Foreword by Professor Wang Gungwu,former Vice Chancellor, University of Hong Kong and currently Director of the East asian Institute, University of Singapore. This research monograph is a major contribution to Chinese Studies especially in area studies of comparative religion, Chinese Rhetoric, History and translation (esp. Chinese to English). ......
It would be ironic if psychoanalysis disappeared during the 21st century, overtaken by smart newer drugs or so-called evidence based methods of psychological help. After all, there ha been no shortage of experts wishing for its demise. Who needs psychoanalysis with its complex theory of the person? With the increasing objectification of life and ......
In his latest work Professor Alper explores how his innovative concept of narcissistic giving that is, the dysfunctional art in which one gives without actually giving---manifests itself all too often in the social transactions and interactions that compose everyay existence. This sense of grandiosely promising a world of happiness and ......
The need for a revision of this well received and reviewed work was obvious to all serious observers of sub Saharan Africa: The emergence in the last decade of the enormouspolitical, economic and social clout of China, the desire of Magrebi states and Egypt to continue a "southward" policy that includes conversion to Islam, Arab investment and ......
Understanding the New Roman Missal and its English Translation
The new Roman Missal is the third typical edition of the Roman Missal (Missale Romanum - editio typica tertia) promulgated by Pope John Paul II in the Jubilee Year 2000 and published in 2002. The English translation of this Missal is coming very soon. For a long time the English speaking believers have used and heard the words of this Missal which ......
Memory Culture, Memory Crisis and the Age of Amnesia
"There is, to my knowledge, no work in English that covers the field historically and across disciplines as this one does. It gives researchers in many disciplines the full picture of the range of memory studies and once more shows us the critical value of having a memory culture that is an essential construct of civilization and literary and ......
By focusing on the important early theoretical writings about these two media, Theater and Cinema: Contrasts in Media, 1916-1966 becomes one of the first books in over thirty-five years to examine the historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationships between theater and film. As we move through the twenty-first century, almost all artists, ......
Wagnerian Influences on French Musical and Literary Culture 1870-1945
Paul du Quenoy's acclaimed book reinterprets the works and ideas of Richard Wagner and their profound influence on the artistic, intellectual, and social life of modern France. Wagner's Romanticism influenced the French symbolists so greatly that they named their major journal La Revue Wagnerienne. His musical themes, dramatic structures and ......
