Wiley: All New Humanities Titles

A Bronte Encyclopedia

Robert Barnard, Louise Barnard — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

A Brontë Encyclopedia is an A- Z encyclopedia of the most notable literary family of the 19th century highlighting original literary insights and the significant people and places that influenced the Brontës’ lives.

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Reading the American Novel 1920-2010

James Phelan — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

This astute guide to the literary achievements of American novelists in the twentieth century places their work in its historical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novels based on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrative form.

The World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography

Todd M. Johnson, Brian J. Grim — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Created by two of the field’s leading experts, this unique introduction to international religious demography outlines the challenges in interpreting data on religious adherence, and presents a contemporary portrait of global religious belief.

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Philosophy and the Event

Alain Badiou — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

This concise and accessible book is the perfect introduction to Badiou’s thought. Responding to Tarby’s questions, Badiou takes us on a journey that interrogates and explores the four conditions of philosophy: politics, love, art and science. In all these domains, events occur that bring to light possibilities that were invisible or even unthinkable; they propose something to us. Everything then depends on how the possibility opened up by the event

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Philosophy and the Event

Alain Badiou — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Violence: Thinking without Banisters

Richard J. Bernstein — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

We live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence. Whether on television, the internet, films or the video screen, we can’t escape representations of actual or fictional violence - another murder, another killing spree in a high school or movie theatre, another action movie filled with images of violence. Our age could well be called “The Age of Violence” because representations of real or imagined violence, sometimes fused

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A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900 - 1950

John T. Matthews (Editor) — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole.

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The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook

Mark C. Amodio — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry produced in Anglo-Saxon England, from AD 410-1066.

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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-Religious Dialogue

Catherine Cornille (Editor) — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

This comprehensive volume brings together a distinguished editorial team, including some of the field’s pioneers, to explore the aims, practice, and historical context of interfaith collaboration.

A Companion to George Eliot

Amanda Anderson (Editor), Harry E. Shaw (Editor) — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot’s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism. It features innovative analysis exploring the relation between Eliot’s Victorian intellectual sensibilities and those of our own era.

A Companion to Terence

Antony Augoustakis (Editor), Ariana Traill (Editor) — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

A comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars in the field that address, in a single volume, several key issues in interpreting Terence offering a detailed study of Terence’s plays and situating them in their socio-historical context, as well as documenting their reception through to present day

• The first comprehensive collection of essays on Terence in English, by leading scholars in the field
• Covers a range of topics, including both

A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

Sara Castro-Klaren (Editor) — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culturereflects the changes that have taken place in cultural theory and literary criticism since the latter part of the twentieth century.

Written by more than thirty experts in cultural theory, literary history, and literary criticism, this authoritative and up-to-date reference places major authors in the complex cultural and historical contexts that have compelled their distinctive fiction, essays,

A Companion to Digital Literary Studies

Ray Siemens (Editor), Susan Schreibman (Editor) — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

This Companion offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies, from scholarly editing and literary criticism, to interactive fiction and immersive environments.

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Cinema

Alain Badiou — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou’s account of cinema.

He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value of human existence and human freedom. Through the experience of viewing,

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Cinema

Alain Badiou — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Death of the Chesapeake: A History of the Military's Role in Polluting the Bay

Richard Albright — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

In essence this book deals with an area that contributes significantly to the pollution and degradation of Chesapeake Bay, but has been completely overlooked in many of the efforts to restore the Bay, specifically, the federal military pollution sources. The book also recognizes for the first time, that efforts to restore the Bay have failed because of violation of a fundamental precept of environmental cleanup; that is, to sample the site and see

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The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook

Mark C. Amodio — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT

The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry produced in Anglo-Saxon England, from AD 410-1066.

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An Introduction to Ontology

Nikk Effingham — Tue, 28 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

In this engaging and wide-ranging new book, Nikk Effingham provides an introduction to contemporary ontology - the study of what exists - and its importance for philosophy today.

He covers the key topics in the field, from the ontology of holes, numbers and possible worlds, to space, time and the ontology of material objects - for instance, whether there are composite objects such as tables, chairs or even you and me. While starting from the basics

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An Introduction to Ontology

Nikk Effingham — Tue, 28 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama

Nadine Holdsworth (Editor), Mary Luckhurst (Editor) — Tue, 28 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this collection offers new ways of thinking about the social, political, and cultural contexts within which specific aspects of British and Irish theatre have emerged and explores the relationship between these contexts