edinburgh university press mär 2022 (64 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Period drama is a genre of prestige and pleasure, realism and fantasy, spectacle and intimacy. It is embedded in national pasts but speaks to the present, tracing connections, continuities, and change. It reconstructs and reimagines the spaces and places of the past and considers how lives were shaped by the classed, raced and gendered structures of society. Period drama is invested in the bodily and emotional experience of the past, it delights in the intricacies and textures of clothing, the erotics of the gaze and moments of touch. It is often viewed as a genre of escape, nostalgia and traditionalism. Yet it has the potential to challenge dominant cultural narratives and explore under-represented histories, helping to reshape our understandings of our own histories. This book maps out the dominant debates surrounding television period drama. Through a series of themed programme case studies it charts the genre's investments and preoccupations, considering its place within television industries and contemporary culture. Faye Woods is Associate Professor in Film & Television at the University of Reading. Her monograph British Youth Television was published in 2016. Her work has featured in the journals Communication, Culture & Critique, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Critical Studies in Television and Television & New Media, in addition to the edited collections From Networks to Netflix (2018), Multiplicities: Cycles, Sequels, Remakes and Reboots in Film & Television (2016), Shane Meadows: Critical Essays (2013), and Television Aesthetics and Style (2013).

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The TV and. series provides a new approach to debates in Television Studies, using television's engagement with a particular object, emotion or topic to think across genres, forms, experiences and even disciplines. TV and Cars offers a compelling lens on television in a mobile media era. Cars are vehicles for television, a fixture of the shows and ads that drive TV. In this original approach to contemporary television, Paul Grainge looks beyond questions of speed, spoilers and cylinders to explore the small screen intimacy of cars - the way people interact, sing and dwell in the habitat of automobiles. Considering the industrial, cultural and aesthetic relation between television and cars, Grainge examines how comedy entertainment such as sitcoms, talk shows, web series and vlogs have been drawn to the practice of 'passengering'. Getting under the bonnet of popular 'drive-and-talk' series like The Trip, Carpool Karaoke, Peter Kay's Car Share and Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, this engaging interdisciplinary excursion finds new ways to look at both television and the social life of cars. Paul Grainge is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is the author and editor of six books, including Promotional Screen Industries (with Catherine Johnson) (2015), Ephemeral Media: Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube (2011) and Brand Hollywood: Selling Entertainment in a Global Media Age (2008).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reconstructs a negative political eschatology through a thinking of exception without sovereignty Saitya Brata Das argues that in Kierkegaard's work we find a radical eschatological critique of the liberal-humanist pathos of modernity that seeks to legitimise the sovereign power of the state by an appeal to a divine or theological foundation. Relating Kierkegaard's notion of 'Christianity without Christendom' to the Schellingian eschatological critique of sovereignty, he shows how Schelling's insistence on the eschatological difference between religion and politics is transformed and further intensified in Kierkegaard's critique of historical Reason. Das argues that such an exception without sovereignty is the crucial task of our age. Saitya Brata Das teaches literature and philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of The Political Theology of Schelling (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Presents a new way of thinking about the relationship between law and language Legal rhetoric is not confined to persuasion but to an understanding of law's organisation of its own system and its relationship with other jurisdictions. Bringing together an international range of common law and civil law scholars, this book draws on contemporary legal discourse to examine the shared practice of exemplarity and extraordinary judgments in both national and international fields of law. It takes a comparative approach, examining practice across a range of legal jurisdictions including the US, Russia, Portugal, Italy and the Czech Republic. In doing so, it opens up a new dialogue on the question of the hermeneutic practices of legal reasoning. In response to the changes in legal form and transmission that have been generated both by globalisation and by common law's irreversible encounter with the civilian methods of European law, New Rhetorics for Contemporary Legal Discourse develops new rhetorical approaches to law at a time when new legal forms are urgently required. Key Features - Brings together a range of common law and civil law scholars from countries including the US, Russia, Portugal, Italy, Czech Republic, Canada and Brazil - Invites the reader to rethink the value of legal rhetorics - understood as a broad field including argumentation, epistemology, and legal practice and experience - Introduces casuistry as a new perspective that is valuable also for civil law systems - Illustrates how single cases interpolate general norms Angela Condello is Assistant Professor of Legal Philosophy in the Law Department, University of Messina; she is also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Torino, where she holds a Jean Monnet Module on human rights and critical legal thinking within the European legal culture.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A rigorous historical investigation of the relationship between religion and psychotherapy in twentieth-century Scotland Although a tide of secularization swept over the post-war United Kingdom, Christianity in Scotland found one way to survive by drawing on alliances that it had built earlier in the century with psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Psychoanalysis was seen as a way to purify Christianity, and to propel it in a scientifically rational and socially progressive direction. This book draws upon a wealth of archival research to uncover the complex interaction between religion and psychotherapy in twentieth-century Scotland. It explores the practical and intellectual alliance created between the Scottish churches and Scottish psychotherapy that found expression in the work of celebrated figures such as the radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing and the pioneering psychoanalyst W.R.D. Fairbairn, as well as the careers of less well-known individuals such as the psychotherapist Winifred Rushforth. Gavin Miller is Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities in the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, where he directs the Medical Humanities Research Centre.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since its inception more than a century ago, Hong Kong cinema has been a pre-eminent form of local entertainment and a site of ideological contentions propelled by colonial, national and international politics at different historical junctures. The Other Side of Glamour is a study of the historical development of the left-wing film establishment in Hong Kong. The interplay between the macro-politics of the Cold War and the micro-politics of a regionalised/localised ideological warfare lends itself to a critical mapping of the general contours of the 'cultural Cold War' between the KMT and the CCP as it materialised in the so-called 'left-right divide' in the filmmaking world. Using the major studios as the main axis of analysis, this study traces the footprints of the other collaborating cultural agents which made up the left-wing film network in Hong Kong. It argues that the left-wing's institutional character and corporate strategies in the making of a 'popular left-wing cinema' are indispensable to an understanding of their nuanced legacy in Hong Kong cinema today. Vivian P. Y. Lee teaches Hong Kong cinema and heritage studies at the City University of Hong Kong.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Argues for the importance of insects to modernism's formal innovations Focusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body - its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations. Through a series of close readings, it proposes that the figure of the exoskeleton, which functions both as a protective outer layer and as a site of encounter, can enhance our understanding of modernism's engagement with nonhuman life, as well as its questioning of the boundaries of the human. Rachel Murray is a postdoctoral research fellow at Loughborough University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'War in Space delivers groundbreaking insights using traditional continental sea power theory as a template for strengthening space power theory. The largest contribution to space power thought in a generation, Bowen's seminal ideas are destined to inform wide audiences and guide our way ahead as space becomes increasingly contested and the USA stands up its Space Force.' Peter L. Hays, Space Policy Institute, George Washington University Applying strategic theory to outer space and drawing out the implications for international relations This book presents a theory of spacepower and considers the implications of space technology on strategy and international relations. The spectre of space warfare stalks the major powers as outer space increasingly defines geopolitical and military competition. As satellites have become essential for modern warfare, strategists are asking whether the next major war will begin or be decided in outer space. Only strategic theory can explore the decisiveness and effects of war in space upon 'grand strategy' and international relations. The author applies the wisdom of military strategy to outer space and presents a compelling new vision of Earth orbit as a coastline, rather than an open ocean or an extension of airspace as many have assumed. Rooted in the classical military works of Clausewitz, Mahan and Castex to name a few, this book presents comprehensive principles for strategic thought about space that explain the pervasive and inescapable influence of spacepower on strategy and the changing military balance of the 21st century. Bleddyn E. Bowen is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Leicester.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores the Deleuzian idea of becoming animal The animality of human beings is completely unknown. Being human means to be something other than an animal, to not be an animal. Felice Cimatti, with reference to the work of Gilles Deleuze, explores what human animality looks like. He shows that becoming animal means to stop thinking of humanity as the reference point of nature and the world. It means that our value as humans has the very same value as a cloud, a rock or a spider. Drawing on a wide range of texts - from philosophical ethology, to classical texts, to continental philosophy and literature - Cimatti creates a dialogue with Flaubert, Derrida, Temple Grandin, Heidegger as well as Malaparte and Landolfi - as part of this intriguing discussion about our humanity - and our unknown animality. Felice Cimatti is Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Calabria, Italy. Fabio Gironi is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Universitat Potsdam, Germany.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A study of the wealth of meanings that 'Persia' - real or imagined - held for Victorian poetry The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry surveys the variety of ways in which Persia, and the multitude of ideological, historical, cultural and political notions that it embodied, were received, circulated and appropriated. Providing the first systematic index of nineteenth-century poems that were in any way involved with Persia, the book explores its presence across a broad range of works incorporating literary, historical and cultural material. Reza Taher-Kermani is Assistant Professor of World Languages and Literatures at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A new framework for examining the relationship between individual and cultural trauma, literary texts and the cumulative 'truth' produced by the common law Through interdisciplinary readings of a range of literary and legal texts across a 200-year period, this book uncovers the connections between the individual and collective memories of law and crime that affected the development of the law itself. It draws on 3 case studies - adultery, child criminality and rape testimony - that demonstrate the impact of cultural narrative on legal development in the 18th and 19th centuries. Erin Sheley shows how the symbolic relationship between adultery and threatened English sovereignty created a quasi-criminal legal discourse surrounding the private wrong of adultery; how the literary 'construction' of childhood by 19th-century fairy-tale writers affected the development of the juvenile justice system; and how evolving rules about rape victim 'character evidence' functioned as epistemological components of volatile national identity. Transformative readings of widely read works include: ? Charles Brockden Brown's 'Wieland and Ormond' ? Thomas Hardy's 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' ? Charles Kingsley's 'The Water-Babies' ? George MacDonald's 'The Lost Princess' ? Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King' ? Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre' ? Henry Fielding's 'The Modern Husband' ? Sir Walter Scott's 'Heart of Midlothian' ? Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa' Erin Sheley is Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores Gothic and horror film from early cinema to the present This anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations. Fifteen newly commissioned chapters by prominent scholars in the field of Gothic and cinema studies examine the myriad ways that filmmakers mobilise Gothic conceits across multiple film genres and in conjunction with several significant film styles. In the process, the book contributes exciting new readings of canonical works of Gothic cinema as well as important new critical examinations of emerging horror subgenres. Richard J. Hand is Professor of Media Practice at the University of East Anglia. Jay McRoy is Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A study of the genesis of Schelling's philosophy of nature and absolute idealism, highlighting the importance of A. C. A. Eschenmayer During the first decade of the nineteenth century, F. W. J. Schelling was involved in three distinct controversies with one of his most perceptive and provocative critics, A. C. A. Eschenmayer. The first of these controversies took place in 1801 and focused on the philosophy of nature. Berger and Whistler provide a ground-breaking account of this moment in the history of philosophy. They argue that key Schellingian concepts, such as identity, potency and abstraction, were first forged in his early debate with Eschenmayer. Through a series of translations and commentaries, they show that the 1801 controversy is an essential resource for understanding Schelling's thought, the philosophy of nature and the origins of absolute idealism. Additionally, Berger and Whistler demonstrate how the Schelling-Eschenmayer controversy raises important issues for the philosophy of nature today, including questions about the relation between identity and difference and the possibility of explaining sensible qualities in terms of quantity. This ultimately leads to the formulation of the most basic methodological question for the philosophy of nature: must this philosophy be based upon a prior consideration of consciousness - as Eschenmayer insists - or might it simply begin with nature itself By arguing for the latter position, Schelling challenges us to entertain the possibility that the philosophy of nature is first philosophy. Benjamin Berger is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College. Daniel Whistler is Reader in Modern European Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Deleuze shows that Stoicism is a philosophical operation that turns the history of thought inside out Deleuze dramatizes the story of ancient philosophy as a rivalry of four types of thinkers: the subverting pre-Socratics, the ascending Plato, the interiorizing Aristotle and the perverting Stoics. Deleuze assigns the Stoics a privileged place because they introduced a new orientation for thinking and living that turns the whole story of philosophy inside out. Ryan Johnson reveals how Deleuze's provocative reading of ancient Stoicism produced many of his most singular and powerful ideas. For Deleuze, the Stoics were innovators of an entire system of philosophy which they structured like an egg. Johnson structures his book in this way: Part I looks at physics (the yolk), Part II is logic (the shell) and Part III covers ethics (the albumen). Including previously untranslated French Stoic scholarship, Johnson unearths new possibilities for bridging contemporary and ancient philosophy. Ryan J. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Elon University in North Carolina.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver examines the cultural legacy of one of America's most renowned short story writers.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A history of 'hidden' nationalism in Scottish party politics This book reassesses the relationship between 'nationalism' and 'unionism' in Scottish politics, challenging a binary reading of the two ideologies with the concept of 'nationalist unionism'. Scottish nationalism did not begin with the SNP in 1934, nor was it confined to political parties which desired independent statehood. Rather it was more dispersed, with the Liberal, Conservative and Labour parties all attempting to harness Scottish national identity and nationalism between 1884 and 2014, often with the paradoxical goal of strengthening rather than ending the Union. The book combines nationalist theory with empirical historical and archival research to argue that these conceptions of Scottish nationhood had much more in common with each other than is commonly accepted. David Torrance is a constitutional specialist at the House of Commons Library. He completed a PhD in history and political science in 2017, before which he was a journalist and broadcaster for almost 20 years. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on Scottish politics.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Carry out basic stylistic analyses of different text types using a range of stylistic frameworks If you are an English language learner meeting stylistics for the first time, this textbook will familiarize you with the basic terms and key concepts. And if you are taking an undergraduate stylistics course and you need help on analyzing texts, you will find here a step-by-step guide to analyzing different text types using a defined selection of stylistic frameworks. You will be introduced to the analysis of poetry, fiction, drama, humorous writing, advertising, political texts and online journalism and offered guided practice in a range of methodologies, with a particular focus on functional and pragmatic stylistics. The opening chapter introduces you to the key foundational terms and concepts, covering dialect, register, field, tenor, mode, choice, deviation, and foregrounding. The remaining chapters guide you from theory into practice. Each stylistic analysis chapter starts with a summary of the methodological toolkit that will be used, followed by systematic and guided stylistic analysis of a particular text type and plenty of practice activities. Key features: - Includes 25 do-it-yourself boxes containing tasks for use in the classroom or at home - Includes recommendations for further reading, a glossary and answer key - Provides a methodological toolkit to enable students to develop the skills and confidence to carry out independent analysis - Offers a reader-friendly account of the story of stylistics from its early days to present-day developments - Draws on texts including Wants by Phillip Larkin, Indian Women by Shiv K. Kumar, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Shakespeare's King Lear, Mark O'Connor's Half an Hour After and The Brain is Wider than the Sky by Emily Dickinson Gibreel Sadeq Alaghbary is an Assistant Professor at Qassim University, Saudi Arabia.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages Bringing together the latest scholarship from all over the world on topics ranging from reading practices in ancient China to the workings of the twenty-first-century reading brain, the 4 volumes of the Edinburgh History of Reading demonstrate that reading is a deeply imbricated, socio-political practice, at once personal and public, defiant and obedient. It is often materially ephemeral, but it can also be emotionally and intellectually enduring. Modern Readers explores the myriad places and spaces in which reading has typically taken place since the eighteenth century, from the bedrooms of the English upper classes, through large parts of nineteenth-century Africa and on-board ships and trains travelling the world, to twenty-first-century reading groups. It encompasses a range of genres from to science fiction, music and self-help to Government propaganda. Mary Hammond is Professor of English and Book History at the University of Southampton.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages Bringing together the latest scholarship from all over the world on topics ranging from reading practices in ancient China to the workings of the twenty-first-century reading brain, the 4 volumes of the Edinburgh History of Reading demonstrate that reading is a deeply imbricated, socio-political practice, at once personal and public, defiant and obedient. It is often materially ephemeral, but it can also be emotionally and intellectually enduring. Common Readers casts a fascinating light on the literary experiences of ordinary people: miners in Scotland, churchgoers in Victorian London, workers in Czarist Russia, schoolgirls in rural Australia, farmers in Republican China, and forward to today's online book discussion groups. Chapters in this volume explore what they read, and how books changed their lives. Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. Mary Hammond is Professor of English and Book History at the University of Southampton.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is the kind of survey that scholars have been needing since reading emerged as the subject of a new kind of history in the 1980s. Stretching from ancient China to modern Britain, these essays successfully convey the variety and vitality of our encounters with texts; written, printed and spoken.' Bill Sherman, Director of the Warburg Institute Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages Bringing together the latest scholarship from all over the world on topics ranging from reading practices in ancient China to the workings of the twenty-first-century reading brain, the 4 volumes of the Edinburgh History of Reading demonstrate that reading is a deeply imbricated, socio-political practice, at once personal and public, defiant and obedient. It is often materially ephemeral, but it can also be emotionally and intellectually enduring. Early Readers presents a number of innovative ways through which we might capture or infer traces of readers in cultures where most evidence has been lost. It begins by investigating what a close analysis of extant texts from 6th-century BCE China can tell us about contemporary reading practices, explores the reading of medieval European women and their male medical practitioner counterparts, traces readers across New Spain, Peru, the Ottoman Empire and the Iberian world between 1500 and 1800, and ends with an analysis of the surprisingly enduring practice of reading aloud. Mary Hammond is Professor of English and Book History at the University of Southampton.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages Bringing together the latest scholarship from all over the world on topics ranging from reading practices in ancient China to the workings of the twenty-first-century reading brain, the 4 volumes of the Edinburgh History of Reading demonstrate that reading is a deeply imbricated, socio-political practice, at once personal and public, defiant and obedient. It is often materially ephemeral, but it can also be emotionally and intellectually enduring. Subversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independence and imagine a better world. This kind of insurgent reading may be found everywhere: in revolutionary France and Nazi Germany, in Eastern Europe under Communism and in Australian and Iranian prisons, among eighteenth-century women reading history and nineteenth-century men reading erotica, among postcolonial Africans, the blind, and pioneering transgender activists. Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. Mary Hammond is Professor of English and Book History at the University of Southampton.