Books published by Continuum Publishing Corporation

Brings together research into the teaching and learning of Chinese as a foreign language to non-native speakers, as a second language to minority groups and as a heritage/community language in the diaspora. This book is of interest to researchers and practitioners working in applied linguistics and Chinese language education worldwide.

Technology-mediated communication cannot help but inform our literacies. This book presents a reconceptualization of the role of language and pedagogy in the new media age. It focuses on the notion of 'transformation' - a change in discourse practices, meaning making, technology and, as a result, literacy acquisition itself.

Offers a collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis, examining the novels of his mature period: "American Psycho (1991)", "Glamorama (1999)", and "Lunar Park (2005)". This title also examines the alchemy of acclaim and disdain that accrues to Ellis, and reviews the literary and artistic significance of his work.

Looks at gender in relation to children's fiction and the role that language plays in this relationship. This book treats fiction as fiction, and argues that fiction is almost always dialogic, and that the feminist movement has had considerable influence on textual representations of women, men, boys and girls.

Argues the necessity of higher education as a public good, defining the institutional spaces necessary for sustaining these public goods and ensuring that they flourish. This book explores the institutional and sector-wide implications of the financial crisis for higher education - and the lessons to be learnt from that crisis.

Offers a collection of essays that explores the implications of how we choose to represent crime to ourselves. This title focuses beyond classic English detective fiction, the American 'hard-boiled' crime novel and the gangster movie and discusses staple themes of crime fiction and cinema.

A collection of original essays offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of three well known Atwood texts - "The Robber Bride", "The Blind Assassin", and "Oryx and Crake". It reveals not only Atwood's engagement with the issues that have long preoccupied her, but also her increasing formal complexity as a novelist.

Examines and critiques John Rawls' epistemology and the unresolved tension - inherited from Kant - between Representationalism and Constructivism in Rawls' work. This title argues that, despite Rawls' claims to be a constructivist, his unexplored Kantian influences cause several problems.

Addresses the need for a systemic analysis of television discourse and characterization within linguistics and media studies. This title presents both corpus stylistics and 'manual' analysis of linguistic and multimodal features of fictional television.

Demonstrates the importance of Ranciere's educational thought and how educational theory needs to be informed by his philosophical project. This book illustrates how philosophy can benefit from Ranciere's particular way of thinking about education, and offer a provocative account of the relationship between education, truth, and emancipation.

Are we living in a post-temporal age? Has history come to an end? This book argues against the widespread perception of postmodern narrativity as atemporal and a historical, claiming that postmodernity is characterized by an explosion of heterogeneous narrative 'timeshapes' or chronotopes.

When they were creating and releasing their most influential albums in the mid to late 1970s, Kraftwerk were far from the musical mainstream. This collection of original essays looks at Kraftwerk - their legacy and influence - from a variety of angles.

An examination of Derrida's work on myth and language, offering a postmodern, deconstructive theory of myth. It argues that the insights of deconstruction and complexity theory demand a re-examination of mythos (narrative, story, myth) in terms of its disseminative propensities and its disruptive interplay with logos (language, structure, word).

Discussing the work of Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies, John Cowper Powys and Mary Butts, this title maps various districts of the 'west country' to redefine the 'parochial'; while being keenly aware of their own status as natives locked into complex histories of self-exile and return, estrangement and ardent identification.

Offers an overview of the Tudor dynasty. Exploring the reign of each monarch within the framework of the dynasty, the author unpacks the key questions surrounding the monarchy; the relationship between church and the state, development of government, war and foreign policy, the question of Ireland and the issue of succession in Tudor politics.

Explores the relationship between language ideologies and media discourse, together with the methods and techniques required for the analysis of this relationship. This book also places emphasis on television and new-media texts, incorporating and expanding upon theoretical insights into visual communication and multimodal discourse analysis.