Poetry and Voice
This international collection of essays fuses critical and creative treatments of poetic voice. Contributors give rare insights into inner poetic processes and artistic debates, approaching the question of what it is to ‘find a voice’ in poetry from multiple angles.
Wilde’s Wiles
This unique collection of essays by international experts celebrates Oscar Wilde’s genius. It explores his enduring influence on culture—from aesthetics to queer theory—and examines the influence of his family and friends on him.
Literature, Rhetoric and Values
These essays use cutting-edge scholarship to investigate the evolving values of the modern world, confronting issues like torture, genocide, and environmental apocalypse. Authors essay the ethical dimensions of works from whisky bottles to graphic novels.
Speaking–Writing With
Our differences often divide us. This text theorises ways of speaking “with” (instead of “for”) others by exploring the relationship between poststructural theories and indigenous relational ontologies to transform relations of suppression into mutual respect.
Translating Across Cultures
This collection of papers explores translation problems across literary, legal, and economic texts. It answers key questions on cultural elements, equivalence, and metaphors, while suggesting solutions for difficult challenges like lexical gaps and 21st century ‘Newspeak’.
Applied Social Sciences
This volume provides original essays on philosophy and theology, exploring aesthetics, ethics, postmodernism, and the role of religion in society. Accessible to specialists and a wider public, it offers new ideas for professionals in the socio-humanistic field.
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.
Applied Social Sciences
This collection of essays on Verbal and Non-verbal Communication explores its role in diverse fields from mass-media and marketing to management and IT. Ideal for professionals, researchers, and students seeking to develop personally and professionally.
Culture and Power
This collection explores identity and identification in cultural studies. Incorporating theoretical contributions and practical case studies, this monograph adds to contemporary debates on topics such as gender politics, postcolonialism, and the nation.
Peasantry, Capitalism and State
In the developing world, the rural to urban transition is stalled. This book challenges the European model, focusing on the peasantry in India and beyond. It argues with empathy that they too should access the benefits of urban modernity and the ‘bright lights of the city’.
Applied Social Sciences
An interdisciplinary collection of studies tackling key economic and political challenges, from public finance to cultural heritage. Bridging theory and practice, it offers vital insights for professionals and interested readers alike.
This volume examines how migration is affecting schools in Southern Europe. It explores changing language use and attitudes, asking: How do children react to diversity? Are schools equipped for these changes? Is there an adequate framework for integration?
Gendered
Challenging disciplinary boundaries, this volume moves beyond an art-history survey to explore the bond between feminist art, theory, and politics. It compares American and European artists to reveal the continuing relevance of both for the contemporary reader.
This study examines Ovid’s use of ecphrasis in the Metamorphoses, exploring his determination to outdo his predecessors. It argues that Ovid’s preoccupation with artists makes the epic itself an extended commentary on his own artistry.
God’s Radical Grace
Dr. Ellens’ sermons for Ordinary Time disclose the depth and beauty of the scriptures. With the approach of a scholar and the understanding of a pastor, he gives the reader new insights into familiar texts, providing comfort and reason to be grateful.
Market Place
This book explores how ‘food quarters’ have emerged in three transforming London markets. It reveals how the interplay between design and food-focused social practices enriches urban life and sustainability, while paradoxically contributing to gentrification.
Beyond Natural Resources to Post-Human Resources
Are natural resources limited, or does demand create its own supply? This book rejects these opposing views and offers a new theory to fundamentally change the way we think about resources, diversity, discontinuity, and the future of humanity.
Women Who Belong
To fight the fallacious assumption that patriarchy is eternal, this book inverts history. By centering the ordinary woman, we find women, rich and poor, who used patriarchal laws to protect their rights and demand the powers due them.
The English Language and Anglo-American Culture
This book explores the impact of the English language and Anglo-American culture on Spanish language and society. It compiles studies on shop windows, film titles, and magazines, providing evidence of the pervasive presence of English in Spanish daily life.
Interwar Japan beyond the West
To avoid the Western imperialist yoke, late nineteenth-century Japan embraced an imperial identity. This was justified by a philosophy that saw Japan’s hegemonic aspirations as a moral obligation: a duty to overcome modern civilization and promote a new culture.
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