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An engaging and provocative treatment of the principal features of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy and their applicability to cultural studies.

Advances the method of isnād-cum-matn analysis for unravelling complex aspects of early Islamic history

Pieces of feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature

[headline]The first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-day Harryette Mullen is one of the most exciting innovative poets writing today. This landmark volume is the first of its kind, featuring Mullen's works from 1981 to the present day. Her Silver-Tongued Companion collects poems from Recyclopedia, Sleeping with the Dictionary, Urban Tumbleweed, Broken Glish: Five Prose Poems, a sampler of poems from Blues Baby, and several previously uncollected poems. Five compelling scholarly essays accompany the texts, offering new insight into Mullen's works, ranging beyond contemporary poetry to consider Mullen's works in wider contexts. Foregrounding Mullen's formal innovation, this critical edition will be indispensable to scholars and general readers of Mullen's poetry and contemporary avant-garde writing more widely. Her Silver-Tongued Companion offers an expansive and illuminating curation of Mullen's extraordinary work, tracing the remarkable career of one of the major poets of the twenty-first century. [bio]Harryette Mullen is Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is a recipient of a Stephen Henderson Award, Jackson Poetry Prize, United States Artist Fellowship, Academy of American Poets Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Katherine Newman Award for Best Essay on Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry. In 2023 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Georgina Colby is Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at University of Westminster. She has published widely in the field of avant-garde writing and feminisms. Her books include Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible (2016), and the collections Reading Experimental Writing (2019) and, as co-editor, The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible (2020).

[headline]Examines the scene of reading in modernism, psychoanalysis and popular novels from the early twentieth century Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller argues that the modernist scene of reading reveals some of our culture's most powerful and enduring fantasies about the role of literature in psychic, social and political life. Focusing on the writing of Virginia Woolf, and reading her novels alongside writing by Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Ethel M. Dell, Melanie Klein, Marion Milner and others, this book challenges our prevailing critical assumptions about modernist reading. Reading modernism alongside psychoanalysis and the bestseller, it aims not only to intervene in debates about modernism, but also to address its legacies in contemporary literature and in the context of increasingly urgent questions about how - and why - we read today. Helen Tyson makes an original intervention to reorient debates about modernism, critique and postcritique. [bio]Helen Tyson is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century British Literature at the University of Sussex, where she is also a Co-Director of the Centre for Modernist Studies. Helen has published in Textual Practice, Literature Compass, Feminist Modernist Studies, Critical Quarterly, Literary Review and the TLS. She is co-editor of the award-winning collection of essays Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life (2021).

The first book-length academic study of the work of Norwegian director, Joachim Trier

Explores Persian tribespeople's changing ethics, feelings and lifeways in tough times

Examines the affective responses to rape in rape-revenge films, and how this response can be harnessed to work through complex questions about rape Extends the interdisciplinary reach of cognitive film studies by creating a dialogue with feminist film theory and feminist philosophy in an exploration of women's anger and the female avenger Focuses particularly on rape revenge films directed by women Covers film and televsion - case studies include the MillenniumTrilogy, Ms 45, Revenge, Twilight Portrait, Promising Young Woman and I May Destroy You Maps on to debates within the #MeToo movement Expanding on the fertile mapping of emotional engagement with fiction in cognitive film theory by narrowing in on anger, an under-explored emotion in film theory The Female Avenger, Women's Anger and Rape-Revenge Film and Television examines the contentious nature of the female rape survivor turned avenger in rape-revenge stories. The focus is on a trend of contemporary rape-revenge film made by women directors. Vaage asks what it might mean for women in particular to watch female avengers, and suggests that the reason some women filmmakers explore the rape-revenge convention is because it is all about an emotion that is difficult for women, and used to label women as difficult, namely anger. The central premise in this book is that understanding the emotions stirred up by this type of story is crucial in order to understand its recurring, controversial presence in popular culture, and also its potential value. Vaage offers a cultural and political analysis of contemporary rape-revenge film made by women grounded in the psychological and philosophical study of the emotions

Studies the diplomatic and cultural implications of the exchange of symbolic objects in the ancient world

Examines modes of resistance within contemporary Indian documentary culture and films Identifies and examines a range of texts, sites and practices that are central to documentary culture and study, in effect mapping the field of documentary culture in contemporary India Expands the conceptualisation of documentary resistance in a context organised by specific political and historical factors e.g., caste, religion, colonisation, distinct from Western or Eurocentric contexts of cultural production Not limited to dominant definitions of 'political' in documentary, uses alternative ways of defining politics through a wider consideration of textual and extra textual factors While sizable literature exists on the themes, issues and voices that constitute resistance in historical Indian documentary cinema, less is known about contemporary modes of resistance in Indian documentary. This volume identifies languages and practices of resistance constructed by Indian documentary practitioners located in contemporary global and national contexts organised by majoritarian political discourse, rising social inequalities, tightening media regulatory mechanisms and variable access to digital technologies. Extending its analytical lens beyond textual politics, the volume offers an original conceptualisation of how we identify, mobilise, and recuperate acts of resistance as both represented in documentary and those represented by the organisation of documentary practice e.g., documentary exhibition, curation, education, and criticism. Combining scholarly essays and practitioner writing, the volume offers a timely reconsideration of how central debates and issues of power and representation in documentary may be studied as objects of analysis and as subjective accounts of individual experience, decisions, and actions relating to documentary aesthetics and practice.

[headline]Exposes writers' reliance on conservative language during one of the most radical periods of English history Using case studies of both familiar genres (country house poem, love lyric, epic) and understudied ones (emblem book, prose romance), Rachel Dunn Zhang demonstrates how the conservative language of 'constancy' underpinned the most pressing controversies of the English civil wars. Examining the work of John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Hester Pulter, Percy Herbert and others, Zhang exposes how writers invoked constancy to justify opposing positions in mid-seventeenth century debates over monarchical rule, ecclesiastical order, Catholicism and England's relationship to the wider world, even as they established the virtue's importance to literary tradition. Constancy was the means by which writers retained and reimagined inherited formal structures and strategies, complicating characterisations of the period as one of generic failure and fragmentation. In this important work, Zhang draws on underrepresented female and non-canonical voices to highlight cross-factional conservatism and international investment in what scholars often describe as the 'English Revolution'. [bio]Rachel Dunn Zhang is a scholar of early modern literature residing in the New York City area who has taught at Columbia University, Rutgers University, City College of New York and Touro College's Lander College for Women. Her work has been published in numerous scholarly journals, including Milton Studies, Ben Jonson Journal, Studies in Philology, Early Modern Women, The Seventeenth Century and Notes and Queries. An authority on Hester Pulter, Zhang is also a contributing editor for The Pulter Project.

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic and the autobiographical, for the first time

Explores the concept of a category and contemporary debates on category politics, category mistakes and the imperialism of categories

A collection of critical chapters on Larisa Shepitko, one of the most significant Soviet (Ukrainian born) filmmakers

13 essays examine different media, including architecture, manuscripts, portable arts and textiles, as well as the contemporary arts of painting, photography, printmaking and video, from the early Islamic period to the present.

The first in-depth look at the work of Indian cinema director, screenwriter, and producer Zoya Akhtar, this book celebrates Akhtar's art while examining her position within popular film and how she is contributing to a shift in one of the world's leading film industries. Through Akhtar's work, it also explores larger trends in the Mumbai-based Hindi film industry -- Bollywood -- ranging from the changing form and distribution of mainstream films to gender politics. It highlights how Akhtar's unique position exemplifies the contradictions and possibilities of the present moment in Bollywood; it also explores the impact of female filmmakers in global industries Edited by Aakshi Magazine is a writer and academic based in India. She received her PhD in Film Studies from the University of St Andrews in 2020. Her doctoral thesis, The 1950s Hindi film song: Between transgression and memory, is on the relationship of the film song to the contradictions of the Indian nationalist discourse. She has published several journal articles, a book chapter and film criticism in popular publications. Amber Shields received her PhD in Film Studies from the University of St Andrews where she focused on how fantasy is used to tell stories of individual and collective trauma in films from around the world. She has taught Film and English courses at Mount Tamalpais College and currently works with nonprofits reimagining education and supporting the development of young leaders. She has published several journals articles and book chapters.

Investigates the US government's involvement in the assassination of foreign officials from the early Cold War to the present day.

Professor Watt introduces the history of the creeds and takes the student through a selection of the main ones in translation. Explanatory notes and a single Shi'ite creed are also given in this useful and informative survey.

The most radical philosophy of law of our time Gilles Deleuze has provided the most fascinating account of law of the twentieth century. Yet it is hidden in a just a few clues dispersed throughout his work and no complete reconstruction of it has ever been produced. Laurent de Sutter gathers all the elements that compose Deleuze's philosophy of law and articulates them for the first time in a real system: the result is the most devastating critique of the very idea of law. But it is also the most surprising, praising the actual practice of jurisprudence. This is not simply a practice of judgment, but a practice of radical creation and leads to an intriguing question: what if lawyers were the only true revolutionaries of our time? Laurent de Sutter is Professor of Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is the author of Narcocapitalism: Life in the Age of Anaesthesia and After Law. Nils F. Schott is Lecturer at the Collège universitaire de SciencesPo. He has edited or translated some twenty volumes in philosophy and related fields.

'An engaging and masterful interpretation of the history of Western philosophy, The Ordering of Time is much more than that. Profoundly ethical, this is a book for our times, troubled as they are by doomful threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic, global economic depression, and climate change. George Lucas shows how to care about the past - its injustice as well as its grandeur and everyday facticity - so that we recover and respect insights that make life worth living and presenting to those who follow after us.' John K. Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College 'George Lucas has provided the reader with an engaging invitation to consider the importance of the history of philosophy at a time when philosophers have turned away from the study of the great ideas it contains. This work is fundamental for anyone who wishes to think through what philosophy is.' Donald Phillip Verene, Emory University Thinking with, rather than thinking about the history of philosophy What is the history of philosophy? What exactly is this the history of and how is that history to be understood in relationship to philosophy itself? Can philosophy's history, on any of a number of diverse descriptions, ever be said in its own right to constitute a unique and genuine source of philosophical wisdom or insight? George Lucas sweeps aside the constraints of traditional methodological and cultural boundaries to reflect broadly on a variety of answers to these questions, as posed by many of the major philosophical figures of the past century. Inviting a re-consideration of the work of scholars as diverse as Alasdair MacIntyre, Leo Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Danto, Martha Nussbaum, Paul Ricoeur, Charles Taylor, Keith Lehrer and Jerome Schneewind, Lucas ranges widely over the history of philosophy itself in search of original, probing answers to these profound and perennial issues. George Lucas is Distinguished Chair in Ethics and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the US Naval Academy. Cover image: courtesy of morhamedufmg/Pixabay Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-7855-7 Barcode

A comparative study of women's political participation and representation in contemporary Iran and Turkey The conservative gender ideology espoused by the ruling elites in contemporary Iran and Turkey delegates women mostly to the domestic sphere, and prioritizes their roles as mothers and wives. Despite this conservatism, women in both countries have been demanding greater access to the political field, and have even had notable achievements in recent years. Placing women's rights activism at the centre of its analysis, this book explores how women in Iran and Turkey manoeuvre the institutional structures and ideological barriers in their respective contexts to demand a seat at the political decision-making table. It argues that the recent increases in women's political representation are best understood in terms of the strategic interactions that take place between women's rights groups and political elites, both of which depend on the support of the electorate. Key Features - Provides an institutionalist analysis of women's political underrepresentation in Iran and Turkey through an examination of each country's electoral system, political party structure, government framework and state gender ideology - Based on over 140 in-depth interviews with past and present women politicians and candidates, party elites and women's rights activists in Iran and Turkey between 2009 and 2019 - Gives voice to the experiences and approaches of women's activist groups and political parties across the ideological spectrum - from the Justice and Development Party and Association for the Support of Women Candidates (KADER) to the Zeinab Society and Islamic Women's Coalition in Iran

Examines how centralised authoritarian regimes upgrade their system of local governance The authoritarian upgrading process in Egypt has enabled the regime to have a more effective dominance in local politics and to enhance its political control. However, its strategies failed to overcome the weakness of system mobilisation functions, which reflected the authoritarian dilemma of bridging the national and the local. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Hani Awad explores the formal and informal decentralisation strategies employed under three regimes (Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak) to upgrade the Egyptian system of local governance without giving up power or democratising local governments. He traces the rise and increasing influence of Islamist challenges to loyalist networks and explains how the efficacy of Islamist mobilisation over the past two decades influenced the region's response to the events of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011. Key features  Offers a comprehensive understanding of the way that the Egyptian authoritarian regime has upgraded its system of local governance since Nasser  Maps out the motivations for the process of authoritarian upgrading of local governance, as well as its benefits for authoritarianism  Analyses of the role of the state ruling party, focusing on the changing relationships between the local state and the Arab Socialist Union (1962-78) and the former National Democratic Party (1978-2011)  Includes a microanalysis based on extensive fieldwork in the Greater Cairo peri-urban fringe Hani Awad is a Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha Institute.

Describes and analyses British pressure to partition and ultimately destroy the Ottoman Empire Although it was at times valuable to Britain to support the Ottoman Empire against Russian encroachment, by the end of the 19th century successive British governments had begun to sponsor the dismemberment of the Empire. British public opinion and political pressure groups portrayed the Ottomans in universally defamatory terms, affecting the diplomatic actions of politicians. Some politicians themselves harboured deep prejudices against the Turks and Islam. The result, through numerous incidents, was British pressure to dismember the Ottoman Empire. Justin McCarthy shows how - from ignoring provisions guaranteeing Ottoman territorial integrity to refusing to publish consular reports that described the oppression of Muslims - the British were anything but friends to the Ottomans. Key Features  An in-depth study of British relations with the Ottoman Empire and the Turks  Considers British plans for the Ottoman Empire in the most important crises of the late 19th and early 20th centuries  Draws extensively on British diplomatic records and records of other European Powers, the Ottoman Empire and Turkey  Examines the role of diplomats, media, the church and politicians in fostering negative views about the Ottoman Turks and Muslims  Helps us understand the historical origins of many of the conflicts in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East and even in the Caucasus Justin McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Louisville. His recent books include The Armenian Rebellion at Van (2006), The Turk in America (2010) and Sasun (2014).

For all its familiarity as a widely used term, "Kafkaesque cinema" remains an often-baffling concept. Taking a cue from Jorge Luis Borges' point that Kafka has modified our conception of past and future artists, and André Bazin's suggestion that literary concepts and styles can exceed authors and "novels from which they emanate", this book proposes a comprehensive examination of Kafkaesque cinema in order to understand it as part of a transnational cinematic tradition rooted in Kafka's critique of modernity, which extends beyond the Kafka's work and his historical experiences. Drawing on a range of disciplines in the humanities including film, literary, and theatre studies, critical theory, and history, the book's central methodological claim is that Kafkaesque Cinema responds formally and thematically to the crisis of liberalism as experienced from the late nineteenth century to the present. This is the first full-length study of the subject and will be a useful resource for scholars and students interested in film theory, world cinema, world literature, and politics and representation. Angelos Koutsourakis is an Associate Professor in Film and Cultural Studies at the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, University of Leeds.

The first comparative analysis of royalist and Covenanter political thought within a cross-confessional European context During the Scottish Revolution (1637-1651), royalists and Covenanters appealed to Scottish law, custom and traditional views on kingship to debate the limits on King Charles I's authority. However, they also engaged with the political, legal and ecclesiological ideas of 16th - and 17th-century Protestant and Catholic authors beyond the British Isles. This book explores the under-examined European context for Scottish political thought, analysing how royalists and Covenanters adapted Lutheran, Calvinist and Catholic ideas to their own debates about church and state. By focusing on Covenanted Scotland (a location often overlooked in histories of early modern political thought), this book provides a critical new perspective on how ecclesiological concerns informed the advancement of political ideas commonly associated with secularisation and the modern state. In doing so, it also demonstrates the diversity of intellectual traditions underlying the religious and political transformations of this revolutionary period in Scottish history. Key Features - Provides a comprehensive examination of the intellectual traditions underlying the Scottish Revolution. - Highlights the diversity of early modern Scottish intellectual culture by comparing royalist and Covenanter ideas about church and state. - Situates Scottish political thought in a cross-confessional and transnational European context (rather than an exclusively British, Scottish or Reformed one). - Challenges secularisation narratives by examining intrinsic connections between ecclesiology and political thought. - Demonstrates interdisciplinary engagement with political thought, theology and philosophy. Karie Schultz is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of St Andrews.