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Renews our understanding of Shakespeare through an interdisciplinary focus on hospitality In this critical analysis, Sophie E. Battell examines hospitality in Shakespeare's plays. By drawing on literary theory, modern philosophy and anthropology, as well as early modern scientific and religious texts, the book advances our understanding of Shakespeare as a dramatist concerned with the ethical questions at stake in encounters between guests and hosts of various kinds. The close readings and scholarly interventions presented here reconceive Shakespeare's plays in terms of a poetics of hospitality while arguing for an expansive, far-reaching vision of what it means to be open to the world and welcoming of others. Moving from the levels of subjectivity, the body and the senses to architecture, economics, legal discourse and the natural environment, On the Threshold not only makes important contributions to Shakespeare studies but forges new connections between Renaissance literary scholarship and contemporary debates on the politics of migrants and refugees. Sophie E. Battell is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Zurich.

'The Politics of Muslim Identities brings together nine case studies from across Asia. The discussions in each chapter together illustrate the contested diversity of Islam as it is understood and practiced by Muslims, and contributes to a growing and much-needed literature which emphasises the need for historicised and anti-essentialist understandings of Islam.' Syed Farid Alatas, Professor of Sociology, National University of Singapore Explores the intersection between Islam and politics in contemporary, Southeast Asia, South Asia and China Approaching religious identity with an emphasis on agency and contestation, this book offers a multi-disciplinary perspective on the development of Muslim identities in Asia and examines the contingent politics that influence how Muslims constitute themselves as modern subjects. Through 9 country-based case studies, the book analyses how Muslims articulate their religious identity vis-à-vis the state and society in which they live and how their position relates to specific social and political contexts. The contributors survey the contemporary ways in which religious affiliation sparks a politics of difference in contexts where Islamic practices, beliefs and aspirations are contested, as well as where Muslims are framed as the 'Other'. Key Features - Gives a comparative view of Asia's diverse Muslim identities, looking at the complexity of identity politics and the instrumentalisation of religious difference that create social divides - Situates the contemporary contestations of identity and belonging amid new waves of Islamic revivalism, ethnic nationalism and political repression - Includes 9 country-based case studies: Singapore, Malaysia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Philippines, India, Myanmar and China - Features contributions from experts in political science, anthropology, Islamic studies, sociology including: Irfan Ahmad, Syed Imad Alatas, Nazry Bahrawi, Syafiq Hasyim, Imrul Islam, Nazneen Mohsina, Matthew J. Nelson, Nathan Gilbert Quimpo and Joanne Smith Finley Iulia Lumina is an independent researcher who specialised in the comparative study of Islam at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Cover image: Indonesia, Jakarta (c) Afrijal Dahrin / EyeEm / Getty Images Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-6683-7 Barcode

The first English-language book to cover Danish cinema from the 1890s to the present day, this wide-ranging collection places well-known auteurs such as Carl Th. Dreyer, Lars von Trier and Susanne Bier in their cultural context, and introduces a number of genres and themes that are less familiar to international audiences, including film stars of the silent era, children's film, folk comedies, porn film, trends in documentary and Greenlandic cinema. With twenty-two chapters, all of them specially commissioned for this volume, A History of Danish Cinema explores the role of screen representations and film policy in shaping Denmark's cultural identity, but also emphasises just how internationally mobile Danish films and filmmakers have always been -- showcasing this small nation's extraordinary contribution to world cinema. C. Claire Thomson is Associate Professor of Scandinavian Film at UCL and the author of Short Films from a Small Nation: Danish Informational Cinema 1935-1965 (EUP, 2018) Isak Thorsen is the author of Nordisk Films Kompagni 1906-1924: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Bear (John Libbey, 2017) Pei-Sze Chow is Assistant Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam and the author of Transnational Screen Culture in Scandinavia: Mediating Regional Space and Identity in the Øresund Region (Palgrave, forthcoming)

'Binge-watching' has become an umbrella term for a number of analytical questions in contemporary television studies, serving to describe the structure, marketing and publication model of Netflix and other streaming platforms. Because the term describes a range of different ideas linked to streaming television programming, research on binge-watching can bring together a number of different and related questions. This edited collection explores binge-watching and its role in contemporary television from the perspectives of fan studies, audience research, transnational television studies and narratology. This breadth of scope makes it possible to explore a broad variety of meanings and functions of the term and concept in contemporary television studies. Mareike Jenner is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University

[Front cover flap copy] In Lawrie Todd (1830; rev. ed. 1832), John Galt paints an optimistic portrait of Scottish emigration to North America. Designed as a fictional autobiography, the novel charts the fortunes of its protagonist from his departure from Scotland - to avoid being tried for treason over his French Revolutionary sympathies - to his rise to prosperity as a shopkeeper in New York City and imaginary towns near Rochester. This edition of the novel provides a contextual introduction, explanatory notes, and maps that connect Todd's life story with boom times in New York and with Galt's own efforts at social entrepreneurship in Canada as well as with debates over emigration and political reforms in Britain. It sheds light on Galt's methods of characterisation, including his use of Scots and 'Yankee' speech habits and adaptation of real-life models, and on his popularity with readers in his own time.

Ground-breaking new essays comparing Shakespeare and Montaigne Shakespeare and Montaigne share a grounded, genial sense of the lived reality of human experience, as well as a surprising depth of engagement with history, literature and philosophy. With celebrated subtlety and incisive humour, both authors investigate abiding questions of epistemology, psychology, theology, ethics, politics and aesthetics. In this collection, distinguished contributors consider these influential, much-beloved figures in light of each other. The English playwright and the French essayist, each in his own fashion, reflect on and evaluate the Renaissance, the Reformation and the rise of new modern perspectives many of us now might readily recognise as our own. Lars Engle is Chapman Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, Patrick Gray is Associate Professor of English Studies and Director of Liberal Arts at Durham University and William M. Hamlin is Professor of English at Washington State University and Bornander Distinguished Professor in the WSU Honors College

The Graphic User Interface, or GUI, is the adhesive centre of today's screen entertainment web. From films and television to apps and videogames, it holds together a multitude of media and shapes the way they are accessed, organised, created, consumed, and manipulated. However, it does not do so without leaving viscous traces, and Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface examines this residue and its consequences, revealing how the GUI exerts a powerful influence on contemporary media. Focusing on aesthetics and adopting a media agnostic approach, Jones explores cinema, streaming platforms, television, user-generated content, videogames, apps, virtual reality, VFX, design software, and more in order to show how they cross-pollinate with one another and with our desktop interfaces. The result is a new approach for analysing convergent media in the digital era. Nick Jones is Senior Lecturer in Film, Television and Digital Culture at the University of York

Examines the meaning of five theopolitical figures - scripture, prophecy, oath, charisma and hospitality - in contemporary philosophica-lpolitical discourse This book explores the extent to which theological discourse has been, and continues to be, relevant in shaping the meanings, symbols and realities of certain instituted political practices. This relevance has historically manifested itself in the hybridisation of theological and political concepts, images, gestures and rituals. Combining theological and political concepts, Herrero shows that some divine traces could be embedded in institutionalised political practices. She argues that these theopolitical figures - scripture, prophecy, oath, charisma and hospitality - should be read negatively as other names of God, in the sense of a negative theology, in the post-secular world. By analysing the symbolic meaning of these figures, Theopolitical Figures sheds new light on crucial questions for contemporary societies, such as the unconditional character of justice, unfeasibility of historical expectation, stability of the word, idea of power as a gift, and openness to otherness as an ethica-lpolitical imperative. Montserrat Herrero is Professor of Political Philosophy and Researcher in the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Navarra, Spain.

Examines how the foundational liberal theories of Montesquieu, Hume, Smith and Ferguson responded to the moral and civic challenges of early capitalism This book explores a perennial problem in political theory: how to balance commercial considerations with the public good. It investigates this dilemma through the lenses of Enlightenment thinkers whose liberal theories responded to the hazards of commercial innovation during capitalism's nascent stages. Vassiliou argues that Montesquieu, David Hume, Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson represent a moderate perspective on foundational liberal thought, which emphasises the critical importance of honour. Throughout the book he compares how their liberal theories uniquely channel human beings' desire for honour to nourish a sense of interpersonal magnanimity within an inward-looking, liberal commercial world. In an age of polarised extremes, we have witnessed restive democracies flirting with populist, illiberal responses for managing the hazards of capitalist innovation. 'Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish Enlightenment' argues that Montesquieu and his Scottish counterparts' foundational liberal theories offer us more viable, middle-ground prescriptions that are necessarily sensitive to the emotional constitution of a liberal society. Constantine Vassiliou is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston, USA.

The re-examination of Saint Paul's letters in contemporary European philosophy is one of the most important developments at the crossroads of philosophy and theology today. In discussion with a range of authors contributing to this movement, including Heidegger, Badiou, Agamben, and Taubes, Gert-Jan van der Heiden offers a new and systematic account of the philosophical potential of these letters. He does so by uncovering a dialectic of exception, which revolves around the Pauline notions of the outcast and the spirit. Against a general tendency to understand the significance of Paul in politico-theological terms alone, van der Heiden focuses on the ontological potential of Saint Paul's letters by elucidating what they imply for our thinking about (non-)beings, world, event, time, exception and spirit. Ultimately, he shows how this dialectic implies a new understanding of being and thinking and gives rise to a new art of living, both ethically and politically. Gert-Jan van der Heiden is Professor of Metaphysics at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Presents Judith Butler's interest in plurality of bodily lives and her search for a social transformation conducive to a more liveable world This book is the only monograph-length study of the work of Judith Butler to focus on the entire scope of her work, including the last decade of her writing. In light of these texts, it presents a fresh interpretation of Butler's political thought, oriented by the idea of an insurrection at the level of the real. Chapters on ontology, performativity, agency and precariousness, a liveable life and non-violence explain how Butler's thought has always been focused on embodied performances. Instead of seeing Butler as simply a thinker of the subversive performance of cultural scripts, the book frames her work for the twenty-first century as an ambitious and coherent egalitarian alternative to liberal political philosophy. Each chapter introduces a Butlerian concept, clarifying this in the context of critical debates, while explaining its contribution to a new social ontology whose key normative principle is a liveable life. The book explores the potential of this conceptual framework in relation to not just the politics of gender but also questions of social inequality, structural violence and the experience of precarity. Designed for both researchers and students, it provides a comprehensive way of accessing what is radically original about this crucial political theorist. Adriana Zaharijevic is a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade, Serbia.

The first volume devoted to Derek Walcott's lifelong engagement with the visual arts Walcott's lifelong concern with painting and painters deeply inflected his aesthetics and politics. Walcott's interventions on the relationship between Caribbean and colonial history have been thoroughly scrutinised, but arguably he was also keen to address and (re)write an art history of which, paraphrasing a line from Omeros, the Caribbean 'too' was/is 'capable'. Contextualising and putting in conversation Walcott's published and unpublished writing, drawings and paintings with specific artists from the Caribbean, Europe, South and North America, Derek Walcott's Painters recalibrates and sharpens our understanding of Walcott's articulation of his own politics and poetics, and of the Caribbean's contributions to Atlantic and global culture. Maria Cristina Fumagalli is Professor in Literature at the University of Essex. Her publications include On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic (2015; 2018), Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze (2009) and The Flight of the Vernacular: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress of Dante (2001).

Based on rich literary, historical and legal data, Ismail Nashef offers a fresh case study of literary settler colonial contexts, in which language, literature and socio-political regime are re-examined based on new data.

Reassesses the democratic quality of European integration Bringing together leading and emerging scholars on European politics, this collection furthers our understanding of European democracy in ways that are attentive to the multiple fault lines and cleavages that structure the political order in the European Union (EU). The book's focus on dilemmas in European democracy, explored throughout its chapters, challenges the idea of a single democratic deficit in the EU. It analyses the various tensions and trade-offs that come to the surface when applying concepts such as representation, deliberation, citizenship and democratic contestation beyond the state in a European context. As an exercise in applied democratic theory directed at the EU, it engages with the necessary theoretical groundwork for assessing and developing what democracy in the EU is and can be in the twenty-first century. The volume will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in the fields of European politics, EU studies and democracy in regional organisations. Niklas Bremberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University and Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Ludvig Norman is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University and Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley

Explores Shakespeare's use of allegory as a privileged tool for making visible the inner workings of his characters' minds This study argues that Shakespeare turned staging problems into opportunities for complex characterisation by mobilising the semiotic potential of playhouse architecture, stage space, gestures, stage properties, performance style and audience participation. These features of production result in allegorical projections of the characters' thoughts, in a way that reflects early modern fascination with the hidden workings of the human mind. Through new readings, Allegorising Thought on the Shakespearean Stage expands and revitalizes the concept of 'stage allegory' beyond its association with medieval morality plays. Claire Guéron is Senior Lecturer at the University of Burgundy (Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté) in Dijon, France. Her research areas are early modern stage semiotics, the ethics of spectatorship and Shakespearean detective novels.

Reconsidering the notion of organism as central for contemporary philosophy Discussing different aspects of the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon, Raymond Ruyer, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and including some contemporary thinkers, such as Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, Bruno Latour, and Donna J. Haraway, Audrone Zukauskaite argues that all these threads can be seen as precursors to organism-oriented ontology. Rather than concentrating on individuals and identities, contemporary philosophy is increasingly interested in processes, multiplicities and potential for change, that is, in those features that define living beings. Zukauskaite argues that the capacity of living beings for self-organisation, creativity and contingency can act as an antidote to biopolitical power and control in the times of the Anthropocene. Audrone Zukauskaite is Chief Researcher in the Department of Contemporary Philosophy at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute.

The first academic study on the work of Wes Craven.

Presents a collection of Bernard Heyberger's studies in Middle Eastern Christianity for the first time in English, accompanied by an essay discussing the importance and legacy of his work and a comprehensive bibliography of his writings.

Examines Gabriele D'Annunzio's work in relation to cultural exchange, highlighting the political dimensions of global decadence and modernism Gabriele D'Annunzio was an internationally renowned artist and one of the most prominent public figures in Italy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His novels and poetry stirred the enthusiasm of James Joyce and Henry James in the English-speaking world and his repute stretched far beyond - in France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Japan and South America, D'Annunzio became a pivotal node in the broad networks of decadent exchange. This volume offers an overview of the global dynamics of D'Annunzio's work, from his engagement with multilingualism and translingual writing to the international circulation and reception of his production. Featuring chapters by international scholars, it re-evaluates D'Annunzio with a critical eye and a transnational scope and offers a global assessment of the place that Dannunzian decadence holds in the constitution of a conflicted movement - one that is profoundly cosmopolitan and yet also problematically nationalistic. Elisa Segnini teaches Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Fragments, Genius and Madness: Masks and Mask Making in the Fin-de-Siècle Imagination (2021). Michael Subialka teaches Comparative Literature and Italian at UC Davis. He is the author of Modernist Idealism: Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature (2022).

Studies continuity and change in the practice of town and country planning in the Scottish Borders, 1946-96 The Scottish Borders comprises the historic counties of Peeblesshire, Selkirkshire, Roxburghshire and Berwickshire - traditionally, an area synonymous with woven cloth [tweed], knitwear and agriculture; also an area that suffered from rural de-population over a prolonged period of time. Against the background of the social, economic and political changes of the 20th century, this book provides a detailed account of the evolution of the practice of town and country planning in the Scottish Borders from its birth in the 1940s to the re-organisation of local government in Scotland in 1996. It shows how town and country planning emerged from being a fringe activity in Borders local government to become the driving force for change in the Region. It is essential reading for all those interested in the history of town and country planning in Scotland and for those who love the Scottish Borders. Key features and benefits  Provides a comprehensive appraisal of the changing role of town and country planning within a unique area of Scotland over a fifty-year period  Examines continuity and change in planning practice in the Scottish Borders  Explores the relationships between planning and economic development in stimulating development in a rural region of Scotland  Analyses how town and country planning in the Scottish Borders developed from a simple land-use control mechanism to a dynamic, pro-active, multi-disciplined activity  The book combines scholarly analysis with a practitioner's perspective of town and country planning in Scotland at both central and local government level. Douglas G. Hope has been a town and country planner for over fifty years. After graduating from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1964 with an Honours degree in Geography, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1965 before pursuing a career in town and country planning. He was elected a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute in 1970. He has worked for both central and local government in Scotland, principally at Borders Regional Council, where he was Depute Director of Planning and Development, and the Scottish Office Inquiry Reporters Unit, now the Scottish Government's Directorate for Planning and Environmental Appeals.

This book examines the salience of neo-traditionalism in Anglo-American Muslim communities, by tracing the scholarship and impact of the key public pedagogues (shaykhs) associated with this phenomenon - Hamza Yusuf, Abdal Hakim Murad, and Umar Faruq Abd-Allah.

Offers fresh perspectives on Irish Gothic and its pervasiveness in Irish culture from the eighteenth century to today. Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion provides a comprehensive account of the extent to which Gothic can be traced in Irish cultural life from the eighteenth century to the contemporary moment, across both elite and popular genres and through a range of different media, including literature, cinema and folklore. It responds, in particular, to the understanding that Gothic is ubiquitous in Irish literature and culture. Rather than focus exclusively on the oft-studied Irish Gothic foursome - Charles Maturin, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker - this companion turns attention to overlooked 'minor' figures such as Regina Maria Roche, Mrs F. C. Patrick, James Clarence Mangan and Eimear McBride. At the same time, it considers the multi-generic nature of Irish Gothic, thinking beyond fiction and, in particular, the novel, as the Gothic genre par excellence. The volume also takes account of Irish language Gothic, illuminating the ways in which the Gothic in Ireland has found and continues to find expression in different cultural and linguistic communities. Jarlath Killeen is Lecturer in Victorian Literature in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. His publications include Imagining the Irish Child: Discourses of Childhood in Irish Anglican Writing of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2023) and The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction (2013). Christina Morin is Senior Lecturer in English and Assistant Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Limerick. Her publications include The Gothic Novel in Ireland, c. 1760-1829 (2018) and Charles Robert Maturin and the Haunting of Irish Romantic Fiction (2011).

A critical evaluation of Anglo-American counter narcotics strategy in Afghanistan, 2001-2011This book reveals the inside story of the formulation and implementation the United States' and United Kingdom's counter narcotics policies in Afghanistan. Western counter narcotics policies in Afghanistan failed dismally after opium poppy cultivation surged to unprecedented levels. The Anglo-American partnership at the centre of this battleground was divided by competing and opposing views of how to address the opium problem, which troubled the well-established Anglo-American relationship. Through interviews with key policy practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic, this study reveals the complex picture of counter narcotics strategy; highlighting key points of cooperation and contention and detailing the often contradictory and competitive objectives of the overall war effort in Afghanistan.Philip A. Berry is a Lecturer in War Studies Education in the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College London

This book encompasses the long sixteenth century, starting with James IV's accession and concluding with Mary, Queen of Scots' execution. At its heart is Scottish political life viewed from local and regional perspectives as well as the centre.