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11 essays by leading Whitehead scholars re-examinae Whitehead s Barbour-Page lectures, published as the book Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect in 1927, to give you exciting insights into the contemporary implications of Whitehead's symbolism in an era of new scientific, cultural and technological developments.

With in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Ranciere, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, Boncardo asks how Stephane Mallarme became so politically significant for left-wing French intellectuals.

What is the relationship between the British woman writer and the short story? This collection examines what this versatile genre offers women writers and what this can tell us about the society and culture they inhabit.

This collection brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau scholars to explore the key shared concerns of these two great thinkers in politics, philosophy, economics, history and literature.

These 14 essays apply Deleuze and Guattari's work to analysing television, film, music, art, drunkenness, mourning, virtual technology, protest, activism, animal rights and abolition. Each chapter questions the premise of the animal and critiques the centrality of the human.

These fourteen essays apply Deleuze's work to analysing television, film, music, art, drunkenness, mourning, virtual technology, protest, activism, animal rights and abolition. Each chapter questions the premise of the animal and critiques the centrality of the human.

Gary D. Rhodes and Robert Singer present a vital collection of essays on the director's long career. Case studies include celebrated films like Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Buchanan Rides Alone (1958), lesser-known works like Escape in the Fog (1945), and Boetticher's continuing influence on contemporary classics like Series Breaking Bad.

Etienne Balibar is a French philosopher and Distinguished Professor of French and Italian and of Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine. These 10 essays introduce the key concepts in Balibar's thought, particularly his idea of the citizen/subject, through which he reads the political history of Europe.

This is the first book to investigate the coming-of-age genre as a significant phenomenon in New Zealand's national cinema, tracing its development and elucidating its role in cultural change.

This is the first book to investigate the coming-of-age genre as a significant phenomenon in New Zealand s national cinema, tracing its development and elucidating its role in cultural change.

Using newly unearthed primary sources, this ground-breaking book examines the bitter and little known struggle in Hollywood and Washington D.C. during 1933 to create a National Recovery Administration (NRA) code of practice for the motion picture industry.

'A very timely offering of exciting new material and new readings, this book is at the cutting edge of a new turn to theory and philosophy in Woolf studies that is flexible enough to encompass material, cultural and historical as well as archival and editorial aspects, bringing into productive dialogue previously separated critical camps.' Jane Goldman, University of Glasgow Reconsiders Virginia Woolf's work for the 21st-century focusing on coevolution, duality, and contradiction These 11 newly commissioned essays represent the evolution, or coevolution, of Woolf studies in the early 21st-century. Divided into 5 parts - Self and Identity; Language and Translation; Culture and Commodification; Human, Animal, and Nonhuman; and Genders, Sexualities, and Multiplicities - the essays represent the most recent scholarship on the subjective, provisional, and contingent nature of Woolf's work. The expert contributors consider unstable constructions of self and identity and language and translation from multiple angles, including shifting textualities, culture, and the marketplace, critical animal studies, and discourses that fracture and re-envision gender and sexuality. Key Features * Extends existing critical work on Woolf * Demonstrates original and diverse ways of reading this canonical author * Considers new configurations around Woolf's work in a postmillennial era Jeanne Dubino is Professor of English and Global Studies, Department of Cultural, Gender and Global Studies, Appalachian State University, North Carolina. Gill Lowe is Senior Lecturer in English at University Campus Suffolk, Department of Arts and Humanities, University Campus Suffolk. Vara Neverow is Professor of English and Women's Studies, English Department, Southern Connecticut State University. Kathryn Simpson is Senior Lecturer in English, Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University.

'Vicarious lives, the alter egos of unwritten or belatedly written poems, trap doors into hitherto unseen aspects of a personality, feints and personae - poets' letters can be and have been all these and more. This collection isn't just the last word so far on a topic (two topics, at least) ... but an example for literary critics in general: Anne Fadiman's defense of Hartley Coleridge, Paul Muldoon on Bishop and (or Bishop vs.) Lowell, Michael Hurley on humour in Hopkins, Ellis himself on frustration and temporality in Bishop and Keats - here is a model for writers. And for readers. And for letter-writers, scholarly and otherwise, everywhere.' Stephen Burt, Harvard University 'Letters blur the boundaries between ordinary experience and literary art, improvisation and convention, individual expression and collaboration. Somehow they matter especially for poets and poetry. With speculative force, nuanced interpretation, and lively narrative too, the various essays in this book, the only one of its kind, begin to answer the question (important to poetry and letters both) of why.' Langdon Hammer, Yale University The first book to look at poets' letters as an art form Fifteen enlightening chapters by leading international biographers, critics and poets examine letter writing among poets in the last 200 years. Poets discussed include Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley in the nineteenth century and Eliot, Yeats, Bishop and Larkin in the twentieth. Divided into three sections - Contexts and Issues, Romantic and Victorian Letter Writing and Twentieth-Century Letter Writing - the volume demonstrates that real letters still have an allure that virtual post struggles to replicate. Key Features - A comprehensive collection of essays on the art and genre of letter writing among Romantic, Victorian and twentieth-century poets - Contributors are leading international biographers, critics and poets, including Hermione Lee, Paul Muldoon, Daniel Karlin, Hugh Haughton, Anne Fadiman, Edna Longley and Angela Leighton - An absorbing history of literary friendship, literary love and literary rivalry - A sensitive study of the often close relationship between letter writing and poetry Jonathan Ellis is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Sheffield.

This book examines the rise of the direct-to-consumer genetic testing industry (DTC) and its use of 'wrap' contracts. It uses the example of DTC to show the challenges that disruptive technologies pose for societies and for regulation. It also uses the wrap contracts of DTC companies to explore broader issues with online contracting.

Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early modern literature

This volume will bring together Schreiner's three published collections of short fiction in one volume; namely, Dreams (1890), Dream Life and Real Life (1893), and the posthumously published Stories, Dreams and Allegories (1923).

These essays explore the surprisingly varied dimensions of this unacknowledged keystone of Spinoza's thought. They take you from Spinoza's geometrical diagrams to his concepts of mind, body, the emotions and the cosmos.

Examines the content and practices in contemporary American Indian feature filmmaking.

This book explores the possible meanings of this new distinction and assesses the advantages and disadvantages of adopting it for understanding the contemporary world. It casts a wide exploratory net, looking at how the way that we interpret the world has changed over time.

'Autonomy is an absolutely central element in Spinoza's metaphysics, ethics and political philosophy. This volume, with insightful essays byboth seasoned and younger scholars, not only offers new perspectives on the nature of autonomy in Spinoza, but also shows once again hisrelevance for contemporary philosophical themes.'Steven Nadler, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of Spinoza: A LifeIntegrates Spinoza's thought into the contemporary debate on interpersonal relationships and individual autonomyThe question of how to understand autonomy has emerged as a critical issue in contemporary political philosophy. Feminists andothers argue that autonomy cannot be adequately conceived without taking into consideration the ways in which it is shaped by ourrelationships with others.This collection of ten new essays contributes to this debate by showing what a close examination of Baruch Spinoza's thought canadd to our understanding of the relational nature of autonomy. Being with others is the key to cultivating individual autonomy: this isSpinoza's revolutionary thought.Aurelia Armstrong is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Queensland. Keith Green is Professor of Philosophy at East TennesseeState University. Andrea Sangiacomo is Assistant Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Groningen.Cover image: Sy, oil painting by Francesco Lombardo, 2013 © Francesco Lombardo www.francescolombardo.comCover design: riverdesignbooks.com

This innovative volume presents for the first time collective expertise on women's magazines and periodicals of the long eighteenth century.

This collection of essays interrogates and expands the frameworks that have informed slow cinema debates. Repositioning the term in a broader theoretical space, the book combines an array of fine-g rained studies that will provide insight into the notion of slowness in the cinema, while mapping out past and contemporary slow films across the globe.

By giving shape to Imamura Shohei's career, this collection positions him as a stylistic innovator as well as an ethnographic investigator into Japanese culture and tradition; the preeminent examiner of the hidden, barely repressed underpinnings of Japanese society.

The first reference book to deal so fully and incisively with the cultural representations of war in 20th-century English and US literature and film. The volume covers the two World Wars as well as specific conflicts that generated literary and imaginative responses from English and US writers.