edinburgh university press jun 2021 (20 Ergebnisse)

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Buch. 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.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A broad, comparative and trans-Atlantic approach to the Age of Revolutions Cutting across disciplines and linguistic borders, this book highlights revolutionary movements in Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean between the mid-eighteenth century and the revolutions of 1848. The chapters in the book adopt transnational approaches to revolution to show how political uprisings often reverberated far beyond the borders of the states directly affected - in the form of narratives, metaphors, translations, letters, pamphlets and dialogues, as well as physical objects. Elizabeth Amann is Professor of Literary Studies at Ghent University Michael Boyden is a chair professor of English at Radboud University Nijmegen.

Buch. 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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Buch. 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.

Buch. 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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Buch. 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 centuryThis 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.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Offering a comprehensive and highly original perspective, Cinema and Soft Power is a significant contribution to the field. Anyone seeking to understand the value of cinema as a soft power instrument in case studies beyond the 'usual suspects' will appreciate both the breadth and depth of this collection of essays.' Gary Rawnsley, University of Nottingham Ningbo China 'The relationship between soft power and popular culture, especially cinema, has largely been overlooked in academic literature. Dennison and Dwyer's innovative collection admirably fills this gap: a very useful resource for students and researchers.' Daya Thussu, Professor of International Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University The apparent shift in power relations between the developed and developing world, along with the increasing emphasis that national and transnational organisations place on the role of 'soft power' in global foreign policy, has profound implications for global film culture. Focusing primarily on the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), this innovative collection examines the diverse and often competing ways the group as a whole engages with film as a medium of artistic expression, and as a 'soft power' resource. The contributors explore the wider implications for world cinema of its members' differing and dynamic positions in the global media landscape, and the book includes a comparative analysis by examining the post-imperial soft power of the UK at the time of Brexit. Stephanie Dennison is Professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Leeds. Rachel Dwyer is Professor Emerita of Indian Cultures and Cinema at SOAS University of London. Cover image: Film Dangal, Beijing, China, 2017 (c) AP/Shutterstock ISBN: 978-1-4744-5627-2.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An uncovering of the postsecular relevance of the late Schelling's Philosophy of RevelationSchelling's decisionism has long been recognised as the historical root of European existentialism, but has never been properly explained as a philosophical strategy. According to McGrath, Schelling's turn to the real is neither fideistic nor absurdist, the consequence of the free decision of the philosopher who has critically evaluated the results of speculative logic, nature philosophy, and the history of religion.This is a pioneering effort to reconstruct Schelling's argument for the truth of the doctrine of the Trinity and to assess its philosophical and theological validity.Sean J. McGrath is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Buch. 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. It formulates the theory of the 'slum chronotope' as a theoretical tool to analyse narrative and genre formation in films that dialogue with Manila's slum imaginaries, and makes the case for Philippine urban cinema - and Philippine urban history - as a significant vantage point from which to understand imaginaries of spatial justice. With case studies that take off from The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2005) to Respeto (2017), this book is a powerful contribution to transnational cinema studies. Katrina Macapagal obtained her PhD in Film and Media studies from Queen Margaret University, and her MA in Cultural and Critical Studies from the University of Westminster.

Buch. 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. Investigating how cinematic cities in western China appear as both spaces of national power and enclosed spaces of traditional cultural values, the book problematises 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 Rainclouds Over Wushan (1996), Buddha Mountain (2010) and Weaving Girl (2010), the 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.

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Buch. 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.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Analyses the narrative function of Kharijism in 9th- and 10th-century Islamic historiography This is the first comprehensive literary analysis of Kharijite history as depicted in early Islamic historiography. Covering the period from the Kharijites' origins at the Battle of ?iffin in 657 CE until the death of the caliph ?Abd al-Malik b. Marwan in 705 CE, it provides a fresh perspective on early Kharijism, exploring the manifold purposes of telling stories about these purported rebels and heretics. The Islamic tradition portrays Kharijism as a heretical movement of militantly pious zealots, a notion largely reiterated by what little there is of modern scholarship on the Kharijites. The present study moves away from the usual positivist reconstructions of Kharijite history 'as it really was' and instead examines its narrative function in early Islamic historiography. The results of this literary analysis highlight the need for a serious reassessment of the historical phenomenon of Kharijism as it is currently understood in scholarship. Key Features - The first book-length literary study of Kharijism - Calls for a reassessment of historical Kharijism based on the findings of this literary analysis - Sheds new light on the creation of historical memory in early Islamic historiography - Emphasises the importance of literary approaches to early Islamic history Hannah-Lena Hagemann is based in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Hamburg University, where she leads a research group on rebellion in early Islam. She is co-editor of Transregional and Regional Elites: Connecting the Early Islamic Empire (2020).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - China's haunted screens boast a rich legacy of uncanny, bizarre, grotesque, horrific, mystical and paranormal tales dating back to the silent era. Emerging from a period in which the supernatural ran afoul of censors in the Peoples' Republic of China, the resurgence of films rooted in 'superstition' merits serious critical attention. This anthology provides penetrating insight into this re-enchantment seen in films by auteurs such as Zhang Yimou (PRC), Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan), and Tsui Hark (Hong Kong) as well as in reimagined classics such as Journey to the West in its multiple manifestations on screen. Gina Marchetti, University of Hong Kong Although Chinese film audiences have always maintained a foundational cultural interest in the fantastic, this trend has dramatically increased over the last decade. Sino-Enchantment is the first work in English to approach this recent explosion of fantastic film in Chinese cinemas, where each re-envisioning of the form is determined by cultural, economic, political and technological factors to produce fresh inventions and creative reinventions of familiar narratives, characters and tropes. With case studies of films such as The Assassin (2015), Monster Hunt (2015) and The Great Wall (2016), this novel approach uses the framework of 'Sino-enchantment' as a new theoretical lens through which readers can engage with elements of the fantastic in Chinese cinema. Kenneth Chan is Professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado. Andrew Stuckey has taught at Kalamazoo College, the Ohio State University, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A history of post-Disruption Scottish Presbyterian dissent and its religious, political, and social influenceThe 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.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The scholarship is of the highest quality. A fine book.' Stephanie Cronin, St Antony's College, University of Oxford 'A rich and original work dedicated to one of the most compelling issues within late imperial history.' Ryan Gingeras, Naval Postgraduate School 'A crucial addition not just to the conversation about how these empires disintegrated but also to the analysis of the fractured and violent nation-states that replaced them.' Laura Robson, Penn State University 'A highly readable collection of cutting-edge research on agents of change.' Isa Blumi, Stockholm University A study of the frontier cultures of revolution that shaped the making of the modern Middle East Rebels, revolutionaries and racketeers played central roles in the violent process of imperial disintegration as it unfolded in the frontiers of the Ottoman, Habsburg, Romanov and Qajar empires. This is a history of these transgressive actors from the late 19th century to the interwar years, a time marked by similar, if-not-shared, revolutionary experiences and repertoires of contention across the connected geography of the Balkans, the Middle East and the Caucasus. Contributions by leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies, contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and the biographical trajectory of men and women who challenged the political status quo of their time. Ramazan Hakki Öztan teaches history at the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. Alp Yenen is Assistant Professor of Modern Turkish History and Culture at the Institute for Area Studies at Leiden University. Front cover: Die Wölfe (Balkankrieg) [The Wolves (Balkan War), Franz Marc, 1913. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Charles Clifton, James G. Forsyth, and Charles W. Goodyear Funds 1951 Back cover: Stoyko Bakalov cheta, 1905, unknown photographer, image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Key Features removed to make space: Key Features - Uses a novel conceptual framework that charts the rise of transgressive politics in the frontiers of empires - Includes a variety of biographical approaches to the key disruptive figures during the crisis of imperial and post-imperial regimes in the region - Represents a connected geography of imperial collapse and nation-state formation in 12 case study chapters - Engages with scholarship on intercommunal violence, revolutionary politics, and subaltern agency.