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“Celebrating Confusion”
The Theatre of Frank McGuinness
This study explores the challenging work of Frank McGuinness. Combining cultural, political, and theatrical analysis, it charts his development and makes the case for him as the most significant Irish playwright of his generation.
This study explores the challenging work of Frank McGuinness. Combining cultural, political, and theatrical analysis, it charts his development and makes the case for him as the most significant Irish playwright of his generation.
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“Hours like bright sweets in a jar”
Time and Temporality in Literature and Culture
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.
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.
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Alienation and Resistance
Representation in Text and Image
This collection examines representations of alienation and resistance across diverse media. Essays explore these themes in everything from 16th-century drama to modern comics and film, asking: what are the roles, forms, and conditions of these forces in our culture?
This collection examines representations of alienation and resistance across diverse media. Essays explore these themes in everything from 16th-century drama to modern comics and film, asking: what are the roles, forms, and conditions of these forces in our culture?
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Ambiguous Selves
Contesting Gender Binaries in Literature, Film and the Media
This collection of essays on literature, film, and media contests binary thinking on gender and sexuality. Celebrating difference and deviance, these texts subvert assumed norms, revel in the fluid self, and blur the lines that separate the normal from the abnormal.
This collection of essays on literature, film, and media contests binary thinking on gender and sexuality. Celebrating difference and deviance, these texts subvert assumed norms, revel in the fluid self, and blur the lines that separate the normal from the abnormal.
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An Existentialist Theory of the Human Spirit (Volume 1)
To Love and Create... or Not
Uncover the links between existentialist thought, sexuality, religion, and art. From Freud and Jung to the tragic genius of van Gogh, this study confronts absurdity and existence, offering a bold new theory of personality.
Uncover the links between existentialist thought, sexuality, religion, and art. From Freud and Jung to the tragic genius of van Gogh, this study confronts absurdity and existence, offering a bold new theory of personality.
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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 Book
Illustration and Innovation
The place of illustration and innovation is explored in this collection, regarding the relation of image to text in books of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Topics range from the work of Marcel Duchamp and Kazimir Malevich to the design of multimodal works and 3D printing.
The place of illustration and innovation is explored in this collection, regarding the relation of image to text in books of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Topics range from the work of Marcel Duchamp and Kazimir Malevich to the design of multimodal works and 3D printing.
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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.
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.
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Authenticity and Legitimacy in Minority Theatre
Constructing Identity
For ethno-cultural minorities, theatre is a vital space to denounce injustice, explore past trauma, and forge new identities. But should it seek mainstream visibility or remain on the margins to assert its cultural authenticity? This volume tackles these questions.
For ethno-cultural minorities, theatre is a vital space to denounce injustice, explore past trauma, and forge new identities. But should it seek mainstream visibility or remain on the margins to assert its cultural authenticity? This volume tackles these questions.
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Deriving from the 6th Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, this collection presents material from the fields of philosophy, literature and theatre. It will interest researchers of literature, theatre and the arts from a consciousness studies perspective.
Deriving from the 6th Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, this collection presents material from the fields of philosophy, literature and theatre. It will interest researchers of literature, theatre and the arts from a consciousness studies perspective.
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Crossings
David Mamet’s Work in Different Genres and Media
International scholars assess David Mamet's career, from his stage classics to his forays into film, television, and the novel. This volume focuses on his diverse works and how they have been interpreted by other artists.
International scholars assess David Mamet’s career, from his stage classics to his forays into film, television, and the novel. This volume focuses on his diverse works and how they have been interpreted by other artists.
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From Word to Canvas
Appropriations of Myth in Women’s Aesthetic Production
This innovative collection of essays examines how women artists and writers use myth to explore feminine identity. Spanning literature, performance, and visual art, these global contributions reveal a powerful “feminine gaze” that gives myths new force.
This innovative collection of essays examines how women artists and writers use myth to explore feminine identity. Spanning literature, performance, and visual art, these global contributions reveal a powerful “feminine gaze” that gives myths new force.
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Oancea analyses sociolinguistic features of adolescent speech that occur in natural, spontaneous, everyday speech, suggesting that variation is a characteristic of natural language, and that fully understanding language requires grasping the nature and function of variation.
Oancea analyses sociolinguistic features of adolescent speech that occur in natural, spontaneous, everyday speech, suggesting that variation is a characteristic of natural language, and that fully understanding language requires grasping the nature and function of variation.
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This book contextualizes the terror histories of post-9/11 literature from the USA, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka. It reads selected short stories, novels, and poems from a gendered perspective.
This book contextualizes the terror histories of post-9/11 literature from the USA, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka. It reads selected short stories, novels, and poems from a gendered perspective.
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This text highlights Robert Lepage’s preoccupation with an ongoing dialogue with worldwide audiences, and their involvement in developing an innovative practice of the Western theatre landscape. It examines the notion that intermediality is situated at the core of his approach.
This text highlights Robert Lepage’s preoccupation with an ongoing dialogue with worldwide audiences, and their involvement in developing an innovative practice of the Western theatre landscape. It examines the notion that intermediality is situated at the core of his approach.
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James Bond in World and Popular Culture
The Films are Not Enough, Second Edition
The most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena ever published. 40 original essays provide new insights into the Bond girl, video games, music, fashion, and Ian Fleming himself, showing how this cultural icon has changed the world.
The most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena ever published. 40 original essays provide new insights into the Bond girl, video games, music, fashion, and Ian Fleming himself, showing how this cultural icon has changed the world.
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José Antonio Villarreal and Pocho
A Mexican American Novel and Its Tragic Plot
This blend of biography, history, and literary criticism analyzes José Antonio Villarreal’s evocative, semi-autobiographical novel, *Pocho*. Its hero is Richard Rubio, a Mexican American youth of Indigenous and Mexican heritage whose appearance casts him as a social outsider.
This blend of biography, history, and literary criticism analyzes José Antonio Villarreal’s evocative, semi-autobiographical novel, *Pocho*. Its hero is Richard Rubio, a Mexican American youth of Indigenous and Mexican heritage whose appearance casts him as a social outsider.
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Moving Forward
Tradition and Transformation
This collection explores ‘tradition and transformation’. Early-career researchers from the arts and social sciences boldly explore the tension between past and future, respecting history while effecting change. Accessible to a non-specialist audience.
This collection explores ‘tradition and transformation’. Early-career researchers from the arts and social sciences boldly explore the tension between past and future, respecting history while effecting change. Accessible to a non-specialist audience.
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This collection explores the Berlin Wall in language, literature, and visual media. Essays discuss its portrayal as a dividing and uniting boundary, its continued existence in the minds of Germans, and how controversial the division of Germany remains.
This collection explores the Berlin Wall in language, literature, and visual media. Essays discuss its portrayal as a dividing and uniting boundary, its continued existence in the minds of Germans, and how controversial the division of Germany remains.
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From Shakespeare to Star Wars, how are men represented on the page and screen? These essays argue that men must become aware of these representations to alter toxic patriarchal models, distinguish masculinity from patriarchy, and achieve liberation from its crippling constraints.
From Shakespeare to Star Wars, how are men represented on the page and screen? These essays argue that men must become aware of these representations to alter toxic patriarchal models, distinguish masculinity from patriarchy, and achieve liberation from its crippling constraints.
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