Darkening Scandinavia
Four Postmodern Pagan Essays
Darkening Scandinavia is a philosophical meditation on the true nature of the Northern Darkness. It explores the deeply-moving expressions of artists like Burzum, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Per Petterson, revealing the visceral Void in Nordic soulscapes.
Darkening Scandinavia is a philosophical meditation on the true nature of the Northern Darkness. It explores the deeply-moving expressions of artists like Burzum, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Per Petterson, revealing the visceral Void in Nordic soulscapes.
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This collection offers creative and critical responses to making, breaking, and negotiating boundaries. A startling reassessment of its subject, it erases the borders between the critical, the creative, and the cultural with passion and precision.
This collection offers creative and critical responses to making, breaking, and negotiating boundaries. A startling reassessment of its subject, it erases the borders between the critical, the creative, and the cultural with passion and precision.
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Philosophy of Sport
International Perspectives
Leading moral and philosophical academics examine the global significance of sport. Articles provide a diverse set of ideas, from the ethics of performance enhancing substances and fair play, to nationalism and how sport can contribute to human well-being.
Leading moral and philosophical academics examine the global significance of sport. Articles provide a diverse set of ideas, from the ethics of performance enhancing substances and fair play, to nationalism and how sport can contribute to human well-being.
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What can past experiences of the body tell us about what it can become? As cyborgs and patented genes put the future of the human body at stake, this volume develops strategies for bodily empowerment to get “back to the future of the body”.
What can past experiences of the body tell us about what it can become? As cyborgs and patented genes put the future of the human body at stake, this volume develops strategies for bodily empowerment to get “back to the future of the body”.
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All Graceful Instruments
The Contexts of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon
This anthology gathers essays from a wide array of fields to reveal the Grateful Dead cultural phenomenon. Experts use criticism, sociology, and more to explore the music, the band's success, and the Deadheads, making a case for their academic importance.
This anthology gathers essays from a wide array of fields to reveal the Grateful Dead cultural phenomenon. Experts use criticism, sociology, and more to explore the music, the band’s success, and the Deadheads, making a case for their academic importance.
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Legilimens!
Perspectives in Harry Potter Studies
Legilimens is the spell to see into another’s mind. This collection brings together anthropologists, theologians, historians, and rhetoricians to see into the Harry Potter texts, deliberating over the greater scholarly significance of these rich works.
Legilimens is the spell to see into another’s mind. This collection brings together anthropologists, theologians, historians, and rhetoricians to see into the Harry Potter texts, deliberating over the greater scholarly significance of these rich works.
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This volume provides new insights into the interface of humour and media discourse. It analyzes the roles humour plays and the butts it targets across cultures, covering everything from wordplay in sitcoms to news satire in online media.
This volume provides new insights into the interface of humour and media discourse. It analyzes the roles humour plays and the butts it targets across cultures, covering everything from wordplay in sitcoms to news satire in online media.
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Does interactivity enhance e-Learning? While often claimed, little scientific evidence exists. This book provides proof, presenting three empirical studies on the impact of interactive feedback on learners, teachers, and the environment.
Does interactivity enhance e-Learning? While often claimed, little scientific evidence exists. This book provides proof, presenting three empirical studies on the impact of interactive feedback on learners, teachers, and the environment.
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Islam in its International Context
Comparative Perspectives
Changing attitudes to Islam influence political cultures and national identities. This volume offers in-depth, multi-nation perspectives from Europe, the USA and the Middle East, addressing issues from Muslim radicalism to Islamophobia and Islamic art.
Changing attitudes to Islam influence political cultures and national identities. This volume offers in-depth, multi-nation perspectives from Europe, the USA and the Middle East, addressing issues from Muslim radicalism to Islamophobia and Islamic art.
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Labour Markets at a Crossroads
Causes of Change, Challenges and Need to Reform
Stagnant European labour markets are failing to create jobs and growth. This volume uncovers the "corporative cartels" at the heart of the problem and presents clear policy options for vital reform.
Stagnant European labour markets are failing to create jobs and growth. This volume uncovers the “corporative cartels” at the heart of the problem and presents clear policy options for vital reform.
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Poland’s Angry Romantic
Two Poems and a Play by Juliusz Słowacki
Juliusz Słowacki is one of Poland’s most important writers, but little known in the West. This much-needed introduction contains his popular play Balladina, his meditative poem Agamemnon’s Tomb, and his hilarious mock-epic Beniowski.
Juliusz Słowacki is one of Poland’s most important writers, but little known in the West. This much-needed introduction contains his popular play Balladina, his meditative poem Agamemnon’s Tomb, and his hilarious mock-epic Beniowski.
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Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia, vol. I
The Years of Fame 1836-1863
A superb singer and composer, Pauline Viardot Garcia was a 19th-century muse to Brahms and Meyerbeer. Loved by Turgenev for forty years, she was a musical genius. This first comprehensive biography in English reveals the life of this forgotten powerhouse.
A superb singer and composer, Pauline Viardot Garcia was a 19th-century muse to Brahms and Meyerbeer. Loved by Turgenev for forty years, she was a musical genius. This first comprehensive biography in English reveals the life of this forgotten powerhouse.
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Anthony Burgess
Music in Literature and Literature in Music
This book offers a new insight into the relationship between literature and music through the works of Anthony Burgess. International scholars explore the musicality of literature and the literary aspects of music, referencing artists from Mozart to Joyce.
This book offers a new insight into the relationship between literature and music through the works of Anthony Burgess. International scholars explore the musicality of literature and the literary aspects of music, referencing artists from Mozart to Joyce.
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Linguists and translators address fundamental questions about text: What is it? Why do we study it? What are we looking for? This volume helps the reader appreciate the richness of text as a treasure-trove for scholars with various approaches to language.
Linguists and translators address fundamental questions about text: What is it? Why do we study it? What are we looking for? This volume helps the reader appreciate the richness of text as a treasure-trove for scholars with various approaches to language.
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Remembering Television
Histories, Technologies, Memories
This path-breaking book explores television's social and cultural impacts, asking how its programming has been experienced, understood, and remembered. Leading scholars examine the intricate connections between history, memory, and television in today’s world.
This path-breaking book explores television’s social and cultural impacts, asking how its programming has been experienced, understood, and remembered. Leading scholars examine the intricate connections between history, memory, and television in today’s world.
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The Gothic Byron argues that the Gothic element in Byron’s work has been undervalued. It explores his reading of Gothic novels, the Gothic in his own tales and poetry, and his profound influence on writers like Charlotte and Emily Brontë.
The Gothic Byron argues that the Gothic element in Byron’s work has been undervalued. It explores his reading of Gothic novels, the Gothic in his own tales and poetry, and his profound influence on writers like Charlotte and Emily Brontë.
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The Future is Now
A New Look at African Diaspora Studies
This collection of essays from new voices in African Diaspora Studies explores art, literature, film, and music across the Americas and Europe. Scholars interrogate themes of memory, power, and identity to uncover forgotten episodes of history.
This collection of essays from new voices in African Diaspora Studies explores art, literature, film, and music across the Americas and Europe. Scholars interrogate themes of memory, power, and identity to uncover forgotten episodes of history.
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Mary Shelley
Her Circle and Her Contemporaries
This collection of essays expands critical consideration of Mary Shelley’s placement within the Romantic age. Her texts converse with those of her family and contemporaries, including her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, illuminating the contexts in which they were composed.
This collection of essays expands critical consideration of Mary Shelley’s placement within the Romantic age. Her texts converse with those of her family and contemporaries, including her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, illuminating the contexts in which they were composed.
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In a "post-gay era," is sexual identity becoming obsolete? Are LGBT youth being duped into conformity? This volume offers compelling debates from a wide variety of perspectives on the current state and possible irrelevance of sexual identity in the 21st century.
In a “post-gay era,” is sexual identity becoming obsolete? Are LGBT youth being duped into conformity? This volume offers compelling debates from a wide variety of perspectives on the current state and possible irrelevance of sexual identity in the 21st century.
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Talk in Institutions
A LANSI Volume
This volume brings together papers from the LANSI conferences, providing a broad sampling of current research on language and social interaction in contexts such as jury deliberations, educational settings, medical interaction, and service encounters.
This volume brings together papers from the LANSI conferences, providing a broad sampling of current research on language and social interaction in contexts such as jury deliberations, educational settings, medical interaction, and service encounters.
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