The essays in this volume examine the appeal of melodrama in the twenty-first century by applying contemporary melodramatic theories to Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet cultural texts and discourses.
This book reveals the central role played by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes in the development of modern-day aesthetics.
This book illuminates interactions between Italian environmental history and science fiction, offering fresh insights into how literary imagination has addressed ecological changes in the latter half of the twentieth century.
Bits of Time investigates our understanding of time in the digital world, situating the role of timekeeping in a long history of temporal concepts.
This book explores how Canada, after Igor Gouzenko’s 1945 defection and the exposure of Canadian spies, used the Kellock-Taschereau Commission to confront espionage and protect national security.
Public Representations explores the reciprocal relationship between recent screen representations of politics and contemporary popular political culture in the US, UK, and Canada, drawing on both academic scholarship and mass media commentary.
This timely volume contributes to conceptualizing multiple forms of precarious status non-citizenship as connected through policy and the practices of migrants and the institutional actors they encounter.
Religion, Culture, and the State addresses reasonable accommodation from legal, political, and anthropological perspectives, with... Læs mere
Although Burckhardt himself expressed his scepticism towards general theories and claimed to be devoid of a personal philosophical position, through an examination of his works Sigurdson argues that both implicit and explicit political reflections and theories are recognisable.
David A. Good's The Politics of Public Money examines the extent to which the Canadian federal budgetary process is shifting from one based on a bilateral... Læs mere
The story of thousands of Mennonite women who, having lost their husbands and fathers, assumed altered gender roles in their adopted homeland and created a culture of women refugees with its own distinctive historical narrative.
Emphasizing theoretical and methodological frameworks over empirical evidence, this book explores translation as a process of meaning recreation within cultural contexts.