Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture
This collection of essays investigates various nuances of a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult literature and culture, from the representation of race and bullying in picture-books to environmentalism and religion in fantasy literature, among others.
Beyond War
The studies gathered here present the necessity of rethinking the concept of “violence” in archaeology, in order to overcome the old conception that limits violence to its most evident expressions in war and intra- or extra-group conflict.
Angela Ralli connects contemporary morphological theory to less-studied aspects of language interference and contact-induced variation and change, and shows how languages of divergent typologies can affect each other.
Authors from eight countries offer research across eight languages on current issues in Translation Studies. The volume covers four key areas: lexicological issues and corpora, quality and translator training, audiovisual translation, and literary translation.
Using extensive unpublished archival material, Bosco principally examines the first eighteen months of the Federal Union, during which time it was able to raise itself to the attention of the general public, and the political class, as the heir of the League of Nations.
Cracks in the Foundation
Howe offers fresh insights on the hottest topics in modern religious debate, such as Biblical Creation versus scientific evidence, and evil and suffering in God’s world, as well as other issues.
Davis Wood explores James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy as engaged in a complex legal and ethical dialogue regarding the disappearance of the nineteenth century frontier despite the centuries that separate their lives and their work.
The Bible as Revelatory Word
This collection looks at a narrative view of the history of Ancient Israel, in stories written in the late Old Testament to reflect on the tribulations of the people in captivity. It illustrates how God’s ways are sought amidst defeat and confusion and amidst fear and hope.
The Bible as Revelatory Word
An opportunity is provided in this volume to study the Prophets and Wisdom Books of Scripture. The research presents some approaches used in biblical scholarship and encourages reading the texts themselves, developing a sharper perception of language, imagery, genre and style.
Freer and Bell’s volume presents a rich and powerful range of essays by leading and emerging T.S. Eliot and literary modernist scholars, considering the doctrinal, religious, humanist, mythic and secular aspects of Eliot’s poetry.
Telling and Re-telling Stories
The contributions brought together here offer a comprehensive and authoritative study of literary adaptation to film, providing valuable study cases which suggest both the continuity and variety of adaptation theories.
Time’s Fool
A memorial to the life work of A. Clare Brandabur, this collection presents essays on a wide range of notable writers from James Joyce to Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Yaşar Kemal, Cormac McCarthy, Abdulrahman Munif, and many others.
The Social Sense of the Human Experience
In a crisis where society is no longer human by definition, the human element must be rediscovered. This book revitalizes the sense of the human—a compass that, though often misunderstood, is now more essential than ever.
Engaging Affects, Thinking Feelings
These thought-provoking essays balance critical thinking with creative opportunities. This international, interdisciplinary collection focuses on the vulnerable subjects often overlooked, challenging readers to think beyond rational limits and engaging both intellect and emotion.
Forest and the Water Cycle
Do forests help or harm our water supply? This book unites international experts from forestry and water management to answer this critical question. It offers scientific perspectives and case studies to help protect water resources in forested areas.
Composed of a series of studies about various trends in stylistics, this compendium serves to bring stylistic analyses closer together, thus demonstrating the potential of stylistics as a research area that can benefit from other disciplines.
After the Flight
This title critically addresses a range of topics and employs a variety of qualitative approaches to gain a better understanding of the lived experience of integration for refugees, including the attendant challenges and opportunities encountered during the integration process.
Children, Young People and Sport
This research-based study explores the motivations of children and young people in playing sport, what it means to them, and how it fits into their everyday lives, capturing the texture, nuances and meanings of participation in sport in Australia, France, Japan and New Zealand.
Words for Odours
This volume brings together studies on how olfactory experiences are verbalized. Applying pragmatic and theoretical approaches, it investigates the complex cognitive and cultural strategies speakers use to talk about odours in a variety of languages and domains.
This book articulates the representation of knowledge and values lodged in the diverse knowledge systems in Africa and its diaspora, and highlights the prejudicial assessments which ensure such epistemological systems are denigrated or ignored, even on the African continent.
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