This book takes a new look at the 'spatial turn' in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. It examines how key... Læs mere
Situating The Craft within the teen horror revival of the 1990s, Miranda Corcoran analyses the film within the context of nineties popular and political culture, while also discussing its treatment of issues such as race, gender, sexuality and class.
Two of Henry Newbolt’s poems, ‘Vitaï Lampada’ and ‘Drake’s Drum’, became staples of poetry anthologies and were able to be recited by every school-boy.
It integrates material from biblical literature, Second Temple literature - including the Dead Sea Scrolls of... Læs mere
Winner of the Association for Industrial Archaeology’s Peter Neaverson Award for Outstanding Scholarship 2024 Steam pumping stations are exceptional buildings, a rousing, eloquent architecture designed by engineers, and an industrial edifice intended to express civic pride.
In this book, John Woolford specifies the precise meaning and scope of 'the grotesque' by placing Browning in a major aesthetic tradition running from the Romantic Sublime through to modern concepts and theorisations of the grotesque, such as the Bakhtinian.
Exactly when Matisse and Picasso first met is open to debate. Max Jacob recalls: “Matisse took a black, wooden statuette from a table and showed it to Picasso.
In a dynamic treatment of planets of the Solar System from a unified perspective Planetary Geology deals with the origin of planetary bodies, the forces that fashion their surfaces, the rise and fall of icecaps and oceans, and the role of life in planetary history.
Published in his centenary year, this book celebrates the life and work of the British architect Peter Womersley (1923-1993).
Paul Alvarus wrote the Indiculus luminosus in 854 in response to the executions of a number of Córdoban Christians, beginning with the monk Isaac in 851, who had denounced Muhammad in public.