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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*\*\*AUTHOR-APPROVED\*\*\* A re-assessment of the Gothic in relation to the female, the 'feminine', feminism and post-feminism This collection of newly commissioned essays brings together major scholars in the field of Gothic studies in order to re-think the topic of 'Women and the Gothic'. The 14 chapters in this volume encompass debates about the term 'Female Gothic', the legacy of second-wave feminism, developments in the theorisation of gender and the problematics of post-feminism, including challenges from a younger generation of women. The contributors explore Gothic works - from established classics to recent films and novels - from feminist and post-feminist perspectives. The result is a lively book that combines rigorous close readings with elegant use of theory in order to question some ingrained assumptions about women, the Gothic and identity. Key Features - Revitalises the long-running debate about women, the Gothic and identity - Engages with the political agendas of feminism and post-feminism - Prioritises the concerns of woman as reader, author and critic - Offers fresh readings of both classic and recent Gothic works Avril Horner is Emeritus Professor of English at Kingston University and Sue Zlosnik is Emeritus Professor of Gothic Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. Among the books they have co-authored are Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination and Gothic and the Comic Turn (Palgrave Macmillan, 1998 and 2005).

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This provocative collection sees 'culture' not just as the sum of its arts, but in its more primal sense of something that grows, matures, morphs, and rots. Placing contemporary American Culture in the petri dish of history, this book is a must for students of the Gothic and American Studies!' Steven Bruhm, Western University Surveys the traditions and conventions of the underside of American culture - its repressed memories, anxieties and panics, fears and horrors, obsessions and paranoias Moving from analyses of eighteenth-century literature to twenty-first-century video games, with chapters concerning visual art, film, and television, alongside discussions of serial killers and monsters, education and cityscapes, this Companion aims to demonstrate the centrality of the Gothic to American culture writ large. We suggest that the definitions of America and those of the Gothic are so closely related as to be inseparable. Moving both across history and through multiple media and forms of analysis, the Companion sees the Gothic as a primary discourse through which American culture discusses itself and the material nation from which it arises. The volume consists of twelve essays divided into four sections: Gothic Histories, Gothic Identities; Gothic Genres, Gothic Sites; Gothic Media; and American Creatures. Analysing canonical literary works alongside lesser known material and newer mass media, the chapters collectively provide a map of the wide reach of the Gothic in the American cultural landscape, and do so from a variety of critical and methodological perspectives. Key Features - Features original critical writing by established and emerging scholars - Surveys the full range of American Gothic, from its earliest texts to twenty-first-century works - Includes critical analyses of American Gothic in new media and technologies - Establishes new benchmarks for the critical understanding of American Gothic traditions Joel Faflak is Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University, where he is Director of the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities. His previous publications include Romantic Psychoanalysis: The Burden of the Mystery (2009) and Romanticism and the Emotions (2014). Jason Haslam is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. His published books include, most recently, the monograph Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction: Reflections on Fantastic Identities (2015) and the textbook Thinking Popular Culture (2015).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on media analysis, elite interviews, focus groups and survey data, Russian Speakers in Post-Soviet Latvia situates the identity strategies of Russian speakers within the political, cultural, and economic transformations of the post-Soviet era. By assessing political, cultural, and economic links with their home state (Latvia) and their potential kin-state (Russia), it offers important insights into the complex identity positions of Latvia's Russian speakers, and how these positions have evolved in Latvia since the late Soviet period.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*APPROVED\*This is the first study to introduce the figure of contamination as an alternative to dialecticsThis book enquires into the problem of various oppositions between pure entities such as natureand society, body and mind, science and the arts, subjectivity and objectivity. It examines howworks of literature and cinema have contaminated constructions of the pure and the immunewith their purported opposite. As an advanced critical introduction to the figure ofcontamination, the book makes explicit what so far has remained unarticulated - what has onlybeen implied - within postmodern, poststructuralist and deconstructive theory.Combining theory with literary criticism, the book sheds light on how overlooked aspects ofthe novels of Henry James, Herman Melville and H. G. Wells question notions of natural orderas well as an opposition between the subjective and the objective. It offers fresh readings of classicfilms and literary texts, including Vertigo and Moby Dick, with the aim to ground theoreticalinsights in close analysis.Key Features. Critically engages with some aspects of contemporary theory that keep propounding aCartesian notion of the mind's control over the body. Analyses how key thinkers such as Spinoza, Benjamin, Pasolini and Freud attempt tore-evaluate what Agamben calls 'bare life'. Offers original readings of Pasolini's notion of scandalo in terms of contamination. Alerts us to the ways in which some aspects of contemporary posthumanism may merelyreproduce the dialects of inclusion and exclusion which is still premised on traditionalnotions of purity and immunityMichael Mack is Reader in English Studies at Durham University. His recent publicationsinclude How Literature Changes the Way We Think (2012).Cover image: Contamination, Elisabeth Mack-Usselmann, photographed by Richard StopfordISBN 978-1-4744-1136-3Barcode.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This intellectually rigorous and stimulating book is unique, important, and ground breaking.' - Frank Bechhofer, Scottish Affairs'In this acute, sympathetic, trenchant book, Henderson emerges as both a crucial figure in Scottish cultural politics and an internationally resonant intellectual. Modernist poet, folk revivalist, cultural collector, polemicist, impresario, thinker, comrade: Henderson contained multitudes. Gibson brilliantly tracks his multiple commitments and makes a strong case for him as a theorist and not only a collector of 'culture'. Henderson and his work have long been due a rich and full appraisal: here it is.'Maureen N. McLane, New York UniversityHamish Henderson and the search for the radical voice of the people in modern ScotlandHow might the alienation of the artist in modern Scotland be overcome How do you incite a popular folk revival Can a poet truly speak with the 'voice of the people' And what happens to the writer who rejects print culture in favour of becoming Anon. The life and times of Hamish Henderson (1919-2002) - polymath, scholar, author and folk-hero - poses, and helps us to answer, these questions. This book examines his life-long commitment to finding a form of artistic expression suitable for post-war Europe. Though Henderson is a major figure in Scottish cultural history, his reputation is largely maintained in anecdote and song. This study explores his ideas in their intellectual, cultural and political contexts.Henderson envisaged the role of the artist as one caught between an absolute submission to the collective tide of human experience and the need to absorb and recreate this collective force according to an individual or personal credo. All of his works - in war poetry, song collection, folklore scholarship, folksong revivalism, literary translation and some vicious public debates - are underpinned by an ambitious moral-intellectual programme: to reintegrate the artist in society.Corey Gibson is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. His work on Hamish Henderson earned him the Ross Roy Medal for excellence in Scottish Literary Research. In 2013 he was the US-UK Fulbright Commission Scottish Studies Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.Shortlisted for the 2015 Saltire Research Book of the Year.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*APPROVED\* Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Series Editor: Julian Wolfreys Drawing on provocative research, volumes in the series provide timely revisions of the nineteenth-century's literature and culture. Dark Paradise: Pacific Islands in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination Jenn Fuller Examines the way in which the British transformed the Pacific islands during the nineteenth century The discovery of the Pacific islands amplified the qualities of mystery and exoticism already associated with 'foreign' islands. Their 'savage' peoples, their isolation, and their sheer beauty fascinated British visitors across the long nineteenth century. Dark Paradise argues that while the British originally believed the islands to be commercial paradises or perfect sites for missionary endeavours, as the century progressed, their optimistic vision transformed to portray darker realities. As a result, these islands act as a 'breaking point' for British theories of imperialism, colonialism, and identity. The book traces the changing British attitudes towards imperial settlement as the early view of 'island as paradise' gives way to a fear of the hostile islanders and examines how this revelation undermined a key tenent of British imperialism - that they were the 'superior' or 'civilized' islanders. Key Features - The first monograph to trace the Pacific islands as represented through the lens of British fiction and non-fiction across the long nineteenth century. - Examines texts written by Pacific islanders and published in the British press. - Significantly broadens our understanding of the British Pacific by analysing understudied Pacific texts and authors alongside more canonical works. - Provides ecocritical readings of Charles Darwin and Robert Louis Stevenson. Jenn Fuller is Assistant Lecturer at Idaho State University at Idaho Falls.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book is the first significant study in English of one of the major powers in Iran and Anatolia during the decades following the collapse of Mongol rule there after 1335. It sheds a flood of light not only on that, but on many aspects of the earlier period of Mongol rule.' David Morgan, University of Wisconsin-Madison The story of how one tribal family claimed the legacy of Chinggis Qan in Persia The period of Middle Eastern history between the collapse of the Mongol Ilkhanate in 1335 and the rise of Timur (Tamerlane) at the end of the fourteenth century is commonly seen as a tumultuous time of political breakdown and disorder. This book helps to make sense of this confusing period by tracing the origins, history and memory of the Jalayirid dynasty, a family that succeeded the Mongol Ilkhans in Iran and Iraq in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries and claimed to be the rightful heirs of the Chinggisid Mongols. The story of how the Jalayirids came to power is illustrative of the political dynamics that shaped much of the Mongol and post-Mongol period in the Middle East. Key Features - Shows how the Jalayirid sultans sought to preserve the social and political order of the Ilkhanate while claiming they were the rightful heirs to its rulership - Considers the importance of controlling Azarbayjan and its major city Tabriz for the success of the Jalayirid dynasty - Examines the relationship between tribal and dynastic identity among the post-Mongol rulers in Iran, Iraq and Anatolia - Includes maps and a genealogy of the Jalayirid Dynasty Patrick Wing is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Redlands. His research focuses on the history of the Middle East in the period of the Mongols and their successors.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Add endorsement Author approved The first critical appraisal of Jean-Luc Nancy's immense contribution to contemporary visual culture Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the most original and compelling of those contemporary political and ethical philosophers who, like Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou, have turned in recent works towards aesthetics and visual art. Nancy's challenging and inspiring writings on painting, film, photography, video and contemporary visual art have informed the work of scholars of visual culture and aesthetic theory as well as artists, filmmakers and curators. In an exciting range of original responses to Nancy's work, this collection reanimates the dialogue between interdisciplinary scholars and practicing artists that originally gave birth to visual culture as a field of study. A new translation of Nancy's essay, The Image: Mimesis and Methexis, reveals how Nancy's work informs, challenges and inspires our encounters with visual culture. Carrie Giunta is a Visiting Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. Adrienne Janus is lecturer in English, Comparative Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A textual and contextual study of an early Arabic mirror for princes Mirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many pre-modern literatures. Their ostensible purpose is to advise the king; at the same time they assert that the king, if he is truly virtuous, will appreciate being reminded of the contingency of his power. The unknown author of the Counsel for Kings studied in this book wrote in a distinctive early tenth-century Iranian environment. He deploys an abundant set of cultural materials representing 'perennial wisdom' of mixed provenances, which he reinvigorates by applying them to the circumstances of his own time and place. The first volume situates Counsel for Kings in its historical context. The second volume gives direct access to a substantial portion of the text through translation and commentary. Key Features - Integrates the evidence of Counsel for Kings with established materials for the study of Samanid history - Demonstrates the interplay of mirrors for princes with other forms of literary expression, such as anthologies of adab, historiographical, theological, philosophical and homiletic writings, encyclopaedic works and poetry Louise Marlow is Professor of Religion and Program Director for Middle Eastern Studies at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This lucid and necessary study offers a breathtaking coverage of more than a hundred years of slums in film. Igor Krstic undertakes an in-depth scrutiny of handpicked examples of the various phases of slums on screen worldwide, in the light of a rigorous, polycentric and cross-mediatic methodology. Fearlessly confronting the debates around the ethics of representing the underprivileged, Igor Krstic rises, with this book, to the forefront of film studies today.' Lúcia Nagib, Professor of Film, University of Reading Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a 'planet of slums'. But how has this hard and unyielding way of life been depicted on screen How have filmmakers engaged historically and across the globe with the social conditions of what is often perceived as the world's most miserable habitats Combining approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies, Igor Krstic outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios populares or chawls of our 'planet of slums', exploring the way accelerated urbanisation has intersected with an increasingly interconnected global film culture. From Jacob Riis' How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), the volume provides a number of close readings of films from different historical periods and regions to outline how contemporary film and media practices relate to their past predecessors - demonstrating the way various filmmakers, both north and south of the equator, have repeatedly grappled with, rejected or continuously modified documentary and realist modes to convey life in our 'planet of slums'. Igor Krstic is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Film, Theatre and Television at the University of Reading.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*APPROVED\* A literary history of Arthur Conan Doyle's work with the Strand Magazine in the twentieth century We know Arthur Conan Doyle as the stereotypically 'Victorian' author of the Sherlock Holmes stories which, in the lavishly-illustrated pages of the Strand Magazine, captivated and defined the late nineteenth-century marketplace for popular fiction and magazine publishing. This book tells the story of that relationship and the aftermath of its enormous success. Here you can discover the Conan Doyle who used his public platform to fight for divorce reform, the rights of colonised peoples, State welfare programmes, the abolition of blood sports, and who, in his last years, foresaw the coming of the Second World War, the Cold War and the age of weapons of mass destruction. The twentieth-century Conan Doyle was not a man with his eyes fixed upon the past but determinedly responding to a changing world with as much vigour and commitment as any modernist writer. Key Features - Original approach to Conan Doyle as a 'popular modernist' - Analyses many forgotten and neglected novels, short stories, letters, pamphlets and non-fiction pieces, many of which have gone entirely unremarked within existing criticism - Provides new periodical context by using forgotten material from the Strand to situate the work of Conan Doyle (and other popular writers from the period) within their historical moment - Draws on original research into the artistic and business history of the Strand, its writers and its employees Jonathan Cranfield is a Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.