A Comparative Study of Cross-Cultural Poetry, Nationalist Politics, Hyphenated Margins and The Ascendancy of the Mind
This work is a comparative study of Rabindranath Tagore and William Butler Yeats. It explores their relationship and also seeks to clarify how and why these two poets shared certain ideas and ideals while there were also divergences. The author has also studied the role of James Henry Cousins, who in his early career was associated with the Irish ......
The Nietzschean revolution governed the twentieth century, preaching the revaluation of all values, the privileging of interpretations over facts, the dominance of art. The 'crisis of consciousness' is our normality. Nihilism is both good and bad, in Nietzsche's view and my own. It opposes all the conventional thinking and moralistic repressions ......
Dr. Mood's study returns Joyce's masterwork to the reader (and to accessibility) by a coupling of essential narrative themes that are humorous, sexy and suspenseful developments and a plot cycle that speaks to James Joyce's abiding fascination with femininity, gender, Irish politics and the social relevance of national literature and the world of ......
One of the surprises in the scholarship of American politics is the rarity of a serious study of a single electoral race. Indeed, there are few case studies or monographs that permit students of campaign politics to follow an election contest from start to finish. No Holds Barred is one of them. Beginning with the historic retirement announcement ......
"It is very heartening to see Gulnara Karimova's scholarly work on the application of Bakhtinian theory in understanding the marketing communication process being put to intriguing practical use in this new handbook of creative strategies. " Chris Miles, PhD Lecturer in Marketing and Communication School of Business and Management Queen Mary, ......
Dialect, Place and Setting in Victorian Sensation Literature
This scholarly monograph offers new research on Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1916) who wrote over eighty novels and rivaled Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins in popularity in mid and late Victorian times. The study looks at the representations of Yorkshire across over thirty of her novels and analyses her uses of the Yorkshire dialect, her ......
This is a collection of planning empiricists on the contemporary challenges facing Zimbabwe as a nation in the planning and ordinary life domain. Planning as a discipline is concerned about location of activities and how values of order, amenity and health, among other things must be enhanced. It takes on board the people to benefit from that ......
Scientific Challenges to Darwin's Theory of Evolution
Was Darwin theoretically wrong in his world shattering conclusions and can his errors be proven on a straightforward scientific basis? Conventional criteria for a scientific theory include empiricism, logic and testability. The theory of evolution is said traditionally to meet these criteria by the mainstream scientific community. A reviewer for a ......
The Context of Sustainability in Historical and Contemporary Global Economics
This work contributes to the social sciences generally, and economics in particular, by reviewing the way in which a narrowly applied interpretation of economics in the modern world contributes to social and environmental injustice. Through analysis of the context and intentions of the theorists upon whose ideas modern policy is based, especially ......
