This volume examines silence and excessive speech in contemporary novels. It explores how authors use silence not as absence, but as presence and resistance, while compulsive verbosity may hide more than it reveals, testing the limits of language.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Shell in Ireland
An exposé of Shell in Ireland, this book reveals how weak regulation and political influence can turn corporate social responsibility into a tool for exploiting communities and the environment.
P. Papinius Statius Volume II
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive commentary for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the Achilleid, which was left unfinished at his death.
Factual Fictions
This book explores the American documentary novel’s rise in the 1960s alongside New Journalism. Analyzing works by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Don DeLillo, it productively complicates the precarious divide between fact and fiction.
Was Abraham deluded? When is faith just self-deception? In a world of doubt, Kierkegaard’s answers to the haunting questions of faith and authenticity are more urgent than ever.
Science and Empire in the Nineteenth Century
This book explores how sciences like anthropology and ethnography became tools of empire. It analyzes the link between knowledge and power, revealing the tension between scientific objectivity and imperialist propaganda in the British and American empires.
French Orientalism
This volume challenges the canonic approach to French Orientalism. Broadening the scope of enquiry from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, it uses new theoretical perspectives to question, subvert, and resituate canonic theories and their global consequences.
About Face
How do we represent ourselves and the cultures we live in? To represent the self is to create it. This book explores the multifaceted nature of self-representation from the Middle Ages to contemporary culture through literature, philosophy, and the visual arts.
This book reveals how apocryphal stories shape collective memory. It traces an Irish myth through generations to a convict’s play in Australia and a modern novel, drawing on unpublished sources to solve the historical mystery of the playwright’s disappearance.
Border States in the Work of Tom Mac Intyre
This book introduces “paleo-postmodernism” to define Tom Mac Intyre’s unique literary project: fusing Yeatsian revivalism with postmodern deconstruction to unearth Ireland’s mythological unconscious.
This book offers a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach to timeless questions. It explores the nature of reality, how we can know it, and our moral obligations using insights from philosophy, religion, science, and psychology from East and West.
Confessional Theology?
Christian confessions are often seen as purely theological, but this study argues they cannot ignore their political contexts. It explores the link through Karl Barth’s theology, examining the Barmen Declaration in Nazi Germany and the Belhar Confession.
Asian English Writers of Chinese Origin
This book brings together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent to explore postcolonial impacts on race, class, and language. It takes a special look at gender politics and how Chinese women defy the Orientalist gaze and native patriarchy.
Egyptian industry bypassed quality control, creating a gap that hinders global competition. This book presents the Holistic Egyptian Quality Management Approach (HEQMA), a new model tailored to Egyptian culture to diagnose problems and strengthen quality.
P. Papinius Statius Volume I
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive secondary apparatus for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the unfinished Achilleid.
Advances in Monetary Policy Design
Simple-sum monetary indexes can be misleading. This book outlines the methods for constructing superior Divisia indexes, designed to accurately measure liquidity. It is the first to publish Divisia-based money supply indexes for the GCC countries.
Local Agri-food Systems in a Global World
This collection of essays analyzes the market, social, and environmental challenges of local agri-food systems in a global world. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it explores the links between local and global strategies, governance, and rural development.
Buffy Conquers the Academy
This collection celebrates Buffy Studies as a global and interdisciplinary academic discipline. Scholars delve into the intricate world of Sunnydale from multiple perspectives, ranging from gender/sexuality to religion.
This collection of articles presents European culture in its unity and diversity. From a fierce and dramatic past to the transformations it faces due to new political, economic, and cultural challenges, these essays consider local European issues against a global background.
This book gives an insightful account of Nigerian international migration. To harness migration for development, we must understand the forces of emigration, return, and kinship networks. A vital resource of theoretical and practical importance for nations worldwide.
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