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[headline]Examines the scene of reading in modernism, psychoanalysis and popular novels from the early twentieth century Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller argues that the modernist scene of reading reveals some of our culture's most powerful and enduring fantasies about the role of literature in psychic, social and political life. Focusing on the writing of Virginia Woolf, and reading her novels alongside writing by Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Ethel M. Dell, Melanie Klein, Marion Milner and others, this book challenges our prevailing critical assumptions about modernist reading. Reading modernism alongside psychoanalysis and the bestseller, it aims not only to intervene in debates about modernism, but also to address its legacies in contemporary literature and in the context of increasingly urgent questions about how - and why - we read today. Helen Tyson makes an original intervention to reorient debates about modernism, critique and postcritique. [bio]Helen Tyson is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century British Literature at the University of Sussex, where she is also a Co-Director of the Centre for Modernist Studies. Helen has published in Textual Practice, Literature Compass, Feminist Modernist Studies, Critical Quarterly, Literary Review and the TLS. She is co-editor of the award-winning collection of essays Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life (2021).

An ethnographic study that examines the socio-cultural embeddedness of the Hajj in present day Moroccan society

Explores little-known contexts of the Greek Revolution, especially the previously unrecognised Scottish dimension of the international movement known as Philhellenism

Places Deleuze's cinematic philosophy in dialogue with contemporary digital media and the concept of information Timothy Deane-Freeman traces Deleuze's remarks about the digital to reveal both their origins and implications. In so doing, we encounter a position which is fundamentally ambiguous. On the one hand, digital techniques are intimately related to what Deleuze calls 'societies of control', which deploy them in order to close down potential spaces of creativity and resistance. On the other, digital images take up the mantle of cinema, displacing habitual forms of cognition and forcing us to think in new ways. Deane-Freeman traces these dual impulses through the images of cinema, television and social media, as well as explicating key Deleuzian concepts, including virtuality, immanence and the outside. Timothy Deane-Freeman is an independent scholar currently teaching across various higher education institutions in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.

The first book-length academic study of the work of Norwegian director, Joachim Trier

Combining political theory and sociological interviews spanning four countries, Israel, the USA, Canada and the UK, Ilan Zvi Baron explores the Jewish Diaspora/Israel relationship and suggests that instead of looking at Diaspora Jews' relationship with Israel as a matter of loyalty, it is one of obligation. Baron develops an outline for a theory of transnational political obligation and, in the process, provides an alternative way to understand and explore the Diaspora/Israel relationship than one mired in partisan debates about whether or not being a good Jew means supporting Israel. He concludes by arguing that critique of Israel is not just about Israeli policy, but about what it means to be a Diaspora Jew.

Explores Persian tribespeople's changing ethics, feelings and lifeways in tough times

Grounds the origins of the Corinthian Christ group within local social practice

Argues for a rethinking of sexuality as a constellation, rather than substantive identity Western thinking on sexuality has historically affirmed not only a binary division between two sexes, each of which is defined by unique fixed attributes that delineate its essence, but also a privileging of the masculine over the feminine and heteronormative relations over alternatives. By engaging with psychoanalytic theory, phenomenology, feminist and gender theory, and the new materialisms, Gavin Rae shows how this model came under sustained and heterogeneous attack in the twentieth century. Rather than affirm one of these critical trajectories, Rae rethinks the problematic by turning to Walter Benjamin's notion of concepts as constellations to develop an alternative model called sexuality as constellation. Gavin Rae is Associate Professor in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Investigates the Ottoman bureaucrats who resisted the ethnic cleansing in the Smyrna region in 1919-1923

Examines the affective responses to rape in rape-revenge films, and how this response can be harnessed to work through complex questions about rape Extends the interdisciplinary reach of cognitive film studies by creating a dialogue with feminist film theory and feminist philosophy in an exploration of women's anger and the female avenger Focuses particularly on rape revenge films directed by women Covers film and televsion - case studies include the MillenniumTrilogy, Ms 45, Revenge, Twilight Portrait, Promising Young Woman and I May Destroy You Maps on to debates within the #MeToo movement Expanding on the fertile mapping of emotional engagement with fiction in cognitive film theory by narrowing in on anger, an under-explored emotion in film theory The Female Avenger, Women's Anger and Rape-Revenge Film and Television examines the contentious nature of the female rape survivor turned avenger in rape-revenge stories. The focus is on a trend of contemporary rape-revenge film made by women directors. Vaage asks what it might mean for women in particular to watch female avengers, and suggests that the reason some women filmmakers explore the rape-revenge convention is because it is all about an emotion that is difficult for women, and used to label women as difficult, namely anger. The central premise in this book is that understanding the emotions stirred up by this type of story is crucial in order to understand its recurring, controversial presence in popular culture, and also its potential value. Vaage offers a cultural and political analysis of contemporary rape-revenge film made by women grounded in the psychological and philosophical study of the emotions

Studies the diplomatic and cultural implications of the exchange of symbolic objects in the ancient world

What is the relationship between contemporary capitalism and mental health?

Critically re-reads Turkey's history with a focus on the interactions between religion, politics and society

Examines modes of resistance within contemporary Indian documentary culture and films Identifies and examines a range of texts, sites and practices that are central to documentary culture and study, in effect mapping the field of documentary culture in contemporary India Expands the conceptualisation of documentary resistance in a context organised by specific political and historical factors e.g., caste, religion, colonisation, distinct from Western or Eurocentric contexts of cultural production Not limited to dominant definitions of 'political' in documentary, uses alternative ways of defining politics through a wider consideration of textual and extra textual factors While sizable literature exists on the themes, issues and voices that constitute resistance in historical Indian documentary cinema, less is known about contemporary modes of resistance in Indian documentary. This volume identifies languages and practices of resistance constructed by Indian documentary practitioners located in contemporary global and national contexts organised by majoritarian political discourse, rising social inequalities, tightening media regulatory mechanisms and variable access to digital technologies. Extending its analytical lens beyond textual politics, the volume offers an original conceptualisation of how we identify, mobilise, and recuperate acts of resistance as both represented in documentary and those represented by the organisation of documentary practice e.g., documentary exhibition, curation, education, and criticism. Combining scholarly essays and practitioner writing, the volume offers a timely reconsideration of how central debates and issues of power and representation in documentary may be studied as objects of analysis and as subjective accounts of individual experience, decisions, and actions relating to documentary aesthetics and practice.

[headline]Exposes writers' reliance on conservative language during one of the most radical periods of English history Using case studies of both familiar genres (country house poem, love lyric, epic) and understudied ones (emblem book, prose romance), Rachel Dunn Zhang demonstrates how the conservative language of 'constancy' underpinned the most pressing controversies of the English civil wars. Examining the work of John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Hester Pulter, Percy Herbert and others, Zhang exposes how writers invoked constancy to justify opposing positions in mid-seventeenth century debates over monarchical rule, ecclesiastical order, Catholicism and England's relationship to the wider world, even as they established the virtue's importance to literary tradition. Constancy was the means by which writers retained and reimagined inherited formal structures and strategies, complicating characterisations of the period as one of generic failure and fragmentation. In this important work, Zhang draws on underrepresented female and non-canonical voices to highlight cross-factional conservatism and international investment in what scholars often describe as the 'English Revolution'. [bio]Rachel Dunn Zhang is a scholar of early modern literature residing in the New York City area who has taught at Columbia University, Rutgers University, City College of New York and Touro College's Lander College for Women. Her work has been published in numerous scholarly journals, including Milton Studies, Ben Jonson Journal, Studies in Philology, Early Modern Women, The Seventeenth Century and Notes and Queries. An authority on Hester Pulter, Zhang is also a contributing editor for The Pulter Project.

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic and the autobiographical, for the first time

Explores the concept of a category and contemporary debates on category politics, category mistakes and the imperialism of categories

A collection of critical chapters on Larisa Shepitko, one of the most significant Soviet (Ukrainian born) filmmakers

Examines Polish director Agnieszka Holland's films and television works from the perspective of transnational screen cultures

Explores the role of gender in shaping premodern Scottish identity and history

Explores the impact of Enlightenment philosophers in Scotland on the development of sociology The first collection to look at the significance of the Scottish Enlightenment for sociological thought, this book explores how and what sociological ideas were developed during this period. It also analyses how the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment would emerge and develop in subsequent traditions of sociology. Scottish Enlightenment thinkers developed and refined a descriptive-explanatory approach and methodology to explore social and economic processes, an approach that was different from the normative and justificatory aspirations of 17th- and 18th-century social and political philosophies. This distinct contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment is frequently overlooked, even if some of its central figures - Adam Ferguson, David Hume, Adam Smith, to name but three - are acknowledged as important forerunners of contemporary social sciences. This book offers both a synoptic perspective on individual contributions and a connective view of theoretical achievements that are otherwise typically treated in isolation. Tamás Demeter is Professor of Philosophy at the Corvinus University of Budapest and Senior Research Fellow at the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest.

[headline]Offers compelling insights into the eighteenth-century novel and its vibrant relationships with the arts The eighteenth century witnessed an explosion in new literary and creative forms. This volume brings together developments from different disciplines in the wider field of eighteenth-century studies to address the complex interplay between eighteenth-century prose fiction and the arts. By employing a broad understanding of 'the arts', it goes beyond the territories usually covered in connection with novel writing to offer a wider perspective on the inter-artistic contexts of the novel form's development. The twenty-eight newly commissioned essays comprising The Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts provide readers with a unique opportunity to navigate a vast and sprawling terrain through engaging scholarly insights. [editor biographies]Jakub Lipski is University Professor in the Department of Anglophone Literatures at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He is the author of Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth-Century English Robinsonade (2024), Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Studies in Reception (2021), Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (2018) and In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (2014). M-C. Newbould is Assistant Professor at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, after having taught and researched at the University of Cambridge for many years. Her monograph Adaptations of Laurence Sterne's Fiction: Sterneana, 1760-1840 was published in 2013. She co-edited an essay collection on Sterne's A Sentimental Journey with W. B. Gerard in 2021 and the Open Access dataset 'Laurence Sterne and Sterneana' with Helen Williams in 2022. She is an editor of the international Sterne journal The Shandean.

[headline]The first major overview of British colonial periodicals from the rise of the British Empire to decolonisation The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals showcases the latest research into British colonial periodicals, newspapers, magazines and journals by leading scholars in the field. Its thirty-five commissioned chapters analyse the fundamental role played by colonial periodicals in sustaining as well as contesting the economic, political and cultural hegemony of the British Empire from its inception to its fall. Considering both works published in Britain for colonial consumption and those published in British colonies, this volume brings attention to overlooked colonial and anti-colonial publications, in addition to reassessing well-known titles. Its contributors discuss periodicals and newspapers in a wide range of languages, including Māori, Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Odia, Swahili, Yorùbá, isiXhosa, isiZulu and English. [biographies]David Finkelstein is a cultural historian who has published in areas related to print, labour and press history. David Johnson is Professor of Literature in the Department of English and Creative Writing at The Open University. Caroline Davis is Associate Professor in Publishing in the Department of Information Studies at University College London.

13 essays examine different media, including architecture, manuscripts, portable arts and textiles, as well as the contemporary arts of painting, photography, printmaking and video, from the early Islamic period to the present.

Examines the work and reception of the Arab émigré writer Gibran Khalil Gibran

The first in-depth look at the work of Indian cinema director, screenwriter, and producer Zoya Akhtar, this book celebrates Akhtar's art while examining her position within popular film and how she is contributing to a shift in one of the world's leading film industries. Through Akhtar's work, it also explores larger trends in the Mumbai-based Hindi film industry -- Bollywood -- ranging from the changing form and distribution of mainstream films to gender politics. It highlights how Akhtar's unique position exemplifies the contradictions and possibilities of the present moment in Bollywood; it also explores the impact of female filmmakers in global industries Edited by Aakshi Magazine is a writer and academic based in India. She received her PhD in Film Studies from the University of St Andrews in 2020. Her doctoral thesis, The 1950s Hindi film song: Between transgression and memory, is on the relationship of the film song to the contradictions of the Indian nationalist discourse. She has published several journal articles, a book chapter and film criticism in popular publications. Amber Shields received her PhD in Film Studies from the University of St Andrews where she focused on how fantasy is used to tell stories of individual and collective trauma in films from around the world. She has taught Film and English courses at Mount Tamalpais College and currently works with nonprofits reimagining education and supporting the development of young leaders. She has published several journals articles and book chapters.

Greek Film Noir offers a fresh look at underrated and neglected cultural products that provide insights into the workings of the genre within the Greek context, while simultaneously revealing the affinities between established Greek auteurs and the tradition of film noir. This collection explores the influence of American and European film noir in Greece, discussing noir and neo-noir within Mediterranean and European cinematic framework, with the aim of putting Greece on the international film noir map. Readers will enrich their knowledge of Greek cinema, while confirming the long-lasting influence of a genre that transcends national and cultural boundaries. Anna Poupou teaches film history and theory at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is co-editor of three collective volumes: City and Cinema: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches (2011), Athens: World Film Locations (2014), The Lost Highway of Greek Cinema 1960-1990 (2019). Her research interests focus on the history of Greek cinema, film and history, urban spaces and cinema, and film noir. Nikitas Fessas holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences: Communication Sciences from Ghent University, Belgium. He has published numerous cultural criticism essays in both Greek and English-language media, as well as academic articles on Greek film noir in peer-reviewed journals. Maria Chalkou is the principal editor of Filmicon: Journal of Greek Film Studies. She holds a PhD in film theory and history from University of Glasgow. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Panteion University, while teaching film history, theory and documentary at Ionian University. She has published on Greek cinema, film censorship, film criticism and cinematic representations of the past.