Narrative Framing in Contemporary American Novels
Studniarz studies several doubly-mediated texts published 1968-2014, including John Gardner’s “The King’s Indian” and Paul Auster’s “Travels in the Scriptorium”. He sparks the revival of interest in fictions in parentheses, showing the need for research into more recent novels.
Katsikides provides articles dealing with technology’s role and its social impact within the new information age. He draws together research devoted to key questions examining the relationship between the various new developments of technological systems and their social impact.
Renewing the Self
This publication analyses the roots, significance, and future of the stunning resurgence of religious engagement in both politics and civil society in the UK through the lens of contemporary Christian communities.
The concern of this anthology is the relationship between traditional music and archives as seen from historical and epistemological perspectives. The articles within focus on archives, individual and collective memory, and heritage as today’s recreation of the past.
Ageism in Youth Studies
Scholars fault youth for being apathetic, ignoring their leadership in global uprisings. This book exposes ageism in youth studies, shifting focus from sub-cultures to economic barriers. Based on interviews with 4,000 young people, it asks: Are Millennials “Generation We or Me”?
This volume explores how well-being captures the imagination by addressing issues related to the social good and the quest for personal happiness. It discusses what difference the study of well-being makes from a Christian perspective.
Bringing together papers presented at the 2nd Symposium on Advances in Geospatial, this collection deals with the new scientific field of medical geology used to address a variety of human health issues and diseases related to geological materials and earth-system processes.
Since the “cultural turn” in the 1990s, increasing attention has been paid to ideological concerns and gender issues in translation studies. This volume is a further illustration of this trend, offering insights into various cross-cultural, geographical and historical contexts.
This book explores various topics relevant to understanding the complexities of biological effects generated by solar radiation, and evaluates solar-energy-absorbing substances, including sunscreen agents, and their influence on cancers and diseases.
Paradigm War
This book explores 19th-century Europe’s piano pedagogy, a “paradigm war” between mechanism and holism. It shows how Robert Schumann’s revolutionary music and ideas resolved this conflict, creating a foundation for artistic piano pedagogy for our time.
This volume contains papers from a conference marking the 60th anniversary of Colin Wilson’s famous book, The Outsider. Experts, scholars and fans gathered to present papers on topics ranging from Existentialism to the Occult and from H.P. Lovecraft to Jack the Ripper.
Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Fiction
Unpacking themes of science, gender, and faith in Atwood’s dystopias, this study reveals their startling relevance. It frames her novels within the urgent social, cultural, and political questions of our contemporary world, connecting her fiction to our reality.
Empirical Approaches to Cognitive Linguistics
This collection takes a cognitive linguistic view on analyzing language and provides innovative contemporary Finnish research to the international audience. The areas covered vary from semantics to grammatical description, from terminological choices to language acquisition.
Applications of Relevance Theory
This anthology discusses various applications of Relevance Theory within several areas of pragmatics and discourse analysis. It covers an array of topics, including the treatment of figurative language, pragmatic markers and lexical pragmatics within Relevance Theory.
As a result of the recent serious academic interest in tourism as a complex aspect of investigation into humans and their environment, this volume brings together case studies from different parts of the world, focusing on tourism and its interactions with the environment.
Public-Private Partnerships in Transitional Nations
This volume examines public-private partnerships (PPPs) in transitional nations from the governance perspective. It explores the structures, legal frameworks and collaborative arrangements that underpin partnerships in Europe, Asia and Africa.
This book introduces new approaches to semiotics and metaphysical philosophy. Drawing from over 30 years of research, it shows how mature semiotics leads to new philosophical vistas, with conclusions that differ significantly from currently accepted philosophical views.
An Analytical Diary of 1939-1940
This book offers an objective, international examination of the first year of the Second World War. It explores the political intrigues, military campaigns of 1939–1940, the war at sea, public reactions, and the leadership behind the conflict.
A Literary Journey to Rome
How many people know the hidden Rome: the Vatican’s secret archives, the true fate of Pasolini? Taking the reader on a journey, we meet passionate people in love with the city and learn the special in everyday life, drawing a lively picture of the vibrant Eternal City.
Towards Efficient Photovoltaic Devices
As solar energy is the only renewable resource capable of adequately meeting today’s total global energy demand, Andrei focuses on the possibilities of optimising dye-sensitised solar cells’ efficiency.
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