The ballad genre, and its material, are frequently backward-looking in terms of subject and style: it is ideally suited to the reimagining of past events, both real and fictional. This volume addresse
A romantic comedy about a widowered single father making a very awkward leap into dating If your dead wife emailed offering to find you a new girlfriend, what would you do? Andy Hunter is a single fat
David Atkinson explores the healing ministry and the miracles of Jesus and their relevance to Christian ministry today. He asks whether suffering can ever be creative and explores how today's conversa
Bolivia retains its pre-Columbian traditions more than any other country in South America. This full-length country guide explores every aspect of Bolivia with a strong focus on the natural history an
A specialist in ballads, Atkinson tries to make some sense of the unity in diversity exhibited by the folk ballads of the English-speaking world. Like all scholars of the genre, he takes Childe's monu
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book addresses the age-old problem of infinite regresses in epistemology. How can we ever come to know something if knowing requires having good
In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into a€?street literaturea€? - that is, the cheap printed broadsides a
An accessible overview of five major issues in sociolinguistics and the relationship between language and power.This book analyzes the key ways in which language constitutes and conveys power and soci
As geography has become influenced by such themes such as postcolonial studies, feminism and psychoanalysis, so students have been forced to engage with ideas and concepts from outside the traditional
