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A study of boys, men and masculinities in the work of Virginia Woolf.

With an influence felt on directors like Joe Dante, Robert Zemeckis and John Waters, this volume reappraises Castle's legacy as an innovator as much as a showman.

Examines how changes to the French film industry have resulted in popular films which in turn are changing perspectives on French cinema.

This book reappraises Dickens's Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi and his imaginative engagement with its principal protagonist.

A thorough account of newspaper and periodical press history in Britain and Ireland from 1800-1900This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history during a key period of change and development. It covers an important point of expansion in periodical and press history across the four nations of Great Britain (England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales), concentrating on cross-border and transnational comparisons and contrasts in nineteenth-century print communication. Designed to provide readers with a clear understanding of the current state of research in the field, in addition to an extensive introduction, it includes forty newly commissioned chapters and case studies exploring a full range of press activity and press genres during this intense period of change. Along with keystone chapters on the economics of the press and periodicals, production processes, readership and distribution networks, and legal frameworks under which the press operated, the book examines a wide range of areas from religious, literary, political and medical press genres to analyses of overseas and émigré press and emerging developments in children's and women's press. David Finkelstein is a cultural historian specialising in media history, Victorian print culture and book history studies whose works include Movable Types: Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World, An Introduction to Book History and the co-edited Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, vol. 3, 1880-2000 (Edinburgh University Press, 2007).

Inspired by Shoshana Felman s 1977 volume, Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading (Otherwise")

With eight contributions, this volume sheds new light on text, knowledge, and wonder in early modern France, which were more fundamentally intertwined than their modern counterparts.

The American Short Story Cycle spans two centuries to tell the history of a genre that includes both major and marginal authors, from Washington Irving through William Faulkner to Jhumpa Lahiri.

Bringing together an international range of experts in the history of China, Japan, India and the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, this pioneering volume demonstrates the importance of Asia in the multifaceted global transformations that revolved around the Paris Peace Conference and its aftermath.

Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the study of nonsense.

This is the first collection to use adaptation studies in connection with other contemporary theoretical approaches in analysing early modern transformations of Ovid.

The first book to use adaptation and appropriation studies to explore early modern textual and theatrical metamorphoses of OvidDid you know that Ovid was a multifaceted icon of lovesickness, endless change, libertinism, emotional torment and violence in early modern England? This is the first collection to use adaptation studies in connection with other contemporary theoretical approaches in analysing early modern transformations of Ovid. It provides innovative perspectives on the 'Ovids' that haunted the early modern stage, while exploring intersections between adaptation theory and gender/queer/trans studies, ecofeminism, hauntology, transmediality, rhizomatics and more. This book examines the multidimensional, ubiquitous role that Ovid and Ovidian adaptations played in English Renaissance drama and theatrical performance.Lisa S. Starks is Professor of English at University of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Explores how the textual output of settler emigration shapes the nineteenth-century literary and artistic imagination

This collection presents, for the first time in English, all of Lyotard s major essays on film, an introductory essay by the leading French scholar on Lyotard s film-philosophy, an overview of Lyotard s practical film projects written by his collaborators, and a selection of critical essays by philosophers and film theorists.

This collection presents, for the first time in English, all of Lyotard s major essays on film, an introductory essay by the leading French scholar on Lyotard s film-philosophy, an overview of Lyotard s practical film projects written by his collaborators, and a selection of critical essays by philosophers and film theorists.

This volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies.

Since the Cold War, humanitarian interventions have transitioned through a range of stages. These 12 essays focus on the challenges associated with interventions, conflict and attendant human rights violations, unmitigated and systematic violence, state re-building, and issues associated with human mobility and dislocation.

Drawing on case studies of films including Charlie Kaufman's 'Synecdoche, New York', Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 'Climates' and John Akomfrah's 'The Nine Muses', this books asks to what extent is politics shaping art cinema? And, in turn, could art cinema possibly affect the political structure of the world as we know it?

Six years before the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, many young Egyptians had resorted to blogging as a means of self-expression and literary creativity. Such blogs are explored here as forms of digital literature, combining literary analysis and interviews with the authors.

Presents 35 thematically organised, research-led essays on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain.

Presents 35 thematically organised, research-led essays on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain.

This volume presents twelve detailed studies dealing with cases drawn from the Middle East and North Africa in the period before independence (c.1850-1950).

Thirty New Essays Redefine Narrative Theory for a Multi-Media Culture