Books published by EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Examines Olive Schreiner's writing, networks and legacies in new global, historical and contemporary contexts

Provides new and original analysis on how Lebanese francophone women authors wrote about the Lebanese civil war

As the spread of knowledge and even theory becomes an increasingly audiovisual affair, how can philosophy adapt in ways that develop - rather than dilute - philosophical rigour and specificity? How can philosophy harness the potential of audiovisual media - being more formally multidimensional than text-only - to conceptualise with greater precision and depth? Nilsson presents a theory of formal development of philosophy in this regard: a theory of cinecepts. While spanning film, media, art and critical theories, as well as philosophy, this study proceeds mainly through a close reimagination of Gilles Deleuze's work, which allows for a merging of what he kept separated: filmic thinking and philosophical conceptualisation. Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's underexplored 1970s Sonimage works are also extensively examined, along with critical considerations of a contemporary era of academic video essays and phenomena like philosophy channels on YouTube. Jakob A. Nilsson is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Örebro University.

[headline]A reading of Blanchot's idea of the disaster in relation to contemporary fiction of the United Kingdom and Ireland Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought of the Disaster delves into Maurice Blanchot's enigmatic, and deeply influential, notion of the disaster - a term Blanchot famously refuses to define. By exploring the novels of Jon McGregor, Mike McCormack, David Mitchell, Jeanette Winterson and Maggie Gee, Jonathan Boulter suggests that we can think of literature, the space of the imagination, as the place where some conception (ethical, ecological, or ontological) of the disaster emerges. These novels, all in some ways about the disaster, just as they are inflected by the disaster, become the place where an understanding of critical events - death, ecological catastrophe, pandemics - is possible. [bio]Jonathan Boulter is Professor of English at Western University, London, Canada. His previous publications include Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose (2019), Parables of the Posthuman: Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience (2015), Melancholy and the Archive: Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel (2011), Samuel Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008), and Interpreting Narrative in the Novels of Samuel Beckett (2001).