This volume explores the fantastic and the fin de siècle’s relationship. It studies how this period reflects the fantastic’s relation to: aesthetic ideas, terror and horror, the sublime, and evil, Gothic and sensation fiction, the Aesthetic Movement and Decadence.
Elemental Sensuous
Under the guidance of phenomenological insights, this book presents the sensuous in its elemental sense. It explains how the sensuous, as elemental, irreducibly expresses itself in multiple ways, allowing the reader to become more aware of themselves and the world around them.
This volume offers an approach to narratives in the 21st century, amid growing concern with the decreasing explanatory capacity of theoretical concepts and narrative configurations. It provides cutting-edge research from a variety of disciplines, including the social sciences.
This work presents a glossary that allows the reader to appreciate positive diversity and interculturalism through multilingualism. It also contains key facts about the languages at hand, as well as useful phrases, weekdays, numbers, and elements of grammar.
This volume explores a multiplicity of “ways of being”, including the adoption of an ethnic position, the enactment of gender, the conception of childhood and artistic visions of urban life. It features discourses of identity and “ways of performing” identity in literature.
The Art of Noticing Deeply
In this work, authors study the spaces where we teach and learn, where we explore and interact, and where we pause and wonder. They give insights into ways the arts intersect teachers’ creative beings, and suggest rethinking our knowledge about teaching and learning.
Twins and Deviance
Cusack draws on nearly one thousand cases and anecdotes about twins bending and breaking rules in order to fulfill or flout tenets of twinhood. She challenges and improves previous research by collecting new topics to retool twins and deviance discussions.
Framing Violence
This collection analyses many of the questions surrounding challenges in framing the rising violence across the globe and in its new forms. It provides case studies and debates, with violence discussed in its political form and its domestic, financial, and artistic forms.
Intellectual Property Rights for Geographical Indications
Insights are given here into the potential impacts future Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreements could have at national, European and international levels. Policy setting, implications for trade and consumer perception and food safety are also covered.
The Generative and the Structuralist Approach to the Syllable
This book offers analyses of English and Slovak from structuralist and generative viewpoints. Focusing on the syllable, it contrasts phonological theories where syllabification is not always exhaustive with those where it is, bridging the gap between these linguistic traditions.
Women Rewriting Boundaries
Inspired by a panel at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, this compilation offers fresh insights on how to read travel writing by women. It analyzes the connections between class, gender, physicality, and sexuality as found in 19th-century literature.
Jackson offers historical data regarding the convent complexes, as well as extensive photographs of the surviving buildings, murals, and design elements, and documents the Franciscan doctrinas. He also reproduces ancient descriptions of the Franciscan missions.
Gáldy presents the history, art, and architecture of 25 of the main Florentine churches. She also provides plans and photos of the façades, and introduces important vocabulary and the main textual sources of the 13th to the 17th centuries.
International Marketing
With an emphasis on developing countries, this text explains international marketing theory and practice within a constantly-changing and increasingly-complex global environment. It describes global environmental forces and basic marketing strategies for international marketing.
This collection addresses the status quo of legal translators and interpreters and proposes ways to raise the standards of the profession. It covers many topics, including legal translation, translation of multilingual EU legislation and document translation.
A reflection is made here on the relationship between language and music, two unique, innate human capacities. The text provides a clear explanation of the centrality of melodies and rhythm to foreign language learning acquisition.
Raimondi presents a linguistic analysis of a group of modern narratives written by Piedmontese authors. The novels and short stories examined are notable for the way they move between various idioms—Standard Italian, regional vernaculars, English and pastiches.
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe
The religious association of Jehovah’s Witnesses has existed for about 150 years in Europe. This volume investigates the effect of the differing circumstances in these various national societies on these religious societies, and the challenges they had to overcome.
Orthodoxy Versus Post-Communism?
In post-communist Ukraine, Belarus, and Serbia, the Orthodox faith has become a vital element of political culture. This book analyses Orthodoxy’s influence on attitudes towards the West, the EU, and democracy, and its role in shaping modern cultural and national identity.
Review Journal of Political Philosophy Vol. 12
Containing articles from a Joseph Fishkin symposium on Bottlenecks, this journal brings together essays and discussions in moral and political philosophy, broadly-construed. This edition includes R.D. Emerick’s “‘Torture’ and Metaphor,” published for the first time.
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