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On the Edge of the Panel

Essays on Comics Criticism

Edited By: Julio Cañero, Esther Claudio

£52.99

This collection of essays explores comics as a bridge between pictorial and literary expression. The book reflects on the medium's cultural and historical dimensions, focusing on its unique formal tools, its origins, and its most influential authors.

This collection of essays explores comics as a bridge between pictorial and literary expression. The book reflects on the medium’s cultural and historical dimensions, focusing on its unique formal tools, its origins, and its most influential authors.

Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama

Edited By: René Agostini, Madelena Gonzalez

£52.99

What is the value of art in an age of corporatized knowledge? This volume explores the crucial intersection of aesthetics and ideology. Through a wide range of international examples, these essays argue that the arts are fundamental to any progress in society.

We Speak a Different Tongue

Maverick Voices and Modernity 1890–1939

Edited By: Yoonjoung Choi, Anthony Patterson

£47.99

This collection challenges the privileging of modernism, focusing instead on modernity. It foregrounds marginalised writers—from H.G. Wells to Djuna Barnes—who responded to the era's tensions with innovations distinct from modernist experimentation.

This collection challenges the privileging of modernism, focusing instead on modernity. It foregrounds marginalised writers—from H.G. Wells to Djuna Barnes—who responded to the era’s tensions with innovations distinct from modernist experimentation.

Adaptations

Some Journeys from Words to Visuals

Edited By: Anugamini Rai, Shri Krishan Rai

£41.99

This book explores the journey of written text to the screen, focusing on cinematic adaptations of Indian and international literary works. It engages with issues like ‘fidelity’ and ‘intertextuality’ in the works of Tagore, Satyajit Ray, and others.

Rule Britannia? Britain and Britishness 1707–1901

Edited By: Peter Lindfield, Christie Margrave

£41.99

Britishness is a challenging term to define. This volume enhances our understanding of modern national identity by exploring historical ideas of Britishness through essays on literature, philosophy, music, art, and design, revealing its rich forging.

Old Stories, New Readings

The Transforming Power of American Drama

Edited By: Miriam López-Rodríguez, Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz, Inmaculada Pineda-Hernández

£52.99

This volume explores how stories are told on the American stage and how neglected realities gain attention through a playwright's telling. Focusing on "small stories" that have received less critical attention, it fills a void in the study of American drama.

This volume explores how stories are told on the American stage and how neglected realities gain attention through a playwright’s telling. Focusing on “small stories” that have received less critical attention, it fills a void in the study of American drama.

The Event, the Subject, and the Artwork

Into the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: R.A. Goodrich, Ann McCulloch

£47.99

This collection explores art's power to mediate political events, creating temporal ruptures and heralding an indescribable future.

This collection explores art’s power to mediate political events, creating temporal ruptures and heralding an indescribable future.

Art and Social Justice

The Media Connection

Edited By: Mike Hajimichael

£41.99

This book explores the connections between art, social justice, and media. With chapters referencing situations in Brazil, Cyprus, Greece and South Africa, it concentrates on how art campaigns for change and mobilizes youth in a world mediated by the Internet.

An Introvert in an Extrovert World

Essays on the Quiet Ones

Edited By: Myrna Santos

£41.99

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.

Tony Kushner’s Postmodern Theatre

A Study of Political Discourse

By: Hussein Al-Badri

£41.99

This book is an insightful examination of Tony Kushner, one of the most prominent political dramatists in the US today. It explores how Kushner theatricalizes politics, drawing on influences like Bertolt Brecht to define his postmodern theatre.

The Flâneur Abroad

Historical and International Perspectives

Edited By: Richard Wrigley

£49.99

This volume offers new perspectives on the flâneur, mapping the figure’s travels beyond Paris. It explores the flâneur in international cities and across visual media, revising stereotypes and reconsidering the nature of this cultural icon.

“Hours like bright sweets in a jar”

Time and Temporality in Literature and Culture

Edited By: Sonia Front, Alicja Bemben

£41.99

Investigating time from interdisciplinary perspectives, these essays explore resistance against the hegemony of linear time. Literary, cinematographic, and cultural practices enact exploding temporalities to reflect the multifaceted human experience of time.

Assembling Identities

Edited By: Sam Wiseman

£47.99

This cross-disciplinary collection explores how identities – individual, communal, and national – are constructed, maintained and contested. These essays emphasize the invariable ambiguity and instability of identity, offering new perspectives on a concept in ceaseless change.

Fragments of Tragedy in Postmodern Film

By: Sezen Kayhan

£41.99

This book explores fragments of tragedy in postmodern film. While postmodernism broke the continuous chain of tragedy from Ancient Greece, its aspects persist in films with themes of chaos, violence, paranoia, and alienation.

Incarnations of Material Textuality

From Modernism to Liberature

Edited By: Katarzyna Bazarnik, Izabela Curyłło-Klag

£41.99

Liberature refers to works that integrate text and the material book into an organic whole. This volume collects essays exploring this concept as a literary genre, completed with the seminal writings of its founder, Zenon Fajfer.

Russian Classical Literature Today

The Challenges/Trials of Messianism and Mass Culture

Edited By: Yordan Ljutskanov, Hristo Manolakev, Radostin Rusev

£54.99

This book explores the struggle for Russia's literary canon. It reveals how contemporary culture reworks the classics while resisting political and economic pressures, showing how a new canon is forged.

This book explores the struggle for Russia’s literary canon. It reveals how contemporary culture reworks the classics while resisting political and economic pressures, showing how a new canon is forged.

Redefining Kitsch and Camp in Literature and Culture

Edited By: Justyna Stępień

£47.99

This collection of essays traces the evolution of kitsch and camp aesthetics in popular culture and the avant-garde. From diverse theoretical perspectives, it provides a much-needed commentary on the function of these aesthetics today.

The Ravenclaw Chronicles

Reflections from Edinboro

Edited By: Corbin Fowler

From £34.99

What if there is much more to the Harry Potter saga than a simple tale? The Ravenclaw Chronicles collects select articles from academic conferences discussing the story's intellectual and ethical issues from diverse perspectives like philosophy and history.

What if there is much more to the Harry Potter saga than a simple tale? The Ravenclaw Chronicles collects select articles from academic conferences discussing the story’s intellectual and ethical issues from diverse perspectives like philosophy and history.

Changes, Conflicts and Ideologies in Contemporary Hispanic Culture

Edited By: Teresa Fernandez Ulloa

£59.99

This book studies how conflicts, changes, and ideologies appear in Hispanic discourse. It analyzes how ideological shifts of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries are reflected in the language, literature, and culture of Spain and Latin America.

Women and Gothic

Edited By: Maria Purves

£44.99

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.