British Culture and Society in the 1970s
This collection of essays explores the revolutionary culture of the 1970s, a period of extraordinary social, sexual and political change. This interdisciplinary account offers an exciting interpretation of a momentous and colourful period in cultural history.
Confessions
This collection explores the central place of narrative in social inquiry and the ethical life. Through examples from art to politics, it illuminates the link between telling stories to create meaning and the ethical engagement critical for a good life.
Experiments in Freedom
Experiments in Freedom examines identity in recent South African plays. It explores how drama can represent and transform identity through gender, nationalism, ethnicity, and race in a society grappling with the politics of its past.
Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time”
This collection of critical essays sheds new light on Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding and a key figure of interwar Britain. It explores her novels, journalism, and passionate support for feminism, peace, and racial equality.
Transitivity Alternations in Diachrony
This book offers a new approach to change in argument structure and voice morphology. It investigates the diachrony of transitivity in Greek and English, providing new answers to burning questions in Historical and Theoretical Linguistics.
The Good Body
This book examines how nineteenth-century American literature and culture defined “normal” and “abnormal” bodies to justify or critique concerns like slavery, national progress, and the Civil War, shaping the political and social orders of the era.
Conspiracy Dwellings
Nine illustrated essays by theorists and art practitioners explore surveillance in contemporary art. They consider its impact on ethics, citizenship, and resistance, and ask: where do we draw the line? At what point is the citizen a threat to the state?
Christ of the Coal Yards
No one heard the shot. No one ever found the gun. This critical examination of Vincent van Gogh offers insights into his life and art, dispelling the myths that have no foundation and exploring his enigmatic and enticing personality.
The Gift of Logos
The Continental tradition emphasizes the Logos, which these essays celebrate as a gift that overcomes existential alienation. To give a gift is to befriend. This collection argues that true transformation is our greatest gift, and giving it voice is the gift of Logos.
In our digital world, it can be easy to forget public spaces. This book interrogates cultural programs, from festivals to museums, to discover how these bodily experiences affect us. It argues that both events and institutions are caught in political webs.
Documents on the Balkans – History, Memory, Identity
This book explores how Balkan films produce identities based on memory, often in response to the 1990s conflicts. Case studies connect the ‘private space’ of everyday lives to macro-debates, making this a powerful contribution to cultural and visual history.
Holocaust Persecution
This anthology uniquely approaches Holocaust Studies by focusing on the responses to and consequences of persecution. Essays by renowned scholars explore topics from Arab rescuers of Jews to the legal precedents set by the Nuremberg trials.
Matter and Meaning
What is matter? Can it point us towards meanings outside itself? This book offers new historical, scientific and theological insights from leading figures, exploring the complex dialogue between these disciplines beyond its presentation in the popular media.
Comparative Patriarchy and American Institutions
This book oscillates between analysis, which tries to explain what man is, and anecdote, which teaches what he is capable of becoming. By examining diverse gender relationships, we may gain wider perspectives on our own prejudices and become more fully human.
Single-Voice Transformations
This study models smooth voice leading with abstract algebra via the single-semitone transformation (SST). The model yields 3D graphical lattices and serves as a versatile analytical tool for music from Chopin and Webern to Paul Lansky and John Adams.
Au Naturel
The essays in this collection propose a major revision of Hispanic naturalism. Reframing it as a phenomenon that transcends time, they demonstrate how naturalist texts–literary and filmic–engage societal problems from the 19th century to the present day.
The Future of Post-Human War and Peace
The fickle conventional wisdom on war and peace has blinded us to the dark sides of both. This book offers a new theory to transcend existing approaches, fundamentally changing the way we think about war, peace, and the future of humanity.
Dublin Castle and the Anglo-Irish War
This book examines why the British, with a modern army and vast empire, were unable to suppress an infant Irish insurgency. It probes the operational failures and complex animosities within the British security apparatus to find the answer.
Helena Peričić’s brave, open-hearted testimony of surviving the Homeland War in Croatia during the ’90s.
This bilingual edition includes the English translation and the original Croatian text.
Revisiting Decadence
An introduction to the fifteenth century through the chronicles and personal recollections of its writers. It examines how their pessimistic conclusions about the conduct of their contemporaries contributed to the era’s reputation for decadence.
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