Electronic Books

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A Short Media History of English Literature / Ingo Berensmeyer

This book explores the history of literature as a history of changing media and modes of communication, from manuscript to ...

Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure

Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure combines the author's two main biographical paths: her professional commitment ...

Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women Gender, Space and Mobility in Contemporary Cinema

This book adopts a fluid approach to space designed to accommodate wilful, affirmative, and imaginative perspectives of ...

African Languages and Literatures in the 21st Century

Examines the crucial role still played by African languages in pedagogy and literatures in the 21st century, generating ...

Animating Unpredictable Effects Nonlinearity in Hollywood’s R&D Complex

Uncanny computer-generated animations of splashing waves, billowing smoke clouds, and characters’ flowing hair have become ...

Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime

The book is divided into seven chapters, which in turn analyze the interconnections between the novel and architecture in ...

Beyond Media Borders, Volume 1 Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media

This book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, ...

Beyond Media Borders, Volume 2 Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media

This book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, ...

British Media Coverage of the Press Reform Debate Journalists Reporting Journalism

This book provides a detailed exploration of the British media coverage of the press reform debate that arose from the News ...

Building Children's Worlds : The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks / Torsten Schmiedeknecht, Jill Rudd, Emma Hayward

Children are the future architects, clients and users of our buildings. The kinds of architectural worlds they are exposed ...

Chasing the Chinese Dream Four Decades of Following China’s War on Poverty

This book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society ...

Cinematic Histospheres On the Theory and Practice of Historical Films

In this book, film scholar Rasmus Greiner develops a theoretical model for the concept of the histosphere to refer to the ...

Clear English Pronunciation : A Practical Guide /Dick Smakman

This book: introduces the phenomenon of pronunciation as part of a broader communicative realm; explains and demonstrates ...

Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England : Ravenous Natures

Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before ...

Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

This collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and children’s ...

Craftspeople and Designer Makers in the Contemporary Creative Economy

Thisbook explores the experience of working as a craftsperson or designer maker in the contemporary creative economy. The ...

Crisis Reporters, Emotions, and Technology

This book explores the emotional labour of crisis reporters in an original style that combines fictional and factual narrative. ...

Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy 1678-1865

This book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations ...

Cultural Convergence The Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928–1960

Based on extensive archival research, this book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) ...

Cultural Heritage in a Changing World

The central purpose of this collection of essays is to make a creative addition to the debates surrounding the cultural heritage ...

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