Mqup imprint: 803 books
Kingsley Amis
Antimodels and the Audience
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
While it has become commonplace to discount British novelist Kingsley Amis as a "naïve realist," a mere comedic novelist, even a misogynist and failed moralist, Andrew James argues that Amis was seriously concerned with the role of the artist in society and explored this subject in many of his novels....
Divining Margaret Laurence
A Study of Her Complete Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
Whereas previous studies focus on certain aspects of her work, Divining Margaret Laurence addresses all her important writings, including a final, unfinished manuscript - "Dance on the Earth: A Memoir." This comprehensive study of her writings, including archival material, allows Nora Stovel...
A House of One's Own
The Moral Economy of Post-Disaster Aid in El Salvador
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
What happens to people after an earthquake destroys their homes? What is daily life like under a humanitarian regime? Is aid a gift or is it a form of power? A House of One’s Own explores these enduring questions as they unfold in a Salvadoran town in the aftermath of the 2001 earthquakes. In a...
Encounters with Wild Children
Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2006
Through detailed readings of a wide variety of accounts, debates, and representations, Encounters with Wild Children explores the many different meanings these children were given and the varied responses they elicited. Adriana Benzaquén explains why wild children continue to haunt and fascinate Western...
Archaeology of Bruce Trigger
Theoretical Empiricism
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
In The Archaeology of Bruce Trigger, leading scholars discuss their own approaches to the interpretation of archaeological data in relation to Trigger's fundamental intellectual contributions
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
L.M. Montgomery’s writings are replete with enchanting yet subtle and fluid depictions of nature that convey her intense appreciation for the natural world. At a time of ecological crises, intensifying environmental anxiety, and burgeoning eco-critical perspectives, L.M. Montgomery and the Matter...
Curative Illnesses
Medico-National Allegory in Québécois Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
During a time of uncertainty over collective identity and social transformation, Quebec novels started getting sick – after 1940, the number of narratives about illness, disease, and sick characters intensified. For the last seventy years, generations of authors have turned to medically oriented stories...
The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry
An Anthology of Verse from the Republican Period
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The May Fourth Movement launched an era of turmoil and transformation in China, as Western ideas and Western-style education encroached on the Confucian traditions that lay at the foundation of Chinese society. The reverberations for Chinese culture and literature were profound. The Republican period...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Sean O’Faolain (1900-1991) was Ireland’s leading social and political critic in the period following the country’s independence from the United Kingdom. Since his death, scholarly opinion has alternately cast him as an arch-revisionist, a liberal nationalist, and a frustrated republican. The Selected...
The Philosophy of Gesture
Completing Pragmatists' Incomplete Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In everyday reasoning - just as in science and art - knowledge is acquired more by "doing" than with long analyses. What do we "do" when we discover something new? How can we define and explore the pattern of this reasoning, traditionally called "synthetic"? Following in the steps of classic pragmatists,...
by D.L.C. Maclachlan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
How do we acquire knowledge through a sensory input from our environment? In The Enigma of Perception, D.L.C. Maclachlan revives the traditional causal representative theory of perception which dominated philosophical thinking for hundreds of years by revealing the important element of truth the theory...
Fresh Strange Music
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Elizabeth Barrett Browning evokes several figures as muses for her poetry, and one recurring type is the music master. While her writing has always been recognized as highly experimental, the influence and use of music in her work have not been fully examined. Fresh Strange Music defines the exact nature...
by Wendy M. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
Wendy Davis inherited this affection for India and its people. In Dal & Rice she chronicles the memories of her childhood and offers a poignant and measured character study of her father. Her story is part social history, part travelogue, but mostly a very personal account of a relationship with an exotic, chaotic, and often mysterious country.
Married Women and the Law
Coverture in England and the Common Law World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Explaining the curious legal doctrine of "coverture," William Blackstone famously declared that "by marriage, husband and wife are one person at law." This "covering" of a wife's legal identity by her husband meant that the greatest subordination of women to men developed within marriage. In England...