Realities and Remediations
This volume of new essays examines how representations are put into place through mise-en-scene, editing and technology. In a hyper-visual era, these essays challenge commonplaces, problematising our relationship to a perceived reality.
In 1756, celebrated novelist Charlotte Lennox translated a novel by the controversial French intellectual Madame de Tencin. Knowing it was penned by a woman, Lennox serialized it in her feminist magazine. This is the first reprint in two centuries.
Engaging Tradition, Making It New
Engaging Tradition, Making It New offers fresh scholarly and pedagogical approaches to new African American literature. Focusing on transgression, this collection explores writers who challenge expectations, pointing toward new methods of teaching and research.
Celebrating forty years of interpreter and translator training at Bath, this volume explores key issues in the field. Professionals and academics cover teaching techniques, the use of IT, quality assessment, and other modern workplace challenges.
As terms like race and ethnicity become problematic in our “post-multicultural” world, this volume offers new approaches to difference in theatre history. Essays examine topics from race, gender, and sexuality to nationalism and class with new theories.
This journal provides a space for marketers, researchers, and scholars across the world to exchange perspectives on China in its dynamic market. It will appeal to those interested in the ever-evolving marketing practices and theories in China.
Travellers and Showpeople
This volume explores the “Othering” of Travellers and Gypsies, perennial outsiders living on society’s margins. It brings to surface the hidden histories of these peoples of the road and challenges the stereotypes that have shaped policy and culture.
The Beggar’s ‘Children’
No author has looked beyond John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera to analyze the works it spawned. This insightful study is the first to explore these descendants—the ballad operas, comic operas, and burlettas of the 18th century—with musical examples and plots.
Mapping Appetite
This collection of case studies explores the representation of food in cultural texts, from post-colonial fiction to magazines and cookbooks. The essays show how food narratives reveal crucial issues of gender, nation, race, and power in contemporary culture.
This book addresses the blurred lines between magic, religion, and science in Spanish literature and history. It explores the divide between white and black magic, Alfonso X’s court, and a window of quasi-tolerance amidst Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
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.
How can we turn the norm of universal democracy and human rights into a fact? This volume applies a political philosophy to key areas like international law, legislation, and global protection mechanisms to show what actions we can take and what instruments we can use.
Romanticism and Parenting
How do parents encode and decode our world? Romantic writers explored what it meant to “parent” in the domestic and political sphere. This collection reveals how the Romantic period has come to profoundly influence our own current constructions of the politics of parenting.
Fiction Unbound
This book shows how Bernardine Evaristo is not simply a “multicultural” writer. It reveals an author who questions concepts like “Englishness,” race, and gender, giving marginalized characters the chance to tell their own stories.
Writing Imagined Diasporas
This study argues that diasporic South Asian women writers are not merely assimilating to North American culture but actively reshaping it. Their writings of imagined diasporas create new, hybrid identities that challenge “national” discourses.
Noesis
This volume presents a selection of the best papers from a postgraduate philosophy conference. Its strength is its diversity, introducing readers to a vast range of important issues still pressing in philosophy today, from ethics to philosophy of science.
“A Noble Unrest”
“A Noble Unrest” is an international collection of essays on George MacDonald, the 19th-century fantasy writer whose work critiqued the Victorian era. Scholars explore his fiction, his influence, and his relevance for the contemporary reader.
Narrating our Healing
This book explores narrative as a way of working through trauma. It offers illuminating perspectives on “narrating our healing”: the re-creating of life narratives shattered by trauma and the search for meaning when all meaning seems to have been lost.
“Crouching Tiger”
The Irish software industry faces new challenges from competitors like India. This volume explores attitudes towards software process quality in both nations, comparing their implementation and concluding with recommendations to support Irish competitiveness.
Dangers in the Incommensurability of Globalization
A gap exists between our intentions and their objective consequences, creating a chaos, or incommensurability, that foils human plans. This book explores how this dynamic reveals the tenuous character of our world through global warming, peak oil, and volatile economics.
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