Victorian Traffic
This collection explores “traffic”—a key concept for the Victorian era’s imperial expansion. With a global range, these essays address the two-way, cross-cultural exchange of ideas, images, and identity, revealing it as relational and always in motion.
This transdisciplinary volume discusses presence and absence, revealing how diverse areas—from linguistics and literature to film—talk to each other in surprising ways, opening up cultural, cinematic, and literary works to new readings and meanings.
Ireland
In 1916, revolutionaries marched in Dublin. In 2010, IMF technocrats arrived to begin Ireland’s re-colonisation. This book explains why resistance had been destroyed and argues that an opportunity now exists to re-imagine and re-invent the nation.
This book explores transgression as a literary theme in twentieth-century novels. Analyzing fictional acts from murder to adultery, it reveals how narrative strategies like “unreliable narrators” challenge readers to question social norms and moral values.
Creative Learning and MOOCs
This publication showcases papers presented at the 11th Learning and Technology Conference held in Saudi Arabia in 2014, reflecting upon the recent implementation of Massive Open Online Courses, which provide opportunities for learning to large numbers of students at little cost.
Southern Horrors
This book explores the Mediterranean’s dark side through the eyes of Northern Europeans. Over four centuries, travellers saw not a sun-drenched ideal, but a world of cruelty, poverty, and superstition, telling us more about their own prejudices than the South.
A Time to Reason and Compare
Commemorating the centenary of decisive events in the history of international Modernism, this collection provides a critical assessment of the movement’s intentions and accomplishments, discussing its impact in a variety of contexts.
Sharing Concerns
This book draws together case analyses of public-private partnerships in Australia, France, Romania and Spain. The study illustrates that these partnerships are very adaptable and can take a variety of forms in different industries, regions or legal frameworks.
Agency in the British Press
This title examines the ways in which the 2011 UK riots were reported by the British press, analysing the linguistic construal of the main participants involved and their agency. In doing so, it reveals the ideological burden affecting power relations within society.
Words into Pictures
This collection of new essays explores E. E. Cummings as both poet and artist. Bringing together the verbal and the visual, the volume examines under-researched fields of his unique, genre-crossing work.
Quality Issues in ICT Integration
This publication discusses the quality of integrating technology into teaching and learning. Drawing on the experiences of researchers and tutors, it offers students and teachers an insight into various applications of technology and their critical evaluation.
This collection considers how women writers subvert normative structures in their adaptations of fairy tales. Writers like Anne Sexton and Angela Carter reimagine the genre, long associated with conservative values, as an instrument for social critique of traditional structures.
Chalcidoidea of Turkey (Insecta
This work presents a detailed account of Turkey’s Chalcidoidea fauna, an insect group of paramount agricultural significance. It uncovers 1,024 species, providing comprehensive information on their distribution, hosts, and associations. A valuable resource for researchers.
Locating and Losing the Self in the World
This collection on comparative philosophy explores locating and losing the self in the world. Essays draw on diverse viewpoints from Kant and Simone de Beauvoir to Nāgārjuna and Nishida Kitarō, examining the self’s engagement with the world.
Essays on the Medieval Period and the Renaissance
Spanning three centuries of English literature, from 15th-century texts to Milton, this collection reinterprets tradition with innovative methods. Essays explore genre experiments, contemporary Shakespearean adaptations, and new perspectives on Milton.
This collection of research charts 40 years of applied climatology, representing the evolution of the subfield. It provides a framework for appreciating the impacts of climate on society, covering topics from water and energy to agriculture and human health.
Understanding Meaning and World
Chakraborty explores the internalism/externalism debate inherent in ontology and semantics from the viewpoint of phenomenology. His approach is distinctive in the sense that it formulates a reconciliation between both sides by inventing an internalistic-externalism view.
This book addresses meaning construction, showing how syntax, semantics, and pragmatics converge during interpretation. It explores the link between contextual parameters and stable linguistic systems, valuable to researchers and students of linguistics.
The Partition of India
This anthology considers the representation of one of the most traumatic events in the history of India―the 1947 Partition―in literature and cinematographic adaptations. It discusses various strategies of representation at work in the process of remembering Partition.
Travelling In and Out of Italy
This study considers late 19th and 20th-century Italian writers like D’Annunzio, Pirandello, and Svevo through their notebooks and travel diaries, focusing on the journey to America—an Eden viewed with ambivalence as a land of freedom and oppression.