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From Becoming the Pearl-Poet, students and scholars alike can learn about the Pearl-poet and the five poems attributed to him, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and St...

The essays in this collection analyze a variety of contemporary television shows to argue for the role that TV plays in moral identity formation. Audiences take from television viewing a better sense...

Beyond Death and Jail explores death and the institutional machinery of policing, surveillance, and containment which breeds it. It seeks to explain why homicide, accompanied by an apparatus of...

This edited collection recovers "lost" girls' series fiction heroines of the twentieth century. The chapters examine the role the heroines' sociohistorical contexts play in the narrative plot lines...

This book critically investigates the standardization of heteronormativity and heteropatriarchal stereotypes. Critiquing the concepts of personhood, performativity, and the post-binary, the chapters...

Beyond Words argues that some works of fiction and poetry are especially, perhaps even best, suited to expanding our awareness and understanding into the nature of things otherwise unsayable and...

This work explores an understanding of bhakti, "devotional love to the divine," whereby emotions are sensory perceptions of the real ethical qualities of classes of actions. It centers on the Gau?iya...

Black Witches and Queer Ghosts is a collection of essays centering on teen supernatural serials (such as television shows, video games, anime, and manga) addressing race, gender, and sexuality...

This book takes the city of Trieste as a starting point to think critically and comparatively about migration, border regimes, and memories of displacement.Author: Roberta AltinPublisher: Lexington...

Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Heroine of 1821 offers a critical look at the life and times of one of the most important figures in modern Greek history,...

This work explores caring robots' lifesaving benefits, particularly during contagion, while probing the threat they pose to interpersonal engagement and genuine human caregiving. As humans, we have a...

Cartographies of Postcolonial Vegetal Politics resorts to Deleuzo-Guattarian grammar to enunciate the productive disjunctures of vegetality while cartographizing differential repetitions of...

Spanning across media, cultural, television, and religious studies, Catholic Horror on Television: Haunting Faith explores how contemporary television and streaming series critique, interrogate, and...

This book tells the story of the American character, from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllister detail how great events and daily life have both shaped...

Child Survivors of Genocide: Trauma, Resilience, and Identity in Guatemala presents mixed-method, comparative ethnographic research conducted with orphaned child survivors who are now adults. These...

Assessing key areas of Sino-U.S. technological competition such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, telecommunications, green tech and defense, the ability of both countries' industries...

In this edited volume, the contributors focus on Chinese dual language immersion programs and address these three under-researched themes: content area instruction, learners, and evaluations.Author:...

David Friddle explores choral methods and community choral ensembles that originated in the nineteenth century. Using more than one hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs,...

This book explores different ways in which Christians can creatively interpret the sacred writings of other religions and shows how the various Christian beliefs can be re-articulated in the light of...

This book analyzes how films depict God when black characters experience suffering and tragedy to elucidate how cinema often portrays a God that is considered supportive, yet who does little to...

This book includes critical essays investigating how Latin American filmmakers build cinematic landscapes to address emerging identities in the region.Author: María Soledad Paz-Mackay, Argelia...

This book examines citizen engagement at the local level in Cuba through projects initiated by the community since the 1990s to provide an understanding of the relationship between citizens and the...

Class, Identity, and Finding the Right Wine in Schitt's Creek: A Place To Love analyzes the themes of love, place, and identity. The book argues that Schitt's Creek's inclusive ideologies and...

In Classical Vertigo, Padilla analyzes narrative figures and themes of classical mythology within Hitchock's Vertigo to demonstrate that the film is a multifaceted work of intertextuality with...

Climate Change Education: Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling offers innovative approaches to teaching about climate change through storytelling forms that appeal to today's...

Code Musicology opens a conduit between musicology and software studies. It extends an ethnomusicology of technoculture from the world of hardware and the hardwired to software, code, and algorithms...

Communicated Stereotypes at Work highlights the pervasiveness and complexity of stereotypes in the workplace by analyzing the role they play in a variety of professional settings. Contributors...

Communication Research in the Big Data Era : The Application of Machine Learning Models and AI Techniques in Communication ResearchAuthor: Xiaoqun ZhangPublisher: Lexington BooksPublication Date: Nov...

Comparative Postcolonialism in the Works of V.S. Naipaul and Toni Morrison: Fragmented Identities begins with an overview of its theoretical framework, highlighting the intersectional relationship...

This book investigates the complex art of television drama screenwriting, bridging a crucial gap between theory and practice by exploring both the structure and character developments models of the...