Author: Peter Collins
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: modals, computers, language, english, quasi
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2009-01-30
List price: $53.30
ISBN-10: 9042025328
ISBN-13: 9789042025325

Modals and Quasi-modals in English reports the findings of a corpus-based study of the modals and a set of semantically-related ’quasi-modals’ in English. The study is the largest and most comprehensive to date in this area, and is informed by recent developments in the study of modality, including grammaticalization and recent diachronic change. The selection of the parallel corpora used, representing British, American and Australian English, was designed to facilitate the exploration of both regional and stylistic variation.

Authors:Bernard De Meyer, Neil ten Kortenaar,
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: litterature, africaine, cross, cultures, visages, nouveaux, face, african, literature, les, changing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-05-29
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 9042025808
ISBN-13: 9789042025806

The Changing Face of African Literature combines both the large picture - a synopsis of current trends in African literature - and the small: studies of individual texts and of themes across several texts. The large and the small are linked by recurring themes, such as gender and sexuality, the nation-state and its collapse, AIDS, war, and suffering. The volume is comparative, bringing together literature in at least five languages and from at least ten national literatures. Such a large, comparative frame is implied by most discussion of African literature but is too seldom seen. At the same

Authors:Jesus Benito, Ana Mª Manzanas, Begona Simal,
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: literatures, caeal, ethnic, realism, mirrors, magical, uncertain
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2009-05-18
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 9042026006
ISBN-13: 9789042026001

Uncertain Mirrors realigns magical realism within a changing critical landscape, from Aristotelian mimesis to Adorno’s concept of negative dialectics. In between, the volume traverses a vast theoretical arena, from postmodernism and postcolonialism to Le?vinasian philosophy and eco-criticism. The volume opens and closes with dialectical instability, as it recasts the mutability of the term "mimesis" as both a "world-reflecting" and a "world-creating" mechanism. Magical realism, the authors contend, offers another stance of the possible; it also situates the reader at a hybrid aesthetic m

Author: King-Tak I
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: inquiry, book, value, perspectives, ethics, intercultural, environmental
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 2009-05-29
List price: $51.00
ISBN-10: 9042025956
ISBN-13: 9789042025950

This book shows that environmental protection is a global concern that must enlist all of humanity’s cultural, religious, and moral resources. The nine essays in this volume explore the foundations of environmental ethics in the Western philosophical tradition as well as from the perspectives of Christianity, Islam, Daoism, and Buddhism and propose morally responsible attitudes towards nature and the environment.

Authors:Peter Houtzagers, Janneke Kalsbeek, Jos Schaeke,
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: dutch, slavists, international, congress, fourteenth, contributions, linguistics, general, studies, slavic
Number of Pages: 580
Published: 2008-08-11
List price: $150.80
ISBN-10: 9042024429
ISBN-13: 9789042024427

This volume contains articles by 17 slavists from the Low Countries. Although they are all about Slavic linguistics, they cover a wide range of subjects and their theoretical implications are often not restricted to slavistics alone. Most contributions deal with Russian or Slavic in general, but South and West Slavic are also represented. The reader who knows the strong points for which Dutch slavistics is traditionally known and appreciated will not be disappointed: s/he will find papers on syntax and semantics (Fortuin, Van Helden, Honselaar, Keijsper, Tribusinina), aspectology (Barentsen, G

Authors:Nelly van Doorn-Harder, Lourens Minnema,
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: currents, encounter, culture, religion, evil, coping
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2007-12-21
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 9042023376
ISBN-13: 9789042023376

The various Christian, Muslim, traditional (African), and secular (Western) ways of imagining and coping with evil collected in this volume have several things in common. The most crucial perhaps and certainly the most striking aspect is the problem of defining the nature or characteristics of evil as such. Some argue that evil has an essence that remains constant, whereas others say its interpretation depends on time and place. However much religious and secular interpretations of evil may have changed, the human search for sense and meaning never ends. Questions of whom to blame and whom to

Author: Christoph Asmuth
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: fichte, und, kant, german, studien
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 2009-08-24
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 9042026545
ISBN-13: 9789042026544

Kant und Fichte - Fichte und Kant. (Fichte-studien) (German Edition) Creator: Christoph AsmuthPublisher: RodopiList Price: $120.00Buy New: $111.94as of 12/6/2009 13:18 CST detailsYou Save: $8.06 (7%) New (9) Used (1) from $111.94Seller: pbshopusSales Rank: 8377456Media: PaperbackPages: 418Number Of Items: 1Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.9ISBN: 9042026545EAN: 9789042026544ASIN: 9042026545Publication Date: August 24, 2009Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days