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Addresses the very notion of what creative practice research is, its challenges within the academy and the ways in which it contributes to scholarship and knowledge

Examining the startling revival of the Scottish Conservative Party under Ruth Davidson's leadershipWhen Ruth Davidson was elected leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party in 2011, the party was considered something of a joke: in electoral decline for decades, politically irrelevant and apparently beyond the point of no return. But, by 2017 'Ruth Davidson's Conservatives' became Scotland's second party at Holyrood and Westminster, and Ruth was spoken of as a future leader of the UK Conservative Party, if not the next Scottish First Minister.This book, which brings together leading academics and analysts, examines the extraordinary revival of the Scottish Conservative Party between 2011 and Ruth Davidson's shock resignation in 2019. Contributors look at the importance of gender and sexuality, the 2014 independence referendum, the Scottish media and the UK Conservative Party's 'territorial code', and the changing fortunes of the party and its leader, asking if it can be sustained amid the turbulence of two ongoing constitutional debates.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.

This book brings together a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social and economic changes in nineteenth-century London, and the literature that gave expression to their novelty.

The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories showcases the latest approaches to diverse narratives across many media and in numerous disciplines.

Dickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or extracts from Dickens' fiction were repurposed as a portable terminology in arguments for large-scale demolition and redevelopment projects in London during his lifetime.

In concise entries from international experts, this dictionary presents the terms, categories, concepts, tropes, movements, forged through the modernist upheavals, highlighting their genealogy, their modernist 'newness', and their historical longevity.

Argues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary contentIt is natural to assume that if works of literature are artistically valuable, it's not because of anything they say but because of what they are: beautiful. Works of art try to say nothing, to use their content only as matter for realizing the beauty of complex form. But what if appreciating the things a work of literature has to say is a way of appreciating it as a work of art? Often dismissed as too lengthy, messy, and preachy to qualify as genuine art, in fact Victorian narrative challenges our conceptions about what makes art worth engaging.Key Features. Appeals to those interested in philosophy and literature, especially the philosophy of literature. Brings together thinkers from the analytic and continental traditions in aesthetics. Contains an updated and expanded version of the award-winning essay 'In Defence of Paraphrase'. Makes a case for why Victorian literature and Victorian moral thought are worthy of attention. Offers new readings of George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Augusta WebsterPatrick Fessenbecker is Assistant Professor, Programme in Cultures, Civilisations and Ideas at Bilkent University.

This book explores all aspects of Brophy's literary career, alongside contributions on animal rights, vegetarianism, anti-vivisectionism, humanism, feminism and sexual politics, not only celebrating Brophy's eclectic achievements but fully reflecting them.

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.

This architectural survey covers one of Scotland's most important periods of political and architectural change when mainstream European classicism became embedded as the cultural norm. Typologically, the book is broad in scope, covering the architecture and design of country estate and also the urban scene in the era before Edinburgh New Town.

'Does fiction train us in empathy? Scott's clever and wonderfully engaging book provides a powerful response to correct the idea of empathy as a simple key to unlock others and instead shows how empathy is a form of seduction. The task of the reader is both to fall for this seduction and to resist it.' Fritz Breithaupt, author of The Dark Sides of Empathy and Provost Professor at Indiana University Explores how and why narrative fiction engages empathy This book takes its point of departure in recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, including Theory of Mind. Scott draws on literary theory and close readings to argue that engagement with fictional stories also teaches us to resist uncritical forms of empathy and reminds us of the limitations of our ability to understand other people. The book treats figures of the stranger in Balzac's La Fille aux yeux d'or, Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir and Sand's Indiana as emblematic of the strangeness of narrative fiction, which both draws us in and keeps us at a distance. Maria C. Scott is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Baudelaire's 'Le Spleen de Paris' Shifting Perspectives (2005) and Stendhal's Less-Loved Heroines: Fiction, Freedom, and the Female (2013). Cover image: Interrupted Reading, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 1865-1875 (c) akg-images Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-6303-4 Barcode

'Israel/Palestine offers an important contribution to the ever-growing literature on borders and border cultures. Focusing on Israeli andPalestinian cinematic and literary representations of borders, Paul revisits the figure of the border both as a physical device of immense andgrave consequences, and as a fictional site of collective imagination open to destabilisation. Exploring this double nature of the border, this wellwritten and insightful book manages to advance a much-needed cultural and political perspective; at once sober and optimistic!'Gil Z. Hochberg, Ransford Professor of Hebrew, Columbia University, New YorkEXPLORES HOW THE EXPANSION OF BORDER SPACES SHAPED CONTEMPORARY PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI LITERATURE AND FILMSince the early 1990s, Israel has greatly expanded a system of checkpoints, walls and other barriers in the West Bank and Gaza that restrict Palestinian movement. Israel/Palestine examines how authors and filmmakers have grappled with the spread of these borders. Focusing on the works of Elia Suleiman, Raba¿i al-Madhoun, Ghassan Kanafani, Sami Michael and Sayed Kashua, it traces how politicalengagement in literature and film has shifted away from previously common paradigms of resistance and coexistence and has become reorganised around these now ubiquitous physical barriers. Depictions of these borders interrogate the notion that such spaces are impenetrable and unbreakable, imagine distinct forms of protest, and redefine the relationship between cultural production and political engagement.DREW PAUL is Assistant Professor of Arabic at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he is chair of the Arabic and Hebrew programs, and core faculty in Middle East Studies and Cinema Studies. His research interests include issues of space, borders, mobility and sexuality.

'A mystic poet of the hidden sights of our souls, Sohrab Shahid Saless was the filmmakers' filmmaker. He achieved an almost cultic character in his homeland and his two Iranian films formed the DNA of Iranian New Wave before the Iranian Revolution of 1977-9 catapulted him into Europe and then the US where he died lonely and forlorn. Azadeh Fatehrad has given the world of cinema a priceless gift by editing a much overdue volume celebrating both phases of Shahid Saless's Iranian and foreign filmmaking careers: in one he mapped the solitude of our souls, and in the other the exilic permanence of our very existence.'Hamid Dabashi, author of Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, FutureAn Iranian immigrant struggling to integrate into 1970s German society, the filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944-98) has become a neglected figure in discussions of diaspora cinema. In this - the first English-language book to reflect on his work and its implications for creativity in the diasporic conditions of urban displacement - a range of international scholars provide a comprehensive account of Shahid Saless's films and production methods.Outlining his affinity with celebrated directors like Chantal Akerman and Abbas Kiarostami, as well as visual artists like Romuald Karmakar, the contributors firmly position Shahid Saless as a filmmaker who speaks forcefully to the traumas of displacement and migration.Azadeh Fatehrad is an artist and curator. She has conducted projects across Europe and the Middle East, including at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and the Archiv für Forschung und Dokumentation Iran in Berlin. She is also the co-founder of 'Herstoriographies: The Feminist Media Archive Research Network' in London.Cover image: Sohrab Shahid Saless at Golden Gate Bridge, photographed by Bert Schmidt, November 1979Cover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-5639-5Barcode

Covering more than forty films made since 2001 including 'The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 'The Paper will be Blue', 'Police', Adjective' and 'Beyond the Hills' this pioneering collection of essays on New Romanian Cinema is the first to contextualise it aesthetically, theoretically and historically.

This book examines how violent acts were assessed by Muslim intellectuals, analysing both changes and continuity within Islamic thought over time.

A study of every novel published by Palestinian citizens of Israel between 1948 and 2010This book explores the evolution of Palestinian identity from one that struggled for independence and self-determination up to 1948, to one that now presses the call for civil rights and civic equality. What were the forces that shaped this transformation over six decades? Author Manar H. Makhoul uses the methodology of sociology and literary studies to spotlight the reality of Palestinian citizens of Israel across several generations. Key Features¿ Presents a comprehensive study of all 75 novels published by Palestinian citizens of Israel over 62 years¿ Identifies the intellectual and ideological forces that drove major social and political transformations in the community over six decades¿ Develops different concepts relating to Palestinian life in Israel, socially and politically, and in relation to other Palestinians¿ Analyses the process of modernisation and the wide range of reactions to it among Palestinians in Israel¿ Explores the reactions of Palestinians in Israel to the peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization from the 1990s to 2000Manar H. Makhoul is a Lecturer at the ¿Program of Arab-Jewish Cultural Studies at Tel-Aviv University.

Hostile relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia are a major contributing factor to political instability in the Middle East. This book argues that rapprochement between Tehran and Riyadh is possible and delves into the complexities of managing their long-standing conflict.

A beautifully illustrated study of the so-called London QazviniThe London Qazvini is an early fourteenth-century illustrated Arabic copy of al-Qazvini's The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existing Things. One of a handful of extant illustrated codices produced under the Mongols of Iran, this unique manuscript gathers earlier Mesopotamian painting traditions, North Jaziran-Seljuq elements, Anatolian inspiration, the latest changes brought about after the advent of Mongols and a large number of illustrations of extraordinary subjects which escape proper classification.In this lavishly illustrated volume Stefano Carboni offers a stylistic analysis and discussion of the manuscript's miniatures, a presentation and description of the 368 extant paintings that illustrate the codex and a partial critical translation of the related Arabic text. This is the first time that sections throughout the whole text are available in English.Stefano Carboni is the Director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia. He is author and editor of several books including Glass from Islamic Lands. The Al-Sabah Collection (2001) and Venice and the Islamic World 828¿1797 (2007).Cover image: The Planet Mercury, Fol. 8r; 87x165 mm, British LibraryCover design:[EUP logo]www.euppublishing.com

This book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the medieval Middle East. It investigates the ways Muslims thought about and practiced at sacred spaces and in sacred times through two detailed case studies: the shrines in honour of the head of al-Husayn (the martyred grandson of the Prophet), and the holy month of Rajab.

In these newly commissioned essays, leading Whitehead scholars ask a range of important questions about Whitehead's first year of philosophy lectures. Also included in this volume is the text of Whitehead's first lecture at Harvard, allowing for a clearer understanding of Whitehead's plans and goals for his first philosophy lectures.

These essays explore the surprisingly varied dimensions of ratio:an unacknowledged keystone of Spinoza's thought. They take you from Spinoza's geometrical diagrams to his concepts of mind, body, the emotions and the cosmos.

This volume investigates the peculiarly British fixation with the the lex Aquilia, a Roman statute enacted c.287/286 BCE to reform the Roman law on wrongful damage to property, against the backdrop larger themes such as the development of delict/tort in Britain and the rise of comparative law.

Critical facsimile edition making crucial modernist texts available for the first time since 1931 This new edition of Bob Brown's groundbreaking collection of modernist writing experiments has been out of print since 1931, when Brown's Roving Eye Press originally published it. Only a few copies exist in archives today. The contributors include major modernist writers such as Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, F. T. Marinetti, Eugène Jolas and Ezra Pound, key social realists like Kay Boyle and James T. Farrell and daring queer novelists and artists including Charles Henri Ford and Sidney Hunt. Providing extensive scholarly commentary, analyses and newly discovered biographical information, this book sets the anthology in its broader cultural context. This is an essential resource for those interested in print and book history, the politics and culture of the expatriate avant-garde and the reading machine's impact on reading, writing and literacy. Craig J. Saper is Professor of Language, Literacy & Culture at UMBC in Baltimore, Maryland. Eric B. White is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University.

Expounds the ideas of four modern Islamic scholars who challenge the traditional theory of revelationA number of innovative hermeneutical approaches emerged in Muslim exegetical discourse in the second half of the 20th century. Among these developments is a trend of systematic reform theology that emphasises a humanistic approach, whereby revelation is understood to be dependent not only upon its initiator, God, but also upon its recipient, Prophet Muhammad, who takes an active role in the process.Ali Akbar examines the works of four noted scholars of Islam: Fazlur Rahman (Pakistan), Abdolkarim Soroush (Iran), Muhammad Mujtahed Shabestari (Iran) and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (Egypt). His study shows that the consequences of taking a humanistic approach to understanding revelation are not confined to the realm of speculation about God-human relations, but also to interpreting Qur'anic socio-political precepts. And the four scholars emerge as a distinctive group of Muslim thinkers who open up a new horizon in contemporary Islamic discourse.Ali Akbar is a Research Fellow at Deakin University and at the University of Melbourne. He has published in a number of key journals, including the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Arabica, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Middle Eastern Studies and Culture and Religion