A detailed examination of how certain Gothic bodies have taken on mythical status within western culture. -- .
This book provides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism and how they apply to film. Suitable for students of films studies and... Læs mere
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the nation's economic history.... Læs mere
A comprehensive, historically informed study of the art and politics of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, showing how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and... Læs mere
This rigorous, seminal study of leadership selection in British Politics focuses on the Conservatives and Labour Party to explore the skills needed to be an effective leader over the course of the 20th and into the 21st Century. -- .
Comic Spenser explains how the deep-rooted cultural bias against humour has skewed interpretation of The Faerie Queene since its first publication. As well... Læs mere
This latest edition of a prestigious and venerable series surveys the build up to the tumultuous 2019 General Election and its immediate aftermath, offering reasoned conjecture about the future of British party politics and democracy. -- .
This book takes its cue from the annus miabilis for French culture to outline French modernism and to situate it on the map of global modernism. Essays on specific works... Læs mere
Tracing the dual alphabet from its intervention by Carolingian scribes to its rejection by modernist poets and the... Læs mere
This title is an historical overview and a then-and-now comparison of performing for British television drama. -- .
Civilising rural Ireland challenges predominant narratives of Irish history that explain the emergence of the... Læs mere
This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia – creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection. -- .