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A collection of essays exploring the treatment of rape in the 'art cinema' genre. It highlights the prevalence and multiple functions of rape in this prestigious mode of filmmaking as well as questions the meaning of its ubiquity and versatility. It investigates the representation of rape in some of cinema's most cherished films.

Investigating what the atheists mean when they use the words 'atheism' and 'God', this book explores the differences and similarities between 'old' and 'new' atheism, and places atheism of either variety in context by examining the naturalistic worldview that grounds it. It also examines various arguments against God-belief.

Focussing on the significance of sensation, this study develops a Deleuzian poetics of reading, through an examination of contemporary innovative poetry. It suggests that a Deleuzian way of reading offers a firm purchase on notoriously difficult texts, providing concepts and a language that aids their understanding.

A collection of essays bringing together and exploring the connections between two figures in twentieth-century hermeneutics, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. It brings Gadamer and Ricoeur into a hermeneutical conversation with each other. It shows how the horizons of their thought at once support and question each other.

Provides an analysis of the process of regenring, the transformation of essay-based knowledge through the process of rewriting in another genre. This book analyzes the work of first year undergraduates from a range of disciplines who were given a task of reworking an essay using a different genre. It is suitable for researchers and postgraduates.

Understanding Hinduism requires an understanding of how it is practised in the contemporary world. This title presents an introduction that tackles these central issues, beginning with case studies of the grassroots practice of Hinduism in India and in diaspora communities.

Analytic and Continental philosophy have become increasingly specialised and differentiated fields of endeavour. This collection of essays examines the strengths and weaknesses of each tradition, and ultimately encourages enhanced understanding, dialogue and even rapprochement between these sometimes antagonistic adversaries.

The history of responses to the works of William Wordsworth and William Blake can be divided into those who have tried to enact their poetry, and those who have tried to categorize it. This book argues that not only are both valid, but the conflict between them is staged in the poetry of both Blake and Wordsworth.

A collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. It provides key insight into the shaping of this discipline and of its practitioners in modern context.

This comprehensive account demonstrates how Hartman's commitment to the potency of aesthetic mediation informs a unique position in current debates about ethics, media, and memory. >

The only comprehensive survey of research on formulaic language and L2 speech and the teaching implications of the link between them

In this book, Erickson analyzes of how the politics of fear operate, to outline one possible response to the intentionally paralyzing logic of fear. >

Darrow Schecter explores the most important theoretical and political debates about the relation between reason and legitimacy. >

A guide to the research and future directions in existentialism. It covers the fundamental questions asked by existentialism. It features a series of research tools, including an A to Z of key terms and concepts, a chronology, a detailed list of resources and a fully annotated bibliography.

Presents new critical approaches to the Bildungsroman by analyzing spiritual, feminist, historicist and modernist perspectives. >

Fusing perspectives from politics, media studies and cultural studies, and focusing on Iraq, offers detailed insights into the impact of different media forms.

Aidan McGarry looks at the political participation and representation of the Romani community, one of the most disadvantaged and excluded minority in Europe. >

"I Henry IV" has always been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays and this critical guide offers a comprehensive guide to the wide range of criticism on the play and its central figures, including Falstaff. This book introduces the play's critical and performance history, including stage productions alongside TV, film and radio versions.

Offers a detailed overview of research on discourse markers covering different areas of linguistics: from a discourse analysis point of view, to a Relevance Theory perspective going through a computational linguistics approach. This book is of interest to researchers in semantics, pragmatics, grammar and discourse analysis.

A study of Michael Haneke's entire body of work, broadening the scholarship on this highly controversial filmmaker. It explores how a political manifests itself in his work.

Takes a look at the nature of adult learning in the postgraduate context and at the implications of this for universities and their courses. This book examines concepts such as integration as ways of retaining the higher order skills of a university education over against narrower, and technicist approaches.

Explores the concept and practice of improvisation in literary modernism and the interconnections between American literature and music. >

A study of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, approaching them as literary experiments attempting to comprehend the American experience in the postmodern condition.

Tackles everyday real-life language-related problems in diverse social, professional and academic contexts. This title features chapters that use systemic functional linguistic theory to engage with issues of translation, education, language teaching/learning, multimodality, media, social policy and action and positive discourse analysis.

Discusses the depiction of various issues facing the church of their times in programs such as "The Flying Nun (1967-1970)", "The Father Dowling Mysteries (1989-1990)", and "7th Heaven (1996-2007)". This book addresses the role of women in the church, clerics reconsidering their call, the sexuality of clerics, and the ecumenical movement.

Applies Bernard Lonergan's thought to the various issues in philosophy and in moral and other areas of theology. This book focuses on the dialogue and critical comparison and contrast between Lonergan's thought and various key interlocutors in philosophy and theology. It presents a reassessment of the impact and application of Lonergan's thought.