Books published by EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Studies the intertwined manner in which Arabic and Turkish literatures took shape as national traditions

Analyses the struggles for accountability and the resurgence of militarism in Brazil

Demonstrates the embodied foundation of figurative, poetic and literary language and form.

Examines dramatic acts of nostalgia as rhetorical moves designed to precipitate future action.

The first booklength literarygeographical study of late modernist poetry.

Provides the first booklength analysis of modernism and the Anthropocene.

Explores how Victorian novelists used the science of feeling to understand reading as an embodied process that cultivates empathy.

A state of the field essay collection that offers new models for analysing time, space, self and politics in nineteenth-century American culture.

Is reality simply static, or dynamic and relational? Tina Röck dives into the complexities of this question to reveal a new understanding of the relationship between thinking and being. Philosophy has traditionally considered reality as a set of static objects. Röck transcends this understanding to explore the realistic potential of relational and dynamic ontology. These explorations are both complex and problematic as we attempt to reconceptualise being, truth and knowledge as processual. To navigate this thinking, she takes a new phenomenological path into a realism that discloses the world as temporal and relational, without dismissing the epistemological difficulties surrounding genuine change. A fundamental challenge to outdated ways of thinking in our rapid, interconnected world, this book provides a provocative and contemporary understanding of our temporal reality. Tina Röck is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee.

Explores the relationship between Muslim communities and the State in East Africa in political, institutional and legal contexts.

This architectural history of Edinburgh amalgamates the city's three main characteristics - a dramatic natural setting, an old town which evolved over several centuries and the Georgian new town which was conceived and built between 1766 and 1840. The book begins with the original proposals to build the New Town and ends a hundred years later with the death of William Playfair in the year of the completion of the National Gallery. It features period photographs of the city in the '50s by the late Sir Edwin Smith.

Main melody films are propaganda works that pay tribute to the Chinese nation, the party and the army. Since the turn of the century, they have gradually developed into the main genre of Chinese cinema, and its "blockbusterization" is arguably the most phenomenal aspect of the 2010s Chinese film industry. As an increasing number of Hong Kong directors are commissioned to direct main melody blockbusters, Chu examines their contributions to this genre, shedding light on the development of cross-border cooperation between the mainland and Hong Kong film industries. Professor Yiu-Wai Chu is Director and Professor of Hong Kong Studies Programme at the University of Hong Kong. He has authored and edited over twenty books, including Lost in Transition: Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China (2013), Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History (2017), Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium: Hong Kong as Method (2017) and Found in Transition: Hong Kong Studies in the Age of China (2018).