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Longing, Weakness and Temptation
From Myth to Artistic Creations
This book explores the universal themes of longing, weakness, and temptation by comparing literary works influenced by biblical and classic texts. It shows how the source text speaks through the new work and how the new work forces new meanings from the source.
This book explores the universal themes of longing, weakness, and temptation by comparing literary works influenced by biblical and classic texts. It shows how the source text speaks through the new work and how the new work forces new meanings from the source.
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The European Avant-Garde
Text and Image
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores European Avant-Garde movements (1900-1940) in text and image. Covering movements like Futurism and Surrealism, it examines themes of the body, translation, identity, and exile.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores European Avant-Garde movements (1900-1940) in text and image. Covering movements like Futurism and Surrealism, it examines themes of the body, translation, identity, and exile.
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This book examines the 2011 Occupy LSX protest at St Paul’s Cathedral in relation to media spectacle. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it demonstrates how protestors subverted media and manifested formidable resistance to capitalism.
This book examines the 2011 Occupy LSX protest at St Paul’s Cathedral in relation to media spectacle. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it demonstrates how protestors subverted media and manifested formidable resistance to capitalism.
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Bloomsbury Influences
Papers from the Bloomsbury Adaptations Conference, Bath Spa University, 5-6 May 2011
Explore the dialogue between the Bloomsbury Group and contemporary culture. These essays reveal their lasting influence on art and literature, examining connections to modern figures like Jeanette Winterson and Ali Smith.
Explore the dialogue between the Bloomsbury Group and contemporary culture. These essays reveal their lasting influence on art and literature, examining connections to modern figures like Jeanette Winterson and Ali Smith.
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Text in Contemporary Theatre
The Baltics within the World Experience
This collection of articles is devoted to the relationship between text and performance in contemporary theatre. Focusing on the Baltics but with wider insight into world drama, this book is recommended for both theatre and drama theoreticians and practitioners.
This collection of articles is devoted to the relationship between text and performance in contemporary theatre. Focusing on the Baltics but with wider insight into world drama, this book is recommended for both theatre and drama theoreticians and practitioners.
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The performing arts remain an underexplored territory for aesthetics. This volume collects essays by international scholars who address the core philosophical topic of expression, questioning the roles of the performer, the work, and the spectator.
The performing arts remain an underexplored territory for aesthetics. This volume collects essays by international scholars who address the core philosophical topic of expression, questioning the roles of the performer, the work, and the spectator.
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Art and Food is a collection of essays exploring a range of research topics relating to the representation of food in art and art in food, from iconography and allegory, through class and commensality, to kitchen architecture and haute cuisine.
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This collection of essays highlights the growing interest in the relationship between the arts and human consciousness. Reflecting a wide range of disciplines and approaches, the book features contributions from scholars across the world.
This collection of essays highlights the growing interest in the relationship between the arts and human consciousness. Reflecting a wide range of disciplines and approaches, the book features contributions from scholars across the world.
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This collection of essays explores women’s complex relationship with the gothic. From novels to hypertext fiction, it reveals the scope, intensity, and risks of this evolution, challenging our understanding of why women engage with the gothic.
This collection of essays explores women’s complex relationship with the gothic. From novels to hypertext fiction, it reveals the scope, intensity, and risks of this evolution, challenging our understanding of why women engage with the gothic.
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Britain and the Muslim World
Historical Perspectives
This collection of essays by leading scholars provides a comprehensive synthesis of historical relations between Britain and the Muslim World, from the early-modern period to the present, exploring how these past encounters shape our current situation.
This collection of essays by leading scholars provides a comprehensive synthesis of historical relations between Britain and the Muslim World, from the early-modern period to the present, exploring how these past encounters shape our current situation.
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British Pop Art was a central part of social change in the Sixties. Drawing from postmodern thought, this book critically examines the movement's mass-produced aesthetics, confirming its relevance to current debates on art and culture.
British Pop Art was a central part of social change in the Sixties. Drawing from postmodern thought, this book critically examines the movement’s mass-produced aesthetics, confirming its relevance to current debates on art and culture.
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This book offers a provocative new interpretation of megaliths, arguing they mark humanity's transition from natural selection to civilization. It reveals their original purpose as scenes for primordial theatrical performance and explores sites from Stonehenge to Gobekli Tepe.
This book offers a provocative new interpretation of megaliths, arguing they mark humanity’s transition from natural selection to civilization. It reveals their original purpose as scenes for primordial theatrical performance and explores sites from Stonehenge to Gobekli Tepe.
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More Than Mere Playthings
The Minor Arts of Italy
Spanning ancient Etruria to 20th-century Italy, this book explores the minor arts—from cameos to reliquaries. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, it reveals the unique importance of these objects, showing that the division between major and minor arts is no longer valid.
Spanning ancient Etruria to 20th-century Italy, this book explores the minor arts—from cameos to reliquaries. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, it reveals the unique importance of these objects, showing that the division between major and minor arts is no longer valid.
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Explore the powerful relationship between American art and conflict. This anthology discusses visual works in relation to national identity and politics, revealing how conflict—armed and rhetorical—inspires new identities to emerge.
Explore the powerful relationship between American art and conflict. This anthology discusses visual works in relation to national identity and politics, revealing how conflict—armed and rhetorical—inspires new identities to emerge.
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Curating Differently
Feminisms, Exhibitions and Curatorial Spaces
This title offers critical perspectives on, and analyses of, intersections of feminisms, art exhibitions, and curatorial spaces from the 1970s onward, bringing together case studies from Australia, Israel, Europe, and North America.
This title offers critical perspectives on, and analyses of, intersections of feminisms, art exhibitions, and curatorial spaces from the 1970s onward, bringing together case studies from Australia, Israel, Europe, and North America.
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Singapore Radio
Then and Now
Freeman and Ramakrishnan track the journey of Singapore radio from its humble beginnings to its advanced modern-day incarnations, detailing economic, political, cultural, and technological aspects of this medium in Singapore along the way.
Freeman and Ramakrishnan track the journey of Singapore radio from its humble beginnings to its advanced modern-day incarnations, detailing economic, political, cultural, and technological aspects of this medium in Singapore along the way.
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The Art of the Real
Visual Studies and New Materialisms
Art of the Real registers the materialist turn in contemporary visual studies. As scholars move beyond post-structuralist theory, this is the first book to treat the new materialism for its meta-theoretical commitments, ontology, and political implications.
Art of the Real registers the materialist turn in contemporary visual studies. As scholars move beyond post-structuralist theory, this is the first book to treat the new materialism for its meta-theoretical commitments, ontology, and political implications.
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Lolita between Adaptation and Interpretation
From Nabokov's Novel and Screenplay to Kubrick's Film
Presenting an analysis of three versions of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, this investigation explores how Nabokov envisioned his creation rendered in a movie, and the divergences between this and said adaptation.
Presenting an analysis of three versions of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, this investigation explores how Nabokov envisioned his creation rendered in a movie, and the divergences between this and said adaptation.
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An Introvert in an Extrovert World
Essays on the Quiet Ones
This anthology explores the challenges faced by introverts in an extrovert world. While often labeled “quiet,” their contributions are immense, from Van Gogh’s art to the personal computer. The book contains analyses of culture, film, and poignant personal narratives.
This anthology explores the challenges faced by introverts in an extrovert world. While often labeled “quiet,” their contributions are immense, from Van Gogh’s art to the personal computer. The book contains analyses of culture, film, and poignant personal narratives.
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Art and money are both given symbolic value, turning a simple object into a commodity. These essays examine this complex relationship across different cultures and historical periods, from Renaissance Italy to contemporary Pop Art.
Art and money are both given symbolic value, turning a simple object into a commodity. These essays examine this complex relationship across different cultures and historical periods, from Renaissance Italy to contemporary Pop Art.
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