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Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474449271ISBN 13: 9781474449274
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thinking Nature tracks the history of the concept of nature from the Hebrew Bible, through Renaissance philosophy and science, to Dark Ecology. Critical of the post-humanist trend in contemporary eco-criticism, Sean McGrath makes a compelling case for a new anthropocenic humanism - a humanism that is not at the expense of nature, and a naturalism that is not at the expense of the human.Nature as the stable backdrop of human civilization appears to have vanished in the light of climate change, mass extinction, and genetic engineering. And yet the term 'nature' remains vital to both metaphysics and to public ecological discourse. This is because 'nature', in McGrath's view, is a living symbol, and can survive the extinction of one or another of its meanings. Contemporary ecology must proceed in the absence of a clear concept of nature, not because none are possible, but because of the depth of the transformation occurring to the earth in the Anthropocene. Whatever shape the new concept of nature will take, it must include the one who thinks nature, the human being, since the separation of nature from culture, facts from values, is no longer tenable.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474450725ISBN 13: 9781474450720
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Develops the notion of 'luminism' as the conceptual spine of Deleuze's work 'The plane of immanence is entirely made up of Light', Deleuze writes in Cinema 1: The Movement-Image. Engaging the whole body of Deleuze's work, including less rehearsed texts such as The Actual and the Virtual, Lucretius and the Simulacrum and his lectures on Spinoza, Hanjo Berressem traces the 'line of light' that runs through Deleuze's thought. The focus on the philosophical luminism that suffuses Deleuze's work delivers a novel reading of Deleuzian philosophy from the perspective of the complementarity of the photon. Berressem reveals a wealth of surprising and brilliant insights for anyone with an interest in Deleuze and in the implications of Deleuze's philosophical photonics for historiography, literary studies, painting and film. Hanjo Berressem is Professor of American Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474454127ISBN 13: 9781474454124
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores how cultural conceptions of mobility and the road contribute to identity and culture in early modern Britain This book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture. Chapters develop our understanding of the place of the road in the early modern imagination and open various windows on a geography which may by its nature seem passing or trivial but is in fact central to all conceptions of movement. They also shed new light on perhaps the most astonishing achievement of early modern plays: their use of one small, bare space to suggest an amazing variety of physical and potentially metaphysical locations. Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University. Bill Angus is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Massey University in New Zealand.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474445799ISBN 13: 9781474445795
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Puts Edinburgh at the centre of pre-Darwinian evolutionary thought in the British Isles This book challenges the long-held perception that theories of evolution initially received a cold reception in British natural history circles. It shows that, in the late 1820s and 1830s, Edinburgh was witness to a veritable ferment of radical new ideas on the natural world - including speculation on the origin and evolution of life - at just the time when the young Charles Darwin was a student in the city. Highlighting the work of key evolutionary thinkers of the time, including Henry H. Cheek, Robert Grant, Robert Knox and Robert Jameson, author Bill Jenkins reveals the largely neglected role that Edinburgh and its medical school played in the history of evolutionary thought. Bill Jenkins is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of History at the University of St Andrews.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474439586ISBN 13: 9781474439589
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examines the early modern reception of classical Cynicism and the rise of literary realism Highlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare's responses to sixteenth-century debates over the revolutionary potential of Cynic critical activity - debates that persist in later centuries and inform major developments in Western intellectual history. Analysing cynic characterisations of Lear's Fool, Hamlet and Timon of Athens, Hershinow presents new ways of thinking about modernity's engagement with classical models and literature's engagement with politics. David Hershinow is Director of the Writing Center at the City University of New York Graduate Centre.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474430228ISBN 13: 9781474430227
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Assembles for the first time the many different texts imagining the future after the end of apartheid Focusing on well-known and obscure literary texts from the 1880s to the 1970s, as well as the many manifestos and programmes setting out visions of the future, this book charts the dreams of freedom of five major traditions of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid resistance: the African National Congress, the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, the Communist Party of South Africa, the Non-European Unity Movement and the Pan-Africanist Congress. More than an exercise in historical excavation, Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa raises challenging questions for the post-apartheid present. David Johnson is Professor of Literature at The Open University, and the author of Shakespeare and South Africa (1996) and Imagining the Cape Colony: History, Literature, and the South African Nation (2012).
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474487726ISBN 13: 9781474487726
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From cinema's earliest days, walking and filmmaking have been intrinsically linked. Technologically, culturally and aesthetically, the pioneers of cinema were not only interested in using the camera to scientifically study ambulatory motion, but were also keen to capture the speed and mobile culture of late 19th-century urban life. Photographers such as Felix Nadar took their cameras into the Parisian streets and boulevards as mechanised flâneurs, ushering us into the age of the 'mobilised virtual gaze'. But if photography could only embalm modernity in an instant of time, the cinema brought these instants to life again. From Muybridge and Marey's photographic studies of motion to Charlie Chaplin's character 'The Tramp', and from the Steadicam to the police procedural, Thomas Deane Tucker explores the intertwined relationship between cinema and walking from its very first steps - breaking new ground in motion studies and providing a bold new perspective on film history. Thomas Deane Tucker is Professor of Humanities at Chadron State College.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474487564ISBN 13: 9781474487566
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Imagined States' examines representations of the law in British and Nigerian high-brow, middle-brow and popular fiction and journalism. Drawing on a rich range of examples, the book focuses on the imaginative role that the state of exception played in the application of indirect rule during British colonialism and in the legal machinations of the postcolonial state. Discussion includes works by Chinua Achebe, Joyce Cary, Cyprian Ekwensi and Edgar Wallace, as well as a range of Nigerian market literature and journalism from between 1900 and 1966.Key Features¿ Presents a new understanding of a range of canonical and non-canonical British and Nigerian novels¿ Draws on rare archives of Nigerian newspaper reports and local government papers from the period¿ Analyses a range of literature including: Chinua Achebe's 'No Longer at Ease' and 'A Man of the People'; Joyce Cary's 'Mister Johnson'; Cyprian Ekwensi's 'People of the City' and 'Jagua Nana'; J. O. Nnadozie's 'Beware of Harlots' and 'Many Friends'; R. Okonkwo's 'Never Trust All that Love You'; and Edgar Wallace's Sanders series.Katherine Isobel Baxter is Reader in English Literature at Northumbria University. She is the author of Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance (2010) and the co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Conrad and Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts (2009). She is general editor of the journal English.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474456952ISBN 13: 9781474456951
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What does political art look like today and how can art act critically under neoliberalism Jan Bryant looks at the strategies visual artists and filmmakers are using to criticise the social and economic conditions shaping our historical moment. She then assesses how the world is being positively re-imagined through their work today. Located at the intersection of practice and theory, Bryant argues that an effective contemporary political-aesthetics encompasses more than just analysis of a work's conceptual or aesthetic reality. It should also consider the impact the artwork has at the point of reception, the methods adopted by the artists and the relationships they engender with communities. Jan Bryant is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art and the Moving Image at Monash University.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474458572ISBN 13: 9781474458573
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A socio-political and cultural history of the Armenians in Cold War Lebanon This book argues that Armenians around the world - in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I - developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. And it focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial 1940s and 1950s Tsolin Nalbandian explores Armenians' discursive re-positioning within the newly independent Lebanese nation-state; the political-cultural impact (in Lebanon as well as Syria) of the 1946-8 repatriation initiative to Soviet Armenia; the 1956 Catholicos election; and the 1957 Lebanese elections and 1958 mini-civil war. What emerges is a post-Genocide Armenian history of - principally - power, renewal and presence, rather than one of loss and absence. Key Features ? Explores Lebanese Armenians' changing views of their place in the making of the Lebanese state and its wider Arab environment, and in relation to the Armenian Socialist Soviet Republic ? Challenges the dominant Armenian historiography, which treats Lebanese Armenians as a subsidiary of an Armenian global diaspora ? Contributes to an understanding of the development of class and sectarian cleavages that led to the breakdown of civil society in Lebanon from 1975 ? Highlights the role of societal actors in the US-Soviet Cold War in the Middle East ? Challenges the tendency to read Middle East history through the lens of dominant (Arab) nationalisms Tsolin Nalbantian is Lecturer in Modern Middle East History at Leiden University.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474458653ISBN 13: 9781474458658
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores Elizabeth Bowen's significant contribution to twentieth-century literary theory From experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the ways in which Bowen's work straddles, informs and defies the existing definitions of modernist and postmodernist literature which dominate twentieth-century writing. The eleven chapters present new scholarship on Bowen's inventiveness and unique writing style and its attachment to objects, covering topics such as queer adolescents, housekeeping, female fetishism, habit and new technologies such as the telephone. Jessica Gildersleeve is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland. Patricia Juliana Smith is Associate Professor of English at Hofstra University in New York.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 147445884XISBN 13: 9781474458849
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Showcases the life-work of one of America's greatest contemporary novelists This book gathers a suite of newly commissioned, original essays on the work of E. L. Doctorow. It reframes our understanding of his oeuvre by engaging it in entirety, including the significant accomplishments of the late period. The book features chapters by prominent fiction writers and friends of Doctorow, such as Don DeLillo, Victor Navasky and Jennifer Egan, and explores Doctorow's novels and his diverse preoccupations: corporate and religious power, cognitive science and media culture. Michael Wutz is Rodney H. Brady Presidential Distinguished Professor at Weber State University. Julian Murphet is Scientia Professor in English and Film Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474456170ISBN 13: 9781474456173
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Expounds the ideas of four modern Islamic scholars who challenge the traditional theory of revelation A number of innovative hermeneutical approaches emerged in Muslim exegetical discourse in the second half of the 20th century. Among these developments is a trend of systematic reform theology that emphasises a humanistic approach, whereby revelation is understood to be dependent not only upon its initiator, God, but also upon its recipient, Prophet Muhammad, who takes an active role in the process. Ali Akbar examines the works of four noted scholars of Islam: Fazlur Rahman (Pakistan), Abdolkarim Soroush (Iran), Muhammad Mujtahed Shabestari (Iran) and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (Egypt). His study shows that the consequences of taking a humanistic approach to understanding revelation are not confined to the realm of speculation about God-human relations, but also to interpreting Qur'anic socio-political precepts. And the four scholars emerge as a distinctive group of Muslim thinkers who open up a new horizon in contemporary Islamic discourse. Ali Akbar is a Research Fellow at Deakin University and at the University of Melbourne. He has published in a number of key journals, including the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Arabica, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Middle Eastern Studies and Culture and Religion.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474454445ISBN 13: 9781474454445
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores the literary connection between Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim Elizabeth von Arnim is best remembered as the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898) and The Enchanted April (1922), as well as being the elder cousin of Katherine Mansfield. Recently, new research into the complex relationship between these writers has extended our understanding of the familial, personal and literary connections between these unlikely friends. We know that they were an influential presence on one another and reviewed each other's work. By bringing the work of Mansfield and von Arnim together - including on matters of artistry, on mourning, on gardens, on female resistance - this book establishes shared preoccupations in ways that refine and extend our knowledge of writing in the period. It also deepens our understanding of the historical and literary contexts within which both of these extraordinary authors worked. Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in English at the University of Northampton, and Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society. Isobel Maddison is Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. Todd Martin is Professor of English at Huntington University.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474443699ISBN 13: 9781474443692
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Critically reconstructs Heidegger's concept of event - the most fundamental concept in Heidegger's later philosophy James Bahoh proposes a new methodology for explaining Heidegger's philosophy: diagenic analysis'. This approach solves a set of interpretive problems that have stymied previous approaches to his difficult later work and led to substantial inconsistencies in the available scholarship. Using it, Bahoh reconstructs Heidegger's concept of event in relation to his theories of history, truth, difference, ground and time-space. In these contexts, Bahoh argues that Heidegger's logic of events entails a logic of difference that is prior to and constitutive for the logic of identity essential to traditional metaphysics. The logic of events explains the generation of ontological structures grounding individuated finite domains - that is, it explains the generation of the logic of worlds of beings. James Bahoh is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Marquette University.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474450318ISBN 13: 9781474450317
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of Barbara Glowczewski's 40 years of Aboriginal Australian research in conversation with Guattari and Deleuze This collection of essays charts the intellectual trajectory of Barbara Glowczewski, an anthropologist who has worked with Warlpiri people since 1979. She shows how the ways in which Aboriginal people actualise virtualities of their Dreaming space-time into collective networks of ritualised places resonate with some of Deleuze and Guattari's concepts. Radical alterity is not about exoticism and exclusion but about imagining how to weave different worlds in respect of their singularities always in becoming, how to recreate outsideness in our minds. This is indigenising anthropology. Inspired by the art and struggles of different Indigenous people and other discriminated groups, especially women, Glowczewski draws on her own conversations with Guattari, and her debates with various scholars to deliver an innovative agenda for radical anthropology which will open new avenues for research on environmental and social justice based on the value of difference and creative resistance. Barbara Glowczewski is an anthropologist and a professorial researcher at the French National Scientific Research Center, CNRS. She is the author of Desert Dreamers (Univocal/University of Minnesota Press) and many other books as well as innovative multimedia work.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474450768ISBN 13: 9781474450768
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Develops a new conceptual framework for Guattari's ecology Hanjo Berressem establishes the notion of a schizoanalytic ecology as the most consistent conceptual spine of Félix Guattari's work. To look at a situation ecologically means to analyze and administer it with the practical aim of creating a space in which it is possible to actualize viable modes of life. To create a multiplicitous, open and elastic milieu that is conducive to processes of both individuation and singularization. Berressem covers the whole range of Guattari's solo work, as well as the books co-authored with Gilles Deleuze. But the core of his argument is developed by a comprehensive explication and analysis of Guattari's Schizoanalytic Cartographies. This reveals an ecological ontology, developed out of key concepts such as the informal diagram, the abstract machine and transversality, that is based on the conceptual complementarity of the world (the given) and its creatures (the giving). Hanjo Berressem is Professor of American Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474458475ISBN 13: 9781474458474
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A critical evaluation of Anglo-American counter narcotics strategy in Afghanistan, 2001-2011 This book reveals the inside story of the formulation and implementation the United States' and United Kingdom's counter narcotics policies in Afghanistan. Western counter narcotics policies in Afghanistan failed dismally after opium poppy cultivation surged to unprecedented levels. The Anglo-American partnership at the centre of this battleground was divided by competing and opposing views of how to address the opium problem, which troubled the well-established Anglo-American relationship. Through interviews with key policy practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic, this study reveals the complex picture of counter narcotics strategy; highlighting key points of cooperation and contention and detailing the often contradictory and competitive objectives of the overall war effort in Afghanistan. Philip A. Berry is a Lecturer in War Studies Education in the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College London.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 147445027XISBN 13: 9781474450270
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A critical and multidisciplinary analysis of Turkish democracy from the perspective of necropolitics This book analyses Turkey's precarious democracy and its contradictions from the perspective of its entwinement with death and destruction. It makes a strong case that Turkey's regime and its vicissitudes are dependent on a necropolitical undercurrent. Bringing together historical, discursive, and ethnographic approaches from multiple disciplines, including political theory, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history, international relations, cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies, this collection of 11 case studies offers a sobering and original analysis of contemporary Turkey and, indirectly, the changing dynamics of the Middle East. Focusing on different forms of violence, ranging from counterinsurgency warfare and enforced disappearances to the strategic neglect and exposure of select populations, these essays put forth provocative readings that address the multiple ways in which lives are brought into the fold of power. Building on the insights of critical and contemporary theory, this collection offers a new and rich lexicon of violence. Banu Bargu is Associate professor in History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474455026ISBN 13: 9781474455022
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examines the significance of disability in nineteenth-century fiction This book takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters, and demonstrating how attention to disability sheds new light on these texts' arrangement and use of bodies. It also argues that the representation of the disabled body shaped and signalled different generic traditions in nineteenth-century fiction. This wide-ranging study offers new readings of major authors including Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot and Henry James, as well as exploring lesser known writers such as Charlotte M. Yonge and Dinah Mulock Craik. Clare Walker Gore is a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474444016ISBN 13: 9781474444019
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Emmanuel Levinas's ethical philosophy has had a significant influence on film theory in recent years. Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, this book explores this influence through three directorial bodies of work: those of the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader. Discussing a range of films - including the Dardennes' Le Fils and The Kid with a Bike, Schroeder's Maîtresse and Reversal of Fortune and Schrader's American Gigolo and The Comfort of Strangers - Edward Lamberti demonstrates how film styles can perform a Levinasian ethics. Edward Lamberti teaches film at King's College London and is Operations Manager at the British Board of Film Classification. He is the editor of Behind the Scenes at the BBFC: Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 147444332XISBN 13: 9781474443326
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores Ottoman Sunnism from the earliest period of the empire to its end Addressing the contested nature of Ottoman Sunnism from the 14th to the early 20th century, this book draws on diverse perspectives across the empire. Closely reading intellectual, social and mystical traditions within the empire, it clarifies the possibilities that existed within Ottoman Sunnism, presenting it as a complex, nuanced and evolving concept. The authors in this volume rescue Ottoman Sunnism from an increasingly bipolar definition that seeks to present the Ottomans as enshrining a clearly defined orthodoxy, suppressing its contrasting heterodoxy. Challenging established notions that have marked the existing literature, the chapters contribute significantly not only to the ongoing debate on the Ottoman age of confessionalisation but also to the study of religion in the Ottoman context. Key Features ? Revisionist chapters question established paradigms on Ottoman Sunnism, offering complex and nuanced understandings of the subject ? Contributes to the ongoing debate regarding confessionalisation in the Ottoman Empire ? Explains and - where necessary - revises various understandings of Ottoman religion ? Reflects different perspectives across the Empire, particularly from the Balkans and central heartlands ? Relevant to historians who study religion in Europe and Asia in the early modern world, allowing for increased comparative insights Vefa Erginbas is an Assistant Professor of History at Providence College, Rhode Island, USA.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474430074ISBN 13: 9781474430074
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first book to use adaptation and appropriation studies to explore early modern textual and theatrical metamorphoses of Ovid Did you know that Ovid was a multifaceted icon of lovesickness, endless change, libertinism, emotional torment and violence in early modern England This is the first collection to use adaptation studies in connection with other contemporary theoretical approaches in analysing early modern transformations of Ovid. It provides innovative perspectives on the 'Ovids' that haunted the early modern stage, while exploring intersections between adaptation theory and gender/queer/trans studies, ecofeminism, hauntology, transmediality, rhizomatics and more. This book examines the multidimensional, ubiquitous role that Ovid and Ovidian adaptations played in English Renaissance drama and theatrical performance. Lisa S. Starks is Professor of English at University of South Florida St. Petersburg.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474455239ISBN 13: 9781474455237
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Argues for an interdependent relationship of form and matter in Aristotle's metaphysics Adriel M. Trott challenges the wholesale acceptance of the view that nature operates in Aristotle's work on a craft model, a model that underwrites the notion that form is separate and distinct from and imposed on matter, implying that matter has no power of its own. Situating her argument in the debates between Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler over efforts to resuscitate the meaning and role of matter in the history of philosophy, she argues for a robust sense of matter in Aristotle in response to feminist critiques in order to find resources for thinking the female's contribution--and the female--on its own terms and not as the contrary to form- or the male. Using the image of a Möbius strip to consider the work of semen and menses in Aristotle's account of generation, Trott weaves together scholarship on matter, form and generation in Aristotle, on the mythological, Hippocratic and Pre-Socratic treatment of the feminine and of the elemental, and on feminist readings of material to demonstrate this interdependence of form and matter in Aristotle's biology. Adriel M. Trott is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wabash College. Her first book, Aristotle on the Nature of Community, focuses on the concept of nature in Aristotle's Politics.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474484662ISBN 13: 9781474484664
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A scholarly edition of a neglected and provocative masterpiece of the fin-de-siècle avant-garde Hubert Crackanthorpe was a skilful and technically innovative English realist/naturalist writer. This edition of his powerful first collection of short stories features a carefully contextualised introduction to the author and his work. Providing a detailed analysis of his short stories, David Malcolm situates the author within the fin-de-siècle culture and society in Britain and Europe. Appendices contain additional works that reflect Crackanthorpe's perspective on fiction and contemporary literary trends. David Malcolm is Professor of English at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 147445559XISBN 13: 9781474455596
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New ideas for teaching contemporary social justice through Shakespeare and Renaissance literature This book is for teachers who want to heighten the intellectual impact of their courses by using their classrooms as a creative space for social formation and action. Its twenty-one chapters provide diverse perspectives on Shakespeare and Renaissance literature that engage innovation, collaboration, and forward-looking practices. They model ways of mobilizing social justice with early modern texts and claim the intellectual benefits of integrating social justice into courses. The book reconceives the relationship between students and the Renaissance in ways that enable them-and us-to move from classroom discussions to real-life applications. Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare: Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now presents - Innovative teaching methods informed by recent cross-disciplinary scholarship - Strategies for effective advocacy amidst the growing complexities of higher education - Discussions of the relevance of historical literary study to contemporary cultural conversations - Multiple, multicultural, and accessible Shakespeares - Critical connections of Shakespeare's plays to democratic conversations and social justice Hillary Eklund is Provost Distinguished Professor, Associate Professor of English, and Chair of the department at Loyola University New Orleans. Wendy Beth Hyman is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Oberlin College.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474444490ISBN 13: 9781474444491
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Known as the 'Georgian Socrates' of Soviet philosophy, Merab Mamardashvili was a defining personality of the late-Soviet intelligentsia. In the 1970s and 1980s, he taught required courses in philosophy at Russia's two leading film schools, helping to educate a generation of internationally prolific directors. Exploring Mamardashvili's extensive philosophical output, as well as a range of recent Russian films, Alyssa DeBlasio reveals the intellectual affinities amongst directors of the Mamardashvili generation - including Alexander Sokurov, Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexei Balabanov. This multidisciplinary study offers an innovative way to think about film, philosophy and the philosophical potential of the moving image. Alyssa DeBlasio is Associate Professor of Russian at Dickinson College.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474447988ISBN 13: 9781474447980
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Festschrift honouring J. Hillis Miller and his contribution to Victorian Studies and nineteenth-century criticism Reading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad. At the same time, the assembled group of internationally recognised scholars engages with Miller's work, influence and significance in the study of that era. The volume includes original work by Miller and interviews with him. Julian Wolfreys is the author and editor of numerous books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and literary theory. He is most recently the author of Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture. He is working at present on a study of the fragment in Jacques Derrida and Virginia Woolf. Monika Szuba has published extensively on Scottish literature and is the author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White (Edinburgh University Press). She is the co-editor with Julian Wolfreys of the Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474438067ISBN 13: 9781474438063
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and world cinema traditions. Examining overlooked 'elsewheres', the book presents Nordic cinemas as international, cosmopolitan, diasporic and geographically dispersed, from their beginnings in the early silent period to their present 21st-century dynamics. Exploring both canonical works by directors like Ingmar Bergman and Lars von Trier, as well as a wide range of unknown or overlooked narratives of movement, synthesis and resistance, the book offers a new model of inquiry into a multi-varied Scandinavian cultural lineage, and into small nation and pan-regional world cinemas. Anna Westerstahl Stenport is Professor and Chair of the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Institute of Technology. Arne Lunde is Associate Professor in the Scandinavian Section and in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474453147ISBN 13: 9781474453141
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reframes the long-standing critical narrative of the relationship between Harriet Martineau and Charles Dickens to explore the transatlantic development of the early Victorian press Focusing on the importance of Martineau's contribution to the development of the early Victorian press, this book highlights the degree to which the public quarrel between her and Dickens in the mid-1850s represented larger fissures within nineteenth-century liberalism. It places Martineau and Dickens within the context of Anglo-American liberalism and demonstrates how these fissures were embedded within a transatlantic conversation over the role of the press in forming a public sphere essential to the development of a liberal society. Iain Crawford is Associate Professor of English and Faculty Director of the Undergraduate Research Programme at the University of Delaware.