Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press Pulpit Mosque and Nation
Book SynopsisWith an all-pervading sermon theme of social, national and political unity, Elisabeth zdalga explores how long-standing religious rituals are utilised and mobilised in the formation of modern political loyalties and national identities.Trade Review"Through a meticulous examination of the Friday sermons, Elisabeth zdalga analyses the public role of religion in Turkey from containment by the secular state to instrumentalisation by the Islamist government. This is a most valuable contribution to our understanding of state-religion configurations in modern Turkey." -Dr. Sami Zubaida, Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Poetics and the Gift
Book SynopsisDiagnoses the Western poetic tradition's determinative association of poetry with giving.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Sexual Desire and Romantic Love in Shakespeare
Book SynopsisAnalyses how far Shakespeare succeeds in reconciling two polarised areas in the early modern period: sexual desire, or will, and idealised approaches to romantic love.Trade Review"Joan Lord Hall opens a kaleidoscope in this riveting book, which combines sharp historical focus with a vista onto the endlessly moveable erotic possibilities in the poems and plays. This is a true labour of love, the distillation of a lifetime thinking through Shakespeare in his time and our own." -Richard Wilson, Kingston University
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in
Book SynopsisExamines the bicycle as a literary device and a cultural phenomenon at the turn of the century in Britain and France.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press BergsonS Philosophy of Biology
Book SynopsisIn this book, Tano S. Posteraro focuses on Bergson's theory of evolution. He presents an alternative Bergson: not a phenomenologist whose central datum is the conscious experience of lived time or the lived body in time, but a systematic philosopher of biology with a robust, prescient and largely workable evolutionary programme.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Time
Book SynopsisDeleuze?s thought on the nature of temporality developed throughout his career in reference to a complex array of concepts, thinkers and artistic works as well as natural and social phenomena. In this collection, leading international scholars elaborate on Deleuze?s modification of the thought of historical figures, from the ancients ? Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Lucretius ? through to the moderns ? Spinoza, Kant, Husserl, Nietzsche, Bergson, Simondon, Negri ? as well as his use of scientific fields such as complexity theory and thermodynamics. The book shows that the philosophy of time was central to the development of Deleuze?s work. In addition to discussing how time is conceptualised in Difference and Repetition and The Logic of Sense, this collection stands out for its elucidation of Deleuze?s modification of the concept in his two books on cinema.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Arab Womens Life Writing and the
Book SynopsisDrawing on autobiographical and postcolonial theories, Hiyem Cheurfa examines twenty-first-century Arab women?s life writing as sites for the articulation of resistance to power structures and sociocultural and representational norms. Looking comparatively at subgenres of memoir, auto-portrait, testimony, diary, and digital life writing across different linguistic (Arabophone, Anglophone, and Francophone) and national contexts (Egypt, Algeria, Syria, Palestine, Tunisia), this book explores why resistance is important when writing about the self for Arab women.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Displacement and Erasure in Palestine
Book SynopsisExplores the ways in which Palestinians negotiate physical and symbolic erasures by producing their own archives and historical narratives
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Counterpoetics of Modernity
Book SynopsisProvides a new approach to contemporary Irish poetry.Trade Review"The new things that happen happen somewhere, not nowhere, and that which is counter, is counter to some specific set of circumstances. Lloyd's great strength here is to bring out into the light of critical examination the specifics of a distinctly Irish counterpoetics. in a book that I believe will be seen as a key moment in our understanding of what is most vital in Irish poetry." -Billy Mills
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Edinburgh University Press Women Poetry and the Voice of a Nation
Book SynopsisA pioneering study of women poets exploring the four laureate roles of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Regional Development of the American
Book SynopsisThe first book to examine the historical transformations of the American Bildungsroman through the lens of region.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Moralities of Drone Violence
Book SynopsisAn ethical assessment of violent drone use considering military ethics, law enforcement ethics, moral injury and ethical human-machine interactionTrade Review"Christian Enemark has provided a comprehensive, empirically informed and distinctive set of analyses of the concepts and arguments deployed in the debates on the morality of drone violence in war and in other settings. Moralities of Drone Violence is an important, yet very readable, contribution to the scholarly literature." -Seumas Miller, Charles Sturt University
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Moralities of Drone Violence
Book SynopsisMoral uncertainty surrounding the use of armed drones has been a persistent problem for more than two decades. In response, Moralities of Drone Violence aims to provide greater clarity by exploring and ordering a variety of ways in which violent drone use can be judged as just or unjust in various circumstances. The book organises moral ideas around a series of concepts of ?drone violence?: warfare, violent law enforcement, tele-intimate violence, and violence devolved from humans to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. In contrast to the way armed drones tend to be debated narrowly in terms of war and law, this broad-based approach to normative inquiry affords more scope to discern and address the potential for these weapon systems to support moral progress or to generate injustice.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Italian Gothic
Book SynopsisThis companion constitutes the first, systematic theorisation of the Italian Gothic. Through an interdisciplinary, trans-medial approach that encompasses prose fiction, poetry, journalism, film, music, and comics, it explores the varied and complex metamorphoses of the Gothic in Italy from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Although the last thirty years have seen a burgeoning in the academic study of the Gothic at college and university levels and in related publications, scholars have long struggled to even acknowledge the very existence of this mode in the Italian context. This companion does not only fill in a historical and critical gap in the scholarship, but it also contributes to revitalising the field of Gothic Studies, opening new channels of communication, and paving the way to the exploration of the fruitful interchanges between Italian and other European and American configurations of the Gothic.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Islam
Book SynopsisIn this book, Birol Ba?kan explains the variation in attitudes and approaches towards the Muslim Brotherhood across 5 Gulf States: Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. He argues that this disparity is at the root of the ongoing Gulf crisis that erupted in June 2017.Trade Review"With The Politics of Islam, Birol Ba?kan provides a valuable overview of an important and understudied context of contemporary Islamism. Intense opposition towards the Muslim Brotherhood by governments such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia is a defining aspect of the new political landscape in the Middle East, and this book is a crucial resource for students, researchers, and policymakers seeking to make sense of these developments." -Peter Mandaville, George Mason University, author of Islam and Politics
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey
Book SynopsisExposing the strategy of Turkey's ruling elite to obtain cultural hegemony, this book examines the AKP's efforts to rewrite Turkish public memory by promoting its ideas through TV series, movies, propaganda videos, school curricula and material culture in urban public spaces.Trade Review"A wonderfully wide-ranging collection of essays, critical and yet hopeful, presenting a compelling cultural map of the 'New Turkey' and in so doing making a significant contribution to the globalisation of Turkish cultural studies." -Dr. John Storey, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland
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Edinburgh University Press Shimmer
Book SynopsisIn this deeply personal book, the last one she wrote before her death in 2018, Deborah Bird Rose explores the shimmer of life - the iridescent pulse of beauty and power, the processes of transition and transformation - that flows across and between generations, grounded in her work with flying foxes in Australia.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music
Book SynopsisExamines how the making, marketing and performance of new Islamic music genres relate to Islamic discourse and thought, through a case study of Awakening, an Islamic media company formed in London.Trade Review"[...] an excellent example of how popular culture can be taken seriously in the study of contemporary religion [...] opens a rich understanding of a diverse field without diminishing the actors and arguments by forcing them into neat categories easily labelled as liberal or traditional." -Ruth Illman, bo Akademi & Uppsala Universit
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Edinburgh University Press A Philosophy of Practising
Book SynopsisProvides an account of 'practising', its mechanisms and implications, in conversation with Deleuze's Difference and Repetition.Trade Review"Antonia Pont's achievement in this book is difficult to quickly summarise. This is a thinking-through practicing, displaying an extremely sensitivity to its manifold complexities; a meticulous, illuminating and fresh working-through of Gilles Deleuze's baroque philosophy of time; a consideration of rest and posture, injury and pain in their proper texture Pont does not simply reconstruct that familiar bridge between the clich of blind practice and sovereign, panoptic philosophy. In place of application, this astonishing book instead presents a weaving, an intertwining, in the course of which the discrete places of philosophy and practice are themselves undone and redone over and over again, their original names lost in the difficult joy of their ceaseless transformation." -Jon Roffe, Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy
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Edinburgh University Press Proust Between Deleuze and Derrida
Book SynopsisJames Dutton argues that Proust's la recherche du temps perdu (1913 27), stages a uniquely productive encounter between philosophy and literature. In its genre-defying originality, it anticipates some of the most important concepts and strategies of poststructuralist French thought exemplified in the work of Derrida and Deleuze.Trade Review"Dutton performs an acrobatic movement between Proust, Derrida and Deleuze, foregrounding In Search of Lost Time as a 'textual becoming' and running with the 'fractal force' of all three works. Readers are invited to join Derrida and Deleuze as sprouting roots in the rhizomatic unfurling of Proust's book. We should accept." -Patrick ffrench, King's College London
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Recovering Scottish History
Book SynopsisThe making of the historian who transformed Scottish history and the nation's understanding of its past
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Laughter as Politics
Book SynopsisExplores the role that laughter plays in constructing, preserving and transforming contemporary social and political life
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press The Revival of Evangelicalism
Book SynopsisExplores the revival and impact of evangelicalism within the Church of Scotland after the Disruption of 1843
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Edinburgh University Press The Revival of Evangelicalism
Book SynopsisExplores the revival and impact of evangelicalism within the Church of Scotland after the Disruption of 1843Trade Review"Jones has written a valuable new book that reveals the vitality of evangelicalism within the Church of Scotland (CofS) in the period after the division with the Free Church of Scotland in 1843. Jones has written an outstanding book that deserves a wide readership. This book takes its place as a fascinating and outstanding study of how evangelical departure from the CofS actually led to new evangelical growth and intensity within the older national church. " -Jeffrey McDonald
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Kurdish Diaspora Mobilisation in Denmark
Book SynopsisAnne Sofie Schott explores how the Kurdish diaspora in Denmark supported the Kurdish struggle in Syria from the battle of Kobane (2014) to the defeat in Afrin (2018). She examines the political lobbyism, the courtroom activism and the humanitarian action of the various Kurdish diaspora groups.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Social Justice and the Language Classroom
Book SynopsisPedagogical principles and practices to integrate social justice issues into your language classroomTrade Review"Social Justice and the Language Classroom makes a compelling and grounded argument for connecting social justice, language education and decolonial perspectives. As language educators we cannot sit silently by in the face of local and wider injustices. It shows both why critical language education projects are essential and how they can be developed." -Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology Sydney
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature
Book SynopsisExamines the interrelation of the bodily and the textual in four early modern literary examples of bad behaviorTrade Review"Seymour's brilliant book exfoliates texts to show how the kinaesthetic experience of the characters can be written to evoke the reader's kinaesthetic experience. Reading her reading makes us aware of the ways our body is involved in making meaning while we read. Her book is a model of how to incorporate research on embodied cognition into literary studies." -Amy Cook, Stony Brook University
£71.25
Edinburgh University Press Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature
Book SynopsisExamines the interrelation of the bodily and the textual in four early modern literary examples of bad behavior
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes
Book SynopsisWalter Feldman traces the historical development of Mevlevi music and the spiritual legacy of Rumi. He brings to light the remarkable musical and mystical aesthetics of the Mevlevi ayin the instrumental and vocal accompaniment to the sublime ceremony of the 'Whirling' Dervishes.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Katherine Mansfield and Children
Book SynopsisPresents cutting-edge criticism on the theme of Katherine Mansfield and children.
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Carlyle Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of
Book SynopsisExamining the transatlantic writings and professional careers of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, this book explores the impact of literary, cultural, political and legal manifestations of authority on nineteenth-century British and American writing, publishing and lecturing. Drawing on primary texts in conjunction with a rich body of archival sources, this study retraces Romantic debates about race and nationhood, analyses the relationship between cultural nationalism and literary historiography and sheds light on Carlyle?s and Emerson?s professional identities as publishing authors and lecturing celebrities on both sides of the Atlantic.Trade Review"Emerson and Carlyle were an odd couple and a transatlantic cultural powerhouse. Their decades-long exchange electrified literary circuits and jolted thinking about historiography, race, nationhood, copyright and lecturing, as Tim Sommer shows. This shrewd study of the nineteenth century's alternating currents of cultural authority snaps and crackles with insights." -Mich le Mendelssohn, Oxford University
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press The Alevis in Modern Turkey and the Diaspora
Book SynopsisThis book explores the struggles of a minority group Alevis for recognition and representation in Turkey and the diaspora. It examines how they mobilise against state practices and claim their rights, while at the same time negotiating how they define themselves.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the only known private book collection from pre-Ottoman Jerusalem for which we have a trail of documents. It belonged to an otherwise unknown resident, Burhan al-Din; after his death, his books were sold in a public auction and the list of objects sold has survived.This list ? edited and translated in this volume ? shows that a humble part-time reciter of the late 14th century had almost 300 books in his house, evidence that book ownership extended beyond the elite. Based on a corpus of almost fifty documents from the ?aram al-sharif collection in Jerusalem, it is also possible to get a rare insight into the social world of such an individual. Finally, the book gives a unique insight into book prices as it will make available the largest such set of data for the pre-Ottoman period.
£33.25
Edinburgh University Press TurkishGreek Relations
Book SynopsisFocuses broadly on the main issues of contention between Turkey and Greece, and analyses Turkey's policies towards Greece, based on the securitisation framework and focusing on the discourse of elites in the post-Cold War period.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press The Art of Defiance
Book SynopsisExamines how the arts popularised militant resistance to the monarchy in 1970s Iran
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Edinburgh University Press Islamic Modernities in World Society
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£26.72
Edinburgh University Press Islam and Contemporary European Literature
Book SynopsisThis book uses literary texts featuring themes and references related to Islam and the Muslim world to offer new perspectives on non-Western intellectual history and contemporary European literature. Shifting from abstraction to sublimation by highlighting individualized interpretations of religion by authors from both Muslim and non-Muslim backgrounds, it asks how and why present-day European authors, from Albania, France, Germany, Spain and the former Yugoslavia, write fiction or fictionalized works that engage with Islamic religious themes and Europe?s Islamic past. This thematic focus contributes to the interrogation of Eurocentric understandings of literary canons and points out ways of decolonizing the curriculum in the humanities by reading contemporary European literature through the lens of cosmopolitanism, cultural hybridity and in-betweenness.
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press The Cultural Politics of Veterans Narratives
Book SynopsisInvestigates how the power of stories shapes war's legacy for veterans and societies
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Martialling Peace
Book SynopsisExamines the mythology of the peacekeeper and how it functions to sustain militarism in global politics
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Data Justice and the Right to the City
Book SynopsisExplores of social justice, citizenship, and community in the context of data-driven urbanism
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Hazarding All
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how theatre and theatricalisation serve as the indispensable means for creating a kind of consciousness that exits as an unmediated encounter with actuality.
£76.00
Edinburgh University Press Hazarding All
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how theatre and theatricalisation serve as the indispensable means for creating a kind of consciousness that exits as an unmediated encounter with actuality.Trade Review"In this brilliant pairing of plays, Sanford Budick demonstrates how Shakespeare achieves genuine intersubjectivity by negating the theatricalizing impulses of the ego. On every page of this profound and moving book, knowledge ripens into wisdom, which Budick has earned in a lifetime of serious dialogue with philosophy and literature." -Julia Reinhard Lupton, The University of California, Irvine
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press PRescription Narratives
Book SynopsisExamines how women writers of medical fiction rewrite cultural narratives of the female body against censorship under the Comstock Laws.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Robert Louis Stevenson and NineteenthCentury
Book SynopsisA comparative literary history that explores Robert Louis Stevenson and French literature.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Remediating the 1820s
Book SynopsisThe 1820s has commonly been overlooked in literary and cultural studies, seen as a barren interregnum between the achievements of Romanticism and the Victorian era proper, or, at best, as a time of transition bridging two major periods of cultural production. This volume contends that the innovations, fears and experiments of the 1820s are both of considerable interest in themselves and vital for comprehending how Victorian and Romantic culture wrote and visioned one another into being. Remediating the 1820s explores the decade?s own sense of itself as a period of expansion in terms of the projection of British power and knowledge, but also its tremendous uncertainty about where this left traditional identities and moral values. In doing so, the collection articulates how specific novelties, transformations and anxieties of the time remediated and remade culture and society in manners that continue powerfully to resonate.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Quintus of Smyrnas Posthomerica
Book SynopsisOffers a literary and cultural-historical analysis of the Posthomerica.Trade Review"As this splendid collection demonstrates, our times are suited to an appreciation of Quintus of Smyrna's epic, What Came after Homer, which might be called The Iliad: A Modern Sequel (with a wink to Kazantzakis). This volume is unquestionably the best introduction to its originality and complex relation to the past." -David Konstan, Professor of Classics, New York University
£28.49
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Antoinetta Angelidi
Book SynopsisThe first English-language book on the Greek Experimental Cinema director, Antoinetta Angelidi
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Faces on Screen
Book SynopsisExamines the face on screen from a variety of critical and historical perspectives
£85.50
