Drawing on a wide range of fictional texts from Shakespeare and Austen to Game of Thrones and the lyrics of ‘We Shall Overcome’, this textbook shows how pragmatic analyses can uncover the performative elements that create and shape characters for an audience.
Women in Marvel Films provides the first rigorous analysis of the portrayals of women, heroic and otherwise, in films based on Marvel comics from the 1980s to the present.
A comprehensive history of the Matzpen group – who advocated for a community of Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs in a socialist Middle East.
Ramon Harvey revisits the Muslim theologian Abu Man?ur al-Maturidi (d. 333/944) from Samarqand and puts his system, and that of the Maturidi school, into lively dialogue... Læs mere
Explores the use of images, sounds and videos in Jihadi media and how people engage with them
This important book fills a gap in the literature on women screen practitioners and is a long overdue response to demands for new insight into the work of Gillian Armstrong.
This collection analyses the audio-visual representations of several heightened events in Mexican history.
The debate on Athenian democratic ideology has long been polarised around two extremes. A Marxist tradition views ideology as... Læs mere
Focusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body – its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations.
This book examines John Keats’s immensely important collection of poems, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems (1820), and is published in the volume’s bicentenary.
Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vilém Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a... Læs mere
This book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture.