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This book explores the threat of Christian conversion to Islam in twelve early modern English plays. In works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger, and others, conversion from Christianity to Islam is represented as both tragic and erotic, as a fate worse than death and as a sexual seduction.

This introduction locates Webster's plays within the context of the culture from which they sprang. Examining the uncertain political, religious, and economic climate of Jacobean London, the book offers a guide to one of the most distinctive, yet most elusive, dramatists of Renaissance England.

From the shadow of the Kantian critique it to the Oxford debates over Darwinism that shook the discipline to the core, and from the death of God to the rise of new Evangelical movements, 19th-century theology was fundamentally reshaped by both internal struggles and external developments.

This guide explains the key arguments of Empiricism and Subjectivity, organised thematically. It features an Appendix with a propositional summary of the book, a final chapter on the movement of the themes of Empiricism and Subjectivity through Deleuze's later work, plus substantial suggestions for further reading.

This book is an authoritative account of post-1990s US action cinema.

Barry Langford explains and interrogates the concept of 'post-classical' Hollywood cinema - its coherence, its historical justification and how it can help or hinder our understanding of Hollywood from the forties to the present.

Critiques the politics of cultural identity, exploring the difference between political roles and collective identities.

Featuring a wide range of authors - from canonical figures such as Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and Annie Proulx, to increasingly influential writers such as Jeffrey Eugenides, Gish Jen and Richard Powers - the book combines detailed readings of key texts with informative discussions of their historical, social and cultural contexts.

An overview of English as it is spoken in the Northern dialect regions of Ireland.

This new collection reflects a resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's plays performed between 1608 and 1613.

This book is an advanced introduction to acquisition of phonology and is the first textbook on normal (non-disordered) phonological acquisition.

The book introduces Memento as an important independent film and uses it to explore relationships between "indie," arthouse and commercial mainstream cinema, independent film marketing practices and online fan communities. The book also locates Memento within debates around key film studies concepts such as genre, narrative and reception.

This book is a study of Far from Heaven, a commercially successful film that nevertheless sits rather ambiguously on the boundary between independent and mainstream cinema, operating as an alternative to 'blockbuster' fare.

A critical study of the American indie film Lost in Translation.

This book is about the formative period of the Roman state.

Introduces a Renaissance masterpiece to a modern audience.

Focuses on the dramatic cultural transformations of the last decade of the millennium, providing a clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1990s America.

How democratic progressive politics can happen and how it is happening in very different political arenas

A step-by-step guide to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra

A critical introduction to Slavoj Zizek's key areas of interest in politics.

Looks at the Scottish elections of 2007 and asks: was the outcome of the 2007 Scottish election revolutionary or a natural progression in Scottish Politics?

An introduction to corpus linguistics for students of English language.

A study of the quiz and game show format which has proved to be consistently popular with viewers since the growth of the medium in the 1950s.

A new study of the link between three key obsessions of the 20th century: the media, sport and popular culture.

This book offers an overview of the debates surrounding the sitcom genre.

A step-by-step guide to Descartes' Meditations

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of media audiences as well as new research on the emotional engagement viewers have with television texts.

The book focuses on the thought of twenty-four mainly European and North American thinkers, ranging historically from the Renaissance to postmodernism.

This book provides a thorough introduction to James Joyce's works presenting detailed textual analysis of each of his major works, including Finnegans Wake; an extended discussion of the biographical, historical, political and social contexts that inform his writing; and a wide-ranging discussion of Joyce criticism over the last eighty years.