Postfeminist Discourse in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Warner’s Indigo
A comparative study of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Marina Warner’s rewriting, Indigo. Focusing on femininity and the other, this analysis explores ambivalence, liminality, and plurality in postfeminist and post-colonial contexts.
This volume explores the dynamic process of interaction. Authors examine how participants understand each other through various semiotic codes in translation, education, arts, and literature, offering inspiring topics for researchers and students.
The Space of Memory
This volume preserves the endangered Arbëresh language through its tales, stories, and songs. By recording its authentic sound, it serves as a vital linguistic and cultural tool to bring Arbëresh to future generations of young speakers.
Body and Time
This collection of essays conceptualizes the body as a system embedded in a social network. It challenges the digital media’s view of the body as a 2D icon, demonstrating how our experience of time is determined by the cultural use of bodily rhythms.
The Epistemology of Utopia
Utopianism nurtures possibilities by critiquing and transforming the world. This volume provides critical revisions of the field through essays on topics ranging from Plato’s Republic and More’s Utopia to modern-day cosmopolitics and science.
Urban Design
This book defines and analyzes three types of continuity in urban planning and design: urban conservation, cultural tourism, and persistencies of form. It cites international examples from the author’s work, illustrated with numerous original drawings.
Romantic Ireland
Romantic Ireland: From Tone to Gonne takes Irish Studies in new directions. Bringing together international scholars, it explores the tumultuous nineteenth century through a cross-cultural comparison with Scotland, enhancing our awareness of colonialism and nationalism.
This Is Her Century
This book is the first monograph on Margaret Walker, a writer who slipped to the margins of the African American literary canon. It is an attempt to establish the importance of Walker’s representation of twentieth-century America against its critical obscurity.
This volume investigates how Western art has visualized happiness from the Middle Ages to the present. Essays explore the concept within gender, religion, and politics, offering new interpretations of happiness—or its explicit absence.
Victims of Time, Warriors for Change
This book explores globalization’s impact on Chilean women. While some found new opportunities in wage labor, many more faced limitations and suffering as class differences were exacerbated. These women became both Victims of Time and Warriors for Change.
Romualdo Marenco
In Manzotti’s spectacular allegorical ballet Excelsior, the rise of human civilization is an embittered struggle between Light and Darkness. As inventions triumph, Marenco’s exhilarating music celebrates an apotheosis of light, progress, and peace.
Emotions from a Bilingual Point of View
This book explores the influence of personality and emotional intelligence on second language learning. It is the first systematic exploration of the role of emotional intelligence and offers new insights into how personality affects specific language skills.
In a rare convergence of perspectives, experts from philosophy, history, science, and law address crucial moral issues. This volume explores the nature of goodness in areas from bioethics to economics, invaluable for a common reflection on our values.
Small-Screen Shakespeare is a guide to Shakespeare productions on computer or TV. From silent films to cinematic spin-offs, Peter Cochran gives an expert opinion on the best and worst, based on a lifetime of viewing, teaching, acting and directing.
(M)Other Tongues
The differentiation between languages is both necessary and impossible. Literary texts question this distinction, revealing the inherent strangeness of one’s own mother tongue. What separates the mother tongue from other tongues is a precise uncertainty.
This comprehensive collection of estimators in single and two-phase sampling covers estimators which utilize information on single, two, and multiple auxiliary variables. An invaluable point of reference for researchers working in the field of survey sampling.
Finding the Plot
Plot is basic to our experience, yet criticism has often passed it over. This book redresses this neglect, bringing together international scholars to explore the pleasures of consuming stories across a variety of media. How do plots work and why do they matter?
Resistance is a historical constant, not simply irrational behaviour. Fifteen authors from diverse disciplines, including physics, biology, and political science, explore concepts of ‘resistance’ and examine the potential of a general ‘resistology’.
Mapping the Tribal Economy
India’s tribes have been marginalised, their way of life transformed. This book examines the critical issues of land alienation and labour exploitation, focusing on tribal mobilisation and the fight for justice and restoration in Andhra Pradesh.
This volume offers a complete view of Historical English Corpora studies in Spain. The first part describes new projects from Spanish universities, while the second includes findings from scholars using this new material and more traditional corpora.
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