edinburgh university press jun 2014 (16 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Saloman's exhilarating approach in this book widens and deepens our thinking about genre and its place in modernism, and her focus on genre, form, and mode is anything but exclusively formalist; indeed, it complicates and enriches feminist and cultural studies.' Beth Rigel Daugherty, Otterbein University, WSA Explores the way Woolf used essay-writing techniques to develop her conception of the modern novel. The focus of this study is on Virginia Woolf's vast output of essays and their relation to her fiction. Randi Saloman shows that it was by employing tools and methods drawn from the essay genre - such as fragmentation, stream-of-consciousness and dialogic engagement with the reader - that Woolf managed to leave behind the realism of the 19th-century novel. Saloman draws on key theorists of the essay such as T. W. Adorno and Georg Lukács, as well as on more recent scholars of 'essayism' (a term devised by Robert Musil to describe the hypothetical quality of the essay mode). She shows that the essay, as genre and mode, shaped Woolf's writing, and modern fiction more generally, in ways that have not yet been articulated. Key Features: \* In-depth consideration of Virginia Woolf's shorter essays \* Revisionary accounts of /A Room of One's Own/ (1929) and /Three Guineas/ (1938) \* New readings of Woolf's major and less well-known novels, including /The Pargiters/, her failed 'essay-novel' \* Repositions the essay as a major modernist genre, responsible in large part for the creation of the modern (and especially the 'modernist') novel Randi Saloman teaches at Wake Forest University. She has published articles on Virginia Woolf, the essay, and cosmopolitanism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - AUTHOR-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. 1895 Drama, Disaster and Disgrace in Late Victorian Britain Nicholas Freeman Explores the lasting cultural and political impact of the events of this remarkable year Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry and its disastrous repercussions dominated British newspapers during the spring of 1895, but as this innovative study reveals, the Wilde scandal was by no means the only event to capture the public's imagination that year. Freak weather, a flu epidemic, a General Election, industrial unrest, 'sex novels' and New Women, trials of murderers and fraudsters, accidents, anarchists, bombers, balloonists and bicyclists were all topics of interest and alarm. Had Jack the Ripper returned Did the Prime Minister have a dreadful secret Were Aubrey Beardsley's drawings corrupting the nation's morals Were overpaid foreign players corrupting English football Could cricket save a degenerate nation from moral ruin Drawing on strikingly diverse primary sources, Nicholas Freeman examines the recurrent preoccupations of a turbulent year, showing how 1890s' Britain is at once far removed from our own day and yet strangely familiar. Nicholas Freeman is Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Cisney presents the clearest introduction to this difficult and yet essential Derrida text. His thorough investigation shows us that Voice and Phenomenon is not only one of the most penetrating criticisms of classical phenomenology, but also that it is foundational for Derrida's entire itinerary of thinking. This is a superb work.'Leonard Lawlor, Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Penn State UniversityThe essential toolkit for anyone reading this seminal Derrida text for the first timePublished in 1967, Voice and Phenomenon marked a crucial turning point in Derrida's thinking: the culmination of a fifteen-year long engagement with the phenomenological tradition. It also introduced the concepts and themes that would become deconstruction.Voice and Phenomenon is a short book, but it can be an overwhelming text, particularly for inexperienced readers of Derrida's work. This is the first guide to clearly explain the structure of his argument, step by step.Key features:. Introduces you to Derrida's historical context, with special attention to the importance of Husserl's thought. Provides careful, critical commentary of his text from start to finish, explaining the key arguments and problems as you go. Shows how the concepts used in Voice and Phenomenon paved the way for Derrida's future works. Includes a glossary, further reading and descriptions of some of Derrida's ethical and political concepts from his later writingsVernon W. Cisney is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - French Queer Cinema examines the representation of queer identities and sexualities in contemporary French filmmaking. This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive study of the cultural formation and critical reception of contemporary queer film and video in France.French Queer Cinema addresses the emergence of a gay cinema in the French context since the late 1990s, including critical coverage of films by important contemporary directors such as François Ozon, Sébastien Lifshitz, Patrice Chéreau, André Téchiné and Christophe Honoré. Nick Rees-Roberts transposes contemporary Anglo-American Queer Theory to the study of French screen culture, drawing particular attention to issues of race and migration such as problematic fantasies of Arab masculinities in queer cinematic production. This theoretically-informed book engages with a number of fault-lines running through queer cultural representation in France including transgender dissent and the effects of AIDS and loss on the formation of queer identities and sexualities.Key Features\*Provides a full, up-to-date account of the formation, reception and setting for contemporary queer film and video in France.\*Situates cinematic representations of migration, social exclusion and queer sexualities in the context of recent repressive legislation on sex work and immigration.\*Covers the work of less well-known directors such as Christophe Honoré, Sébastien Lifshitz and Gaël Morel.Nick Rees-Roberts is Lecturer in French, University of Bristol.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since the Catalan government passed the first of Spain's regional governmental laws on same-sex partnership in 1998, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer culture in Spain has thrived. Spanish Queer Cinema assesses the impact of this significant cultural expression on Spanish Cinema and evaluates the role LGBTQ film has had in creating and shaping identity and experience. Focusing on films from 1998 to the present day, Chris Perriam skilfully analyses the development of LGBTQ filmmaking and filmwatching in Spain and places this within the wider context of LGBTQ culture. Covering lesbian cinema as well as gay, and queer documentaries and short films, as well as mainstream features, the book investigates how LGBTQ films are circulated and how audiences react to them. It includes discussions of film festivals, cultural centres and social networking sites and it places the filmwatching experience within the context of other cultural activities such as television viewing, reading, surfing, downloading and festival-going. It assesses the importance and impact of Spanish queer cinema on the construction of LGBTQ identities and experiences. An informative and thought-provoking book, Spanish Queer Cinema is an essential read for students and scholars working in the fields of Film Studies, Spanish Studies and Cultural Studies. Chris Perriam is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Manchester.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The modern age has not been kind to traditional dialects. While local pronunciations and structures survive relatively well, native vocabulary is disappearing, to be replaced by words and phrases from the standard or, more often, broadly based vernaculars. This is particularly the case with dialects associated with a disappearing way of life. Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities discusses these changes in relation to the previously highly distinctive dialects associated with the fishing communities of Scotland's east coast. It demonstrates how vocabulary use varies and changes; in particular how words are lost in the face of great social change. Particular emphasis is given to the linguistic behaviour of women throughout the communities, generational factors and what heritage concerns mean linguistically. Using methodologies derived from both sociolinguistics and dialectology, the authors present an engaging and thought-provoking case study for advanced students, researchers and scholars in language and linguistics. Robert McColl Millar is Reader in Linguistics in the School of Language and Literature at the University of Aberdeen. William Barras is a Lecturer in Language and Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen. Lisa Marie Bonnici received her PhD in Linguistics from UC Davis and carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Aberdeen for the FisherSpeak project. Cover image: The statue of Fisher Jessie and her daughter, Peterhead (c) John Ollason. Cover design: Michael Chatfield.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides an historical analysis of the TV crime series as a genre, paying close attention not only to the nature of TV dramas themselves, but also to the context of production and reception.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An excellent collection of theoretically innovative and empirically rich essays on practices of depoliticisation and repoliticisation, ranging from the everyday to the spectacular, The Post-Political and Its Discontents shows that liberal democracy and consensus building do not exhaust all political possibilities and futures.' Mustafa Dikeç, Institut Français d'Urbanisme, Paris An exploration of the post-politics of global capitalism in theory and practice Our age is celebrated as the triumph of liberal democracy. Old ideological battles have been decisively resolved in favour of freedom and the market. We are told that we have moved 'beyond left and right'; that we are 'all in this together'. Any remaining differences are to be addressed through expert knowledge, consensual deliberation and participatory governance. Yet the 'end of history' has also been marked by widespread disillusion with mainstream politics and a rise in nationalist and religious fundamentalisms. And now an explosion of popular protests is challenging technocratic regulation and the power of markets in the name of democracy itself. This collection seeks to make sense of this complex and paradoxical situation by critically engaging with the influential theory of 'the post-political' developed by Chantal Mouffe, Jacques Rancière, Slavoj Zizek and others. Through a multidimensional and fiercely contested assessment of contemporary depoliticisation, The Post-Political and Its Discontents urges us to confront the closure of our political horizons and re-imagine the possibility of emancipatory change. Key Features - Interrogates the theoretical literature on post-politics - its value and limits, its internal tensions and the possibility of creative syntheses with other approaches - Critically engages with multiple dimensions of contemporary depoliticisation, including multiculturalism, philanthropy, ecology, participatory development, public-private partnerships and the regulation of biotechnology - Assesses the emancipatory potential of anti-austerity protests, the Occupy movement and other political struggles in the context of continuing processes of post-politicisation Japhy Wilson is Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Manchester. Erik Swyngedouw is Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester. He has previously held a Professorship in Geography at Oxford University and the 2014 Vincent Wright Visiting Professorship in Political Science at Sciences Po, Paris.

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