The present volume of new, interdisciplinary scholarship investigates the arts with which Pound had a lifelong interaction including architecture, ballet, cinema, music, painting, photography and sculpture.
This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century.
This authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war’s upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television documentary, and requiems to war reporting.
Examines how contemporary documentary films depict the individual performing the self.
Identifies how comics, manga and graphic novels reshape Shakespeare’s works in manners unavailable to other media.
The first full-length scholarly monograph to scrutinize George Borrow’s published prose works, including his modernist afterlives.
A politically-attuned textual journey through civic life, exploring the way artistic genres supply the critical thinking needed to encourage a more egalitarian and convivial life world.
In a period of mounting global anxiety and widespread political unrest about democracy’s future, the moment has come for more thinking about thinking, and for considering the surprising connections between thinking and democracy.
Illuminates hitherto-understudied aspects of Iran’s socio-political and socio-cultural history.
Critically re-evaluates the work of John Singleton, a celebrated Black American auteur whose work helped break a glass ceiling in Hollywood.
A major academic study of John Waters’s films from a variety of perspectives covering his work and its intersections with culture.
A wide-ranging, illustrated exploration of the uses of stucco in Islamic architecture in the pre-modern period. Coverage includes Iran and reaches as far afield as Spain and India.