Society in Focus—Change, Challenge and Resistance
This collection of sociological research from South Africa critically examines societal issues. Chapters explore themes of power and the environment, development, workplace change, and the complex interplay of race, class, and gender with empirical richness.
Crossing Colonial Historiographies
This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It explores new conceptual perspectives and highlights thematic commonalities and divergences across regions.
Alienation and Resistance
This collection examines representations of alienation and resistance across diverse media. Essays explore these themes in everything from 16th-century drama to modern comics and film, asking: what are the roles, forms, and conditions of these forces in our culture?
This volume offers a description of current research on Spoken communication. It gives updated insights on cognitive and pragmatic perspectives, language pathologies, multimodal dialog, voice expressiveness, and sign languages.
These essays explore visual imagery as a medium for the Catholic Church’s spiritual and ideological concerns in the Spanish Habsburg Empire. New sources reveal how art was used to ‘Delight, Move and Instruct’ spectators in cities from Cuzco to Madrid.
The history of rhetoric has continued to exist in a binary of West and Rest, silencing many voices within the West itself. This book expands the conversation by examining the traditions that lost the cultural competition and have been shrouded in shadow.
Contingencies and Masterly Fictions
This book establishes deconstructive dialogues between Dickens’s novels, contemporary literature, and post-structuralist theory. This countertextual reading exposes instability in writing, but also in racial and gender identities, developing a new poetics of theory.
This monograph researches the development of English vocabulary in new computer technologies. It studies the linguistic and ontological parameters of innovative cyber-vocabulary, from word-formation to how we perceive the technosphere through human concepts.
These essays illustrate the power of gender stereotypes to shape how medicine is practiced and perceived. The chapters investigate gendered perceptions of healers and patients in narratives across fiction, memoir, film, new media, and visual art.
Word and Rite
This book shows how the Bible and Christian tradition intersect the language of Shakespeare. It focuses on how rites illuminate mysteries and how ceremony turns mayhem into mystery. In Shakespeare, word and rite are as inseparable as word and sacrament in worship.
This book offers a semantic comparison of four English translations of Sûrat Ad-Dukhân by Pickthall, ‘Alî, Arberry, and Ghâlî. By analyzing lexical and stylistic selections, it judges the accuracy of each, showing the correct and mistaken renderings.
St. Lucian Kwéyòl on St. Croix
This work reviews theories of creolization and provides a new case study of St. Lucian Creole (Kwéyòl) speakers on St. Croix. It examines questions of language choice, language attitudes, and ethnolinguistic identity in a multilingual minority community.
The performing arts remain an underexplored territory for aesthetics. This volume collects essays by international scholars who address the core philosophical topic of expression, questioning the roles of the performer, the work, and the spectator.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the persistence of African cultural traditions in the Americas. Scholars explore how people of the African diaspora used literature, music, dance, and religion to survive and resist colonialism and racism.
Reimagining Regional Analyses
Reimagining Regional Analysis explores the interplay between new methods and theory. Using GIS, satellite imagery, and non-traditional data, this volume examines the contingent, recursive relationships between people, their social activities, and the environment.
Authenticity and Legitimacy in Minority Theatre
For ethno-cultural minorities, theatre is a vital space to denounce injustice, explore past trauma, and forge new identities. But should it seek mainstream visibility or remain on the margins to assert its cultural authenticity? This volume tackles these questions.
Creativity and Reproduction
This study investigates how engravers transformed a reproductive medium into a creative art. It traces their rise in the French academic system as they developed an independent artistic language and emerged as original artists, rivaling painters and sculptors.
In the Mind and across Minds
This collection of papers by international scholars demonstrates the potential of Relevance Theory, which links human communication and cognition. It explores various aspects of communication, including irony, metaphor, context and translation.
Amidst fundamental social change, our relationship to ourselves and others is being transformed. This anthology discusses this transformation through the perspectives of Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault, analyzing structures of control within society and the individual.
Educating the ‘Unconstant Rabble’
The English Revolution was a revolution in reading. While the state sought to restrict access to potentially dangerous ideas, key thinkers argued for the opposite: extending education to equip the emerging ‘reading public’ to take an active part in political life.
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