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Provides an reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist psychoanalytic methodology of Julia Kristeva and Helene Cixous, focusing particularly on ideas of the abjected maternal feminine. This book examines Kipling's ambivalent relationship to the India of his childhood and the 'loss' of his mother figures.

Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion provides a thorough critical, textual and historical account of the Gothic aesthetic as manifested across a wide-range of Romantic-era literary texts, from the adumbrations of the Gothic mode in the proto-Romantic poetry of the 1740s, through to the 'belated' Gothic fictions of the late 1820s.

Nordic Genre Film' offers a transnational approach to studying contemporary genre production in Nordic cinema.

Shakespeare and Judgment' gathers together an international group of scholars to address for the first time the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama. Contributors approach the topic from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspectives, covering plays from across Shakespeare's career.

The Vampire An Edinburgh Companion' comprehensively surveys the recurrent figure of the vampire from its folkloric origins, through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic literature to twentieth-century developments in fiction, cinema and the graphic novel.

'Are a poet's manuscripts prototypes? scaffolding? medals of honour? What meanings does the institutional act of archiving produce? From modernism's ambiguous collectability to reactions by contemporary poets coming to terms with the shock of being archived, this is a valuable set of reflections on the archive, and on poetry.'Richard Price, The British LibraryExplores critical and creative responses to the contemporary poetry archiveThese 13 newly commissioned chapters examine the impact of archival poetry collections on both literary scholarship and poetic practice. They examine what we can learn from the drafts, notebooks and personal libraries left behind by poets and look at the ways in which the growth of poetry archives has changed the way poets think about their work. The contributing poets and scholars - including Susan Howe, Sean O'Brien and George Szirtes - present an in-depth account of the significance of poetry archives for contemporary literature. The collection provides a new cross-disciplinary agenda for thinking about the archive as both a source for scholarship and inspiration for creative practice.Linda Anderson is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at Newcastle University.Mark Byers is Lecturer in Contemporary Poetry at Newcastle University.Ahren Warner is a poet, critic and literary editor and Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow at Loughborough University.Cover image: © Phyllis ChristopherCover design: www.hayesdesign.co.uk[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-3243-6Barcode

The Gothic in all its artistic forms and ramifications is traced from the medieval to the twenty-first century.

The Gothic in all its artistic forms and ramifications is traced from the medieval to the twenty-first century.

First published in 1999, this new edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect modern Scots usage, alongside coverage of older Scots. Combining accessible style, clear layout and durable hardback format, this is a user-friendly and robust dictionary that you can turn to again and again for reference and enjoyment.

This volume of 12 new essays, breaks the myth of Deleuze and Lacan's foreignness (if not hostility) and places the two in a productive conversation. By taking on topics such as baroque, perversion, death drive, ontology/topology, face, linguistics and formalism the essays highlight key entry points for a discussion between Lacan and Deleuze.

This book profiles some of the fundamental debates that have defined the conversation between the past and the present in the Islamic world, including: Qur'anic exegesis, Islamic law, gender, violence and eschatology.

This book brings together the most recent research on Sinclair and re-contextualises her work both within and against dominant Modernist narratives. It explores Sinclair's negotiations between the public and private, the cerebral and the corporeal and the spiritual and the profane in both her fiction and non-fiction.

This volume views Doris Lessing's writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges thrown up by the sweeping historical changes through which she lived.

'Rachel Falconer has drawn together a team of knowledgeable essayists whose work covers a great deal of necessary ground and is complemented by some fine tributary poems. Anyone interested in Kathleen Jamie - and that's an increasing number of people, including, I think, general readers of literature - will profit from this book.' Neil Corcoran, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Liverpool The first collection of critical essays on the writing of Kathleen Jamie, one of the most outstanding poets of our times Kathleen Jamie's works are classics. No one can read Kathleen Jamie and remain indifferent or unchanged. Nationally acclaimed since her first major publications in the 1980s, Jamie stands out from other contemporary poets in her exceptional musicality, her strikingly unusual perspectives, her wry humour, translucent imagery and hard-edged economy of expression. These 16 newly commissioned critical essays and 7 previously unpublished poems by leading poets make up the first full-length study of Kathleen Jamie's writing. The essays discuss all of her poetry collections, including The Queen of Sheba (1994), Jizzen (1999), Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead: Poems 1980-94 (2002), The Tree House (2004) and The Overhaul (2012), as well as her travel writing, including Among Muslims (2002), her nature writing, Findings (2005) and Sightlines (2012) and her collaborative work, including Frissure (2013), with artist Brigid Collins. Whether engaging with national politics, with gender, with landscape and place, or with humanity's relation to the natural environment, this volume demonstrates that Kathleen Jamie's verse teaches us new ways of listening, of seeing and of living in the contemporary world. Readers will have access to 14 audio recordings of Kathleen Jamie reading from works discussed in the volume: www.euppublishing.com/page/kathleenjamie/audio Rachel Falconer is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Lausanne.

The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique and culturally specific version of the neo-noir genre, while at the same time drawing on and adapting existing international noir cinemas.

American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of essays by some of the foremost scholars writing in the field of contemporary American film.

An examination of the critical concept 'zero degree' through the work of Roland Barthes and Victor Burgin In the fields of literature and the visual arts, zero degree represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to and outside of the dominant cultural order. Taking Roland Barthes' Writing Degree Zero as just one starting point, this volume provides an historical, theoretical and visual examination of the term and draws directly upon the editors' on-going collaboration with artist and writer Victor Burgin. The book is composed of key chapters by the editors themselves and Burgin. It includes an in-depth dialogue regarding Burgin's long-term reading of Barthes and a lengthy image-text, offering critical exploration of the Image (in echo of earlier theories of the Text). Also included are translations of two projections works by Burgin, Belledonne and Prarie, which work alongside and inform the collected essays. Overall, the book provides a combined reading of both Barthes and Burgin, which in turn leads to new considerations of visual culture, the spectatorship of art and the political aesthetic. Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Art and Politics and Sunil Manghani is Professor of Theory, Practice and Critique. They are both at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-3141-5 Barcode

In literature and the visual arts, zero degree represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to and outside of the dominant cultural order. Starting from Roland Barthes' 1953 book Writing Degree Zero, this volume examines the historical, theoretical and visual aspects of the term in collaboration with artist and writer Victor Burgin.

Presenting new evidence, new theoretical approaches, and new arguments, this volume aims to change understandings of the Gulf in the world.

Presenting new evidence, new theoretical approaches, and new arguments, this volume aims to change understandings of the Gulf in the world.

Deleuze turns to the cinema because its formal resources enable it to 'think' the relation between movement and duration in ways that philosophy cannot. Discover the nature of the philosophical problems that Deleuze turns to the cinema to resolve and how resources of the cinema enable him to do what philosophy alone cannot.

This book explores the many ways in which a military Scottish identity was reinvented and forged overseas amongst Scotland s diaspora from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It provides case studies from North America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

This volume brings together a range of prominent and emerging voices within American and European Islamic studies to share the latest developments on Muhammad Iqbal thought's. They re-examine the ideas that lie at the heart of Iqbal's own thought: religion, science, metaphysics, nationalism and religious identity.

Through case studies of academic institutions the volume illustrates how transmission of ideas is an extremely complex process, and the outcome of such efforts depends not just on the strategies adopted by backers of those ideologies but equally on the characteristics of the receipt communities.