A contemporary and lively introduction to the study of popular culture through one central case study.
This book aims to challenge the current orthodoxy concerning how Deleuze's work is viewed, whilst also bringing illumination to bear on areas of his work that too often seem obscure, even impenetrable.
Uniting a broad theoretical approach to citizenship with a broad empirical scope, this text analyses a range of theoretical perspectives on citizenship in order to analyse developments in Europe.
What sorts of things do we think about when we’re driving – or being driven – in a car? Drivetime seeks to answer this question by drawing upon a rich archive of British and American texts from ‘the motoring century’ (1900-2000).
Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes's textual corpus. The five chapters of this book reconsider modernist intertextuality,... Læs mere
An authoritative general introduction to cognitive linguistics, this book provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field and sets in context recent developments within cognitive semantics and cognitive approaches to grammar.
Chronicles of the Canongate is unique among Scott's works as it is his only collection of shorter fiction.
Bringing together a range of theoretical and critical approaches, this edited collection is the first book to examine representations of the body in Eastern European and Russian cinema after the Second World War.
This introduction to the major changes caused by devolution looks at both the historical background and contemporary political events. It assesses the operation, strengths and weaknesses of the devolved state, using highly relevant case studies to illustrate more complex ideas.
Set in south-west Scotland in the immediate aftermath of the 1707 Union, The Black Dwarf was intended to be a story about the first, abortive, Jacobite uprising of 1708. Instead it developed into a gothic tale of the supernatural.
The Fair Maid of Perth centres on the merchant classes of Perth in the fourteenth century, and their commitment to the pacific values of trade, in a bloody and brutal era in which no right to life is recognised.
A history of the Bank of Scotland.