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When A Theological Shift Changed a Nation

Mark R. Kreitzer

The Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (DRC) played a key role in developing apartheid theology, syncretizing Reformed theology with race-based ideology. This paradigm changed rapidly between 1986 and 1990 with the General Synod decision, Church and Society.The...

Timeline and Personification in The Merchant of Venice"

Judicial Activism in Comparative Perspective

Lori Hausegger , Raul Urribarri

What is understood by judicial activism in different jurisdictions? Beyond a superficial agreement, are we talking about the same phenomenon across countries and systems (or over time), and to what extent? This book seeks to articulate a comparative perspective on...

Verse or Adverse

Dan Valenti

Poetry has been around for nearly five millennia, yet never has it been more puzzling. The many reasons include technology, social media, and the blinding pace of contemporary life, leaving many students and readers in the dark. Just in time, this book comes to the...

Alone with Each Other

Eli Goldblatt

This collection of essays by an award winning scholar and poet will appeal to readers from many areas of English, with particular appeal to grad students preparing to teach writing courses. "As an admirer of Eli Goldblatt’s original, groundbreaking, and beautifully...

Investigating Evil

Hugo G. Walter

This book is a collection of excellent essays about heroic, intelligent, perceptive, and resourceful private citizens with exceptional investigative capacities and their important contributions to noteworthy criminal cases which are discussed in literary masterpieces by...

Towards Post-Blackness

Lekha Roy

The book is a detailed introduction to Post-Blackness as a literary aesthetic, tracing its emergence to the philosophical movement that defined itself in the visual arts towards the end of the twentieth century. Aiming to redefine African American identity in a...

Achieving Equity in School Writing

Paul Deane

Writing is a critical skill people need to survive and prosper in the modern economy. But most people fail to become competent writers. Those who succeed (at least, in English-speaking countries) are predominantly White, upper middle class, and female. These achievement...

The Wisdom of Solomon and the Byzantine Reception of Origen

Panayiotis Tzamalikos

This is a critical edition of a newly discovered Greek manuscript: a full commentary from Codex 199, Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre, Constantinople, entitled ‘Wisdom of Solomon—an interpretation of Solomon’s Book of Wisdom, by Origen, as they say’. The book includes...

Correspondance

Jan Baetens , Michael Kasper

Correspondance is the name of a Belgian Surrealist magazine published in 1924–1925 by Paul Nougé, Camille Goemans, and Marcel Lecomte. It is considered as seminal as Breton’s «Surrealist Manifesto» (1924). The texts were tart, obscure responses to the arcane literary...

Descartes’s Dreams

Ann Scholl

Ann Scholl revises the traditional understanding of the role of imagination and sensory perception in Descartes’s Meditations. Traditionally, Cartesian scholars have focused primarily on sensory perception as the more significant of the two «special» modes of thought....