Staging Ben
This edited volume offers a rebuttal of the mischaracterization of Ben Jonson’s plays as anti-theatrical. Featuring contributions from both Renaissance literature scholars and theatre practitioners, it demonstrates the playwright’s prodigious theatrical imagination.
The Art of Survival
Offering an examination of a period against which development in Zimbabwe is often measured, this title offers insights into how ordinary Zimbabweans battled the odds by making startling innovations in language use to legitimize new survival strategies.
Muge 150th
This book brings together papers on the Mesolithic period and its transition to the Neolithic across Europe. Including theoretical discussions, it also ventures outside Europe with case studies on shell middens from Patagonia and the Red Sea.
Given that the links between sports, media and regional identity are often neglected in favour of national identity, this edited volume considers the cultural significance of particular sports and clubs to regional and sub-national identities across Europe and beyond.
Enemies Within
This volume provides historical perspectives on the debate on forms of government and political legitimacy in the Hispanic dimension of the Atlantic world, where modern politics was based on a series of exclusions that were explained as natural and necessary.
Subtitling Today
Subtitling now serves many purposes, and comes in various forms. The contributions to this volume discuss these different manifestations, and offer a snapshot of this dynamic field of study, considering various languages, such as Chinese, Finnish, French, Japanese and Polish.
Flowers and Towers
This title explores the meaning and symbolism of the flower motif in the art of women artists, from the nineteenth century to the present day, discussing the changes, and the meaning thereof, in its representation during this period.
Italian immigration to Wales remains a largely unexplored area in the history of migration from Italy to the UK. This book uses a variety of unexplored sources to describe the emergence of Welsh-Italian narratives and the formation of a distinctive Welsh-Italian identity.
The Southern Caucasus is a historically vital but under-researched region. This publication presents 75 selected articles from an international symposium, exploring the area’s cultures from earliest times to the Middle Ages through archaeology and art history.
Englishes Today
Reflecting current trends in English linguistics research, this volume contributes to the increasingly fashionable, but still under-explored body of literature on the spread and globalisation of English, utilising ideas from different frameworks dealing with English today.
Cosmopolitanism
This publication provides an introduction to the ideality and reality of cosmopolitanism, presenting it “in genesis” and giving a point of departure to students and readers of cosmopolitanism from which to analyse its various contemporary versions and proposals.
Experiencing Gender
This publication investigates the concept of gender in an international context. Focusing on various critical approaches, it explores how gender identities are shaped by socio-cultural factors, and provides a map of how gender experiences are represented in the arts.
This publication offers analyses of the recent shift within language and communication research from post-Newtonian transpersonal models of meaning co-creation to the systemic methods used within current studies, showing how human communication is a constantly evolving process.
Mysticism and Narcissism
This personal narrative of a long-serving Cenacle nun applies psychoanalytic theory to questions of theological and Marian identity and relationality, and is an historical resource for the study of women’s religious orders in the twentieth century.
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.
Muge 150th
This first volume of Muge 150th focuses on the Mesolithic structures of the Muge and Sado Valleys. Contributions cover a wide range of archaeological and anthropological themes, including diet, migration, settlement, technology, and social complexity.
Uses and Abuses of Culture
This monograph investigates the impact of the European crisis on perceptions of Greek identity and cultural memory, focusing on the contradictions between intrinsic components of Greek cultural and national identities and the country’s adopted European identity.
Exploring various dimensions of Euroscepticism in the context of the greatest economic crisis in the history of the EU, this title discusses the future of the European body in a critical context marked by what appears to be “never-ending” concerns of leadership and legitimacy.
The Archaeology of Anatolia
This volume brings together the latest reports on archaeological projects from every region of Anatolia. Scholars present their most recent data, providing results years ahead of final publication and ensuring a timely presentation of their fieldwork and research.
Hamas Transformation
This book examines the transformation of Hamas from a resistance movement into a political authority in Gaza after its 2006 election victory. It analyzes the political opportunities, challenges, and structural shifts required by this transition.
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