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B-Movie Gothic: International Perspectives
by Justin D. Edwards Johan HöglundLeading philosophers reconsider the philosophical destiny of education
ReFocus: The Films of William Castle
by Murray LeederRe-frames the computer-animated film as a new genre of contemporary cinema
Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions: Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892-1964 (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance)
by Susan Cannon HarrisThe first modern Irish playwrights emerged in London in the 1890s, at the intersection of a rising international socialist movement and a new campaign for gender equality and sexual freedom. Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions shows how Irish playwrights mediated between the sexual and the socialist revolutions, and traces their impact on left theatre in Europe and America from the 1890s to the 1960s. Drawing on original archival research, the study reconstructs the engagement of Yeats, Shaw, Wilde, Synge, O’Casey, and Beckett with socialists and sexual radicals like Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, Florence Farr, Bertolt Brecht, and Lorraine Hansberry.
Cinematic Nihilism: Encounters, Confrontations, Overcomings
by John MarmyszOffers a new understanding of empathy and its relation to medicine and literature
Hong Kong Horror Cinema
by Gary Bettinson Daniel MartinExplores the problem of anthropomorphism: a major bone of contention in 8th to 14th-century Islamic theology
Meat Markets: The Cultural History of Bloody London
by Ted GeierMeat Markets articulates the emergent ‘nonhuman thought’ developed across literatures of the long nineteenth century and inflecting recent critical theories of abject life and animality. It presents important connections between meat and popular serial press industries, the intersections of criminals and public readership, and the long history of bloody spectacle at London’s Smithfield Market including public executions, criminal escapades, death and horror tales, and the fungible ‘penny press’ forms of mass consumption. Through analysis of subjection, address, and narration in canonical and penny literatures, this book reveals the mutual forces of concern and consumption that afflict objects of a weird cultural history of bloody London across the long nineteenth century. Players include butchers, Smithfield, Parliament, Dickens, Romantics, Sweeney Todd, cattle, and a strange, impossible London.
Popular Politics and Political Culture: Urban Scotland, 1918-1939
by Malcolm PetrieAn accessible and up-to-date introduction to the study of the Qur’an in its historical context
Modernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers
by Vike Martina PlockAn unprecedented sartorial revolution occurred at the beginning of the twentieth century when the tight-laced silhouettes of Victorian women gave way to the figure of the flapper. Modernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers demonstrates how five female novelists of the interwar period engaged with an emerging fashion discourse that concealed capitalist modernity’s economic reliance on mass-manufactured, uniform-looking productions by ostensibly celebrating originality and difference. For Edith Wharton, Jean Rhys, Rosamond Lehmann, Elizabeth Bowen and Virginia Woolf fashion was never just the provider of guidelines on what to wear. Rather, it was an important concern, offering them opportunities to express their opinions about identity politics, about contemporary gender dynamics and about changing conceptions of authorship and literary productivity. By examining their published work and unpublished correspondence, this book investigates how the chosen authors used fashion terminology to discuss the possibilities available to women to express difference and individuality in a world that actually favoured standardised products and collective formations.
Multicultural Governance in a Mobile World
by Anna TriandafyllidouCollection of newly-commissioned essays tracing cutting-edge developments in children’s literature research
The Victorian Male Body
by Joanne Ella Parsons Ruth HeholtExamines Francoist and Post-Francoist Spanish cinema through the lens of kitsch aesthetics
Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1869 (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism)
by Megan CoyerIn the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to a thriving periodical culture. Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press investigates how Romantic periodicals cultivated innovative literary forms, ideologies and discourses that reflected and shaped medical culture in the nineteenth century. It examines several medically-trained contributors to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the most influential literary periodical of the time, and draws upon extensive archival and bibliographical research to reclaim these previously neglected medico-literary figures. Situating their work in relation to developments in medical and periodical culture, Megan Coyer’s book advances our understanding of how the nineteenth-century periodical press cross-fertilised medical and literary ideas.
The Concept of Conversation: From Cicero's Sermo to the Grand Siècle's Conversation
by David RandallA ‘counter-discourse’ of speculative approaches to art history
Literary Impressionism: Vision and Memory in Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford, H.D. and May Sinclair (Historicizing Modernism)
by Rebecca BowlerWith its new innovations in the visual arts, cinema and photography as well as the sciences of memory and perception, the early twentieth century saw a crisis in the relationship between what was seen and what was known. Literary Impressionism charts that modernist crisis of vision and the way that literary impressionists such as Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford, H.D., and May Sinclair used new concepts of memory in order to bridge the gap between perception and representation.Exploring the fiction of these four major writers as well as their journalism, manifesto writings, letters and diaries from the archives, Rebecca Bowler charts the progression of modernism's literary aesthetics and the changing role of memory within it.
Prose Unseens for A-Level Latin: A Guide through Roman History
by Mathew OwenThis volume is designed to accompany the OCR A-Level specification in Latin (first teaching September 2016), with practice unseen passages from Livy, the set prose for Paper 1, together with passages from a selection of other writers to support Paper 2, for which no author is set. A bank of 80 passages aims to take Sixth Form students from the level of heavily adapted post-GCSE ('AS'-equivalent) passages and develop their knowledge and skills to reach A-Level standard. But this is not just a book of unseen passages: there is a chronological progression through the unseens in order to give the reader a sense of the narrative of Roman history, exploring key events through the words of original texts. Every passage begins with an introduction, outlining the basic content of the passage, followed by a 'lead-in' sentence, paraphrasing the few lines before the passage begins. Part 1 passages are straight translation exercises on the model of the A-Level Paper 1. They also feature, however, a 'Discendum' box, highlighting a facet of Latin prose with which students may not be familiar, or extension questions on grammar and style. Part 2 passages are accompanied by questions on comprehension, translation and grammar, replicating the demands of Paper 2 in full. An extensive word list is provided in the form of checklists which build the reader's knowledge of the most commonly occurring words and phrases in Latin prose. The passages are punctuated with discussions of Roman history during the periods covered in the passages, and a comprehensive introduction includes portraits of the authors featured in the book, as well as grammatical reminders to help readers deal with both the trickier elements of unseen prose and with A-Level grammatical analysis questions.
The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature: The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism (New Horizons in Contemporary Writing)
by Isabelle HesseReading a wide range of novels from post-war Germany to Israeli, Palestinian and postcolonial writers, The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature is a comprehensive exploration of changing cultural perceptions of Jewishness in contemporary writing.Examining how representations of Jewishness in contemporary fiction have wrestled with such topics as the Holocaust, Israeli-Palestinian relations and Jewish diaspora experiences, Isabelle Hesse demonstrates the 'colonial' turn taken by these representations since the founding of the Jewish state. Following the dynamics of this turn, the book demonstrates new ways of questioning received ideas about victimhood and power in contemporary discussions of postcolonialism and world literature.
Antigone
by Slavoj ŽižekAntigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important than all political struggles). But is she really so innocent and pure? What if there is a dark side to her? What if Creon, the representative of state power, also has a valuable point to make? And what if both Antigone and Creon are part of a problem that only a popular intervention can confront?Žižek's rewriting of this classic play confronts these issues in a practical way: not by theorizing about them, but by imagining an Antigone in which, at a crucial moment, the action takes a different turn, an Antigone along the lines of Run, Lola, Run or of Brecht's learning plays. A brilliantly funny, moving and political piece for those who are interested in reading and watching Antigone in an entirely new way.
Age Of Consent (Modern Plays)
by Peter MorrisCondemned by the mother of Jamie Bulger and acclaimed by the critics - for tackling the subject of child killers - this is the controversial new play from the winner of the Sunday Times Playwriting Prize 2001Few kids have a secret as chilling as Timmy's.Stephanie loves Raquel to death. Acutely topical, darkly satirical and brutally uncompromising - these two monologues explore the shattering of childhood innocence. "The play opens up a moral minefield. Who can, or should, consent to what? Can anyone consent to something on the behalf of another? What power can anyone, a person or a community, have over the mind and life of another? Morris's play sends you out in a state of moral turbulence." (John Peter, Sunday Times)"For once, the play at the eye of an Edinburgh storm is a good one" - Guardian"This 70-minute play would alone have been worth a trip to Edinburgh" - Sunday Times"If The Age of Consent had been written by the sainted Alan Bennett it would be acclaimed as a triumph" - Daily TelegraphThe Age of Consent is published to tie in with its London premiere at the Bush Theatre in January 2002
Confusions (Modern Plays)
by Alan AyckbournConfusions, a series of plays for four-to-five actors, typifies Alan Ayckbourn's particular brand of black comedy on human behaviour. The plays are alternately naturalistic, stylised and farcical, but underlying each is the echoing problem of profound loneliness. From a devoted and isolated mother, to her unfaithful travelling salesman husband, through a solicitous waiter to well-heeled diners and an utterly shambolic garden fete, human frailty is laid bare as one hilarious situation after another unfolds. Each of the plays connects to the next through one of its characters until the final one is reached when four people sit alone on park benches.From high farce to poignant observation; the laughs, however dark, keep coming. This new edition was published to coincide with the first ever revival of the play, staged at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, on 9 July 2015.
Nineteenth Century Local Governance in Ottoman Bulgaria: Politics in Provincial Councils
by Safa SaracogluAn essential quick-reference book for students of Gothic literature, theatre and literary theory
Shakespeare's Moral Compass
by Neema ParviniExamines the aesthetics, concepts and politics of chaotic and obscured moving images
Reclaiming Wonder: After the Sublime
by Genevieve LloydExamines how Singapore cinema functions as a national cinema
Modern Islamic Authority and Social Change, Volume 1: Evolving Debates in Muslim Majority Countries
by Masooda BanoExplores the interconnected creative partnerships of the Wattses and De Morgans – Victorian artists, writers and suffragists
The Sociopragmatics of Attitude Datives in Levantine Arabic
by Youssef A. HaddadA cultural and historical philosophy of fashion in economic and social life from the 1830s to the present day
Denying the Spoils of War: The Politics of Invasion and Non-recognition
by Joseph O'MahoneyExplores the significance of the British fin de siècle in Scotland and Ireland, as well as some regional cities in England
Wrongful Damage to Property in Roman Law: British perspectives
by Paul J. du PlessisExamines the American exploitation film – blaxploitation, exploitation-horror and sexploitation – between 1959 and 1977