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- Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras
Drawing on theories of embodiment and spectatorship, this book analyses the tactility and multisensoriality of Duras' films, and how they relate to her female-centred
- Sublime Art
Sublime Art
Stephen Zepke shows how the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Ranciere and...
- Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires
Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires
- Strootman, Rolf
- anglické
- 302
- 2014
This is the first complete study of royal courts in the post-Achaemenid Near East. Rolf Strootman brings together various aspects of court culture in the Macedonian empires of...
- Rumi
Rumi
- Renard, John
- anglické
- 296
- 2021
Picturing the life story of Jalal ad-Din Rumi, a premier Muslim mystic and the original Whirling Dervish, the images in three extant manuscripts of Aflaki's Wondrous Feats of...
- Living with Shakespeare
Living with Shakespeare
In the 1590s, Shakespeare was working with and writing for the Lord Chamberlain's Men at The Theatre, Shoreditch while he was living in the parish of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate...
- Myth of the Western
Myth of the Western
- Carter, Matthew
- anglické
- 256
- 2015
Offers re-readings of key classic and contemporary Westerns. This title re-invigorates the debate surrounding the relationship between the Western and frontier mythology,...
- US Government and Politics
US Government and Politics
- William Storey
- anglické
- 416
The US political system is designed to ensure that freedom and opportunity will always be protected, by making it almost impossible for power to become concentrated in the hands...
- Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism
- anglické
- 264
- 2011
Bringing together an international group of experts, this companion explores a distinctly Scottish Romanticism. Discussing the most influential texts and authors in depth, the...
- Women, Poetry and the Voice of a Nation
Women, Poetry and the Voice of a Nation
The concurrent tenures of Gillian Clarke as National Poet of Wales, Carol Ann Duffy as UK Poet Laureate, Liz Lochhead as Scots Makar, and Paula Meehan as Ireland Professor of...
- Coal and Energy in South Africa
Coal and Energy in South Africa
Taking the growing South African mining town of Emalahleni as a case study, this book investigates whether a just transition from coal-generated energy is possible and what the...
- The Myth of the Jacobite Clans - M. Pittock
The Myth of the Jacobite Clans - M. Pittock
- Pittock, Murray G. H
- Edinburgh University Press
- 240
- 2009
The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to...
- Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense
Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense
Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the study of nonsense.
- Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage
Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage
Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage reveals an underexplored archive of Italian, English and German fencing texts, which were designed explicitly to teach...
- Digisprudence: Code as Law Rebooted
Digisprudence: Code as Law Rebooted
Laurence Diver combines insight from legal theory, philosophy of technology and programming practice to develop a new theoretical and practical approach to the design of...
- Female Religious Authority in Shii Islam
Female Religious Authority in Shii Islam
This collection of case studies, covering the period from classical Islam to the present, and taken from across the Shiʿi Islamic world, reflects on the roles that women have...
- Shakespeare and Montaigne
Shakespeare and Montaigne
Shakespeare and Montaigne share a grounded, genial sense of the lived reality of human experience, as well as a surprising depth of engagement with history, literature and...
- An Introduction to Late Modern English I. Ostade
An Introduction to Late Modern English I. Ostade
- Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid
- Edinburgh University Press
- 176
- 2009
Some twenty years ago it was widely believed that nothing much happened to the English language since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Recent research has shown that...
- Poetry in the Mind
Poetry in the Mind
Poetry in the Mind is the first book-length cognitive analysis focused entirely on 21st century poetic texts and their conceptual effects. Addressing central poetic notions or...
- Conquered Populations in Early Islam
Conquered Populations in Early Islam
This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Musli
- Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic
Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic
Nadia Bou Ali shows how a curious relationship was forged between language and politics, one driven both by a desire for modernity and anxiety about
- Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Spell of John Duns Scotus
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Spell of John Duns Scotus
The early medieval Scottish philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus shook traditional doctrines of universality and particularity by arguing for a metaphysics of 'formal...
- Writing Shame
Writing Shame
Through readings of an array of recent texts - literary and popular, fictional and autofictional, realist and experimental - this book maps out a contemporary, Western, shame...
- Whitehead at Harvard, 1924-1925
Whitehead at Harvard, 1924-1925
In these newly commissioned essays, leading Whitehead scholars ask a range of important questions about Whitehead's first year of philosophy lectures. Do these lectures...
- Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt
Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt
This 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...