Books in the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance series

Russian Futurist Theatre' explores is the first book to comprehensively uncover the Russian futurist theatre in all its virtuosity and diversity.

This study examines the representation of gesture in modernist writing, performance and cinema.

This book presents a new reading of Pina Bausch's dance theatre, orienting it within an international legacy of performance practice.

This book attends to fifty breath-related artworks (including sculpture, painting, new media, sound art, performance art) and contextualises Beckett's 'Breath' within the intermedial and high-modernist discourse.

11 essays by leading Whitehead scholars re-examinae Whitehead s Barbour-Page lectures, published as the book Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect in 1927, to give you exciting insights into the contemporary implications of Whitehead's symbolism in an era of new scientific, cultural and technological developments.

Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque fashions an independent aesthetic for modernist writers and texts that challenges many high modernist qualities promoted by James Joyce and T. S. Eliot.