Performing Adaptations
This collection of essays and interviews assesses adaptation from the under-explored perspective of live performance. Gutsy scholars and artists demonstrate how adaptation can test and speak back to dominant models of creation, production, and analysis.
Challenging the ‘Swedish model’, these essays present new research on forgotten 19th and 20th-century political movements. By examining political outsiders, the authors contribute to a timely rethinking of the roots of contemporary Sweden.
Rethinking the Vanguard
This study re-interprets the historical avant-garde from 1917 to 1962, focusing on the convergence of aesthetics and politics. From the Bolshevik Revolution to decolonizing movements, it reveals the vanguard’s transformation and its relevance today.
Pronunciation Instruction for Brazilians
This book helps Brazilian learners overcome English pronunciation difficulties. It connects theory and practice, using empirical data to inform communicative activities. Suitable for classroom or self-study, it includes an answer key and CD.
Privilege and Prejudice
Twenty years after Peggy McIntosh’s groundbreaking essay on white privilege, these essays reveal how sexism and racism persist. This text explores enduring inequality in higher education, technology, and media, even in systems trying to address these problems.
Religious Anarchism
This unique book presents fresh scholarship on the intersection of religion and anarchism. It explores diverse traditions from early Christianity to Daoism, Buddhism, and Islam, revealing innovative perspectives on the radical political implications of faith.
West of Eden
West of Eden is a study of botanical discourse in colonial and post-colonial contexts. It explores the loss of roots and identity when plants were brought along the slave-route. The loss of a plant may also mean the loss of its name, putting a rich eco-literature at risk.
Geographical Thoughts in India
This book explores the roots of Indian geographical thought through its history, culture, and sacred ecology. It examines heritagescapes, belief systems, and the Ganga river, reconsidering India’s development in light of its rich cultural legacy.
Tools of Their Tools
This book explores communication technologies in American culture over 150 years. How has American society molded these technologies? How have they, in turn, shaped American history? Are we still, in the words of Thoreau, “tools of their tools”?
The Nation on Screen
This book focuses on the complex discourses of the nation in the television of twelve countries. It examines how the nation is staged in news, fiction, and entertainment, revealing it as a site of struggle: everywhere and nowhere, endlessly discussed but never grasped.
A wide-ranging overview of key theoretical and practical issues in pragmatics. Essential for students, researchers, and L2 teachers, it covers cognitive issues, speech acts, intercultural communication, and teaching methodology.
Trauma and Attachment in the Kindertransport Context
Based on in-depth case studies of five child Holocaust survivors, this study of the Kindertransport rescue operation explores the lifelong influence of trauma, the negotiation of identity, and sheds light on the plight of present-day child refugees.
From Distant Tales
The most comprehensive book on Sumatra in over half a century. Despite its major role in world trade for 2,000 years, its rich culture and archaeology have been surprisingly neglected. This volume by leading authorities remedies this defect.
The physical body is an inescapable object of inquiry in life writing. This collection of new essays by established and emerging scholars offers a timely, interdisciplinary study with subjects ranging from Wharton and Stein to disability memoirs.
This book examines the intersection of political leadership, media coverage, and sexual identity, with emphasis on the negotiation between public and private behavior. Centering on key cases, each chapter questions assumptions about media coverage of same-sex behavior.
Recent Research in Second Language Phonetics/Phonology
This volume presents seventeen empirical studies on the perception and production of second language sounds. These findings will be of great interest to anyone in second language phonological acquisition, and also to those with a broader interest in language learning.
This volume explores the revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature from various angles, including feminism, sexuality, and history. Scrutinizing its complex legacy, revolution is viewed as neither a progressive force nor a simple tragedy.
The Meyerbeer Libretti
This volume presents the libretto for Meyerbeer’s final grand opéra, L’Africaine. A fictional treatment of Vasco da Gama’s voyage, it is a mixture of history and fairytale. In this edition, the original text and its English translation are on facing pages.
Cinema and Politics
This volume presents varied approaches to the relation between cinema and politics, focusing on changing narratives and identities. It highlights filmmakers with ‘hybrid identities’ whose work goes beyond old limits toward the sensitivity of the New Europe.
Byron and Scott
Though traditionally seen as opposites, the writers Scott and Byron cherished a lifelong friendship. This study reveals how Scott’s invention of the historical novel was crucial to Byron’s later work, shaping the evolution of the Byronic Hero and Byron himself.
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