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Performing Technology

User Content and the New Digital Media

Edited By: Franziska Schroder

£34.99

This book covers design strategies for rich media environments that incorporate user-generated, locative content. Chapters cover areas such as choreography, virtual worlds, music performance, network music and computer games.

The Sacred Tree

Ancient and Medieval Manifestations

By: Carole M. Cusack

£34.99

For ancient and medieval Europeans, the sacred tree was the center of the world and a picture of the cosmos, symbolizing stability and order. When these Pagan peoples adopted Christianity, this potent symbol was transformed, but its power endured.

The Politics of Cultural Memory

Edited By: Jim Aulich, Lucy Burke, Simon Faulkner

£34.99

This collection explores the politics of cultural memory. From monuments to film and literature, it shows how cultural memory is actively made: the site of a struggle over meanings that serves various political and cultural purposes.

Obamagelicals

How the Right Turned Left

By: Michele Gilbert, Ronald Eric Matthews

£34.99

Obamagelicals demonstrates how Obama capitalized on a shift in values among younger, centrist evangelicals. Treating Protestant evangelicalism not as a monolith but a mosaic, he embraced cultural and political shifts that John McCain missed.

Jung on Synchronicity and Yijing

A Critical Approach

By: Young Woon Ko

£34.99

Jung’s archetypal theory illuminates the Yijing, defining the experience of the divine as an unconscious process. Yet this Western view, rooted in Plato and Kant, clashes with Yijing cosmology, creating a tension between timeless archetypes and subjective experience.

On Allegory

Some Medieval Aspects and Approaches (with an Introduction by Eric Stanley and an Afterword by Vincent Gillespie)

Edited By: Mary Carr, K.P. Clarke, Marco Nievergelt

£34.99

This collection of essays explores the allegorical imagination in pre-modern western culture. Contributors study its impact on literature, philosophy, and the visual arts, revealing the variety and complexity of allegory at the heart of medieval civilisation.

Translation and Cultural Identity

Selected Essays on Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication

Edited By: Maria del Carmen Buesa Gómez, Micaela Muñoz-Calvo

£34.99

Seven varied essays from leading experts tackle the complexities of translation, cultural identity, and cross-cultural communication. These major readings will give readers food for thought and will promote research on communication across cultures.

Cosmologies of Suffering

Post-communist Transformation, Sacral Communication, and Healing

Edited By: Agita Lūse

£34.99

This volume explores the permanent ‘transition’ and persistent social suffering in post-communist countries. Ethnographic accounts reveal how people cope with trauma by relinquishing reliance on the self and turning towards a higher power.

Palestinian State Formation

Education and the Construction of National Identity

By: Nubar Hovsepian

£34.99

This book examines education's role in building a Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority has two contradictory functions: state-building and resistance. Will its education system promote a resistance identity or a state-building identity?

This book examines education’s role in building a Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority has two contradictory functions: state-building and resistance. Will its education system promote a resistance identity or a state-building identity?

Many Voices

Music and National Identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Edited By: Henry Johnson

£34.99

This collection of essays re-thinks music and national identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The papers offer various perspectives on the interconnections between music and identity, aiming to open up critical discourse on the many sounds of a diverse nation.

Words into Pictures

E. E. Cummings’ Art Across Borders

Edited By: Jirí Flajšar, Zénó Vernyik

£34.99

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.

Performance and Culture

Narrative, Image and Enactment in India

By: Archana Verma

£34.99

This book deals with performance in India, especially dance and dance-drama, as a narrative. It discusses the social equations and cultural ideas a performance portrays, often redefining well-known religious traditions in the process of performance.

Gender and Victorian Reform

Edited By: Anita Rose

£34.99

Gender, along with race and class, has long been a vital part of public discourse about social reform. These essays address the overt and subtle ways gender influenced Victorian social movements, from suffrage and marriage law to beauty and religion.

Relevant Worlds

Current Perspectives on Language, Translation and Relevance Theory

Edited By: Marta Kisielewska-Krysiuk, Aniela Korzeniowska, Ewa Wałaszewska

£34.99

This volume examines Relevance Theory, an influential pragmatic approach to communication. It tests the theory's internal coherence and its applicability to translation, literature, and conversational humour, making it a valuable resource for scholars and students.

This volume examines Relevance Theory, an influential pragmatic approach to communication. It tests the theory’s internal coherence and its applicability to translation, literature, and conversational humour, making it a valuable resource for scholars and students.

Caribbean Without Borders

Literature, Language and Culture

Edited By: Raquel Puig, Dorsía Smith

£34.99

This pioneering collection of essays offers a comprehensive study of the literature, language, and culture of the Caribbean. Exploring prominent scholars and key issues, this volume examines the Caribbean in its complex, rarely addressed reality.

Teaching the Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Mary Ann Rooks

£34.99

This collection offers innovative strategies and practical advice for teaching eighteenth-century texts. Authors share a wealth of experience and best practices for engaging students with Western and non-Western literature from this important period.

Theorising and Representing Maternal Realities

Edited By: Julie Kelso, Marie Porter

£34.99

This book expands academic knowledge of motherhood from a feminist perspective. When mothers are responsible for theorising their own realities, dominant representations are challenged. It is no longer acceptable to regard mothers as objects of research; they are the subjects.

Cultural Practices, Political Possibilities

Edited By: Rohee Dasgupta

£34.99

This book explains the political significance of cultural constructions in global-local clashes, identity, and the self. Through diverse case-studies and interdisciplinary perspectives, authors interpret cultural politics and their consequential divides.

American and European Values

Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives

Edited By: John Lachs

£34.99

International scholars consider the intersection of American and European values. They explore cultural sensibilities, key philosophical figures, and movements from pragmatism to existentialism, offering a rich conversation for our increasingly globalized world.

The Crisis of the Human Sciences

False Objectivity and the Decline of Creativity

Edited By: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

£34.99

Centralization and over-professionalization disconnect the human sciences from the real world, creating a sterile atmosphere that prevents creativity. The authors offer a broad range of approaches to reconnect the humanities to our world.