Books published by Continuum Publishing Corporation

Provides an exploration of the spiritual and religious contexts and subtexts of contemporary fiction. This title argues against the idea that the 'postmodern condition' of late twentieth and early twenty-first century culture has undermined the close and creative association between religious practice and literature.

Offers perspectives on contemporary Islamic iconography and the use of imageries in ritual contexts. This book provides new understanding of Islamic iconography and Muslim perspectives on the use of imageries in ritual contexts and devotional life. It introduces and analyzes imageries (tile-paintings, posters and wall-hangings).

Alan Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at "A Grammar Of Speech" (1995) due to his untimely death. In this title, the author picks up the baton and tests the description of used language against a conversational corpus. It is of interest to researchers in applied linguistics, discourse analysis and also EFL/ESL.

Looks at the role of media, terrorism and literature in Don DeLillo's fiction. Bringing together DeLillo scholars in Europe and in the US, this book focuses on DeLillo to position his work in a transatlantic context.

As a specific category, London Gothic is becoming as important for understanding ourselves today as it has been for thinking about the cultural productions of the late-nineteenth century. This book focuses on Gothic representations of London, and also includes essays from scholars reading London Gothic as it is manifested in a variety of media.

The energy is the most important commodity in the world. Yet our basic energy security is threatened by an ideological social agenda driven more by myth than reality. This book reveals the energy and climate myths, from the West's war on carbon to the concept of peak oil and renewable energy.

Offers a research based approach to understanding literacy as a process and a social practice, drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Dilleuze. This title brings together theory and research in the fields of literacy study and European philosophy through a synthesis of Multiple Literacies Theory (MLT) and the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze.

Investigates the potential for creating a transnational value system in education, focusing on some key human rights issues at home and overseas. This book focuses on how education can bring about social change, connecting with theory at the level of cultural impact and policy implications.

Drawing on the results of a tri-national comparative survey of secondary pupils' attitudes towards Modern Foreign Language Learning (MFLL), this book illustrates both the importance and nature of learner attitudes and the contribution of comparative education to our understanding of educational issues.

Highlights the importance and functioning of humor in different world religions. Exploring the major religious cultures, this book looks at the constructive aspects to the relation between humor and religion, with humor seen as a pathway to spiritual wisdom. It also explores why humor and spirituality fit well together.

Includes a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema, using concepts and methodologies from pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. This book is a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema covering a selection of films from the 1950s onwards.

Catholics, especially in the US, are sharply divided over what constitutes faithful Catholicism. This title offers an exploration of the tension between two opposing views of the meaning of faith held by Catholics around the world.

Presents a re-appraisal of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction. This book examines how the phenomenological lineage is received in deconstruction, especially the relation between deconstruction and Derrida's radical readings of Hegel, Husserl, Levinas and Heidegger.

Apocalyptic nightmares that humanly-created intelligences will one day rise up against their creators haunt the western creative imagination. This study applies Kierkegaard's "Concept of Anxiety" to Blake's creation myths to explain how Enlightenment personality conceptions created fear of independently thinking beings.

A sociological study of the recontextualisation of Islam as school knowledge in the UK education system. It explores the conceptualisation of school-based Islam on two levels: as a symbolic category in English religious education as a consequence of policy shifts, and as pedagogic discourse at the local community level in state and Muslim schools.

Presents an examination of topics in ancient philosophy through the lens of modern European thought. This book aims to underscore the relevance of Ancient Philosophy for contemporary debates in Continental Philosophy. It also presents scholarship in the field of modern European thought.

A systemic functional linguistics study that analyses how a wide range of modalities, other than language, make and communicate meaning. It analyses the meaning making potential of not only language, but modalities like laughter, music, colour, and architectural spaces.

An analysis of the distinctive political writings of George Orwell. It focuses on his concept of political power and its relevance. By looking at Orwell as a political thinker, it derives a 'political message' from his works that may qualify as contributions to the liberal political thought.

Draws together a group of international policy analysts and researchers to examine the Academies policy and implementation. This book shows how the Academies Programme in England is an important site for examining the growth of neoliberal ideas and practices in the framing and delivery of public services such as education.

A radical reconsideration of a major and popular genre influenced by the thought of the significant French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.

This text provides an introduction to Marxist literary criticism. It comprises studies of major figures in the tradition, specifically Althusser, Gramsci, Eagleton, Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch, Lefebvre, Lukacs and Jameson.

Offers an overview of research and innovations in corpus-based and corpus-driven language teaching and learning. This book focusses on innovative uses of corpora by language teachers and learners. It also focuses on various corpus-based tools for LSP learning. It illustrates research findings from corpora consisting of language learner data.

A collection of essays that rectifies a long-standing misconception in the history of the relation between Hegel and analytic philosophy. It offers 'analytic' readings of Hegel, Hegelian readings of the analytic tradition, historical explorations of Hegel's confrontation with Kant and of the analytic tradition's debt to Hegel.

Presenting an account of 'Aristotle's Ethics', this book argues for the importance of the concept of 'techne' in constructing an understanding of Aristotle's moral philosophy. It explores the importance of 'techne' in the Platonic and pre-Platonic intellectual context in which Aristotle was writing.