This study boldly argues for Acker’s revolutionary significance. It situates her within a historical avant-garde and examines how she took moments and movements from modern history, including the Paris Commune, Russian Nihilists and the global revolts of the 1960s.
Offers a constructive, philosophical approach to religion informed by environmental philosophy, one that is neither dismissive of religion nor apologetic.
Offers a constructive, philosophical approach to religion informed by environmental philosophy, one that is neither dismissive of religion nor apologetic.
Explores the turbulent history of the Highlands during the seventeenth century.
Castle Dangerous is the realisation of a thirty-year old project of Scott’s to retell a story found in Barbour’s Brus.
An introduction to the study of visual culture, this book offers a view of ‘visual culture’ that includes not only images, but also other visual media and forms of expression, from architecture to fashion, design and the human body.
Ulrich Lehmann brings together methods and ideas from social sciences and material production to give us a new political reading of fashion in today’s post-democracy. Accessing... Læs mere
This book aims to make accessible the sources and controversies concerning a key period in the history of the Roman Empire – the reign of Diocletian and its immediate aftermath.
The horror film analysed from a Deleuzian perspective
The Betrothed is set at the time of the Third Crusade (1189–92) and is the first of Scott’s Tales of the Crusaders.
This alphabetic guide introduces the main positions, key figures, basic approaches, and central problems in ethical theory. Thorough and up-to-date it is a uniquely concise but comprehensive philosophical reference work to the subject.
Written by some of the world’s finest contemporary literature specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists.