Values Across Cultures and Times - Hardcover

Values Across Cultures and Times is a collection of sixteen articles examining the concept of values understood in its broadest sense as the need of the modern man to examine, redefine, and reconstruct previous theories, histories, moralities, social relationships, forms of language and language use. In times of great change, preserving traditional values seems to be particularly difficult, and the authors of these essays respond to the challenge, and approach the notion of changing values from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics. The book opens with an introductory overview, followed by sixteen articles divided into three sections. The book is aimed at a broad academic audience, while the popular style of the articles also makes the volume appealing to a wider audience interested in different aspects of values. The authors of the articles come from Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, and the United States.

Vesna Lopicic is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Nis, Serbia. Her publications include Fall into Culture: Human Nature in the Work of William Golding and Margaret Atwood (2002), two collections of essays on Canadian literature, and a number of course books and readers. She co-edited (with B. Misic Ilic) two collections of essays: Identity Issues: Literary and Linguistic Landscapes (2010), and Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses (2012) published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. She teaches courses in English Literature and British and Canadian Studies. Her research is focused on the Serbian diaspora and on the novel in English. Biljana Misic Ilic is a Full Professor at the English Department, Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Nis, Serbia. Her areas of academic interests include syntax, pragmatics, discourse analysis and applied linguistics. She is the author of two coursebooks on syntax, a monograph on syntax-pragmatics interface, and a collection of linguistic essays covering topics in syntax, semantics and discourse. She co-edited (with V. Lopicic) nine books of proceedings from national and international conferences, as well as two collections of essays Identity Issues: Literary and Linguistic Landscapes (2010), and Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses (2012) published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.