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This book's premise is not only the commonly accepted cultural relativity of economic concepts, but also the observation that the current shift in the meaning of concepts like "market," "currency," "exchange" and "money" suggests that culture is undergoing a change with unpredictable economic and political consequences.

This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness

This book analyzes selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from fellow MPs from 1940 to the death of Churchill in 1965. Churchill ia a key to world history and to understanding what is at stake in the world now

Readers will be ushered into their own spiritual experience of literature as they consider how American writers craft images of God that affirm the aging process. In deploying the motif of the imago Dei, it establishes that literature reveals how spirituality influences experiences of aging and how aging itself is a spiritual process

Temporal Experiments uses literature, music, and visual art to think through the subtle workings of time in our intellectual and pragmatic lives. The book is an investigation of the tactile figures in which time is embodied, and of the role these figures play in shaping our sense of the possible.

Interpreting Violence examines the ethics of engaging with representations of violence from a broad hermeneutic perspective. It offers multidisciplinary perspectives on the sense-making involved in interpreting violence in its various forms, from blatant physical violence to less visible forms

I argue for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public intellectual, capable of forming ethical responses to issues like neoliberalism and place of the petit bourgeoisie in politics. I define Grass's political trajectory through his novels and speeches.

This book considers the ways in which teachers and students are affected by our encounters with literature and other cultural texts in the higher education classroom. The essays consider the range of emotions and affects elicited by teaching settings and practices.

Aimed at a non-specialist readership, this survey of early modern English literature examines how writers represented Islam. Many aimed to foment hostility or to encourage friendship. Anyone interested in how stereotypes are perpetuated and can be challenged today in an increasingly Islamophobic Western world will profit from reading it.

This work explores the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, music, and literature by women and men, interrogating how each sheds light on the other, and how women have appropriated, responded to, and been inspired by the work of authors from previous centuries.

This book brings together a model of time and a model of language to generate a new model of narrative, where different stories with different temporalities and non-chronological modes of sequence can tell of different worlds of human - and non-human - experience, woven together (the 'texture of time') in the one narrative.

This volume examines the linguistic and stylistic forms of new Indian English fiction to explore the power of language to construct meaning, express identity and convey ideology and benefits from an interdisciplinary methodology to read contemporary Indian authors like Jeet Thayil, Deepa Anappara, Avni Doshi, Tabish Khair and Megha Majumdar

This collection includes the work of authors of both sides of the Atlantic ocean who propose a cross-cultural, transdisciplinary dialogue upon the idea, the geography and the representation of the American West.

This book explores the Gothic mode in the literature, visual arts, and culture of Latin America. Visiting texts from Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays illuminate the existence of native representations of the Gothic, while also exploring the presence of universal archetypes of terror and

Haunted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK's relationship to mainland Europe.

This book is situated at the crossroades in research areas of literature and linguistics. This collection of essays brings to the forefront the many ways in which dialect is present in poetry and how it is realized in both written texts and oral performances.