Literary studies: general

Americanizing Japanese Firms examines the concept of corporate social responsibility in Japanese manufacturing companies within the United States.

Relocation narratives form a distinct subgenre of contemporary travel memoirs concerned with the experiences of travellers who become settlers in foreign locales and narrate their experience of cultural accommodation in serial autobiographical accounts.

Pinter's World: Pinter and Company is not a full-scale biography but a series of illuminating chapters about Pinter's life, character, and thought, employing new information found in his "e;Appointment Diaries,"e; recent biographical sources such as Simon Gray's memoirs, and Henry Woolf's reminiscences in addition to personal discussions with several in Pinter's world.

From climate catastrophe to pandemics and economic crises, the problems facing humanity can feel impossible to solve.

This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in American literature.

Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and surrealist writers in Europe.

Masculinity is not a monolithic phenomenon, but a historically discontinuous one-a fabrication as it were, of given cultural circumstances.

How do we perceive evil?

Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France analyzes the work of several literary critics in France and England, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, who were inspired by the idea that literature - especially the literary sublime - might offer us the deepest kind of knowledge.

A bold new literary history that says women's writing is defined less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public lifeIn a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active engagement with the most pressing issues of public life: from class and religious divisions, slavery, warfare, and labor unrest to democracy, tyranny, globalism, and the clash of cultures.

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The Advanced Dairy Chemistry series was first published in four volumes in the 1980s (under the title Developments in Dairy Chemistry) and revised in three volumes in the 1990s and 2000s.

Covering topics ranging from the establishment of the Gulf Coast shrimping industry in 1800s to the Korean taco truck craze in the present day, this book explores the widespread contributions of Asian Americans to U.

This book investigates representations of the nation of India as characterized by unity and diversity in the works of six contemporary novelists, linking their work to important political, historical and theoretical writings.

In Translation and Rewriting in the Age of Post-Translation Studies, Edwin Gentzler argues that rewritings of literary works have taken translation to a new level: literary texts no longer simply originate, but rather circulate, moving internationally and intersemiotically into new media and forms.

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors.

On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly.

Can reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare contribute to the health of the planet?

In der politischen Auseinandersetzung überzieht Cicero Mitglieder der Senatsaristokratie mit Schmähungen, um den Leumund, das Ansehen und damit auch den Rang seiner politischen Gegner nachhaltig zu erschüttern.

For about one thousand years, the Distichs of Cato were the first Latin text of every student across Europe and latterly the New World.

Explores the emphasis that contemporary novels, films and television series place on the present, arguing that hope emerges from the potentiality of the here and now, rather than the future, and as intimately entangled with negotiations of structures of belonging.

This volume explores the tremendous influence of Plato's Phaedrus on the philosophical, religious, scientific and literary discussions in the West.

Modern theory needs a history lesson.

In the long literary history of the Middle East, the notion of 'the beloved' has been a central trope in both the poetry and prose of the region.

Shiga Naoya was a giant of Japanese literature but he is barely known outside Japan.

Offers an alternative interpretation and defends a radically new view of Plato''s method of argument in the early dialogues.

This edited volume explores emotion and its translations through the global world from a variety of different perspectives, as a personal, socio- cultural, ideological, ethical and political, even business investment in the latest phases of globalisation.

MacFadyen focuses on Brodsky's poetic beginnings.

Iris and Periocular Recognition using Deep Learning systematically explains the fundamental and most advanced techniques for ocular imprint-based human identification, with many applications in sectors such as healthcare, online education, e-business, metaverse, and entertainment.

The chapters in this book elucidate the nature of semi-fixed formulaic sequences; how the meaning of formulaic expressions can change over time; how readers interpret formulaic expressions in first and second languages; how modern and postmodern authors use traditional genres and tales to challenging effect; and how formulaic patterns involving particular words can underlie the texture and meanings of entire novels.

Obese individuals are twice as likely to experience heart failure as non-obese people.

Die Romanische Philologie als universitäres Fach bildete sich konzeptuell und institutionell in einem vielgestaltigen Prozess im 19.

World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse.

The English civil wars radically altered many aspects of mid-seventeenth century life, simultaneously creating a period of intense uncertainty and unheralded opportunity.

Der gesamte Aufbau des Heine-Handbuchs ist von der Absicht geleitet, umfassend und auf dem Stand der neuesten Forschung über die vielfältigen Aspekte von Zeit, Person, Werk und Wirkung Heinrich Heines zu informieren.

The new essays in this book make two central claims.

This edited volume reviews the long career of Russell Hoban, an American writer residing in England who writes for children and adults.

An exploration of writings about the Ottoman Empire and other Islamic countries by women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.