This cross-cultural study investigates what happens when 20th century European plays are adapted to the Indian context. Go into the minds of creators and directors through interviews that reveal the theatrical, cultural, and ideological concerns of reimagining landmark works.
This book reviews twenty years of research in German industrial relations. It analyzes changes in the German model and its major institutions, namely trade unions and co-determination, and discusses contributions from disciplines like HRM, economics, and labour law.
Home and Away
The first contribution to literary juvenilia studies in the past decade, this volume theorises the current state of this field and exemplifies it in action, showing the importance of the familiar world of home and the territory of adulthood to the imaginations of young authors.
Patriarchy in Eclipse
This book examines two types of women in post-Civil War literature and art: the femme fatale and the New Woman. It explores how they challenged patriarchal culture and why they precipitated so much intellectual and artistic angst in their educated male readers.
Revisiting “Social Factors”
This collection of cutting-edge research explores the human experience of the built environment. Touching on issues of sustainability, disaster recovery, and culture, it demonstrates a renaissance of Social Factors for scholars, students, and practitioners.
Chowaniec offers the first systematic overview of Poland’s literary and cultural environment since 1989 from the perspective of women’s writing, surveying the political and social transformations of this period through a close reading of prominent Polish female novelists.
This volume treats travel writing as “foreign correspondence,” a concept oscillating between the private and the public. The essays offer readings of accounts by early modern and more recent travellers, revealing the complex cultural negotiations between them.
Enforcing and Eluding Censorship
How is censorship enforced and eluded? This volume explores the different ways of censorship in the Italian and Anglo-American worlds, from institutional control and discourse regulation to textual and ideological manipulation that provide a biased view of reality.
Incorporations of Chineseness
Through a repositioning of the Chinese component of Asian America in relation to modern transformations of Chinese identity, Fusco reads Asian American literature in relation to historical events and geopolitical changes that have informed the construction of “Chineseness”.
Polyudova presents a unique study of Russian war songs created during and after World War II, showing how such songs provide illuminating insights into the musical culture of the former Soviet Union and modern Russia.
Apocalyptic Projections
Apocalyptic Projections have been pondered since Biblical times. While the concept of apocalypse evokes images of total oblivion, threads of possibility and redemption offer a potential fabric of hope.
English as a Foreign Language for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Persons
This volume describes experiences of teaching foreign language to deaf and hard-of-hearing students and presents aspects of empirical research in this field. It discusses mainly the issue of specific methodology for teaching English as a foreign language to these learners.
Laughter and War
This book explores the impact of World War One in four countries, and breaks new ground by exploring this through the medium of what their respective populations laughed at, investigating four humorous-satirical magazines of the period.
This volume explores American Studies today, investigating its capacity to respond to 21st-century challenges in a world of transnational flux. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, these essays offer a multifaceted image of a complex and rapidly evolving discipline.
Food is central to children’s literature. This collection examines the uses of food in books from the nineteenth century to modern fantasy, showing how it reflects society and culture and is used by authors to instruct and deliver moral messages.
Dwelling in Days Foregone
Inspired by Svetlana Boym’s seminal study The Future of Nostalgia (2001), the contributions brought together here examine American literary texts and cultural phenomena as manifestations and expressions of nostalgia.
“Untitled”
This memoir of Tomás Bairéad, an active member of the Irish Volunteers and regarded as one of the finest short-story writers in Irish of the twentieth-century, makes for fascinating reading, offering insights into life in rural Ireland during this period.
Words of Crisis, Crisis of Words
Authored by specialists in Irish Studies, this title provides reflections on the broad topic of crisis and Ireland, its description and representation, and the different ways in which difficulties have been discussed, imagined, or even solved within the Irish context.
Reading Communities
This book represents the product of long-term collaboration between French and American scholars sharing a common preoccupation with reading canonical and contemporary works of literature and cinema in a theoretical and pedagogical context.
Ekphrasis in American Poetry
Providing a sample of the chronological range and stylistic variety of poetry that engages with visual art, this volume shows how ekphrasis has been a part of American poetry from its inception, and will be of interest to scholars of both literature and art.
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