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What is the line between the ancient and medieval worlds? 330? 476? 800? Most historians acknowledge that these are arbitrary distinctions, but they remain nevertheless, taking on lives of their own...

Reconsiders the historical connections between modernism and close reading and argues that new modernist fiction can bring with it new modes of reading Brings close reading into the new modernist...

Explores the role of the North Caucasus as a contested borderland between the Ottoman and Russian Empires in the 16th centuryThe wars and relationship between the Ottoman and Russian Empires have...

Much Persian sufi literature is explicitly didactic, aiming to instruct its readers and motivate pious reform. Moving beyond a recapitulation of religious content, The Poetics of Spiritual...

Hikayat Abi l-Qasim al-Baghdadi (The Portrait of Abu l-Qasim al-Baghdadi) is an 11th-century Arabic work by Abu l-Mutahhar Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Azdi which tells the story of a Baghdadi party-crasher...

Rethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James Joyce The Reader's Joyce engages with core issues of literary studies by rethinking...

Denounces contemporary politics through an engagement with political theory, the arts and what it is to live wellDubreuil provocatively proposes an extremist rethinking of the limits of politics -...

Why did the Bildungsroman, defined as the novel of development, and its protagonist Youth, become the symbolic form of the U.S.'s cultural preoccupation with regional difference amidst the nation's...

This book traces how Armenian migrants changed the demographic and cultural landscape of Istanbul and Western Anatolia in the course of the seventeenth century. During the centuries that followed,...

Examines the purpose that place serves in filmsAuthor: Corinne MauryPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Aug 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Explores the impact of Enlightenment philosophers in Scotland on the development of sociology The first collection to look at the significance of the Scottish Enlightenment for sociological thought,...

Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literatureAuthor: Mary C. English, Dustin W DixonPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Jun 30, 2024Number...

Analyses the causes and consequences of regional turbulence in the Middle East following the 2003 Iraq War and the 2011 Arab uprisings The Middle East has experienced unprecedented levels of...

All you need to know about: how to research and structure your moot, the use of legal authority, honing your presentation skills and addressing the court. Includes a worked example, details of...

Explores the role that talent intermediaries, including producers and talent managers, play in packaging American independent cinema projectsAuthor: Andrew Stubbs-LacyPublisher: Edinburgh University...

The Umayyad Empire (644-750 CE) was the first Islamic empire and one of the largest empires of ancient and medieval times, extending over 5,000 miles between the Atlantic Ocean in the West and the...

In two volumes, Geoffrey Bennington and Kas Saghafi present the majority of Jacques Derrida's untranslated, and previously uncollected, essays and interviews. Dating mostly from 1992 to 2004, these...

Theatre has a remarkable capacity: it touches from a distance. The audience is affected, despite their physical separation from the stage. The spectators are moved, even though the fictional world...

Jeffrey Bell develops a critical existentialism and provides a new way of integrating the concerns of existentialist writers into contemporary political and social debates.Author: Jeffrey A...

Transgressive Art Films offers a holistic approach to the way we consider controversial and extreme cinema - not just as individual or grouped texts for analysis - but as artefacts that ought to be...

Examines the ways in which the kaiju eiga has developed into a global genreAuthor: Steven RawlePublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: May 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Bringing together leading scholars, this volume is the first of its kind to address the growing global phenomenon of transnational repression - using tactics that include surveillance, coercion,...

Traces the evolution of the TV cime drama since 2000 with a focus on the value these series have delivered to the creative industries and society in generalAuthor: Sue Turnbull, Marion...

In Scots law, the legal concept of the trust has a long history of development and, over that time, has come to take on a number of characteristics. Because of this, there is no single definition of...

Explores the transformations of the notion of 'the people' from the late Ottoman to current Turkish political discoursesAuthor: Spyros A SofosPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date:...

[headline]A comprehensive study of how fiction has depicted and responded to terrorism in the twenty-first century Examining novels by celebrated authors, some neglected and some brand new texts,...

Reconstructs the surprising, self-interested and at times paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the limits of middle-class status Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status recovers...

Refines our understanding of Virginia Woolf as a politically engaged writerAuthor: Clara JonesPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Jun 30, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

The first comprehensive analysis of Virginia Woolf's literary biography This book examines Virginia Woolf's influence on the literary afterlives of nineteenth-century women of letters through her...

Provides the most comprehensive portrayal of Virginia Woolf's education to date.Author: Beth Rigel DaughertyPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: May 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA...