Field-Marshal Kesselring
This book challenges the myth of Field-Marshal Kesselring as one of WWII’s “greatest commanders.” Often seen as a benign patrician, this study shows he was deeply implicated in the Nazi preparation for war, guilty of serious war crimes, and committed perjury to save himself.
The Graveyard in Literature
This volume explores how cultural texts use the graveyard as a liminal space to challenge social values and articulate new perspectives. Immersed between life and death, where traditional certainties are suspended, new models for human interaction can be formulated.
Vergil’s Eclogues
In his Eclogues, Vergil introduced the pastoral genre to Latin literature. This book shows his dialogue with the earlier Greek and Latin tradition is not merely typical of his time, but a dynamic literary method used to define the character of each poem.
Race Theory and Literature
This volume explores the unique interplay between literature and racial theories from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Spanning diverse genres and traditions, it features reflections on authors such as Kafka, Kleist, Voltaire, and Coleridge.
This book explores the relationship between Ruskin and Turner through their mutual fascination with water, focusing on The Harbours of England. It reveals how water became a multifaceted symbol of tradition, progress, and nationalism in the nineteenth century.
Radio at the Edges
This collection engages with alternatives to mainstream radio, addressing the impacts and challenges of community and pirate radio. It will appeal to scholars and students of radio studies, as well as those interested in alternative media systems.
Spanish Women Authors of Serial Crime Fiction
This collection analyzes detective series with female investigators, exploring their treatment of current social, political, and gender issues. Authors break with convention by blending crime fiction with sci-fi and the supernatural in varied settings to reinvigorate the genre.
Higher Education Ethics
Equip your institution with a robust ethical framework. This guide offers a new typology of higher education ethics, featuring proven decision-making models, case studies, and professional standards for navigating complex global challenges.
Scholars and educators present their experiences with authentic experiential learning in translation and interpreting programmes. This collection will inspire educators to consider this pedagogical option. This updated second edition includes new chapters.
Translation as Criticism
This work explores the microcosm of Elizabeth Jolley’s Mr Scobie’s Riddle, analyzing its Australian themes, curious characters, and entertaining voices. It provides a new translation to take Italian readers on a journey into the world of the novel.
Essays in Narrative and Fictionality
By one of postclassical narrative theory’s preeminent figures, this book reexamines foundational topics from the role of the author to the nature of fiction. It argues for a more expansive conception of narrative theory, making crucial interventions in ongoing critical debates.
This collection explores constructions of the “foreign” in German-speaking culture. Articles reveal how cultural works are positioned on a spectrum from familiar to strange, showing how contingent the line between the foreign and the familiar becomes.
In fifteen expert essays, this volume delves into the foundations of lexicography and lexicology. Spanning historical manuscripts to digital corpus analysis, these studies offer new critical perspectives on the making and meaning of words across cultures and time.
This book provides a new translation and readable commentary on Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. It interprets the letter in its historical context, clarifying Paul’s defense of his ministry and his arguments on marriage, spiritual gifts, love, and the resurrection.
Script and Addiction
The 12 Steps programme for addiction has a low success rate. This book demonstrates how combining it with the “Life Script” concept from Transactional Analysis can achieve a much higher rate of success. Pioneered by the author, this new approach is supported by case studies.
Contemporary Dance and Southern African Rock Art
In Apartheid South Africa, the author started a mixed-race dance company in her garage. Weaving together research into rock art and transformative choreography, this book shows how dance can change attitudes, perceptions, and the human spirit. Includes a video link to the dance.
From Shakespeare to Star Wars, how are men represented on the page and screen? These essays argue that men must become aware of these representations to alter toxic patriarchal models, distinguish masculinity from patriarchy, and achieve liberation from its crippling constraints.
This volume examines anguish in late 19th–early 20th century art, literature, and philosophy. It reveals the tension between anguish and art, showing how historical events and new inquiries generated an anguish that proved uniquely fertile for artists.
Understanding the Discourse of Aging
While most studies on aging focus on a single discipline, this book adds a fresh perspective. It addresses the communicative practices surrounding age, aging, and the elderly from a multidisciplinary view, covering their image in media, definitions of age, and gendered issues.
Covering a diverse range of linguistic domains and numerous languages, this book presents cutting-edge research on the nature of grammatical systems developed by bilinguals and second language learners, and considers how these grammatical systems are used in processing language.
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