Body between Materiality and Power
This volume situates the points of tension implicated in diverse historical and theoretical conceptualizations of the body through a visual studies framework, and highlights the interstitial function of the body as a mediator between materiality and politics.
Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture
This collection of essays investigates various nuances of a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult literature and culture, from the representation of race and bullying in picture-books to environmentalism and religion in fantasy literature, among others.
Current Trends and Issues in Higher Education
A collection of papers by international scholars, this book synthesises theoretical and practical insights into the issues facing educators today. It will help all involved in higher education keep up with constant transformations in the field.
Nationality vs Universality
This publication deals with the history of music as a way of representing historical memory and as an instrument of shaping society’s present. It offers fascinating reading for anyone interested in the mechanisms that shape notions of the musical past.
Today We’re Alive
Wilkinson presents an exploration of the multiple narratives embedded in colonial and post-colonial history in Australia. At the heart of this research is a verbatim play, interweaving Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal testimonies about the massacre at Myall Creek in 1838.
How is sexuality socially constructed, confined, and defined? This multidisciplinary collection tackles the major theoretical and methodological problems confronting sexuality studies, exploring masculinities and femininities in relation to power, race, and class.
The Assessment and Treatment of Older Adults
The world of aging has changed. This book presents a new model for psychosocial care, grounded in research and focused on real-life needs. It offers professionals a complete guide to assessment and treatment, providing empirically supported interventions for today’s older adults.
Engendering Ireland
This collection of essays reveals the complex and unrecognised roles gender has played in modern Ireland. Exploring masculinity and femininity in history, literature, and society, these chapters offer fresh perspectives on contemporary debates.
Magical Suspension
This book argues that movies appealed because they were fun. It examines the magic, myth, and memory that made films so enjoyable, and considers their significance as a cultural movement that has changed our lives. After all, the whole world is watching.
Achieving Consilience
The contributions here demonstrate how theories in Translation Studies can be fruitfully and systematically applied during the translation practice, thus offering a better understanding of the translator’s decision-making process.
This volume addresses place, mobility, identity, and community in Transnational and Indigenous Studies. It conceptualizes a comparative paradigm for crossing national boundaries to imagine a shared world of poetics and aesthetics.
A Divided Hungary in Europe
Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary flourished culturally through intense exchange with Europe. These volumes draw an alternative map of the era, replacing centre-periphery conceptions with new narratives from historical actors.
Emancipating the Many
Eschewing the flawed promise of acting for the ‘common good’, this book discusses the process of individuation in order to elucidate contemporary experience as relational phenomena of networked human and non-human actors.
Agents of Space
This collection investigates the potentialities afforded by space in eighteenth-century art and visual culture, and underscores the ways in which agency can be productive to multifarious lines of artistic, cultural, and historical inquiry.
The Silent Life of Things
Given increasing interest in analysis of materiality, the essays here discuss those aspects of this concept that are not immediately visible and require increased attention and a sense of intuition, establishing a new paradigm for reading and interpreting commodified materiality.
The Sides of the North
In tribute to Yona Pinson’s extensive work on Northern Renaissance art, this volume offers new insights from leading scholars. It covers a broad spectrum of topics, genres, and media, from Bosch to gender, and an overview of contemporary art scholarship.
Reconsidering the Origins of Recognition
A new generation of researchers explores German idealism’s central topic: recognition. Overcoming classical divisions, they offer critical re-readings of foundational texts, showing how this philosophy continues to inspire new generations of thinkers.
The Bible as Revelatory Word
An opportunity is provided in this volume to study the Prophets and Wisdom Books of Scripture. The research presents some approaches used in biblical scholarship and encourages reading the texts themselves, developing a sharper perception of language, imagery, genre and style.
Angela Ralli connects contemporary morphological theory to less-studied aspects of language interference and contact-induced variation and change, and shows how languages of divergent typologies can affect each other.
Proposing that “deviance” is a fluid term that advances cultural, gender, and societal norms, Cusack argues that traditional and progressive classifications of human deviance could authentically be reworked in consideration of animals’ anatomy, breeding, gender, and mating.