Rethinking the Racial Moment
This collection of essays re-energises the debate on race by focusing on its intersections with colonialism. It shifts our historical understanding, offering invigorating new approaches to cultural encounters via the interpretive frame of ‘the moment.’
Italian Women and Autobiography
These essays examine identity and ideology in Italian female autobiography from the Fascist era to our time. The collection explores how women writers challenge gender roles and traditional boundaries, experimenting with new forms of self-representation.
Armenia has long been a cultural bridge in the Southern Caucasus. While preserving its unique identity, it has been shaped by its neighbors. This volume offers an interdisciplinary view of the linguistic and cultural properties Armenians share with them.
This comprehensive study of Byron’s eclectic attitude to religion concludes he was never the atheist of cliché, but a man whose profound need for a faith always clashed with an equally profound scepticism.
Judicial Activism in Bangladesh
This book reframes judicial activism as a balance between over-assertion and passivity. With particular reference to Bangladesh, it reveals judicial under-activism and argues that pragmatic intervention is critical for good governance and social justice.
This book challenges contemporary phenomenology’s denegation of Being. It provides a fruitful alternative through a reassessment of Edith Stein’s ontology, considering Being in Steinian terms of support and safety to overcome this critical impasse.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
The product of one of musical history’s most successful partnerships, Auber and Scribe’s opéra-comique Fra Diavolo is a masterpiece of thrilling plot and brilliant music. Based on a real Italian bandit, it is Auber’s most enduring opera.
This book affords an in-depth history of Arizona from the Paleographical era up until Statehood. The book examines the early roots of the indigenous people, together with contemporary accounts of early settlers.
To Define and Inform
This path-breaking study advances a radical argument about how learner’s dictionaries are used and should be improved. Supported by comparative research with learners of English, it makes a vital contribution to lexicographical theory and practice.
Le biographique n’est pas épuisé : il déborde la biographie. Cet ouvrage propose un état de la réflexion sur le sujet, au croisement des sciences sociales et de la littérature, au point de rencontre entre science et fiction.
Carver Across the Curriculum
Carver Across the Curriculum presents innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to teaching Raymond Carver’s work. Drawing on international scholars, this collection is a guide and inspiration for instructors, offering new insights into his fiction and poetry.
Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects
This collection explores women’s identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.
The Willow’s Whisper
The Willow’s Whisper brings poets from Irish and Native American communities together. In this collection, mother-earth comes to life, reawakening our senses. Reconnect with the part of you linked to nature and hear a whisper of hope.
Cinema and Intermediality
This book investigates what the “inter-” of “intermediality” entails in cinema. Essays explore how film positions itself “in-between” media and arts through analyses of directors like Hitchcock, Antonioni, Godard, and Varda.
As men and women question gender roles, this book examines masculine expression across Europe, Africa, and the Americas. In this collection, authors write about men’s challenges, friendships, and outcasts to foster understanding and tolerance of all sexualities.
Anti-Tales
The anti-tale is the fairy tale’s evil twin. It subverts, inverts, and deconstructs familiar stories. In this collection, Red Riding Hood retaliates, Cinderella’s stepmother tells her side, and Snow White becomes a postmodern vampire.
The Yields of Transition
This volume on the Wei Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties (220–589 AD) opens new pathways in sinological studies. It reveals a new image of this period, undermining common historical interpretations and showing its decisive achievements.
Time, Accounts, Surplus Meaning
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.
Why Europe Will Not Run the 21st Century
What future awaits Europe? To halt its inexorable decline, the EU requires radical reform. This book argues only a federal Europe, with a common Constitution and central government, can overcome its inability to face internal and external threats.
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