Postcolonial Odysseys
Derek Walcott’s Voyages of Homecoming
This study charts Derek Walcott's postcolonial voyage through Homer's *Odyssey*. It explores the tension between the outward journey and the homecoming, revealing how a modern master can reclaim and transform an ancient epic.
This study charts Derek Walcott’s postcolonial voyage through Homer’s *Odyssey*. It explores the tension between the outward journey and the homecoming, revealing how a modern master can reclaim and transform an ancient epic.
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Modes of British Imperial Control of Africa
A Case Study of Uganda, c.1890-1990
Uncovering the legacy of British rule in Uganda, this book argues that informal imperial control encouraged leaders to seek external legitimacy, fueling human rights violations by removing the need for popular consent.
Uncovering the legacy of British rule in Uganda, this book argues that informal imperial control encouraged leaders to seek external legitimacy, fueling human rights violations by removing the need for popular consent.
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This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region's literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer's role as a political activist.
This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region’s literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer’s role as a political activist.
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Spanning the Easter Rising to the Troubles, these essays reveal the nexus of Irish art and politics. Discover how literary giants like Joyce, Yeats, and Beckett and popular icons like Father Ted shaped a nation.
Spanning the Easter Rising to the Troubles, these essays reveal the nexus of Irish art and politics. Discover how literary giants like Joyce, Yeats, and Beckett and popular icons like Father Ted shaped a nation.
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Peaceful Surrender
The Depopulation of Rural Spain in the Twentieth Century
In the 20th century, Spain experienced one of Europe’s most intense processes of rural depopulation. This book explains how the adaptive strategies of rural populations led to a “peaceful surrender” of traditional society, a view distanced from simple nostalgia.
In the 20th century, Spain experienced one of Europe’s most intense processes of rural depopulation. This book explains how the adaptive strategies of rural populations led to a “peaceful surrender” of traditional society, a view distanced from simple nostalgia.
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This analysis of Hardy’s tragedies finds his famed pessimism is a mask for evolutionary ethics. Women's suffering is an adapted parental investment in survival, a force of superiority granting greater fitness than the heroic deeds of men.
This analysis of Hardy’s tragedies finds his famed pessimism is a mask for evolutionary ethics. Women’s suffering is an adapted parental investment in survival, a force of superiority granting greater fitness than the heroic deeds of men.
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Shakespeare on Love
The Sonnets and Plays in Relation to Plato’s Symposium, Alchemy, Christianity and Renaissance Neo-Platonism
Plato’s vision of universal love, alchemy, and Christian ideas strongly influenced Shakespeare's Sonnets. He inserted these themes into his plays, creating a paradoxical combination of erotic mysticism with real lovers. The Dark Lady finds her supreme realisation in Cleopatra.
Plato’s vision of universal love, alchemy, and Christian ideas strongly influenced Shakespeare’s Sonnets. He inserted these themes into his plays, creating a paradoxical combination of erotic mysticism with real lovers. The Dark Lady finds her supreme realisation in Cleopatra.
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Latin Elegy and Hellenistic Epigram
A Tale of Two Genres at Rome
This volume explores the impact of Hellenistic Greek epigram on Latin erotic elegy in light of new papyrus discoveries. Chapters examine the reception of epigrams in Propertius and Ovid and the appropriation of their thematic and structural motifs.
This volume explores the impact of Hellenistic Greek epigram on Latin erotic elegy in light of new papyrus discoveries. Chapters examine the reception of epigrams in Propertius and Ovid and the appropriation of their thematic and structural motifs.
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Amid rapid economic and political change, this volume investigates the impact of global reality and EU integration on the Balkan and Black Sea countries, and explores the possibilities and perspectives for their economies.
Amid rapid economic and political change, this volume investigates the impact of global reality and EU integration on the Balkan and Black Sea countries, and explores the possibilities and perspectives for their economies.
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Jung on Synchronicity and Yijing
A Critical Approach
Jung’s archetypal theory illuminates the Yijing, defining the experience of the divine as an unconscious process. Yet this Western view, rooted in Plato and Kant, clashes with Yijing cosmology, creating a tension between timeless archetypes and subjective experience.
Jung’s archetypal theory illuminates the Yijing, defining the experience of the divine as an unconscious process. Yet this Western view, rooted in Plato and Kant, clashes with Yijing cosmology, creating a tension between timeless archetypes and subjective experience.
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This book investigates how Chinese adolescents construct and negotiate gender identity while learning English. It shows how the EFL classroom can open a space for students to become aware of gender, highlighting a new educational function for language learning.
This book investigates how Chinese adolescents construct and negotiate gender identity while learning English. It shows how the EFL classroom can open a space for students to become aware of gender, highlighting a new educational function for language learning.
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Out of the Burning House
Political Socialization in the Age of Affluence
A Marxist historian and a behaviourist psychologist revisit their university days, exploring the overlooked social forces that shaped a generation: Scientific Humanism, The New Left, and precursors of the Women’s Liberation Movement.
A Marxist historian and a behaviourist psychologist revisit their university days, exploring the overlooked social forces that shaped a generation: Scientific Humanism, The New Left, and precursors of the Women’s Liberation Movement.
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Primogeniture and Entail in England
A Survey of Their History and Representation in Literature
This book examines the history and literary representation of primogeniture, the English custom making the eldest son sole heir. Denounced as unjust yet fiercely defended, it dominated social life for centuries, sparking a major ideological debate.
This book examines the history and literary representation of primogeniture, the English custom making the eldest son sole heir. Denounced as unjust yet fiercely defended, it dominated social life for centuries, sparking a major ideological debate.
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Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Manon Lescaut
19th-century French composer Auber and librettist Scribe formed one of musical history's most successful partnerships. Their opera *Manon Lescaut* features a unique final scene: a powerfully expressive dramatic symphony of simple grandeur and real emotion.
19th-century French composer Auber and librettist Scribe formed one of musical history’s most successful partnerships. Their opera *Manon Lescaut* features a unique final scene: a powerfully expressive dramatic symphony of simple grandeur and real emotion.
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Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
La Muette de Portici
Auber’s grand opera La Muette de Portici is a key work in operatic history. Set against the 1647 revolt in Naples, its revolutionary tale was so potent that a performance in Brussels on 25 August 1830 sparked the uprising for Belgian independence.
Auber’s grand opera La Muette de Portici is a key work in operatic history. Set against the 1647 revolt in Naples, its revolutionary tale was so potent that a performance in Brussels on 25 August 1830 sparked the uprising for Belgian independence.
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Songs at Twilight
A Narrative Exploration of Living with a Visual Impairment and the Effect this has on Claims to Identity
A visually impaired author and thirty contributors explore their experiences of living with a visual impairment and its effect on their identity. Through collaborative narrative, they challenge sighted assumptions about blindness.
A visually impaired author and thirty contributors explore their experiences of living with a visual impairment and its effect on their identity. Through collaborative narrative, they challenge sighted assumptions about blindness.
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Academic Apartheid
Waging the Adjunct War
A silent majority speaks out. Academic Apartheid is a collection of poignant international essays uncovering the challenges of working on the borders of the ivory tower without job security, adequate wages, or health benefits.
A silent majority speaks out. Academic Apartheid is a collection of poignant international essays uncovering the challenges of working on the borders of the ivory tower without job security, adequate wages, or health benefits.
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The Management of Intercultural Academic Interaction
Student Exchanges between Japanese and Australian Universities
This book examines how six Japanese exchange students manage intercultural academic interaction at an Australian university. It analyzes the impact of program structures and provides insights on how universities can better support students' transition between cultures.
This book examines how six Japanese exchange students manage intercultural academic interaction at an Australian university. It analyzes the impact of program structures and provides insights on how universities can better support students’ transition between cultures.
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A Cognitive Approach to Adverbial Subordination in European Portuguese
The Infinitive, the Clitic Pronoun Se and Finite Verb Forms
This book challenges the traditional structural analysis of Portuguese adverbial clauses. It argues that the choice between infinitive and finite verb forms is not merely structural, but evokes different meanings determined by context and conceptual content.
This book challenges the traditional structural analysis of Portuguese adverbial clauses. It argues that the choice between infinitive and finite verb forms is not merely structural, but evokes different meanings determined by context and conceptual content.
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This book offers practical advice for translators, combining linguistics and natural sciences to address mistranslated nature terminology. It helps find suitable equivalents and shows when overspecification or domestication is justified and when it becomes an error.
This book offers practical advice for translators, combining linguistics and natural sciences to address mistranslated nature terminology. It helps find suitable equivalents and shows when overspecification or domestication is justified and when it becomes an error.
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