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Contemporaneity of the Mahabharata Narrative - Epic of the Moment

This volume looks at the problem from diverse periods and standpoints and shows us that this challenge is, in fact, a legacy of the Mahab...

Maeve Brennan - A Place in the Mind

This book offers a critical overview of the effects of space, physical and conceptual, in the works of Irish American author Maeve Brenna...

Queer Encounters with International Law - Lives, Communities, Subjectivities

This book focuses on queer people and their encounters with international law.

Language for Life - Where Linguistics Meets Teaching

This new edition of the bestselling Language for Life shows how language can be mastered by children and how what they have learned can b...

Science Fiction as Legal Imaginary

This book examines how science fiction informs the legal imagination of technological futures.

The Philosophy of Transformative Experience

This volume examines the nature and significance of transformative experiences as they occur across a variety of contexts in human life. ...

Teaching Interpreting and Live Subtitling - Contexts, Modes and Technologies

Teaching Interpreting and Live Subtitling: Contexts, Modes and Technologies provides a cross-section of multi-national perspectives on te...

Eighteenth-Century Transplantations - New Literary Lives, Forms and Contexts

Eighteenth-Century Transplantations places the existence of this transcultural circulation at the centre of attention and presents its pr...

Moralizing the Italian Marvellous in Early Modern England

This collection shows various declinations of the early modern Italian marvellous, whose English translation often became a moralized ver...

Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: The Loved One - Volume 10 an Anglo-American Tragedy

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all of Waugh's writings for the first t...

Death in Dublin During the Era of James Joyce's Ulysses

The funeral of Paddy Dignam in James Joyce's Ulysses serves as the pivotal event of the "Hades" episode. This volume explores how Dignam'...

Theory and Practice in Vocabulary Research in Digital Environments

This collection is a comprehensive resource on the state of second language vocabulary learning today, building on earlier studies to spo...

The Persistence of Racialization - Literature, Gender, and Ethnicity

This interdisciplinary book represents the attempt at unpacking the legacy of modern ideas of race initiated and established during the c...

The Legacy of Plato's Timaeus - Cosmology, Music, Medicine, and Architecture from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century

The Legacy of Plato's Timaeus examines the influence of the Timaeus on the early disciplinary histories of cosmology, music, medicine, an...

1650-1850 - Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 29) Volume 29

Exploratory and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 ranges over the expanse of long eighteenth-century culture. Welcoming research on all...

Method and Postmethod in Language Teaching

Method and Postmethod in Language Teaching is both an accessible and engaging introductory textbook and a handy reference guide that expl...

New Essays on History and Form in Early Modern English Literature

Its chapters framed by the editors' deeply researched introduction and theorist Caroline Levine's reflective afterword model both theoret...

Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929 - Viewer, I Married Him

Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929 focuses on fifty-three silent film adaptations of the ...

Automating Translation

This book, authored by leading experts, demystifies machine translation, explaining its origins, its training data, how neural machine tr...

Reading John Milton - An Introduction

Reading John Milton is a guide to Milton's writings written for students, teachers, and readers everywhere seeking to approach this major...

Communicating in Intercultural Spaces

Written for readers ranging from advanced undergraduate students to intercultural practitioners, this book offers a new conceptualisation...

A Criminal Hero - Justice, Politics and Media Culture in Eighteenth-Century Naples

Focusing on the scandalous affair of the "buried alive", this book shows how the governing authorities in Naples managed the development ...

Empirical Studies in Didactic Audiovisual Translation

This collection showcases a wide range of empirical studies in didactic audiovisual translation (DAT), fostering replication of the prese...

The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis

The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis examines the radical and non-conformist perspectives of both classical and contemporary psychoanaly...

Developing Interactional Competence at the Workplace - Learning English as a Foreign Language on the Shop Floor

This book takes an ethnomethodological conversation analytical approach to better understand trajectories of language learning in non-ins...

Ibsen and Degeneration - Familial Decay and the Fall of Civilization

Henrik Ibsen's plays were written at a critical juncture in late nineteenth-century European culture. By reading these three plays from a...

The Undead Child in Popular Culture - Representations of Childhoods Past, Present, and Preserved

In this study of representations of children and childhood, a global team of authors explore the theme of undeadness as it applies to cul...

Intersectional Italy

In this volume, the authors adopt an intersectional methodology to question Italian "white innocence" and to examine the specificity of I...

Futures of Literary Studies

This book brings together essays that ask how one may chart more productive engagements with the methodological foundations of literary s...

A Paradigm Shift for Language Education - Project-Based Learning and Teaching

This book investigates the argument for the significance and necessity of project-based learning and teaching (PBLT), as it becomes incre...

The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature - Thinking the Body-Thought

This book elucidates the work of 21st-century European thinkers to describe the event of art as an intuited correspondence between (a) a ...

Reading the Romantic Ridiculous

Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous, building on recent work which decentres...

Global Literature and the Environment

Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that connect readers to the impacts of the climate and e...

Narrative Inquiry in Language Teaching and Learning Research

Narrative Inquiry in Language Teaching and Learning Research is the only entry-level introduction to research methods using stories, eith...

Hindi Cinema and Pakistan - Screening the Idea and the Reality

Hindi Cinema and Pakistan traces the genesis and development of this theme in Hindi cinema in the 1950s, showcasing its relevance as a to...

Exploring Professional Communication - Language in Action

Exploring Professional Communication provides an accessible overview of the vast field of communication in professional contexts from an ...

An Analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre's Plays in Theatre complet

An Analysis of all the Plays and Fragmentary Works in Jean-Paul Sartre's Théâtre complet is the first volume to propose a critical analys...

Talking Images - The Interface between Drawing and Writing

This innovative collection offers a holistic portrait of the multimodal communication potential of images from the Upper Paleolithic time...

Pandemic, Event, and the Immanence of Life - Critical Reflections on Covid-19

This volume reflects on different regional and national experiences of the COVID 19 pandemic, with contributions from India, Thailand, Si...

Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914 - Vampiric Enterprise

Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914 explores the complex network of metaphors that emerged around late nineteenth...

Cultural Heritage and the Literary Archive - Objects, Institutions, and Practices between the Analogue and the Digital

Modern literary archives play a key role in how authors' lives and works get canonized and consecrated as cultural heritage. This interdi...

Semioethics as Existential Dialogue - The Gift and Burden of Responsibility

This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of communication, dialogue and responsibility, exploring communicative acts...

Reframing the Black Atlantic - African, Diasporic, Queer and Feminist Perspectives

Detective Fiction for Young Readers - Full of Secrets

Detective Fiction for Young Readers is an examination of contemporary mystery stories for children and young adults.

Pragmatism, Law, and Literature

This book uses literary examples makes the case for understanding law and the legal system through the lens of philosophical pragmatism.

Global Digital Transformation and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Looks at post-Covid adoption of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the IoT technologies effective in the medical field. Discu...

The Donna Angelica and the British Enlightenment Poets - Six Studies from Butler to Crabbe

This is the first book to study how a vital element of European Renaissance culture, the motif of the angelic lady, is translated into th...

The Queerness of Psychoanalysis - From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond

The Queerness of Psychoanalysis is an exploration of psychoanalysis' often complicated and fraught history with thinking about queerness,...

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of John Ruskin and four ma...

Listening - The Key Concepts

A vital and comprehensive starting place for understanding the key concepts, this book explores 177 diverse types and styles of listening...

Out of This World: Gnostic Encounters in Modern French Literature and Thought

How to escape this world, this body? How can one invent a world parallel to this one? How do language and literature strive for a heterot...

The Entremés for Performance - Translations of One-Act Plays from Golden Age Spain

These comic interludes highlight the politics, social commentary, and brilliant comedy of Spain's classical theater period. With many app...

The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan - Literature, Lituraterre, Litterature

The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan considers the three key phases of Lacan's interest in literary topics.

Global Trespassers - Sanctioned Mobility in Contemporary Culture

Global Trespassers explores contemporary representations of minoritised migrants permitted to remain in the Global North. With reference ...

Ezra Pound and the Spanish World

This collection gathers for the first time criticism on Ezra Pounds lifelong involvement with Spain and Spanish culture, from his early v...

Expressive Therapeutic Writing - Guiding Transformation and Restorative Care through Intermodal Arts, Word by Word

This book brings engagement and conversation to a cross-pollination of creative and expressive writing and multi-modal art forms.

The Stones of Venice

This updated and unabridged edition of The Stones of Venice introduces new readers to John Ruskin’s classic Victorian text.

Re-Embodying and Rethinking Greek and Roman Drama in Modern Times

Bridging disciplinary boundaries, this volume explores the reception of Greek and Roman drama in a variety of times and places, and by a ...

The Mediated Arctic - Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Circumpolar Geographies

The mediated Arctic charts emergent geographical imaginaries of the Arctic. In the twenty-first century, the Arctic has entered worldwide...

Curious Travellers - Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820

Mary-Ann Constantine provides a literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c. 1760-1820). Examining the history of ...