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The power of storytelling in troubling times
Violence, pain and punishment dominate portrayals of social problems but the reality is more complex. In the world of actual people and experience…
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Byung-Chul Han
Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and…
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Part One of the Festschrift in honor of William H. Nienhauser's 80th birthday features ten academic papers that explore unearthed texts, official historical records, ancient documents and poems spanning from…
Part Two of the Festschrift in honor of William H. Nienhauser's 80th birthday features twelve papers that explore the fascinating world of poetry and fiction from the Tang era and…
Unravelling the narratives surrounding EUChina relations, this book sheds light on how these diverse and often contradictory perspectives can play a crucial role in shaping decisions and warns of their…
Jane Elizabeth Dougherty
Offers the first full-length study of Irish female developmental narratives
Culture studies try to understand how people assume identities and perceive reality. In this light narration is a fundamental cultural technique. What is considered fictitious or real no longer separates…
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Robert Rotstein
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Robert Rotstein, A True Verdict is an edge-of-your-seat legal thriller filled with secrets.
MediMiracle Corporation manufactures Sophrosyne, a miracle cure for…
C M Clark
Narrators are never the exclusive property of prose fiction, according to this new chapbook collection, The Unreliable Narrator, by C.M. Clark. In these poems, the author explores how all speakers…
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Haiqa Mohd Imran Bhat
The book is filled with a variety of poems and stories, each one different from the others. It includes everything from light-hearted tales to deep, thought-provoking pieces. This mix keeps…
Solon Simmons
This book provides practical tools, models, and frameworks for thinking about how story is structured to help us think about conflict, using a wide range of examples.
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Gretchen Braun
Draws on current theories of trauma to examine the prehistory of those psychic and somatic responses to trauma now known as PTSD and their influence on Victorian fiction.
Narrating Rape presents exciting new scholarship on how to read, wrestle with, and respond to sexual violence and rape in and around biblical texts. The fourteen essays represent global contributors…
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Pat Gray
Pat Gray's Kafkaesque fantasy presents a bureaucratic landscape which is both sinister and comic. Mr Narrator portrays with documentary accuracy a Morocco which has never existed but one which has…
Dr M. Gabr
In this captivating novel, Dr. Gabr invites readers to embark on a journey of self-discovery, love, and passion through the eyes of Jamal Ghaleb, a remarkable young man whose story…
Anna Stenning
A stirring and meaningful departure from atomized accounts of neurological difference, Narrating the Many Autisms ponders big questions about its topic and finds clarity and meaning in the sense-making practices…
Narrating the Heritage of Psychiatry challenges dominant biomedical models of progress in psychiatry, highlights the importance of diverse voices and counter-narratives in memorialisation efforts, and argues for the need for…
Dr. Eleftheria Thanouli
"A new and rigorous exploration of post-classical cinematic narration, prioritizing current examples and re-evaluating its development away from linear storytelling and its growing innovations in film form and narrative conventions"--
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He Zhang, Qian Gong
This book presents the first major initiative to introduce workshop-based Digital Storytelling to digitally dynamic and engaged youth, both in China and internationally.
Neelam Kashyap
Sultan came into our lives incidentally but soon he became an integral part of our family.
My husband had his last posting in Guwahati, Assam. One day Sultan was sleeping…
Abdelmajid Hannoum
This book considers secularism and its narrative expressions. It shows how secularism is articulated, and transmitted ubiquitously within state institutions and outside of them.
Aravinda Bhat
Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighting the centrality of blindness in literary compositions.
This book explores nuances of various narratives on long-term transcultural exchanges between Africa and South Asia with a special focus on India. It explores the ways in which Africa and…
Rose A. Sackeyfio
This book examines the complexities of women's lives in Africa, Europe and North America through the literary works of key African women writers. Unlike existing works on this topic, this…
John Peters
Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence
A collection of essays that offer an understanding of how performance art can be a tool for dissent against power structures and a means to reach a broad audience outside…
Fostering a dialog between Critical Disability Studies, American Studies, InterAmerican Studies, and Global Health Studies, the compilation conceptualizes disability and (mental) illnesses as a cultural narrative enabling a deeper social…
Brepols Publishers, Marie Claude Beaulieu Orna
As chosen by British landscapists traveling on the Grand Tour in the last third of the eighteenth century, our study explores the path to remedy the ambiguity of their pictorial…
Eve Salisbury
Exploring medical writing in England in the 100+ years after the advent of the "Great Mortality", this book examines the storytelling practices of poets, patients, and physicians in the midst…
Gabriele Rosenthal
A new edition of sociologist Gabriele Rosenthal's classic 1995 work on phenomenology and Gestalt theory.
How do people narrate events in their life stories and the history of their family…
Viola Thimm
This book presents a guide to researching intersectionality. Clear and jargon-free, this book introduces a narrative-driven, scalar, and polyvocal approach to the antiracist-feminist framework. Thimm shows students how intersectionality can…
Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe: 1940s to 1980s investigates the function of music in European cinema after the Second World War up to the fall of the…
Paul B Du Chaillu
Stories of the Gorilla Country, Narrated for Young People, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at…
Chris Flynn
2020’s bestselling cult novel, narrated by a mammoth, now in B format.
Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct mammoth, this is the (mostly) true story of how a collection of prehistoric…
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This book sheds light on how, as Covid-19 spread, infecting and killing millions across the world, life not only continued to be experienced but also continued to be narrated.
Exploring narratives produced by different groups of MENA and SSA migrants or refugees, this book focuses on the spatial and temporal aspects of their experiences. In doing so, the authors…
Stefan Hanss
This book is an indispensable reading for the history of the early modern Mediterranean, self-narratives, Venice, the Ottoman Empire, and Southeastern Europe, as well as the history of translation. Hanss…
Ingrid Baumgartner
This volume offers the author’s central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an…
Pearl's Narration
The first thrilling book in the Obsessions Series is about stalking, romance, and manipulation that often comes too unexpectedly!
I was sitting on a beach. A breathtakingly sexy man came…
