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This special edition of Paragraph, 'New British Hispanisms', explores a new direction in the discipline of 'Hispanism'. Paragraph is a leading journal in modern critical theory.

A guide to the history and development of modern criticism in the humanities. The work takes the reader through introductions to historically influential philosophers and movements before focusing on three principal areas of critical attention: Europe, North America and Great Britain.

This is the first volume to offer a selection of texts from the field of deconstruction in all its radical diversity. It examines the fortunes of the term deconstruction, and the ideas associated with it, in the work of the leading commentators on Derrida's texts.

This multi-genre anthology brings together a wide selection of women's published writing from the Early Modern period.

George Campbell Hay has been hailed as an important voice in Scottish literature and as a crucial figure in the renaissance of Gaelic poetry in the twentieth century.

Heroic, radical and at times hilarious, Queen Hynde is Ossian with jokes; but Hogg's epic has serious purposes in mind.

Britain's foreign, economic and social policy changed direction markedly in the period 1880-1914. This collection of essays attempts to cut into the period from different angles to open a cross-section of the types of changes taking place.

A new definitive edition of Stevenson's famous exploration of evil and greed.

These letters chart the friendship between Boswell and the man he called his "most intimate friend", William Johnson Temple.

This book studies the Counsel for Kings as an illuminating commentary on the milieu and polity in which it was written and as a composition that seeks to persuade by drawing allusions between the diverse repertoire of wisdom literature available to the author and his audience and the circumstances of the author s time and place.

A collection of essays on Dylan Thomas, reading culture and his place in modernist studies

This volume re-publishes key texts produced by African American anti-colonial activists between 1917-1937. Some of these texts remain well-known, but many have disappeared from view and are once again re-inserted in their original polemical contexts.

This book examines five highly influential Francoist films produced from 1938 until 1964 and three later films by critically acclaimed directors Luis Bunuel, Guillermo del Toro, and Alex de la Iglesia that attempt to undermine Francoist aesthetics by re-imagining its visual and narrative cliches.

Explores the return of the 'epic' in 21st century cinema. Why did the epic come back, and why did it fall out of fashion? Are these the same kinds of epics as the 1950s and 60s, or are there aesthetic differences? Can we treat Kingdom of Heaven, 300 and Thor indiscriminately as one genre? Are non Western histories like Hero and Mongol epics, too?

In a world where change has become the only constant, how does the perpetually new relate to the old? How does cinema, itself once a new medium, relate both to previous or outmoded media and to what we now refer to as New Media? This collection examines these questions by focusing on the relations of cinema to other media.

These 12 essays reanimate the dialogue between interdisciplinary scholars and practicing artists that originally gave birth to visual culture as a field of study. A new translation of Nancy's essay, 'The Image: Mimesis and Methexis', reveals how Nancy's work informs, challenges and inspires our encounters with visual culture.

Like other well-known writers of the time, Hogg was a contributor to the annuals, and this book brings together all the Hogg texts that were either written for, or first published in, annuals and gift-books.

Deleuze and the City asks what a city can do, how its human and non-human relations can be made sufficiently durable, and participate in the formation of affirmative rather than destructive subjective, social and environmental ecologies. The 16 contributors to this collection re-deploy conceptual tools of Deleuze and Guattari.

The 16 contributors to this volume deploy the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to explore cities: what they are, what they do and how we relate to them.

Katherine Mansfield had a lifelong interest in literatures in translation and in literary translating. From her early notebooks until letters written just before her death, she records the joy of learning foreign languages, often using transformative, inter-lingual games of her own as a source of creativity.

A collection of 15 essays by celebrated authors in Shakespeare studies and in continental philosophy that develops different aspects of the interface between continental thinking and Shakespeare's plays.

Examines Katherine Mansfield's engagement with the First World War and its impact on her writings. Offering new readings of Mansfield's explicit and implicit war stories, this book features contributions that refine and extend our knowledge of particular stories and their genealogy.

Alfred North Whitehead presented a regular course of 85 lectures which extended from September of 1924 to May 1925. These represent the first ever philosophy lectures he gave and capture him working out the philosophical implications of the remarkable turns that physics had taken in his lifetime.

This collection of 14 essays asks how Georges Perec has continued to influence of Media and Communication at us after his death. Swinburne University ofTechnology. What do Perec's descriptions of the minutiae of everyday life reveal about our use of information and communications technologies?.

Human Trafficking' is a term that does little to convey the horrific acts that underpin the forced movement, exploitation and enslavement of men, women and children across the world. This book examines the competing discourses surrounding human trafficking and explore the impact of this phenomenon in the UK and worldwide.

Links the history of Europe to world history, situating European modernity in its global context. This book asks why, from some moment onwards, 'Europe' and 'the rest of the world' entered into a particular relationship.

Explores the influence of centres of Islamic learning in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt. This book claims that Saudi oil money is fuelling Salafi Islam in and geographical terrains as disparate as the remote hamlets of the Swat valley in Pakistan and sprawling megacities such as Jakarta.

Utilising a pioneering theological and hermeneutic framework adapted from both classical Muslim literature and contemporary academic studies of the Qur an, Ramon Harvey explores the underlying principles of its system of social justice.