Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 3
This collection demonstrates the advances adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling challenges like colonialism and globalisation. The essays re-conceptualise notions of drama and theatre, exploring space and challenging orthodoxy in evolving contexts.
Border Crossings
Borderlands are crucibles for diverse cultures and alternative histories. This collection explores the contested terrains of the British Isles, where borders extend beyond the geographical to the cultural, psychic, and social, shaping competing identities.
European Dictatorships
How did Europe become a “Europe of the Dictatorships“? To understand this process, one must look at the transitions. This book traces Europe’s history from WWI, through the shift from fascist to communist states, to the history of the Eastern Bloc.
This volume explores space as a construct of human activity. Essays cover topics from literature and film to cultural memory and cyberspace, outlining the shifts concerning existence and identity in continuously changing, transitory, in-between spaces.
This Landscape’s Fierce Embrace
This book is a tribute to poet Francis Harvey. Admirers celebrate his work in a collection of essays, poems, and art exploring the Donegal landscape. Though critically acclaimed, this is the first book-length critical study of his achievement.
Ireland in Crisis?
These proceedings from the International Congress of Irish Studies explore the reinstatement of Irish identity in our present, vastly-changed political and cultural landscape.
Global society, cosmopolitanism, and human rights constitute the basis of our future. This volume analyzes the dominant traits of a world beyond the nation-state: the dynamics of unification, cosmopolitan lifestyles, and human rights as regulation.
This groundbreaking collection explores how personal and public lives inter-relate during rapid social and political change. It aims to understand the effects of these overlapping spheres on everyday life, relationships, and inequalities.
An Insatiable Dialectic
Leading philosophers and cultural critics challenge the view that critique, modernity, and humanism are obsolete. These essays argue that these concepts are crucial in an age where democratic ideals and intercultural understanding are vanishing possibilities.
Gregory and Leander
Gregory the Great and Leander were close friends with similar lives, works, and deaths. This book explores their shared theological influence across Italy and Spain and their role in spreading the Christian Church. Both extraordinary men were very much on the side of women.
Associations and Other Groups in Science
This collection explores the historical and contemporary role of scientific associations in science and society. It combines historical approaches with contemporary analyses that highlight public engagement, using the Portuguese scientific system as its focus.
This updated text on Nigerian legal methods is written by scholars in simple, easy-to-understand language. Primarily for first-year law students, its unique chapters on advocacy and examination skills offer more detailed analysis than existing texts.
Southern Horrors
This book explores the Mediterranean’s dark side through the eyes of Northern Europeans. Over four centuries, travellers saw not a sun-drenched ideal, but a world of cruelty, poverty, and superstition, telling us more about their own prejudices than the South.
Darkening Scandinavia
Darkening Scandinavia is a philosophical meditation on the true nature of the Northern Darkness. It explores the deeply-moving expressions of artists like Burzum, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Per Petterson, revealing the visceral Void in Nordic soulscapes.
This volume analyses how Feminist Translation Studies challenges patriarchal language worldwide. Scholars bridge the gap between theory and practice to explore the crucial relationship between gender, culture, identity, and translation.
Has Game Studies reached an unproductive stasis, mired in reductive debates? This volume’s contributors move beyond commonplaces like violence and sexism, arguing that digital games must be understood on their own terms as complex cultural forms.
Marked Word Order in the Qurān and its English Translations
The Qurān’s eloquent style uses marked word order for emphasis and meaning. This book examines how this distinctive feature is handled in ten English translations, offering a systematic comparison of the translators’ strategies and stylistic choices.
This book considers the diachronic development of the Chinese and Naxi languages, focusing on contentious linguistic issues. It provides new methods to analyze these issues, using cross-linguistic data from Tibeto-Burman to resolve debates.
Popular Culture
This volume breaks down disciplinary barriers to explore popular culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. It brings together a plethora of methodological and theoretical approaches, fostering dialogue between international scholars on the topic.
Dawn of Discovery
This book focuses on three British travellers—‘lost pioneers’ who researched Bronze Age Crete before Sir Arthur Evans. By following their footsteps and comparing their journals to what is there today, the author uncovers their contributions with intriguing results.
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