What is the connection between Victorian writing and experiment? Artful Experiments seeks to approach the field of literature and... Læs mere
Studying the careers of popular actors Amedeo Nazzari and Alberto Sordi, Acting Across Borders explores the question of how Italian cinema from the 1930s to 1980s has considered human mobility.
This book reveals a distinct but comparable concern with cultural defence and revivalism in fin-de-siècle Scotland, evident in the... Læs mere
This book probes the feminist faultlines in Derrida’s thought and generates original feminist insight into key concerns of contemporary film studies, including spectatorship, realism vs artifice, narrative, adaptation, auto/biography and the still.
This book celebrates the theatrical excitement and philosophical meanings of human interaction in Shakespeare.
James Lockhart reinterprets Chile and southern South America's Cold War experience from a transatlantic perspective. He argues that Chileans... Læs mere
Presenting a clear and critical overview, this book equips students with the tools to discuss morphological phenomena and to do so in relation to other linguistic contexts, including semantics, psycholinguistics and language change.
World-leading experts take a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how presidents, including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, the... Læs mere
This book approaches Byron from a completely new angle: no longer seen in terms of his status as a celebrity and a star on the book-selling market, Byron is instead seen as an outsider both in Regency society and, even more so, for his iconoclastic views of life and literature.
This comprehensive reference volume covers every country in South and Central Asia, offering reliable demographic information and original interpretative essays by indigenous scholars and practitioners.
The book draws on a broad range of data, including psycholinguistic experimentation, studies of acquisition and corpus research, and uses real examples from English to illuminate contemporary debates in pragmatics and related fields.
Shares over 50 in-depth interviews of Black Scottish born and New Black Scots from Africa and the Diaspora.