In a world of technology and efficiency, what has become of Happiness? Does it still feature in contemporary fiction? This volume explores the paradoxes and changing forms of Happiness in the novel, from the Holocaust to consumerism and postmodernism.
This book offers unique perspectives on Turkish Sign Language (TİD) and sign linguistics. Covering topics from TİD’s history to grammar, this volume is a useful resource for newcomers and gives new momentum to future research.
Louise Lightfoot in Search of India
Sarwal unites Louise Lightfoot’s 33 essays, reflecting her broader worldview as a successful dancer, choreographer, and impresario. Her articles segue into each other and echo her various encounters with India and its diverse cultural conditions, beliefs and philosophies.
This study locates five contemporary British poets in a counter-cultural tradition responding to state power. From Celtic druids to Thatcherism, these shamanic poets use ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy’ to wrest spirituality from religion and politics.
Moving from Infancy to Young Adulthood
A review of the Virgin Islands’ (BVI) economic and political development over the past 60 years. This book explores future possibilities and comments on present systems, making it a must-read for island scholars, policy makers, and students.
Conceptualizations of Childhood, Pedagogy and Educational Research in the Postmodern
This monograph investigates the new sociology of childhood and new directions in pedagogy and research that have been conceptualised as a result of the recent debate between modernism and postmodernism within the social sciences.
Modernity is back on sociology’s agenda. With the exhaustion of postmodernism and an intensification of modernization around the world, this volume contributes to the ongoing discussion about the meaning of modernity and its significance in non-Western societies.
Weaving New Perspectives Together
This novel, interdisciplinary overview of literary interpretation features contributions from early-career and senior scholars. The compilation is designed to inspire students and guide experts by posing new questions to stimulate future research in the field.
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.
Women’s Memory
This book brings together researchers to address the problems of sources and archives in women’s studies. The articles examine perceptions of women in collective memory through oral, written, and visual culture, aiming to form accessible international archives.
The European Diaspora in Australia
This volume provides a contemporary reflection on the journey of many former European communities that migrated to Australia in the post-war period and their stories of settlement, assimilation and integration.
Politics within Parentheses
Gabor mediates between various culturally determined profiles of the discipline of Communication Studies. While directing attention to landmark American texts in intercultural communication, she also signals the potential to make reading a relational praxis.
This volume explores Socratic rationalism, the major alternatives to it within political philosophy, and the potential impact of its return in contemporary times. It takes a multifaceted approach with contributions from scholars in the fields of philosophy and political science.
This is the first monograph to identify microalgal species in Kashmir’s Dal Lake. It presents a comprehensive taxonomic description of the algal flora, featuring over 200 coloured photographs. An essential resource for researchers, students, and biologists.
This volume explores Francophone cinema’s place between Bollywood and Hollywood and examines the promotion of cultural and linguistic diversity in Francophone countries. The book brings together contributions by outstanding authors on 21st century Francophonie.
Richard Dadd is a trickster, an Elizabethan Puck in a Victorian insane asylum. His existence foreshadows the inexplicable labyrinths of contemporary existence, entering the fragmented shards of today’s world long before the artists who would try to map it.
Globalization and posthumanism, through the interface of humans and machines, may undermine our innate consciousness. This book argues that combining biotechnology with globalization will diminish our capacity to experience the self, leading to global crime and sickness.
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.
This study focuses on the lyric and narrative verse of a problematic poet who might have served as a missing link between Keats and Tennyson, an area which is under-represented in current scholarship on Beddoes.
This collection studies the landscapes of traditional institutions that exist in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya, India. It blends oral tradition with historical records and secondary literature sources, examining the power and function interplay between authorities.