musical landscape in both France and the larger francophone community and the world as a whole.
This title presents recent findings and opens new vistas for research by mapping the potential interconnections of intertextuality and intersubjectivity across a range of fields. It incorporates various research foci and topoi across time and space.
On Time
Originally presented at a colloquium, the papers in this publication deal with a number of key presentations of time in the history of philosophy. They attend to the problems and questions of temporality as they appear in works of the Western philosophical tradition.
Spirituality and Desire in Leonard Cohen’s Songs and Poems
One of the first works on Leonard Cohen to be produced, this Festschrift discusses a range of his songs and poems. The essays range from unique insights offered by Cohen’s official biographer Sylvie Simmons through to considerations of major themes in his output.
This first-of-its-kind textbook from the Schroth Best Practice Academy offers an overview of the evidence-based Schroth method. A guide for practitioners, it focuses on current non-surgical treatments for spinal deformities to improve patient outcomes and quality of life.
Goethe’s Faust I
This book tracks the creative process of Heinz-Uwe Haus’s adaptation of Goethe’s Faust and his question of how Goethe’s Faust is relevant today. It unites comments from stage and costume designers as they bring their own understanding of the audience to bear on the play.
The Kantian Legacy of Late Modernity
Tupan traces the influence exerted by Immanuel Kant, through Bergson’s intuitionism, Husserl’s phenomenology, Dessoir’s aesthetics, Vaihinger’s als ob fictionalism, and Popper’s logical positivism. She draws parallels between the history of ideas and late modernity discourses.
Revealing the importance of valuing literature that has travelled over bodies of water, this volume emphasizes the common theme that water unites nations and their readers through literature. Topics examined range from South Africa’s ongoing crises to reinvented poetry.
Denham brings together the work of Helen Kemp Frye, an accomplished artist and musician, and the wife of literary critic Northrop Frye. The book contains her reflections on art, giving voice to a creative being whose contributions to cultural life in Ontario are often neglected.
International Friendships
This publication considers issues concerning international interpersonal friendships and the influence of society and culture in the different friendship contexts. Efforts to foster international friendships are investigated, as are perspectives of friendship.
Text and Image in the City
The essays within discuss how the city is textualized, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They investigate how the creation, distribution and consumption of urban texts and images affect the shaping of the city itself.
This compendium analyses contemporary Jewishness within the constant dialectic between faithfulness to Jewish tradition and culture and adherence to modernity and democracy values. It highlights the contrasting experiences of societies in the Diaspora and in Israeli society.
Intercultural Horizons Volume IV
Originating from the 4th and 5th Intercultural Horizons conferences, this anthology reflects an array of research, case studies and reflections on intercultural studies. It also explores civic engagement and varied perspectives on migration issues in the Mediterranean region.
Women Rewriting Boundaries
Inspired by a panel at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, this compilation offers fresh insights on how to read travel writing by women. It analyzes the connections between class, gender, physicality, and sexuality as found in 19th-century literature.
Alshammari considers the ways in which madness has been portrayed in writing by women authors, readdressing the madwoman trope from a transnational approach set in contrast to the traditional Eurocentric approach to literary madness.
Gupta studies the Kashmiri practitioner Abhinavagupta’s two commentaries, Locana on Dhvanyāloka and Abhinavabhāratī on Nātyaśāstra. In particular, she discusses Abhinavagupta’s views on Lollata, Saankuka and Bhattanayaka, with each view followed by relevant criticism.