This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history during a key period of change and development.
This book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth... Læs mere
This book investigates the different ways gender and sexuality intersect with nationhood and national forms of belonging, and explores the role of queerness within the constitution of an Irish national culture.
Examines the significance of women's work in popular genres
London Writing in the 1930s offers a new perspective on the decade that has long been associated with the Auden generation and the rise of documentary.
Maps the new Islamic authority platforms emerging in the West and their relationship with older centres of learning in a three-fold typology: Neo-Traditionalists; Neo-Legalists, and Neo-Conservatives.
This book is an invaluable survey of the allusions to ancient Greek and Roman culture in the work of seven major modern American novelists: Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Marilynne Robinson.
Offers the first book-length investigation Albert Brooks’ more than six-decade comedy career.
Thomas Nail argues convincingly and systematically that Lucretius was not an atomist, but a thinker of kinetic flux. In doing so, he completely overthrows the... Læs mere
The Two cines con niño is the first genre study of Spanish-language child-starred cinemas. It... Læs mere
Establishes resonance as a critical and conceptual paradigm for film analysis bringing together, for the first time, the work of three of the leading figures in European film: Agnès Varda, Michael Haneke and Jean-Luc Nancy.
A comprehensive study of Channel 4’s film production, distribution and broadcasting activities from 1982 to 1998.