The world is made of seductions. In Quincy Troupe's Seduction, the “I” becomes the “Eye”, serving as metaphor and witness in a narrative compilation from a master of poetic... Læs mere
An engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to these remarkable insects. Drawing on her experiences as a natural history instructor,... Læs mere
Aesthetic Spaces analyzes intermedial relations between film, painting, and theater.
Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit has been one of the most important works of philosophy since the nineteenth century, while the question of... Læs mere
Spolin's improvisational techniques have changed the very nature and practice of modern theatre. This third edition updates the more than 200 now-classic exercises and adds 30 new ones. It adds 30 traditional theatre games that are frequently used as warm-ups.
Examines the representation and staging of chance in literature through the work of the French writer Georges Perec. This book explores the ways in which Perec's texts exploit the possibilities of chance, by both tapping into its creative potential and controlling its operation.
Presents the notes that Maurice Merleau Ponty prepared for three courses he taught at the College de France: ‘The... Læs mere
In an ambitious reappraisal of Langston Hughes’s work and legacy, Ryan James Kernan reads Hughes’s political poetry in the context of his practice of translation to reveal an important meditation on diaspora.
More than a half century after it was first published, Hannah Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism rose to the top of bestseller lists as readers grappled with the... Læs mere
Provides a study of anti-Blackness and white supremacy across four continents that demonstrates that colour-blindness is neither new nor a subtype of racist ideology, but a constitutive technology of racism.
Despite the wide reception Gilles Deleuze has received across the humanities, research on his early work has remained scant. Experience and... Læs mere