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Edinburgh University Press European Integration
Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection explore the historical and geopolitical aspects of European integration and their relevance to interpretations of the current climate. They also examine the different regional dynamics of integration and the attitudes that result from those experiences, including in the European peripheries.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Outlaws and Spies
Book SynopsisConor McCarthy shows how outlaw literature and espionage literature critique the use of legal exclusion as a means of supporting state power. Texts discussed range from the medieval Robin Hood ballads, Shakespeare's history plays and the Ned Kelly story to John le Carre, Don DeLillo, Ciaran Carson and William Gibson.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Outlaws and Spies
Book SynopsisConor McCarthy shows how outlaw literature and espionage literature critique the use of legal exclusion as a means of supporting state power. Texts discussed range from the medieval Robin Hood ballads, Shakespeare's history plays and the Ned Kelly story to John le Carre, Don DeLillo, Ciaran Carson and William Gibson.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press The Films of Michel Gondry
Book SynopsisIn this book, a range of international scholars offers a comprehensive study of this significant and influential figure, covering his French and English-language films and videos, and framing Gondry as a transnational auteur whose work provides insight into both French/European and American cinematic and cultural identity.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Michel Gondry
Book SynopsisIn this book, a range of international scholars offers a comprehensive study of this significant and influential figure, covering his French and English-language films and videos, and framing Gondry as a transnational auteur whose work provides insight into both French/European and American cinematic and cultural identity.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press IsraelPalestine
Book SynopsisSince the early 1990s, Israel has greatly expanded a system checkpoints, walls and other barriers in the West Bank and Gaza that restrict Palestinian movement. Israel/Palestine examines how authors and filmmakers have grappled with the spread of these borders.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Perspectives on Revelation and
Book SynopsisAli 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).
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Monsters in Ancient Philosophy
Book SynopsisAmazons and giants, snakes and gorgons, centaurs and gryphons: monsters abounded in the ancient world. Del Lucchese grapples with the concept of monstrosity, showing how ancient philosophers explored metaphysics, ontology, theology and politics to respond to the challenge of radical otherness in nature and in thought.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Cinema and Soft Power
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between soft power and film in relation to national and transnational cinemas.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Cinema and Soft Power
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between soft power and film in relation to national and transnational cinemas.Trade Review"Offering a comprehensive and highly original perspective, Cinema and Soft Power is a significant contribution to the field. Anyone seeking to understand the value of cinema as a soft power instrument in case studies beyond the usual suspects" will appreciate both the breadth and depth of this collection of essays."" -Gary Rawnsley, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms
Book SynopsisHorror cinema is a genre that is undergoing constant evolution, from the sub-genre of 'found footage,' to post-cinematic new media forms such as Youtube horror, horror video games and cinematic virtual reality horror.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Sohrab ShahidSaless
Book SynopsisIn this the first English-language book to reflect on his work and its implications for creativity in the diasporic conditions of urban displacement a range of international scholars provide a comprehensive account of Shahid Saless's films and production methods.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Sohrab ShahidSaless
Book SynopsisIn this the first English-language book to reflect on his work and its implications for creativity in the diasporic conditions of urban displacement a range of international scholars provide a comprehensive account of Shahid Saless's films and production methods.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press On Literature and Consolation
Book SynopsisProvides a deeper understanding of the comforts of reading literature
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Migrants Perspectives Migrants in Perspective
Book SynopsisAnalyses how migrants are portrayed in film from different viewpoints.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Art Making in the Age of Global Capitalism
Book SynopsisJan 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.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain
Book SynopsisThis book examines how manuscript practices interacted with an expanding print marketplace to nurture and transform the period's literary culture.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Immateriality and Early Modern English Literature
Book SynopsisExamines literary engagement with immateriality since the ?material turn? in early modern studiesProvides six case studies of works by Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert, offering new readings of important literary texts of the English Renaissance alongside detailed chapters outlining attitudes towards immateriality in works of natural philosophy, medicine, and theologyEmploys an innovative organization around three major areas in which problem of immaterial was particularly pitched: Ontology, Theology, and Psychology (or Being, Believing, and Thinking)Includes wide-ranging references to early modern literary, philosophical, and theological textsDemonstrates how innovations in natural philosophy influenced thought about the natural world and how it was portrayed in literatureEngages with current early modern scholarship in the areas of material culture, cognitive literary studies, and phenomenologyImmateriality and Early Modern English Literature explores how early modern writers responded to rapidly shifting ideas about the interrelation of their natural and spiritual worlds. It provides six case studies of works by Shakespeare, Donne and Herbert, offering new readings of important literary texts of the English Renaissance alongside detailed chapters outlining attitudes towards immateriality in works of natural philosophy, medicine and theology. Building on the importance of addressing material culture in order to understand early modern literature, Knapp demonstrates how the literary imagination was shaped by changing attitudes toward the immaterial realm.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Performing Robert Burns
Book SynopsisThis book is unashamedly aimed at a wider market than the ordinary academic volume, as it seeks to extend the impact of the research it contains, making it available to the worldwide community of Burns enthusiasts, without compromising on scholarship.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Modernism and Religion
Book SynopsisExplores the transformation of religious orthodoxy in the age of modernismTrade Review"A perceptive, absorbing, irreplaceable study. In showing how modernist writing was shaped by an interplay between the claims of mysticism as individual experience and the benefits of ecclesiastical frameworks, Callison illuminates a rich seam of innovation and perplexity not just in Jones, Eliot and H.D. but in the broader life of early twentieth-century Christianity." -Douglas Mao, Johns Hopkins University
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press How to Write in Arabic
Book SynopsisIntermediate and advanced learners will discover how to use the Arabic linguistic features that are key to achieving written fluency. Each unit contains carefully selected exercises where students practise their vocabulary and grammar in a range of registers and contexts: writing a CV, a short story, a love letter, an essay and many more.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press Authoritarianism and Kurdish Alternative Politics
Book SynopsisLatif Tas investigates the triangular relationship between nationalism, justice and gender politics, to explore how influencing this dynamic allows authoritarian rulers to stay in power for longer and justify their actions for monopolising power.Trade Review"Betrayed by almost everyone, the Kurdish people have developed a politics of self-reliance and an innovative, democratic and feminist, nationalism. In this book, Latif Tas provides a rigorous ethnographic and political account of what the Kurds have done. Focused on Turkey and Syria, Tas's analysis is wonderfully toughminded, appreciative of the Kurdish alternative" but also critical of its shortcomings. This is a major contribution to our understanding of the Middle East. "" -Michael Waltzer, Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Worldlessness After Heidegger
Book SynopsisRoland Vegs opens up a new debate in favour of abandoning the very idea of the world in both philosophy and politics. Opening with a reconsideration of the Heideggerian critique of worldlessness, he traces the overlooked history of worldlessness in Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press D. H. Lawrence and the Literary Marketplace
Book SynopsisExamines how D. H. Lawrence established a professional writing career.Trade Review"Grice provides a finely-tuned assessment of how Lawrence shaped his identity as a writer early on, through strategies and negotiations, and assistance from professional and social networks. For a comprehensive account of how Lawrence developed his talents and attained legitimacy in the literary marketplace, this book is key." -Judith Ruderman, Duke University
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press William Morris on Socialism
Book SynopsisPresents the first extended collection of new William Morris essays in several decades.Trade Review"William Morris, the best known British socialist of the nineteenth century, is also the most widely appealing. Marxist revolutionaries, Fabians, anarchists, Labour Party stalwarts all have claimed him as one of their own. Florence Boos's collection of Morris's political essays confirms that Morris contained multitudes. Yet powerful, unchanging beliefs link the Gladstonian liberal of the 1870s with the visionary author of News from Nowhere. Boos's deeply informed introductions to every essay draw out their underlying themes and illuminate Morris's enduring relevance." -Michael Robertson, The College of New Jersey
£112.50
Edinburgh University Press The Modernist Exoskeleton
Book SynopsisFocusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Modernist Exoskeleton
Book SynopsisFocusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare and Montaigne
Book SynopsisIntroduces and explores a wide range of fresh approaches to comparative study of Shakespeare and Montaigne.Trade Review"Describing books as 'this world's theatre', Montaigne admitted his curiosity to read and thereby 'discover and know the mind of my authors'. This book's dynamic discoveries about the shared literary, historical and psychological sympathies of Shakespeare and Montaigne illuminates the mind and work of both. It is a field-changing collection. " -Emma Smith, University of Oxford
£28.49
Edinburgh University Press Music Philosophy and Gender in Nancy
Book SynopsisAnalyses the role of music in the work of Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe and Badiou, and the role of gender in the history of philosophy of music.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Egypt 1919
Book SynopsisThe first book offering an extensive analysis of literary and cinematic narratives dealing with the 1919 anti-colonial revolution in Egypt.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Armenians Beyond Diaspora
Book SynopsisThis 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.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Elizabeth Bowen
Book SynopsisFrom experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the way in which Bowen's work straddles, informs and defies the existing definitions of modernist and postmodernist literature which dominate twentieth-century writing.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press E.L. Doctorow
Book SynopsisThis book gathers a suite of newly commissioned, original essays on the work of E. L. Doctorow.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press TrumpS America
Book SynopsisDonald J. Trump's presidency has delivered a seismic shock to the American political system, its public sphere, and to our political culture worldwide.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Ricardo Darn and the Construction of Latin
Book SynopsisExamines the star persona of Argentine actor Ricardo Darín.
£25.65
Edinburgh University Press Greek Film Noir
Book SynopsisInvestigates how film noir has been received, adapted and developed in Greece, from the 1940s to the present
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Reappraisals of British Colonisation in Atlantic
Book SynopsisThis collection offers new perspectives on the legacy of British colonisation by concentrating on Atlantic Canada, a region that was pivotal to safeguarding Britain's imperial ambitions, between 1750 and 1930.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Reappraisals of British Colonisation in Atlantic
Book SynopsisThis collection offers new perspectives on the legacy of British colonisation by concentrating on Atlantic Canada, a region that was pivotal to safeguarding Britain's imperial ambitions, between 1750 and 1930.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press The Kurds in Erdoans Turkey
Book SynopsisRecording Kurdish voices from Istanbul and Diyarbak?r, Turkey's most important Kurdish-populated cities, this book documents Kurdish narratives of oppression and resistance, and enquires how Kurds reconcile their distinct ethnic identity and citizenship in modern Turkey.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt
Book SynopsisThis book shows how political and administrative forces shaped the way justice was applied in medieval Egypt. It introduces the model that evolved during the 7th to the 9th centuries, which involved 4 judicial institutions: the cadi, the court of complaint, the police/shurta and the Islamized market law.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Book SynopsisThis book uses the methodology of sociology and literary studies to come to terms with the reality of Palestinian citizens of Israel across several generations.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Poststructuralist Agency
Book SynopsisGavin Rae shows that the problematic status of agency caused by the poststructuralist decentring of the subject is a central concern for poststructuralist thinkers. He shows how this plays out in the thinking of Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault, and find the best explanation of agency for the founded subject in the work of Castoriadis.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press NietzscheS the Case of Wagner and Nietzsche
Book SynopsisFor the first time, Ryan Harvey and Aaron Ridley put Wagner centre-stage to show why he mattered so much to Nietzsche. Looking at both The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner, they identify and define the trajectory of a number of overarching themes - modernity, decadence and Wagner as the sign of decline.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press Scotland and the Spanish Civil War
Book SynopsisDrawing on newly-declassified government documents and international archives in Spain and beyond, this book explores the many ways in which Scots responded to the Spanish Civil War (1936-9).
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Francophone Belgian Cinema
Book SynopsisFrancophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-neglected 'national' and regional cinema. The book draws key distinctions between the local, national, small national, regional and transnational frameworks in both representational and industrial terms.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press The Ideas in Stories
Book SynopsisArgues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Consuming Images
Book SynopsisAnalysing key commercials over the decades that feature new technologies and film aesthetics that were subsequently adopted by feature filmmakers, the book establishes the television commercial as a vital form of film art.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval
Book SynopsisThis book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the medieval Middle East. It investigates the ways Muslims thought about and practiced at sacred spaces and in sacred times through two detailed case studies: the shrines in honour of the head of al-Husayn (the martyred grandson of the Prophet), and the holy month of Rajab.
£85.50
