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A history - and controversial reappraisal - of the world's popular and innovative literary form. It attempts to tell the complete story of our popular literary form. It celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between the premodern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny.

A study of how three important European thinkers - Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot - use the Binding of Isaac to illuminate the sacrificial situation of the literary writer. It shows that literature plays a vital and heretical role in these three writers' highly idiosyncratic accounts of the Akedah.

We have developed into a culture that is over-reliant upon pharmaceutical and recreational drugs; where drugs are incessantly advertised and promoted to us via our mass media. This is a collection of essays highlighting the links between contemporary society's over-reliance on both media and drugs.

Features essays that examine how women actively contribute not only to conflict, but also to peace and social change in diverse contexts around the world. This title includes chapters that cover issues of women waging war, women intervening in war, and women sustaining peace, all substantiated with case studies and first hand accounts.

For most of the twentieth century the exuberant fluency of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's art was not regarded as worthy of serious attention. This title offers an examination of the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning that connects her creative disposition, mind and mode to Shakespeare.

Using the work of John Milton and his conflict between good and evil, this title shows how we read literary history according to quite specific images of growth, development, progression, flourishing and succession.

What were the principal factors that influenced and shaped the behaviour of the gentry during the Wars of the Roses, from 1455 at the first battle of St Albans to the final encounter at Stoke in 1487? The book offers a definition of the gentry and assesses the relationship between gentry and the political and social world of the late middle ages.

Offers a comprehensive chronological reference for the entire Roman state and its neighbours. This work considers key historiographical questions and concerns of the period. It considers the importance of questioning sources, most notably Livy, and what can be said with any authority.

Provides an exploration of the spiritual and religious contexts and subtexts of contemporary fiction. This title argues against the idea that the 'postmodern condition' of late twentieth and early twenty-first century culture has undermined the close and creative association between religious practice and literature.

Offers perspectives on contemporary Islamic iconography and the use of imageries in ritual contexts. This book provides new understanding of Islamic iconography and Muslim perspectives on the use of imageries in ritual contexts and devotional life. It introduces and analyzes imageries (tile-paintings, posters and wall-hangings).

Alan Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at "A Grammar Of Speech" (1995) due to his untimely death. In this title, the author picks up the baton and tests the description of used language against a conversational corpus. It is of interest to researchers in applied linguistics, discourse analysis and also EFL/ESL.

Looks at the role of media, terrorism and literature in Don DeLillo's fiction. Bringing together DeLillo scholars in Europe and in the US, this book focuses on DeLillo to position his work in a transatlantic context.

As a specific category, London Gothic is becoming as important for understanding ourselves today as it has been for thinking about the cultural productions of the late-nineteenth century. This book focuses on Gothic representations of London, and also includes essays from scholars reading London Gothic as it is manifested in a variety of media.

The energy is the most important commodity in the world. Yet our basic energy security is threatened by an ideological social agenda driven more by myth than reality. This book reveals the energy and climate myths, from the West's war on carbon to the concept of peak oil and renewable energy.

Offers a research based approach to understanding literacy as a process and a social practice, drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Dilleuze. This title brings together theory and research in the fields of literacy study and European philosophy through a synthesis of Multiple Literacies Theory (MLT) and the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze.

Investigates the potential for creating a transnational value system in education, focusing on some key human rights issues at home and overseas. This book focuses on how education can bring about social change, connecting with theory at the level of cultural impact and policy implications.

Drawing on the results of a tri-national comparative survey of secondary pupils' attitudes towards Modern Foreign Language Learning (MFLL), this book illustrates both the importance and nature of learner attitudes and the contribution of comparative education to our understanding of educational issues.

Highlights the importance and functioning of humor in different world religions. Exploring the major religious cultures, this book looks at the constructive aspects to the relation between humor and religion, with humor seen as a pathway to spiritual wisdom. It also explores why humor and spirituality fit well together.

Includes a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema, using concepts and methodologies from pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. This book is a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema covering a selection of films from the 1950s onwards.

Catholics, especially in the US, are sharply divided over what constitutes faithful Catholicism. This title offers an exploration of the tension between two opposing views of the meaning of faith held by Catholics around the world.

Presents a re-appraisal of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction. This book examines how the phenomenological lineage is received in deconstruction, especially the relation between deconstruction and Derrida's radical readings of Hegel, Husserl, Levinas and Heidegger.

Apocalyptic nightmares that humanly-created intelligences will one day rise up against their creators haunt the western creative imagination. This study applies Kierkegaard's "Concept of Anxiety" to Blake's creation myths to explain how Enlightenment personality conceptions created fear of independently thinking beings.

A sociological study of the recontextualisation of Islam as school knowledge in the UK education system. It explores the conceptualisation of school-based Islam on two levels: as a symbolic category in English religious education as a consequence of policy shifts, and as pedagogic discourse at the local community level in state and Muslim schools.

Providing a complex and challenging education in research, the PhD is unlike other degrees and at its heart is the key educational role of supervisor. This book explores the experience of supervision and the PhD, drawing on a range of key viewpoints to further understanding of this complex educational experience.

Presents an examination of topics in ancient philosophy through the lens of modern European thought. This book aims to underscore the relevance of Ancient Philosophy for contemporary debates in Continental Philosophy. It also presents scholarship in the field of modern European thought.