Arthur Miller’s Century
Arthur Miller was one of the 20th century’s major dramatists and a significant cultural figure. This collection of essays by Miller scholars provides detailed discussions of his career, his most famous works like Death of a Salesman, and his role as a political figure.
This anthology focuses on the role of writing to preserve memories, to excavate traumas and to heal the ever-present scars of the past. It gathers together research papers from different universities around the world, including India, Italy, Tunisia and the USA.
Inter-American Relations
From recognized authorities and new scholars in fields as diverse as international law, literature, political science, and history, these essays provide a fascinating multi-dimensional look at the intricate relationships between the polities and cultures of the Americas.
Why are contemporary playwrights obsessed with rewriting Shakespeare? Across the world, new writers have questioned the political and cultural stakes of repeating his classics. This collection asks: do modern rewritings supplant Shakespeare, or does his survival depend on them?
Piso offers a detailed investigation of the singing technique generally known as “inhaling the voice” technique, and analyses the usage of vowels in spoken and sung variants, offering advice to singers regarding how they can improve their pronunciation of vowels and consonants.
Turn research into practice. This guide shows how to integrate linguistics, translation, literature, and cultural studies into the language classroom with innovative strategies for teaching English, Spanish, French, and German.
Indonesia’s early public health successes gave way to an era of bold plans but unfulfilled aspirations. This book reveals the inner tensions between a biomedical approach to disease eradication and a holistic vision linking public health to nation-building.
This thought-provoking collection presents many voices exploring themes of female and trans* masculinities, gender equality, and the lives and activism of LGBT*IQ artists. It travels across time telling gender-crossing stories of creative resistance for readers of queer culture.
An innovative analysis of Diogo Inácio de Pina Manique, Portugal’s controversial Intendant-General of Police from 1780 to 1805. One of his greatest achievements was to understand the link between ill health and poverty, and to regard public health as a key area of governance.
For the first time in English, this volume presents three decades of research on Bol’shoy Yakor’ I, a key Late Pleistocene site in Eastern Siberia. Through detailed study of lithic production and hunting, it reveals the seasonal cycles of prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
This collection explores the vital role of modern university language centres. Covering technology, creativity, methodologies and plurilingualism, its chapters show how to integrate theory with the best practices from real contexts for effective and successful language teaching.
This volume inquires into the mysteries of the psyche of the Symbolist Movement through essays on works of art, literature and music created as part or extension of the Symbolist Movement.
When Courts Do Politics
Taking the phenomenon of public interest litigation as its primary focus, this text explores the manner in which the judicial branch of government in three East African countries has engaged with questions traditionally off-limits to adjudication and court-based resolution.
Dialogues between Art and Business
As Strauß shows in this insightful monograph, situating art and the business organisation sphere, commonly assumed to be antagonistic, within the discourses of new knowledge creation and learning holds the potential of exploring new ways of relating the two spheres.
On Shakespeare in Sonnets
This text discusses the history and practice of Reader Response criticism and comprises a collection of thirty-eight sonnets responding both critically and creatively to Shakespeare’s works, showing that the creative and the critical need not be separate, exclusive acts.
This anthology is an intellectual smorgasbord of medieval and renaissance thought. Designed not solely for scholars but also for generalists, these essays explore philosophy, poetry, drama, popular culture, linguistics, art, religion, and history.
Thought Experiments between Nature and Society
What is a thought experiment, and is it useful for philosophy? This collection tackles this hot topic, analyzing classics from The Ring of Gyges to Brain-in-a-Vat. Colleagues of Nenad Miščević share their thoughts, followed by his own comments on their work.
Britten’s music is complex and contradictory. This collection of essays by performers, musicologists, and theorists challenges assumptions about musical constructs, text/music relationships, and the personal influences on his compositional technique.
Unfashionable Objections to Islamophobic Cartoons
Byrd critiques the political philosophy of Stéphane Charbonnier of Charlie Hebdo, showing how the new “Enlightenment Fundamentalism” of the political left contributes to the Islamophobic politics of Europe’s neo-fascist right.
The Rhetoric of Emperor Hirohito
This book investigates the wartime role of Emperor Hirohito and the transition of the Emperor System. It explores three episodes of the wartime experience: the initiation of the conflict, accomplishing an end to the war, and the transition to post-war society.
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