edinburgh university press feb 2023 (50 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An introduction to the linguistic study of meaning, this book outlines the meaning potential (semantics) of English and how language knowledge is put to use (pragmatics).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thomas De Quincey's multivalent engagement with Romantic translation This book investigates how De Quincey's writing was shaped by his work as a translator. Drawing on a wide range of materials and readings, it traces how De Quincey employed structures of interlinguistic and interdiscursive exchange to reimagine Romanticism. The book examines how his theories and practices of translation served to position his oeuvre, define his style, frame his philosophy and reinvent the meaning of literary creativity. Brecht de Groote traces in particular the ways in which De Quincey used translation to locate British Romanticism in its European context. In shedding new light on De Quincey, de Groote models a new translation-centric approach to the study of Romanticism. Brecht de Groote is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at the University of Ghent.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The achievements and legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment, inspired by the work of Christopher Berry The Scottish Enlightenment has been one of the growth fields in scholarship on eighteenth-century intellectual history. The era is renowned for its seminal and interrelated contributions to understanding the emergence of the human sciences, the framing of modern political economy and for its pioneering study of commercial society. This collection of specially commissioned essays, examines the texts and central achievements of the Scottish Enlightenment. It focuses on the transformative contribution of the Scottish literati to modernity by examining three central themes: the Scots' pioneering conception of commercial society, the equally pioneering development of the Scots 'science of human nature, ' and the emergence of the modern political economy. An international group of Scottish Enlightenment scholars from a variety of disciplines provide explorations for these achievements, with a special focus on the work of Adam Smith and David Hume. They take their launching point from themes in the work of Professor Christopher J. Berry who is internationally known and respected for the work he has done to establish the coherence and significance of the Scottish Enlightenment. R. J. W. Mills, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in History, Queen Mary, University of London. Craig Smith is Adam Smith Senior Lecturer in the Scottish Enlightenment in the School of Social and Political sciences at the University of Glasgow.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Treating slavery as a single thing was politically vital to abolitionism, but has become an impediment to scholarly understanding. Vlassopoulos shows how vital it is to stop considering slaves and slavery to be one thing if we are to understand Greek and Roman slavery. His rich and compelling picture of ancient slavery is the first step towards an honest mapping of the dynamics of power and domination across ancient societies that does not hide behind the classifications that they and we have found it politically convenient to adopt.' Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge 'In clear and accessible prose, Vlassopoulos presents a radical re-thinking of ancient Greek and Roman slavery and the ways these institutions should be understood. Questioning methodologies long taken for granted, he provides a useful set of new tools and approaches that will greatly aid any future work on this topic.' Deborah Kamen, University of Washington A new framework for studying slaves and slavery in ancient societies Informed by the global history of slavery, Kostas Vlassopoulos avoids traditional approaches to slavery as a static institution and instead explores the diverse strategies and various contexts in which it was employed. In doing so he offers a new historicist approach to the study of slave identity and the various networks and communities that slaves created or participated in. Instead of seeing slaves merely as passive objects of exploitation and domination, his focus is on slave agency and the various ways in which they played an active role in the history of ancient societies. Vlassopoulos examines slavery not only as an economic and social phenomenon, but also in its political, religious and cultural ramifications. A comparative framework emerges as he examines Greek and Roman slaveries alongside other slaving systems in the Near East, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Kostas Vlassopoulos is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Crete. Cover image: Funerary inscription for the slave Macedo, set up by his fellow slave Thallus. Marble tombstone with a Latin funerary inscription, second century CE, Rome. British Museum, inv. no. 1867,0508.37. Cover design: [EUP logo] ISBN 978 1 4744 8721 4 Barcode.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A legal biography of Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884): Jewish lawyer, US Senator, Confederate statesman, political exile, leader of the English Bar, inspiration for Benjamin's Sale of Goods and distinguished jurist With a foreword by Stephen C. Neff, Professor of War and Peace, University of Edinburgh This is the first biography written from a legal perspective on the public life of Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884); a prominent figure in the common law world in the second half of the 19th century. Drawing on a range of primary source materials including newspaper articles, case law and extensive archival research in the UK and USA, it charts his rise as a lawyer first in the mixed legal system of Louisiana and then nationally. In 1853 he was the first person of Jewish heritage to be offered nomination to the US Supreme Court - an honour he declined. Benjamin was also a member of the US Senate, a slave owner and a supporter of Southern secession. In the Civil War he served continuously in the Confederate Cabinet initially as Attorney General, then as Secretary of War and finally as Secretary of State. Following the victory of the Union he fled America, a fugitive. In political exile in England he requalified as a Barrister at Lincoln's Inn. Within a decade he had written a scholarly and long-enduring treatise on commercial law and become the undisputed advocate of choice in appeals before the House of Lords and the Privy Council. This book considers the extraordinary career of this distinguished jurist and reflects upon his legal legacy. Key features: -Based on extensive research in the UK and USA, it draws on a broad range of primary source materials, including British and American newspapers - Reflects on some of Benjamin's most significant cases - Provides insights into the personal and professional qualities which permitted him to fashion two separate legal careers in different continents - Clarifies how Benjamin's two notable contributions to legal literature, first in Louisiana and then in England, provided a springboard for his rise as a practitioner in each jurisdiction - Outlines his high profile, controversial, political career in America which was bookended by his accomplishments in the law in - Reflects upon Benjamin's enduring legacy as a jurist in contrast to his diminishing visibility in American political history William (Bill) Gilmore is Emeritus Professor of International Criminal Law in the University of Edinburgh and a former Dean and Head of its School of Law. In 2017 he was awarded the medal of honour of the Council of Europe for his contributions to European efforts to counter money laundering and the financing of terrorism. This is his second book of legal history.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Demonstrates how visual art can work as a powerful technology of the self Starting from criticisms of a simple, given self, found in Nietzsche, Freud, and Foucault, Katrina Mitcheson addresses the problem of how a complex self is constructed, and how a hermeneutics of the self can avoid reproducing a subjugated self. Critically examining Ricoeur's narrative account of self-construction, Mitcheson makes the case that narrative as a model of self-construction overlooks the variety of processes that can contribute to forming a self and neglects the materiality of these processes. Drawing on the work of a range of visual artists including Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois, this study develops an alternative account of a plural and corporeal hermeneutics of the self. Diverse examples are explored of how visual art can operate not only as a critical technology of the self, exposing practices which contribute to our subjugation, but can also discover, explore, and affect bodily processes, thereby enabling experimentation in self-construction.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Analyses the narrative function of Kharijism in 9th- and 10th-century Islamic historiography.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Investigating British and Irish identities during New Zealand's Otago gold rushes This book creatively explores the gold rushes in the Tasman World through an examination of the Otago gold rushes, revealing how transnational connections and local social and natural environments shaped colonial identities. The first monograph-length study on the Otago gold rushes and their place in the histories of British and Irish migration, it increases our understanding of the British World by grounding transnational networks in the local ecologies, geologies and weather patterns which shaped local social structures and profoundly affected migrants' relationships to loved ones in Britain, Ireland and elsewhere. Utilising gold-rush autobiographies, letters and diaries, as well as public commemorations, Daniel Davy explains the role of memory in forming ethnic and national identities in the early twentieth-century Tasman World. Daniel Davy is Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean of Faculty at Ave Maria University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Analyses the translations of the Eclogues, Georgics and the Aeneid to reflect the cultural influence of Virgil over the decades of the seventeenth century This book considers the writers who translated Virgil into English during the English civil wars, the Interregnum and the early years of the Stuart Restoration (c. 1636-c. 1661). It argues that these writers translated Virgil in order to display and interrogate their political loyalties, articulate personal responses to past traumas and express their hopes for the country's future. All of Virgil's English translators in this period were in some way associated with the royalist cause, but the political elements of their respective translations demonstrate that royalism itself was not a monolithic political standpoint and instead encompassed a wide variety of opinions regarding the policy of individual monarchs and the institution of monarchy. Ian Calvert is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Bristol.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvre Deploying the concepts and techniques of Body Studies, Guy J. Reynolds remaps Cather's vast and diverse range of writing from the 1890s through to 1940. His study of embodiment and narrative focuses on the senses and reads Cather as a writer at the transition from late Victorian to Modernist modes of representation. The book presents suggestive new ways of understanding her depictions of disability, male bodies and Native American culture, not to mention her narratives of whiteness and of the black body. Guy J. Reynolds is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Outlining the rise of Philippine slums alongside the historical development of Philippine urban cinema, Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in Philippine Cinema makes a novel contribution to the cinema-city nexus through its interdisciplinary framework of film studies and human geography.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examines the place of media technology in the literary and intellectual history of Romantic-era Britain Godwin and the Book explores a network of controversies concerning the relationship of media form to social futurity in Britain in the Romantic era through the writing of the notorious philosopher-novelist William Godwin (1756-1836). It presents a fresh reading of Godwin's fifty-year corpus, using evidence from his fiction, philosophy and essays to argue that, throughout his career, he figured books and reading in particular ways in order to defend a set of inherited beliefs about intellectual perfectibility. It highlights many wider debates that marked out the culture of this period - including disagreements over the physiology of the mind, the ethics of novel-reading and the social consequences of death - and considers how these debates were intertwined with the formal development of contemporary British prose. J. Louise McCray is a writer and critic whose research focuses on media, fiction and intellectual history.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - These three books reflect the beginnings of one of the most radical and exhilarating figures in modern literature Incandescent Limbo recounts White's years in Paris. Many a writer in the modern era had made Paris a focal point of his or her activity, but probably no one made more of it or got more out of it than Kenneth White. While exploring a labyrinthine underworld, the book is fundamentally an autoanalysis and traces the birth of the writer as an intellectual nomad. Letters from Gourgounel takes us from the city to a wild part of south-eastern France, the Ardèche, where White undertakes a resourcing in an elementary context. Hailed in England as a 'fascinating curiosity of literature', this book not only made White famous overnight in France, it was seen there as a turning point in the contemporary situation. In the third book, Travels in the Drifting Dawn, the intellectual nomad begins his moves across territories and cultures. After passing through the London underground of the sixties, then delving into the ground of his native Scotland and neighbouring Ireland, we shift back to the Continent, accumulating experience on different levels in France, Spain, Belgium, Holland, before concluding the cycle in North Africa. The trilogy is not only a summary of White's itinerary in its initial stages, it opens up a whole intellectual and cultural programme. Kenneth White is not only a convinced European Scot, but he renews the tradition of the medieval Scotus vagans ('wandering Scot'), an existence devoted to travelling and learning, finding and founding. After much moving about, he taught (1983-96) from a specially created Chair of Twentieth-Century Poetics at the Sorbonne. In 1989, he founded the International Institute of Geopoetics, the aim of which is to explore in depth the human and non-human habitation of the earth and the basis of live culture. On the Continent, his work, whether in essay, narrative or poem, has been awarded many prizes, among them the Prix Medicis Etranger and the French Academy's Grand Prix du Rayonnement.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A richly historicised account of the modern corporation and its spatial manifestations in Britain and America Hotel Modernity explores the impact of corporate space on the construction and texture of modern fiction and film. It centres the hotel and corporate space as key sites of modern experience and culture. Examining architectural and financial records, hotel trade journals, travel journalism, advertisements and cinematic and literary representations, it charts the rise of hotel culture from 1870 to 1939. From Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen and Charlie Chaplin, from the ecstatic Waldorf to the ephemeral Ritz, from upstate New York to the Italian Riviera, the book considers the effects of hotel space on bodies, selves and communities. Robbie Moore is Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Exploring the religious cultures, beliefs and imperatives that shaped the Jacobite movement in Scotland The Revolution of 1688-90 was accompanied in Scotland by a Church Settlement which dismantled the Episcopalian governance of the church. Clergy were ousted and liturgical traditions were replaced by the new Presbyterian order. As Episcopalians, non-jurors and Catholics were sidelined under the new regime, they drew on their different confessional and liturgical inheritances - pre- and post-Reformation - to respond to ecclesiastical change and inform their support of the movement to restore the Stuarts. In so doing, they had a profound effect on the ways in which worship was conducted and considered in Britain and beyond. This book provides a fresh examination of the Jacobite movement based not on dynastic identification but on confessional and intellectual bases of support, focusing on the composite and nuanced traditions that sustained the Jacobite movement for seven decades beyond the 1688-90 Revolution. Allan I. Macinnes is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Strathclyde. Patricia Barton is subject leader in History, School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde. Kieran German is a teaching fellow at the University of Dundee.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A thematic exploration of modern Turkish theology Philip Dorroll argues that Turkish Islamic theology is in fact a distinct tradition of Islamic theological thought, shaped by the unique social conditions of the Turkish Republic. Tracking the emergence and development of this tradition over time, he examines the key themes of theology in the Turkish Republic, ranging from issues such as nationalism, conceptions of God and humanity, the definition of religion itself, and theologies of human rights, gender and sexuality. In doing so, this book provides an important historical and conceptual map to the vast territory of modern Turkish theology. Key Features - Includes extended analyses of numerous late Ottoman and modern Turkish Muslim theologians, such as Ismail Hakki Izmirli, Bekir Topaloglu, Hüseyin Atay, Hayrettin Karaman, Sönmez Kutlu, Hidayet Sefkatli Tuksal, Hülya Alper and Emine Ögük - Explores how modern Turkish theologians have grappled with questions of critical and humanistic analyses of religion, questions of human rights, gender and sexuality (such as Muslim LGBTQ identity), and theological arguments for secularism and democracy - Based on a range of Turkish language theological sources not available in English and never before analysed in English.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Producer, distributor, and director Doris Wishman (1912-2002) was a pioneering woman in the film industry, leaving a body of work almost 30 films strong. Largely overlooked by critical and cultural analysis, Wishman worked in the normatively neglected film genre of sexploitation and adult film, but works like Hideout in the Sun (1960), Bad Girls Go To Hell (1965), Double Agent 73 (1974) and Each Time I Kill (2007) demonstrate an interest in complicated, ideological and often troubling social performances of the contemporary human condition. ReFocus: The Films of Doris Wishman positions Wishman as a significant and overlooked force in American independent film, with an impact on how we currently understand the categories of cult, exploitation, horror, experimental and avant-garde cinema. Alicia Kozma is Chair and Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Washington College. Finely Freibert is a part-time Senior Lecturer in Comparative Humanities at the University of Louisville and an adjunct Lecturer at the Kentucky College of Art and Design.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Exploring the stories, memories and experiences attached to places, Western China on Screen is the first monograph to explore the affinity between the cinema and cities of western China through a spatial perspective. Hongyan Zou investigates how cinematic cities in western China appear as both spaces of national power and enclosed spaces of traditional cultural values, and the book diversifies the glamourised image of the post-socialist, technocratic metropolises of Beijing and Shanghai - breaking the long-existing rural and ethnographical images of western China established by Chinese Fifth Generation directors. Through case studies of films such as Rain Clouds Over Wushan (1996), Buddha Mountain (2010) and Weaving Girl (2010), this book establishes a new way of looking at western urban China on screen: from a space of production to a space of increasing consumption. Hongyan Zou is a lecturer at the Foreign Language School of Sichuan University, China.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book establishes a cinematic and cultural history of Greece during the last difficult decade in an engaged and highly original manner.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An account of Salome's dance and its centrality within modernist performance This book explores Salome's quintessential veiled dance through readings of fictional and poetic texts, dramatic productions, dance performances and silent films, arguing for the central place of this dancer - and her many interpreters - to the wider formal and aesthetic contours of modernism. Loïe Fuller, Maud Allan, Oscar Wilde, Ida Rubinstein, Alla Nazimova, Djuna Barnes, Germaine Dulac, Edward Gordon Craig, W. B. Yeats, Ninette de Valois and Samuel Beckett are foregrounded for their innovative engagements with this paradigmatic fin-de-siècle myth, showing how the ephemeral stuff of dance became a constitutive element of the modernist imagination during this period. Megan Girdwood is an Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rakhshan Banietemad is one of Iran's first female film directors. This book, the first English language study of her films and career, contains chapters by some of the most prominent scholars of Iranian cinema, as well as younger scholars with fresh points of view. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, the book gives special attention to Banietemad's under-studied documentaries and films, including Under the Skin of the City (2000) and Tales (2014), while offering new perspectives on well-known works such as The Blue Veiled (1994) and The May Lady (1997). The contributors focus on questions of aesthetics and poetics, social realism, gender dynamics and the 'afterimages' and 'counter-memories' of revolution and war, and the book also includes an in-depth interview with Banietemad herself. Maryam Ghorbankarimi is a Lecturer in Film at Lancaster University. Her research concentrates on Iranian Cinema and transnational cinema and cultures, specifically the representation of gender in Middle Eastern cinemas.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dr. Sayfo has worked with the best scholars in the field, and has done such a large amount of groundwork through interviews and fieldwork, that I am convinced this book will serve as one of the benchmarks for research on Arab animation in years to come. This excellent book combines critical analysis of existing scholarship with original research that has not been accessed or unlocked previously.' Professor Stefanie Van de Peer, Lecturer in Film and Media, Queen Margaret University 'This work is encyclopaedic in ambition and scope. Its coverage includes details of the production background and texts of scores of animations, organised coherently according to the author's framework of national, pan-Arab, Islamic, 'revolutionary' and global identities and researched through painstaking and resourceful seeking out and sifting of a wide range of archives and sources, including interviews.' Naomi Sakr, Professor of Media Policy, University of Westminster Exploring political and religious identity in Arab animation From the 1930s until the recent spread of online animations, animated cartoon production in the Arab world was the privilege of individuals and institutions with strong links to academic, media and political elites. These elites had maintained both direct and indirect authority over production in a number of ways, including funding, regulation and censorship. Arab animated films and series thus became a legitimate focus of well-defined cultural policies and, in many cases, even of political and religious agendas. Omar Sayfo explores how Arab animations, as cultural and media texts, have been deeply engaged in the making and remaking of religious and political identities. By analysing animation production in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, the Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates, this book seeks to demonstrate how rival notions of national, pan-Arab and Islamic identities have been advocated, challenged and fused by Arab animated cartoons. By textually analysing around 40 productions from the 1930s until recently, this critical study explores how animated cartoons of the Arab world have been used to promote various notions of identity and mediate political and religious messages. Omar Sayfo is a researcher at Utrecht University and the Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores the broad range of Elizabeth Robins Pennell's diverse writing career and interests This collection brings together twelve original interdisciplinary essays on the work of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, the American-born, London-based journalist, author and aesthete who published (or co-published) over twenty books and over a thousand periodical articles between the early 1880s and 1930. It features contributions from critics of English literature, art history, food writing and American Studies. Presenting a transatlantic perspective on this transatlantic figure, the collection also provides critical discussions of several Pennell texts including her Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, Our Sentimental Journey, To Gipsyland, Over the Alps on a Bicycle and The Delights of Delicate Eating and The Lovers as well as her prolific periodical publishing. Dave Buchanan is Associate Professor of English at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. Kimberly Morse Jones is Associate Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College in Virginia.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A systematic study of the most iconic national character in the US in nineteenth-century literature and culture In this book, Stefanie Schäfer provides the first study of the Yankee's many facets. Reading together Yankee Doodle, Brother Jonathan, Uncle Sam, the Yankee Peddler and the Down Easter, she highlights the Yankee's ambiguity: His performance hinges on storytelling and fraudulence. An invention of transatlantic origin, the Yankee straddles regional and sectional, rural and urban, working class and bourgeois US identities. For nineteenth-century audiences at home and abroad, he becomes the hegemonic embodiment of US national character, its political and material culture and the homespun agent of its imperial fantasies. Stefanie Schäfer is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie research fellow at the University of Vienna.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A comparative analysis of post-revolutionary Iranian literature In this critical analysis, Laetitia Nanquette explores how literature has functioned and circulated since the 1979 revolution until the present, both within Iran and in countries of the Iranian diaspora, focusing on North America, Western Europe and Australia. It focuses on prose productions, analysing several genres and media. The book takes Iran as its starting point, revealing the forms, structures and functions of Iranian literature within Iranian society, before turning to the diaspora and the world beyond Iranians to examine the current dynamics of literary production and circulation between Iranian diasporic spaces and the homeland. Key Features - Provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary Iranian literary field in its relation to the social, economic and political fields, both within Iran and in the diaspora - Analyses the literary relations between Iran and the world, including its large diaspora, with a global framework - Based on 15 years of fieldwork and travels in Iran, with unique interview and data, as well as participant observation - Offers innovative theorisation of post-revolutionary Iranian literature on the margins of the world literary system Laetitia Nanquette is Senior Lecturer in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A history of post-Disruption Scottish Presbyterian dissent and its religious, political, and social influence The Disruption of the Church of Scotland was one of the most important events in Victorian Britain and had a profound and lasting impact on Scottish religion, politics and society. This book provides the first detailed account of the two major non-established Presbyterian denominations in the two decades after 1843, which together accounted for roughly half of Scotland's churchgoers: the Free Church, formed by those who left the Established Church at the Disruption, and the United Presbyterian Church, a consolidation of the various secessions of the previous century. Ryan Mallon explores how the relationship between these churches developed from the bitter feuds over the church-state connection prior to the Disruption to co-operation in the major ecclesiastical, political and social matters of the day, paving the way to negotiations for merger commencing in 1863. The period between 1843 and 1863 redefined conceptions of what it meant to be Presbyterian and Scottish. By examining a key transitional period in Scottish history, this monograph charts how definitions of Presbyterianism, the Kirk and dissent evolved as Scotland's national religion slowly moved from the divisions of the previous century towards eventual reunion in 1929. Ryan Mallon completed his PhD at Queen's University Belfast in 2018 and currently teaches there in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics. His research focuses on religion, politics and identity in Scotland and he has published articles on Scottish nationalism, education, anti-Catholicism and radical politics.