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The Glynnese Glossary is a rare dictionary of the rich language developed by the families of Prime Minister William Gladstone and his wife, Catherine Glynne. Recorded by Lord Lyttelton, it's a spoof dictionary parodying philology while recording Glynnese.
The Glynnese Glossary is a rare dictionary of the rich language developed by the families of Prime Minister William Gladstone and his wife, Catherine Glynne. Recorded by Lord Lyttelton, it’s a spoof dictionary parodying philology while recording Glynnese.
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Postcolonial Borderlands
Orality and Irish Traveller Writing
This volume explores the marginalization of Irish Travellers. Focusing on two autobiographies, it reveals the seminal role of storytelling in creating a sense of nationhood and a legitimate sense of belonging for a people excluded to society’s margins.
This volume explores the marginalization of Irish Travellers. Focusing on two autobiographies, it reveals the seminal role of storytelling in creating a sense of nationhood and a legitimate sense of belonging for a people excluded to society’s margins.
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Showing the World to the World
Political Fictions in French Cinema of the 1990s and early 2000s
This book explores the socio-political themes that marked French cinema of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines how these "political fictions" contribute to a new realism through in-depth discussions of films from *La Haine* to lesser-known works.
This book explores the socio-political themes that marked French cinema of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines how these “political fictions” contribute to a new realism through in-depth discussions of films from *La Haine* to lesser-known works.
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While many financial models are too technical for non-specialists, this study uses the empirical copula to analyze bond structures. The empirical copula is more appropriate for forecasting returns, volatility, and interdependence in risk management.
While many financial models are too technical for non-specialists, this study uses the empirical copula to analyze bond structures. The empirical copula is more appropriate for forecasting returns, volatility, and interdependence in risk management.
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Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century
New Critical Essays
This collection of essays updates Kate Chopin scholarship for the 21st century. Breaking from familiar feminist trends, these essays explore her stories and novels through lenses of race, class, gender, and culture, offering fresh readings of The Awakening.
This collection of essays updates Kate Chopin scholarship for the 21st century. Breaking from familiar feminist trends, these essays explore her stories and novels through lenses of race, class, gender, and culture, offering fresh readings of The Awakening.
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American Popular Culture
Historical and Pedagogical Perspectives
"A varied and fascinating collection of original investigations." Scholars explore how pop culture has become our new reality, absorbing every facet of life. This book offers important insights into this maddening phenomenon's uplifting and downgrading possibilities.
“A varied and fascinating collection of original investigations.” Scholars explore how pop culture has become our new reality, absorbing every facet of life. This book offers important insights into this maddening phenomenon’s uplifting and downgrading possibilities.
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Dispersion of Meaning
The Fading Out of the Doctrinaire World?
In a fractured world, how do we find shared meaning? This book breaks disciplinary barriers to connect art, technology, and economics, showing how a collective learning process becomes the heart of productivity in a new era of cognitive capitalism.
In a fractured world, how do we find shared meaning? This book breaks disciplinary barriers to connect art, technology, and economics, showing how a collective learning process becomes the heart of productivity in a new era of cognitive capitalism.
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This work introduces a new genre: the shamanic story. Based on or inspired by shamanic journeys, these stories are often used for healing. Within this genre exists a sub-genre dealing with divination, analyzed here to identify their shared attributes.
This work introduces a new genre: the shamanic story. Based on or inspired by shamanic journeys, these stories are often used for healing. Within this genre exists a sub-genre dealing with divination, analyzed here to identify their shared attributes.
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This work brings new dimensions to the relationship between Islam and the Holy region. It unveils that Islamicjerusalem (Bayt al-Maqdis) is not a single city but a large spiritual region, delving into overlooked topics and raising questions for further scholarship.
This work brings new dimensions to the relationship between Islam and the Holy region. It unveils that Islamicjerusalem (Bayt al-Maqdis) is not a single city but a large spiritual region, delving into overlooked topics and raising questions for further scholarship.
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Why is there a ‘here’ for us to inhabit? This book’s theme is the conviction that the Universe owes its existence to a divine Creator, as formulated in the three Abrahamic faiths. Jewish, Moslem, and Christian authors reveal their common ground on Creation.
Why is there a ‘here’ for us to inhabit? This book’s theme is the conviction that the Universe owes its existence to a divine Creator, as formulated in the three Abrahamic faiths. Jewish, Moslem, and Christian authors reveal their common ground on Creation.
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In Defense of Liberal-Pluralism
2nd Edition
This book challenges Kantian universalism, arguing that moral reasoning is bound by paradoxes and irreducible choices. It redefines liberal-pluralism, treating morality as guided by ‘reason without unification’ and ‘pluralism without relativism’.
This book challenges Kantian universalism, arguing that moral reasoning is bound by paradoxes and irreducible choices. It redefines liberal-pluralism, treating morality as guided by ‘reason without unification’ and ‘pluralism without relativism’.
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Challenging the divide between objective history and fiction, this book explores the means and consequences of contemporary interactions between historiography and art. Scholars from diverse fields deconstruct old beliefs and reveal the social impact of representing the past.
Challenging the divide between objective history and fiction, this book explores the means and consequences of contemporary interactions between historiography and art. Scholars from diverse fields deconstruct old beliefs and reveal the social impact of representing the past.
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This volume's eight essays examine Italian narrative from the 1980s to the present, focusing on genres and trends rather than authors. It covers a wide range of themes, from detective stories to lesbian and gay writing, immigration literature, and dystopia.
This volume’s eight essays examine Italian narrative from the 1980s to the present, focusing on genres and trends rather than authors. It covers a wide range of themes, from detective stories to lesbian and gay writing, immigration literature, and dystopia.
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These essays examine the travel writer’s self, revealing the carefully crafted persona of the traveler as a fiction. Exploring genres from diaries to film, they show that the most interesting subject of any travel account is the author.
These essays examine the travel writer’s self, revealing the carefully crafted persona of the traveler as a fiction. Exploring genres from diaries to film, they show that the most interesting subject of any travel account is the author.
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These essays on ecofeminist literary criticism highlight the intersections of environment, race, class, and gender oppression. Analyzing authors from Kingsolver to Nwapa, this collection expands the discussion to a global scale and environmental justice.
These essays on ecofeminist literary criticism highlight the intersections of environment, race, class, and gender oppression. Analyzing authors from Kingsolver to Nwapa, this collection expands the discussion to a global scale and environmental justice.
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Evolution of Evolution
The Survival Value of Caring
What is desperately needed is the realization of the evolutionary survival value of caring for others. This book links our humanities to a scientific understanding of human destiny to provide a key to meaning. We don’t have ‘forever’ to ‘get it!’
What is desperately needed is the realization of the evolutionary survival value of caring for others. This book links our humanities to a scientific understanding of human destiny to provide a key to meaning. We don’t have ‘forever’ to ‘get it!’
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Triumphant Bodies
Sexual Political Conquest in Women’s Published Writing, 1660-1763
This study explores how professional female authors from Aphra Behn to Frances Brooke used a pliant vocabulary of sexuality and politics. This blending of language allowed women to provocatively challenge and rearticulate the terms of power and authority.
This study explores how professional female authors from Aphra Behn to Frances Brooke used a pliant vocabulary of sexuality and politics. This blending of language allowed women to provocatively challenge and rearticulate the terms of power and authority.
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Legitimisation in Political Discourse
A Cross- Disciplinary Perspective on the Modern US War Rhetoric
How was the “war-on-terror” linguistically legitimised? This book reveals ‘proximization’: the strategy of presenting distant events as a direct, personal threat to persuade a nation to support the war in Iraq.
How was the “war-on-terror” linguistically legitimised? This book reveals ‘proximization’: the strategy of presenting distant events as a direct, personal threat to persuade a nation to support the war in Iraq.
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This book reads the parables of Jesus as language-games. Not abstract truths, these stories illustrate God’s kingdom and call readers to participate in its unfolding, making the parables accessible and removing them from the pedestal of obscurity.
This book reads the parables of Jesus as language-games. Not abstract truths, these stories illustrate God’s kingdom and call readers to participate in its unfolding, making the parables accessible and removing them from the pedestal of obscurity.
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This interdisciplinary collection explores how early modern texts were appropriated by individuals and groups. Case studies show how a text's physical form impacts its readership, concluding that texts hold no fixed meaning but are interpreted by each reader.
This interdisciplinary collection explores how early modern texts were appropriated by individuals and groups. Case studies show how a text’s physical form impacts its readership, concluding that texts hold no fixed meaning but are interpreted by each reader.
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