A critical reassessment of the aesthetic strategies and cultural value of exoticism in contemporary transnational cinemas.
Explores abstraction as a keyword in aesthetic modernism and in critical thinking since Marx
Introduces the basic patterns, ideas and gestures that governed the system of social relations and the construction of social profiles and roles of Byzantine society.
Interrogates how the images of migrants and refugees effect the legitimacy of legal changes in the area of migration law
Applies new understandings of realism as a political aesthetic to Progressive Era Literature, arguing for its radicalism politically and culturally
Examines the significance of the Faustian pact in international law.
The most sacred site of Islam, the Ka?ba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects.
A collection of original essays exploring the diverse impact of Virginia Woolf’s writing on contemporary global literature and culture.
The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem is the first comprehensive guide to the prose poem written from an international and comparative perspective.
This book includes twenty-eight innovative chapters by specialists from across the arts, reassessing Lawrence’s relationship to aesthetic categories and specific art forms in their historical and critical contexts.
This trailblazing companion charts and extends the work in this expanding interdisciplinary field and is an essential resource for researchers with an interest in literature and other media.
Presents the first extended collection of new William Morris essays in several decades.