This book provides a critical overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction; highlighting the rich diversity of the field, identifying key themes, analysing the main trends in Anglophone Jewish fiction and situating them in a historical context.
Shows how speculative realism is replacing phenomenology as the beacon of realism in contemporary Continental philosophy.
The pressing and universally relevant issue of euthanasia is debated in this volume.
Contributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous Songs provides access to the relevant material in the various musical collections to which Hogg refers in his 1831 head notes, thus allowing the new readers of the 21st century to see in facsimile what Hogg himself saw.
Crisis and the US Avant-Garde examines the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis. A timely commentary on the role poetic culture might play in political struggle going forward into our own various contemporary crises.
This book explores how the native Christian communities of the British Isles from the fifth to the tenth centuries have been idealised and appropriated... Læs mere
A reconsideration of the relationship between culture and society in light of contemporary debates on nationalism and ethnicity.
This textbook shows how classroom discourse can be applied to develop and improve teaching. Combining examples from everyday practice with theoretical approaches, it provides a comprehensive account of current perspectives on classroom discourse.
What would political thought look like without the foundation of ethics? Drawing on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and... Læs mere
Opening up the field of diasporic Anglo-Arab literature to critical debate, this... Læs mere
Explores the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism and how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film... Læs mere
Introduces Scotland's contribution to forms of traditional culture and expression - folk narrative, ballad, legend, song, broadsides and chapbooks.