As the first book-length exploration of internationally distributed, multi-director episode films, Omnibus Films fills a considerable gap in the history of... Læs mere
Zoe Beenstock examines the relationship between two major traditions which have not been considered in conjunction: British Romanticism and... Læs mere
The first truly multidisciplinary text of its kind, this book offers an original analysis of the current state of linguistic pragmatics.
This book deals with the growth of cinema-going in Scotland in an extended scholarly manner, integrating the study of cinema into wider debates in social and economic history.
This book is a cultural history, offering an historical account of the formation of a distinctive Omani culture; arguing that it is in this unique culture that a specific conception and practice of diplomacy has been developed.
This book traces the operation of duration in cinema, and argues that temporality should be a central concern of film scholarship. It explores the concepts of duration and... Læs mere
Examines filmmaking, festivals, queer lives and cultures in Spain since 1998
Ranging widely over Beckett's fiction, drama and critical writings, this book demonstrates that it is through Beckett's comic timing that we can understand the double gesture of his art.
Saitya Brata Das rigorously examines the theologico-political works of Schelling, setting his thought against Hegel's and showing how he prepared the way for the post-metaphysical philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig and Jacques Derrida.
This study provides an entirely new reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist psychoanalytic methodology of Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous, focusing particularly on ideas of the abjected maternal feminine.
From the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884 to the celebration of the millennium in 2000; from the fiction of Joseph Conrad to the novels of William Gibson and W.G. Sebald, Reading the Times offers fresh insight into modern narrative.
In these essays, brought together here for the first time, world-renowned critic Catherine Belsey puts theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction.