Books published by EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

This collection takes informed and scholarly readers to the utmost frontier of children's literature criticism, from the intricate worlds of children's poetry, picturebooks and video games to the new theoretical constellations of critical plant studies, non-fiction studies and big data analyses of literature.

Can we understand a religion without believing and practising it? Can we have knowledge about faith? Can people understand those different from themselves? Can outsiders ever understand the world of insiders? Examining different positions of knowledge - insider and outsider - Bryan S. Turner explores what understanding Islam entails. He argues that understanding Islam has in recent years been dominated by political events - the Iran Hostage crisis, the fall of the Iranian Shah, 9/11, Afghanistan and the foreign policy of Donald Trump - leading to western intellectuals and public figures, many of whom know nothing about Islam, suddenly becoming experts. Turner asks how they, or how anyone, can have the authority to speak on this subject. He brilliantly elucidates the questions and problems involved in the challenge of understanding - as opposed to explaining - religion. Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology at Australian Catholic University. He is one of the world's leading sociologists of religion and has written, co-authored or edited more than 70 books in the field.

The nobile officium - the equitable jurisdiction of the Supreme Courts of Scotland - has the potential to be of continuing use today. But its scope and limitations are poorly understood. Placing it in its historical and conceptual context, it explores the development and application of the nobile officium.

Provides a comprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and other writing, including literary criticism and prose fiction.

'The Medical Humanities have been at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary research in the late twentieth century. But where should it go now? This volume demonstrates why the future lies with developing an exhilarating, robust and provocative critical medical humanities, and shows us how it can be done.' Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London A field-defining collection of original critical engagements at the intersection of the biomedical sciences, arts, humanities and social sciences In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively. The thirty-six newly commissioned chapters range widely within and across disciplinary fields, always alert to the intersections between medicine, as broadly defined, and critical thinking. Each chapter offers suggestions for further reading on the issues raised, and each section concludes with an Afterword, written by a leading critic, outlining future possibilities for cutting-edge work in this area. Topics covered in this volume include: the affective body, biomedicine, blindness, breath, disability, early modern medical practice, fatness, the genome, language, madness, narrative, race, systems biology, performance, the postcolonial, public health, touch, twins, voice and wonder. Together the chapters generate a body of new knowledge and make a decisive intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might address questions of individual, subjective and embodied experience. Anne Whitehead is a Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University. Angela Woods is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities and Deputy Director at the Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University. Cover image: Bullet Proof Breath (detail), 2001, Christine Borland, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Glass and spider silk (c) Christine Borland. Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0004-6 Barcode

The only volume to comprehensively bring together developments from different disciplines that address the complex interplay between British Romantic literature and the visual arts

Through both theoretical contributions and empirically-orientated analyses, this book provides insights into how theories and practices of multicultural citizenship and migrant integration are adapting and might adapt to the new, more dynamic but also more fluid patterns of international migration and mobility.

Speculative realism challenges philosophical approaches and traditions for supposedly failing to do justice to the real world. Taking this realist challenge seriously, Continental Realism and Its Discontents refuses to discard the philosophical contributions of Kant, Schelling, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Nancy without closer scrutiny. Instead, the contributors turn to these thinkers to meet the challenge of realism in contemporary philosophy.

The essays in this volume provide new scholarly insights into British fin de siA*cle and enrich our understanding of this complex period, while paying particular attention to the importance of regionalism.

Showcases the most contemporary scholarly and archival research into Ken Russell's career and work

The first book on the renowned and notorious cult filmmaker Roberta Findlay

Your complete guide to Expenses in Scotland Written by practitioners for practitioners, this definitive handbook covers all of the main aspects of costs and funding issues encountered in the Scottish Civil Courts. It covers the routes to funding, when expenses may be sought, the court's powers in awarding expenses and provides detail on issues including Success Fee Agreements, Qualified One Way Cost Shifting, Pre-Action Protocols, Pursuers' Offers and Tenders, party Litigants, Amendment, Abandonment, Caution and Simple Procedure. It brings together all of the key legislation, court rules and judgments to provide a user-friendly and quick-reference guide to expenses law and practice. Key features - Takes into account new costs and funding legislation including Damages Based Agreements, QOCS and Taxation Rules - Covers many important and recent cases including Finlay v Borders Health Board, Van Klavern v Servisair UK Ltd and Ho v Adelekun - Appendices provide full copies of: 1. The Qualified One Way Cost Shifting Regulations 2021, Success Fee Agreement Regulations 2020 and the Taxation of Judicial Expenses Rules 2019, the rules on Group proceedings and Pursuers' Offers, 2. The Compulsory and Voluntary Pre-Action Protocols for personal injury claims 3. Styles for Success Fee Agreements, Pursuers' Offers and Tenders 4. The Faculty Scheme for Accounting and Collection of Counsels' Fees Iain W Nicol is a Consultant at Thorntons, with almost 30 years' experience of pursuing personal injury, medical and professional negligence claims. James S Flett is Chairman of Alex Quinn & Partners Limited, Law Accountants.

Demonstrates how and why the transnational figure of the vampire was appropriated by Italian genre filmmakers between 1956 and 1975