Language Contacts Meet English Dialects
This book presents fresh research on language contacts and dialects, celebrating the work of eminent scholar Markku Filppula. Articles explore theories, Celtic substrata in Irish and British English, and dialect in the British Isles from diverse perspectives.
This first monograph on Old English adnominal adjectives draws on empirical data to analyze their syntax. The author argues that differences between prenominal and postnominal adjectives go beyond surface placement, requiring two different theoretical treatments.
In Search of the Medieval Voice
This collection of articles is an intriguing way of looking at medieval identity. Reaching beyond literature, this book examines the authorial and pictorial voice, the voice of national identity, and even the physical attributes a medieval voice may have had.
Renaissance Tales of Desire
Three Ovidian tales from the 1560s, never re-edited since the sixteenth century, explore metamorphosis and desire. They may have influenced Marlowe and Shakespeare, refashioning Ovid’s stories and providing new perspectives on the original myths.
This collection of essays contributes to Potter Studies, examining Rowling’s work as a literary and cultural phenomenon. International scholars explore the books’ popularity, their effects on readers, film adaptations, and philosophical considerations of good and evil.
Feminism and the Body
Feminist scholars grapple with the interplay between corporeal differences and power. This collection takes the reader on a journey into myriad domains, from medical surgery and law to feminist film, reinvigorating feminism’s emphatic engagement with the body.
Movies on Home Ground
This exploration of British amateur cinema (1930–1980) reveals a significant but under-explored film practice. It shows how this leisure activity assumed remarkable aesthetic forms, widening the recognised canon of British filmmaking in fascinating new directions.
Crossings
International scholars assess David Mamet’s career, from his stage classics to his forays into film, television, and the novel. This volume focuses on his diverse works and how they have been interpreted by other artists.
Subject to Reading
Recasting Lacanian psychoanalysis and Freirean literacy as an education in responsible subjecthood, this book intervenes against the global double bind of fanatical certainty and capitalist abstraction to forge a new political theology.
Review Journal of Political Philosophy
Sociology of Memory
These papers advance discourse beyond “collective memory” to the contested terrain of personal, public, and commodity memory. In a society dependent on automated data, a key question arises: who owns memory, and for what social or private purpose?
While many financial models are too technical for non-specialists, this study uses the empirical copula to analyze bond structures. The empirical copula is more appropriate for forecasting returns, volatility, and interdependence in risk management.
Indian Geography in the 21st Century
Authored by young geographers, this book presents an action agenda for the future of geography in India. Exploring topics from education to physical and human geography, it provides a look into the future for professional geographers, researchers, and students.
How do our identities and values change as places themselves are transformed? This collection brings together scholars from a range of disciplines, each shedding light on how place is both a transforming subject and a transformed object.
Rewriting/Reprising
These essays explore the poetics of rewriting—from homage to dissidence—revealing how second-degree literature and art can challenge and remake our cultural heritage.
“And that’s true too”
Provocative new essays re-examine King Lear through the lens of early modern desire, sexuality, and gender, offering fresh philosophical and aesthetic insights into Shakespeare’s elusive and powerful tragedy.
21st Century China
China is Australia’s ‘life-blood’. Leading academics dissect this complex relationship—from politics and law to Confucianism and ‘green’ cuisine—offering fresh insights for our shared future.
Teaching and Learning Mathematics Together
How can teachers bring new ideas into classrooms where students are focused on assessment? This book provides an introduction to the thinking behind these ideas and puts forward a model for classroom activity based on collaboration rather than demonstration.
Greece in the Balkans
This interdisciplinary study explores the complex relationship between Greece and its Balkan neighbours over the past two hundred years, shedding light on its attributes of opportunity and risk, attraction and enmity, from multiple perspectives.
Jean-Paul Sartre spent his life trying to write a book on ethics. This study examines his three incomplete attempts, from his post-war existentialist notes to the dialectical ethics of his later years and the final interviews before his death.
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