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.
By giving shape to Imamura Shohei’s career, this collection positions him as a stylistic innovator as well as an ethnographic investigator into Japanese culture and tradition; the preeminent examiner of the hidden, barely repressed underpinnings of Japanese society.
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 volume reflects on the pressing questions for Irish literary studies now. Contributors challenge assumptions within the field, seek to... Læs mere
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.
Lyle Campbell presents an accessible, hands-on introduction to historical linguistics. The fourth edition has a lucid and engaging style, expert guidance and comprehensive coverage, making it ideal for students coming to historical linguistics for the first time.
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.
Presbyterianism and the governance of the Church of Scotland at the turn of the eighteenth century
Presbyterianism and the governance of the Church of Scotland at the turn of the eighteenth century