Alphonse de Lamartine’s prose-poem The Stonemason of Saint Point is the story of a peasant’s life, love and faith in the hills of Burgundy. In reality, it describes Lamartine’s own search for God through threatening and godless times in his country.
Ex-sistere
These essays address literary discourses on the mobility of women writers in Europe. The literary systems of Ireland, Galicia, and Wales experienced a rebirth in the late twentieth century, and the present century has seen new research exploring emergent literatures in Europe.
This volume explores the interplay of genre and the interpersonal component of language. It reveals connections between genre conventions and interpersonal meanings in professional discourse, including media, academic, institutional, and promotional genres.
Karachi in the Twenty-First Century
Globalisation has had a major impact on Karachi, geographically and culturally situated within modern Pakistan, but a global city affected by global forces. This title shows how the process has exacerbated local and regional problems, pushing the city to the brink of chaos.
That Was Then, This Is Now
This title represents a compendium of innovative research into the ideas, experiences, and iconographies embodied in materialities of the recent past. Drawing upon a variety of disciplines, the contributors examine themes of relevance to the contemporary world.
Recent decades in Spain and Latin America have seen transnational voices, typically stereotyped or alienated in the West, gain increasing presence in cultural texts. These essays explore new ways of seeing and interpreting the Middle East and the East in contemporary films.
The Chinese Continuum of Self-Cultivation
Christine Hale offers a cross-cultural educational template for the 21st century based on the Neo-Confucian concept of the universal nature of self, which enhances the educational theories of John Dewey, and will interest philosophers, educationalists, and curricula designers.
Questions about the roles teachers’ religious beliefs play in their professional activities have been largely excluded from academic conversations in TESOL. However, Baurain shows here that faith and professional practices can, and do, interact and interrelate in various ways.
A Name To Exist
The use of a name allows objects to be included within the human paradigm, meaning nomination and pseudonyms on the internet raise certain problems. This monograph investigates this through a study of nomination and two surveys of Internet users and pseudonyms collected online.
The Theory of Evolution
This book analyzes ‘evolution’ across cosmology, biology, neurobiology, and philosophy. Unifying these fields, it proposes the ‘Evolving Matter’ model, which views the universe as a complex organisation in continuous, non-linear development.
This edited collection examines the various ways combinatory processes influence the work of the Italian author Italo Calvino. Comprising chapters by six literary scholars, it asserts that the Ligurian writer’s creativity often stems from his contemplation of literature.
Made in Oceania
This volume brings together papers from a symposium on the social meanings, conservation and presentation of Oceanic tapa, or barkcloth, in 2014, and offers insights into current museum practice, connecting historical research with recent cultural developments in the Pacific.
The first scholarly analysis to focus on the novels of the critically acclaimed Scottish writer Louise Welsh, this study explores the image of the labyrinth as one of the sites for horror in classic Gothic literature and its rewriting into 21st century Scotland.
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.
As Vicini shows here, innovation and employment can be a good marriage, using an analysis of classical economists to challenge the old paradigm of ‘innovation means unemployment’, which has dominated economic debate for centuries.
“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.
War and Words
This edited volume examines the methods, conventions and pitfalls of constructing verbal accounts of military conflict in literature and the media, bringing together such diverse material as canonical literature, war veterans’ testimonies, computer games, and propaganda.
Victorian Murderesses
Bulamur investigates the politics of female violence in four novels of the Victorian period, demonstrating how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology and tackling the question of female agency.
This study provides a theoretical and practical framework for understanding the writing strategies used by Singapore primary school students and strategy-based writing instruction conducted in Singapore primary schools.
Philosophical-Political Hecate-isms
Proposing a new conceptual category in philosophical and political discourse resulting from the mechanisms of the rule of three, this publication will appeal to the wider academic community interested in political science, postmodern philosophy, and cultural studies.
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