The decorated word

Word stress has long presented challenges to phonologists, as they have sought to uncover patterns in its distribution, and devise models to account for its behaviour and formal re...

Word and Image in Japanese Cinema examines the complex relationship between the temporal order of linguistic narrative and the spatiality of visual spectacle, a dynamic that has pl...

Abstract German song in the nineteenth century offers some of the greatest pleasures available to the singer, pianist, and listener. The great German poets—Goethe...

In today’s market-driven world, the contemporary church faces pressing questions as it continues to be formed by the powerful forces of neoliberal capitalism. This book builds on t...

Behind the Image, Beyond the Image includes papers presented at the III International Conference of PhD students of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscar...

This chapter provides an overview of the prosody of the Persian language. The chapter starts with a discussion of word stress, which is known to be word-final in all categories oth...

Transnational exchange and intellectual networks in the early modern period relied upon translation—mainly into Latin—as a way to communicate across Europe. Translation was integra...