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The book provides extensive and varied exemplars and guidance on writing workshops.

Lucas Siorvanes takes the reader through Proclus' metaphysics and theory of knowledge with original research examining all aspects of Proclus' work

This is a special issue of the journal Paragraph.

This is a special issue of the journal Paragraph.

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.

The first ever book-length attempt to strip away the myths and write the real history of Scotland's slavery past. Written to appeal to a wide audience, it contains many original, surprising and uncomfortable conclusions.

Shows how the 'world culture' presented to Soviet citizens, a component of an educated and cultured person's identity, was distorted and manipulated through censorship. This book views Soviet censorship through the lens of contemporary Western theories. It features detailed case studies drawn from two major journals, and more.

The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is the first piece of scholarship to assess the director's complete works. This collection's unique contribution is to show how Angelopoulos created singularly intricate forms whose aesthetic contours invite us to think critically about modern history.

This exciting new vision for legal theory combines analytical tools drawn from Latour's actor-network theory developed in Science in Action, Reassembling the Social and The Making of Law with the philosophical anthropology of the Moderns in An Inquiry into Modes of Existence to blaze a new trail in legal epistemology.

Empathy is a cognitive and affective structure of feeling, a bridge across interpersonal distance. Coined in 1909 to combine English 'sympathy' and German 'Einfuhlung,' 'empathy' is a specifically 20th-century concept of fellow feeling. This book shows how fin de siecle conceptions of empathy are woven into the fabric of literary modernism.

There has long been a view that the farming communities to be found in the Highlands prior to the Clearances were archaic forms. This study confronts this conflict over the question of continuity/discontinuity debate through an analysis of the cultural landscape.

After the referendum - what now? A Wealthier, Fairer Scotland looks at how devolved Scotland's powers could be used to make the country the best it can be: both economically successful and socially just for all citizens.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays asks how Scotland can create a brighter economic and social future, given the range of powers available, economic constraints, institutions and public support. Looking at economic policy, taxation and welfare, it realistically analyses the opportunities and constraints.

As the first comprehensive study of Daves's career, this collection of essays seeks to deepen our understanding of his work, and also to problematize existing conceptions of him as a competent, conventional and even naive studio man.

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

The book provides a chronological account of Sicilian history, interwoven with a series of discussions of Sicilian identity: to show Sicily as a centre of affairs from the Iron Age to the Augustan Empire within the context of a fundamentally regional ancient world.

The cultural value of poetry is critically examined in this book, from anthologies and academia to film and the internet.

Drawing on theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Friedrich Kittler, Michel Serres, Peter Sloterdijk, Carl Schmitt, Bernard Stiegler and Paul Virilio this collection makes connections between Cold War material and conceptual technologies, as they relate to the arts, society and culture.

Examines how contemporary Spanish cinema functions as a mode of mourning and witnessing the traumatic past.

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

Examines the influence of film noir on visual narrative and technique in global cinematic traditions. This book suggests that the film noir style continues to appeal on such a global scale because no other cinematic form has merged style and genre to effect a vision of the disturbing consequences of modernity.

This book problematises how the sense of self and subjectivities are understood in contemporary China, and provides illuminating new insights on the changing notion of the individual through cinema.

Compares trust and patrimony laws in England, Scotland, Quebec and the Netherlands. This volume explores the multiple ways in which the private law concepts of trust and patrimony interact in various jurisdictions, with a view to advancing the understanding of the trust as a fundamental legal concept. It features papers written by law scholars.

Drawing on a range of contributors, case studies and examples, this book examines ways in which we can think about design through Deleuze, and likewise how Deleuze's thought can be experimented upon and re designed to produce new concepts. It uses Deleuze and Guattari to provide a theoretical framework to address the theory and practice of design.

Drawing on a range of contributors, case studies and examples, this book examines how we can think about design through Deleuze, and how Deleuze's thought can be re-designed to produce new concepts. It taps into the emerging networks between philosophy as an act of inventing concepts and design as the process of inventing the world.

Bringing together scholars from diverse periods and disciplines of Hellenic and Byzantine studies, this volume explores the shifting shapes and functions of laughter and tears, with consideration given to visual, performative and musical arts, as well as to written records.

Offers a collection of 16 essays on Rome Season Two. This book explores the second season of this critically acclaimed and commercially successful drama. It engages with the authenticity of the production and considers its place in the tradition of epic films and television series set in ancient Rome.

Includes chapters through which the scholars explore the party both as a literary device and as a forum for developing modernist creative values, opening up new perspectives on materiality, the everyday and concepts of space, place and time. This book addresses gender and sexuality, race, genre, class, sociality and privacy.

'The cast of authors assembled here is of an exceptionally high quality, and the range of topics and approaches is very well judged. It seems reasonable now to start speaking about the "new short story studies". This book is at the forefront of that movement, and is likely to remain so for some time.' Adrian Hunter, University of Stirling Foreword by Ali Smith New critical essays on modern British women short story writers What is the relationship between the British woman writer and the short story? This collection examines what this versatile genre offers women writers, and what this can tell us about the society and culture they inhabit. From the rise of the modern printing press at the end of the nineteenth century through to the present digital age, these essays examine how the short story has been deployed and reworked by women writers and how they have influenced and shaped the genre's development. Considering the effect of literary inheritances, societal and cultural change, and shifting publishing demands, this collection traces the evolution of the genre through to its continued appeal to women writing today. From the New Woman to contemporary feminisms, women's anthologies to microfiction, modernist writers to the contemporary works of Ali Smith and Helen Simpson, the chapters in this collection investigate a crucial yet under-examined field of British literature. Key Features - 11 new chapters which discuss a range of gender and genre issues from the fin-de-siècle to the present day, together with an Introduction by the editors and a Postscript by Clare Hanson - Provides the background to the genre's development giving readers a unique insight into a largely neglected aspect of women's writing - Includes new readings of women authors such as 'George Egerton', E. Nesbit, May Sinclair, Dorothy Richardson, Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, Angela Carter, Michèle Roberts, Helen Simpson, Tessa Hadley and Holly Howitt-Dring - Uses recent critical approaches to explore themes such as haunting and trauma, class and feminist politics, and women's experimentation with form James Bailey is researching and writing on Muriel Spark at the University of Sheffield. Emma Young is a Learning Development Tutor at Bishop Grosseteste University. Cover design: Richard Budd [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com