This book explores how contemporary fiction confronts global challenges by reshaping genre conventions. It highlights how hybrid narratives address themes of identity, memory, and survival, offering critical insights into literary innovation in the twenty-first century.
Royalty and Republic in Europe
This volume offers a multitude of perspectives on Europe’s political establishments in the early 1920s. It offers new insights into this crucial point in history from the Great Powers, small countries, winners, losers and neutral parties, on topics completely new to the field.
A Multimodal Exploration of Non-Fiction Read-Aloud Performances in English as an Additional Language
This book explores how non-fiction picturebooks can be mediated for children’s language education in an EAL context. It examines multimodal mediation, showing how storytellers use spoken language, gesture, and props to scaffold comprehension and invite active participation.
Volcano-Sedimentary Interactions in the Tadpatri Formation
This book unravels the interplay between volcanism and sedimentation in ancient India. Drawing on detailed fieldwork, it explores how volcanic activity shaped early crustal evolution, presenting a rare synthesis for geologists, researchers, and students of Earth’s ancient past.
Intelligent and Smart Computing
Explore the latest advances in intelligent computing and their application to real-life problems like energy management, healthcare, and autonomous vehicles. Case studies reveal the effectiveness of smart solutions, making this book valuable for researchers and practitioners.
In a post-truth age, this book provides an ethical critique of contemporary British drama. Focusing on the innovative work of playwrights David Greig, Marina Carr, and Martin Crimp, it offers a vital contribution to theatre studies and Ethical Criticism.
This coursebook helps computer science students develop the English skills for academic and professional success. It covers essential topics with practical exercises in listening, reading, speaking, and writing, placing special emphasis on expanding technical vocabulary.
This book critiques the regressive and colonial character of global capitalism. It argues that coloniality permeates the contemporary architecture of power, and that commitment to a Eurocentric notion of “progress” leads to the next iteration of the capitalist/colonial order.
Orator, lawyer, and actor, Dudley Field Malone defended John Scopes in the “Monkey Trial” and suffragist Alice Paul. But his life was also a tragedy of scandal and financial ruin, ending in bankruptcy with only a claim for $114 to his name. A fascinating, tragic figure.
A. N. Whitehead was one of the 20th century’s most significant thinkers. His concepts are in a perpetual state of development within contemporary scholarship. This volume probes these modern assessments across education, arts, ethics, community, medicine, psychology, and AI.
Empathy connects us, but social isolation and polarization are driving us apart. A lack of empathy causes society to suffer, making it harder to work with others. How can we learn to demonstrate more empathy? This book sheds light on that question.
Moorings and Disembeddedness
This book follows Chinese international students in Norway who convert to evangelical Christianity. It explores the social isolation they find abroad and how religion helps them overcome it, empowering them to become the modern, globetrotting cosmopolites they aspire to be.
The Afterlives of Narratives
This book analyzes how narratives are reinterpreted in British theatre. Discussing case studies from Shakespeare to Zadie Smith, this volume interrogates adaptation and appropriation, exploring the dialogic relationship between source texts and their contemporary reimaginings.
The Reception of Shakespeare’s Works in Greece
This book contains new information on Shakespeare’s life and works. It compares the Greek translations with the English text of 8 plays and provides an annotated bibliography of over 230 Greek translations, placing Shakespeare first among foreign writers in Greece.
The Artist as a Dramatic Character
This book examines the use of the artist as a veneer to criticise political ruling parties. Using previously unused primary sources, including interviews with three playwrights, it explores this key role over three decades with reference to artists from the Middle East.
Honoring the work of Gyula Klima, this volume explores key issues in medieval logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. Contributions offer significant new insights on Ockham’s semantics, intentionality, Aquinas on genus and species, and Aristotle on demonstration.
This book charts the history of Romanian semiotics before introducing new concepts like conversational history—for analyzing literary texts—and existential rereading. It also features a collaborative linguistic study and a unique Database of Romanian Love Charms.
In 1819, Lady Frederica Murray kept a diary on one of the last Grand Tours. Never before published, this diary is a fascinating look at Europe through the eyes of an observant 19-year-old whose opinions on art, society, and travel were often remarkably open and cutting.
Recent studies show it is necessary to deal with addiction in an interdisciplinary context. This volume responds to this need, discussing addiction within psychology, health sciences, and forensic sciences to help academics and professionals develop a common ground.
This collection offers cutting-edge perspectives on childhood, focusing on the Irish context while exploring universal themes. Balancing theoretical and practical knowledge, it identifies best practices for educators, psychologists, parents, and policymakers.