For readers certain there were diverse, socially relevant voices in early Canadian women’s writing—and for sceptics—this collection offers proof. These essays explore the literary voices women created to work for diversity and social change in Canada.
Universalisation of Elementary Education
This study evaluates the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) in South India, questioning its success in achieving access, retention, quality, and equality. The DPEP enhanced access and gender equality but saw only moderate success in retention and quality.
Travelling In and Out of Italy
This study considers late 19th and 20th-century Italian writers like D’Annunzio, Pirandello, and Svevo through their notebooks and travel diaries, focusing on the journey to America—an Eden viewed with ambivalence as a land of freedom and oppression.
Inference, Consequence, and Meaning
Inferentialism holds that an expression’s meaning depends on the inferential rules governing its use. This collection of essays explores various case studies to discuss to what extent the central tenets of this theory are tenable.
The Waldere fragments reveal the world of migration-era heroes. At its heart, a climactic duel between Walter and Guðhere forces an ethical crisis for Hagen. This new critical edition resolves key textual cruces, unlocking the epic’s power.
Catalogues of Proper Names in Latin Epic Poetry
This book explores the poetic catalogue from Homer to Ovid. It examines how internal structural patterns and external framing devices evolved, contrasting Virgil’s supportive function with Lucretius’s subversion and Ovid’s sophisticated innovations.
In the Place of Sound
This book presents thirteen essays and seven graphic works from a conference of artists, researchers, and architects. The chapters explore the fraught relationship between sound and space, presenting a provocative collection of ideas and designs.
Religious Attachment
Using attachment theory, this book explores the faith experiences of Christian women. Based on in-depth interviews, it identifies three patterns of religious attachment—Distance/Avoidance, Anxiety/Ambivalence, and Security—with practical implications for pastoral care.
American Museums and the Persuasive Impulse
More than just collections, museums are powerful engines of persuasion. This book reveals how their contents and displays influence visitors as effectively as any speech or advertisement, uncovering their profound cultural roles and power.
Methods and the Medievalist
This collection of essays presents a comprehensive overview of current and fresh interdisciplinary approaches to the history of medieval Europe. Contributors explore diverse topics, from the written word to zooarchaeology, covering all parts of the continent.
F.F. Bosworth
F.F. Bosworth (1877-1958) was a Pentecostal pioneer and famous healing evangelist who led over a million people to Christ. While many know his book, Christ the Healer, few know the man. This book is the first critical analysis of his life and ministry.
Promethean Love
He stole fire for humanity, a timeless symbol of rebellion and selfless love. These essays trace the Promethean philosophy of love from its origins in Ancient Greece to its powerful contrast with the figure of Christ.
Table Talk
These essays explore the multifaceted role of food within medieval Italian culture. Through the writings of authors from Dante and Boccaccio to Catherine of Siena, this volume examines the medical, religious, social, and political role of foodways.
Keeping the Lid on
This book explores social segregation, urban conflict, and collective memory. From epidemics and uprisings to memories in song and novels, case studies consider cities like London, New York, and Salvador de Bahia, filling the gaps in official history.
Visualising the Unseen, Imagining the Unknown, Perfecting the Natural
Challenging the modern divide between art and science, this volume reveals their forgotten partnership. Essays explore the vital links between 18th- and 19th-century art and breakthroughs in botany, physics, and biology, questioning how each informed the other.
The Captivity Narrative
These scholarly essays assess captivity, exploring how captives expressed psychological duress and coped with bondage. Offering historical, literary, and philosophical analyses, topics range from 17th-century captivity to 21st-century prisoner narratives.
African American Religious Experiences
Facing slavery, Jim Crow, and racism, African Americans relied on religion as their source of strength. This is a story of survival, demonstrating how religion became the key ingredient and ultimate weapon that allowed a race to adapt and endure.
The Practice of Altruism
Do people with religious commitment nurture altruistic action more than others? Social scientists present results of their empirical studies on Japanese, North American, European, Indian, and Thai societies to offer insightful reflections on this issue.
From One Shore to Another
Combining literary, social, and philosophical approaches, the essays in this book explore the theme of the bridge. Each piece defines the bridge as a connection between shores, countries, languages, cultures, people, or communities.
This collection gathers international experts on Iris Murdoch to promote the dialogue between philosophy and literature. Scholars first explore her philosophical concerns and their influence, then retrieve the underlying philosophical thinking from her novels.
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